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I just think they're neat!

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, they would air shorts that slowly played out what amounted to a single episode.

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh cool! Kind of like the idea of a serial (in newspapers where they'd do a chapter of a book a week or whatever)?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, like that. That's also how they would run serial shows at movie theaters before TV.

Simpsons only got one story before it became it's own thing, though.

Awesome! Thank you for letting me know, I knew the early history was a touch more convoluted than I anticipated but this closes the loop :)