We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word “eighty”… A cartoon series even better than Steamboat Scratchy by Chester Lampwick debuted on the Fox Network on this very cold evening and its impression will last far longer than four years of McKinleynomics. Even if you’ve aged since Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire debuted on December 17th, 1989 and now look more like the Bart above than the Bart of every other episode since the late 80s, the humor is timeless.
Mostly. That variety show skit from the mid-90s was pretty dated to those of us who were barely older than Maggie after the characters originally debuted on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987.