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Critics describe the series as "the most realistically surreal cartoon series ever." Former First Lady Barbara Bush commented in an interview that was published by People magazine (September, 1990) that the show was "the dumbest thing I've ever seen." In 1992, a ....

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.... has graced television (if "graced" is a word that can ever be applied to the cartoon family) and the United States with a greater impact than most television series ever created. No wonder such a debate has arisen around the characters, their lives, and, most importantly, their attitudes. Artist-cartoonist-writer Matt Groening's animated family began life as disruptive little drawings tucked in between the sketches of real actors on "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987. Groening says that he created these bright yellow, bulgy-eyed characters-Homer and Marge Simpson, along with their children, Bart, Lisa, and infant Maggie to "offer an alternative to t ....