On who's show did 'The Simpsons' first appear?
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
Simpsons Already Did It praising Trey Parker and Matt Stone for managing to contrast the episode with the actual "Simpsons" with themes like Cartman performing fellatio on "some guy in an alley", while respectfully paying their dues. "Simpsons Already Did It" was inspired by the fact that "The Simpsons" did in fact beat "South Park" to several plot concepts. In the season 4 episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", Butters was supposed to block out the sun, but one writer pointed out that ""The Simpsons" already did it." The episode "calls out" the obvious observation that "The Simpsons" have realized a vast number of ideas