The Pilot That Almost Killed The Simpsons

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• IR

  @irony_razor · 7 months ago

  13 million USD in 1988 would be 35 million USD in 2026.

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• SA

  @Sam47333 · 7 months ago

  You know, when they were all guessing how long the show would last. I bet that one of them sarcastically said it would last forever in earshot of the monkey paw

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• MA

  @mathieuleader8601 · 7 months ago

  the gory Happy Elves scene feels like a real-life Creepypasta

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• DE

  @design1of470 · 7 months ago

  "unknown" Tracey Ullman Show??? My guy, it was on FOX's Sunday night line-up.

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• MA

  @mackenzah · 7 months ago

  dude what if the simpsons were blue and called the blimpsons

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• TO

  @toorayay · 7 months ago

  Bro, the Tracey Ullman show wasn't "unknown." It was one of the most popular shows on FOX, airing back-to-back with Married With Children.

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• OW

  @Owen67787 · 7 months ago (edited)

  The Simpsons original pilot animation feels the old cartoons of the 1940s

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• PI

  @PineVinyl · 7 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGvbISrvSk&amp;t=74">1:14</a> the Tracy Ullman show was very known and fairly popular.

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• NO

  @NotDiamond224 · 7 months ago

  7 simpson but not a single homer

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• RU

  @RudiTheAnythingGuy · 7 months ago

  The Cs in &quot;Csupo&quot; is actually a &quot;ch&quot; sound as in &quot;Chair&quot;

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• WH

  @Whyiseveryhandletaken6942 · 7 months ago

  Ah hell naw, the symptoms almost died.

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• MA

  @mathieuleader8601 · 7 months ago

  its interesting to hear about the prospect of June Foray having a larger role if the team did not think she was too cartoonish for the show

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