The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 14 天前So much less refinedmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down11
arrow-up1212arrow-down1imageSo much less refinedmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 14 天前message-square13linkfedilink
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 天前Yeah, they would air shorts that slowly played out what amounted to a single episode.
minus-squarespankinspinach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 天前Oh cool! Kind of like the idea of a serial (in newspapers where they’d do a chapter of a book a week or whatever)?
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 天前Yeah, like that. That’s also how they would run serial shows at movie theaters before TV. Simpsons only got one story before it became it’s own thing, though.
minus-squarespankinspinach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 天前Awesome! Thank you for letting me know, I knew the early history was a touch more convoluted than I anticipated but this closes the loop :)
Yeah, they would air shorts that slowly played out what amounted to a single episode.
Oh cool! Kind of like the idea of a serial (in newspapers where they’d do a chapter of a book a week or whatever)?
Yeah, like that. That’s also how they would run serial shows at movie theaters before TV.
Simpsons only got one story before it became it’s own thing, though.
Awesome! Thank you for letting me know, I knew the early history was a touch more convoluted than I anticipated but this closes the loop :)