I Didn't Lie, I Was Writing Fiction

A Lot Of American Shows Don't Last For As Long As 12 Episodes. They Get Cut After One. But Certainly One Of The Great Things About The Office In Particular Was That There Was A Beginning, A Middle And An End.

Our Solution On 'the Simpsons' Is To Do Jokes That People Who Have An Education, Or Some Frame Of Reference, Can Get. And For The Ones Who Don't, It Doesn't Matter, Because We Have Homer Banging His Head And Saying, 'd'oh!'

Lisa: 'do We Have Any Food That Wasn't Brutally Slaughtered?' Homer: 'well, I Think The Veal Died Of Loneliness.'

Nihilism In American Comedy Came Along Way Before 'the Simpsons.' There Was A Fairly Nihilistic Point Of View To 'saturday Night Live,' For Instance, Back In The Beginning, And A Lot Of Really Dark Comedy Had A Really Anti-sentimental Take On Life.

Families Are About Love Overcoming Emotional Torture.