In the Philippines, the Simpsons only ever aired on local TV in the 90s (and early 2000s I think?) on RPN 9 (the channel that I remember airing the sitcom Friends, Buffy the Vampire slayer and Ranma 1/2). After that, it was only available on Cable TV, which not everyone had, making it's impact not as big.
I caught it on Cartoon Network, and some cable channel I forgot.
Found a ton of these on a Cartoon Network Philippines producer's Vimeo channel. You can find them here: https://vimeo.com/user11589136A couple of these are f...
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SpongeBob on the other, in addition to airing on Nick SEA, was also constantly on local tv since 2001, jumping networks from RPN 9, ABC/TV5, Qtv 11 and then to ABS-CBN.