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

画片在当时是最合理的产。画的制作费用大概是八千到一万两千元。

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

但是在 1930 年代制作画片与今天制作画片截然不同。

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画片的热门时间。

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

我们还将讨最著名的一些画片：乐一通。

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

在这里非常流行，星期六早上在电视上为年幼的孩子播放画片。

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，在 80 年代， 他作为一名漫画家已经非常出名，最终他获得了一份与电视网络（制作电视节目的人）合作的合同， 制作这部他称之为辛普森一家的画系列。