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♪ >> listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. >> ten, nine, eight -- eight, eight, eight! >> oh, will this horrible year never end? >> when the 90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. and "the simpsons" i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. >> tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. >> youre stupid. >>...

>> i always wanted to do a tv series that was going to be relevant to teenagers. and its not about the parents solving the kids problems, its about the kids they sickly solving their own problems. >> what are we supposed to do, sit them down, have a kid to parent talk? >> you cant talk to parents on that mature level. tragic true. >> if the 60s had beatlemania, the 90s had 90210 mania. when tv guide had its youth quick cover, that was a sign that suddenly television was focused on these young pe...