Editing Matt Groening (section)

===Early career===
In 1977, at age 23, Groening moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. He went through what he described as "a series of lousy jobs", including being an extra in the television movie ''[[When Every Day Was the Fourth of July]]'',<ref name="playboy">{{cite journal |last=Sheff |first=David |title=Matt Groening |journal=Playboy |volume=54 |issue=6 |date=June 2007 |url=http://playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/matt-groening/matt-groening-01.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013165626/http://playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/matt-groening/matt-groening-01.html |archive-date=October 13, 2007}}</ref> busing tables,{{sfnp|Morgenstern|1990}} washing dishes at a nursing home, clerking at the Hollywood Licorice Pizza record store, landscaping in a sewage treatment plant,{{sfnp|Von Busack|2001}} and chauffeuring and [[ghostwriter|ghostwriting]] for a retired Western director.{{sfnp|Chocano|2001}}<ref name="avclub">{{cite web |title=Matt Groening |date=April 26, 2006 |last=Rabin |first=Nathan |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |url=https://www.avclub.com/matt-groening-1798209542 |access-date=June 9, 2009 |archive-date=January 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119014837/http://www.avclub.com/articles/matt-groening,13984/ |url-status=live }}</ref>