Matt Groening: The Man, The Legend ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #11

[6dasarkel]

I settle into my sweet couch, and flip on the tv to once more enjoy the nineteenth annual Treehouse of Horror. It's a classic. Let's face it, The Simpsons is of America, for America, by America. And that America is Matt Groening. That made sense, don't judge me.Matt Groening... I'm sure you've heard of him. And if you haven't, you're living under a rock, man, and the rock's embarrassed to know you because even HE knows who the Groen-dawg is. You should be ashamed. And the rock knows his middle name, too. It's Abram. For cereal. Groening is pronounced like... Graining. Just so you know, you ill-informed monkey.In case you don't know about this beast of a man and are just plain DYING to know more (who wouldn't be?) here's the dish on the meal. Matt Groening first hit the cartooning field in 1980, when his comic strip "Life in Hell" first got published in newsprint, though its name changed to "Life is Swell" in early 2007 (wonder why?!). Some people down at the Tracey Ullmann Show on FOX wanted him to develop his comic into animation. Well, good old Groen-dawg did not want to lose his ownership rights to his love, his work... And so he doodled some characters in 'allegedly' ten minutes and shipped them off. Well, the Einsteins at the show just traced them, instead of improving them like they were supposed to, and gave 'em some movement. Brilliance. These crude lil' doodles became The Simpsons. Sort of.That was the design for the Simpson family way back in 1987. The names were all based on Matt's family, except for Bart (which of course is him) and is also an anagram of 'brat'. Heh, funny guy that Groening. In 1989, the Simpsons received its own thirty minute slot. Take THAT, Tracey Ullmann! And then magically in 2007, the show got all long on us and decided to charge people to see it. They called that explosive weight gain "The Simpsons Movie". Shortly after the show went on a diet and is now exponentially cheaper. Huzzah!Matt Groening has also had a hand in Futurama, which is hands down one of my favorite TV series EVER. It was started in 1999 and is centered around Philip Fry, a man much like myself. Exclude the genders and the fact that I actually exist. WE'RE THE SAME. Oh, and the fact that he got frozen and is now in the year three thousand. It's not important. OTAY?! >:( The big man of Futurama however, is David X. Cohen. The 'X' doesn't actually stand for something. The dot's just there so people don't think it's some mathematic equation or something "David times Cohen" . I'm serious! These are my people! But... that's a story for another day.All in all, this man is a very talented and recognized individual. He's won 11 Emmy awards and frankly, I think he's pure awesome sauce. He was born in 1954, and such is the way with cheese, has only grown more pungently sweet in these past fifty-four years. This man has Danielley's a-ok thumbs up of approval! :D

[Mr. Bruns]

I have to say that I have been living under a rock. I have not once watched The Simpsons or Futurama. I was not familiar with this guy but now I am.

Thanks and well done.