The Simpsons are the most popular family in the world. Every week, many people all over the world stay at home to watch them on TV.

This is a cartoon family of five people: all of them have bad-looking yellow faces and big white eyes. The parents are Marge and Homer. Marge has blue hair. She loves her hair very much. She is always very kind to her family. Homer works in a factory and spends all his free time watching TV and eating donuts (炸面圈). He always eats with his mouth open and he is too fat.   

Bart is the oldest child. He always gets bad marks. He doesn’t like to do his homework and often makes his parents angry. He likes playing tricks (恶作剧) on his sister, Lisa. Lisa is a little younger than Bart and is always top of the class at school. She’s the smartest person in the family. Maggie is the youngest child. She can’t talk or walk but she’s always in a good mood (心情). She can only say one word: “Daddy”.

The Simpsons started in 1989 and it’s still very popular now. People of all ages like it because the Simpsons are like a real family. They aren’t perfect (完美的) or beautiful like a lot of families on TV.

My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watched it at night. She doesn’t remember ever watching it in the morning or afternoon. When I was young, we had only about 3 or 4 different channels. I think they were channel 3, 4, 6, and 9. My brothers and sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the same shows.

Nowadays we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t believe it! There are channels with only old movies, and channels with only cooking, and channels with only fishing. It’s amazing! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how much my brothers and sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set. These days I notice families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it stops people from arguing over which channel to choose from.