Women are said to be undesirable in the 'Simpsons'.

At least that's what Mimi Pond, the screenwriter of the first episode, claims. After that she was no longer hired and that was definitely due to the fact that she was a woman, as she revealed in the interview with 'Jezebel': "Nobody ever called me, explained it to me or apologized or anything." Sam Simon reportedly did not want to have women around him because he was going through a difficult divorce. "It remained a boys club for a long time. I think I was just as qualified as anyone else who came over and hired and just because I was a woman, I wasn't allowed to join that club," Pond recalls. According to the Daily News, it should have taken five years before a woman was hired again. Of the 133 authors who worked on the series, only 13 were female.

The 'Simpsons' inventor Matt Groening is already looking at the next project: The 63-year-old will develop a fantasy version of the dark age that bears the promising title 'Disenchantment' (German: disappointment, disillusionment). In San Diego at Comic-Con, the icon already revealed some details about the plot. Accordingly, it should be about the Kingdom of Dreamland, which has gotten out of joint. The always drunk Princess Bean, an elf and a demon try to escape the dreary everyday life and will certainly hit the spirit of the times again. According to Groening, the whole thing will be a universe "full of suffering and idiots".