It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since "The Simpsons" first appeared on television -- on "The Tracey Ullman Show," in short animated films about a wacky family. It's been 18 years since their own television series started.
It's harder yet to fathom that I have stayed with that show all along -- up to and including episode number 400 which airs tonight.
I could go on and on about why "The Simpsons" is such a great show -- listing things like the writing, the voice talents, the writing and, of course, the really well-written scripts.
But, I think it is the writing that makes "The Simpsons" so good.
I love how the scripts contain jokes for every strata of intelligence -- the easy jokes for the kids, the more clever jokes for the adults, and the really subtle but funny jabs missed by many except those of a certain group -- like sports fans, or theater buffs. I love that.
How can you not like a show that features the great scientists Marie and Pierre Curie as giant creatures terrorizing a city with beams of radiation shooting from their eyes? (Pictured, "Marge gets a Job" 9F05.)
How can you not?
1 comment:
The Simpsons are really great, no doubts and not much to add to this. One of my favorite episodes is, of course, when they come down to Rio. It was really funny to us living here in the actual city. Funniest of all is that our stupid mayor said he was going to sue the productors for giving the world a bad idea of Rio, with untrue facts. We wish the problems with Rio were the ones shown in the episode. Reality is much worse!
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