The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr

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ever created. No wonder such a debate has arisen around the characters, their lives, and, most importantly, their attitudes.
Artist-cartoonist-writer Matt Groening's animated family began life as disruptive little drawings tucked in between the sketches of real actors on "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987. Groening says that he created these bright yellow, bulgy-eyed characters-Homer and Marge Simpson, along with their children, Bart, Lisa, and infant Maggie to "offer an alternative to the audience, and show them there's something else out there than the mainstream trash that they are presented as the only thing." (Tucker, 1993)
The Simpsons made their debut as a half-hour series on FOX Television on January 14, 1990. Both its critics and fans describe the show as one of television's most painfully accurate and painfully funny portraits of the modern American family. The show is always delightfully consistent in its acknowledgment of history, current events (whether scandalous or ...

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