The Simpsons 

The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.

Creators:

James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon

Stars:

Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner

Top Rated TV #58 | Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 168 wins & 304 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Dan Castellaneta	...	Homer Simpson / ... 651 episodes, 1989-2018
Julie Kavner	...	Marge Simpson / ... 651 episodes, 1989-2018
Nancy Cartwright	...	Bart Simpson / ... 651 episodes, 1989-2018
Yeardley Smith	...	Lisa Simpson / ... 651 episodes, 1989-2018
Harry Shearer	...	Ned Flanders / ... 651 episodes, 1989-2018
Hank Azaria	...	Moe Szyslak / ... 640 episodes, 1989-2018
Pamela Hayden	...	Milhouse Van Houten / ... 560 episodes, 1989-2018
Tress MacNeille	...	Dolph / ... 513 episodes, 1990-2018

Storyline

This is an animated sitcom about the antics of a dysfunctional family. Homer is the oafish unhealthy beer loving father, Marge is the hardworking homemaker wife, Bart is the perpetual ten-year-old underachiever (and proud of it), Lisa is the unappreciated eight-year-old genius, and Maggie is the cute, pacifier loving silent infant.

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Plot Keywords:

cult tv | satire | adult animation | dysfunctional family | beer | 

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Taglines:

Putting the Fun back in Dysfunctional!

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

FOX Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish Albanian French Japanese German Russian Hindi Swahili Italian Swedish Turkish Cantonese Mandarin Hebrew Arabic Klingon Bengali Czech

Release Date:

17 December 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Los Simpson

Box Office

Budget:

$750,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television, Twentieth Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min (441 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo (season 1-2) Dolby Digital (season 20-)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The official city motto for Springfield is "Corruptus in Extremis", was invented to sound like Latin, but can be best described as "Latin gibberish". The show's translation for it is "Corrupt to the Extreme".

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Goofs

Springfield Elementary School is yellow in some episodes and white in others, sometimes changing color multiple times in the same episode (later episodes corrected this continuity problem by making the school's official color yellow, and including a picture of the "old, white" school in Principal Skinner's office.)

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Quotes

Dr. Nick Riviera: [watching instructional surgery film] Ew, gross, blood!

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Crazy Credits

Occasionaly, the Gracie film logo is replaced with an element of the current episode.

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Connections

Featured in Nostalgia Critic: Independence Day (2010)

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Soundtracks

The Simpsons Theme
Written by Danny Elfman

User Reviews

It started off fantastic...

No one, not even Matt Groening himself, could've imagined that The Simpsons would become as big as it did. Nor could anyone anticipate it could become so cultural. "D'oh" is in the dictionary, and it has spawned off several catch-phrases and one liners. Truly, The Simpsons is the biggest thing since Seinfeld! The first three seasons showed them as if they were an actual family. Like the kind of family you'd meet on the street (only a lot more dysfunctional). Homer trying to do the fatherly thing in each episode. Marge being the voice of reason all the time. Lisa and Bart with their sibling rivalry. These first three seasons are not usually sighted as being the best, but they are often brought up when one speaks of "The Best Episode Ever!" By Season four, the show took a turn for what may have been the best. It left it's more realistic roots and became more of a satire. With more zany antics and more clever, witty, and often times sophisticated humor, The Simpsons became the most popular family on television. Each episode still contained it's own merits, themes and messages. Seasons 4 to about 10 are often said to be the "Golden Age" of The Simpsons.

However, as the year 2000 came, fans began to see themselves divided. Those who stuck with the show since it came about in 1989 were quick to jump on how the show changed. The humor became more lurid and toilet like, with antics becoming heavily more unrealistic and zany (to the point where some even say it isn't funny... but stupid). Some characters becoming unrealistically stupid, and the show shifting gears from focusing on Bart to Homer... to everyone outside of the Simpson family. The show also began to see more cumbersome and meaningless plots. Plots that didn't focus on current issues, or that didn't seem to be as strong as older episodes. Despite this, new fans seem to have come about to replace then, and the show continues to remain at the top of its game, even today.

I'm sure you all know where I stand on that debate. Nine stars to nine fantastic seasons.