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When author Thomas Pynchon appeared on The Simpsons, he edited his own dialog so as not to insult to Homer Simpson.
Matt Selman, Executive Producer of The Simpsons, revealed this detail on Twitter last week during Fox’s #EverySimpsonsEver marathon of the TV show.
In crossing out “No wonder Homer is such a fat ass.” Pynchon writes: “Sorry, guys. Homer is my role model and I won’t speak ill of him.”
— Matt Selman (@mattselman) August 28, 2014
The fax sent to us by Thomas Pynchon with his jokes written on the script page pic.twitter.com/wL8Nm6R92I
— Matt Selman (@mattselman) August 28, 2014
(Via The Wall Street Journal).
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Controlling creative people appears to be a popular topic in the mainstream media nowadays. Following on the heels of Harvard Business Review’s incendiary article “Seven Rules for Managing Creative People”, Bloomberg Businessweek has published a short piece titled How to Manipulate Creative People. Unlike the HBR article which sounded as if it was written by someone who had never met a creative person in their life, the Businessweek piece (which is part of their annual how-to issue) is written by Matt Selman, an exec producer on The Simpsons who has run the writers’ rooms for over a decade.
Agree with what he says or not, Selman’s advice clearly stems from experience:
If your team is still irritated with you, badmouth anyone not in the room. Dumping on an unseen third party or revealing tantalizing office gossip always takes the heat off for a few minutes. Though if you’re going to make fun of people who work for you, be prepared to be made fun of by them. No matter how mean it gets, have the thickest skin in the room. Reward the completion of assignments with YouTube clips: Key and Peele, octopus vs. shark, bank robbery fails. If nothing else works, stall till lunch. It’s hard to be full and angry.
