Animated TV Shows

The Simpsons began before the show reached network television. Creator Matt Groening first developed the characters for a novel called Mean Kids he wrote in high school. Groening became a cartoonist, and in 1987 he was asked by producer James L. Brooks to create characters for a series of 30-second animated shorts on Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show. Groening revived the characters, though he did eliminate the profanity that they had used in his novel. The characters would later leave The Tracey Ullman Show for their own show and become more successful, with Bart Simpson in particular becoming a national icon for fans. The show was introduced in 1989 by a full-length pilot as a Christmas special (Bianculli, 1996, 294).

Recently, The Simpsons became the longest-running primetime animated series in history when it reached 168 episodes

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n go on to review movies, T.V., and music from a slacker mentality. The show is clever and irreverent and not meant for kids (Bianculli, 1996, 44). MTV chose to move Beavis and Butthead to late night when a woman accused the show of influencing her five year old to set a tragic trailer fire that killed his sister (Schwed, 1993, 53). Beavis and Butthead spawned a very successful feature film released in 1996, a spin-off series on MTV called Daria featuring cynical teen Daria Morgendorffer and offering a chance to explore the female sensibility of a smart yet alienated kid (Fretts, Yocker, & Baldwin, 1997, 68) Its creator, Mike Judge, is also behind the new Fox series King of the Hill. Comedy Central, another cable franchise, has the animated Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist as its entry in the emerging field of adult animation, a field that was stimulated by the success of The Simpsons. Dr. Katz, currently in its third season, is the highest rated original programming on Comedy Central and has already been the recipient of two Ace Awards, the cable equivalent of an Emmy. The show is based on the work of stand-up comedian Jonathan Katz, who supplies the title character's voice and even serves as the model for the image of D
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