Simpsons Started — Year The

So raise a Duff Beer (root beer for the kids) and remember: It all started in a year when the Berlin Wall fell, the World Wide Web was born, and a ten-year-old in a red shirt told the world to eat his shorts.

That Christmas of ’89, viewers got a present they didn’t know they wanted: a family more dysfunctional, more loving, and more human than anything else on television. And they’ve been watching ever since. year the simpsons started

It was the end of a decade that had given America big hair, shoulder pads, Wall Street greed, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But on this chilly Sunday evening, something far stranger—and far more lasting—was about to happen. Families across the United States settled in front of their bulky CRT televisions, remote controls fresh with batteries, and flipped to Fox. At 8:30 PM Eastern, a yellow-skinned, four-fingered, chronically underachieving nine-year-old in a red shirt uttered a single word: “Ay caramba!” So raise a Duff Beer (root beer for