It’s a cliche for reporters to ask the creator of a long-running TV show about his favorite episodes, and the cliched response is for the creator to say that he loves them all and can’t possibly single out one or two. Yet, upon meeting “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening on Monday at a party celebrating the show’s 350th episode, the temptation to ask the favorites question was too hard to resist. Happily, he didn’t give the usual non-answer, rattling off a list of his top secondary characters — Apu, Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Ralph Wiggum and Kirk among them — and episodes he loves. “I don’t have a single favorite. There’s a bunch I really like,” Groening says. “I love ‘Bart Sells His Soul.’ I love the one where we had Frank Grimes. And I like an episode we have coming up where Bart converts to Catholicism (which has been rescheduled as the Season Finale on May 15th. Read More >>>
