Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.