The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American adult animated series created by Matt Groening for FOX. A satirical depiction of American life, it follows the titular yellow-skinned family, which include Homer and Marge, and their three kids: Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie.

It premiered on the network on December 17, 1989, and since then 749 episodes have been made.

Premise
The show focuses on the lives of the Simpsons family in the fictional town of Springfield. The father of the family, Homer, has a job as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, and he sports an unintelligent and childish personality. His wife, Marge, is the wiser of the couple. The two have three kids, who are Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Bart, who is ten years old and the oldest of the kids, is a prankster who frequently causes mischief everywhere he goes. Lisa, who is eight years old, is a genius who cares for Earth but is somewhat intolerant of other people's differing opinions. Maggie, the baby of the family, almost never speaks, with her way of communicating involving sucking on her pacifier. The family also has two pets, Santa's Little Help and Snowball II, who are respectively a dog and a cat. The family's grandfather is Abe Simpson, who currently lives in the Springfield Retirement Home.

A vast array of other characters is featured too: Seymour Skinner, who is the principal at Springfield Elemnetary School, Ned Flanders, who is the family's neighbor, Krusty the Clown, who is Springfield's local celebrity, Barney Gumble, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szylak, Bart's friend Milhouse Van Houten, and much much more.

Facts

 * This show is the longest-running American animated series of all time. This is not the only distinction it holds, however. It is also the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series (which was achieved in 2018 when the show surpassed the 432-episode radio adaption of Gunsmoke via episode count).
 * This show originated from a series of animated shorts on The Tracy Ullman Show, which ran between 1987 and 1989. In these shorts, the Simpsons looked slightly different than they were in the series proper: they looked crudely drawn, and Bart had a spikier hairstyle, with the lengths of the spikes differing.
 * This show set a new trend for the animation industry: its lines were recorded akin to a live-action film, and the actors would record together for a certain scene (which, as a result, allowed for more organic interactions between the show's characters). Plus, the voice actors would be ingrained as the character, instead of having said character's voice actor be replaced, leading to them having massive power with the contracts being very comparable to that of a physical performer's.
 * Bart was the show's main protagonist for the first two seasons. It wasn't until the show's third season that the protagonist role was taken over by Homer, and it has since remained this way.
 * The Simpsons family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000.
 * "D'oh!", Homer Simpson's catchphrase, has gone on to be one of the most iconic catchphrases in history, even being featured on the Oxfored English Dictionary as of 2001 (albeit without the apostrophe).
 * This show has a theatrical film named The Simpsons Movie. It was released in July 2007 and a sequel is being worked on as of 2018.