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 #美国动漫#– 《辛普森一家》电视剧集和电影。

本周我们将一探电视和电影中的美国动漫。 美国动画师马特·格勒宁（Matt Groening）创作了《辛普森一家》。

这一热门电视剧集起初是一个幽默节目的简短片段，后来扩展成为了一个时长半小时的情景喜剧。

在播出600多集后，《辛普森一家》现已成为美国历史上持续时间最长的黄金时段电视剧集，2007年在全球发行的《辛普森一家大电影》总票房超过5.27亿美元。

格勒宁将辛普森一家刻画为一个无厘头家庭，并用自己家族成员的名字给除巴特（Bart）以外的角色命名。

巴特的名字则是有意使用了“顽童”（Brat）这个词的变体。这一剧集因其情景喜剧式的风格而大受欢迎，它的情节围绕着一个典型美国城市中的一家人及其生活展开，提供了对美国中间阶层生活方式的讽刺模仿。

由于这是一个动画剧集，人物不会老去，作家们在创作那些很难用其他方式表达的滑稽情节时有更多创造力。你认为是什么原因让卡通《辛普森一家》在美国经久不衰？

#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?