The Simpsons shorts The Simpsons shorts The Simpsons shorts are an American animated TV series of 48 one-minute shorts that ran on the variety television program "The Tracey Ullman Show" for three seasons, before the characters spun off into "The Simpsons", their own half-hour prime-time show. It features Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The series was created by Matt Groening, who designed the Simpson family and wrote many of the shorts. The shorts first aired on April 19, 1987 starting with "Good Night". The final short to air was "TV Simpsons", originally airing on May 14, 1989. "The Simpsons" later debuted on
Peep Show (TV series) "POV", as noted by David Mitchell on the DVD commentary for the first episode of the first series. Spike TV commissioned its own version in 2008, originally to be written and directed by Robert Weide, who is the executive producer of "Curb Your Enthusiasm". It was to be written by Armstrong and Bain, but it never went to series. A book entitled "Peep Show: The Scripts and More", which featured the scripts of every episode from the first five series as well as an introduction from Mitchell and Webb, was released in 2008. To celebrate the show, Channel 4 aired