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What’s coming up for The Simpsons this season? |
| August 22nd, 2014 under The Simpsons. [ Comments: none ]
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In honor of FXX airing all 552 episodes of The Simpsons as we speak, here is a preview of what’s coming up on episode 553 and so on!
Recently I was on a conference call with Executive Producers, Al Jean and Matt Selman, and they told us what’s coming up for season 26.
As we know, there will be a death on the season premiere, September 28th on Fox, but we don’t know who is going to be. The first hint from Jean is the person who won’t make it to the credits is “portrayed by an actor who won an Emmy for playing that character.” Which isn’t much of one because all the lead voices have won at least an Emmy. Another clue is an outlet described the character as “iconic”, but Jean said the character is “great”. Here’s the last one for now, the name of the episode is “Clown in the Dumps”. Do you know who it is?
There will also be some crossover action coming up and it is with a show that been cancelled. Get ready for Simpsorama, that’s right Futurama is coming to Springfield.
Springfield will also take on fracking sometime in the fall, but as of the call, they didn’t know when it is going to air.
Also in the fall, we are getting a new Treehouse of Horrors episode. Jean said it is their “most ambitious Stanley Kubrick parody we’ve ever done”. The basis of it is said to be Clockwork Orange with a little Eyes Wide Shut mixed in. I am sure not the sex part, but the other parts of the horrible Tom Cruise movie. The episode will also feature a “satire of The Others, where there’s a family that’s very familiar that’s haunting the Simpson house.” The last tale is the scariest one of them all; Bart goes to private school…and thrives.
Talking about school, Bart gets a new teacher who is the opposite of the late great Mrs Krabapple. How long that teacher will last, as of now we don’t know.
When it comes to a long time, 25 years ago, a young writer by the name of Judd Apatow. Heard of him? Well, he pitched an idea for The Simpsons and it is finally happening. His idea is Homer goes to a hypnotist and he is hypnotized to believe he is 10 years old. Since mentally he is the same age as his son, Bart, the two become best friends. Jean says it is a sweet episode and they are happy to see it finally come to life.
We, the fans, continue to be happy that this show just won’t die. So here’s to episode 253 and beyond!
I hope that they will get to episode 500 and then FXX can air a month long marathon instead of just a 12 day one.
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Which of these characters will die on The Simpsons? |
| July 26th, 2014 under The Simpsons. [ Comments: none ]
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For almost a year, Al Jean has hinted that someone will die on The Simpsons. He gave us a clue that character who dies is voiced by someone who won an Emmy for their role on the show. Only problem with that clue, is that they all won Emmys for the show. So that really didn’t narrow it down.
Well today at Comic-Con, Fox narrowed it down a little bit more with a promo for the upcoming season premiere where that person will meet their maker. Will it be Marge, Grandpa, Marge’s mom, Bart, Comic Book Guy, Patty and/or Selma, Sideshow Bob, Krusty, Lisa, Moe, Homer, Krusty’s Dad or Apu? Still need more of hint? The title of the episode that airs on September 28th is “Clown in the Dumps”. So I think we can all assume who it is from that? Or can we?
The one good thing is that character will not be erased from the show permanently. Al Jean told me on a conference call a few months ago, “I have no doubt that the character will reappear you know in Homer’s memory or whoever’s.”
So after all of that, who do you think will be leaving Springfield for 6 feet under?
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The Simpsons’ Legos episode took 2 years to make, and it’s worth every second! |
| May 4th, 2014 under The Simpsons. [ Comments: none ]
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Tonight at 8p on Fox, The Simpsons are doing something they have never done before. Springfield and all of its residents are getting the Lego treatment. That’s right, our favorite animated family is going to become one of favorite toys when we were growing up. It is such a delight to see this happen to them that I will declare that the 550th episode is one of the best ones that have ever done. And I have seen all 550 of them.
Homer Simpson wakes up and everyone and everything around him is Legos. But to him this is normal. That is until he buys Lisa a toy, and he flashes back to his old self. Will he stay in the Lego world or will he come back to his own? You just have to tune in for this very heartwarming episode to find out.
Turning the town of Springfield into Legoland was not an easy job for them. In fact according to the Executive Producers, Al Jean and Matt Selman, it took them two years to make. Jean told us on a conference call earlier this week, “I’ll just say I think it was a beautiful product and it was I think about as labor intensive as any episode Simpsons has ever done.”
Even though it was labor intensive, they make it look like it was easy to combine the CGI and hand drawn animation seamlessly. According to Jean, it might even be the first time it has be done. Since it has never been done before the animators had to learn some new skills to make it happen. They also to change countries for the making of this episode. Normally the show is made in Korea, but for this one they used animators from India. Selman says the learning curve was worth it, because “they really pulled it off beautifully on the technical and the creative side.”
When it comes to the creative side of it all, Selman wants you to watch it again and again. The first time watch it as you would any Simpsons episode. Then watch it again, to see if you can catch all the “funny little LEGO reference background jokes.” Then he added some things to keeps yours open for, “like the photos in the back to like stuff in the church to the love tester at Mo’s.”
They really wanted to reward their viewers with this Lego episode, and boy did they! So make sure to set your DVRs to record the episode, so that you can watch it over and over and over again. Partially to enjoy it as the fantastic episode that it is and then again to see how Legofied they made it.
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Did The Simpsons predict this year’s Super Bowl? |
| January 31st, 2014 under Super Bowl, The Simpsons. [ Comments: none ]
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Back in 2005 on The Simpsons 17th season premiere, Homer Simpson was watching a football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos just like the two teams playing during Sunday’s Super Bowl game. So who did the animated sitcom predict would win this year’s big game 9 years ago? They said it would be Denver by 5. So did they get it right? We will just have to wait two days to find out. If they did, then that is really freaking cool!!!
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What is coming up on The Simpson this 25th season! |
| November 3rd, 2013 under The Simpsons. [ Comments: none ]
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The Simpsons is finally back on Fox tonight at 8p and Al Jean recently told me on a conference call what is coming up this season on the show.
As most of you have heard someone is going to die on the show, but we don’t know who that character is. All we know is they won an Emmy for the part. Which really isn’t much of a hint, since they pretty much all of them have the golden statuettes in their homes thanks to the never ageing animated show.
So what else can we expect from the show’s 25th season?
Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss is going to guest star on the show.
Al Jean also told us that Homer is going to something good and he’ll be honored for what he does. Jean said, “Homer is stuck on an elevator with a pregnant woman and he delivers her baby because she’s giving birth right then.” Then he added, “She’s grateful and she doesn’t have a husband, so she names the baby Homer Jr., and Homer actually bonds with this baby better than his own children and Marge gets really mad.”
We know there will be death and life coming up this season, and there will also be something that happens in between all of that. Jean revealed, “We have a show coming up where Comic Book Guy gets married.” It gets better because he also revealed, “The wedding is performed by Stan Lee, and we have Stan Lee playing himself, and Harlan Ellison playing himself in that episode.” Here’s some of what happened behind the scenes of that episode as told by Jean, “What was funny was that they both wanted to be funnier than the other. They were both great; it was really exciting for me, as a nerd.”
Jean shared with us that Mr Burns won’t be a Grinch this holiday season, “We have a show where Mr. Burns gives everyone, basically, Google Glasses as a Christmas gift because then he can spy on them.”
And a big part of the show is the love between Marge and Homer and this Valentine’s Day they are getting a special episode. Jean said, “Homer gives his to Marge and finds that Homer can see what Marge is doing all day and discovers a shocking secret.”
What that shocking secret is and who is going to die, we don’t know. Therefore, we are going to have to tune in every Sunday at 8p to find out on the show that never gets old!
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