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Pointless trivia about America's favourite dysfunctional family, The Simpsons. Matt Groening (whose name is pronounced "gray-ning", not "groaning", by the way) originally planned to make an animated series out of his comic strip Life in Hell, but realised when sitting in the waiting room of the animation studio that he didn't want to sign the rights to his characters away, so he came up with the idea of The Simpsons on the spot. At first, the Simpsons shorts were commercial break padding on The Tracy Ullman Show, but soon it became a full-fledged series. The first season has a lot of episodes aired out of production order. The first episode ever made was "Some Enchanted Evening"; it even opens with a scene introducing and establishing each member of the Simpson family. Despite this, it was the thirteenth episode aired and the season finale when it was broadcast, due to animation problems (the animation in the episode is very crude, even by firs