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The Simpsons is the longest-running animated television series in American television history, with 19 seasons guaranteed and 400 episodes by the end of its current season since its debut on December 17, 1989 on the FOX network. It is a spin-off of The Tracey Ullman Show. The television series is produced by Gracie Films for 20th Century Fox.
Highly satirical, the show lampoons many aspects of the human condition, but primarily parodies the "Middle American" lifestyle its titular family exhibits, and more generally American culture, society and even television itself. In the Channel 4 programs, the 100 Greatest Cartoons and the 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows, it was voted into first place.
The characters were originally created by Matt Groening as part of a series of original animated segments for The Tracey Ullman Show. Over the course of the series Groening has used many of the themes present in his long-running comic strip series, Life in Hell. (For instance, the idea of creative school children constantly being persecuted and suppressed by totalitarian grown-ups stems from the strip.)
The Simpson family first appeared in animated form as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. The first short "Good Night" airing on April 19, 1987. Matt Groening admits the reason that they were so crudely drawn in the beginning was because he could not draw well and the animators did nothing more than just trace over his drawings. The shorts were never aired by the BBC in the UK, though some of them, including "Good Night," were included in a Simpsons anniversary episode. The Simpsons was converted, by a team of production companies that included what is now the Klasky-Csupo animation house, into a series for the Fox Network in 1989 and has run as a weekly show on that network ever since.
Springfield is the fictional city where the TV series The Simpsons is set, founded by Jebediah Springfield, located near Shelbyville and Capitol City in a state whose name is never mentioned.
Founded in 1796 by Jebediah Springfield, Springfield seems to be a small city rather than a megalopolis. Its features include one nuclear power plant, two elementary schools (Springfield Elementary School and Springfield East Elementary School), a minor league baseball stadium, an airport, an ocean harbor, a downtown district, a ghetto, several specialized shopping districts, two nearby military bases, and Moe's, a bar run by Moe Syzslak. Springfield was nearly chosen as the host for the Summer Olympic Games, until Bart Simpson's antics angered representatives from the IOC.
Springfield's nearest neighboring town is Shelbyville. There is a strong rivalry between the towns, dating back to a rivalry between their founders -- Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan.
"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season, and is, as the title suggests, the 138th episode. The episode aired on December 3, 1995.
Troy McClure hosts this episode, which looks back at the show and also offers never-before-seen outtakes. Also in the episode, many questions fans often ask finally have their answer revealed. It also takes a look at who Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon are. Groening is portrayed as a Southern patriot who wields a gun, is bald, and has an eye patch (he ends up shooting the camera placed in his office for the audience to see him), Brooks is seen as Rich Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly, and Simon's appearance resembles Howard Hughes. It is also revealed that, according to McClure, Homer's original name in The Simpsons was "Captain Wacky".
In the episode, Troy McClure also shows other clips from the Ullman shorts, including the first The Tracey Ullman Show short, "Good Night". The episode also offers an alternate endings to Part Two of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", most of which consisted of random characters shooting Mr. Burns, followed by a more elaborate ending where Smithers is revealed to be the assailant. Over the end, Troy McClure leaves the viewers with what the theatre's audience came to see: hardcore nudity, with a montage of scenes of nudity on The Simpsons playing over the end credits, while KC and the Sunshine Band's Shake Your Booty was playing in the background
| Episode no.: 138 |
| Prod. code: 3F31 |
| Airdate: December 3, 1995 |
| Writer(s): Penny Wise |
| Director: "Pound Foolish" |
- The Simpsons recently won an Emmy for best animated show. For the prizewinner, James L. Brooks, it will be his 19th Emmy Award, a new record.
- The Simpsons 400th episode is scheduled to air on May 20, 2007. It has been given as "24 minutes", as a spoof of 24, and is rumoured to air in "real time".
- New episodes announced for season 18 include "Jazzy and the Pussycats", "Moe'n'a Lisa", "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em...", and the usual "Treehouse of Horror".
December 10, 2006: "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
After Bart convinces all his friends not to go to Nelson's birthday party, Marge forces him to attend. After the party, Bart becomes Nelson's new best friend and under Nelson's protection no one dares to mess with Bart. There's only one drawback to his newfound friend/bodyguard; he can no longer pal around with Milhouse. Homer finds himself hooked on one of Lisa's fantasy books.
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- ...that John Swartzwelder, writer of over 50 Simpsons episodes, has not been seen in public in over eight years?
