The world has gone dark, and no one will ever watch The Simpsons again. This is a melancholy thought, especially for someone who has been watching The Simpsons his entire life. That caustic yellow family first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show a few months before I was born, and took to primetime when I was two.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PM on September 26, 2013