Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
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Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
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