Simpsons Fun Facts x25
Here's an awesome collection of 25 fun facts about "The Simpsons" that I found super interesting.
I had only heard about a couple of these before. Great stuff.
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1. God and his son Jesus are the only characters on The Simpsons to have a full set of five digits
2. Simpsons creator Matt Groening made the characters yellow to grab the attention of channel surfers
3. Groening also designed the Simpson family to be immediately identifiable in silhouette - hence their distinctive hairstyles and head-shapes
4. Homer Simpson is the most downloaded sat-nav voice in the world
5. Matt Groening got many characters' surnames from streets in his hometown
6. There is a specific clause in the creators’ contract that the network can’t give notes, make cuts or exert creative control over episodes - meaning the producers have free rein to poke fun of FOX itself
7. Homer is the only character to have dialogue in every episode
8. Over the course of multiple seasons, the brief clips of actor Rainier Wolfcastle’s action hero McBain form a coherent four-minute mini-movie, spoofing 80s action films
9. In 1990, First Lady Barbara Bush criticised The Simpsons as “the dumbest thing I've ever seen”
10. Matt Groening himself is the “voice” of Maggie Simpson’s dummy-sucking noise but Elizabeth Taylor delivered Maggie’s actual first word: “Daddy!” in 1992
11. Mr Burns' assistant-cum-carer Waylon Smithers was originally black
12. Bart’s bespectacled best friend Milhouse Van Houten's middle name is Mussolini
13. When Maggie is scanned at the supermarket checkout in the original opening credits, the till reads $847.63 - the monthly cost of raising a baby in America in 1989
14. When Bart makes prank calls to Moe’s Tavern, he dials the number 764-84377, which is one digit longer than a normal American number
15. Paul and Linda McCartney agreed to appear in the episode 'Lisa the Vegetarian' on the condition that the writers maintained Lisa’s vegetarianism for the rest of series
16. The actors who dub the voices of Homer and Marge in the French version of The Simpsons, Phillipe Peythieu and Veronique Augereau, married in real life
17. The length of the credits sequence couch gag is dependent upon how long the episode is
18. Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Patty were named after Matt Groening’s real-life parents, sisters, and aunt
19. Homer was originally intended to be revealed as Krusty the Clown, hence their similar appearance
20. Michael Jackson co-wrote and co-produced Bart Simpsons’s pop-rap single Do the Bartman, uncredited
21. The ‘Who Shot Mr. Burns?’ episode ran a competition for fans to guess
22. Fox owns the rights to The Simpsons for another 68 years, until 2082
23. Lisa’s email address is smartgirl63_\@yahoo.com, while Homer’s is ChunkyLover53@aol.com
24. Bart's hair always has nine points
25. “D’oh!” is written in scripts as “annoyed grunt”
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