Franchise · Secondary · since 1989
The Simpsons
The golden-age seasons wrote half the jokes the internet still runs on. The family, the best of seasons three to nine, and the quotes that stopped being quotes and became vocabulary.
Mmm… donuts.Homer Simpson · every episode
Thirty-five years and eight hundred episodes, and it is still the show every other animated comedy is measured against. The golden age (roughly seasons three to nine) wrote a genuinely enormous share of the jokes the internet still runs on, and did it while being sincerely about a family that loves each other.
Pink frosting, rainbow sprinkles, and a man who would trade his soul for one. He did, actually, in Treehouse of Horror IV, and Marge got it back because she had it in a locket.
I will not waste chalk on a portfolio site
I will not waste chalk on a portfolio site
I will not waste chalk on a portfolio site
I will not waste chalk on a portfolio site
I will not waste chalk on a portfolio site
The chalkboard gag: written fresh most weeks, and cut for time when the episode runs long