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 {{TCs|''[[Otto's Magic School Bus]]''|2}}
 {{TB|While hallucinating, Otto asks Binky for directions to school.}}
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 {{TB|''[[The Yellow Album]]''}}
 {{TB| In the upper right corner of the album cover, Binky's ears can be spotted in the crowd, behind [[Otto Mann]].}}
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 {{TB|"[[Simpsorama]]"}}
 {{TB|Some of the [[New New York creatures|mutant rabbits]] resemble Binky and Bongo.}}
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 {{TB|''[[Xt'tapalatakettle's Day]]''}}
 {{TB|A kid is dressed in a {{ap|Bongo|Life in Hell}} costume.}}
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 {{TB|''[[The Riddle of the Mystery's Enigma]]''}}
 {{TB|Binky is seen in a hat in {{ap|The Riddle of the Mystery's Enigma|location}}.}}
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 {{TB|''[[Radioactive Homer]]''}}
 {{TB|[[Otto Mann]] dresses as Bongo at the masquerade ball.}}
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 ''Life in Hell'' started in 1977 as a self-published comic book Groening used to describe life in Los Angeles to his friends. Groening photocopied and distributed it in a small "punk" corner of the record store in which he worked, Licorice Pizza on Sunset Boulevard. ''Life in Hell'' debuted as a comic strip in the avant-garde ''Wet'' magazine in 1978,<ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/groening.htm</ref> to which Groening made his first professional cartoon sale. The first strip, entitled "Forbidden Words," appeared in the September/October issue. Popular in the underground, ''Life in Hell'' was picked up by the ''Los Angeles Reader''<ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/groening.htm</ref> (an alternative weekly newspaper where Groening also worked as a typesetter, editor, paste-up artist, and music critic) in 1980, where it began appearing weekly.
-''Life in Hell'' reached the attention of Hollywood producer [[James L. Brooks]], who received one strip—"The Los Angeles Way of Death" from 1982.<ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/groening.htm</ref> In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of developing a series of short animated skits, called "bumpers," for ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]''. Originally, Brooks had wanted Groening to adapt his ''Life in Hell'' characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights to his characters, Groening instead created an entirely new batch of characters, the Simpsons. Groening continued ''Life in Hell'' until 2012.<ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/groening.htm</ref>
+''Life in Hell'' reached the attention of Hollywood producer [[James L. Brooks]], who received one strip—"The Los Angeles Way of Death" from 1982.<ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/groening.htm</ref> In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of developing a series of short animated skits, called "bumpers," for ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]''. Originally, Brooks had wanted Groening to adapt his ''Life in Hell'' characters for the show, but fearing the loss of ownership rights to his characters, Groening instead created an entirely new batch of characters, the Simpsons. Groening continued ''Life in Hell'' until 2012.<ref>https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/groening.htm</ref>
 == References to ''Life in Hell'' on ''The Simpsons'' ==

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 {{TB|''[[The Yellow Album]]''}}
 {{TB| In the upper right corner of the album cover, Binky's ears can be spotted in the crowd, behind [[Otto Mann]].}}

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 {{TB|''[[The Krusty Book]]''}}
 {{TB|[[Matt Groening]]'s ''Life in Hell'' is #35 in [[Krusty]]'s Top 40. Krusty describes it as a "funny, funny strip" and says "I bet that guy's great to work for."}}
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