Korva is a scroll of the internet’s best ideas.

He doesn't hunt bootleggers to sue them. He collects the knockoffs because they amuse him. One day he came into the writers' room carrying a wooden Bart he'd bought on the street, made by someone whose attempt was crude. Bart's head looked swollen, and the wood had been polished with shoe polish.

The name on the bust was Bart Sanchez, and he wore a sombrero. A Russian coloring book is another favorite: whoever made it had clearly watched The Simpsons for about five seconds and then decided to make a whole coloring book.

Groening has so many of them now that there are too many.

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