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Maxtone-Graham has written for '' Saturday Night Live '' and '' The Simpsons '', and has also served as a co-executive producer and consulting producer for ''The Simpsons''. He joined the ''Simpsons'' crew in the Eighth Season and has since written some important episodes, such as " Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ," in which Maude Flanders dies. In 2005 , he won a Writers Guild Of America award. However, Maxtone-Graham has also become wildly unpopular among ''Simpsons'' fans on the Internet . The animosity kicked off in 1998 , when he stated that he had never watched the show prior to working on it. In the same interview, he contrasted the ''Simpsons'' writers' somewhat lackadaisical approach (saying, for example, that they sometimes confused Rod and Todd ) with the Internet fans' apparent obsession with continuity, and remarked, "That's why they're on the Internet and we're writing the show." The interviewer Charlotte O'Sullivan expressed discomfort with his assertion that female writers were not often part of the writing staff, as the "guy humour" of Bart and Homer dominated the show's plotlines over the characters of Marge and Lisa . Maxtone-Graham was one of several writers recruited to The Simpsons from the pages of George Meyer 's short-lived Army Man magazine. Maxtone-Graham attended Brown University , in contrast to much of the other ''Simpsons'' crew, who went to Harvard . While at Brown, he wrote for and later served as Editor-in-Chief of the '' Critical Review ''. He entered Brown with the class of 1981 but graduated in January 1983 . Eric Idle 's character in the Sitcom '' Suddenly Susan '' was named after him. The design of the occasionally-appearing Simpsons character "Very Tall Man" (his most notable appearance being 22 Short Films About Springfield ) is based on Maxtone-Graham, who in real life measures in at 6'8". While at Saturday Night Live , Maxtone-Graham co-wrote the first version of The Chanukah Song with Adam Sandler. Maxtone-Graham is a Triathlete , and swims with the the UCLA masters team. He also kayaks, and in college was a rower. While a writer at Saturday Night Live , Maxtone-Graham once dumped a cup of water on Norm MacDonald 's head for smoking in the writer's room. MacDonald responded by punching Maxtone-Graham, who went home and did not return for a week. Maxtone-Graham considered filing charages against MacDonald for assault and battery, and against NBC for not enforcing the no-smoking policy, but decided against it. '' SIMPSONS '' EPISODES Among the episodes he has written are:
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