Good Night (The Simpsons) bedtime platitudes" was very simplistic, and doubts many people even watched the airing of the short. However, the book explains the significance of Good Night as "the first baby steps of an institution that would become one of the most-watched TV shows on earth and the most influential cultural enterprise of its time". The short is featured on disc 3 of "The Complete First Season" DVD. Good Night (The Simpsons) "Good Night" (also known as "Good Night Simpsons") is the first of forty-eight Simpsons shorts that appeared on the variety show "The Tracey Ullman Show". It originally aired on the
The Ren & Stimpy Show show's adult spin-off. Another episode, "Sammy and Me / The Last Temptation", aired on MTV on October 20, 1996, almost a year after the original Nickelodeon run ended. "The Ren & Stimpy Show" received widespread critical acclaim. Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons", praised the show for its outrageousness and called it "the only good cartoon on TV" other than "The Simpsons". Terry Thoren, former CEO and president of Klasky Csupo, said that Kricfalusi "tapped into an audience that was a lot hipper than anybody thought. He went where no man wanted to go before – the caca, booger humor".