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With its twenty-first season (2009–10), the series surpassed Gunsmoke with 20 seasons to claim the spot as the longest-running American prime-time scripted television series, and later also surpassed Gunsmoke which had 635 episodes starting with the twenty-ninth season episode "Forgive and Regret" on April 29, 2018. It is the longest-running prime-time animated series and longest-running sitcom in the United States. The show holds several American television longevity records. Since its debut on December 17, 1989, The Simpsons has broadcast 716 episodes, as of December 19, 2021. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime-time hit show. The shorts became part of the Fox series The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. Groening named each character (other than Bart) after members of his own family. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a pitch for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Set in the town of Springfield, the show lampoons both American culture and the human condition. It is a satirical depiction of a dysfunctional middle-class American lifestyle starring the eponymous family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.