On who's show did 'The Simpsons' first appear?
"his own name. The shorts became a part of ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on April 19, 1987. After three seasons, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became Fox's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–90). Since its debut on December 17, 1989, episodes of ""The Simpsons"" have been broadcast. It is the longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series in terms of seasons and number of episodes. ""The Simpsons Movie"", a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27, 2007, and grossed over"
"The Simpsons discography ""The Simpsons"" is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening that has aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company since December 1989. It is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, and many aspects of the human condition. The popularity of ""The Simpsons"" led to the release of the 1990 double platinum album ""The Simpsons Sing the Blues"", which contains original songs performed by the"
"The Simpsons (season 1) The first season of the American animated television series ""The Simpsons"" originally aired on the Fox network between December 17, 1989 and May 13, 1990, beginning with the Christmas special ""Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"". The executive producers for the first production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. The series was originally set to debut in autumn 1989 with the episode ""Some Enchanted Evening"", which was meant to introduce the main characters; during the first screening of the episode, the producers discovered that the animation was so appalling that 70% of"
"released in 2001, it quickly became the best-selling television DVD in history, although it was later overtaken by the first season of ""Chappelle's Show"". The Simpsons (season 1) The first season of the American animated television series ""The Simpsons"" originally aired on the Fox network between December 17, 1989 and May 13, 1990, beginning with the Christmas special ""Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"". The executive producers for the first production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. The series was originally set to debut in autumn 1989 with the episode ""Some Enchanted Evening"", which was meant"
"Non-English versions of The Simpsons The animated TV show ""The Simpsons"" is an American English language animated sitcom which has been broadcast in the United States since 1989 on FOX. In other countries, the TV show started broadcasting later than 1989 either in its original version or in a dubbed version. The show was first broadcast in the area in English with Arabic subtitles on networks like Showtime Arabia and Dubai's One TV, where it received a following in the area. The show was finally dubbed into Arabic in September 2005, under the title ""Al-Shamshoon"" (). In addition to being"
"broadcast by WOWOW from September 19, 1992 until 2002 (seasons 1 - 12), and later on the Fox Channel (seasons 13 - 14) until 2007. The show is broadcast on Fox Sports and Entertainment in English with Japanese subtitles from 2008 (season 15 -) onwards. Non-English versions of The Simpsons The animated TV show ""The Simpsons"" is an American English language animated sitcom which has been broadcast in the United States since 1989 on FOX. In other countries, the TV show started broadcasting later than 1989 either in its original version or in a dubbed version. The show was first"
"damage although the company denied this and claimed any screen damage was 'user related' and denied warranty claims in Australia. Ben & Jerry's created a ""Simpsons""-themed beer and donut-flavored ice cream, entitled ""Duff & D'oh! Nuts"". Many official or unofficial ""Simpsons"" books such as episode guides have been published. The Simpsons (franchise) The Simpsons is an American animated comedy franchise whose eponymous family consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The Simpsons were created by cartoonist Matt Groening for a series of animated shorts that debuted on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on Fox on April 19, 1987. After a"
"The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after his own family members, substituting Bart for"
"Simpson family The Simpson family consists of fictional characters featured in the animated television series ""The Simpsons"". The Simpsons are a nuclear family consisting of married couple Homer and Marge and their three children Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. They live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the fictional town of Springfield, United States, and they were created by cartoonist Matt Groening, who conceived the characters after his own family members, substituting ""Bart"" for his own name. The family debuted on Fox on April 19, 1987 in ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" short ""Good Night"" and were later spun off into their own"
"series airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The Simpson family remained the main characters on this new show. ""The Simpsons"" shorts debuted on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on April 19, 1987 were featured on the first three seasons of the show. By the fourth and last season of ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" the first season of the half-hour show was on the air. In the two first seasons the shorts were divided into three or four parts, but in the third season they were played as a single story. The stories for the shorts were written and storyboarded by Matt"
"the way for other animated series on major broadcast networks. Since its debut, a total of episodes of ""The Simpsons"" have aired, and the series is airing its 27th season in 2015. In September 1992, """" made its debut, and from December 1992 to March 1993, it aired in primetime while also airing on Fox Kids for several more years. Also in September 1992, ""Eek! The Cat"" premiered on Fox Kids. In 1994, it was renamed to ""Eek! Stavaganza"". ""Eek!"" ended in 1997. The only episode of the series to air in primetime was a Christmas special in 1993. A"
"America, as well as overseas. The Simpsons (season 6) ""The Simpsons"" sixth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 4, 1994, and May 21, 1995, and consists of 25 episodes. ""The Simpsons"" is an animated series about a working class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition. Season 6 was the highest rated season of the series. The showrunner for the sixth production season was David Mirkin who executive-produced 23 episodes. Former"
"first appearance in ""The Simpsons"" was in the 1990 episode ""There's No Disgrace Like Home"". Typically presented as 15-to-60-second-long cartoons, the show is filled with gratuitous violence that almost invariably prompts uproarious laughter from Bart and Lisa. ""The Simpsons"" also occasionally features characters who are involved with the production of ""The Itchy & Scratchy Show"", including Roger Meyers Jr. (voiced by Alex Rocco, and, later, Hank Azaria), who runs the studio and produces the show. The Itchy and Scratchy characters are extremely violent parodies of ""Tom and Jerry"" and ""Herman and Katnip""; the names were inspired by ""Sylvester Cat"" and"
"that piece."" Ledesma wrote that acquiring the license to use the musical piece was expensive, but Jean thought ""it would be the perfect piece to use for the couch gag."" The dark cabaret band Tiger Lillies performed their version of the ""Simpsons"" theme over the closing credits of the episode. ""The Simpsons"" creator Matt Groening, a fan of the band, was responsible for recruiting its members to the show. The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 15, 2012. It was watched by approximately 11.48 million people during this broadcast, and in the demographic"
"The Simpsons (season 6) ""The Simpsons"" sixth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 4, 1994, and May 21, 1995, and consists of 25 episodes. ""The Simpsons"" is an animated series about a working class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition. Season 6 was the highest rated season of the series. The showrunner for the sixth production season was David Mirkin who executive-produced 23 episodes. Former showrunners Al Jean and Mike"
"Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom ""The Simpsons"". He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" short ""Good Night"" on April 19, 1987. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip ""Life in Hell"" but instead decided to create a new set of characters. He"
"dropped after only six episodes and the show was moved to a more adult time. Bart was voiced by Annica Smedius and Homer by Per Sandborgh. A dub of the movie was released with ""The Simpsons Movie"" DVD, with Annica Smedius providing the voice for Bart once again. ""The Simpsons"" appeared for the first time in Hungary, and it was dubbed into the Hungarian language on TV3 in September 14, 1998. The series was one of the most popular shows on TV3, but this channel closed down on February 21, 2000. As a result, Viasat 3 started to broadcast new"
"Groening, Brooks, and Simon, and therefore took the job together with Reiss. The duo became the first members of the original writing staff of ""The Simpsons"" and worked on the thirteen episodes of the show's first season (1989). While watching the first episode of the show, ""Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"", premiering on television in December 1989, Jean opined to himself that the series was the greatest project he had been involved with and desired to continue working on it for the rest of his professional career. What he enjoyed most about ""The Simpsons"" at the time was something"
"series, which debuted on Fox in the U.S. on December 17, 1989. Alongside the five main family members, there are a number of other major and minor characters in their family. The most commonly recurring characters are Homer's father Abraham ""Grampa"" Simpson; Marge's sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier; and the family's two pets, Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II. Other family members include Homer's mother Mona Simpson, Homer's half-brother Herbert Powell, Marge's mother Jacqueline Bouvier, and other minor relatives. Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office. Brooks had asked Groening to"
"The Simpsons"" is a parody of Billy Joel's song ""We Didn't Start The Fire"". In its original American broadcast on April 21, 2002, ""Gump Roast"" was watched by 12.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research, making it the 16th most watched television show of the night, as well as the highest-ranked show on the Fox network. It received, along with a new episode of ""Malcolm in the Middle"", a 5.7 rating among adult viewers between ages 18 and 49, meaning it was seen by 5.7% of the population in said demographic. Following the home video release of the thirteenth"
"studios. The move was heavily criticized by Chinese media. ""The Simpsons Movie"", however, has been dubbed into Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The show currently airs in Mandarin with some edits. Episodes are typically broadcast 2-3 weeks after its original airdate in the US. ""The Simpsons"" appeared for the first time on Swedish television on November 29, 1990. The series was originally broadcast on TV3 in English with Swedish subtitles. However, in 1993, the network decided to start dub ""The Simpsons"" to increase ratings, and the show was moved to a more child-friendly time. After a public outrage the dubbing was"
"is the first television series still in production to receive this recognition. The stamps, designed by Matt Groening, were made available for purchase on May 7, 2009. Approximately one billion were printed, but only 318 million were sold, costing the Postal Service $1.2 million. The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and"
"the producers one night offering to write Bart a number one single and do a guest spot on the show, which is how ""Do the Bartman"" came about. Jackson eventually guest-starred in the episode ""Stark Raving Dad"". The album ""The Simpsons Sing the Blues"" peaked at #3 on the ""Billboard"" 200, making it the highest charting ""Simpsons"" album.<ref name=""Billboard""> History of The Simpsons ""The Simpsons"" is an American animated television sitcom starring the animated Simpson family, which was created by Matt Groening. He conceived of the characters in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office and named them after his"
"DVD Movie Guide said in a review that ""while [the episode] doesn’t offer the continuous highs of the best Simpsons, it’s a generally solid show"" and added that ""the episode uses a wackier tone than usual for this era, but it works, and the program is consistently fun"". The Call of the Simpsons ""The Call of the Simpsons"" is the seventh episode of ""The Simpsons""<nowiki>'</nowiki> first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 18, 1990. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Wesley Archer. Albert Brooks made his first guest appearance"
"the thirteen episodes of the show's first season (1989). They became executive producers and show runners of ""The Simpsons"" at the start of the third season (1991). A show runner has the ultimate responsibility of all the processes that an episode goes through before completion, including the writing, the animation, the voice acting, and the music. The first episode Jean and Reiss produced was ""Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"" (aired September 19, 1991), and they felt a lot of pressure on them to make it good. They were so pressured that they did six to seven rewrites of the script"
"The Call of the Simpsons ""The Call of the Simpsons"" is the seventh episode of ""The Simpsons""<nowiki>'</nowiki> first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 18, 1990. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Wesley Archer. Albert Brooks made his first guest appearance on ""The Simpsons"" in this episode as the voice of Cowboy Bob. In this episode, Homer decides to purchase an RV and the Simpsons set off for a vacation in the wilderness. After accidentally driving it off the edge of a cliff, the family find themselves trapped in"
"11 best cameos on ""The Simpsons"". Andrew Martin of Prefix Mag named Harrison his fourth-favorite musical guest on ""The Simpsons"" out of a list of ten. Homer's Barbershop Quartet ""Homer's Barbershop Quartet"" is the first episode of ""The Simpsons"" fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 30, 1993. The episode was written by Jeff Martin and directed by Mark Kirkland. It features the Be Sharps, a barbershop quartet founded by Homer Simpson. The band's story roughly parallels that of The Beatles. George Harrison and David Crosby guest star as themselves, and The"
"were given simple designs so that their facial emotions could easily be changed with almost no effort and so that they would be recognizable in silhouette. Groening submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned-up in production. However, the animators merely re-traced his drawings, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial short episodes. The Simpson family made their debut on April 19, 1987 in ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" short ""Good Night"". In 1989, the shorts were adapted into ""The Simpsons"", a half-hour series airing on the Fox Broadcasting"
"adapted ""The Simpsons"" into a half-hour series for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The team included what is now the Klasky Csupo animation house. The half-hour series premiered on December 17, 1989 with ""Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"", a Christmas special. ""Some Enchanted Evening"" was the first full-length episode produced, but it did not broadcast until May 1990 because of animation problems. ""The Simpsons"" takes place in the fictional American town of Springfield, without any geographical coordinates or references to U.S. states that might identify which part of the country it represents. For ""The Simpsons"", Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria"
"The Simpsons (season 10) ""The Simpsons""' tenth season was originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States between August 23, 1998, and May 16, 1999. It contains twenty-three episodes, starting with ""Lard of the Dance"". ""The Simpsons"" is a satire of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Set in the fictional city of Springfield, the show lampoons American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition. The showrunner for the tenth season was Mike Scully. Before production began, a salary"
"(or lack thereof) is pointed out but comically not acted upon. Thus, where David Grote [author of ""The End of Comedy: The Sit-Com and the Comedic Tradition""] (1983: 67) notes that sitcom episodes 'live in a kind of time-warp without any reference to the other episodes,' producing a situation whereby everything 'remains inviolate and undisturbed, no matter what transitory events may occur' (1983: 59), ""The Simpsons"" comically reflects upon this."" The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 6, 2000. It was viewed in approximately 9.6 million households that night. With a Nielsen rating"
"and digital syndication rights for ""The Simpsons."" Original contracts had previously stated that syndication rights for ""The Simpsons"" would not be sold to cable until the series conclusion, at a time when cable syndication deals were highly rare. The series has been syndicated to local broadcast stations in nearly all markets throughout the United States since September 1993. FXX premiered ""The Simpsons"" on their network on August 21, 2014 by starting a twelve-day marathon which featured the first 552 episodes (every single episode that had already been released at the time) aired chronologically, including ""The Simpsons Movie"", which FX Networks"
"debut with the rest of the Simpsons family on April 19, 1987 in the short ""Good Night"". In 1989, the shorts were adapted into ""The Simpsons"", a half-hour series that would air on the Fox Broadcasting Company. Maggie and the rest of the family remained the main characters on this new show. The entire Simpson family was designed so that they would be recognizable in silhouette. The family was crudely drawn, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up; instead, they just traced over his drawings. Maggie's physical features are generally not used"