Everyone knows that The Simpsons is the most famous cartoon series in the world. Showed in more than 100 countries, The Simpsons has won twenty-one Emmy and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000. We can’t even imagine how much effort was put into creating the series, but it is known that more than 200 animators in Los Angeles and South Korea are working on its creation.
1. The names of the main characters are from Matt Groening’s family: Lisa and Maggie are his younger sisters names, Homer and Marge is his parent’s name. Except for the name Bart, which is an anagram from “brat”. The full name of Bart is Bartholomew JoJo Bart Simpson.
2. Depending on the episode, Homer is 36, 38 or 39 years old, Marge – 34, the youngest Maggie – a year, Bart – 10, and Lizzie – 8 years old.
3. In the Arabic version of The Simpsons, Homer’s name is Omar Shamshoom and he likes soda-pop drinks instead of beer.
4. Initially, the clown Krusty was not intended as a separate character, he was created as the second mysterious Homer personality.
5. There are always 9 bangs in Bart’s hairstyle.
6. The characters of the series have only four fingers on each hand. Since the fifth finger does not play a special role in the animation, it saves a lot of time if it is not drawn. Only God has five fingers. Not only the Simpsons have this feature but for the same reason Griffin characters have four fingers as well.
7. Homer’s exclamation “D’Oh!” included in the Oxford English Dictionary. And in Simpsons scripts, it always was written as “Annoyed Grunt”.
8. The Springfield map that hangs in the police department, it’s actually a copy of the old map of Constantinople.
9. Although more than 30 cities in the United States are called Springfield, the city where the events of the cartoon take place are fictional. Matt Groening said in an interview with the Smithsonian in 2012 that the city of Springfield was named in honor of the city of Springfield, Oregon.
10. More than half a thousand stars have been invited to the Simpsons to voice the characters. Today, the Simpsons owns the Guinness World Record for the longest-running animated series and series that featured the largest number of celebrities.
11. Julian Assange the founder of WikiLeaks also appeared in an episode of The Simpsons. Assange’s voice was recorded by telephone at the embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum.
12. In the full-length animated movie “The Simpsons Movie” – one of the signs says in Russian: “Learn to speak English or get out!”.
13. TIL FOX owns the rights to the Simpsons until 2082.
14. In 1998, Time magazine named Bart Simpson one of the most influential “people” of the century.
15. If you watch all The Simpsons episodes without advertising and sleep, it will take you about 8.5 days.
