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Growing Up Springfield was a documentary produced by and starring Declan Desmond.
Growing Up Springfield was started by Declan Desmond at Springfield Elementary School. He followed many of the students there from the age of eight, to the age of forty. Every eight years, Declan revisited the subjects of the documentary to see how their lives had changed.
At the age of eight, Eleanor Abernathy wanted to become a lawyer and a doctor, because a woman can do anything. At the age of 24, Eleanor had graduated from Harvard Medical and Yale Law schools. She had become a successful lawyer and doctor, often needing to perform both jobs on the same day. At age 32, Eleanor had become burned out from her double jobs. She had taken up drinking, which she did with her pet cat, Buster. Eleanor also mentioned that she might get a second cat. At the age of 40, Eleanor had become the Crazy Cat Lady and threw her cats at Declan as he was filming her...
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The Collector is a rich, comic-book collector that lives in a remote location.
The Collector once went to a comic shop to buy an issue of Captain Squid. When he went out of the shop, he was confronted by someone who asked The Collector if he had a light. The Collector quickly got into his limo and drove off. He never went back to that comic shop again.
Every evening, The Collector would relax with one of his comic books. After reading the comic, he would go down to his climate-controlled comic vault and put the comic back. One weekend, Smedley, The Collector's butler, went to go and see his aging mother. When The Collector went to his vault, he found that the heat was turned up to 97 degrees and couldn't get it lower. After trying to fix the climate controls, his dog went into the vault. The Collector told the dog to get out and he did, but knocked over a stack of crates which locked The Collector in the vault. The Collector tried to get out but failed. The temperature of the vault then dropped to below freezing due to The Collector messing with the climate controls...
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| Today is May 14.
On this day...
- 1952: David Byrne, artist, musician and guest star, was born.
- 1969: Cate Blanchett, actress and guest star, was born.
- 1984: Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and guest star, was born.
- 1989: "TV Simpsons" aired for the first time. This is the last short to air.
- 1995: "Lemon of Troy" aired for the first time.
- 2000: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" aired for the first time.
- 2006: "The Monkey Suit" aired for the first time.
- 2015: B. B. King, guitarist on The Simpsons Sing the Blues, died.
- 2018: Tom Wolfe, author and guest star, died.
- 2019: Tim Conway, actor and guest star, died.
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