Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, Race, A Life in the Theatre) is seen as the writer of "Thicker Than Waters," a cheesy 1980s family sitcom that Homer uses as inspiration in the raising of his kids.
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David Mamet Appears on "The Simpsons" (Video)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet voiced an animated and fictionalized version of himself in a brief cameo on the Jan. 23 episode of "The Simpsons."
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