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Good news, nerds—and we mean really serious, committed, supreme-o nerds: The Simpsons is now available in its original 4:3 aspect ratio on FXX's Simpsons World streaming app. Revered Simpsons showrunner Al Jean announced the switchover on Twitter late Thursday:
.@thesimpsons #EverySimpsonsEver The most important tweet I can make: 4:3 available on simpsons world! Seasons 1-7 now, rest soon thx FXX!
— Al Jean (@AlJean) February 13, 2015
If you're wondering why anyone cares about this sort of thing, hearken to the distant past of last August, when furious Simpsons obsessives clogged the Internet with missives protesting the vandalism of numerous visual gags that didn't play when the show's beloved early seasons were crammed into the now-ubiquitous letterbox format.
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