I Don't Mind Sharing The Blame If

I Was Always Frightened By Taverns. They Just Seemed Like Very Unpleasant Places To Go.

I Had Been Drawing My Weekly Comic Strip, 'life In Hell,' For About Five Years When I Got A Call From Jim Brooks, Who Was Developing 'the Tracey Ullman Show' For The Brand-new Fox Network. He Wanted Me To Come In And Pitch An Idea For Doing Little Cartoons On That Show.

My Father Was A Really Sharp Cartoonist And Filmmaker. He Used To Tape-record The Family Surreptitiously, Either While We Were Driving Around Or At Dinner, And In 1963 He And I Made Up A Story About A Brother And A Sister, Lisa And Matt, Having An Adventure Out In The Woods With Animals.

Do My Worst, Eh? Smithers, Release The Robotic Richard Simmons." --mr. Burns

We've Got A Bunch Of New Writers Now Who Tell Me They Grew Up Watching The Simpsons. It's Bizarre, And They're Writing Some Very Funny Stuff.