Definitivamente Matt Goening, creador de los ya inmortales Simpson, merece su sitio en el Panteón de los Titanes de la Sátira. Nacido en Portland, Oregón, Matt cuenta que de niño fue travieso e hiperactivo, amén de dibujante compulsivo que llenaba los pupitres y las biblias de monigotes. En la universidad participó en las protestas contra la guerra de Vietnam. Su primera incursión en el cómic profesional fue la tira Live in Hell, que el suplemento The Moon publicó durante varios años. Paralelamente, trabajó como lavaplatos, jardinero, dependiente en una tienda de discos, crítico de rock y hasta de chófer-biógrafo. También devoró cómics de Robert Crumb y música de Zappa y Dylan.La oportunidad de su vida le vino de mano de James L. Brooks, productor del programa televisivo The Tracy Ullman show, quien le ofreció adaptar a la pequeña pantalla sus tiras cómicas. En vez de eso, Groening le ofreció a Brooks, director de La fuerza del cariño y Mejor imposible, una creación completamente nueva: una familia que, a través de pequeños sketches, diseccionaba la realidad estadounidense con un humor ácido y preciso. Con el paso del tiempo, aquellas pequeñas piezas darían lugar a una serie propia, cuya ya épica andadura comenzó en 1989.
Groening bautizó a los componentes de la familia con los nombres de sus propios familiares: Homero (su padre), Marge (su madre)o Patty y Selma (sus hermanas). Al principio se encargaba del dibujo y los guiones, tareas que ha ido abandonando poco a poco, hasta dejarlas en manos de un equipo de animadores y guionistas. Dice que dibuja tan mal que si hoy tuviese que hacer las pruebas para entrar en el equipo de Los Simpson, no le cogerían. Puede que no le falte razón, puesto que se trata de un trabajo bastante más complicado de lo que parece. Desde que se escribe hasta que se termina, cada capítulo de Los Simpson lleva ocho meses.
Los Simpson son, quizá, la sátira más punzante que se haya hecho jamás de la sociedad estadounidense, al grado que las relaciones entre el genial Groening y la reaccionaria cadena FOX nunca han sido fluidas en 2003 la cadena Fox amenazó con denunciar a su propia serie. La polémica vino por las frecuentes referencias sardónicas a Murdoch y parodias a los infames noticieros de Fox News. La respuesta de Groening a las amenazas de demanda de la Eox no estuvo exenta de humor: “No creo que Murdoch esté dispuesto a pagar por llevarse a sí mismo a los tribunales”.
Los Simpson son, quizá, la sátira más punzante que se haya hecho jamás de la sociedad estadounidense, al grado que las relaciones entre el genial Groening y la reaccionaria cadena FOX nunca han sido fluidas en 2003 la cadena Fox amenazó con denunciar a su propia serie. La polémica vino por las frecuentes referencias sardónicas a Murdoch y parodias a los infames noticieros de Fox News. La respuesta de Groening a las amenazas de demanda de la Eox no estuvo exenta de humor: “No creo que Murdoch esté dispuesto a pagar por llevarse a sí mismo a los tribunales”.
¿Llegó a imaginarse alguna vez Groening el éxito de Los Simpson? ¿Lgó alguna vez a pensar que en una encuesta realizada entre 1,000 niños británicos el 22% escogiese a Homero Simpson como el mejor padre del mundo? Y eso, a pesar de que la relación más frecuente que mantiene con su hijo Bart es el estrangulamiento, Lisa prevé pagar una fortuna en psicoanalistas para llegar algún día a aceptar la figura paterna y que en la mayoría de las ocasiones se olvida de la existencia de su hija menor, Maggie. Se podría decir que hasta se ha creado una filosofía “Homérica” de entender la vida, basada en el consumo de cerveza, donas y televisión.
Algunas de las principales citas de Homero (en Inglés, para que no pierdan su sabor):
Homero: D’oh. (Ya inmortal)
Sideshow Bob: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it.
Troy McClure: Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!
· Operator! Give me the number for 911!
· Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
· Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!
· Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
· I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
· Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
· Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
· Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
· Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important
to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
· Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?
· You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.
· Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
· When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
· Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.
· I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!
· [Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!
· What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
· Marge, you're as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
· Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
· The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
· When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.
· I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
· Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
· I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
· Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
· It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
· Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
· I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
· Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
· Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman.
· Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
· How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
· Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
· Homer no function beer well without.
· I've always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
· Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
· If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
· I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
· I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.
· [Looking at a globe map...country being Uruguay]Hee hee! Look at this country! 'You-are-gay.'
· All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
· Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
· But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
· I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around.
· Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.
· That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!
· Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
· If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing
· I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!
· 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
Sideshow Bob: No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it.
Troy McClure: Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he’d eat you and everyone you care about!
· Operator! Give me the number for 911!
· Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
· Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!
· Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
· I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
· Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
· Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
· Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
· Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important
to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.· Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?
· You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.
· Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
· When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
· Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.
· I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!
· [Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!
· What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
· Marge, you're as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
· Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
· The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
· When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.
· I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
· Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
· I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
· Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
· It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
· Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
· I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
· Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
· Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman.
· Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
· How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
· Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
· Homer no function beer well without.
· I've always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
· Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
· If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
· I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
· I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.
· [Looking at a globe map...country being Uruguay]Hee hee! Look at this country! 'You-are-gay.'
· All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
· Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
· But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
· I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around.
· Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.
· That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!
· Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
· If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing
· I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!
· 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
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