The Simpsons (franchise) In 2008, $750 million worth of "The Simpsons" merchandise was purchased worldwide. Peter Byrne, Fox executive vice-president of licensing and merchandising, called "The Simpsons" "without doubt the biggest licensing entity that Fox has had, full stop, I would say from either TV or film." Matt Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office. Brooks, the producer of the sketch comedy program "The Tracey Ullman Show", wanted to use a series of animated cartoons as bumpers between sketches. Groening had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended
The Moxy Show & Flea Show". It is considered the first original series on Cartoon Network, but really "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" was Cartoon Network's first fully produced series. The series was originally titled "The Moxy Pirate Show" and only featured Moxy. In 1994, Moxy's sidekick Flea was added to the series and the series was retitled simply as "The Moxy Show", and in 1995, it was renamed again to "The Moxy & Flea Show" with major changes for a single pilot episode: The pilot didn't test well enough to allow more episodes to be produced, as revealed by Frank Gresham who