TIL that Fox originally wanted to make Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" into an animated series, but Groening didn't want to lose his rights to it, so he said he had "this other family, called the Simpsons," and then he proceeded to draw figures on a napkin that he made up on the spot.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/08/simpsons200708?printable=true



Submitted April 06, 2015 at 06:18PM by Meunderwears http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31mf0s/til_that_fox_originally_wanted_to_make_matt/