40 Cromulent Facts About ‘The Simpsons’

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40 Cromulent Facts About ‘The Simpsons’

We had a blast reading these facts, so we’re guessing that you’re pretty yellow with envy right about now. We’re not exactly sure if that’s the color normally associated with envy, but it’s a Simpsons list, so it is today.

Anyway, we’ve got 40 four-fingered facts comin’ your way. Unless there’s a fact about one of God’s few appearances, that’ll be the only five-fingered fact since he’s the only character to appear with five fingers on the show. Looks like Springfieldians weren’t made in his image. 

Moe Szyslak dated Phoebe. Hank Azaria tried to get an IRL acting career off the ground while he was already voicing a ton of characters on The Simpsons. He auditioned to play Joey on Friends, but ended up with a 5-episode arc as Phoebe's boyfriend instead.
CRACKEDOON Smithers was black in his first appearance on The Simpsons, in the Season 1 episode Homer's Odyssey. It was an animation mistake, and the
Fictional Presidents PRESIDENT The Simpsons Lisa Simpson The episode Bart to the Future didn't just predict that Donald Trump would be president, but Lisa's outfit resembles what Kamala Harris wore to her VP inauguration. CRACKED.COM

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ETT Alan Moore & Thomas Pynchon Alan Moore, famed despiser of all adaptations of his work, played himself on The Simpsons. So did Thomas Pynchon. ? HOMAS ICHON IOUSE CRACKED.COM
Rusty Nails was the real-life inspiration behind Krusty The Portland entertainer was a very sweet clown, says Matt Groening, who would have grown up watching him. CRACKED.COM

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40 Cromulent Facts About ‘The Simpsons’
Georgia ripped off The Simpsons and barely bothered to disguise it. The Samsonadzes pretty much swiped the core of The Simpsons and put a new name on.
The original opening sequence of THE SIMPSONS - which didn't appear in the series pilot -- was made unusually long to cut the amount of animation work
In the Simpsons episode Two Bad Neighbours, Grandpa Simpson says Grover Cleveland spanked me on two nonconsecutive occasions! It's a reference to
A famous SIMPSONS line was CO- co-opted by American right-wing media during the 2003 Iraq war. CHEESE-EATING MONKEY became a go-to insult towards the
Homer Simpson works at the nuclear power plant. And he nearly was also Krusty the Clown. Simpsons creator Matt Groening originally planned for it to b

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