Watching Simpsons

Since I’ve been on a Futurama watching binge as of late, I’ve spent most of my internet time poking around, looking for any indication on whether there’s going to be any new individual episodes. (My secret wish, of course, it that Comedy Central will do more than air the straight to DVD features and will order new individual shows). So, I tried various keywords with Google and didn’t find anything really encouraging. Also, I took a cue off of an earlier post and clicked my way over to imdb.com to see if anything could unearthed there. The answer, of course, is no – perhaps I should just be glad that there are three more movies forthcoming?

At any rate, a lot of times looking for one thing leads to something completely different. Imdb.com, for Matt Groening, lists a good number of his Treehouse of Horror alias. You know, the “Nicknames” everybody in the credits get? This is what they had for Groening:

Matt Groening (Writer, The Simpsons Movie (2007))
aka “Mad Groening”
aka “Matt ”Mildly Frightening” Groening”
aka “Matt ”Scary Nickname” Groening”
birth name “Matthew Abram Groening”
aka “Matt ‘Merchandising’ Groening”
aka “Wotsa Matta U. Groening”
aka “Bat Groening”
aka “Malevolent Matt Groening”
aka “Mummified Matt Groening”
aka “Matt ‘El Monstro’ Groening”
aka “Mad Matt Groening”

And it’s the same for Sam Simon:

Sam Simon (I) (Writer, “The Drew Carey Show” (1995))
aka “Slithering Sam Simon”
aka “Sortirious Sam Simon”
aka “Scarifying Sam Simon”
aka “‘Supervisin’ Sam’ Simon”
aka “Sam ‘Sayonara’ Simon”
aka “Somewhat Shocking Sam Simon”
aka “Sort of Frightening Sam Simon”

James L. Brooks has a smaller number of AKA listings:

James L. Brooks (Producer, The Simpsons Movie (2007))
aka “James Hell Brooks”
aka “James ‘Bemused but Bloodthirsty’ Brooks

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But then Hank Azaria has his included too:

Hank Azaria (Actor, The Simpsons Movie (2007))
aka “Hellacious Hank Azaria”
aka “Boo! Boo! Scare Ya Hank Azaria”
aka “Hack Azaria”
aka “Scare Ya’ Hank Azaria”
aka “The Shaws-Hank Azaria”
birth name “Henry Albert Azaria”
aka “Angst Azaria”

So, I’m guessing that the rest of the cast, as well as the production crew, likely have their aliases included on imdb.com. Maybe later I’ll dig up the rest.

The Simpsons, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Hank Azaria, James L. Brooks