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

画片当时最合理的产品。每个画的制作费用大概八千到一万两千美元。

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

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.

我们还将讨论美国最著名的一些画片：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.

美国这里非常流行，星期六早上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， 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网络（制作节目的人）合作的合同， 制作这部他称之为辛普森一家的画系列。