《辛普森一家》電視劇集和電影
本週我們將一探電視和電影中的美國動漫。 美國動畫師馬特·格勒寧（Matt Groening）創作了《辛普森一家》。
這一熱門電視劇集起初是一個幽默節目的簡短片段，後來擴展成為了一個時長半小時的情景喜劇。
在播出600多集後，《辛普森一家》現已成為美國曆史上持續時間最長的黃金時段電視劇集，2007年在全球發行的《辛普森一家大電影》總票房超過5.27億美元。
格勒寧將辛普森一家刻畫為一個無厘頭家庭，並用自己家族成員的名字給除巴特（Bart）以外的角色命名。
巴特的名字則是有意使用了“頑童”（Brat）這個詞的變體。這一劇集因其情景喜劇式的風格而大受歡迎，它的情節圍繞著一個典型美國城市中的一家人及其生活展開，提供了對美國中間階層生活方式的諷刺模仿。
由於這是一個動畫劇集，人物不會老去，作家們在創作那些很難用其他方式表達的滑稽情節時有更多創造力。你認為是什麼原因讓卡通《辛普森一家》在美國經久不衰？
AmericanAnimation&Comics – The Simpsons TV Series & Movie
This week we will look at American animation and comics in television and movies. Matt Groening is the American animator who created The Simpsons. The popular TV series began as a short segment on a sketch show and later expanded into a half-hour sitcom. Over 600 episodes later, The Simpsons is the longest-running primetime-television series in United States history, and The Simpsons Movie, released worldwide in 2007 grossed over $527 million. Groening pitched the Simpsons as a dysfunctional family and gave the characters the names of his own family— except Bart. Bart is intentionally an anagram of “Brat.” The series has been so popular because of its sitcom style that centers on a family and their life in a typical American town, providing a satirical parody of the middle class American lifestyle. Because the series is animated, the characters do not age and the writers have more creativity in developing comical moments that would be difficult to represent in any other way. Why do you think The Simpsons cartoon has been so popular in America for so long?
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