Article: Matt Groening ponders the future of `The Simpsons'.

Byline: Rick Porter

It's a cliche for reporters to ask the creator of a long-running TV show about his favorite episodes, and the cliched response is for the creator to say that he loves them all and can't possibly single out one or two.

Yet upon meeting "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening on Monday at a party celebrating the show's 350th episode _ which airs May 1 _ the temptation to ask the favorites question was too hard to resist. Happily, he didn't give the usual non-answer, rattling off a list of his top secondary characters _ Apu, the Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Ralph Wiggum and Milhouse's dad, Kirk, among them _ and episodes he loves.

"I ...

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