Animated cartoons were about as reasonable as any at that time. They cost maybe $8,000 to $12,000 apiece.

片当时是最合理的产品。每个的制作费用大概是八千到万两千美元。

Saturday mornings are still a popular time for animated cartoons on television directed at children.

周六早上仍然是电视上针对儿童的片的热门时间。

But making an animated cartoon in the 1930s was very different than making one today.

但是 1930 年代制作片与今天制作片截然不同。

We're also going to talk about some of the most famous cartoons, animated cartoons, in the United States: Looney Tunes.

我们还将讨论美国最著名的些片：乐。

It's very popular here in the U.S. on Saturday mornings for there to be animated cartoons on television for young children.

美国这里非常流行，星期六早上电视上为年幼的孩子播放片。

So, he was already very well known as a cartoonist in the 1980s, and eventually he got a contract to work with a television network (someone who produces television shows) to do this animated cartoon series, which he called The Simpsons.

因此， 80 年代， 他作为名漫家已经非常出名，最终他获得了份与电视网络（制作电视节目的人）合作的合同， 制作这部他称之为辛普森家的系列。