All the characters of The Simpsonexcept for God and Jesus Christ, have four fingers.
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsondecided on the yellow color of its characters with the aim of capturing the attention of the viewer who is adept at zapping.
With more than 600 guest stars throughout its 35 seasons, The Simpson It holds the Guinness record as the television show with the most guests.
Groening used street names from Portland – his city of birth – to baptize some characters. Examples: Kearney, Quimby, Flanders and Lovjov.
When Maggie spoke her first word in 1992, she said “Dad.” She was voiced by actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Milhouse’s middle name – Bart’s best friend and Lisa’s lover – is Mussolini.
In the start of The Simpson, Maggie goes through the supermarket scanner and the register reads 847.63. That number is not whimsical: it was the amount that in 1989 it cost to support a baby in the United States.
Groening took the names Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Patty from his own family, based on those of his parents, sisters and aunt.
Surname Simpson It comes from the expression “the son of a simp”, which is read as the son of a fool.
Throughout the 35 seasons, The Simpson They paid tribute to great film classics such as Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese); Reserve Dogs (Quentin Tarantino); The Shining (Stanley Kubrick); Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg); Thelma and Louise (Riddley Scott) and The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin), among others.
In more than 20 episodes of The Simpson Argentina is mentioned. The topics are varied: from the Malvinas Islands to Che Guevara, passing through Patagonia, Susana Giménez, Tierra del Fuego, Juan Domingo Perón. In relation to the latter, a great controversy arose when Carl uttered the phrase: “I would like a dictatorship like that of Juan Perón. When you disappeared, you remained missing,” he said, thus confusing a democratically elected president with the last dictatorship. of 1976.
In one of the chapters of The Simpson Lisa was characterized as Eva Perón. In fact, this submission is a parody of the film Evita by director Alan Parker.
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Throughout 35 seasons, endless gems and curiosities can be found in The Simpsons.
On more than one occasion, mention was made of the prophetic tinge of The Simpson. In the episode Today I’m a Clown, Homer states: “Every year the gap between poor and rich nations grows larger, but the IMF insists on unrealistic debt payment schedules. Why should the United States use 90 percent of the world’s resources? Should Argentina devalue its currency to pay its debts?
Other predictions that can be traced in the history of The Simpson They are the attacks on the twin towers that occurred in 2001 – in an episode from 1993 a painting appears with two towers and a destroyed plane; In a 1995 shipment, video calls are anticipated; In 1998 a house with satellite antennas was presented and in 2000 a virtual console was exhibited.
Among the guest stars of The Simpson, actors Danny DeVito appear; Dustin Hoffman; Adam West -he played Batman in the sixties-; Glenn Close; Willem Dafoe and Kim Basinger, among many others.
Sports stars were part of the cast of characters in The Simpson: Pele; tennis players Serena and Venus Williams and Pete Sampras; Cristiano Ronaldo; Basketball players LeBron James and Magic Johnson are some of the notables.
Matt Groening married the Argentine plastic artist Agustina Picasso in 2011. They have seven children in common.
The sale of toys The Simpson It is illegal in Iran.
When in 1992 George W. Bush, president of the United States, said “we are going to continue trying to strengthen the American family, to make American families more like the Waltons and less like the Simpson“, the writers quickly replied: in a short Bart responded: “Hey, we’re exactly like the Waltons. We also pray for an end to the Depression.”
In Venezuela he retired to The Simpson from the screen because they are considered a bad influence on children.
In the broadcasts of Channel 13 in Chile, permanent censorship and reissues of chapters with criticism or controversial scenes in relation to Catholicism and homosexuality were carried out.
Disney+ removed the second episode of the final season in Hong Kong in 2023, as it mentioned the “forced labor camps” in China.
From fiction, The Simpson They created places such as the Java the Hut cafeteria, the Helter Shelter soup kitchen, The French Connection pastry shop or the Bloodbath and Beyond gun shop.
Groening set the series in the town called Springfield since in the USA there are many municipalities with that name. In this way, he did not place the story in any specific place.
Who created The Simpsons and why?
Cartoonist, TV producer and writer Matthew Abraham Groening created The Simpson. As he himself explained, he did not seek to make an autobiography or a reflection of his family, rather it was a kind of tribute, influenced by the television that he saw in his childhood. “ The Simpson “They’re a combination of my own family and the television I watched growing up: a lot of families and sitcoms,” he said in a 1991 interview.
