Premise: The Fox Broadcasting Company ( often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX ) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox . The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company . It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program , and , in 2009 , it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series .
Hypothesis: The Simpsons is a show on television.
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