But the interesting thing is that, if you're looking at "The Simpsons ," and if you look at it now and you spot a mathematical reference-- now, you know,
But the one that really caught my eye-- and this is the episode, I think, that really got me interested in all of this mathematics in "The Simpsons ."
Could "The Simpsons " have been something?
produces "The Simpsons ," called "The Critic."
Before Heroes, he studies another hit show, The Simpsons .
on The Simpsons , didn't you? I was on The Simpsons .
Just like the meme of "The Simpsons " did it first, you consider all the features we know and love in our communication apps,
So you grow the barley, and then you have to send it off to the malting facility, and this was-- I went to the Simpsons malting facility right outside
He was mentioned in "The Simpsons ."
Does anyone watch "The Simpsons "?
Some of "The Simpsons " that I've done, the whole thing was improv'ed.
It was in "The Simpsons ."
So this is the book-- "The Simpsons And Their Mathematical Secrets."
They joined "The Simpsons " They worked on that very first episode of "The Simpsons " and even in that very first episode you get mathematics,
Fox could see that "The Simpsons " was a huge success and they asked Matt Groening to come up with something else.
I called the book "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets," but it's never been a secret.
Seeing how popular "The Simpsons " is.
And I resent "The Simpsons " for robbing me of that experience.
quality of the animation has to be higher than "The Simpsons ."
She wrote the first episode of "The Simpsons ." She wrote the first episode of "The Simpsons ."
I want to be like the Simpsons of mockumentary comedy.
This really makes the point better than I possibly can, so I'm gonna turn the talk over to the Simpsons .
when I was not allowed to watch "The Simpsons " or "90210."
He had been a writer for "The Simpsons " and "Saturday Night Live."
I call dogs little horses because of the Simpsons , and so obviously then horses would be big dogs.
So there is "Mary Poppins," "The Simpsons ," well, at least Ned Flanders, my favorite "Simpson's" character, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,"
And whenever I talk about "The Simpsons " and I say to people there's tons of maths hidden in "The Simpsons ," people are always shocked and surprised.
There are lots of writers on "The Simpsons " who studied mathematics to degree level, to master's level, to PhD level.
But when this first appeared on the Simpsons , nobody had heard of a googol.
I say probably Mike because the writing process on "The Simpsons " is very collaborative, and we're going back 20 years now,
It's easy to think that the math in the Simpsons is going to be linked to Lisa, it's going to be linked to Professor Frink,
There's so much in "The Simpsons " that you could write a whole book about it, in fact.
So rather than go on about "The Simpsons " further, I did want to talk about "Futurama," because "Futurama" is the sister series of "The Simpsons "
He's put mathematics into "The Simpsons " and he's going to put mathematics into "Futurama" as well.
We did write an episode of "The Simpsons ."
And Jim and I worked on "The Simpsons " together for
He also taught a class on the Simpsons and Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Ayelet: I mean I think "The Simpsons " is the national treasure too, but do I feel like
blah blah but fact is that The Simpsons was nothing but love for Humanity as a whole like and and I think that that's you know also going back to what we were
Um The Simpsons and Friends, these were all multi-million dollars per episode.
There's always that joke-- there's that joke in The Simpsons .
And similarly, the Himba, when they hear British people making celebratory noises like, woohoo-- which I think we got from "The Simpsons --"
maybe I will re-watch all 7,000 episodes of the Simpsons .
So they are "The Simpsons " clouds.
A vegan-- Sam Simon, the co-founder of "The Simpsons " told me that-- I don't know if it's true or not.
So I like to think of myself like "The Simpsons " in that way.
and it has just as much mathematics as "The Simpsons ."
It was quite important not to poach writers from "The Simpsons ," so new writers came on board.
And then, why "The Simpsons " and why "Futurama"-- I have a chapter in the book about why
Tracey Ullman shorts, "The Simpsons " shorts that they did for TV, they're going to make a series out of it.