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04-20-2018, 09:46 PM
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-simpsons/263943/the-simpsons-early-shorts-were-mind-bending-morality-plays
The Simpsons made their earliest appearances on The Tracy Ullman Show more than 30 years ago.
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Ah, The Simpsons. Is there nothing they haven’t taught us?
Before their April 19, 1987 debut appearance on Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show, the good people at the Oxford Dictionaries couldn’t spell the word cromulent. The Simpsons are an edumacation. Their first skits were consciousness-embiggening minute-long bits. The show taught us that the mind didn’t matter. And The Simpsons, which was spun off as its own series on Dec. 17, 1989, has been turning grey matter into yellow matter custard ever since.
The very first spot was called “Good Night,” and it aired during the third episode of The Tracey Ullman show. It showed Bart pondering the big questions of the universe. Most people think the mind is a series of impulses, but the young future upstart hungers for something more tangible. His learned (pronounced with one syllable) father, Homer, who would forever be hungry, calms his son by negating all thought with simple word play.
“What is mind,” Homer asks. “No matter. What is matter? Never mind,” he answers, anticipating the anthem album of the slacker generation by five years.
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The Simpsons voices have never changed. Well, Dan Castellaneta’s voice for Homer Simpson wouldn’t pass a vocal recognition detector, but the actor is still doing it. Julie Kavner has always been Marge, Nancy Cartwright is Bart and Yeardley Smith plays Lisa. The original shorts' cast also included Tracey Ullman, Sam McMurray, and Anna Levine as various Springfielders.
Over 30 years later, Maggie still can’t complete a simple sentence. Even though acting legend Elizabeth Taylor mouthed her first words.
Marge and Lisa filled out the Simpson family in those 48 short filler segments that stood between The Tracey Ullman Show and commercial breaks. But even as Marge cleaned the bed bugs out of Lisa’s ears, their caution and maturity couldn’t stop well-known detractors like then-President George Bush, spelling bee-dropout Dan Quayle, and that ******* Bill Cosby from proclaiming that the animated family spelled the beginning of the end of civilization.
Pundits thought the series was as crude as its animation, which creator Matt Groening submitted to the show on the assumption it would be cleaned up in post-production. It wasn’t. Little did they know that The Simpsons would lead the way for a cartoon renaissance that spawned South Park, Beavis and Butt-head, and Family Guy.
The Simpsons made their earliest appearances on The Tracy Ullman Show more than 30 years ago.
http://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/main_wide/public/2017/04/simpsons_18_13_p1_0.jpg?itok=eIuTlmdG
Ah, The Simpsons. Is there nothing they haven’t taught us?
Before their April 19, 1987 debut appearance on Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show, the good people at the Oxford Dictionaries couldn’t spell the word cromulent. The Simpsons are an edumacation. Their first skits were consciousness-embiggening minute-long bits. The show taught us that the mind didn’t matter. And The Simpsons, which was spun off as its own series on Dec. 17, 1989, has been turning grey matter into yellow matter custard ever since.
The very first spot was called “Good Night,” and it aired during the third episode of The Tracey Ullman show. It showed Bart pondering the big questions of the universe. Most people think the mind is a series of impulses, but the young future upstart hungers for something more tangible. His learned (pronounced with one syllable) father, Homer, who would forever be hungry, calms his son by negating all thought with simple word play.
“What is mind,” Homer asks. “No matter. What is matter? Never mind,” he answers, anticipating the anthem album of the slacker generation by five years.
F988JDDuFsQ
The Simpsons voices have never changed. Well, Dan Castellaneta’s voice for Homer Simpson wouldn’t pass a vocal recognition detector, but the actor is still doing it. Julie Kavner has always been Marge, Nancy Cartwright is Bart and Yeardley Smith plays Lisa. The original shorts' cast also included Tracey Ullman, Sam McMurray, and Anna Levine as various Springfielders.
Over 30 years later, Maggie still can’t complete a simple sentence. Even though acting legend Elizabeth Taylor mouthed her first words.
Marge and Lisa filled out the Simpson family in those 48 short filler segments that stood between The Tracey Ullman Show and commercial breaks. But even as Marge cleaned the bed bugs out of Lisa’s ears, their caution and maturity couldn’t stop well-known detractors like then-President George Bush, spelling bee-dropout Dan Quayle, and that ******* Bill Cosby from proclaiming that the animated family spelled the beginning of the end of civilization.
Pundits thought the series was as crude as its animation, which creator Matt Groening submitted to the show on the assumption it would be cleaned up in post-production. It wasn’t. Little did they know that The Simpsons would lead the way for a cartoon renaissance that spawned South Park, Beavis and Butt-head, and Family Guy.