"Good Night" was the first Simpsons short that appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show.^[1] It originally aired April 19, 1987, during the third episode of The Tracey Ullman Show and was the first appearance of the Simpson family on television. After three seasons on Tracey Ullman, the shorts would be adapted into the animated show The Simpsons. Good Night has since been aired on the show in the episode The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular, along with several other Ullman shorts, and it was also included in the Season 1 DVD set. The Simpsons made their TV debut on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 The Simpsons shorts is a series of one-minute shorts that ran on the variety show The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons, before the characters spun off into their own half-hour prime time show called... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist (Life in Hell) and the Emmy Award-winning creator of the animated series, The Simpsons and Futurama. ... Wesley Archer is a television animation director. ... David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all... Bill Kopp is a voice actor who performed the Whammy on the 1980s game show Press Your Luck, and the title character on Nelvanas Eek! The Cat. ... The Simpsons made their TV debut on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 The Simpsons shorts is a series of one-minute shorts that ran on the variety show The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons, before the characters spun off into their own half-hour prime time show called... The Tracey Ullman Show was a weekly American television variety show, hosted by British comedian and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. ... is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... The Simpson Family The Simpson family is the family featured in the United States animated sitcom The Simpsons. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular is the tenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, and is, as the title suggests, the 138th episode. ... The Simpsons DVD season boxsets have been released since 2001 in different regions all over the world. ...

Synopsis

Maggie in her first appearance in the Ullman short "Good Night."

Marge and Homer say goodnight to their kids but all does not go to plan. Bart philosophically contemplates the wonders of the mind, Lisa hears Marge say "Don't let the bed bugs bite" and fears that her bed bugs will eat her, and Maggie is traumatized by the lyrics of "Rock-a-bye Baby". Ultimately, all of the kids decide to sleep with their parents. Image File history File links UllmanMaggie. ... Image File history File links UllmanMaggie. ... Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... For the singer-songwriter, see Maggie Simpson (musician). ... For the film, see Rock-A-Bye Baby. ...

Origins

Groening first conceived of the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. He had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended to present his Life in Hell series. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening decided to go in another direction.^[2] He hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family, and named the characters after his own family. Bart was modeled after Groening's older brother, Mark, but given a different name which was chosen as an anagram of "brat."^[3] James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a three-time Academy Award, nineteen-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning American producer, writer, and film director. ... Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening. ... For the game, see Anagrams. ...

This short was written and storyboarded by Matt Groening.^[4] 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.^[2] The animation was produced at Klasky Csupo,^[5] with Wesley Archer, David Silverman, and Bill Kopp being animators.^[4] Klasky Csupo Inc. ... Wesley Archer is a television animation director. ... David Silverman (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all... Bill Kopp is a voice actor who performed the Whammy on the 1980s game show Press Your Luck, and the title character on Nelvanas Eek! The Cat. ...

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