The Simpsons

The Simpsons (1989) 

When Matt Groening created The Simpsons, he had only a yellow crayon. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the color yellow, but in this case I don't care because I've grown to love this crazy family over the many years of watching. The Simpsons has been running for nearly three decades now and the quality of the episodes and seasons has fluctuated, but it's something to be reckoned with. Each of the five completely different main characters has their own personal charm, but I still like Homer and his drunkenly clumsy escapades the best. What I particularly appreciate about The Simpsons is the script, which is often well thought out and, in addition to a large number of jokes, also have plenty of allusions to (not only) the period. The addition of the Halloween specials, guest stars and parodies of various films and TV shows are just icing on an already very tasty cake full of (black) humour, irony and satire. In short, high quality humour delivered in easily digestible twenty minute segments that I like to return to quite often -  and who wouldn't love Homer desperately trying to put together a barbecue! (18.07.2009)