CinemaBlend I have a really good friend whoâs my age who never watched The Simpsons growing up. Her reasoning is because her mom thought it was a bad influence (even though she tells me that she was allowed to watch The Simpsons episodes growing up from the very beginning with âSantaâs Little Helperâ when I was only seven. Hell, I even watched The Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show (Remember that?). So, I saw tons of instances where Homer strangled his son and Bart disrespected his parents, and I grew up okay! I think. But anyway, one day, after she was telling me that sheâs watched