The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 个月前So much less refinedmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1221
arrow-up1221imageSo much less refinedmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 4 个月前message-square13fedilink
minus-squarespankinspinach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 个月前TIL my favorite show growing up was spun off the Tracy Ullman show. I’d never looked into it, I had no idea 🤔
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 个月前Yeah, they would air shorts that slowly played out what amounted to a single episode.
minus-squarespankinspinach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 个月前Oh cool! Kind of like the idea of a serial (in newspapers where they’d do a chapter of a book a week or whatever)?
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 个月前Yeah, like that. That’s also how they would run serial shows at movie theaters before TV. Simpsons only got one story before it became it’s own thing, though.
minus-squarespankinspinach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 个月前Awesome! Thank you for letting me know, I knew the early history was a touch more convoluted than I anticipated but this closes the loop :)
TIL my favorite show growing up was spun off the Tracy Ullman show. I’d never looked into it, I had no idea 🤔
Yeah, they would air shorts that slowly played out what amounted to a single episode.
Oh cool! Kind of like the idea of a serial (in newspapers where they’d do a chapter of a book a week or whatever)?
Yeah, like that. That’s also how they would run serial shows at movie theaters before TV.
Simpsons only got one story before it became it’s own thing, though.
Awesome! Thank you for letting me know, I knew the early history was a touch more convoluted than I anticipated but this closes the loop :)