from 1989 in the Fox television broadcast so far of the popular cartoon "The Simpsons " Renewal is the longest-lived American television history The comedy series . Since 1989 , "The Simpsons" won a total of 85 types of awards , 89 all kinds of nominations , including 23 Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe nomination . Has been aired 18 season , 19 season are hit . Hero of The Simpsons here savored monotonous without unusual life . Episode to the beginning of titles should describe the family members once the most popular bad boy - the eldest son Bart , this child is always getting himself into the episode titles are in their new "crimes " wrote on the blackboard . Already bald and potbellied good family man , father of the nuclear power field work the Hemo • Simpson thirties to power of one person to feed the whole family ; second daughter Lisa is all in the eyes of gifted girls , smart and understanding; hoarseness , keep Marge , the mother of ultra-high hair and always dangling from his pacifier little daughter Maggie . Each ending at the family rushed to the sofa to the collective appearance , and the shape of each episode is different . In the U.S., " The Simpsons" ( Hong Kong translation of " The Simpsons ") is the most popular TV cartoon . Springfield 's five home their absurd experiences irony of life and culture of contemporary American society . The most important figures of the image with the Simpsons TV series popularity to become a worldwide symbol of popular , and which naughty eldest son Bart Simpson has become a popular idol , "Time" magazine selected him as the 20th century, the entertainment industry "one.