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Results: D'Oh, Guess Who Is Celebrating Their Pearl (30th) Anniversary?

Published on 12/06/2019
By: Harriet56
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TV
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On December 17, 1989, when The Simpsons debuted on Fox as a half hour animated sitcom, no one would have predicted that 30 years later, it would still be going strong. And, despite rumours that it may be ending soon, the show will continue to make some of us laugh, and others cringe, for a few years to come. The longest running scripted primetime series at 662 episodes--and counting (Gunsmoke is a distant second at 635 episodes and 20 years), The Simpsons actually was conceived two years earlier as a a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show back in 1987. Are you a fan of the show?
On December 17, 1989, when The Simpsons debuted on Fox as a half hour animated sitcom, no one would have predicted that 30 years later, it would still be going strong. And, despite rumours that it may be ending soon, the show will continue to make some of us laugh, and others cringe, for a few years to come. The longest running scripted primetime series at 662 episodes--and counting (Gunsmoke is a distant second at 635 episodes and 20 years), The Simpsons actually was conceived two years earlier as a a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show back in 1987. Are you a fan of the show?
Yes
30%
686 votes
No
53%
1217 votes
Undecided
8%
176 votes
Not Applicable
12%
270 votes
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Danny Elfman, the man behind the show's classic theme tune has claimed the show is coming to an end, but Fox has renewed the cartoon for two more series, which should mean new episodes until 2021. And since Disney now owns Fox, where The Simpsons airs, and the successful launch of Disney+, where the show's first 30 seasons are available to subscribers, Disney may not want the series to end for a very long time. Do you think the series has run its course and should end?
Danny Elfman, the man behind the show's classic theme tune has claimed the show is coming to an end, but Fox has renewed the cartoon for two more series, which should mean new episodes until 2021. And since Disney now owns Fox, where The Simpsons airs, and the successful launch of Disney+, where the show's first 30 seasons are available to subscribers, Disney may not want the series to end for a very long time. Do you think the series has run its course and should end?
Yes
25%
570 votes
No, it may have changed over the years, but it still is relevant today
27%
614 votes
Not sure
19%
431 votes
Did not watch the show
32%
734 votes
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3.
The Simpsons has never shied away from controversial topics, but underneath it all, has always been an honest, if somewhat "colourful" commentary on life, relationships and the world we live in. How many of these trivia facts did you know?
Many of the characters' last names are taken from street names in series creator Matt Groening's hometown of Portland, Oregon
8%
188 votes
Groening conceived the characters in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office and named them after his own family members, substituting "Bart" for his own name.
6%
143 votes
Unlike most members of the family who have been voiced unanimously by the same actors, Maggie has been played by just about anyone -- including Elizabeth Taylor, Jodie Foster and even Matt Groening; he's the source of the ever present pacifier sucking
8%
193 votes
Homer Simpson's' d'oh is so ubiquitous it's even in the Oxford English Dictionary (under the apostrophe-less spelling doh) and yet it's never appeared in a script for the show.
7%
168 votes
The City Of Now York Vs. Homer Simpson spisode didn't air for 5 years after 9/11 due to its theme
5%
109 votes
The Springfield questionable location was always meant to be questionable, but may be based on the creator's hometown in Oregon
7%
171 votes
The Great Simpsina tells the tale of Lisa becoming a magician--and is the least viewed Simpsons episode
3%
65 votes
Strangely enough, Bart Gets An F is the highest viewed episode
3%
80 votes
Only the characters of God and Jesus in the series have five fingers
4%
83 votes
Lisa Simpson remains a vegetarian as a promise from the staff to Paul McCartney
8%
174 votes
Knew all of these
5%
110 votes
None
46%
1065 votes
Never watched the show
31%
703 votes
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Not only d'oh (or doh) has earned its spot in the dictionary thanks to The Simpsons. Although used before the show, it was due to the popularity of the series that these words were added to the dictionary. How many did you already know were from the show?
Not only d'oh (or doh) has earned its spot in the dictionary thanks to The Simpsons. Although used before the show, it was due to the popularity of the series that these words were added to the dictionary. How many did you already know were from the show?
Meh -- The Simpsons used it for the first time in "Sideshow Bob Roberts." In the episode, when Lisa asked a librarian why voting records weren't classified, the librarian responded with, "Meh." The show used the word again in "Lisa's Wedding" and "Hungry, Hungry, Homer." Thanks to the popularity of the show, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015
12%
271 votes
Embiggen -- In "Lisa the Iconoclast," there's a scene where Lisa and her classmates are watching a short film about Jebediah Springfield. "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man," he says.
5%
126 votes
Cromulent -- in that same episode, Edna Krabappel comments that she's never heard of the word. Ms. Hoover replies with, "I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word." The word was made up by writer David X. Cohen
5%
115 votes
Jebus -- In the Season 11 episode "Missionary: Impossible," Homer goes on a Christian missionary trip but admits that he doesn't believe in "Jebus," meaning Jesus. Later in the episode, he exclaims, "Save me, Jebus!", which later became a popular catchphrase.
7%
152 votes
Avoision -- used in "Bart the Fink" when Kent Brockman says, "I don't say evasion, I say avoision." The term is a combination of the words "evasion" and "avoidance" and was actually coined in the '70s as part of the anti-tax movement.
3%
65 votes
Craptacular -- This word was first introduced in Season 9's "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace." The word was uttered by Bart after witnessing some pretty, well, craptacular Christmas decorations.
6%
144 votes
All
5%
117 votes
None
47%
1077 votes
Did not watch the show
33%
767 votes
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Did you know that in an episode titled "Bart to the Future" in 2000, the show predicted a Trump presidency, serving as a "warning to America" in the direction they seemed to have been heading. Do you remember seeing this episode or hearing about this episode?
Saw it
13%
310 votes
heard about it
14%
316 votes
No
37%
852 votes
Have not watched the show
38%
871 votes
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