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4. Keeping It In the Family

At the last minute — like, waiting in the lobby for the pitch meeting, last minute — Groening decided not to use Life in Hell on Ullman, so he adopted the idea for a dysfunctional family. In a pinch for names, Groening named the characters after the members of his own family. He changed only the son’s name to an anagram of “brat.”

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