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The Simpsons Shorts (dec 11, 1987 – may 14, 1989)

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The Simpsons shorts are a series of 48 animated short films that aired as a recurring segment on the Fox sketch comedy variety television series The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons, before the characters spun off into The Simpsons, their own half-hour prime-time show. They feature Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, and a few secondary characters. The series was created by Matt Groening, who designed the Simpson family and wrote many of the shorts.

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dec 11, 1987
may 14, 1989
~ 1 years and 5 months