Family Guy successfully received an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Comedy Series category, becoming the first animated show to have done so since The Flintsones in 1961. The Simpsons had attempted, and failed, to do so in 1993 and 1994. [TV Guide]
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Anti-Smoking Group: Simpsons Movie Endorses Smoking
The Simpsons Movie got a thumbs-down at something called “The Hackademy Awards,” an event run by an anti-smoking group called Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails designed to counter positive portrayals of cigarette smoking in movies. The scene that raised their ire: the 3-second shot of Jimbo smoking with Dolph, “which is the kind of potent endorsement of smoking the group opposes.” Remember: smokers are jokers. [canada.com]
Groening & Cohen On Strike During Annie Awards
Matt Groening and David X. Cohen provided one of the night’s several references to the writer’s strike as they approached the podium with strike signs to collect their award for Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (Best Home Entertainment Production). Cohen joked that the writers had granted the Annie Awards a waiver for that one category alone. After winning the Annie for Music in an Animated TV production, The Simpsons composer Alf Clausen thanked Groening for using L.A. studio musicians and a 35-piece orchestra for every episode of his long-running show. He was modest as always comparing himself to Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth husband. “I know what to do, but I don’t know how to make it interesting!”
Hey idiots, the strike’s over! [Animation Magazine]
rubbercat.net/simpsons Nominated In Choice 07 Awards
rubbercat.net/simpsons is nominated in three categories over at Simpsons Zip‘s Choice 07 Awards for “Choice Website,” “Choice Section” and “Choice Support.” Check it out and vote for rubbercat.net/simpsons. Or don’t. Whatever. See if I care. [Simpsons Zip]
Movie Already Losing Awards
The Simpsons Movie lost out to a Michael Bay movie based on a cartoon from the 1980s designed to sell toys in a worthless category (“Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet”) at Sunday night’s MTV Movie Awards. [No Homers Club]