The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of a dysfunctional middle-class American lifestyle starring the eponymous family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Set in the town of Springfield, the show lampoons both American culture and the human condition. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks. Groening named each character (other than Bart) after members of his own family. The shorts became part of the Fox series The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime-time hit show.
From the series debut on December 17, 1989, to May 17, 2009, The Simpsons had broadcast its first 441 episodes, to the end of the twentieth season. The show holds several American television longevity records. It is the longest-running prime-time animated series and longest-running sitcom in the United States. On April 28, 1994, The Simpsons reached its 100th episode in the fifth season. With its twentieth season (2008–09), the series tied Gunsmoke in seasons as the longest-running American prime-time scripted television series, and surpassed Gunsmoke in this record with the twenty-first season premiere on September 27, 2009.
Episodes of The Simpsons have won dozens of awards, including 31 Emmys (ten for Outstanding Animated Program), 30 Annies, and a Peabody. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 26 and 27, 2007 and grossed US$526.2 million worldwide. The first twenty seasons are available on DVD in regions 1, 2, and 4, with the twentieth season released on both DVD and Blu-ray in 2010 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series. On April 8, 2015, showrunner Al Jean announced that there would be no more DVD or Blu-ray releases, shifting focus to digital distribution, although this was later reversed on July 22, 2017. Almost two years later, on July 20, 2019, it was announced that Season 19 would be released on December 3, 2019, on DVD.
On April 26, 1998, The Simpsons reached its 200th episode in its ninth season, its 300th episode on February 2, 2003, in the fourteenth season, and its 400th episode in the eighteenth season on May 20, 2007, which is also the last episode of the series to air before the release of The Simpsons Movie.
==Season 1 (1989-90)==
The first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons originally aired on the Fox network between December 17, 1989, and May 13, 1990, beginning with the Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." The executive producers for the first production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon.
The series was originally set to debut in autumn 1989 with the episode "Some Enchanted Evening", (which was meant to introduce the main characters), but during the first screening of the episode, the producers discovered that the animation was so poor that 70% of the episode needed to be redone.
The producers considered aborting the series if the next episode turned out as bad, but it suffered from only easily fixable problems. The producers convinced Fox to move the debut to December 17, and aired "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" as the first episode of the series. The first season won one Emmy Award, and received four additional nominations. The DVD boxset was released on September 25, 2001, in Region 1 and September 24, 2001, in both Region 2 and Region 4.
With a total of 13 episodes, this is the shortest season of the show to date.
# 	Title 	Airdate
1 	Simpsons Roasting on a Open Fire	December 17, 1989
2 	Bart the Genius 	January 14, 1990
3 	Homer's Odyssey 	January 21, 1990
4 	There's No Disgrace Like Home 	January 28, 1990
5 	Bart the General 	February 4, 1990
6 	Moaning Lisa 	February 11, 1990
7 	The Call of the Simpsons 	February 18, 1990
8 	The Telltale Head 	February 25, 1990
9 	Life on the Fast Lane 	March 18, 1990
10	Homer's Night Out 	March 25, 1990
11	The Crepes of Wrath 	April 15, 1990
12	Krusty Gets Busted 	April 29, 1990
13	Some Enchanted Evening 	May 13, 1990
==Season 2 (1990-91)==
The second season of the animated television series The Simpsons originally aired on the Fox network between October 11, 1990, and July 11, 1991, and contained 22 episodes, beginning with "Bart Gets an "F". Another episode, "Blood Feud", aired during the summer after the official season finale. The executive producers for the second production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon, who had also been EPs for the previous season. It was produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. The DVD box set was released on August 6, 2002 in Region 1, July 8, 2002 in Region 2 and in September 2002 in Region 4. The episode "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour), and was also nominated in the "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special" category.
# 	# 	Title 	Airdate
14	1 	Bart Gets an 'F' 	October 11, 1990
15	2 	Simpson and Delilah 	October 18, 1990
16	3 	Treehouse of Horror 	October 25, 1990
17	4 	Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish	November 1, 1990
18	5 	Dancin' Homer 	November 8, 1990
19	6 	Dead Putting Society 	November 15, 1990
20	7 	Bart vs. Thanksgiving 	November 22, 1990
21	8 	Bart the Daredevil 	December 6, 1990
22	9 	Itchy & Scratchy & Marge 	December 20, 1990
23	10	Bart Gets Hit by a Car 	January 10, 1991
24	11	One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish 	January 24, 1991
25	12	The Way We Was 	January 31, 1991
26	13	Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment 	February 7, 1991
27	14	Principal Charming 	February 14, 1991
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