The Onion’s AV Club posted a really fun, interesting interview with Matt Groening late last month. It’s a good, long one (3 pages) and talks about The Simpson and Futurama as you’d expect, but also delves into Groening’s comic strips and other aspects of his career as well. And for Family Guy fans, they talk about the unofficial rivalry the shows have had going with each other since FG hit the air.

AVC: You’ve said that a major brewery wanted Akbar and Jeff to endorse their product. What did they think having them as spokesmen would accomplish?

MG: They were going to ride the beer-company party train to wherever Spring Break is held in Florida. It used to be Ft. Lauderdale. You ride the beer-company party train and the beer-company yacht, and they were going to have Akbar and Jeff tattoos. [Laughs.] I had a rule years ago that I made for myself: the Life In Hell rabbits wouldn’t endorse anything, but Akbar and Jeff would endorse absolutely anything. We got a little ways into the negotiation, and then an article in Rolling Stone came out and said that Akbar and Jeff were gay midgets. That ended it, even though I tried to point out that all fraternities are gay, that’s why they’re fraternities.

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