we're both listening to a lot of beatles right now, specifically abbey road.

i just see all of the cartoons since (south park, family guy, futurama, etc.) as being HEAVILY influenced by the simpsons, to the point that they wouldn't have existed without the simpsons, or at least wouldn't have been able to get away with the stuff they did. even if they had better individual seasons, i don't think their stretches of greatness were as long as the simpsons'.