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The Simpsons, even one as pored over as “22 Short Films About Springfield.” But as former
Simpsons writers and executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein tell
The A.V. Club ahead of that episode’s 25th anniversary, there’s at least one question they’d never been asked about “22 Short Films.”
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“22 Short Films” was born of the efforts to beef up season four’s “The Front,” which came up a minute short of the minimum runtime. Not only did “The Adventures Of Ned Flanders” help “The Front” hit the 22-minute mark, it proved there was potential and interest in the lives of non-Simpsons Springfieldians. As Oakley told