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I was thinking? that guy watched. first time ever. were breaking through. and so it is like, okay. maybe there are people interested in what were doing. >> i was heading to a story in little rock. and i went to the airport, i got off of the plane, and a woman came up to me said, you brett baier, i said yeah, she said i love fox news, because you want and i decide, i fell like calling marketing and saying this is starting to take. >> im with fox news channel, not the symptoms -- simpsons, a diffe...

I was thinking? that guy watched. first time ever. were breaking through. and so it is like, okay. maybe there are people interested in what were doing. >> i was heading to a story in little rock. and i went to the airport, i got off of the plane, and a woman came up to me said, you brett baier, i said yeah, she said i love fox news, because you want and i decide, i fell like calling marketing and saying this is starting to take. >> im with fox news channel, not the symptoms -- simpsons, a diffe...

>> i was hired for the atlanta bureau, but there was no atlanta bureau. the atlanta bureau started in my apartment with a fax machine and cell phone. i had not heard of fox news channel. as a reporter early on, im from fox news, and they said is that the simpsons network? people said this is a niche audience. turns out the niche was half the country. outside the pentagon, bret baier -- for me it was 9/11, we started doing live shots with the pentagon behind me. but it changed for me because i th...

Cosby as the shining example. ♪ did you ever know that youre my hero ♪ >> the stuff they got away with because its a cartoon. the father strangling the child. >> why you little -- >> we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to make american families a lot more like the waltons and less like the simpsons. >> we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. >> they have dealt with politics. they have dealt with po...

These really squishy, soft-focus families. like "full house." >> at that time the family sitcom is almost like a disney movie. >> honey, i told you, everything is going to work out super great. >> youve got it, dude. >> it puts pressure on american families to live up to some ideal that has not existed in decades if it ever existed before. the economys starting to tank. were at war. were not going to live better than our parents. but when "the simpsons" come along, they kind of blow that apart. ...

Maur047 : El mundo de los Simpsons tiene entre sus personajes a muchos desequilibrados mentales. Y es que si nos ponemos a analizarlos... : Humor

My life. >> the simpsons helped usher in this modern era of adult animation. >> hey, brian, whats up? >> is animation necessarily an escapist form? obviously visually youre looking at something usually more colorful than actual life. >> you can be risky and obscene and transgressive and really, really dig into humor that other shows are kind of afraid to touch. >> ive been so bloody naughty. >> pushing those barriers, it is wrong to eat human beings. >> says you. >> south park took that a whole ...

>> it puts pressure on american families to live up to? ideal that has not existed in decades, if it ever existed before. the economy is starting to kind of tank. were at war. and, you know, were not going to live better than our parents. but when the simpsons come along, they blow that apart. ♪ the simpsons ♪ >> the simpsons is an escapist. no matter how much of a couch potato you are, theyre not going to be as bad as the simpsons. >> what is the effect of cigarette smoking on dogs? >> i th...

Speak like that. >> what is going on up there? >> i think barts stupid again, mom. >> theres no show that does the high joke density better. >> well, im my own toughest critic, but i think its genius. >> that storytelling on the simpsons was so unlike anything that came before it. there were ore nate bnate baroq stories. >> so many characters on the simpsons. >> hes a great villain. his relationship with a rake. destroyed him. >> the simpsons, great animations, love it. >> tracey, what are you d...