Talk:Life in Hell

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Speaking of Hell, the opening salvo in this article makes me suffer:

"Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening featuring anthropomorphic rabbits and gay lovers exploring the wide world of love, sex, work, and death. In short, Life in Hell is described as a cute little comic strip full of fun, merriment, laughs, and frivolity, not to mention angst, alienation, self-loathing, and the meaningless of our impending doom."

The first sentence has what could be a poorly placed modifier "exploring the wide world of love, sex, work, and death." I don't know enough about the comic to tell whether the article's author intended to express that the comic features explorations of love, sex, and death, or that the rabbits & Co explore these topics.

In the second sentence "is described" indicates that someone once described it using those words. If someone did, the words that follow could be put in quotation marks. Otherwise, "meaningless" is meaningless, and "our" should be omitted.

--Defenestrate 21:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well actually, the characters themselves describe it using those exact same words in one strip. See link: http://art.dahm.com/LifeInHell/beginners.gif --Kaizersoze 21:01, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

Defenstrate got owned.

[edit] Will and Abe

Does Matt Groening have two sons named Will and Abe in real life? Because I read somewhere he has a son named Homer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.214.200.130 (talk • contribs).

As far as I know, Homer is Will's real name, but he goes by Will --Rubber cat

[edit] Akbar & Jeff

• it's erroneous to refer to akbar and/or jeff as homosexuals or gay lovers. it's accurate (not to mention funnier) to refer to them as groening would from time to time: "brothers or gay lovers, possibly both." Streamless 17:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• While whether it's funnier or not is subjective, it's not erroneous to refer to them as homosexuals. In this 1991 interview, which deals mostly with homosexuality, Groening says "I act coy when people ask whether or not they are gay. I say they are either brothers or lovers or possibly both. [Whispering] But they're gay. Actually, I say what would annoy the questioner the most. In most cases, that means saying Akbar and Jeff are gay.... I mean, it's obvious, right? " Rubber cat 04:12, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

i think then that the article should state as follows: "Akbar & Jeff are, as stated in printed Life In Hell comics and as mentioned by Matt Groening in an interview, 'brothers or gay lovers, possibly both'" Streamless 15:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

whatever dude Rubber cat 22:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

not tryin' to be a jerk, but it is the description i've read most often in the strip, and i think it's hilarious. Streamless 15:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

• During the controversy over Bert and Ernie being gay, Groening had a quote in his hometown local paper where he was asked, and I still remember his answer: "They're brothers or gay lovers, whichever offends the reader more." Ehurtley 04:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One Crazy Summer link?

In numerous attempts, I cannot find any official link between the movie One Crazy Summer and Life in Hell creator Matt Groening, yet the animation sequences in the movie bear striking resemblances to characters in LiH. At the same time, my research has shown that the animation team in One Crazy Summer did indeed go on to do The Simpsons on The Tracey Ullman Show. Again, it appears that this link only appears AFTER the making of this movie, though. Does anyone have any confirmation one way or the other regarding the One Crazy Summer rabbit and the Life in Hell rabbit? Ehurtley 04:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)