Comments on Puzzle #33524: Left me groaning (sic) as a kid
By Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon)
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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
Little Bongo from Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" strip. I'm so old, I remember when the Life in Hell guy was called up to write a weekly cartoon show for Fox. What was it called again? Oh, that's right. The Simpsons.
#1: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Jan 23, 2020 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#2: Greg Bernath (mamooth) on Jan 23, 2020
At night, the ice weasels come.#3: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Jan 23, 2020
Enjoyed the solve, Thanks!#4: Beep (Boop) on Jan 23, 2020
The Simpson's actually debuted on The Tracy Ullman Show two years before that.#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 23, 2020 [SPOILER]
Fun solve.
Good ol' Bongo. And a note on the pronunciation (that Matt himself used): Groening; it rhymes with Complaining. :)#6: Lauren (lorispad) on Jan 23, 2020
I used to read his strip in the Baltimore sun!!#7: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 8, 2020 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#8: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Feb 8, 2020
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 8, 2020 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#10: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 8, 2020 [SPOILER]
I saw both the cartoon (in a free paper) and the shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show. Life in Hell had such distinguished company as Zippy the Pinhead.#11: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 9, 2020 [SPOILER]
I remember liking the "Life In Hell" books, back a zillion years ago. Does anybody else remember "Akbar and Jeff's Liposuction Hut -- Where the Elite Meet After They Eat So They Can Once Again Be Petite" ? Oh my....#12: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Feb 11, 2020 [SPOILER]
I'm from Portland (Groening's home town) and they ran Life In Hell in a free weekly newspaper I read in college in the mid 80's. I had no idea that the strip was syndicated, so I was surprised to see Simpsons on Tracey Ullman, which had the same artwork style as the strip.
I couldn't figure out how a seemingly British tv show found out about Groening, as all the "local boy hits the big time" stories that followed never really mentioned that detail.
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