The Atlantic revels in America's longest running sitcom.
From the piece...
With 23rd season of The Simpsons premiering on Sunday, America's longest-running sitcom is still going strong. Despite the perennial complaints of declining quality, the Simpson family maintains a huge audience and the ability to attract new viewers, averaging 7.2 million viewers per episode during the 21st season. An all-Simpsons television channel is rumored to be in the works.
But beyond the series' longevity, The Simpsons has had a profound impact on American society, both as the forerunner for an entire generation of irreverent, animated satire (see Family Guy most prominently and, to an arguable extent, South Park) and as a unique form of cultural criticism. The world that extends around 748 Evergreen Terrace looks very much like our own: politicians, movie stars, artists, and other cultural figures (or at least their caricatures) inevitably find themselves in Springfield U.S.A.
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