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Matthew Abram Groening (/ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is best known as the creator of the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023–present), and Disenchantment (2018–2023), as well as the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012). The Simpsons is the longest-running American primetime television series in history, as well as the longest-running American animated series and sitcom. Born in Portland, Oregon, Groening made his first professional cartoon sale, of Life in Hell, to the avant-garde magazine Wet in 1978. At its peak, it was carried in 250 weekly newspapers and caught the attention of American producer James L. Brooks, who contacted Groening in 1985 about adapting it for animated sequences for the Fox 21st Century variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening created a new set of characters, the Simpson family. The shorts were spun off into their own series, The Simpsons, which has since aired 791 episodes. In 1997, Groening and former Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999. It ran for four years on Fox, was picked up in 2008 by Comedy Central for another five years, and was finally picked up by Hulu for another revival in 2023. In 2016, Groening developed a new series for Netflix, Disenchantment, which premiered in August 2018. Groening has won 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, 12 for The Simpsons and 2 for Futurama, and a British Comedy Award for "outstanding contribution to comedy" in 2004. In 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Groening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sicily, Italy, 1943: an American GI rapes a local girl named Sofia Mussolini, cousin of the local dictator, and gets her pregnant. Her son is named Bastardo. Springfield, 2022: Italian-American Mafia boss Don Vittorio DiMaggio, boss of D'Amico criminal family, says Italy must have a new Duce, a direct relative of Mussolini, to control him and all of Italy. His servant Fat Tony and his henchmen Louie and Legs contact Mussolini's last and most stupid successor: 10-year-old Milhouse Van Houten, son of Bastardo's half-sister Luann. The gangsters make Milhouse and his parents to travel to Italy, but here they find Alessandra Mussolini, Milhouse's 60-year-old cousin and congresswoman, also wants to take over Italy. The gangsters think Alessandra is too smart to be controlled and opt to make Milhouse the new Duce, deciding to kill the woman. Alessandra, in the meantime seduces Milhouse's father Kirk to create disagreements in their family. But the mafia kills Alessandra, and Milhouse becomes the new Duce. It's the beginning of a new era.
