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Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

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Matt Groening
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Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.
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'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.
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The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
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I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
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I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.
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I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.
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I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
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I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
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We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
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I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
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I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'
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I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson
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Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
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I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.
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Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
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