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‘The Simpsons’ heads into its 14th year with no end in sight

Al Jean fondly recalls the moment he first realized that The Simpsons was more than just another animated television series. It was in 1989, the same year that Jean, now an executive producer of the show and its head writer, began work as one of the half-hour show’s original employees. Jean, who previously wrote for NBC’s Alf, a prime-time, live-action sitcom with a plush, child-friendly alien as its star, had his epiphany while admiring the plan laid out by Simpsons creators Matt Groening and James L.

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