General "Did you Know?"s

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While on the topic of the Simpsons. Matt Groening was originally asked to make a show based off of his underground comic 'Life in Hell'. While waiting for the meeting to pitch the show, being concerned about the content of the said cartoon(and worried that he'd lose the rights to his comic) he quickly sketched the simpsons as a plan B pitch. Thus giving the yellow skined family that we know today.