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!
Talk shows turn 500. Soap operas turn 500. But it is extremely rare that any scripted show hits the milestone of 500 episodes and tonight at 8p that is exactly what The Simpsons is going to do on Fox. Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson will celebrate their 500th show together and they haven’t aged a day since the show debuted in 1989. Springfield is going to have a big party to honor the occasion, but sadly The Simpsons won’t be there because they have been banished from the town they have called home for over 22 years.
Tonight’s episode is worthy for the milestone, so why not watch something that very rarely ever happens in television. Just to give you a hint how rare it is, only one other scripted show has filmed that many episode. That other show was Gunsmoke that aired 635 episodes before signing off the air in 1975.
