The simpsons vrs other cartoons (official simpsons thread)

[MacGuffin]

which episode is this brilliant clip taken from? thanks.

So It Has Come To This: The Simpsons Clip Show

[mogwai]

which episode is this brilliant clip taken from? thanks.

So It Has Come To This: The Simpsons Clip Show

my bad, which season is it from?

[hedwig]

season 4.

[mogwai]

thanks y'all.

[MacGuffin]

[Pubrick]

that's it ppl. the last season you'll ever need to buy.

[cron]

blame it on whatever, but i enjoyed most of the last season.  could it be a 9 season cycle between good seasons and bad seasons?

[MacGuffin]

The Future of The Simpsons?
Source: ComingSoon

Next Friday, the beloved cartoon family The Simpsons will be coming to the big screen in The Simpsons Movie and ComingSoon.net had a chance to attend a small press conference with the creators, where they told us a bit more of what to expect on the show's next season and the ubiquitous question of a sequel.

"This coming season on the TV show, which is in the works, is just about our most ambitious yet," "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening admitted, before passing the baton to producer Al Jean, the current showrunner, for a brief preview.

"Yeah, the premiere is September 23rd," Jean told us, "Stephen Colbert plays a life coach that Homer gets because he wants to turn his life around and he's great, the next week we have a show that has Placido Domingo and Maya Rudolph as guest stars, where Homer becomes an opera star, and he has these groupies who are these middle-aged matrons that chase him around and Marge is really jealous. We also have Jon Stewart coming up later in a political show where they move Springfield's primary to first in the nation and the candidates come and invade the town and the town is so disgusted, they all write in 'Ralph Wiggum' so we're actually trying to start a 'Ralph for President' boom in 2008."

Jean also told us that there would be a "couch gag" at the beginning of the first episode of the new season that refers back to what happens in the movie. "The key to the show is that each episode sort of goes back to Square One, it's like a cosmic Moebius Strip, so the movie will work its way into the show, but you don't have to have seen the movie to like the show."

Having just finished the movie after working on it for four years, it was probably way too early to say whether or not they'd want to make a sequel to the movie, even though it's likely to make a bucketload of money next weekend.

"We've finished the movie so recently," series creator James L. Brooks concurred. "As you know, we have a joke about it."

Al Jean took the more serious approach to the question: "I would think too that it would be the same role of this movie in that we'd do a sequel if we had a great story, and we wouldn't do it just to do a sequel. You see movies that come out where you're like 'Why did they do another one? I loved the first one so much.'"

Groening got the last word on the sequel question with, "So what we're saying is 18 years from now."

Matt Groening also briefly spoke about his other series "Futurama" which will be returning in a big way later this year. "We're doing four straight-to-DVD 'Futurama' movies and then new episodes on Comedy Central starting in 2008. The first DVD for 'Futurama' will be out for the holidays."

[matt35mm]

"... the next week we have a show that has Placido Domingo and Maya Rudolph as guest stars, where Homer becomes an opera star, and he has these groupies who are these middle-aged matrons that chase him around and Marge is really jealous. We also have Jon Stewart coming up later in a political show where they move Springfield's primary to first in the nation and the candidates come and invade the town and the town is so disgusted, they all write in 'Ralph Wiggum' so we're actually trying to start a 'Ralph for President' boom in 2008."

Yeah see no.

[cron]

enjoy!
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/09/22/simpsons-scenes-and-their-reference-movies/

by the way i thought the season premiere was very funny and sweet, except for that horrible stupid ending . and the itchy and scratchy part was brilliant

[The Sheriff]

so matt groening and the simpson team are... TARANTINO

[cinemanarchist]

The episode that aired last night was entitled "Any Given Sundance" and it involved Lisa making a documentary that gets accepted at the Sundance film festival. Not a great episode by any means but worth it for Nelson's film which owes more than a little (including it's final image) to M. Truffaut. Oh and you've also got Skinner and Chalmers forming Chalmskin Productions to finance these films.


Yes, that is Jarmusch and John C. Reilly!

[MacGuffin]

'Simpsons' voice actors reach deal
Top actors will get nearly $400,000 per episode
Source: Hollywood Reporter

The standoff between "The Simpsons" voice cast and series producer 20th Century Fox TV is over.

After months of negotiations, the cast of Fox's long-running animated series reached a new four-year deal with the studio during the weekend.

Under the pact, the top actors will be paid nearly $400,000 per episode. While this is lower than the reported $500,000 the cast originally sought, it remains a significant increase from their current paychecks of about $300,000 an episode.

Additionally, Dan Castellaneta, who voices Homer Simpson and has penned several "Simpsons" episodes over the years, is being named a consulting producer.

Castellaneta and most of the other key "Simpsons" voice players -- Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Hank Azaria (Moe) -- are slated to begin work on the upcoming 20th season today with a table read.

As of Monday, the status of Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns and Ned Flanders, among other characters, was unclear. Because of a last-minute snag, his deal did not close with the other cast members', and it was not clear if he would show up for today's table read.

As a result from the drawn-out contract negotiations, the upcoming season of "The Simpsons" has been reduced from 22 to 20 episodes. While the deal makes the voice cast available for four more seasons, Fox has yet to order the animated comedy beyond season No. 20.

The "Simpsons" cast and 20th TV have been down this road before. Most recently in 2004, the actors held up production of the 16th season by skipping two table reads during the renegotiations that ultimately resulted in the cast members more than doubling their previous salary.

[Pas]

Holy shit you guys see last night's ep in HD, it was pretty fucking sweet. It almost did not feel like the Simpsons. I have a link for a dload in 720p if you have a rapidshare account.

[Ravi]

HD won't make it suck less.