Been on so long that the early seasons are genuinely funnier than most actual comedies that tried.
Fun fact: Matt Groening named Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie after his own parents and sisters.
Five minutes of plot spread across twelve episodes, but you watched every single one anyway.
Fun fact: The iconic "over 9,000" line is a mistranslation — in the original Japanese, Vegeta says 8,000.