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* ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' was the 30-year labor of love of [[Richard Williams]], better known for ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. Sadly, the copious [[Executive Meddling]] that the project received caused him to [[My Greatest Failure|disown the film]], ''including'' the highly praised [[Recut|Recobbled Cut.]]
* Matt Groening created ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' hastily in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office, where he originally planned to pitch ''[[Life in Hell]]'' (at the time his most notable work, which had been running for around 10 years in newspapers) as a shorts series. He chose not to because he wanted to keep the rights to ''Life In Hell''. Now few people know ''Life In Hell'', and ''The Simpsons'' is considered his Magnum Opus.
** Groening once [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234649/http://animatedtv.about.com/od/mattgroening/tp/groeningtop10.htm made a list] of his favorite ''Simpsons'' episodes, and choose mostly examples from the first and eighth season, while many fans consider the third to seventh season to be the show's Golden Age. The first season is even generally disliked by many viewers because the show was [[Early Installment Weirdness|still searching for its form]] in those days. Many episodes from the first season are too slow, not particularly funny and even uncharacteristic.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has an [[In-Universe]] example with Brian Griffin. His labor-of-love novel, ''Faster than the Speed of Love'', becomes a massive bomb due to its being an incredibly trite [[Cliché Storm]] that unintentionally rips off the ''[[Iron Eagle]]'' series. After he trashes schlocky self-help books and says anyone could make one, Stewie [[Let's See You Do Better|challenges him to do so]], so he throws together ''Wish It, Want It, Do It,'' which becomes a smash hit.
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