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Postchronicle.com reports today that Matt Groening (The Simpsons) was a struggling writer in the 1980’s and took a job writing tag lines for the O’Bannon classic “The Return Of The Living Dead” but was forced to quit, here’s why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Groening says, “I wrote copy lines for movie posters. They never got used – I wasn’t very good. The first job I was working on was The Return Of The Living Dead. My brilliant copy line was, ‘First they want to meet you, then they want to eat you.’ The other one was, ‘Why did the zombies cross the road? To get to the other side – to eat some humans.”<\/p>\n

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Postchronicle.com reports today that Matt Groening (The Simpsons) was a struggling writer in the 1980’s and took a job writing tag lines for the O’Bannon classic “The Return Of The Living Dead” but was forced to quit, here’s why. Groening says, “I wrote copy lines for movie posters. 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