PROUD PAPA Series creator Matt Groening recorded commentary for nearly every episode in the season 1 set
The early episodes' primitive animation style also shows ''The Simpsons''' characters often acting, um, out of character. We see Lisa being bratty, not brainy, and Homer worrying that Marge would embarrass HIM by getting drunk at a party. And in his first appearance, Mr. Burns' adoring assistant, Smithers, is black.
At the same time, many of the fundamental elements of the Simpsons -- Homer's donut-chomping stupidity, Bart's eat-my-shorts rebelliousness, Itchy and Scratchy's murderous instincts -- were in place from the start. In fact, Jean and his writing team, who watched season 1 in the midst of writing season 13 (premiering Nov. 11) were ''awed'' by the early episodes' purity.
''These days we're looking desperately to find anything fresh because we've done so many,'' he says. ''I long for the days when you could go, 'Oh, Bart's got a bully' or, 'Marge thinks about cheating,' and that was new.'' Well, as a wise boy once said, ''Don't have a cow, man!''
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