New York --
The Simpsons are an impossible Family: The lazy father Homer, who is doing nothing more than to be filling up on their televisions, using the self-sacrificing love of his wife Marge of mercy.
Son Bart (10) is a cheeky, precocious Rotzlöffel, daughter Lisa (8) a Klugscheißerin and little Maggie (1) has nothing in her head but her pacifier.
Nevertheless Simpsons are popular worldwide, as no other family. The TV cartoon series, with its sly humor and caustic ridicule the most successful and longest-running animated series in the world. On Thursday (17 December) to celebrate the heroes of the town of Springfield 20th Birthday.
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As the creator of the Simpsons, an unemployed cartoonist and occasional chauffeur, Matt Groening, the mid-80s the job for a TV job was, he should really just a stopgap to provide for an established TV show. But his characters with the big yellow Glubsch eyes, the pronounced overbite, and only four fingers on one hand were soon so popular that the Fox television network made it its own format.
An animated series for adults in prime time - that it was up to the premiere of the first episode on 17 December 1989 not given, says producer Al Jean. Since then, the U.S. ran nearly 450 episodes. In Germany, the series started in 1991 on ZDF, in 1994 it will be broadcast on ProSieben and is also the Digital Sender Sat.1 Comedy visible.
For millions of people in more than 90 countries, characterizes the chaotic TV family the image of America. There are countless clubs around the world, its own lexicon of knowledge on the Internet, that is, according to Wikipedia "Simpsons" and an almost unmanageable flood of articles from the realm of the Simpsons - from comic about video games to t-shirts, and even chewing gum noodles.
More than 2.5 billion U.S. dollars to the Fox have now earned the anarcho-family - the 527 million U.S. dollars from the hit film from 2007 not yet included.
The series has been showered with awards - it can show only 26 Annie Awards for animation films and 24 Emmy Television Awards. In 2000, the Simpsons received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And the size of the U.S. entertainment industry are lining up to appear in the cult series as a comic figure.
Among the prominent guests so far include about Bono and Mick Jagger, Bill Clinton and Stephen Hawking, Liz Taylor and Meryl Streep. Pop star Michael Jackson wrote in 1990 with Bart's single "Do The Bartman". And even the normally never visible American author Thomas Pynchon is said to provide an animated scene - he came incognito, with a paper bag over his head. Rent in Germany Norbert Gastell and Anke Engelke unequal couple their votes.
In the U.S., the birthday of the rebellious yellow skins is on 10 Celebrated January with a special mission, immediately before running owns 450 Sequence as an anniversary film with the voices of Anne Hathaway, Eartha Kitt and Jackie Mason. The American `Playboy 'magazine had praised the series as early as November, when the otherwise-earth mother, Marge with her blue hair Tower kess graced the cover.
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