"Simpson" turned 25 years old

25 years ago, on December 17, 1989, the first issue of the cult animated series "Simpsons", which became the longest in the history of American cinema (more than 550 episodes), as well as a series with the largest number of star guests, was released on the FOX channel.

During the existence of the sitcom, more than 500 famous personalities who voiced either animated themselves or specially invented by the characters participated in it as invited celebrities.

Over the years, the author of Simpsons, Matt Grun, managed to become not only a multimillionaire, but also a legendary character in a media environment (except for Simpsons, he created a “footuram”). He does not get tired of repeating that in the sweetest dreams he could not imagine that this family was waiting for such a triumph. After all, once Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie left his pencil in 15 minutes, almost by accident. In 1985, he was offered to make screensavers for the Ulman show. He thought to go to the producer with the idea of ​​the comic book "Life in hell", but at the last moment he decided to leave the rights to those heroes to himself and right in the lobby he sketched new characters.

The first mini-series of Good Night was shown in the "Show Tracy Ulman" on April 19, 1987. The demonstration of the full -fledged series of the animated series began on December 17, 1989 on the Fox channel, reminds Time .

This saturated with a satire (including social) makes fun of many cliches and stereotypes, in particular - the lifestyle of the "average American", the features of world cultures in general, celebrities and even television and FOX television channel itself; It does not hesitate to affect such slippery issues as politics and religion: in particular, the topics of same -sex marriages, the struggle of Darwinists and creationists, and the war in Iraq were raised.

To date, the audience of the animation series covers more than 100 countries of the world. During its existence, the series received many awards and nominations. The prime-Time-premium of Emmy "Simpsons" was conquered 27 times (in four different categories)-more than any other animated series in the history of the award. Annie received the series 22 times. He has many other American and international awards and awards.

Time magazine in the last issue of 1999, dedicated to the greatest achievements of the 20th century in the field of art and entertainment, called the Simpsons the best television series of the century. The same magazine included Bart Simpson in the list of 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Bart Simpson was the only fictional character in this list.

On January 14, 2000, in honor of the series, a star was opened on the Alley of Glory in Hollywood. In 2013, the short film "Simpsons: A painful extension" was nominated for Oscar as the best short animated film.

Many fans have repeatedly noted that, despite the fact that the series has been going on for 25 years, the age of its heroes remains practically unchanged: the children do not grow, the adults do not age, but new characters have time to be born, for example, the son of Saydshaw Bobe, and the son of Saydshaw Bob can walk, talk, and generally looks two years older than Maggie Simpson, although he was born much later. Nevertheless, each of the Simpsons coped on his birthday. Some episodes mention the age of Homer or Marge, it ranges (in different directions) between 36 and 40 years. Homer Simpson in the seventh series of the 20th season (Mypods and Boomsticks) says he is 38 years old, Vikipedia reports.

The unnaturalness of such a situation for some time also serves as the subject of jokes of the creators of the Simpsons. For example, in the first series of the 19th season, He Loves to Fly and He d'Ohs Bart writes on the schoolboard: “I will not wait for another full-length film” (English-“I Will Not Wait 20 Years to Make Another Movie”, and in the series of the 18th season of You Kent Always Say What You Want shows a scene of photography of a family of Simpsons with a remark "20 years ago" (while all the characters are painted in the manner of early episodes demonstrated in the "Trayy Ulman show", but their age does not differ from the current one). The screensaver of the 10th series of the 21st season shows Maggie and the inscription "The Fox Network: Still Sucking After 20 Years".

Russians in "Simpsons"

Starting from the second series of the first season, Russians are present in the series. In various series, the Soviet artist of ballet, choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov was repeatedly mentioned. Gorbachev is also mentioned and appears in the animated series several times, the Lenin rebel from the Mausoleum flickers, and in the machine for testing the degree of alcohol intoxication installed in the MO bar, the highest gradation of intoxication (after such degrees as “under the Mukha”, “into the board” and “in the insole”) - “Boris Yeltsin”.

There is a Russian quarter in Springfield. In the 24th episode of the ninth season, Lisa Simpson gets there and sees that he is replete with inscriptions in Russian - signs of "Book", "Meat", "Pharmacy" and others. Residents are dressed in Russian caftans at the beginning of the 20th century, and their manner of expressing is loud cries in broken Russian and sharp waves of their hands, which frightened Lisa despite the fact that her "interlocutor" simply wanted to help and indicate the road to the phone. The Russian quarter of Springfield is located near the most depressed places of the city; In the first frame you can see that the roads in this place are more likely to resemble country.

In the eighth series of the 22nd season (Christmas) at the very beginning, the Ukrainian folk carol "Shchedrik" sounds. In the fifth series of the 18th season, the song of Sergey Prokofiev "Stand up, Russian people!" Sounds! " From the movie "Alexander Nevsky", as well as in various episodes, you can sometimes hear the melody of the choir of slaves from the opera "Prince Igor" Borodin.

In the fifth series of the 14th season, the Kozlov hockey player gives Lisa's club.

In the 10th series of the fifth season, Krazy says: "Herpes, herpes, Herpes is also on Gorbachev’s head."

In the 20th series of the 24th season, Russian traditions are ridiculed, it is shown that Russians love vodka, give bribes to everyone who comes across in their way, and also differ in cruelty.

Recall that in 1998, when Boris Yeltsin was in power in Russia, and the relations of the West and the Russian Federation were warm, in the episode of the animated series “predicted” Russia's return to the foreign policy rhetoric of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the new Cold War.

It begins with the fact that the Russian Ambassador to the UN states that the collapse of the USSR was just a cunning trick, then events unfold rapidly, including the restoration of the Berlin wall and even the revitalization of Lenin.

And in the 1999 episode there is a moment describing the collapse of the ruble in relation to the dollar due to a fall in oil prices. This happens at a session of the International Olympic Committee, at which Hometown Homer Simpson Springfield claims to hold games.