Speaking of The Simpsons. Entertainment Weekly reports Harry Shearer, the voice behind The Simpsons’s Mr. Burns has re-joined the voice talent cast. Shearer has signed the same contract as did the other five primary voice actors?Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, and Hank Azaria?keeping the show?s original cast fully intact, EW has learned. […]
This is making the rounds on social media. Too funny not to share.
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Producers of The Simpsons hinted last fall that they would be killing off a character. Last night on the season premiere they made good on that promise. Krusty’s father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofski died while “Krusty was seeking validation from his father.” From The Daily Mail: Krusty, whose real name is Herschel Krustofski, later sought out […]
French animation director Sylvain Chomet has created a couch gag for The Simpsons. Sylvain is best known for the acclaimed feature animation Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist. It’s fun to see what a French version of The Simpsons would be.
On May 4 an entire Simpson’s episode will be in the form of Legos. The article from The Guardian suggests it’s due to the success of The LEGO movie, but that seems like a quick turn-around. Regardless, it’s also the 550th episode. From The Guardian: Thanks to heavy marketing including an entire ad break recreated […]
Lego has produced a Lego set replicating The Simpsons home. It’s 2500+ pieces and features the Simpson family and Ned Flanders.
Life In Hell and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening drew some posters for Apple Computer back in the 1980’s in exchange for a printer. Bear in mind a LaserWriter printer back then was cost $7,000.
Taking on an additional post to “David Silverman on Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’” post earlier, is another interview by The Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks. Via: The Animation Blog
David Silverman, animator/supervising director of The Simpsons, directed an animated short (Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’) that is up for an Academy Award this weekend. The short debuted before Ice Age: Continental Drift and was broadcast on Fox this last Sunday after the Simpsons. Hollywood reporter interviewed David about the short and The Simpsons.
A follow up to the Mr. Burns Endorses Mitt Romney video:
From the Washington Post: In a move that wasted $1.2 million in printing costs, the Postal Service produced 1 billion of “The Simpsons” stamps. It sold 318 million. A Postal Service inspector general’s report singled out the overproduction of stamps marking the 20th anniversary of the cartoon as an example of failing to align stamp […]
Got 48 minutes with nothing to do? Me neither. But for those that do, it’s nice that someone took the effort to compile all(?) the Itchy and Scratchy segments from The Simpsons into one video.
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening unveiled his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. His star is near the stars of Walt Disney and Charles Schulz. The Simpsons will air its 500th episode this Sunday.
20th Century Fox TV has told TheWrap that even though the voice talent and producers have agreed to a pay cut for this upcoming season, the show “is no longer profitable for the network.” Reuters reports that the network has made over $1 billion in its 23 season. From Entertainment Fix: An unnamed executive from […]