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The Simpsons: Characters
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Yes, The Simpsons has indeed gone WAY down hill. A recent poster put it well: The humor now seems strained. No wonder, they way they kept screwing around with the characters; the original character concepts allowed for endless laughs. Change the characters, you change the jokes. Inferior characters, inferior jokes.
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The Simpsons takes place in the fictional American town of Springfield, without any geographical coordinates or references to U.S. states that might identify which part of the country it represents. Nevertheless, fans have tried to determine the town's location by taking the town's characteristics, surrounding geography, and nearby landmarks as clues. As a response, the show has become intentionally evasive in regard to Springfield's location.[47] The name "Springfield" is a common one in America and appears in over half of the states.[48] Springfield's geography, and that of its surroundings, contain coastlines, deserts, vast farmland, tall mountains, or whatever the story or joke requires.[49] Despite this, Groening has said that Springfield has much in common with Portland, Oregon, the city where he grew up.[50]
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The most puzzling strike against The Simpsons Game is the quality of the graphics during in-engine cutscenes. Gameplay and 2D cutscenes look fantastic, but their cel-shaded, 3D, in-engine equivalents look worse than awful. This is especially evident in the poorly detailed characters. They look fine in action and from a distance, but up close their lack of detail is grossly evident. In-engine cutscenes should have been done away with all together, in favor of more 2D animated sequences.
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The Simpsons official web site has more games hidden in the character files. Click the link to go to the character section, then click "F-H." Click on Rod Flanders' file. You can play a fun, easy arcade-style shooter.
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The show was wildly popular, and ranked #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. Only one other program, The Cosby Show, has tied All In The Family in terms of years at the top of the ratings. In 2002, it ranked #4 on TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest TV shows of all time. TV Guide ... named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time.
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Several different U.S. and international studios animate The Simpsons. Throughout the run of the animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, the animation was produced domestically at Klasky Csupo.[41] With the debut of the series, because of an increased workload, Fox subcontracted production to several international studios, located in South Korea.[41] Artists at the U.S. animation studio, Film Roman, draw storyboards, design new characters, backgrounds, props and draw character and background layouts, which in turn become animatics to be screened for the writers at Gracie Films for any changes to be made before the work is shipped overseas. The overseas studios then draw the inbetweens, ink and paint, and render the animation to tape before it is shipped back to the U.S. to be delivered to Fox three to four months later.[42]
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