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Been watching his show on Vice and it’s a pretty good behind the scenes account of how the Simpsons got started and green lit.  So far there have been 2 episodes.  Interviews a lot of the Fox execs, animators and people like that about what happened behind the scenes.

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/icons-unearthed-the-simpsons

 

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Stop whatever you are doing right now, and click the damn link:


Thirty years later, Conan O’Brien reflects on the making and legacy of “Marge vs. the Monorail,” one of the best ‘Simpsons’—and sitcom—episodes of all time

 

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Driving home one day in the early ’90s, Conan O’Brien found himself in a familiar situation: alone in his car, laughing. He had spotted a billboard that he’d never seen before. He doesn’t remember the exact details of it, but one word stuck out: “It just said ‘monorail.’ I don’t even know why.”

This giant advertisement was completely inexplicable, yet O’Brien also saw it as a perfect joke on itself. “Monorails were always funny to me because they’re a phony promise of the future,” he says. “It really is just a trolley, right?”

 

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The young Simpsons writer pitched a story about the newfangled mode of travel, which soon turned into one of the best sitcom episodes of all time. “Marge vs. the Monorail,” which aired 30 years ago this month, warned the world about charismatic men selling foolishly grandiose solutions to problems that don’t need fixing. It tells the story of a charming man named Lyle Lanley who blows into town and convinces a cash-flush Springfield to build a train that “glides as softly as a cloud.” Naturally, though, he’s a scammer. And soon after his shiny but janky system opens, “it all goes to shit,” as O’Brien puts it.

 

What the hell are you waiting for?  Click the damn link!

 

 

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