It's not a strictly American show. Almost all of the gags work internationally, which is great. If there are gags that only work for Americans, they are probably few and far between or just not very noticeable... which to me says that the writers are very good at what they do. In the case of the Simpsons, funny is just funny. A lot of American shows translate very well to the rest of the world when it comes to comedy. Now that I think about it, I wonder why many American stand-up comedians don't translate nearly as well as the comedy TV shows? Huh. Oh well.

Ditto Murd, I'm proud to be part of the Simpsons generation. It is a great achievement that it's still running, although sometimes a TV show needs to know when to quit and many will say that the Simpsons is just now living off past glories rather than continuing to shine. I think a good example of knowing when to quit would be that of Friends, which for me was on the wane when it stopped, still managed to have a proper finish to the series and didn't get to the point where I felt it wasn't worth keeping up with anymore. But obviously The Simpsons and Friends are two very different shows, so yeah. I would say it's safe to say that The Simpsons will not be overtaken when it comes to the length of it's success throughout the world. At least not anytime soon.