that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some senses was inspired by not necessarily a hatred of television but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. - tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. - [laughing] you stupid - d oh! -
- don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you. - in five, four, three, two. - tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. - there s a lot of things that we do that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some
sitcom the simpsons. they play the simpsons theme and she finally got to play at the met gala with one of her heroes, nicknamed the man with the golden flute, sirjames galway. he might be seven decades older than these students, but they were delighted with his message. hello! i m james galway, he plays hello! i m james galway, and i ve been playing the flute since i was nine years old. and i hope you re going to enjoy it as much as i do. that sjust for you guys, yeah. lizzo sounds like me, because she listened to me every day playing the flute on cd, and i did the same when i was a kid. i listened tojean pierre rampal and marcel moyse and all these
- ohh, ohh. you see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. - and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. [danny elfman s the simpsons theme ] [all screaming] - we were able to spoof fatherhood. - what a bad father. - which, at the time and i stress at the time was bill cosby as the shining example. - did you ever know that you re my hero? - the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father strangling the child. - why, you little [grunting] - [choking] - we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to make american families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. - huh? - we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992,