Eric Kaplan
Eric Kaplan
Eric Kaplanis an American television writer, producer, and story editor. His work has included shows such as Late Show with David Letterman, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Malcolm in the Middle, Futurama and The Simpsons. He currently works on The Big Bang Theory...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth10 September 1971
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All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.
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I was completely paralyzed. I couldn't open my eyes. I could hear people talking. I thought I was at my own funeral. I thought I was dead.
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In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.
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One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
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My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.
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Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
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We receive the vast majority of our applications on-line through the Common Application. Giving high schools the option of delivering transcripts and recommendations electronically is an exciting development that will benefit everyone.
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We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
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Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
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Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.
When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
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When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.