Matt Groening won three Primetime Emmy Awards for The Simpsons.
 A team of production companies adapted The Simpsons into a half-hour series for the Fox Broadcasting Company
In 1995, Groening got into a major disagreement with Brooks and other Simpsons producers over "A Star Is Burns", a crossover episode with The Critic, an animated show also produced by Brooks and staffed with many former Simpsons crew members

