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Classic Simpsons Week

  1. The Week in Comedy: The End of Classic Simpsons WeekIt’s been a pretty fun week here at Splitsider as we wrap up our very first theme week. We tackled what is my personal favorite TV show of all […]
    By Adam Frucci
  2. The Bart Show: When ‘The Simpsons’ Were Almost Much WorseWith all this jibber-jabber about The Simpsons not being as good as it was when the writer was 12 (see: The Saturday Night Live Effect), it’s […]
    By Mike Drucker
  3. (Some of) Our All-Time Favorite Simpsons EpisodesIt’s pretty much impossible to pick one favorite Simpsons episode. Try it! You’ll think of one, but then immediately a half-dozen others will […]
    By Adam Frucci
  4. The Eras of The Simpsons, By the NumbersThe most common thing you hear about the lasting Simpsons franchise is that the show has “lost its touch,” that while it remains popular, […]
    By Erik Voss
  5. Eight Times The Simpsons Have Made Me CryThe Simpsons is the funniest show of all time, but it’s also one of the most tragic. Think about it: Homer is an overweight drunk who hates his […]
    By Joshua Kurp
  6. Watching The Simpsons From Its Tracey Ullman BeginningLong before every kid I knew wore “Don’t have a cow man!” or “Eat my shorts!” t-shirts –- the unofficial grade school uniform years 1989-1993 […]
    By Mark Wilson
  7. Why Are There So Many Simpsons Video Games?As fans of comedy, we often forget – or try to forget – that The Simpsons is a franchise as much as it is a source of humor. Bart dolls that […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  8. Meat and You: Partners in Freedom, or How ‘Lisa The Vegetarian’ Convinced […]The Simpsons have been running their game for 21 years this December, since I was in kindergarten. So it was really only a matter of time […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  9. Every Commercial That Aired During the First Simpsons Episode The Simpsons have been around for a very long time, but it can be sometimes hard to place those early episodes in their time periods. Sure, […]
    By Adam Frucci
  10. Phil Hartman’s ‘Simpsons’ LegacyLater episodes of The Simpsons tend to unfold like Radiohead songs, starting off one way before taking an abrupt left turn. In stark contrast […]
    By Joe Berkowitz
  11. I Survived Junior High Because of The SimpsonsBack when I was a skinny, orthodontically fortified knot of sprouting-limbs in the junior-high hallways of the Newburgh City School District, […]
    By Patrick Cassels
  12. Welcome to Classic Simpsons Week on SplitsiderThe first ten or so seasons of The Simpsons are almost mythical among comedy nerds. Say what you will about the more recent seasons of the […]
    By Adam Frucci
  13. First Draft Script: ‘Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song’Below is the final outline for “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song”, by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. This was the 18th episode of the […]
    By Adam Frucci
  14. Final Outline: ‘Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song’Below is the final outline for “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song”, by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. This was the 18th episode of the […]
    By Adam Frucci
  15. Story Pitch: ‘Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song’Below is the original story pitch for “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song”, by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. This was the 18th episode […]
    By Adam Frucci