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As the longest- running scripted show on TV, it's no surprise that the show's history is littered with interesting anecdotes, loads of cultural references, bizarre guest stars, offbeat writers, wild fan theories, and even a bit of drama. Dig a bit deeper into the history of television's favorite animated family with 1. The Simpsons. 1. IT’S IVY LEAGUE COMEDY AT ITS FINEST.

The folks behind The Simpsons are smart. Incredibly smart.

One look through the writers and producers who have passed through the show reveals graduates, scholars, and professors from some of the best universities on the planet. And many of them didn’t start out by studying writing.

Al Jean, who has been the show’s executive producer on more than 4. Harvard when he was just 1. Writer Jeff Westbrook was an algorithm researcher and attended both Harvard and Princeton before becoming a professor at Yale.

Writer David X. Cohen graduated from Harvard with a physics degree and University of California, Berkeley with an M. S. And this is just a sample of the brain power it takes to bring The Simpsons to life. ONLY GOD HAS FIVE FINGERS. It’s an animation tradition, but one character bucks that trend: God.

In the episode “Homer the Heretic,” Homer meets the big cheese, who sports a long white beard, flowing robe, and the standard five fingers on each hand. Just one of the perks of being in charge. There is one inconsistency, though: Jesus is actually depicted with five fingers in the episode “Thank God It’s Doomsday,” but in subsequent appearances, he’s back to four. Whether this is some profound message or a simple animator slip- up is up to your own interpretation. The episode “Kamp Krusty,” from the show’s fourth season, was originally batted around as a potential plot for a film.

In the episode, Bart, Lisa, and the other kids of Springfield go to Krusty the Clown’s shoddy sleepaway camp for the summer while Homer and Marge stay behind to rekindle their marriage. According to the DVD commentary, a feature- length script never came together.

In fact, the writers had a hard enough time stretching the story out to a standard episode length, so an 8. THE SIMPSONS GOT INTO A PUBLIC WAR WITH THE BUSH FAMILY. Bush, but they wrote the letter in character as Marge Simpson. The letter takes some good- natured shots at Mrs. Bush and pleasantly scolds her for the critique, including the line, “Ma'am, if we're the dumbest thing you ever saw, Washington must be a good deal different than what they teach me at the current events group at the church.”The war was over .

Speaking at a convention for religious broadcasters in 1. President George H. W. Bush vowed to strengthen American families, to make them . Well the show wasn’t done with the former First Family yet. In the episode “Two Bad Neighbors,” the Bushes move across the street from the Simpsons, and the former president engages in a battle of wits with Homer and Bart (and ends up with a rainbow wig glued to his head). Though the ex- president didn’t voice the character, it provided a definitive end to the feud, as the family eventually drove the Bushes out of Springfield through the same idiotic behavior Barbara Bush derided years earlier. MATT GROENING REMOVED HIS NAME FROM THE EPISODE “A STAR IS BURNS.”For a show that’s been on the air for close to 3.

The Simpsons hasn’t endured much public drama outside of the occasional cast salary negotiations. Cupcakes (2015) Movie Dvd Watch. But one of the show’s most memorable feuds went straight to the press, and it concerned the 1. A Star is Burns,” which featured the character Jay Sherman (voiced by John Lovitz) from the series The Critic coming to Springfield. Feeling that the episode was just a cheap crossover, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening removed his name from the episode’s opening credits, the first and only time his name wasn’t associated with the series. This led to a very brief—but surprisingly brutal—war of words between Groening and executive producer James L. But his behavior right now is rotten. And it's not pretty when a rich man acts like this.

However, this time it was another Groening creation—Futurama—stopping by for an episode in 2. Simpsorama.”6. ELIZABETH TAYLOR VOICED MAGGIE FOR ONE WORD. Maggie is famous for her pacifier and 2. Lisa’s First Word.” And the voice behind Maggie was none other than Elizabeth Taylor, who was hired to say one thing: “Daddy.”The scene takes place at the end of the episode once Homer leaves Maggie’s room after tucking her in, so of course no one hears her. To get the line just right, producer Al Jean requested a number of takes from the Hollywood icon, culminating in Taylor telling Jean, “F- -- you,” in her Maggie voice while the tapes were still rolling. Taylor reappeared on the show toward the end of the fourth season in the episode .

THE SHOW HAS LANDED BOTH BANKSY AND THOMAS PYNCHON. Yet somehow, they both contributed to The Simpsons—Banksy with a couch gag and Pynchon as a guest- voice. Pynchon appears (with a paper bag over his head to preserve his mystique) in two episodes, “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife,” where he endorses Marge’s book, and “All’s Fair in Oven War,” where he eats some chicken wings she made. He even edited his own dialogue for the show, removing a line where he was supposed to call Homer a fat ass.

Al Jean said he was a little concerned with the nature of the couch gag at first, but he and Groening agreed to leave it in with minimal changes. And no, nobody on The Simpsons ever met Banksy. In both cases, the reclusive artists were tracked down by casting director Bonnie Pietila. HOMER MAKES LESS THAN $2. A YEAR AT THE NUCLEAR PLANT.

In some episodes, they have to forego fancy quilted toilet paper to make ends meet and, in others, Homer can pull wads of money out of his wallet if the plot calls for it. It’s all part of the show’s famous . That’s $2. 4,3. 95 per year, and $3.

Vox. 9. MICHAEL JACKSON VOICED A CHARACTER BUT HAD AN IMPRESSIONIST DO THE SINGING. One of the most important parts of the early success of The Simpsons was the roster of A- list celebrities that provided guest voices for the series.

This was at a time when a prime- time animated show wasn’t given much respect in show business, so having the likes of Dustin Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Larry King, Penny Marshall, and Phil Hartman lend their vocal talents to the show gave it an air of respectability that it needed. Perhaps the biggest coup came during season three, when the show landed Michael Jackson as a guest. In “Stark Raving Dead,” Jackson plays a heavy- set, white mental patient who believes he’s the King of Pop and befriends the family after being Homer’s sanitarium cellmate. Jackson was a big Simpsons fan, so he was happy to lend his voice to the show.

His speaking voice, that is. Jackson refused to sing on the show when it came time for the episode’s musical number, instead leaving that up to a soundalike. When the cast discovered this during the episode’s table read, Harry Shearer (voice of Mr. Burns and many others) looked over at Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson) and said, “We’ve paid just enough for the speaking Michael Jackson but we can’t afford the singing Michael Jackson.”When Jean asked why exactly Jackson didn’t want to sing on the show, the music legend told him, “I’m playing a joke on my brothers” with no further explanation. Don’t go looking for Jackson’s name in the show’s closing credits, though. He appeared under the pseudonym John Jay Smith, which, again, was never explained. THE SHOW’S MOST PROLIFIC WRITER IS NOTORIOUSLY RECLUSIVE.

The Simpsons has churned out a number of great comedy writers who have gone on to mainstream success—Conan O’Brien and The Office creator Greg Daniels among them—but there’s one whose legend eclipses nearly everyone else. Casual fans might not know him, but among Simpsons die- hards, the name John Swartzwelder is met with hushed awe.

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