Groening

/ ˈɡreɪnɪŋ /

noun

1. Matt ( hew ). born 1954, US cartoonist and writer, creator and producer of The Simpsons television series from 1989

Example Sentences

Matt Groening knows what a real theremin sounds like.

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Groening was none too happy, then, when Clausen was fired by Fox in 2017.

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Groening, who was full of praise for Talve’s “Treehouse” score, has gradually warmed to the Bleeding Fingers team approach — viewing it less like a factory churning out product and more like the way animators work.

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So, when composer Alf Clausen was recruited in the sophomore season of Groening’s popular new show about a yellow nuclear family and answered a request to use theremin — a small lectern with two metal antennae sticking out, which a musician plays by moving their hand in the space between — in the inaugural “Treehouse of Horror” episode in October 1990, Groening immediately recognized it was a fake; it was bouncing around the scale in a way a real theremin can’t do.

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Zimmer had been a longtime go-to for “Simpsons” executive producer James L. Brooks, and he won over a skeptical Groening with his zany score for “The Simpsons Movie” in 2007.

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