Some corrections. -Ralph's original appearance was in Moaning Lisa. The kid with the buzzcut and the purple sweater at the end of the episode was confirmed to be an early design of him on the DVD commentary (and on the Wiki page). -Millhouse's first appearance was in a 1990 Butterfinger commercial (based off of the character from Matt Groening's failed 1988 pitch for a NBC Saturday morning cartoon) -You also forgot Bill and Marty who appeared in Bart vs. Thanksgiving, the two reporter guys at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade who appear in 3 more episodes as far as I know.
@@Teemu_TV Yeah I can't blame you. You should check out the early concept designs for other characters like Martin Prince, it's bizarre how different some of these characters looked before appearing on the show.
@@bombabombom3603 I agree with you with the points you made. It is true how different many of the familiar characters looked early on, i.e. Lou was white, Barney had blonde hair instead of brown, Wiggum had brown hair instead of blue, etc. And voices were different, listening to Grampa's or Otto's in their season 1 appearances, and Lenny and Carl's voices were actually reversed in their first appearances in "Homer's night out". And the way random characters looked were downright weird sometimes, see the guy at 8:14 (next to Lisa), and some of the guys in the crowd outside the plant (not shown in this video though), and both were in "Homer's Odyssey". Alot of changes since season 1
@@asiea2179 In production order the Christmas Special was the last episode produced for the season, originally intended to air at the end of the year. Some Enchanted Evening was going to be the series premiere and was going to air in 1989 but the show had to undergo an emergency reworking and got pushed back almost an entire year where they had to air the Christmas show as the series premiere to make the '89 deadline. A lot of the show's recognizable character designs and elements didn't take shape until late in the season. And like I said, all you have to do is to do the simple research. I even mentioned the Wiki and DVD commentary as references so instead of blindly trying to correct me on face value, please do not make yourself look any further idiotic by not actually doing the research.
Apparently Dan was trying to parody, actor Walter Mathau’s voice in the shorts, but he decided to change it later for the main series as the shorts version didn’t sit well with him.
Bart is not dumb. Bart have traits of ADHD, and people with this condition (like me, i have this and Grade 1 Autism) can be distracted easily and don't respect the authorities
@@ahhhhyes new seasons it's 8/80, or it have great episodes (mostly of them Treehouse of Horror eps) or some of the most stupid things humanity has ever seen
Yeah. So many characters seemed to have reversed roles early on. In season 1 "No disgrace like home", Marge gets drunk and acts up while Homer struggles to keep everyone in order behaving. But most seasons after 1, we've come to know their roles reversed, Homer is the one who gets drunk and acts up while Marge tries to be orderly, such as at the party in "The war of the Simpsons", and also "The mysterious voyage of Homer". In season 1 "Homer's night out", Lenny and Carl's voices were switched from what we came to know. As for Bart and Lisa, their roles weren't switched where Bart was the moral one while Lisa was mischievous, Lisa was just mischievous too along with Bart.
The first episodes had a really uncanny feel to them. Like yeah we’re used to them as we’ve seen them for 30 years, but the homer tucking Bart in is unfathomably creepy having not seen it often.
The vibes are also just so off, something about it feels cursed to me, especially the part where Marge sings Lisa to sleep, idk why but it has such an unsettling and depressing feeling, I can't explain it
If I remember correctly, Crusty was originally going be Homer in disguise. In that case, its sweet how the "random" audience kids he talks to are secretly his own kids
If you watch the short in its entirety, it does set up the (abandoned) plotline that Homer is Krusty. Bart spots the fake Krusty and it ends with Homer watching it on TV. Homers reaction is disappointment and not anger as if his ploy failed.
@@geraldgottesman5931 which is why someone else is Krusty at the taping when Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are at the taping. It was supposed to be that Homer was secretly Krusty and that the kids weren't supposed to find out.
The abandoned Homer/Krusty arch was going to be that while Bart does not respect his father, his hero is actually his father in disguise. Homer and Krusty are drawn alike and are both voiced by Dan Castanaleta. This was put to use in the episode "Homie the Clown."
( Production Order) 0:00 S0E01 Good Night 1:14 S0E19 Grandpa And The Kids 1:44 S0E32 The Bart Simpson Show 2:06 S0E35 The Krusty The Clown Show 2:40 S01E01 Some Enchanted Evening 3:50 S01E02 Bart The Genius 6:22 S01E03 Homer's Odyssey 9:01 S01E04 There's No Disgrace Like Home 9:33 S01E05 Bart The General 11:12 S0106 Moaning Lisa 12:36 S01E07 The Telltale Head 14:15 S01E08 Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire 16:38 S01E09 The Call Of The Simpsons 16:50 S01E10 Homer's Night Out 17:38 S01E11 Life On The Fast Lane 18:22 S01E12 Krusty Gets Busted 20:09 S01E13 The Crepes Of Wrath 20:57 S02E03 Bart Gets An F 21:09 S02E04 Treehouse Of Horror 21:39 S02E06 Bart The Daredevil 22:52 S02E07 Bart Vs. Thanksgiving 23:15 S02E08 Dead Putting Soceity 23:41 S02E09 Itchy & Scratchy & Marge 24:29 S02E10 Bart Gets Hit By A Car 27:22 S02E11 One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish 27:57 S02E12 The Way We Was 29:35 S02E13 Homer Vs. Lisa And The 8th Commandment 30:42 S02E14 Bart's Dog Gets An F 30:51 S02E15 Principal Charming 32:12 S02E16 Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? 33:53 S02E17 Old Money 34:34 S02E18 Brush With Greatness 35:13 S02E20 The War Of The Simpsons 35:30 S02E21 Three Men And A Comic Book 36:59 S02E23 When Flanders Failed 37:18 S03E03 Bart The Murderer 39:01 S03E04 Homer Defined 39:38 S03E05 Like Father, Like Clown 40:34 S03E06 Lisa's Pony 40:43 S03E11 Radio Bart 41:01 S03E13 Homer At The Bat 41:10 S03E14 Homer Alone 41:24 S03E17 Dog Of Death 41:34 S03E22 Bart's Friend Falls In Love 41:50 S04E03 Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie 42:12 S04E06 New Kid On The Block 43:15 S04E13 I Love Lisa 43:22 S04E18 Whacking Day 43:57 S05E04 Treehouse Of Horror IV 44:22 S05E08 $pringfield 44:46 S05E15 Bart Gets An Elephant 45:00 S05E18 Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badasssss Song 46:10 S05E20 Secrets Of A Sucsessful Marriage 46:22 S06E11 Bart's Comet 47:08 S07E09 Two Bad Neighbours 47:19 S07E11 Scenes From The Class Struggle Of Springfield 47:33 S07E20 Much Apu About Nothing 47:44 S08E08 Bart After Dark 47:57 S08E12 The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show 49:00 S08E22 The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson 50:11 S09E04 The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetillions 50:27 S09E06 Reality Bites 50:58 S09E15 Girly Edition 51:43 S10E05 Mayored To The Mob 52:00 S10E07 Wild Barts Can't Be Broken 52:04 S14E12 Three Gays Of The Condo 52:47 S15E02 Tis' The Fifteenth Season 53:02 S20E07 The Good, The Sad And The Drugly
Notable things 0:00 - It’s funny how Homer’s first appearance voice sounds kind of off except for the laugh which sounds exactly right 1:43 - The infinite doorway in this scene is trippy 17:24 - You can tell Carl is voiced by the same voice actor as Flanders in this clip
I forgot how Bart use to be the "cool kid" and had quite a few friends before just having one friend. Lisa while still being shown as smart was still just one of the girls before they decided that her being smart was a good reason for all the other girls to bully her and her to not have any friends.
Yeah he had to many friends that had no overall value to plots. They were just random friend #1, random friend #2, Milhouse, random friend #3 and so on.
@@johncase1353 that being said South Park proved that Simpsons was lazy in that respect, there was never a reason to keep Jimbo and Nelson mean especially after they’re shown to have sympathetic backgrounds
It's surprising how long it takes Flanders to appear production wise. Making the Christmas episode the opener was by far the best choice they made, that episode establishes so many of the most important secondary characters. Another surprise is how long it takes Duffman to appear
Black Smithers, Yellow Lou, Patty and Selma first appearing in a random crowd shot, Dolph and Jimbo have their voices sorta switched, Ralph who is actually competent, the fluctuating ethnicity of Judge Snyder, Dr Hibert before he laughed after every sentence. I do love seeing them using the characters, even before they had them fleshed out. Seeing the characters grow and eventually fit into the moulds we all know them for.
I think it's neat how perfect Helen Lovejoy's first scene introduces her character. Unlike most of the cast, Helen is fully formed and all her famous traits are laid out front and center. The 30 year rivalry between her and Marge always amuses me.
Watching the season one episodes is always like a sort of dream. The characters get refined to how we see them in their glory days, before going into the steep decline to where we are today. Especially Homer has a serious alteration in personality; starting off as a borderline depressed "average man" to a loveable oaf a season later. Bart's descent into deliquency gets toned down and Marge develops more of a personality instead of being a background character.
Even the production aspects are different in s1. The ackground sets all have a weird gradient and the characters are more exaggerated(lots of wild take and they didn't figure out the skintones yet so some people are blue)
Then Homer just becomes a idiot, Lisa became the most annoying Simpson, Bart became a boring character and Marge returned to being a background character.
Those first shorts. Incredible. “Umm dad? What is the mind? Is it just a system of impulses or is it something more tangible?” 😂 I love that Bart was so articulate!
To everyone commenting about characters appearing in the Christmas Special or wherever: The episodes are listed in order of production, not by airdate!!
Interesting that Burns's first scene introduces the long-standing trend where he asks Smithers who that man is (Homer Simpson). That also makes it by far the longest-standing reason for a grudge anyone has against Burns when it came to potential motives for his attempted murder later on.
@@GMANKOOL23 I've always thought it was funny how the only reason Castellaneta even thought of Walter Matthau at all was seeing a sketch of Homer for the first time and noticing the huge upper lip. That's pretty much the only reason Matthau's voice occurred to him. 😄
it's nice to see how abe simpson retained his appearance from the shorts. The rest of the characters had their body size, shape, design and proportions altered drastically in some manner or another.
28:50 I never realised til now the exact same introduction between Bart and Seymour with Homer and Dondelinger, that's a cute callback to the Simpson family's inherent problems with authority.
8:44 I remember reading about this, when the Simpsons first started up they had limited colours to work with and also didn’t really know which colours would stick, which is why Smithers is black here but later changes to yellow when the style was established
Characteristics of the Tracy Ullman shorts arguably remained in the show for about the first four seasons, albeit gradually fading out. Homer still has very vague traces of his Walter Matthau voice a few seasons in, the animation style remains somewhat goofy, there's generally more focus on the immediate Simpson family etc.
27:45 That's one of my favorite jokes. The waiter basically said that the giant squid killed all the fishermen that would usually get it. The subtly is perfect!
The personality shifts and character focuses are so surreal. I never remember wendel getting any lines of screentime outside small gags like vomiting in background or hurting arm on the trampoline episode. Like the characters who in my memory of "modern" (circa late 90's) simpsons were mostly background characters or filler actually had roles in the early episodes. Its weird after decades they never really bothered to revisit them. When has Wendel or the Twin girls ever actually been used for more than a short gag
Matt Groening said there were to many characters and everyone more so the kids just blended together so he wanted to focus on certain ones. That's why Bart went from having several close friends to him just being best friends with Milhouse because Milhouse was the more interesting character.
It’s weirder that in Bart’s first appearance he’s asking Homer philosophical questions about the mind when that seems way more like something Lisa would think about, Bart really isn’t intellectual enough to have interest in those types of questions
Sarah Wiggum's first speaking line was in season 5 ep 1: Homer's Barbershop Quartet and Sideshow Bob's first appearance was in season 1: The Telltale Head
It's very interesting to see that they managed to get 3 seasons of shorts with the Tracy Ullman show without any introduction of side characters (besides Grandpa) sticking until they actually had a full show.
@@Dracovenatrix Chris Latta (Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe/Starscream from Transformers) did the voice of Mr. Burns and Moe for Season 1, but Hank Azaria dubbed over Moe's lines when he joined the show mid production, making Chris Latta's performance for Moe essentially lost media because his Moe voice never resurfaced over the 30 years these episodes has been out. Also Harry Shearer was the long-running replacement for Mr. Burns after Latta left, not Azaria.
I used to have a VHS tape with the early Christmas episodes and I remember watching it during December every year when I was young. The nostalgia is hittinggggg
It was because Matt Groening said there was starting to be to many characters and it was becoming a challenge for the voice actors to remember how they all sounded. They went with Milhouse being Barts best friend because his personal was opposite of Bart and overall a more interesting character.
@@johncase1353 but Lewis has a new permanent voice actor so I don’t see why Matt Groening could not add him back in. But I guess he kind of did with the one where Bart becomes a caddy. Edit: in the second most recent episode that recently came out, his grandfather had a line.
@@bobcatthesandwing2403 Matt Groening hasn’t worked on the show in any serious capacity in decades, and they haven’t done anything with him because there’s nothing worth doing with him that they couldn’t do with one of the other kids
I’m glad you included Shana in here. While rewatching I was surprised that she wasn’t around until the 20th season, and it’s not revealed that she’s Chalmers’ daughter until much later.
Though "Whacking Day" isn't a top-tier episode or anything, it's incredible how well they got the Skinner/Chalmers dynamic in Chalmers' first appearance.
It was more like koth and less competing with family guy to be moronic. If they tried to make Homer off himself now it would definitely be pushed hard as a crude joke like they do with Moe.
harmless by today's standards; the simpsons was very controversial when it came out. but i get what you say, the episodes felt cozier and the humor was lowkey.
S1 E3 had not yet introduced the recurring Waylon Smithers but rather a guest, Black Smithers. E4 did something similar where White Lou was a guest before Lou himself became the recurring role.
I feel like character designs in the Simpsons became very uniform over time, with the strict style guides and such. I appreciate the way more freeform character designs of this era.
Some corrections.
-Ralph's original appearance was in Moaning Lisa. The kid with the buzzcut and the purple sweater at the end of the episode was confirmed to be an early design of him on the DVD commentary (and on the Wiki page).
-Millhouse's first appearance was in a 1990 Butterfinger commercial (based off of the character from Matt Groening's failed 1988 pitch for a NBC Saturday morning cartoon)
-You also forgot Bill and Marty who appeared in Bart vs. Thanksgiving, the two reporter guys at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade who appear in 3 more episodes as far as I know.
Nicely done. I couldn't tell that this kid is indeed Ralph.
@@Teemu_TV Yeah I can't blame you.
You should check out the early concept designs for other characters like Martin Prince, it's bizarre how different some of these characters looked before appearing on the show.
@@bombabombom3603 I agree with you with the points you made.
It is true how different many of the familiar characters looked early on, i.e. Lou was white, Barney had blonde hair instead of brown, Wiggum had brown hair instead of blue, etc. And voices were different, listening to Grampa's or Otto's in their season 1 appearances, and Lenny and Carl's voices were actually reversed in their first appearances in "Homer's night out".
And the way random characters looked were downright weird sometimes, see the guy at 8:14 (next to Lisa), and some of the guys in the crowd outside the plant (not shown in this video though), and both were in "Homer's Odyssey".
Alot of changes since season 1
Wrong relph firstm scene was Simpsons roasting on a open fire
@@asiea2179 In production order the Christmas Special was the last episode produced for the season, originally intended to air at the end of the year. Some Enchanted Evening was going to be the series premiere and was going to air in 1989 but the show had to undergo an emergency reworking and got pushed back almost an entire year where they had to air the Christmas show as the series premiere to make the '89 deadline.
A lot of the show's recognizable character designs and elements didn't take shape until late in the season.
And like I said, all you have to do is to do the simple research. I even mentioned the Wiki and DVD commentary as references so instead of blindly trying to correct me on face value, please do not make yourself look any further idiotic by not actually doing the research.
It's weird that Homer talks differently but laughs the exact same way.
I was thinking the same thing!
Kinda creepy to me
Yeah. It caught me off guard!
I love the way Homer talks
Apparently Dan was trying to parody, actor Walter Mathau’s voice in the shorts, but he decided to change it later for the main series as the shorts version didn’t sit well with him.
For characters as dumb and rebellious as Homer and Bart, their first appearance involved the most articulate and unique conversation I ever heard
Bart is Not dumb. He's smarter than you think.
Bart is not dumb. Bart have traits of ADHD, and people with this condition (like me, i have this and Grade 1 Autism) can be distracted easily and don't respect the authorities
@@Sómaisumguri his character often gets flanderized into just being dumb in later seasons unfortunately
@@ahhhhyes new seasons it's 8/80, or it have great episodes (mostly of them Treehouse of Horror eps) or some of the most stupid things humanity has ever seen
@@SómaisumguriTDAH é a sigla em português, em inglês é ADHD
2:01 It's kind of odd hearing Bart call Homer dad, and Lisa calling him Homer.
Ye
Yeah. So many characters seemed to have reversed roles early on. In season 1 "No disgrace like home", Marge gets drunk and acts up while Homer struggles to keep everyone in order behaving. But most seasons after 1, we've come to know their roles reversed, Homer is the one who gets drunk and acts up while Marge tries to be orderly, such as at the party in "The war of the Simpsons", and also "The mysterious voyage of Homer".
In season 1 "Homer's night out", Lenny and Carl's voices were switched from what we came to know.
As for Bart and Lisa, their roles weren't switched where Bart was the moral one while Lisa was mischievous, Lisa was just mischievous too along with Bart.
Lisa literally never calls him by his real name. Except in Lisa's first word
Nope! It's too wiolent! Go do something else!
It seems odd
The first episodes had a really uncanny feel to them. Like yeah we’re used to them as we’ve seen them for 30 years, but the homer tucking Bart in is unfathomably creepy having not seen it often.
The beginning of the simpsons is kind of scary to look at, they all look a little weird
@@Veron-le3mgvery scary
The vibes are also just so off, something about it feels cursed to me, especially the part where Marge sings Lisa to sleep, idk why but it has such an unsettling and depressing feeling, I can't explain it
I think marge voice is just so creepy lol
The introduction to Santa’s little helper was so cute 🥺
I know! I remember watching that episode a few weeks ago 😁
I remember having a VHS tape of that episode, very long time ago now.
1:54 That time when the Simpson's home had infinite rooms
i just noticed that lol
Looks very Dr. Seuss.
or the backrooms
Oh god it’s cavernous lol
That room just has huge mirrors on both walls! 😂
4:10 I love that his first introduction is the most iconic meme of him too
Yeah, was an unpathetic appearance !
@@EugeneOneguine That girl on the right looks a lot like Lisa Simpson, Did lisa clone herself? 34:37
>most iconic meme of him
steamed hams would like to have a work with you
@@ChunkyPhattz I mean it’s subjective I think both are iconic.
@@wessexfox5197both are very iconic i do agree, i wasn't being super serious
If I remember correctly, Crusty was originally going be Homer in disguise. In that case, its sweet how the "random" audience kids he talks to are secretly his own kids
If you watch the short in its entirety, it does set up the (abandoned) plotline that Homer is Krusty. Bart spots the fake Krusty and it ends with Homer watching it on TV. Homers reaction is disappointment and not anger as if his ploy failed.
@@a.champagne6238 The problem is that, in this short, Homer is watching it happen on live tv, so it literally *cannot* be Homer.
@@geraldgottesman5931 which is why someone else is Krusty at the taping when Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are at the taping. It was supposed to be that Homer was secretly Krusty and that the kids weren't supposed to find out.
The abandoned Homer/Krusty arch was going to be that while Bart does not respect his father, his hero is actually his father in disguise. Homer and Krusty are drawn alike and are both voiced by Dan Castanaleta. This was put to use in the episode "Homie the Clown."
Also that Marge had rabbit ears under her beehive hair
You can just tell Kelsey Grammer absolutely loves performing Sideshow Bob. Right out the gate, he's an unending string of classic moments.
( Production Order)
0:00 S0E01 Good Night
1:14 S0E19 Grandpa And The Kids
1:44 S0E32 The Bart Simpson Show
2:06 S0E35 The Krusty The Clown Show
2:40 S01E01 Some Enchanted Evening
3:50 S01E02 Bart The Genius
6:22 S01E03 Homer's Odyssey
9:01 S01E04 There's No Disgrace Like Home
9:33 S01E05 Bart The General
11:12 S0106 Moaning Lisa
12:36 S01E07 The Telltale Head
14:15 S01E08 Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire
16:38 S01E09 The Call Of The Simpsons
16:50 S01E10 Homer's Night Out
17:38 S01E11 Life On The Fast Lane
18:22 S01E12 Krusty Gets Busted
20:09 S01E13 The Crepes Of Wrath
20:57 S02E03 Bart Gets An F
21:09 S02E04 Treehouse Of Horror
21:39 S02E06 Bart The Daredevil
22:52 S02E07 Bart Vs. Thanksgiving
23:15 S02E08 Dead Putting Soceity
23:41 S02E09 Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
24:29 S02E10 Bart Gets Hit By A Car
27:22 S02E11 One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish
27:57 S02E12 The Way We Was
29:35 S02E13 Homer Vs. Lisa And The 8th Commandment
30:42 S02E14 Bart's Dog Gets An F
30:51 S02E15 Principal Charming
32:12 S02E16 Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
33:53 S02E17 Old Money
34:34 S02E18 Brush With Greatness
35:13 S02E20 The War Of The Simpsons
35:30 S02E21 Three Men And A Comic Book
36:59 S02E23 When Flanders Failed
37:18 S03E03 Bart The Murderer
39:01 S03E04 Homer Defined
39:38 S03E05 Like Father, Like Clown
40:34 S03E06 Lisa's Pony
40:43 S03E11 Radio Bart
41:01 S03E13 Homer At The Bat
41:10 S03E14 Homer Alone
41:24 S03E17 Dog Of Death
41:34 S03E22 Bart's Friend Falls In Love
41:50 S04E03 Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
42:12 S04E06 New Kid On The Block
43:15 S04E13 I Love Lisa
43:22 S04E18 Whacking Day
43:57 S05E04 Treehouse Of Horror IV
44:22 S05E08 $pringfield
44:46 S05E15 Bart Gets An Elephant
45:00 S05E18 Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badasssss Song
46:10 S05E20 Secrets Of A Sucsessful Marriage
46:22 S06E11 Bart's Comet
47:08 S07E09 Two Bad Neighbours
47:19 S07E11 Scenes From The Class Struggle Of Springfield
47:33 S07E20 Much Apu About Nothing
47:44 S08E08 Bart After Dark
47:57 S08E12 The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
49:00 S08E22 The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson
50:11 S09E04 The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetillions
50:27 S09E06 Reality Bites
50:58 S09E15 Girly Edition
51:43 S10E05 Mayored To The Mob
52:00 S10E07 Wild Barts Can't Be Broken
52:04 S14E12 Three Gays Of The Condo
52:47 S15E02 Tis' The Fifteenth Season
53:02 S20E07 The Good, The Sad And The Drugly
Underrated
Notable things
0:00 - It’s funny how Homer’s first appearance voice sounds kind of off except for the laugh which sounds exactly right
1:43 - The infinite doorway in this scene is trippy
17:24 - You can tell Carl is voiced by the same voice actor as Flanders in this clip
OMG IT IS FLANDERS!
Lmfao the fifteen minute jump
@@Nova-vk5qb Max didnt rlly care about the rest.
12:31 has an animations error with Bleeding Gums Murphy
You didn't notice how some of the characters were blackwashed?
Black Smithers and yellow Lou are just something mind bending
Early Installment Weirdness.
Black Smithers was actually a mistake rather than a redesign.
Also, Barney had yellow hair
@@JB_KING_official yeah, didn’t notice it until I realized I saw it the first time before..
They traded pigments
I had no idea this iconic shot of Skinner was from his first appearance 4:10
Pathetic
Pathetic.
And he never says "pathetic" either
The original was a Evangelion meme
It's such a power move on his part 😂
20:40 Lewis is yellow
20:43 Lewis is black
MAGIC!!!
Bro pulled an Ariana grande
@@THESILENCEROFPARAGUAY nah reverse michael jackson
Black magic
HA
Bro pulled a Michael Jackson but reverse 😭
Smithers was originally black lol
even after all these years i still find these episodes to be awesome
I forgot how Bart use to be the "cool kid" and had quite a few friends before just having one friend. Lisa while still being shown as smart was still just one of the girls before they decided that her being smart was a good reason for all the other girls to bully her and her to not have any friends.
Apparently according to the commentary tracks, the toy manufacturers wanted more bullies for Bart and tried to deemphasize his friends
Yeah he had to many friends that had no overall value to plots. They were just random friend #1, random friend #2, Milhouse, random friend #3 and so on.
@@johncase1353 that being said South Park proved that Simpsons was lazy in that respect, there was never a reason to keep Jimbo and Nelson mean especially after they’re shown to have sympathetic backgrounds
@@KBzDvSt Whenever something bad happens to a franchise, it's always toy manufacturers or advertisers faults
@@BierBart12 Don't forget corporate meddling.
"He's a loser! He's pathetic! He's... a Simpson."
Surprisingly wholesome.
Truly, just got to that part and it was epic
This has captured a very nostalgic feeling.
There's something comforting about watching the good old days of The Simpsons. Its refreshing.
It's surprising how long it takes Flanders to appear production wise. Making the Christmas episode the opener was by far the best choice they made, that episode establishes so many of the most important secondary characters. Another surprise is how long it takes Duffman to appear
13:56 that door simply disappeared lmao
@@EugeneOneguine bring it on.
And in the next shot it's here again, but closed.
@@PmerjYT Oh, I didn't even see you were named FBI agent hahaha, okay then, you're clear.
it went to the back rooms
Hahahahhaha
I like how it's almost just playing season 1 in whole. Every character is a recurring character.
Even Lady Gaga?
@John Case from season 1 he means
@@johncase1353 yes
@@johncase1353 She's from the season 23 finale
And then speed run of the later seasons
1:53 homer in the most gangster pose of his life
The way Homer stands in this picture is literally the most thug-gangster ass-shit like holy hell it's so badass
Also physically impossible to do.
Not to mention the way he turns off the tv holding the remote in a gangster grip.
This can’t be how the Simpsons looked back then.
Why is he in the backrooms btw
That first appearance of Krusty, knowing that he was supposed to be Homer, makes a lot of sense.
I'm surprised Duffman and Crazy cat lady appeared so late in the golden age of simpsons considering how iconic they are.
It’s mostly that in “the bronze age” (2000-movie times) they really liked using them over and over
3:57 "one of my fellow children" okay yeah. he was definitely always a 40 something y/o undercover cop. "one of my fellow children".
Thought the same thing instantly
2:03 Kind of weird to hear Bart call Homer "Dad" and Lisa call him by his first name when both would go on to do the opposite
Yeah...
Tbf she was mad at him
6:24 I kind of miss Otto’s old voice, it’s very clearly him but not cigarette chewing. I like how he has the same accent as Snake too lol
4:09 thats where that meme comes from..
Pathetic.
7:37 bart is tall as hell in this shot.
Black Smithers, Yellow Lou, Patty and Selma first appearing in a random crowd shot, Dolph and Jimbo have their voices sorta switched, Ralph who is actually competent, the fluctuating ethnicity of Judge Snyder, Dr Hibert before he laughed after every sentence.
I do love seeing them using the characters, even before they had them fleshed out. Seeing the characters grow and eventually fit into the moulds we all know them for.
yeah like I think disco stu was originally made just as a joke for that scene but they made him into a character
Waylon Smithers. Dude, what?
its mold not mould
@@AckzaTV I'm British. That's how we spell Mould. It's one of many small, weird linguistic differences.
@@ApetureTestSubject British just like wasting ink with unnecessary letters. And a weird fascination with inserting the letter u everywhere. 🙂
I think it's neat how perfect Helen Lovejoy's first scene introduces her character.
Unlike most of the cast, Helen is fully formed and all her famous traits are laid out front and center.
The 30 year rivalry between her and Marge always amuses me.
Introducing herself as the gossip is lampshading/intentionally hacky dialogue-as-exposition
I know right
“Goodbye, Helen!”
Watching the season one episodes is always like a sort of dream. The characters get refined to how we see them in their glory days, before going into the steep decline to where we are today. Especially Homer has a serious alteration in personality; starting off as a borderline depressed "average man" to a loveable oaf a season later. Bart's descent into deliquency gets toned down and Marge develops more of a personality instead of being a background character.
Ralph Wiggum actually acts like a regular kid.
It's also the only one of three episodes that have a dub in my language, later on we have an lector
Even the production aspects are different in s1. The ackground sets all have a weird gradient and the characters are more exaggerated(lots of wild take and they didn't figure out the skintones yet so some people are blue)
Then Homer just becomes a idiot, Lisa became the most annoying Simpson, Bart became a boring character and Marge returned to being a background character.
Yeah the show today is a dystopian fever dream
Those first shorts. Incredible.
“Umm dad? What is the mind? Is it just a system of impulses or is it something more tangible?” 😂 I love that Bart was so articulate!
Much more similar to Groening’s original “___ is hell” comic series
@@matthewbartlett3442 Yeah, Bart is basically Bongo the rabbit there. 😆
anyone know any novels or something that revolves around the mystery of the mind?
To everyone commenting about characters appearing in the Christmas Special or wherever: The episodes are listed in order of production, not by airdate!!
2:34 I remember in the Simpsons: Road Rage game, when you were selecting Bart in the character menu, he would say this
Nostalgic gaming times I would say.
Well that’s cause it’s one of his catchphrases. He says it a lot in the show.
I love how smooth the sound effects are, it's really satisfying
Interesting that Burns's first scene introduces the long-standing trend where he asks Smithers who that man is (Homer Simpson). That also makes it by far the longest-standing reason for a grudge anyone has against Burns when it came to potential motives for his attempted murder later on.
What about Abe and the tonteen?
@@mr.mister39601. It’s spelled tontine
2. They were referring to longest in the context of the show, not the Simpsons timeline
Simpson, eh?
It's weirdly sweet that the first glimpse of the simpsons was just the main five, with Marge singing Maggie to sleep.
Love how Patty and Selma went completely unchanged in their designs from their first appearances.
9:42 Nelson's friend watched his nosebleed even when he's not facing him xD
Damn after you pointed it out, I thought it was Bart who told Nelson that his nose was bleeding.
Homer’s voice was different back then, but somehow his laugh sounds EXACTLY the same.
Dan Castellaneta based homer's voice after Walter Matthau
@@GMANKOOL23 I've always thought it was funny how the only reason Castellaneta even thought of Walter Matthau at all was seeing a sketch of Homer for the first time and noticing the huge upper lip. That's pretty much the only reason Matthau's voice occurred to him. 😄
@@Marbles471 Wow , that's interesting . I never would have thought
@@GMANKOOL23 According to him he had to loosen that because it was VERY DIFFICULT TO YELL IN THAT ORIGINAL VOICE.
I like this older stuff. New cartoons are so overly polished and formalized. This is so expressive and warm.
Homer's voice being different whenever he's talking and the same as today when he laughs made me think it was a ytp for a solid second💀💀
Thank you for making this video! I see way too many people simply reposting clips from the show, while this is really interesting and unique!
8:14 holy shit the extra that hands the paper to Lisa looks like he grew up in a nuclear waste dump
He does
Yeah not all early backround characters were made equal
That's season 1 for you lol
The one behind him looks like an alien
Trab Nospmis
it's nice to see how abe simpson retained his appearance from the shorts. The rest of the characters had their body size, shape, design and proportions altered drastically in some manner or another.
Hello yuki.
same as nelson
28:50 I never realised til now the exact same introduction between Bart and Seymour with Homer and Dondelinger, that's a cute callback to the Simpson family's inherent problems with authority.
The really old Simpsons feels like something you'd stumble upon when browsing really (10+ years) old TH-cam videos
8:44 I remember reading about this, when the Simpsons first started up they had limited colours to work with and also didn’t really know which colours would stick, which is why Smithers is black here but later changes to yellow when the style was established
“What’s the password?”
“LET ME IN YOU IDIOT!!!!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember from S01 E05
Right you are.
Incorrect, the password is “URINE43-YCOPUI”
The old Simpsons was genuinely incredible.
It's crazy how almost every scene here is a classic
Uh, after the first couple seasons..
@@Norsilca The first couple of seasons were great as well.
@@npche9865 Well that's where you and I differ, for sure. So interesting when people like the first couple seasons. Pretty hard for me to understand.
@@Norsilca Better than the shit they're putting out now but of course the first two aren't as good as some of the ones after.
I saw you chasing Bart's ambulance. Such a simple yet brilliant joke
Characteristics of the Tracy Ullman shorts arguably remained in the show for about the first four seasons, albeit gradually fading out. Homer still has very vague traces of his Walter Matthau voice a few seasons in, the animation style remains somewhat goofy, there's generally more focus on the immediate Simpson family etc.
18:50 THE WAY HIS EYES DILATE LMAO
18:56
4:09 I didn't even know that meme frame was that old, I always thought it was from a newer season.
season 1 is such a different vibe compared to later seasons.
Facts
Tends to be a thing with most shows
@@Izzy-dg5zv It tends to be something people always bring up too.
@@Izzy-dg5zv yep
I personally enjoy it. Some of the episodes like "life on the fast lane" really hold up well even to this day
1:53 why is there like 5 different room dividers in the background when homer shows up
18:24 Sideshow Bob’s first non-speaking appearance is actually in the Telltale head. He looks super weird in it.
8:21 what the hell is that thing sat next to Lisa ?
Thats graggle's first apperance, he did look weird back then
something you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley
Chernobyl Hugo Simpson
It's Barts long lost twin.
Her name is Marge
27:45
That's one of my favorite jokes. The waiter basically said that the giant squid killed all the fishermen that would usually get it.
The subtly is perfect!
*zoidberg:* "bring me one of your young on a roll"
*server:* "... we're outta rolls"
just reminded me of that joke lol
47:44 Sarahs first speaking appearance was in Homers barbershop quartet when she says Clancay use the remote
2:00
Homer doing actual parenting things like preventing his kids from watching violent TV is proof that we are indeed in a strange universe.
I find it funny that Homer always kept the same laugh with his different voice
43:31 Well Seymour, I made it. Despite your directions.
The children wrote the directions for you.
@@nousukas It's always the children's fault isn't it Seymour
Superintendent Chalmers! I hope you’re prepared for an unforgettable luncheon
I love how many super close ups on faces early Simpsons had
That’s mostly due to the hideous cropping that they had done a few years ago to convert the episodes to “widescreen”.
43:23 I didn't know Chalmers debuted so late
He finally made it, despite Seymour's directions
@@AmyElnah he better be ready for an unforgettable luncheon
Unfortunately Seymour’s roast is ruined!
@@BRowserFilms17 But what if, he decided to purchase fast food and disguise it as his own cooking?
And he didn’t yell SKINNER!! 😔
When I was young, I took the "you're a pig, Homer. We're all pigs." to be literal. So i thought the Simpsons characters were anthropomorphic pigs .
8:13 that guy next to Lisa is the weirdest background character I’ve ever seen
The personality shifts and character focuses are so surreal. I never remember wendel getting any lines of screentime outside small gags like vomiting in background or hurting arm on the trampoline episode.
Like the characters who in my memory of "modern" (circa late 90's) simpsons were mostly background characters or filler actually had roles in the early episodes.
Its weird after decades they never really bothered to revisit them. When has Wendel or the Twin girls ever actually been used for more than a short gag
Matt Groening said there were to many characters and everyone more so the kids just blended together so he wanted to focus on certain ones. That's why Bart went from having several close friends to him just being best friends with Milhouse because Milhouse was the more interesting character.
Same thing happened with Peanuts after the 1950s/60s. What happened to Sherman, Patty, Violet, etc.
Bart: Aaaw, dad!
Lisa: Come on, Homer!
Anyone else find it weird to hear Lisa call Homer by his name and Bart call Homer "Dad"?
Nope it how itwas back then
Yeah
That was a twist
Lisa never calls Homer by Homer, except this time
XDD
2:01
It’s weirder that in Bart’s first appearance he’s asking Homer philosophical questions about the mind when that seems way more like something Lisa would think about, Bart really isn’t intellectual enough to have interest in those types of questions
@@ChaosRocket Yes,it was so off.
Sarah Wiggum's first speaking line was in season 5 ep 1: Homer's Barbershop Quartet
and Sideshow Bob's first appearance was in season 1: The Telltale Head
I forgot how good the old episodes were, so many memories, these were super funny and unique back then!
38:12 lol love how theyre all catchphrase names, I wouldnt have gotten that when I was younger
Millhouse made his first appearance in a butterfingers commercial
It's very interesting to see that they managed to get 3 seasons of shorts with the Tracy Ullman show without any introduction of side characters (besides Grandpa) sticking until they actually had a full show.
Technically burns made his first appearance in the first episode also anybody notice how different he sounds
Well it was a different actor who did the voice.
@@YRFKDM8 no it was always hank azaria
@@Dracovenatrix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Collins
@@YRFKDM8 now that i think about it that makes sense a lot of Characters in the first and early seasons sound different
@@Dracovenatrix Chris Latta (Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe/Starscream from Transformers) did the voice of Mr. Burns and Moe for Season 1, but Hank Azaria dubbed over Moe's lines when he joined the show mid production, making Chris Latta's performance for Moe essentially lost media because his Moe voice never resurfaced over the 30 years these episodes has been out.
Also Harry Shearer was the long-running replacement for Mr. Burns after Latta left, not Azaria.
Smithers pulled a Michael Jackson
True
he did lol
What a nice job man, congratulations this is fantastic!
Idk why I always loved the line "you made me bleed my own blood"
5:35 Homer is a based father ngl
3:41 why could've they NOT used that burp??? sounds so much more grotesque i like it
14:33 UH! UH! UH! UH! UH!
i really like how grounded season one is, the traits and voices are much more restrained- feels like real life
I used to have a VHS tape with the early Christmas episodes and I remember watching it during December every year when I was young. The nostalgia is hittinggggg
They should have done more with Lewis and Richard, they used to be Bart’s best friends, especially Lewis.
It was because Matt Groening said there was starting to be to many characters and it was becoming a challenge for the voice actors to remember how they all sounded. They went with Milhouse being Barts best friend because his personal was opposite of Bart and overall a more interesting character.
@@johncase1353 but Lewis has a new permanent voice actor so I don’t see why Matt Groening could not add him back in. But I guess he kind of did with the one where Bart becomes a caddy.
Edit: in the second most recent episode that recently came out, his grandfather had a line.
@@bobcatthesandwing2403 Matt Groening hasn’t worked on the show in any serious capacity in decades, and they haven’t done anything with him because there’s nothing worth doing with him that they couldn’t do with one of the other kids
@@bobcatthesandwing2403Holy shit you actually watch the new seasons? Why???
@@gdawgs101 because I am hoping one day that the new set of directors will be at least decent and the episodes will become fresh once again.
I love how the doorway in the Itchy and Scratchy one is just a bizarre maze
Homer's line about "what is mind?" made me black out.
20:53 that sudden raise in voice was such a jumpscare
SEMVEN
I’m glad you included Shana in here. While rewatching I was surprised that she wasn’t around until the 20th season, and it’s not revealed that she’s Chalmers’ daughter until much later.
Though "Whacking Day" isn't a top-tier episode or anything, it's incredible how well they got the Skinner/Chalmers dynamic in Chalmers' first appearance.
well seymour I made it, dispite your directions...
Herman Hermann’s advice to keep your hand inside the bus window has stuck with me my whole childhood and subsequent adulthood.
Me too, I've never forgotten that scene since the first time I saw it as a child
Season 1 - 3 Simpsons had a strange comfort to it. It was genuinely harmless television.
It wasn't considered harmless at the time
It was more like koth and less competing with family guy to be moronic. If they tried to make Homer off himself now it would definitely be pushed hard as a crude joke like they do with Moe.
harmless by today's standards; the simpsons was very controversial when it came out. but i get what you say, the episodes felt cozier and the humor was lowkey.
4:09 Skinner's first appearance became a meme, the internet sure loves this character
I love seeing this before any possible flanderization
S1 E3 had not yet introduced the recurring Waylon Smithers but rather a guest, Black Smithers. E4 did something similar where White Lou was a guest before Lou himself became the recurring role.
I never realized how it took 20 seasons for Shauna to first appear, but it also makes sense because i can't imagine her in earlier seasons
2:33 “I’m Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?” That got me 😂
I feel like character designs in the Simpsons became very uniform over time, with the strict style guides and such. I appreciate the way more freeform character designs of this era.
0:45 Love the way they show Maggie's anxiety through faster sucking and her eyes.
edits:
15:30 haha
25:25 this hits different in the 2020s...
@@vceisdeadpeople making money with stuff like the Sssniperwolf and Jacksfilms thing
"Hey it's Duffman.. a guy in a costume that creates awareness of Duff"