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alt.tv.simpsons (called "a.t.s." by regular readers) is a usenet newsgroup dedicated to discussing the American television program, The Simpsons. It was created by Gary D. Duzan during the third week of March 1990, four months after the first airing of a regular episode of the program, which was the Christmas special that aired on December 17, 1989. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. ...
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ...
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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The newsgroup achieved notoriety when its existence was alluded to on the program itself. Simpsons character the Comic Book Guy is often used to represent a stereotypical inhabitant of a.t.s. Shortly after some readers began declaring certain new Simpsons shows to be the "worst episode ever," the Comic Book Guy began using that as his catchphrase, with various variations incorporated to keep things fresh. // Akira Akira As one of Springfields most prominent Japanese American citizens, Akira is the owner of a karate dojo (which Bart briefly attended) and also works at The Happy Sumo sushi restaurant. ...
The comments of a.t.s. have been extensively quoted or cited in the writings of mass media commentators. This has led to times where relations between writers and viewers have become strained. In one infamous case, writer Ian Maxtone-Graham made notorious comments about the fans on the internet, calling them "beetle-browed" and saying that he had barely seen the show before he was hired to write for it, in an interview with the Independent. Simpsons voice cast members Harry Shearer and Yeardley Smith have posted to a.t.s, and in one of his Life in Hell cartoons Matt Groening implied that he read the newsgroup. Also former executive producer Mike Scully posted on the newsgroup in 1998 anonymously, using the now defunct e-mail address hugh2020@aol.com. Ian Maxtone-Graham is a television writer and producer. ...
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943, Los Angeles, California) is an American comedic actor and writer who began his career as a child actor in 1950s movies (The Robe) and television (The Jack Benny Program). ...
Yeardley Smith Martha Maria Yeardley Smith (born July 3, 1964 in Paris, France and raised in Washington, D.C., USA) is an American actress and voice actor who is best known for providing the voice of Lisa Simpson (and occasionally, both on the Tracy Ullman shorts and the half-hour...
Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening. ...
Matt Groening Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon; his family name is pronounced /greɪnɪŋ/, rhyming with raining) is an American cartoonist and the creator of the animated television series The Simpsons and Futurama. ...
Mike Scully is a former excecutive producer of the Fox series The Simpsons (seasons 9-12, 1997-2001). ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into e-mail. ...
On the DVD commentaries to the Simpsons, the directors and writers also mention the effect that the newsgroup had on them. This made a.t.s. one of the first newsgroups to ever give rise to communication between a television program's fanbase and its producers. The official DVD logo. ...
Episode Capsules
The newsgroup grew rapidly, serving readers who missed new episodes or who live overseas with 'episode capsules.' A labour of love for a large group of volunteers, the capsules including episode transcripts, as well as observations, reviews, and other comments. Episode capsules include explanation of culture-specific jokes for the benefit of viewers outside of North America. Lists of references to previous episodes and other elements of popular culture are also common.
The capsules are stored and maintained on the newsgroup's website, The Simpsons Archive, the most comprehensive archive of Simpsons information on the Internet. The meaning of The Simpsons Archive domain name's acronym is "Springfield Nuclear Power Plant." (SNPP) It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Domain Name System. ...
Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...
Trolls Like many large newsgroups, a.t.s. sometimes deals with incursions of trolls. Veteran readers usually use a mix of maturity and sophisticated humour to ward off the unwanted attention seekers. A typical troll will attack Internet fans, call for the show's cancellation or persistently argue that another show, such as South Park or Family Guy, is better than The Simpsons. In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts rude or offensive messages on the Internet, such as in online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants (see Anonymous Internet posting). ...
South Park is an animated television series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ...
Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. ...
In the late 1990s, a purported right-wing extremist and anti-Semite made a series of absurd sociopolitical claims regarding the series and its characters. For example, he claimed the Comic Book Guy was a pedophile and that Lisa Simpson was a portrayal of a lesbian character with a secret "Marxist" agenda. He was nicknamed "Satmar" after one of his pseudonyms. The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...
Jeff Albertson (better known simply as Comic Book Guy) is a fictional character in the animated series The Simpsons, and proprietor of the comic book shop, The Androids Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop. ...
Lisa Marie Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith) is a fictional character on the animated television series The Simpsons. ...
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A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ...
A particularly nasty group of trolls visited in late 2003 and early 2004. These trolls invaded from alt.tv.game-shows, a newsgroup that was ruined by trolls in 2002. a.t.s. regulars were forced to take stern measures to combat the trolls, who, like many before them, came with the intent of 'killing' the newsgroup. A diligent a.t.s. reader eventually traced the sources of most of the spam and reported it to various news providers. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...
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