First Simpsons Promo

[TheKimberBenton]

• Animation question for those more knowledgeable than myself: What is with all the backgrounds in a few Season 1 episodes with gradient colors? So many walls are a color on one end and dissolve into white in the middle or at the other end.

[haylosupastar]

Is fox in America a free to air channel? Over here it's part of foxtel which is cable tv and you have to pay for it.

[MrJoyDevision]

how it all began... ;)

[juanpablo6toon]

LoL the best simpson

[prttyone1]

Back was it was entertaining.

[MontrealMan1970]

todays simp sucks

[bartsimpson67543]

so why was the first simpsons episode aired on December 17 ,1989

[JudoDudo17]

*when the show was still new*

Kid: Mommy, what's that? It's a cartoon can I watch it?

Mom: Pfft, this show'll never last....

[matthockey43]

i hav the first episode on video and it is so much different from today

[Jasper8372]

The start of something very special :)

[ellapaige1]

the sim p ons!!!!!!!!!!!

[SUNSHINE21480]

You know ur old if you remember when The Simpsons was on Thursday nights!

[skyefire1808]

im glad that homer got a better voice.

[FluffMaster101]

@skyefire1808 Dan Castenella still does his voice.

[skyefire1808]

@FluffMaster101 so thats who voices homer....thx

[RussTheSkater]

LOL this is epic but the groan at the end makes it epicer!

[playingwithscissors1]

the new episodes are shit

[shadowclock12]

@playingwithscissors1 Amen

[mm4570]

0:06 to 0:09 bart and homer runs fastest! man they gotta slow down LMAO

[iLuvPizza95]

Wow, how different they were!! I hate it how nowadays,at least in my country, Fox only seems to show episodes from season 15 onwards in the re-runs :\ I mean, how long has it been since we last watched one of this? I miss them T_T it eminds me of my childhood, when I would laugh at anything bart did, and I had to ask my parents to explain lots and lots of things to me XD

[MrTommychong]

January 14th..? Thats' My Birthday :D

[Kartoonkid95]

I could hear the end of the Christmas Special at the beginning (the exec producer screen).

[LoneRebelX]

the commercial that began a phenomomon

[paratrooper504]

thumbs up if you miss the 90's

[ChrisspacePatti]

@paratrooper504 And there are plenty of people who miss the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, and 40s. Not to quote South Park, but I think that growing old means moving forward while at the same time being nostalgic for days long past. I miss the 90s too. But I can't turn back time to the days when all our TVs were box designed and the internet was a mere twinkle in the eye of computer companies. There are plenty of good things that came out of that time, just as we have plenty of good things from this time.

[usa02]

One of the best shows that is still going strong to this day.

[alternangon]

in my personal opinion homer has lost its magic, like the other characters that's why i prefer the shorts and the 3 first seasons where Homer was funny and also had a cruel part. However the simpsons were pretty good until the 15th season, i mean they were amazing, but when the 17th season started the show lost its special thing. Meanwhile the 16th season i think it was a transition between the good and the bad simpsons, that's why i think it's time to end the show

[HaloReachGamplay]

OMG, a nine second video reach 85 thousand views, WHAT THE FUCK?

[ROBLOXobama1337]

@HaloReachGamplay I know a 4 second video that reached 6 million...

[HaloReachGamplay]

@ROBLOXobama1337 0_0, can you send me link in inbox?

[LJK193]

When this show first came out, I wonder how they originally thought it would last. I bet everybody thought this show would only run for like 2-3 years.Yet now it's been 20 years and still running.

[Mazza4Azza]

Bart's lost some weight

[Coolak64]

I hear Crusty at the end of this... o_o

[Eluzara]

Beginning of the era. Legendary.

[ExplorerDS6789]

I'll bet the night that promo aired, nobody would have EVER in a million years expected the show to run 21 years, and still running.

[baco82]

i love these simpsons! today they eat my shorts...

[whoo689]

Amazing how crudely Simpsons used to be drawn, as well as how it sounded compared to nowadays.

[JamesssHD]

Sunday, January 14th... I'm Sorry, what year? 1990. Damn

[teetertotter68]

WOAH! I've been watching this for 20 years! I FUCKING LOVE THIS SHOW!

[Manny4511]

See Bart run in Green! on 0:06 and Homer chasing him! VERY CLASSIC!

Pause on 0:06 and you'll see Bart run in Green!

[krazydude34]

im still a huge fan but after watching the first 10 seasons, im 16, it is clear that that was the time to watch it.

[sarnky2]

I love The Simpsons but Family Guy RULES!!!

[Idude893]

>:P

[Spagettieater9000]

Bad news peoples.

After 20 years of family funnies,

The Simpsons is finally going to end... THIS YEAR!

All I can say is that Mr. Burns dies in this last episode.

[freethrow7792]

I hope they dont cut to black

[SpamNapkin]

wait what? where did you hear that?

[CyberLance26]

Your just making that up right?

[slimshady21able]

@Spagettieater9000 said who?

[RMilvae]

it's too bad what the simpsons have become...it was the greatest show ever at one time

[Spagettieater9000]

@RMilvae it's still the best show doofus

[SIMPFANN]

Of course, when this promo aired, no one could possibly have imagined that the show would conquer the world. This is a real piece of television history.

[KidAnnonymous]

holy shit they're mexican lmao

[9teeneighty8]

I have this promo, along with the Simpsons Christmas special, recorded on a VHS somewhere in my house, but I haven't been able to find it. It's good to see it again!

[theboombody]

The first episode I saw was the one where Bart darn near failed the 4th grade and prayed to God that he could have more time to study, so God made it snow. Was that in the first season?

[dorko225]

No, it was the first episode of the second season.

[publicsuperman]

Nope, It's from season 2!

[Spagettieater9000]

@theboombody oh yeah bart made out with the teacher.

[UltimateSimsFan]

No it was season 2.

[damonika09]

Love the 90s! Had the best shows then!

[theboombody]

Maybe the 90's had the best shows, but the 80's had the best music man.

[MsGina]

and movies!

[12vCummins]

So the Christmas episode aired before the series even began?

[davidwmb]

Yes.... the episode "Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire" premiered first on December 17, 1989.... Which followed by the episode "Bart the Genius" on 1/14/90.

As a side note.... (quite funny).... in Season 1 episode 3 titled "Homer's Odyssey" is the ONLY episode in the whole series where Smithers is black.

[ohstate411]

heres a fun fact when matt groneing went on the tracy ullman show he was going to show them his idea for his bunny he drew but 5min befor the meeting he found out that then fox would own his bunnys so then he came up with the simpsons and named them all after his family execpt bart he just made up the name so thank the tracy ullman show for useing the simpsons give thumbs up

[theboombody]

For similar reasons, thank a popular film company (Universal, I think) that Oswald the Rabbit isn't the top Disney character.

[Marbles471]

@theboombody

Disney was making the Oswald cartoons for Universal under producer Charles Mintz. Mintz was the one who went behind Disney's back and stole his staff from him, arranging to have Oswald produced under his own outfit instead.

The lesson Disney took away from that was to never work for anyone else again, and to always retain to the rights to his own work. He kept that personal vow for the rest of his life.

[theboombody]

@Marbles471 Yeah, but if Mintz hadn't interfered, Disney World might have been called Mintz World and instead of Mickey being the symbol, Oswald could have been.

Of course, if your work is sub-par, it's probably better to work for someone else than yourself, otherwise your business is just going to fail. Woody Allen decided to control his own films after an experience similar to Disney's I believe.

[crazygreg55]

Ya, wasn't The Simpsons like on the Tracy Ullman Show or somthing?

[AngeLBarraganJR]

The Simpsons started on the Tracy Ullman show as a shorts and FOX loves the XMAS episode and the rest is history.

[Dragusssss]

BUGHRT

[ChicagoThugin24]

i miss the 1990's

[soneyo]

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KTTV-TV

CH 11

TPO 120KW

ERP 500,000KW

KILOWATT 234,000 KW

633MhZ-733MhZ

[movania89]

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[kaykr1]

they look alot....darker...

[BETTiExxREDSKULL]

whoa. that's crazy.

[LaydiiDiimplesz2009]

wow 1990 i wasn't even born yet...

[redstrabrerreez]

wow... it's weird to thing there's a time when the simpsons was new...

[RealityBasher87]

I remember when this show first aired and I was only 2 and a half.

[HyperSonicXtreme]

I was like 1 when this show aired for the first time ever on FOX. Didn't get into simpsons until I was a little older (like 1993)

[BigRC83]

Was that Krusty's voice at the end?

[Urilious]

Simpsons History

[RedQueeney]

Wow.

[PollyABCD]

lol

[invaderawsm]

ZOMG so oooooold it burns!

[monkeyshits2]

I have too much cheese

[sarCAsum0]

those are really really old simpsons

[imgonnafuckuup1]

they lost it a long time ago..

[dontsextreme]

episodes?

[xplanbxordiex]

that was ALONG time ago. Congratz to them since its been going all this time and still having new eps.

[MysticArksRevenge]

And thus marked the beginning of the longest-running Primetime cartoon in history! Happy 20th Birthday Simpson Family!

[LaydiiDiimplesz2009]

This was a year before I was born!! Hey KTTV!! We're from Los Angeles and watch this channel all the time when I was little!!

Ahh, nothing like the old Simpsons! I

[Oni64]

KTTV was badass back in the 90s

[cendashi]

ain't that the truth!!!

[bunniansprouse]

The Simpsons used to be a show all about Bart's adventures, but then I think parents complained that it was a bad influence on kids and changed it to the entire family's show although its mainly Homer.

[MysticArksRevenge]

Yeah, and Homer was a LOT meaner to Bart and Lisa until 1992, when the damn soccer moms forced the creators to have Homer become a funny dad.

[RocStarr913]

@MysticArksRevenge I don't think it was really soccer moms that made Homer become more funny, I just think that's how the character naturally evolved as the episodes got better and the writing got more sophisticated. Making Homer funnier and more stupid gave the writers a lot more room for good gags centered around him.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@RocStarr913 But Homer's stupidity helped make the show last for 20 years, so that's a plus!

[Marbles471]

@RocStarr913

I think he became way TOO stupid, though. It got to the point where he wasn't believable as a human being anymore. Though I think in the last couple of years they've begun to pull back a little bit and make him a bit more human again.

I wish he had stayed the way he was around the third season. Dumb, but also still believable as an adult with authority over his kids. Today, Homer being an man-child makes Bart's identity as a "problem child" just seem redundant and forced.

[Routanne]

@MysticArksRevenge Hes allowed to be stupid mean, and at least they still kept it funny.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@Routanne Oh, OK. 

[Routanne]

@MysticArksRevenge Opps, that was to Marbles.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@Routanne Marbles? What marbles?



[Routanne]

@MysticArksRevenge Click see all, hes Marbles471 a commenter below you.

(Press ctrl + f and type in your name to find it faster)

[MysticArksRevenge]

@Routanne Oh OK.

[CrankyWizard5000]

@MysticArksRevenge he's better as a funny dad, classic

[cheeselover04]

@MysticArksRevenge

oh yeah.. they got santa's little helper then

[MysticArksRevenge]

@cheeselover04 Yep.

[littlebigsim]

Why are they green in the commercial? o.o. I think I remember watching The Simpsons when I was 2...well I watch it all the time now xD

[SuperHappyAsainGuy]

I CANT WAIT

[Hondo20132]

Believe it or not, I actually have an even better copy of this promo; colors more natural, better sound quality, almost perfect!

My uncle recorded the entire special, as a matter of fact! I have it right now.

[Hondo20132]

Never mind all that. My tape just broke 30 minutes ago. :(

Now, where am I gonna find a copy from its first broadcast with original commercials in pristine quality?

[tobecome2]

happy belated birthday to the Simpson's January 15/2009

[talatsmum]

woww cool

[8i6al]

cool.first simpsons commmercial

[figment1988]

thing was that they were going to use "Some Enchanted Evening" as the premiere episode, however the staff at Fox wasn't happy about how the episode has been animated, and they even considered aborting it until they chose to move S.E.E. to a later date, and use the Christmas special in 1989 as the first episode.

[kingpitmao]

lol

[99ends99times]

I'v seen all simpson episodes exept the first and the newest

[flowerfaerie16]

wow that was 2 years before I was born. Holy Cow it's old.

[Goobian]

Thank you so much for posting this! At the time I was an obsessed fan. I love all of these series premiere spots and Christmas episode spots everybody has on youtube.

[12khfan44]

was bart naked?

[shippuden2011]

yep

[nalableu]

wow. so that must be why the new episodes are on Sundays? On Fox? SWEEEEETTTTTTTT

[queenie16]

They weren't always on on Sundays. They started off there and they're there now, but somewhere in the early 90s for a few seasons, they came on Thursdays, opposite The Cosby Show. It's what did The Cosby Show in...I don't know why they moved it back to Sundays but I'm glad, I always liked it better there.

[Goobian]

I think only one episode topped the Cosby show during when they were on Thursdays. The Simpsons were there top viewed show and back then the Cosby show was a killer to all the other shows in that time slot. Fox back then were just a little baby station just starting out. Bill Cosby was never offended by the ratings wars. They mentioned it on the season 2 I believe dvd set.

[luv2score3511]

thats bitchin! ;)

[ioriyagami]

i used to watch the simpsons when they were a skit on "The Tracy Alman Show". they came a long way.

[oracle19]

Same here, as well as the old Butterfinger commercials that aired before they got their own show.

[ryancute22]

Rare! and classic the best

[rangel20]

Historic.

[kstar8706]

Heh, it's funny to hear the original voice for Homer again. He hadn't quite evolved (or devolved for that matter) into the "idiot" voice we know him for today.

[Marbles471]

@kstar8706

I think people are always amazed when you tell them it's been the same person doing Homer's voice from day one. You would never know. Shows what a range Castellaneta has.

[Mitube]

BITCHIN'!!!!!!!!