That's right: with tonight's season premiere, the venerable animated series turns 20 years old.
We really old people remember when it first premiered - we even older people remember the shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show! While a pale imitation of the controversy-inspiring show it once was, The Simpsons actually stirred the waters by introducing phrases like "Eat my shorts" into the American youth's vernacular (granted, it was already being said and The Breakfast Club cemented it). Christian "activists" and other thinly-disguised fascists decorated the television's talking-head programs, declaring Bart Simpson everything but a white boy.
Because, as series creator, Matt Groening, puts it, "I think we've used more yellow paint than any other TV show." The phenomenal - truly funny - movie based on the show recently caused the goodwives and burghers to clutch their pearls once again, as it features a prominent (and truly inspired) scene featuring Bart Simpson's dingle.
The Simpsons just collected their 10th Emmy for Outstanding Animated Series.
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
1 comment:
20 years huh? Gee, I'm starting to feel old all of a sudden. Still I'll admit that I love the program. Better than some of the cartoons they have these days but not as good as some of the classics.
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