In a break from tradition, Fox will be showing a commercial after or during The Simpsons. Here’s a preview of the preview [Animation Magazine]
The Simpsons Movie Is Serious Business
Once the cast records their lines, the script pages get shredded to preserve secrecy.
Yeah ok [“Watercooler Stories”]
Simpsons Writers: “Apparently There’s A War Or Something Going On”
The final segment of the upcoming Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode on November 5 will take a few not-so-subtle shots at the current conflict in Iraq as aliens Kang and Kodos (who are featured in every “Treehouse of Horror”) attack Springfield before the humans can get their hands on “weapons of mass disintegration”. The connection to the Iraq war is made obvious, and there’s even a line at the end in which a character evokes the actual Iraq debacle.
“Hey you know it’s been more than three years, maybe we oughta get around to acknowledging the war in some way” [TV Squad]
Matt Groening Is A Talking Car
No, really:
Mr. Mann, whose subjects have included underground cartoonists (“Comic Book Confidential”) and avant-garde jazz musicians (“Imagine the Sound”), takes a light, zippy approach to his material. His main conceit is to have much of the story told by the hot rods themselves, voiced by sympathetic celebs like Jay Leno (a car and motorcycle hobbyist), the Smothers Brothers, and “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, with John Goodman as the disembodied voice of Big Daddy himself, speaking to us from the great body shop beyond.
Remember Bart? He’s Back… In Ringtone Form
The Simpsons Mobile: Coming soon, Jamba will exclusively offer mobile content from the popular FOX series, The Simpsons, through the industry’s first subscription package tied to exclusive content called the “Yellow Plan”. Available to consumers for the first time, the “Yellow Plan” will include an array of uniquely designed Simpsons mobile content, such as wallpapers, screensavers, ringtones and video.
SOUNDS EXCITING!!!!!!!!!! [splashphone.com]
Seth MacFarlane Vows More Simpsons Shots
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has declared that he will prolong the epic CARTOON WARS that are threatening the very fabric of our society with more shots at supposed rival show The Simpsons, after they semi-recently took a shot at Family Guy and American Dad. It’s like the Cold War nuclear arms race except with cartoons and nerds [ToonZone]
Matt Groening Loves Trash
As a cartoon animator, Mike Gerard always wanted to produce the best drawings he could.
But when he started work on [the first season of “The Simpsons”], he was astonished to be told that the creators did not want good animation.
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“Matt Groening (creator of “The Simpsons”) was adamant that the show should be about humor, the characters, and that the animation should not look good. That was really difficult for me and I would get frustrated when he would tell me something was too good. So one day I picked up a scene I had thrown in the trash and he loved it.”
[KVOA]