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Simpsons Fans - look at this!

Jan 30, '14, 3:54 PM

This is a really heart warming post on Dangerous Minds that I thought a few of you might like:

Meet the real-life ‘Simpsons’ kids in a 1969 film made by Matt Groening’s father, Homer

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_the_real-life_simpsons_kids_in_a_1969_film_made_by_matt_groenings

He looks more like a “Bart,” don’t you think? Fans of The Simpsons will enjoy “The Story,” a sweet short film made by Homer Groening in 1969. With a young Matt Groening and co-starring his sister Lisa, in “The Story,” a bedtime tale is told to their younger sister (that would be Maggie) about some encounters her siblings had in the woods with various animals. The elder Groening, in name at least, immortalized by the Simpson’s doofus patriarch, was a war hero who flew a B-17 during WWII and participated in the D-Day invasion. He later became a prominent and award-winning advertising executive and made a series of films about water. Like his famous son, he was also a cartoonist and would make up the beginning of a story and then ask his children to finish it. Homer Groening died in 1996 at the age of 76. Matt Groening told The Smithsonian magazine about how he came up with the idea for The Simpsons and why “Bart” wasn’t named Matt: 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”...

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