“The BBC said the only thing they didn’t like about the show was those weird little animated characters and suggested maybe they could get rid of them because they would never catch on.”

—  Tracey Ullman

Quoted in 2009 about The Simpsons shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/107675/Brit-comedienne-Tracey-Ullman-can-t-crack-the-UK

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