Day: August 12, 2010

Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user JS North.  (It was the first CC search result for “Ghost Mutt”.) “How ’bout . . . Ghost Mutt?” – Marge Simpson One of the things that set The Simpsons apart from everything else on television, and has since been imitated innumerable times, was the breadth of its supporting cast.  Right from the very first episode, when it introduced characters like Barney, Moe, and Flanders, the show went out of its way to take the family sitcom template out of the living room.  The depth and distinctiveness of the characters –…