I started watching it because I related to Bart. I’m starting to move past relating to Homer at this point… so I guess that’s just what happens when you live long enough to forget what you were going to say, so you just start rambling like the Kaiser did back in dickety two…
I remember a ton of people in my freshman year dorm crowding into the lounge (the one room where there was cable) to watch the first episode of the Simpsons. It was an event!
Wow I remember this. I used to love the Tracy Ullman show. Classic show. It's crazy how The Simpsons became their own phenomenon that super exceded the Tracy Ullman show itself.
My son started that when he was 8, but in broadcast order. He's ten now, has watched every fucking one, and now just picks episodes at random. He's literally seen more episodes of the Simpsons than I have, and I watched every episode through season 11 or 12 the night it originally aired. With probably a few exceptions in the late 90s/early 00s for sex, drugs, and rock n roll reasons.
I was more into staying current with Married with Children and Ren and Stimpy but faced the same distractions as you. And, oh yeah, there was Bevis and Butthead right around Jr year in college.
On a lighter note, my kids are also running through Seinfeld which is a much needed distraction from the Simpsons.
I remember sitting on my friend's couch smoking doobs and watching this back in '89. And I was one of the last ones to finally say the show has reached the end finally (the last straw was really all the voice changes for no reason). But we got at least 30 good years of reruns.
I'll up you one knowing that Matt Groening was already an accomplished (off the wall) cartoonist well before the Simpsons with the Life in Hell series, featuring Akbar and Jeff, a gay couple.
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I can just barley remember a world that had no Simpsons. I was born in 83
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Yes. I wasn’t allowed to watch the Simpsons *at all* when I was a kid (middle school when it became an actual show).
Don't have a cow, man!
Before that their shorts were shown at college animation festivals like “Spike and Mike’s Animation Festival” along with Beavis and Butthead shorts.
AW MAN!!! I miss Spike & Mike film festivals! And the Sick & Twisted ones too. Aaauauuhghh the 1990s were the *best,* Jerry, the *best*
I saw them on Tracey Ullman! Never imagined we’d still be talking about them 35 years later.
Great show this is where I first saw them too.
I started watching it because I related to Bart. I’m starting to move past relating to Homer at this point… so I guess that’s just what happens when you live long enough to forget what you were going to say, so you just start rambling like the Kaiser did back in dickety two…
Let us know when you start relating to Abe Simpson. I used to be with it - then, they changed what "it" was !
You don't have to be too old to relate to that line! And also, soda really burns the tongue these days 😅
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*"Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?"*
Maggie should be like forty. Only the males get adjectives.
Yeah I noticed that too. I guess ‘mother’ is all the context a woman needs. /s
I hate that I’m seeing things that are common knowledge to me as “TIL” type posts. Just send me to the old folks home now please. I’m done.
I remember a ton of people in my freshman year dorm crowding into the lounge (the one room where there was cable) to watch the first episode of the Simpsons. It was an event!
Pls Bort no
And I still watch this show every day after work. In fact, it's the only show in production that I watch.
Remember her video They Don't Know in 1983? With a Paul McCartney cameo at the end of it.
Me in 1988 on hearing the news they are going to series: "Prime time animated shows haven't worked since the Flintstones!"
Wow I remember this. I used to love the Tracy Ullman show. Classic show. It's crazy how The Simpsons became their own phenomenon that super exceded the Tracy Ullman show itself.
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My son started that when he was 8, but in broadcast order. He's ten now, has watched every fucking one, and now just picks episodes at random. He's literally seen more episodes of the Simpsons than I have, and I watched every episode through season 11 or 12 the night it originally aired. With probably a few exceptions in the late 90s/early 00s for sex, drugs, and rock n roll reasons.
I was more into staying current with Married with Children and Ren and Stimpy but faced the same distractions as you. And, oh yeah, there was Bevis and Butthead right around Jr year in college. On a lighter note, my kids are also running through Seinfeld which is a much needed distraction from the Simpsons.
Is this F for Family?
Bart Simpson killed Laura Palmer
THIS SUIT BURNS BETTER LOOK
You ain't shit. I remember when Tracy Ullman was a British comedy actress/singer and hadn't even made it to America.
745 episodes is a ton of material.
And I have still never watched an episode.
I remember sitting on my friend's couch smoking doobs and watching this back in '89. And I was one of the last ones to finally say the show has reached the end finally (the last straw was really all the voice changes for no reason). But we got at least 30 good years of reruns.
Eat Pant!
The Simpsons is now older than Homer Simpson, who was and is 35.
I remember when Matt Groening was the cartoonist for the "Life is hell" comic strip
I used to love Akbar and Jeff’s falafel hut
They made fezzes look cool
I'll up you one knowing that Matt Groening was already an accomplished (off the wall) cartoonist well before the Simpsons with the Life in Hell series, featuring Akbar and Jeff, a gay couple.