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Futurama has come and gone and come again
The Simpsons keeps going
Headlines said The Simpsons was canceled
A version of this article appears in print on Feb 16 2026 Section C Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline The Simpsons Passes Another Milestone
The show has been on for more than half his life
Homer's Barbershop Quartet is from Season 5
Matt Groening used to have every episode memorized
Every new episode squeezes an older episode out of his brain
Matt Groening named his son Homer after his father
Matt Groening's father was smart and athletic
In an episode Homer made Marge carry the flat tire back to town
Looking back we were all a little nuts
Sudden overwhelming success of the show made some people crazy
Fox asked if it had to be live action
Long hours integral to animation make everyone go nuts
Dan Castellaneta was to be in clown makeup for live-action Krusty the Clown spinoff
Bart probably has a place on the Mount Rushmore of cartoon characters next to Mickey
Gyorgi Peluce's colors were used
TV comedy writers stay up all hours
The Simpsons is extremely popular in English-speaking countries and has intense devotion in Central and South America