I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'
Matt GroeningHumor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"
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