Even during its dodgier seasons, the show is still one hundred times more amusing than any other TV show on or off the air. What s more, it is, without doubt, the most subsversise show ever, and yet it s broadcast at 6pm on BBC2 at a time when families are sitting around with their dinners on their laps. This is because the irony-lacking TV schedulers just don t get it. Even after everything that s been written about it, they still think it s for kids.
All South Park has is profanity and toilet humour.
The Simpsons has its fair share of toilet jokes, but it handles them with panache. That takes real genius. Hey - it s been running for ten years last December. The first Simpsons cartoon was broadcast as part of the Tracey Ullman Show on the Fox Network on 19th April 1987. Production began on the Simpsons own series exactly two years later, and the first episode, Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire, was broadcast on the 17th of December 1989.