For 25 years, the television families were perfect. Or, go, perfect the image of its time. In the 1970s, Archie Bunker was racist and misogynist, but the rest of the Family put in check and made joke his intolerance. In the 1980s, Keaton were idealists baby boomers , the left dreamers who proved that Who Sai His has room for a Ronald Reagan fan in the older child. In the 1990s, there came to be a black sheep but not in several television Family decade. Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, Maggie are on TV for 25 years.
A has a hairstyle blu e hair as The Bride of Frankenstein and hide his intelligence to not make the husband; this is a glutton drunk responsibly and pedagogy zero; the baby has not dropped his pacifier and barely learned to speak in 25 years and the other children or go skate and can spray to terrorize Springfield or smartass be forever trapped in the 8 years of age. Began to appear less round, more shaky but still very yellow, like a sketch the The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 (it was broadcast in Portugal by SIC) and two years later arrived at the prime time of a canal in claim routes in the US, Fox. Today is the fictional program that more time is in the air in the history of north TV -American have 31 Emmy, a Peabody award and there is no history of the twentieth century or television that does not put the creation of Matt Groening in the list of their best products – to the Time , was even the best television series ever.
The Simpsons were “an existential mutiny on the terrors of home, work and school” , “adult entertainment which is also set for the kids,” in the words of USA Today in 1990, cited by site Vulture . Born when Roseanne already introduced the kingdom of sitcom a family of three children with financial difficulties and both parents working outside the home, recalled the Newsweek with a “irreverence that makes The Simpsons such a promising novelty in prime time.” “Definitely a family to the 90s “, postulated the Seattle Times .
The Simpson family in its emblematic yellow (the creator Matt Groening swings between explain that it was just the color that “felt right” when presented by an entertainer or that it was the ideal tone for all to identify the program to do zapping ), arrived to mainstream before television-shock . Homer strangling Bart already months before being killed Laura Palmer – attention to a spoiler 24 years old, but still spoiler – owned by a father in Twin Peaks . And Lisa was playing his saxophone in prime time two and half years before Bill Clinton, also a candidate for the first term as US President, pick up the saxophone to win votes in t alk show Arsenio Hall.
The yellow family was almost more human than the real America. “Basically I drew my own family. My father called Homer. My mother Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another Maggie, so I drew them all. Would call the main character Matt but I would not be well seen at a meeting to try to sell the cartoon so I changed to Bart, “said Matt Groening author on the first draft, made to take the family to the Tracey Ullman Show , in an interview with the Smithsonian Institution in 2012. Two years later unexpected popularity, the yellow family autonomous up and earn your own program – and Homer becomes the central character. “There are consequences to the fact that he’s an idiot,” more stories to tell, Groening says.
Real people
The first episode is a Christmas special where there are money problems, blunders of children and its consequences – and ends with the adoption of the scrawny dog that today accompanies the family. “People feel that even the Simpsons are real people, but because we are cartoon safamo us with more. They [the Simpsons] incredibly political and not take prisoners. That makes them captivating, “said Yeardley Smith, who is the voice of Lisa, the journal Time in 2012. Lisa can be seen as a sort of version cartoon ” Pumpkin Head “played by Rob Reiner in the Family , political consciousness of the The Simpsons mother’s side, his moral pillar.
Across the moral barrier is Bart, the rebel without a cause. The t-shirts with Bart began to bother deans and the father of America, Bill Cosby (now marred by accusations of sexual abuse), whose eponymous series had defined the 1980s with its lively black family class average, Huxtable. “Television should move forward towards Huxtable, not backward,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 1990 on the new series of prime time. The Simpsons “were extremely controversial in some quarters and for a time had a reputation for being a bit rude. The school my daughter said you could not use a t-shirt of Simpson. I always thought that the series was much richer than that and it had a moral center, “he told Guardian showrunner , screenwriter and producer Al Jean, 25 years ago with the family of Springfield. Shortly thereafter, Fox and his dysfunctional family earned NBC and the Cosby i n the fight by the audience.
The Simpsons , whose first episode half-hour was broadcast on primetime American FOX There are exactly 25 years old, born to be compared with others. And to symbolize a change in a decade full of statements . They arrive in the year Reagan says goodbye and the Portuguese football team wins the World U-20. Come a month after the fall of Berlin Wall and the year in which Kosovo loses its autonomy and that begins the end of the former Yugoslavia.
They came in response to the 1980 They open doors a few months after Seinfeld be installed on NBC competitor and stay there throughout the 1990s, the minimalism, image anti yuppie , No Logo Naomi Klein and violent protests at the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle against globalization. I just had the feminist rock riot grrrl policy and rejected the decay of hair metal in favor of flannel rock. It was the decade of the first Gulf War, was the first Republican lady Barbara Bush to say about the yellow family of the working class: “ The Simpsons is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” And this was the Marge Simpson response, the matriarch whose maiden name (Bouvier) is the same as Jacqueline Kennedy before the wedding, sent to the White House in September 1990: “I try to teach my children Bart, Lisa and even small Maggie, to always give people the benefit of the doubt and not to spea k ill of them – even if they are rich “; “If we are the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, Washington should be a very different thing than teach me News Themes group in the church.”
A new animation
The same decade that would create a comfortable space for Friends (NBC) and a showcase for over 16 to Sex and the
“It’s what fans of sci-fi say Star Trek: created an audience for the genre” television animation, says creator Family Guy , Seth McFarlane, the Vanity Fair on the pioneering spirit of The Simpsons . “In my opinion, basically reinvented the wheel,” explains the actor and director who wanted to be animator at Disney and that when he saw The Simpsons realized it was possible to join adult humor and cartoons . Have Matt Stone, Trey Parker with that created even more abrasive South Park , admits that “ The Simpsons are the bane of our existence” because “they did so many parodies, dealt with so many issues … ‘ The Simpsons Did It!’ is a very familiar refrain in our writers room. “
Those who saw them open way and be counterculture now greet -In as they see the gravitate to the center of popular culture rather than on the bank (which remained titles like Ren & amp; Stimpy , born on Nickelodeon in 1991) – the figure of George W . Bush, for example, ridiculed on channels like Comedy Central, was not the most targeted in The Simpsons , but Al Jean tells the Guardian that the fact that no one good voice to imitate the second President Bush was part of the problem. Groening says he missed the focus of financial problems d ‘ The Simpsons and admits the anachronism of Marge being a housewife. to Teach The Simpsons in colleges, Simpson expressions integrated dictionaries (“D’oh!”), But the new seem to go even further. When he saw Family Gu y for the first time, Matt Groening had as a first response “Oh my God, we have competition,” he said in a joint inte rview with the magazine MacFarlane Entertainment Weekly . “And they are flanking us. This series is a crazy and nasty and indecent. We used to get us into trouble. We used to be the cause of the decline of the United States. “
The series leans openly to left center, as we have said several of the perpetrators. Since vegetarianism and Lisa Buddhism acceptance (not without resistance) of her sister’s homosexuality by Marge, from animal rights, by Julian Assange’s appearance on the 500th episode of The Simpsons or by attacks to the parent Fox, owned by conservative mogul Rupert Murdoch, “we can go very far,” says Al Jean to the British daily – Fox, who did much thanks to the family created by Groening, is described as “the most bully the neighborhood “by Yeardley Smith.
Over 25 years, almost no changes in the cast and the family and the town of Springfield survived Homer and a movie blockbuster in 2007. The Simpsons are also a cultural magnet, a pop culture time capsule. The first word of Maggie (“Papa”) was given by Elizabeth Taylor, Meryl Streep was Bart’s girlfriend and physicist Stephen Hawking, who now wants to be a Bond villain, appeared on the show several times.
Michael Jackson, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul and Linda McCartney, the director Penny Marshall, Sonic Youth, the Ramones, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the Mrs Robinson Anne Bancroft , Mel Brooks, the stars of The X-Files David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the tennis sisters Venus and Serena Williams, the filmmakers Michael Moore or Peter Bogdanovich, the basketball player LeBron James, Jonathan Franzen novelists, Michael Chabon Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal and Tom Clancy, Monty Python Eric Idle, the illustrator and writer Daniel Clowes, the presenter Jon Stewart, the chef Anthony Bourdain presenter, the Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston – all were with The Simpsons in these 25 years and they have small pieces of the history of the past quarter century. And there was also controversial, of course. The way portrayed Brazil or Australia, the episode written by Writer graffiti < /em> Banksy, where the animators are illustrated in Korean assembly line, in addition to Homer attempts to try to keep Bart homosexuality were among the most discussed of 561 episodes already transmitted.
The light-years The Flintstones or The Jetson , the lively Simpson family have their well oiled rituals – Bart’s sentence under the pile and family on the couch generic , the eye blinks to realpolitik (the value in Supermarket Cashier seen by Marge was the monthly cost of raising a baby in 1989, $ 847). Is always open to discussion about the resemblance of millionaire miser Mr. Burns with Rupert Murdoch, even knowing that, officially, this was designed as an archetype of greed and as a mixture of the founder of Fox Barry Diller and one praises … -God. As another debate, always busy on where is the Springfield home d ‘ The Simpsons , although Groening have already unraveled the mystery saying that it is the Springfield Oregon State. Marge was the cover of Playboy , Bart Cover Rolling Stone (and Nevermind of Nirvana), an episode has been Le go, mathematics and science have a regular role in the series and Homer even been considered the ideal father for 22% of British youth.
Its official birthday party was made in September with three nights concert at the Hollywood Bowl and marathons and the premiere of the 26th season in the US. In Portugal, the festival takes place this month on Fox with 25 Years of Simpsons – 25 Days of Christmas and the debut of the 23rd season of the series. However, on Twitter, the hashtag #TheSimpsons is serving on Wednesday to remember or honor the series.
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