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Matt Groening recalls Fox ordered 13 Simpsons episodes without a pilot
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"When the show came on, we did 13 episodes without a pilot. And um Fox first they wanted to do one show and we Jim Brooks uh uh refused and said no, we want to do 13. And they did it."
Matt Groening recalls Fox agreed to order 13 episodes of The Simpsons without a pilot after James L. Brooks rejected the network’s preference for a single show. He says the team wrote that initial batch before seeing the finished animation because production took months.
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