This whole self-created fiscal cliff crisis is both complicated and simple at the same time: complicated in that it involves a whole slew of specific tax hikes and spending cuts that, if enacted, would have a huge effect on the economy, and simple in that it's just a bad thing that congress created in order to force themselves to actually do their jobs and they really hate that the time is now upon them to deal with it. Why stress about something you have no control over that'll almost definitely be taken care of in a satisfactory-enough manner when you can just have reliable old heartless billionaire Monty [...]
Vulture got writers for The Simpsons to pick their favorite obscure characters from the show. The choices range from fan favorites like Hank Scorpio and Bleeding Gums Murphy to some real deep cuts like Baron Von Kiss-a-lot and Just-Stamp-the-Ticket Man. The best thing about Simpsons writers is they tend to be the biggest Simpsons nerds of them all.
Robert Lopez, the Tony Award-winning songwriter of Avenue Q and Book of Mormon, has written an original song that will be used in the April 29th episode of The Simpsons. This comes almost nine years to day of the last time The Simpsons featured a completely new song that was not a parody (the last was during season 14's "Dude, Where's My Ranch?), which is pretty crazy, considering how big music was to the earlier seasons of the show. The song will be sung by guest-star Steve Coogan, who will play a cruise ship entertainment director who, "entertains the ship's passengers with a song that causes Bart to [...]
Last night, for the 22nd straight year, dating back to 1990, The Simpsons aired its annual Treehouse of Horror episode. The results were, well, a little underwhelming, as you'll soon see below. What's below, you may ask? Well, I've ranked all 66 segments from every Treehouse episode, including last night's, from worst to first, with a plot description, reason for said ranking, and a memorable quote. If you just want to read the quote part and look at the pretty pictures, I totally get that.
So, brew up a Skittlebrau using the candy you'd have otherwise used for trick or treaters, and let's do this.
It's pretty clear that the cast members want to keep their jobs on The Simpsons, and we know the producers are game. The big decision's all on you, Fox: do we get one more season, or two?
This story has everything: Cheers lore, Simpsons lore, some old gay the audience never heard of. But CONAN!!! Why didn't you have him do the "getting hit in the face with a rake" noise? It is every Simpsons fan's favorite Sideshow Bob quote. Below watch him talk briefly about Frasier. It's interesting if you imagine it's not Kelsey talking to David Hyde Pierce but Bob talking with his brother Cecil.
Over on Forbes, Adam Ozimek writes that the way Fox manages The Simpsons "is so ridiculous it disproves everything [he believes] about economics." The fact that you can't stream old episodes of The Simpsons online is so objectionable to him that he thinks the federal government should step in. Whatever allows us to stream "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" works for me.
Fans of The Simpsons and/or our national pastime will enjoy this study of classic early episode "Homer at the Bat." At last, someone gets to the bottom of Mr. Burns' obsession with Don Mattingly's sideburns!
Late last week, news broke that after seemingly months of speculation, even though it was in reality about a week (a HELLACIOUS week, though), The Simpsons will air for two more seasons, its 24th and 25th. That means that in the spring of 2014, there will be over 550 episodes of the world’s most perfectly cromulent show for public consumption, and millions of “This show is still on?” comments on whatever social media platform that will soon destroy Twitter.
But yes, The Simpsons is still on TV. Although it’s not as era-defining as it was during seasons 2-12, it’s still a good sitcom, one that can occasionally [...]
Entertainment Weekly has a clip from the upcoming Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXII, in which the part of Dexter is played by Ned Flanders. Apparently, he is under the impression that God wants him to murder certain people. Oh, that Ned!
The U.S. Postal Service lost $1.2 million as a result of printing 1 billion Simpsons stamps yet only selling 318 million. This failure was used in a report scrutinizing the USPS's practice. Maybe they messed up – maybe The Simpsons aren't as popular as we all thought – maybe people who were raised watching The Simpsons just don’t use stamps anymore. Really, who uses stamps!? Who mails things? And who'd send some important government/medical document with a stamp of Homer screaming on it? (Barbara Bush, maybe.)
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Playis the name of a real play currently running in Washington. It tells the story of a future where there is no longer electricity and the "Cape Feare" episode of The Simpsons grows to become the new Passion play. The whole thing climaxes with a monologue, in which an actor just steps on rakes for 10 minutes.
You can buy this Homer Simpson-shaped piece of glue for just £151,100.00 if you act now! Because that is what the value bestowed upon it by the free market, and that is what it is worth. Think of all the Simpsons episodes you could act out with it before getting it stuck to your hand! (By the way, this thing would go for even more if Chelsea Peretti sold it on QVC).
For those of you who replied about my suicide cult email, thank you so much for RSVPing, but it turns out Fox has renewed The Simpsons for two more seasons. So now I have to find out if Costco will take back a full pallet of Kool-Aid mix. Mondays! Apparently the Simpsons' newly signed contract will bring the show up to 559 episodes by 2014. Though it's not confirmed, it is believed the cast agreed to the 45% pay cut Fox had required them to take, which we all kind of assumed they would anyway. “Woo Hoo! I outlasted Andy Rooney,” Homer replied in a statement. And I [...]
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