The Simpsons Season 36 premiere, “Bart’s Birthday,” saw an artificial intelligence compiling all the episodes of the animated sitcom, and all of the famous series finales in TV history, to come up ...

CNN — (CNN) — Times really have changed. Homer Simpson has, according to the animated character, stopped strangling his son Bart – bringing to an end a long-running (and outdated) gag on the show.

During The Simpsons’s early seasons, Bart was a national obsession, a flash point in broader cultural conversations about changing family dynamics, educational standards, and the evolving television ...