It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 21, 2002. Instantly find where to watch your favorite movies and TV shows. With WhereToWatch. TV show is playing, or if you can. Bleach Season 1 Uncut Box Set Latest Stories. Game of Thrones Final Season Might Not Air Until 2019 This is a bummer CancerFree Kassie DePaiva Will Be Returning to Days of Our Lives DePaiva. I/51%2BHACtBlwL.jpg' alt='The Simpsons 16Th Season On Dvd' title='The Simpsons 16Th Season On Dvd' />The Simpsons. Brooks. Matt Groening. Matt Selman 2. Sam Simon 1. TelevisionCity/7333/pictures02/vhs_bo3.jpg' alt='The Simpsons 16Th Season On Dvd' title='The Simpsons 16Th Season On Dvd' />Matthew McConaughey stars in the extraordinarily compelling biopic the Free State of Jones. The film follows the life of Newt Knight, a medic in the Confederate Army. The season aired on Nickelodeon, which is owned by Viacom, and was produced by United Plankton Pictures and Nickelodeon. The seasons executive producers. David Mirkin 1. 99. Mike Reiss 1. 99. Bill Oakley 1. 99. Mike Scully 1. 99. Josh Weinstein 1. Running Time. 22 2. Picture Format. 48. SDTV 1. 98. 92. HDTV 2. Audio Format. Stereo 1. Dolby Surround 1. Dolby Digital 5. 1 2. Original Run. December 1. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and produced by the Fox Broadcasting Company. The main characters are a satire of a working class family, consisting of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The series lampoons many aspects of American culture, society, politics and history. The shorts were then expanded into a full length 3. Century Fox, first airing on December 1. As of 2. 01. 6, 2. September 2. 5, 2. Watch Ali G: Bling Bling Online. Brookss office by Matt Groening. He was asked to do a series of animated shorts, and decided to do his Life in Hell series but since he realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his lifes work, he chose another approach and formulated his version of a dysfunctional family. He named the characters after his own family, and substituted Bart for his own name as it was an anagram of brat. Groening submitted crudely drawn sketches of the family to the animators, assuming they would clean them up in production. However, the animators just re traced over his drawings that is why the Simpsons appear crudely drawn in the shorts. UK 2. 0th Century Fox. In 1. 98. 9, a team of production companies adapted the Simpsons into a half hour prime time series for FOX. FOX was initially nervous to air the Simpsons, as there hasnt been a cartoon in prime time since The Flintstones, and that they were unsure if they could keep the audiences attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven minute shorts and four specials until the audience adjusted, but the producers gambled for thirteen half hour episodes for the series. The Simpsons was originally to premiere in the fall of 1. Brooks was extremely dissatisfied with the product and called for many parts of the episode to be redone. The producers then agreed to just go ahead and air. Brooks have served as the shows executive producers. Sam Simon was also in this position, although not credited. When Simon left in 1. These were John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, George Meyer, Jeff Martin, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky. Newer Simpsons writing teams usually have 1. December. The main writer writes the first draft and the group changes it, adding in jokes and removing parts they dont like. This can sometimes change a script entirely. Up until 2. 00. 4, the head of these groups was George Meyer, who apparently wrote a lot of the best lines from episodes. But the idea of all this came from the magic hand of Matt Groening who invented the pictures. Voice Actors Main cast actors Dan Castellaneta. Julie Kavner. Nancy Cartwright. Yeardley Smith. Hank Azaria. Harry Shearer. Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman and many others. Marge Simpson, Jacqueline Bouvier, Patty, and Selma. Bart, Nelson, Ralph, Todd Flanders, and others. Lisa and Maggie. Moe, Chief Wiggum, Apu, Comic Book Guy, Carl, Cletus, Professor Frink, Dr. Nick, Superintendent Chalmers and many others. Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Rev. Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny, Principal Skinner, Otto, Rainier Wolfcastle, and many others. Rather than hire more actors for voices for the Simpsons animated shorts, the producers asked both Castellaneta and Kavner to provide the voices of characters Homer and Marge. Yeardley Smith originally wanted to play the role of Bart, but the producers found her voice too. Instead, she was given the role of Barts sister, Lisa Simpson. Bart was voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who originally auditioned for the role of Lisa but chose to be the voice of Bart instead after finding out that Lisa had a lack of personality at the time, while the character of Bart was. The casting director of the cartoon was also casting director of The Simpsons, and Hank signed up for the role of Moe Szyslak. Later, he voiced several other characters, including Chief Wiggum and Apu. Harry Shearer was reluctant to be a voice actor on the show but was convinced by James L. Brooks to join the cast. He is a loving, lazy, fun spirited and thrill seeking man with three mischievous children that go on crazy adventures with his family and works at a power plant. She is a motherly, hard working woman that is the wife of Homer and the mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Bart is a mischievous boy that loves pulling pranks on his close friends and loved ones and has a hidden alter ego called El Barto. Lisa is the smartest and sweetest child of her other two siblings. Maggie is the youngest sibling and a very adorable, sweet but sometimes violent baby. He is the father of Homer and his other siblings, the father in law of Marge Simpson, and the grandfather of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson. Burns is the rich, snobbish employerrival of Homer Simpson and Waylon Smithers is his second in command. He is the bully and arch rival of Bart Simpson who is known for bullying Bart and his laugh. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife and mother. They have three children Bart, a ten year old troublemaker Lisa, a precocious eight year old activist and Maggie, a baby who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. The show continuously resets time so the characters have the same amount of age. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in. Both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. Despite the passing of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays, the Simpsons do not physically age and still appear just as they did at the end of the 1. Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one time jokesters or for fulfilling needed functions in the town. A number of them have gained expanded roles and subsequently starred in their own episodes. According to Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the comedy show. The state that Springfield is in located is never mentioned in the series, a fact that has become an joke throughout the series. David Silverman once jokingly claimed that the state was. This may have been so during one scene when the Simpsonss car is visible from the rear, and that states registration tag reads. The opening sequence differs from episode to episode. Prior to the shows transition to HD format, three elements of the opening sequence constantly change a Chalkboard gag, Lisas saxophone solo, and a Couch gag. The Chalkboard gag involves Bart writing a sentence repeatedly on a chalkboard at Springfield Elementary, and the Couch gag involves the Simpsons family sitting on the couch in the living room, usually accompanied with a visual joke, i. Lisas saxophone solo in the opening sequence is different each episode. An additional gag was added a Billboard, which changes each episode.