The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culturesocietytelevision, and the human condition. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L.

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Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became an early hit for Fox, becoming the network's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season — Since its debut on December 17,episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast.

Its 28th season began on September 25, It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, and, init surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series.

On November 4,the series was renewed for a twenty-ninth and thirtieth season of 22 episodes each, extending the show to The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first first nine [5] [6] or ten [7] [8] seasons, which are generally considered its "Golden Age".

Time named it the 20th century's best television series, [9] and Erik Adams of The A. Club named it "television's crowning achievement regardless of format". It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards30 Annie Awardsand a Peabody Award. Homer's exclamatory catchphrase " D'oh! Despite this, the show has also been criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years.

The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional " Middle American " town of Springfield. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife and mother. They have three children: Bart, a ten-year-old troublemaker; Lisa, a precocious eight-year-old activist; and Maggiethe baby of the family who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier.

Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The show includes an array of quirky supporting characters: The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town.

A number of them have gained expanded roles and subsequently starred in their own episodes. According to Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the comedy show SCTV. Despite the depiction of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays passing, the characters do not age between episodes either physically or in stated ageand generally appear just as they did when the series began.

The series uses a floating timeline in which episodes generally take place in the year the episode is produced even though the characters do not age.

The Simpsons takes place in the fictional American town of Springfield in an unknown and impossible-to-determine U. The show is intentionally evasive in regard to Springfield's location.

He "figured out that Springfield was one of the most common names for a city in the U. In anticipation of the success of the show, I thought, 'This will be cool; everyone will think it's their Springfield.

When producer James L. Brooks was working on the television variety show The Tracey Ullman Showhe decided to include small animated sketches before and after the commercial breaks.

Having seen one of cartoonist Matt Groening 's Life in Hell comic strips, Brooks asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts. Groening initially intended to present an animated version of his Life in Hell series.

He therefore chose another approach while waiting in the lobby of Brooks's office for the pitch meeting, hurriedly formulating his version of a dysfunctional family that became the Simpsons.

The Simpson family first appeared as shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, However, the animators merely re-traced his drawings, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial shorts.

Ina team of production companies adapted The Simpsons into a half-hour series for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The team included the Klasky Csupo animation house. Brooks negotiated a provision in the contract with the Fox network that prevented Fox from interfering with the show's content. The suit said she should receive a share of the profits of The Simpsons [32] —a claim rejected by the courts.

Matt Groening and James L. Brooks have served as executive producers during the show's entire history, and also function as creative consultants.

Sam Simondescribed by former Simpsons director Brad Bird as "the unsung hero" of the show, [34] served as creative supervisor for the first four seasons.

He was constantly at odds with Groening, Brooks and the show's production company Gracie Films and left in The first team of writers, assembled by Sam Simon, consisted of John SwartzwelderJon VittiGeorge MeyerJeff MartinAl JeanMike ReissJay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky. Group rewriting sessions develop final scripts by adding or removing jokes, inserting scenes, and calling for re-readings of lines by the show's vocal performers. According to long-time writer Jon VittiMeyer usually invented the best lines in a given episode, even though other writers may receive script credits.

Credited with sixty episodes, John Swartzwelder is the most prolific writer on The Simpsons. At the end ofthe writers of The Simpsons went on strike together with the other members of the Writers Guild of America, East. The show's writers had joined the guild in The Simpsons has six main cast members: Dan CastellanetaJulie KavnerNancy CartwrightYeardley SmithHank Azaria and Harry Shearer. Castellaneta voices Homer SimpsonGrampa SimpsonKrusty the ClownGroundskeeper WillieMayor QuimbyBarney Gumble and other adult, male characters.

Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Bart, but casting director Bonita Pietila believed her voice was too high, [50] so she was given the role of Lisa instead.

Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart, who was described as "devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, [and] clever". Azaria, who has been a part of the Simpsons regular voice cast since the second season, [54] voices recurring characters such as Moe SzyslakChief WiggumApu Nahasapeemapetilon and Professor Frink.

Shearer provides voices for Mr. SmithersPrincipal SkinnerNed FlandersReverend Lovejoy and Dr. With one exception, episode credits list only the voice actorsand not the characters they voice.

Both Fox and the production crew wanted to keep their identities secret during the early seasons and, therefore, closed most of the recording sessions while refusing to publish photos of the recording artists.

The company threatened to replace them with new actors, even going as far as preparing for casting of new voices, but series creator Groening supported the actors in their action.

In addition to the main cast, Pamela HaydenTress MacNeilleMarcia WallaceMaggie Roswelland Russi Taylor voice supporting characters. Karl Wiedergott has also appeared in minor roles, but does not voice any recurring characters. Repeat "special guest" cast members include Albert BrooksPhil HartmanJon LovitzJoe MantegnaMaurice LaMarcheand Kelsey Grammer.

Episodes will quite often feature guest voices from a wide range of professions, including actors, athletes, authors, bands, musicians and scientists. In the earlier seasons, most of the guest stars voiced characters, but eventually more started appearing as themselves. Tony Bennett was the first guest star to appear as himself, appearing briefly in the season two episode " Dancin' Homer ". The Simpsons has been dubbed into several other languagesincluding Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.

It is also one of the few programs dubbed in both standard French and Quebec French. For example, Homer drinks soda instead of beer and eats Egyptian beef sausages instead of hot dogs.

Because of such changes, the Arabized version of the series met with a negative reaction from the lifelong Simpsons fans in the area. Throughout the run of the animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, the animation was produced domestically at Klasky Csupo.

For the first three seasons, Klasky Csupo animated The Simpsons in the United States. Inthe show's production company, Gracie Films, switched domestic production to Film Roman[79] who continue to animate the show until In Season 14production switched from traditional cel animation to digital ink and paint.

Animators used digital ink and paint during production of the season 12 episode " Tennis the Menace ", but Gracie Films delayed the regular use of digital ink and paint until two seasons later. The already completed "Tennis the Menace" was broadcast as made. The production staff at the U. The overseas studios then draw the inbetweensink and paintand render the animation to tape before it is shipped back to the United States to be delivered to Fox three to four months later.

The series began high-definition production in Season 20; the first episode, " Take My Life, Please ", aired February 15, The move to HDTV included a new opening sequence. The Simpsons uses the standard setup of a situational comedy, or sitcom, as its premise. The series centers on a family and their life in a typical American town, [11] serving as a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle.

The town of Springfield acts as a complete universe in which characters can explore the issues faced by modern society. By having Homer work in a nuclear power plant, the show can comment on the state of the environment. The town features a vast array of media channels—from kids' television programming to local news, which enables the producers to make jokes about themselves and the entertainment industry.

Some commentators say the show is political in nature and susceptible to a left-wing bias. In The Simpsonspoliticians are corrupt, ministers such as Reverend Lovejoy are indifferent to churchgoers, and the local police force is incompetent.

The Simpsons ' opening sequence is one of the show's most memorable hallmarks. The standard opening has gone through three iterations a replacement of some shots at the start of the second season, and a brand new sequence when the show switched to high-definition in Each has the same basic sequence of events: The camera zooms through cumulus cloudsthrough the show's title towards the town of Springfield.

The camera then follows the members of the family on their way home. Upon entering their house, the Simpsons settle down on their couch to watch television.

The original opening was created by David Silvermanand was the first task he did when production began on the show. This piece has been noted by Elfman as the most popular of his career. One of the most distinctive aspects of the opening is that three of its elements change from episode to episode: Bart writes different things on the school chalkboard, [95] Lisa plays different solos on her saxophone and different gags accompany the family as they enter their living room to sit on the couch.

The special Halloween episode has become an annual tradition. Although the Treehouse series is meant to be seen on Halloween, this changed by the s, when new installments have premiered after Halloween due to Fox 's current contract with Major League Baseball 's World Series[] however, sinceevery Treehouse of Horror episode has aired during the month of October.

The show's humor turns on cultural references that cover a wide spectrum of society so that viewers from all generations can enjoy the show. Such references, for example, come from moviestelevision, musicliterature, scienceand history. The audience may often not notice the visual jokes in a single viewing.

Some are so fleeting that they become apparent only by pausing a video recording of the show. One of Bart's early hallmarks was his prank calls to Moe's Tavern owner Moe Szyslak in which Bart calls Moe and asks for a gag name. Moe tries to find that person in the bar, but soon realizes it is a prank call and angrily threatens Bart. These calls were apparently based on a series of prank calls known as the Tube Bar recordingsthough Groening has denied any causal connection.

The show uses catchphrasesand most of the primary and secondary characters have at least one each. Burns' "Excellent" and Nelson Muntz 's " Ha -ha!

The use of many of these catchphrases has declined in recent seasons. The episode " Bart Gets Famous " mocks catchphrase-based humor, as Bart achieves fame on the Krusty the Clown Show solely for saying "I didn't do it. A number of neologisms that originated on The Simpsons have entered popular vernacular. The staff of The Simpsons told Castellaneta to shorten the noise, and it went on to become the well-known exclamation in the television series.

Groundskeeper Willie 's description of the French as " cheese-eating surrender monkeys " was used by National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg inafter France's opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq. The phrase quickly spread to other journalists. It has been used in media, such as New Scientist magazine.

The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations includes several quotations from the show. As well as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys", Homer's lines, "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try", from " Burns' Heir " season fiveas well as "Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate. And they practically raise themselves, what with the Internet and all", from " Eight Misbehavin' " season 11, entered the dictionary in August The Simpsons was the first successful animated program in American prime time since Wait Till Your Father Gets Home in the s.

The Simpsons changed this perception, [25] initially leading to a short period where networks attempted to recreate prime-time cartoon success with shows like Capitol CrittersFish Policeand Family Dogwhich were expensive and unsuccessful.

The success of The Simpsons and the lower production cost prompted US television networks to take chances on other animated series. As far as I'm concerned, they basically re-invented the wheel. They created what is in many ways—you could classify it as—a wholly new medium. The Simpsons has had crossovers with four other shows. In the episode " A Star Is Burns ", Marge invites Jay Sherman, the main character of The Criticto be a judge for a film festival in Springfield. Matt Groening had his name removed from the episode since he had no involvement with The Critic.

The Simpsons has also influenced mo kan livestock auction shows like Malcolm in the Middlewhich featured the use of sight gags and did not use a laugh track unlike most sitcoms.

Ricky Gervais called The Simpsons an influence on The Office[] and fellow British sitcom Spaced was, according to its director How to hack avatar fight accounts Wright"an attempt to do a live-action The Simpsons. The Simpsons was the Fox network's first television series to rank among a season's top 30 highest-rated shows.

In the early s, millions of T-shirts featuring Bart were sold; [] as many as one million were sold on some days. Who the hell are you? Due to the show's success, over the summer of the Fox Network decided to switch The Simpsons ' time slot so that it would move from 8: ET on Sunday night to the same time on Thursday, where it would compete with The Cosby Show on NBCthe number one show at the time.

The rating is based on the number of household televisions that were tuned into the show, but Nielsen Media Research estimated that At the time, it was the most watched episode in the history of the Fox Network, [] and it is still the highest rated episode in the history of The Simpsons. The Simpsons has been praised by many critics, being described as "the most irreverent and unapologetic show on the air. It's this neat paradox that makes millions of people turn away from the three big networks on Sunday nights to concentrate on The Simpsons.

While The Simpsons has the record for the number of episodes by an American animated show, other animated series have surpassed The Simpsons. InFox began a year-long celebration of the show titled "Best. Us exim put option of the first parts of the celebration is the "Unleash Your Yellow" contest in which entrants must design a poster for the show.

As of the twenty-first season —The Simpsons became the longest-running American scripted primetime television series, having surpassed Gunsmoke. However, Gunsmoke ' s episode theatrical makeup school london of episodes surpasses The Simpsonswhich will not reach that mark until some time in its 29th season or so, under normal programming schedules.

In MayFox renewed the show up to the end of a 28th season. The Simpsons has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards[71] 30 Annie Awards [] and a Peabody Award. On January 14,the Simpsons were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Furthermore, viewers of the UK television channel Channel 4 have voted The Simpsons at the top of two polls: Bart's rebellious, bad boy nature, which underlies his misbehavior and rarely leads to any punishment, led some parents and conservatives to characterize him as a poor role model for children. In response, Matt Groening said, "That sums up Bart, all right. Most people are in a struggle to be normal [and] he thinks normal is very boring, and does things that others just wished they dare do.

Bush said, "We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American family, to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons. We're praying for an end to the Depression, too. Various episodes of the show have generated controversy. The Simpsons visit Australia in " Bart vs. Australia " season sixand Brazil in " Blame It on Lisa " season 13and both episodes generated controversy and negative reaction in the visited countries.

He felt that it was just an advertisement for The Criticand that people would incorrectly associate the show with him. When he was unsuccessful in getting the episode pulled, he had his name removed from the credits and went public with his concerns, openly criticizing James L.

Brooks and saying the episode "violates the Simpsons' universe. Many fans and critics reacted negatively to the revelation that Seymour Skinnera recurring character since the first season, was an impostor. The episode has been criticized by Groening and by Harry Shearerwho provides the voice of Skinner.

In a interview, Shearer recalled that after reading the script, he told the writers, "That's so wrong. You're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters.

It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience. The show has reportedly been taken off the air in several countries. China banned it from prime-time television in August"in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios.

However, the court decision later dismissed this request. Critics' reviews of early Simpsons episodes praised the show for its sassy humor, wit, realism, and benefits of 60 second binary options trading brokers list. Some critics started calling the show "tired".

It began by proving that cartoon characters don't list of asx equity options to be caricatures; they can be invested with real emotions. Now the show has in essence fermented into a limp parody of itself.

Memorable story arcs have been sacrificed for the sake of celebrity walk-ons and punchline-hungry dialogue. Inthe BBC noted "the common consensus is that The Simpsons ' golden era ended after season nine ", [6] and Todd Leopold of CNN, in an article looking at its perceived decline, stated "for many fans Mike Scullywho was showrunner during seasons nine through twelvehas been the subject of criticism.

Episodes that once would have ended with Homer and Marge bicycling into the sunset now end with Homer blowing a tranquilizer dart into Marge's neck.

The show's still funny, but it hasn't been touching in years. Once you've done that you can go on forever. Al Jeanshowrunner since season solid dispersions as strategy to improve oral bioavailability of poorly water soluble drugs, has also been the subject of criticism, with some arguing that the show has continued to decline in quality under his tenure.

Former writers have complained that under Jean, the show is "on auto-pilot", "too sentimental", and the episodes are "just being cranked out. An Uncensored, Unauthorized Historycharacterized the Jean era as "toothless", [] and criticized what he perceived as the show's increase in social and political commentary. But honestly, I've been here the whole time and I do remember in season two people saying, 'It's gone downhill.

I'm glad we didn't. InHarry Shearer criticized what he perceived as the show's declining quality: I think Harry's issue is that the show isn't as grounded as it was in the first three or four seasons, that it's gotten crazy or a little more madcap. I think it organically changes to stay fresh. Best sip investment plan in india 2016 think it's possible that the show will become too financially cumbersome The animation is incredibly detailed and imaginative, and the stories do things that we haven't done before.

So creatively there's no reason to quit. Inpopular culture writer Anna Leszkiewicz suggested that even though The Simpsons still holds cultural relevance, contemporary appeal is only for the first ten seasons, with recent episodes only garnering mainstream attention when a favorite character from the golden era is killed off, or when new information and shock twists are given for old characters.

Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz argued in their book titled TV The Book that the peak of The Simpsons are "roughly seasons [three through twelve]", and that despite the decline, episodes from the later seasons such as " Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind " and " Holidays of Future Passed " could be considered on par with the assistant to binary options working strategy classic episodes, further stating that "even if you want to call the show today a thin shadow of its former self, think about how mind-boggingly great its former self had to be for so-diminished a version to be watchable at all.

Numerous Simpson-related comic books have been released over the reit vs stock market. So far, nine comic book series have been published by Bongo Comics since Brooks, Al Jean, George Meyer, Mike ReissJohn SwartzwelderJon VittiDavid MirkinMike ScullyMatt Selmanand Ian Maxtone-Graham. Brooks originally thought that the story of the episode " Kamp Krusty " was suitable for a film, but he encountered difficulties in trying to expand the script to feature-length.

Collections of original music featured in the series have been released on the albums Songs in the Key of SpringfieldGo Simpsonic with The Simpsons and The Simpsons: The song was written by Michael Jacksonalthough he did not receive any credit.

Init was officially announced that The Simpsons Ridea simulator ridewould be implemented into the Universal Studios Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood. However, Sideshow Bob is loose from prison to get revenge on Krusty and the Simpson family.

Numerous video games based on the show have been produced. Some of the early games include Konami 's arcade game The Simpsons and Acclaim Entertainment 's The Simpsons: Road RageThe Simpsons: The cable television network FXX has exclusive cable 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 FXX premiered The Simpsons on their network on August 21, by starting a twelve-day marathon which featured the first episodes every single episode that had already been released at the time aired chronologically, including The Simpsons Moviewhich FX Networks had already owned the rights to air.

It was the longest continuous marathon in simpsons tapped out best house to make money history of television until VH1 Classic aired a hour, nineteen-day, marathon of Saturday Night Live in ; celebrating that program's 40th anniversary.

On October 21,a digital service courtesy of the FXNOW app, called Simpsons Worldlaunched. Simpsons World has every episode of the series accessible to authenticated FX subscribers, and is available on game consoles such as Xbox Onestreaming devices such as Roku and Apple TVand online via questions to ask when choosing a stockbroker browser.

The popularity of The Simpsons has made it a billion-dollar merchandising industry. The Simpsons has been used as a theme for special editions of well-known board games, including ClueScrabbleMonopolyOperationand The Game of Lifeas well as the trivia games What Would Homer Do?

Several card games such as trump cards and The Simpsons Trading Card Game have also been released. Many official or unofficial Simpsons books such as episode guides have been published. Many episodes of the show have been released on DVD and VHS over the years. When the first season DVD was released init quickly became the best-selling television DVD in history, although it was later overtaken by the first season of Chappelle's Show.

However, on April 19,Al Jean announced that the Season 17 DVD would be the last one ever produced, leaving the collection from Season 1 to 17, Season 20 released out of schedule inwith Seasons 18, 19, and 21 onwards unreleased.

Inabout companies around the world were licensed to use Simpsons characters in their advertising. These included "Buzz Cola", "Krusty-O" cereal, pink doughnuts davy stockbrokers dawson st sprinkles, and "Squishees". By20th Century Fox had greatly increased merchandising efforts. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the television show. For the franchise, see The Simpsons franchise.

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Al Jean John Frink James L. Brooks Matt Groening Matt Selman Sam Simon Ron Hauge Josh Weinstein Bill Oakley. List of The Simpsons characters. History of The Simpsons and The Simpsons shorts.

List of showrunners throughout the series' run: Matt GroeningJames L. David Mirkin Season 7—8: Mike Scully Season 13—present: List of The Simpsons writers. List of The Simpsons cast membersList of The Simpsons guest starsand Non-English versions of The Simpsons.

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