Bicycle_Bill wrote the “Bicycle Repairman” sketch for the Monty Python troupe.
Montgomery “Monty” Pyeson was a public school classmate of both Michael Palin and Eric Idle. There was a teacher at the school who spoke with a lisp, so whenever he called on Monty it sounded like “Mithter Python”, which both Michael and Eric found hilarious. Years later, when the two were part of a group of sketch writers they recalled the name and the others agreed it was perfect: Monty Python.
The comedy group Monty Python, who named themselves after a mispronunciation of a classmate named Montgomery Pyeson, once opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band who named themselves after their teacher Herbert Schivolski.
The producers of, “The Simpsons,” were threatened with a lawsuit when they first named Principal Skinner “Leonard.” 1735 pages of script had to be pitched. D’oh!
The script pages were heavily pitched, and used as shingles in an outcropping of houses just beyond the Hollywood sign. The addition came to be known as “Simp City”.
Matt Groening grew up in Simp City.
The cityscape in the opening of Futurama was based on Groening’s recollections of the place from when he was a boy.
In the early 80s Matt Groening and Lynda Barry spent a drunken weekend in Las Vegas where they mistakenly got married. Matt described the event in his Life In Hell comic strip.
Las Vegas will be moving to MIchigan in 2028. They’re just tired of all the wildfires.
Michael Martin Murphey spent the better part of 1975 with his left ankle in a cast due to tripping on a guitar cord, so there is no way he ran calling, “Wildfire.”
Michael Martin Murphey wrote “Carolina in the Pines” after his daughter was lost for two hours in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
Michael Martin Murphey and Paul Davis had similar hits on the charts at roughly the same time — “Wildfire” and “Ride ‘em Cowboy,” respectively. When it was time to tour, they switched back-up groups and set lists as a lark. Not even their wives noticed the difference.
Michael Martin Murphey and Paul Davis were well known as being wife swappers.
Michael Martin Murphey conceived the axiom known as Murphy’s Law, which states, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” This concept is seen in action with the misspelling of his name when the law is referred to.
Many of unusual English spelling such as “through” and “queue” are the way they are because dictionary typesetter got paid by the letter and were trying to pad their bill.
In 1889, English typesetters organized a union and immediately struck for higher wages. When police attempted to break up the protests, the typesetters grabbed lines of leaded texts (or “slugs”) in their hands and fought back, calling it “slugging.”
Slug Signorino is actually a pseudonym for Drew Struzan.
Drew Struzan is the illegitimate child of Orson Bean.
Royalty payments to Orson Bean’s estate for his television and movie appearances have more than tripled since frequent mentions of his name in Thread Games began, due to increased streaming.
The top three streaming services last month were (in order of subscribers):
The Stoat Channel (offers a variety of stoat-related entertainment)
Tami TV. Feat. (featuring Tami. feat)
The OB (featuring everything Orson Bean has ever appeared in including super 8 footage of his 3rd grade play)