The AV Club examined the entire list of episode writers and co-writers, discovering that only eight percent of the 616 episodes of "The Simpsons" which have aired include a woman screenwriter. This may have been in the early '90s, but it's not exactly like things have balanced out today. "I always wind up being the turd in the punchbowl because the show is so beloved and everything, and I’m sorry to burst bubbles but. Ponds story is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California- with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex and drug use- and bildungsroman of a. I feel like I was just as qualified as anyone else who came along and got hired on the show, and it was just because I was a woman that I was, you know, not allowed entry into that club." 'This is a continuation of Mimi Ponds book Over Easy, a memoir of her time working amongst the hippies and punks of the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking Imperial Cafe. "It had remained a boys’ club for a good long time. And it wasn’t until years later that I found out that Sam Simon, who was the showrunner, didn’t want any women around because he was going through a divorce." "No one ever called me or explained to me or apologized or anything.
Set in Oakland in the late seventies it is the story of a young artist who, to make ends meet, works as a waitress in the Imperial Cafe, a restaurant that seems to house eccentrics, drunks, junkies and creeps. "I was never invited to be on staff, and I never knew why for the longest time," she recalled. The graphic novel, The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond is loosely based on the author’s own life. more Get A Copy Kindle Store 12. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics, and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the fascinating. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naive artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps.
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