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The Simpsons (oft shortened to Simpsons ) is an American blithe sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The main characters are a satire of a working-class family, consisting of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The serial lampoons many aspects of American culture, guild, politics, and history.

The cartoon fabricated its debut as 60-second blithe bumpers for The Tracey Ullman Testify, with the first short airing on Apr 19, 1987. The shorts were and so expanded into a full-length 30-minute television set spin-off by 20th Century Trick, first airing on December 17, 1989. Every bit of 2021, 32 seasons take aired, with the 33rd airing since September 26.

The serial currently holds the record for the longest-running prime number-time sitcom in the US, running for 32 years and 33 seasons, as well as 3 seasons of shorts since 1989, and condign the longest-running programme on FOX.

1 History
two Production
- two.1 Executive Producers
- ii.two Writers
- ii.3 Vocalization Actors
  - ii.3.i Chief bandage actors
3 Ad Gallery
iv Premises
- 4.1 Characters
- 4.2 Setting
five Hallmarks
- 5.i Springfield Opening Sequence
6 Seasons
7 Citations
eight External link

History

The Simpsons was conceived in the anteroom of James Fifty. Brooks's office by Matt Groening. He was asked to do a series of blithe shorts, and decided to do his Life in Hell serial; since he realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life'due south work, he chose another approach and formulated his version of a dysfunctional family. He named the characters after his ain family and substituted Bart for his own name, as it was an anagram of 'brat'.

The original Simpsons: from left to right, Maggie, Lisa, Marge, Homer and Bart

The Simpsons first appeared to the world on April nineteen, 1987, on The Tracey Ullman Show. Groening submitted crudely drawn sketches of the family to the animators, assuming they would clean them up in production. However, the animators just re-traced over his drawings; that is why the Simpsons announced crudely drawn in the shorts. UK: 20th Century Fox. In 1989, a team of production companies adapted The Simpsons into a half-60 minutes prime time serial for Pull a fast one on. FOX was initially nervous to air the Simpsons, as there hadn't been a drawing in primetime since The Flintstones, and that they were unsure if they could go along the audience's attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven-infinitesimal shorts and four specials until the audition adjusted, only the producers gambled for thirteen half-hr episodes for the series. The Simpsons was originally to premiere in the fall of 1989, with "Some Enchanted Evening," merely when the episode came back from blitheness in Korea, it had major animation problems with information technology. James L. Brooks was extremely dissatisfied with the product and chosen for many parts of the episode to be redone. The producers and then agreed to just get ahead and air "Simpsons Roasting on an Open up Fire," on December 17, 1989, as a Christmas special.

Product

Executive Producers

Through the unabridged show's history, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks take served as the show'due south executive producers. Sam Simon was also in this position, although not credited. When Simon left in 1993, he arranged a deal to be credited equally executive producer as well every bit become profits even though he no longer works on the show.

Writers

The showtime squad of writers for The Simpsons was assembled by Sam Simon. These were: John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, George Meyer, Jeff Martin, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, and Wallace Wolodarsky. Newer Simpsons writing teams usually accept sixteen writers and episode ideas are idea of and proposed in early December. The main writer writes the get-go typhoon and the group changes information technology, adding in-jokes and removing parts they don't like. This can sometimes alter a script entirely. Upward until 2004, the caput of these groups was George Meyer, who apparently wrote a lot of the best lines from episodes. But the idea of all this came from the magic manus of Matt Groening who invented the pictures.

Voice Actors

Main cast actors

Dan Castellaneta	Julie Kavner	Nancy Cartwright	Yeardley Smith	Hank Azaria	Harry Shearer
Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman and many others	Marge Simpson, Jacqueline Bouvier, Patty, and Selma	Bart, Nelson, Ralph, Todd Flemish region, Maggie (currently) and others	Lisa	Moe, Chief Wiggum, Apu, Comic Book Guy, Carl, Cletus, Professor Frink, Dr. Nick, Superintendent Chalmers, and many others	Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Rev. Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny, Main Skinner, Otto, Rainier Wolfcastle, and many others.

Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner were already members of The Tracey Ullman Show. Rather than rent more actors for voices for the Simpsons animated shorts, the producers asked both Castellaneta and Kavner to provide the voices of characters Homer and Marge Simpson. Yeardley Smith originally wanted to play the role of Bart Simpson, but the producers institute her vox too "girlish". Instead, she was given the role of Bart's sister, Lisa Simpson. Bart was voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who originally auditioned for the role of Lisa but chose to exist the voice of Bart instead after finding out that Lisa had a lack of personality at the time, while the character of Bart was "devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever".

Hank Azaria was a voice actor for the short-lived cartoon "Hollywood Dog" at the time. The casting director of the cartoon was also casting managing director of The Simpsons, and Hank signed upward for the role of Moe Szyslak. Afterward, he voiced several other characters, including Main Wiggum and Apu. Harry Shearer was reluctant to be a voice actor on the show but was convinced by James L. Brooks to join the cast "after 3 phone calls."

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Premises

Characters

The Simpsons are a typical family who lives in a fictional Middle American boondocks of Springfield. Homer Simpson, the begetter, works as a rubber director at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge, a stereotypical American housewife, and mother. They accept three children: Bart, a ten-year-old troublemaker; Lisa, a precocious viii-year-old activist; and Maggie, a infant who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. The prove continuously resets time then the characters don't age. The family owns a dog, Santa's Little Helper, and a true cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot". Both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. Despite the passing of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays, the Simpsons do not physically age and still appear only equally they did at the end of the 1980s. Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are oftentimes shown to care about ane another. The show includes an array of quirky characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, and local celebrities. The creators originally intended many of these characters to be one-time jokesters or fulfill needed functions in the town. A number of them take gained expanded roles and after starred in their own episodes. According to Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the comedy show 2d City Television receiver.

Setting

The evidence mainly takes place in the fictional town of Springfield, which was partially based on Matt Groening'due south hometown of Portland, Oregon. However, according to the producers, it was supposed to stand for any town in the Usa. The state that Springfield is located in is never mentioned in the serial, which is referenced in jokes throughout the serial. In "Behind the Laughter", information technology is mentioned as Kentucky. David Silverman once jokingly claimed that the state was "North Takoma". This may have been so during one scene when the Simpsons' car is visible from the rear, and that state's registration tag reads "NT".

Hallmarks

Springfield

Opening Sequence

Run across also Burrow gag, Chalkboard gag and Billboard gag

The opening sequence is i of the most memorable hallmarks and running jokes of the series. The opening sequence differs from episode to episode. Prior to the show's transition to Hard disk drive format, three elements of the opening sequence constantly alter: a chalkboard gag, Lisa's saxophone solo, and a couch gag. The chalkboard gag involves Bart writing a sentence repeatedly on a chalkboard at Springfield Elementary, and the couch gag involves the Simpsons family sitting on the couch in the living room, usually accompanied past a visual joke, i.eastward. the couch turning into a giant octopus and eating the entire family. Lisa's saxophone solo in the opening sequence is unlike in each episode.

Afterwards the show'south transition to Hard disk format, the opening sequence was changed heavily to fit the new format, including the addition of many recurring characters into the sequence. An boosted gag was added: a billboard, which changes each episode.

Seasons

Citations

•The Simpsons Celebrated 32 Years In 2021-17-12

External link

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