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'''Matthew Abram''' "'''Matt'''" '''Groening''' (born February 15, 1954) is the creator of the comic strip ''[[Life in Hell]]'' and television series' ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]''. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of ''Life in Hell'' to the avant-garde ''Wet'' magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers. He was also interviewed in ''[[The Simpsons: Celebrity Friends]]'', ''[[The Simpsons: Mischief & Mayhem]]'', ''[[The Simpsons: Access All Areas]]'', ''[[The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!]]'', ''[[The Simpsons: America's First Family]]'', and ''[[The Simpsons: A Culture Show]]''.
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'''''Homer Shake''''' is a [[FOX]] special short that first aired on March 1, [[2013]]. The scores is 30-second long. A 20 seconds version was later used instead of the opening sequence for "[[Gorgeous Grampa]]" in the original US version only.
  
''Life in Hell'' caught the attention of [[James L. Brooks]]. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the [[FOX]] variety show ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]''. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his ''Life in Hell'' characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, [[Simpson family|the Simpsons]], and named the members after his own parents and sisters — while [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] was an anagram of the word brat. The shorts would be spun off into their own series: ''The Simpsons'', which has since aired 530 episodes in 24 seasons as of May [[2013]]. In [[1997]], Groening got together with [[David X. Cohen]] and developed ''Futurama'', an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in [[1999]]. After four years on the air, the show was canceled by Fox in [[2003]], but Comedy Central commissioned 16 new episodes from four direct-to-DVD films. In June [[2009]], Comedy Central ordered 26 new episodes of ''Futurama'', to be aired over two seasons. His advice to beginning cartoonists is to not care about what over people think and just try to make yourself laugh. He said that if he did not think up ''The Simpsons'', he would probably be in a tire shop, drawing doodles of his boss on the break room wall.
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[[Homer]]'s singing is heard over a video of [[Maggie]] dancing while wearing a helmet. The rest of the family are sitting on the couch seemingly oblivious to Maggie. After a while, the rest of the family start dancing too. The camera zooms out to show more people of [[Springfield]] dancing along to the song.
  
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They could not use the original music for the given time of constraints and the licensing costs made so they could not make a deal to license the song. The music scores started on February 26, 2013 for [[Scott Clausen]] and [[Chris Ledesma]]. Two scores mades a 30-second and a 20-second version. The 30 would be for Internet viewing, the 20 as the couch gag. Scott trying first to compose something that sounded like "Harlem Shake" but was original and Ledesma searched on to music libraries to find sounds that fit the general groove and mood. Scott's and Ledesma's first work was rejected for not being close enough by [[Matt Selman]]. Scott compose then a sound-alike version of the original while incorporating the [[theme song]] that was accepted. [[Dan Castellaneta]] was after that called in for a vocal session. Castellaneta sang in music editing terms, he did not sing them to any rhythm guide or pre-recorded track. After Ledesma had Scott's tracks he cut all Dan's singing into the song and laid each "D'oh" into the groove with varying rhythms and syncopation.
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Homer Shake is a FOX special short that first aired on March 1, 2013. The scores is 30-second long. A 20 seconds version was later used instead of the opening sequence for "Gorgeous Grampa" in the original US version only.

Homer's singing is heard over a video of Maggie dancing while wearing a helmet. The rest of the family are sitting on the couch seemingly oblivious to Maggie. After a while, the rest of the family start dancing too. The camera zooms out to show more people of Springfield dancing along to the song.

They could not use the original music for the given time of constraints and the licensing costs made so they could not make a deal to license the song. The music scores started on February 26, 2013 for Scott Clausen and Chris Ledesma. Two scores mades a 30-second and a 20-second version. The 30 would be for Internet viewing, the 20 as the couch gag. Scott trying first to compose something that sounded like "Harlem Shake" but was original and Ledesma searched on to music libraries to find sounds that fit the general groove and mood. Scott's and Ledesma's first work was rejected for not being close enough by Matt Selman. Scott compose then a sound-alike version of the original while incorporating the theme song that was accepted. Dan Castellaneta was after that called in for a vocal session. Castellaneta sang in music editing terms, he did not sing them to any rhythm guide or pre-recorded track. After Ledesma had Scott's tracks he cut all Dan's singing into the song and laid each "D'oh" into the groove with varying rhythms and syncopation.

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