Since 2003, The Simpsons is the longest-running primetime animated series with fourteen seasons and counting. Not only does The Simpsons have nearly fifteen million fans in the United States, but the series is also watched by nearly sixty million people around the world. The show created a billion-dollar industry through the sale of toys, books, clothing and videos. Nielsen Media Research (NMR) has consistently ranked each season of The Simpsons among the top thirty primetime television programs of all genres. NMR also noted that men aged 18 to 49 are the show's main target audience. The New York Times Millennium Edition predicted that the show would still be popular in 2025. Although much of the general public were avid viewers, it took several years of programming for many political authorities, nuns and academics approve or approve of it. even take note of the series. Today, many powers that be believe that there is a moral and even religious lesson to be learned from each episode. During the show's first year, 1990, it was ridiculed and condemned across the country. In April 1990, Bart Simpson T-shirts were banned from Cambridge Elementary School in Orange County, California. Two months later, Mayor Sharpe James of Newark, New Jersey demanded that retail stores and street vendors stop selling the crude shirts. James was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: "Just when [the country's leaders] are trying to get our young people to develop their capabilities to the maximum, we get a t-shirt with a popular cartoon character saying that 'he is proud. be an underachiever” (James). JC-Penny department stores nationwide stopped selling the shirts. The country's leaders began joining this movement at a time when they considered that the morals and values ​​of Western civilization were beginning to deteriorate due to violent video games and sinister rock music from groups such as Marilyn Manson. President George HW Bush and his wife Barbara were disgusted by the series in 1992. Because of this original hatred on the part of many right-wing leaders and public voices, many parents banned their children from watching and not take an interest in it themselves. important in American churches. The pastor of Illinois' Willow Creek Community Church created a sermon titled "What Jesus Would Say to Bart Simpson," expressing his disgust with the show..