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Before they starred in the longest-running animated show in US history. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie were the subjects of these shorts.
1987
Homer and Marge say goodnight to the kids, but their remarks end up giving Bart, Lisa and Maggie nightmares, and all three wind up in their parents' bed.
Bart and Lisa constantly fight over what to watch, until they find one thing they agree on: stopping Maggie from changing the channel.
Homer has Bart jump off a table into his arms. Each time Bart jumps, Homer gets distracted and fails to catch him.
Marge puts Bart and Lisa in charge of babysitting Maggie, but they end up ignoring her completely.
Bart and Lisa take Maggie's pacifier away to stop her from sucking on it, but she refuses to kick the habit. They eventually learn it is easier to join in than to fight it.
Bart and Lisa compete over who can produce the most disgusting burp while Maggie watches. Marge objects several times to no avail, and Homer simply joins in.
Marge makes dinner and insists the family use proper table manners, but their crude eating habits prove impossible to correct.
1987
Marge warns Bart, Lisa and Maggie that if they make scary faces they will freeze that way forever. The kids ignore her until Marge scares them with a mirror, pretending their faces have actually frozen.
The family attends the funeral of Uncle Hubert. Bart proves so disruptive that Homer swears never to take the kids to another funeral. First segment to feature characters outside the Simpson family.
Bart and Lisa wonder what goes on inside Maggie's mind. In her imagination she is a giant, tickling baby-sized versions of her siblings.
Homer promises the kids chocolate milkshakes if Bart can catch one of his long passes. Bart finally catches it with his mouth, but then cannot drink his reward.
Bart tries to build a house of cards, but Lisa and Maggie keep making noises that knock it down every time.
Marge takes the girls to the ballet, leaving Homer in charge of dinner. Bart cannot stomach the mix of fish nuggets and pork-a-roni he is forced to eat.
Bart, Lisa and Maggie play a game of Space Patrol while their parents are out. Bart gets his head stuck in a jug and Lisa frees him with a croquet mallet.
The barber shaves Bart's head completely. He tries to hide it with glue, his old hair and a paper bag, but the family cannot keep from laughing when they see him.
Homer wakes the family in the middle of the night claiming World War III has begun, to test their readiness. After several drills, the exhausted family tricks him into the shelter and locks him in.
When Marge bakes a batch of chocolate chip cookies, Bart becomes obsessed with stealing them all without being caught. A trail of crumbs leads his parents straight to him.
Bart tells Lisa and Maggie a series of stories in the dark, only to start believing they are coming true. All three scream when Homer and Marge walk in.
Grampa tells the kids stories from his heyday. When they stop listening, he fakes his own death to recapture their attention. First appearance of Grampa Simpson.
Bart and Homer go on a fishing trip. Bart forgot the baloney for the sandwiches and uses the bait instead. Once on the water they hit the rapids and go over a waterfall.
Bart teaches his sisters how to skateboard, but they outdo him every time he tries to show off.
On the way to church the kids declare themselves pagans. When the car breaks down they start acting like them, and an enraged Homer chases them into a church.
Fearing chores, Bart hides in a closet and accidentally locks himself in. He finally breaks the door down, only to find a note saying the family left for milkshakes.
Homer takes the kids to the aquarium. Bart finds his way into the shark tank and refuses to come out, claiming it is safer than facing his father.
Homer struggles to take a decent family photo. Every time they come close to a good shot, the family sabotages it. First appearance of Homer grabbing Bart with "Why you little...".
Lisa and Maggie try to cure Bart's hiccups using rather unorthodox methods.
Marge warns the kids not to steal from the money jar. Bart's conscience encourages him to help himself, only to find the jar holds a single dollar.
The Simpsons visit an art museum. Bart and Lisa fail to appreciate the art, and Bart decides to become a collector by stealing a piece. First time Bart says "Ay, caramba!" and "Don't have a cow, man."
Homer mocks a family of chimpanzees at the zoo without noticing how much they resemble his own. On the ride home they discover Bart has swapped places with his simian lookalike.
1988
Maggie squeaks her toy, setting off a chain reaction of anger through the family. Bart tries to make everyone make up, then ruins it by insulting Homer.
Bart tries to hide a stolen cookie by distracting his parents with a shell game. His plan seems to work, until Maggie eats the cookie she had hidden in her mouth.
Forbidden from watching Itchy & Scratchy, Bart puts on his own show by taking the TV apart to appear on screen. First appearance of Itchy and Scratchy.
The kids take out their anger on a punching bag with Homer's face drawn on it. When he tries to stop them, he is knocked out by the bag. First time Homer says "D'oh!".
Bart narrates a chaotic Christmas with the Simpson family, in the style of The Night Before Christmas.
The kids get to see Krusty the Clown live for the first time. Bart believes Krusty is an impostor and exposes him on television.
Sent out to exercise, Bart unintentionally stops a burglar robbing a candy store and is rewarded, though all he wanted were candy bars.
Ordered to clean his room, Bart makes his sisters do the work while telling a story about a world where giant kids order their tiny parents around.
Bart convinces his sisters to watch a horror film instead of a children's movie, then ends up terrified when one of the space mutants looks just like him.
Homer and Marge try hypnotism to tame the kids, who pretend to become mindless zombies until Bart hits his father with a toy ball.
Bart steals chocolate bars from the supermarket and is caught by security. On the ride home he is rude about it, so Homer loses his temper and makes him walk.
The family drives to Echo Canyon and take turns making echoes. Bart is so disruptive he nearly crushes the car with a boulder, sending Homer after him.
Homer forces Bart to take his Sunday night bath, but Bart floods the bathroom after leaving the water running. Homer chases him through the house.
After eating every cookie in the jar, Bart has a nightmare where he is an inch tall and nearly crushed by giant cookies in the kitchen.
The kids swing from the trees using Homer's neckties. Angered, Homer ends up caught in their trap and they refuse to let him down.
Homer takes the family to a psychologist because they can no longer laugh. The chaos they cause drives the therapist over the edge, which turns out to be exactly the cure they needed.
After Maggie accidentally kicks her ball into Bart's face, he kicks it out of sight and she takes off after it, ending up caught on a branch. To be continued.
Maggie floats through the air hanging from balloons and lands safely back in her playpen, to the family's relief.
A kite gets stuck on the TV antenna and Homer climbs onto the roof to free it. He shreds it in a rage and falls off, while the kids watch cartoons unaware. The final Simpsons short.
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Dan Castellaneta
Homer / Grandpa
Julie Kavner
Marge
Nancy Cartwright
Bart
Yeardley Smith
Lisa