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Birth and Success of an 'Alternative' Cartoon "" is one of North America's most popular television shows, ranking as the number one television program for viewers under eighteen years of age. However, the ideals that "" portrays are not always beneficial and some ....

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.... Hell, but Groening chose not to do this because he was afraid of loosing royalties from those papers that printed the strip. Therefore, Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, bald father; a mother with a blue unique haircut; and three annoying, spiky-haired children. Groening intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own family. His parents were named Homer and Margaret and he had two younger sisters named Lisa and Maggie. Bart, instead, was an anagram for "brat". Groening chose the last name "Simpson" to sound like the typical American ....