Editor's note: The Simpsons have become such a fixture of television that it's hard to remember a time before the family appeared on television. On Dec. 17, 1989, the Simpsons made the jump from ...

The 500th episode of America’s favorite cartoon, “The Simpsons,” airs Sunday night. It’s a record-setting show, the longest running primetime comedy in TV history. Of course, we’ve seen all sorts of ...

Matt Groening doesn’t want you to get the wrong idea. Yes, the cartoonist named the parents in his animated family, “The Simpsons,” after his own mom and dad. And yes, he gave the two daughters his ...

In “The Simpsons” first episode, Homer and Bart go to the dog-racing track to win money for Christmas presents and all they end up with is a slowpoke pooch. Oh, that and more than 670 episodes, a ...