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!
As we learned from The Simpsons and The Smurfs, Hank Azaria is great at doing voices. Well now, he is using that gift on Sesame Street to teach Elmo about the word imposter. Gargamel did his best Grover and Cookie Monster, and he had our favorite ticklish Muppet fooled. In fact, his last one was so good; I was surprised that Elmo didn’t realize Hank was an imposter! Even I didn’t know he was an imposter, did you?
A few weeks ago I was on a conference call with Executive Producer Al Jean and he said that someone is going to die this season on The Simpsons. He told us, “We’re actually working on a script where a character will pass away. I’ll give a clue that the actor playing the character won an Emmy for playing that character, but I won’t say who it is.”
Since that comment, people have wanted to know which one of out favorite yellow guys wasn’t going to be around for the 26th season. TMZ went as far to ask Jennifer Tilly and she said it would be Apu, who will be leaving us for the big Kwik-E-Mart in the sky.
Well today the voice of Apu, Hank Azaria, said he is in as much in the dark as we are.
So who do you think is going to die? I think it is going to be Grandpa. But since all the main voice actors have won an Emmy for their roles, it can basically be anyone in Springfield…
I guess we will have to keep watching The Simpsons every Sunday at 8p to find out.
Tonight at 8p The Simpsons celebrates its 24th Treehouse of Horrors on Fox and they are doing something they have never done before. After nearly 25 years of keeping the couch gag in-house, tonight they farming out to someone you might have heard of, his name is Guillermo del Toro. Recently I was on a conference call with shows runner Al Jean and he explained why they went with this horror legend. He said, “Guillermo del Toro, who is, I would say – and I’ve met some people who like scary things – he is the greatest expert on horror movies, etc., that I have ever encountered. There are so many references in that opening that he put in. It’s really brilliant.” Even though you can watch the brilliant opening above, it is so much better to watch on your big screen HD television.
Now the opening is only 3 minutes of tonight’s episode, so that means there is so much more. They do their own version of a Doctor Seuss tale that will have you laughing at the little digs within the story. Then Bart and Lisa are the closest they have ever been, but how long will that last? Finally we know it is a freak that the animated show is turning a quarter of a century old this year, so it makes sense that the last horror story involves The Simpsons being part of a freak show.
Every year The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror is my favorite episode of the season and tonight’s might be one of my all-time favorites of the show’s very very very long run.
Even though it is the first week of October, Fox is celebrating Halloween tonight with Animation Domination starting at 7:30p with the return of The Cleveland Show. When Cleveland and his friends go to a neighboring town to watch Stoolbend play their football rivals an accident has them trapped there doing anything they can to get home. Will they be able to make it home in their disguises or will this be the end of The Cleveland Show? BTW Roberta and Junior have some of the best costumes I have ever seen on televsion and Donna gets arrested over hers!
Then at 8p The Simpsons celebrates it its 23rd, yes 23rd, Treehouse of Horrors. Tonight they take on the Mayan Calendar, a black hole, Paranormal Activity and Back to the Future. Even though the special is over two decades old, it is still as fresh when it was Maggie’s age. How old is show now anyways?
Then at 8:30p Bob’s Burgers goes Trick or Treating in an upscale neighborhood. At 9p Family Guy takes on the scariest thing in broadcast TV…Nielsen Ratings.
Then at 9:30p Fox ends the evening with the Smiths going on a killer vacation on American Dad. Stan is asked to work, Roger meets the perfect man, Steve makes a friend who has the smart accent of Hugh Grant the movie actor, but is stupid like Hugh Grant the person; and finally Hayley and Jeff are having problems in bed. Maybe it would’ve been better if they stayed home, but how would that be fun for us!
