American Dad Episodes 3-1 thru 3-4
Added 2022-09-28 00:13:51 +0000 UTCWe're all in the Goo.
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Comments
I was mostly joking about that, but interesting that Goo came first.
Dexter Goad
2022-10-05 10:06:58 +0000 UTCThat actually makes sense. I didn't consider the writing angle of things.
Dexter Goad
2022-10-05 10:05:54 +0000 UTC"The Vacation Goo" aired on September 30, 2007, so yes it technically did predate Christopher Nolan's Inception, but I doubt that he took inspiration from the episode. Initially, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers. Originally, Nolan had envisioned Inception as a horror film, but eventually wrote it as a heist film even though he found that "traditionally [they] are very deliberately superficial in emotional terms." Upon revisiting his script, he decided that basing it in that genre did not work because the story "relies so heavily on the idea of the interior state, the idea of dream and memory. I realized I needed to raise the emotional stakes." Nolan worked on the script for nine to ten years. When he first started thinking about making the film, Nolan was influenced by "that era of movies where you had The Matrix (1999), you had Dark City (1998), you had The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and, to a certain extent, you had Memento (2000), too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real."
Alice Flagg
2022-10-05 09:11:55 +0000 UTCTo answer your question about why Homer became the main character over Bart Executive producer Al Jean notes that in The Simpsons' writing room, "everyone loves writing for Homer", and many of his adventures are based on experiences of the writers. In the early seasons of the show, Bart was the main focus. But, around the fourth season, Homer became more of the focus. According to Matt Groening, this was because "With Homer, there's just a wider range of jokes you can do. And there are far more drastic consequences to Homer's stupidity. There's only so far you can go with a juvenile delinquent. We wanted Bart to do anything up to the point of him being tried in court as a dad. But Homer is a dad, and his boneheaded-ness is funnier. [...] Homer is launching himself headfirst into every single impulsive thought that occurs to him."
Alice Flagg
2022-10-05 08:52:09 +0000 UTC
