Matt Groening's subversive, animated satire about Springfield's hapless first family became a cult favorite when it premiered on Fox in 1989 after first being seen in 1987 as a short on 'The Tracey Ullman Show.' That was then; now it's TV longest running comedy. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Three heirs to their father's fortune stand to make millions if they can adhere to his will, complete a series of unusual challenges and learn to act as a loving family again.
Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she's his wife, and at just 32, he's somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be responsible and his desperate desire to be irresponsible. His judgmental father Walt and devil-may-care brother Eddie are no help at all. When they all get together, stories always start to fly. Of course, Sean's family will never let him finish a story; they interrupt, they debate, they derail, they defend themselves; just like any good family would.
Carl, a successful Wall Street stockbroker, loses his job and his wife, and finds himself in Harlem, sharing a tenement apartment with his simple brother Simon. Just as Carl's situation couldn't get any worse, a stroke of luck lands Simon a high-paid position with a cable TV network, forcing Carl to come to terms with his brother's success.
Animated misadventures of two culturally and ethnically different families who live next door to each other in a southwest desert communit near the U.S.-Mexican border.
Two brothers, one a bachelor and undercover detective, the other a married rent-a-cop are reunited in Chicago. Things come easily to Damon Thomas, a clever, but incorrect undercover cop.