Ghosts Of The Intraweb . . .
Oh, the joys of the Information Superhighway. While surfing the other day, I found a reference to a little-known, never-seen, lost Simpsons Pilot. According to the site, the animated family we all know and love had a much different genesis than the one first viewed on the Tracey Ullman show. For starters, the family was much smaller than the current version. There were Homer, Marge and Lisa; that was all. No Bart. No Maggie. No Snowball Number Two, although Santa’s Little Helper was present and accounted for. The neighborhood was different too. Rather than a population of quirky Springfield residents, the Simpsons were surround by an eclectic –yet totally normal- mix of families. Fathers, mothers, singles and children. No Flanders. No Wiggums. Not even a Milhouse (which makes sense since there wasn’t a Bart). In the original version, the Simpsons were the anomaly, the...