Editing Comic Book Guy (section)

===Creation===
Comic Book Guy was partly inspired by a clerk at the Los Angeles comic book shop who often "[sat] on the high stool, kind of lording over the store with that supercilious attitude and eating behind the counter a big Styrofoam container full of [[fried clams]] with a lot of [[tartar sauce]]."<ref name=tvguide/> Groening noted: {{cquote|I can't tell you how many times people have come up to me and said, "I know who you based that comic book guy on. It's that comic-book guy right down the block." And I have to tell them, "No, it's every comic book store guy in America."<ref name=tvguide/>}}

Azaria based Comic Book Guy's voice on a college contemporary named Mark who went by the nickname "F", short for "Flounder" from the film ''[[National Lampoon's Animal House]]'', and lived in the room next door to him at [[Tufts University]]. Hank Azaria further explained that "F" would listen to the song "[[867-5309]]" all day long and that Mark would keep a list of top five and bottom five people whom he liked and hated in the dorm and post it hourly. Azaria stated that he himself was always on the bottom five of the list because he complained about the playing of the music.<ref name="F">Azaria, Hank (2004). Commentary for "[[Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season'' [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.</ref> Azaria "loves that the character is an adult who argues with kids as if they're his peers."<ref name=tvguide/>