<P> When producer James L. Brooks was working on the television variety show The Tracey Ullman Show , he decided that he wanted to include short animated wraparounds before and after the commercial breaks . Having seen one of cartoonist Matt Groening 's Life in Hell comic strips , Brooks asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts , which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series . Groening later realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life 's work . He therefore chose another approach while waiting in the lobby of Brooks 's office for the pitch meeting , hurriedly formulating his version of a dysfunctional family that became the Simpsons . He named the characters after his own family members , substituting `` Bart '' for his own name . Bart was modeled after Groening 's older brother , Mark , but given a different name which was chosen as an anagram of `` brat '' . The stories were written and storyboarded by Matt Groening . The family was crudely drawn , because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators , assuming they would clean them up ; instead they just traced over his drawings . The animation was produced domestically at Klasky Csupo , with Wesley Archer , David Silverman , and Bill Kopp being animators for the first season . After season one , it would be animated by Archer and Silverman thereafter . Gyorgyi Peluce was the colorist and the person who decided to make the characters yellow . </P>
<P> When producer James L. Brooks was working on the television variety show The Tracey Ullman Show , he decided that he wanted to include short animated wraparounds before and after the commercial breaks . Having seen one of cartoonist Matt Groening 's Life in Hell comic strips , Brooks asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts , which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series . Groening later realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life 's work . He therefore chose another approach while waiting in the lobby of Brooks 's office for the pitch meeting , hurriedly formulating his version of a dysfunctional family that became the Simpsons . He named the characters after his own family members , substituting `` Bart '' for his own name . Bart was modeled after Groening 's older brother , Mark , but given a different name which was chosen as an anagram of `` brat '' . The stories were written and storyboarded by Matt Groening . The family was crudely drawn , because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators , assuming they would clean them up ; instead they just traced over his drawings . The animation was produced domestically at Klasky Csupo , with Wesley Archer , David Silverman , and Bill Kopp being animators for the first season . After season one , it would be animated by Archer and Silverman thereafter . Gyorgyi Peluce was the colorist and the person who decided to make the characters yellow . </P>
the simpsons first debuted as a short and what american variety tv show
the simpsons first debuted as a short and what american variety tv show
The Tracey Ullman Show
The Tracey Ullman Show