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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
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Mark Kirkland
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Mark Kirkland is an American animation director. He has directed 82 episodes of The Simpsons since 1990, more than any other director, at the age of 13, Kirkland began making super 8 films and working for his father, noted photographer and filmmaker Douglas Kirkland, creating “making of” films for major production companies. This exposure to Hollywood sparked Kirkland’s desire to seek a career in the entertainment industry, Kirkland developed an interest in drawing at an early age. At the age of 17, he began studying in the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts for four years, there, he was mentored by people such as Jules Engel, A. Kendall OConnor, Ollie Johnston and Moe Gollub. In 1976, he won the Student Academy Award for animation along with student, Richard Jefferies. After finishing up his degree, he applied to Disney, but he was not accepted and he began working on The Simpsons from season two onwards and has directed 82 episodes, more than any other director. In season 18, he became the supervising director. Kirkland has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Environmental Media Awards and a Pioneer in Television Animation Award from the Burbank International Film Festival for his work on The Simpsons, Kirkland is an accomplished still photographer whose images have been published in US and People magazines. He created photo essays on the making of The Simpsons. Patty and Selma The Springfield Connection Season 7 Lisa the Vegetarian Team Homer A Fish Called Selma Summer of 4 Ft
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Mike Scully
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Michael Mike Scully is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing and he was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a series of jobs. Eventually, in 1986, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a stand-up comic, Scully went on to write for several television sitcoms before 1993, when he was hired to write for The Simpsons. There, he wrote episodes, including Lisa on Ice and Team Homer. Scully won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series, with publications praising his episodes. Scully still works on the show and also co-wrote 2007s The Simpsons Movie, more recently, Scully co-created The Pitts and Complete Savages as well as working on Everybody Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation. He co-developed the short-lived animated television version of Napoleon Dynamite, Scully is married to fellow writer Julie Thacker. Scully was born October 2,1956 at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, as a child he hoped to be a musician or a hockey player. At Main Street Elementary School, with the encouragement of his teacher James Doyle and he took up work in the clothing department at Steigers department store, as a janitor at the Baystate Medical Center and also as a driving instructor. He commented, I think if I had actually succeeded at college and gotten a degree in accounting or something, having no marketable job skills was a tremendous incentive to keep trying to succeed as a writer. Regardless, he moved to Los Angeles, California in 1982, in California, Scully worked in a tuxedo store. He also got a job writing jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff and he purchased scripts from a variety of half-hour comedy shows, including Taxi, to train himself to write them and had numerous speculative scripts rejected. He started bouncing around Hollywood working on some of the lousiest sitcoms in history and he served on the writing staff of The Royal Family, Out of This World, Top of the Heap and What a Country. Where he did audience warm-up, a role he performed on Grand. In 1993, David Mirkin hired Scully to write for The Simpsons, as a replacement for the departing Conan OBrien, after reading some of his sample scripts. He began as a writer and producer for the show during its season and wrote the episodes Lisas Rival, Two Dozen and One Greyhounds. Lisas Rival was his first episode, he wrote the script, similarly, he wrote the script for Two Dozen and One Greyhounds, which was based on an idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss
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The Simpsons opening sequence
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The first episode to use this intro was the series second episode Bart the Genius. The standard opening has had two major revisions, the second was a brand-new opening sequence produced in high-definition for the shows transition to that format beginning with Take My Life, Please in season 20. The new opening generally followed the sequence of the opening with improved graphics, even more characters. This sequence opens with the title in yellow approaching the camera through misty cumulus clouds In a dark blue sky. The shot cuts through the counter in the letter P to a shot of the town of Springfield. The camera zooms in through the town and then through a window of a lavender Springfield Elementary, when the school bell rings, Bart leaves in a hurry and skateboards out of the school doors. The shot cuts to Homer working at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant wearing a safety mask while handling a green rod of uranium with tongs, an unknown co-worker in the background eats a sandwich, also with a pair of tongs. The end-of-shift whistle blows, and Homer immediately takes off his mask, as he does so, the glowing rod bounces into the air and falls down the back of his radiation suit. The next shot shows Marge and Maggie checking out at a supermarket, Maggie, who is sitting on the conveyor belt, is inadvertently scanned along with the groceries as Marge reads a magazine, Mom Monthly. Maggie is rung up at a price of $847.63 and bagged, as Marge looks around panicked for her child, Maggie pops out of a shopping bag, and Marge breathes a sigh of relief. Lisa is shown next at band practice, the opening theme coordinates with this shot, and is orchestrated as if it were played by the school band. Mr. Largo stops the rest of the band to order Lisa out of the rehearsal for her unorthodox saxophone playing and she continues to improvise on her way out of the room to grab her bike. Shots of the family on their way home to 742 Evergreen Terrace are then shown, Homer drives in his car, feeling something down the back of his shirt. He retrieves the uranium rod and throws it out the window, the five unknown unnamed characters waiting at the stop then chase after a bus that fails to stop for them. Lisa is shown biking down the street with her books tied in the front basket, as she hits a bump, the books fly upwards but are restrained by the strap. She passes a tree and arrives at home and she hops off her bike on the driveway and grabs her books and saxophone, all while the bike continues to roll unaided into the garage. She runs towards the front door as Homer drives up the driveway, Bart bounces his skateboard off the roof of the car and then touches down and skates to the front door. As Homer steps out of the car, he screams at the sight of Marges car coming towards him, the shot cuts to Marges point of view as Homer runs from the car into the house through a door in the garage
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Impeachment of Bill Clinton
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Clinton was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the Senate on February 12,1999. Two other impeachment articles – a second charge and a charge of abuse of power – failed in the House. The Independent Counsel, Ken Starr, turned over documentation to the House Judiciary Committee, the Chief Prosecutor, David Schippers, and his team reviewed the material and determined there was sufficient evidence to impeach the president. The trial in the United States Senate began right after the seating of the 106th Congress, a two-thirds vote was required to remove Clinton from office. Fifty senators voted to remove Clinton on the obstruction of justice charge and 45 voted to him on the perjury charge. Clinton, like Johnson a century earlier, was acquitted on all charges, the charges arose from an investigation by Ken Starr, the Independent Counsel. In the course of the investigation, Linda Tripp provided Starr with taped phone conversations in which Monica Lewinsky, at the deposition, the judge rejected the plaintiffs lawyers definition of the term sexual relations that Clinton claims to have construed to mean only vaginal intercourse. Judge Wright then told the attorneys they could be as explicit as necessary in asking their questions, a much-quoted statement from Clintons grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word is. If the—if he—if is means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing, if it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. Starr obtained further evidence of behavior by seizing the computer hard drive. Based on the conflicting testimony, Starr concluded that Clinton had committed perjury. Starr submitted his findings to Congress in a document, and simultaneously posted the report on the internet. Starr was criticized by Democrats for spending $70 million on an investigation that substantiated only perjury, after rumors of the scandal reached the news, Clinton publicly stated, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. In his Paula Jones deposition, he swore, I have never had relations with Monica Lewinsky. Ive never had an affair with her, months later, Clinton admitted that his relationship with Lewinsky was wrong and not appropriate. Lewinsky engaged in sex with Clinton several times. Nevertheless, impeachment was one of the issues in the election. In November 1998, the Democrats picked up five seats in the House, impeachment proceedings were initiated during the post-election, lame duck session of the outgoing 105th United States Congress
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Matt Groening
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Matthew Abram Matt Groening is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell, the Simpsons has gone on to become the longest-running U. S. primetime-television series in history, as well as the longest-running animated series and sitcom. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978, at its peak, the cartoon was carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks, in 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show, the shorts would be spun off into their own series The Simpsons, which has since aired 615 episodes. Groening has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons, in 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14,2012, Groening was born on February 15,1954 in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. His Norwegian American mother, Margaret Ruth, was once a teacher, Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family. Matts grandfather, Abram Groening, was a professor at Tabor College, Groening grew up in Portland, and attended Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School. He served as the editor of the newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal, for which he also wrote articles. He befriended fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry after discovering that she had written a fan letter to Joseph Heller, one of Groenings favorite authors, Groening has credited Barry with being probably biggest inspiration. He first became interested in cartoons after watching the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, in 1977, at the age of 23, Groening moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. Groening distributed the book in the book corner of Licorice Pizza. He made his first professional sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The strip, titled Forbidden Words, appeared in the September/October issue of that year, Groening had gained employment at the Los Angeles Reader, a newly formed alternative newspaper, delivering papers, typesetting, editing and answering phones. He showed his cartoons to the editor, James Vowell, who was impressed, Life in Hell made its official debut as a comic strip in the Reader on April 25,1980. Vowell also gave Groening his own weekly column, Sound Mix. However, the column would rarely actually be about music, as he would write about his various enthusiasms, obsessions, pet peeves
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George Meyer
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George A. Meyer is an American producer and writer. Meyer is best known for his work on The Simpsons, where he led the group script rewrite sessions and he has been publicly credited with thoroughly shap. the comedic sensibility of the show. Raised in Tucson, Meyer attended Harvard University, there, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry. Abandoning plans to attend school, Meyer attempted to make money through dog racing. Meyer left after two seasons and went on to write for The New Show, Not Necessarily the News, tired of life in New York, Meyer moved to Boulder, Colorado where he wrote a screenplay for a film for Letterman to star in. The project fell through and Meyer then founded the humor zine Army Man which garnered a strong following, the producer Sam Simon was a fan and he hired Meyer to write for the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1989. He has held a number of positions on the show and also cowrote The Simpsons Movie, Meyer is in a relationship with the writer Maria Semple and the two have a daughter. Born in Pennsylvania, United States in 1956, Meyer grew up in Tucson and he is the eldest of eight children in a Roman Catholic family of German ancestry. His parents both worked in the estate business. Due to its size, family activities were limited so Meyer watched lots of television and he was an Eagle Scout and an altar boy and wrote for the student newspaper. He grew up hoping to one day become either a priest or ballplayer and he was disinterested in television, only finding humor in Get Smart and Batman, where he appreciated its loopy, irreverent humor. Meyer attended Harvard University where he served as president of the Harvard Lampoon, the fact that people took humor very seriously at the Lampoon changed life. In 1977, he and several other Lampoon staffers wrote The Harvard Lampoon Big Book of College Life, aside from the Lampoon, his grades at Harvard were average and he suffered several bouts of depression. He graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry and was accepted into medical school, Meyer commented on his Roman Catholic upbringing in a 2000 New Yorker profile, People talk about how horrible it is to be brought up Catholic, and its all true. The main thing was there was no sense of proportion. I would chew a piece of gum at school, and the nun would say, Jesus is very angry with you about that, thats a horrifying image to throw at a little kid. You really could almost think that your talking in line, say, was on a par with killing Jesus, after college, Meyer moved to Denver, Colorado, planning to scientifically win a fortune through dog racing. However, he ran out of money after two weeks and he then worked in a variety of jobs including as a substitute teacher, and a salesman in a clothing store, and also won $2,000 on the game show Jeopardy
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George Carlin
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George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. Carlin was noted for his comedy and thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians, in 2004, Carlin was placed second on the Comedy Central list of Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences compiled for an April 2004 special. The first of his 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977, from the late 1980s, Carlins routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He often commented on political issues in the United States. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era and his final HBO special, Its Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death. In 2008, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him second on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, Carlin was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He was the son of The Suns advertising manager Patrick John Carlin, an immigrant from County Donegal in Ireland, and secretary Mary Carlin. While he came from a Catholic family, Carlin rejected religion and his parents separated when he was 2 months old because of his fathers alcoholism. Mary subsequently raised George and his brother, Patrick Jr. on her own. His maternal grandfather, Dennis Bearey, was an Irish immigrant who worked as a New York City policeman, One immigrant grandmothers maiden name once was OGrady, he recalled, but it changed to Grady before she reached America. Theyd dropped the O in the ocean on the way here and he would later name his character OGrady on The George Carlin Show as an act of homage. Carlin said that he picked up an appreciation for the use of the English language from his mother, with whom he had a difficult relationship. He grew up on West 121st Street, in a neighborhood of Manhattan he said he and his friends called White Harlem and he attended Corpus Christi School, a Roman Catholic parish school of the Corpus Christi Church, in Morningside Heights. After three semesters, Carlin was thrown out of Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx at age 15 and he briefly attended Bishop Dubois High School in Harlem and the Salesian High School in Goshen, New York. He spent many summers at Camp Notre Dame on Spofford Lake in Spofford and he regularly won the camps drama award, and specified that after his death a portion of his ashes be spread at the lake. Carlin joined the United States Air Force when he was old enough and he was stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana
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Martin Mull
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Martin Eugene Mull is an American actor, comedian and singer who has appeared in many television and film roles. He is also a painter and a recording artist, as an actor, he first became known in his role on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night. Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Betty, an actress and director, and Harold Mull and he moved with his family to North Ridgeville, Ohio, when he was two years old. They stayed there until he was 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut and he studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting. Mulls first well known acting role was as Garth Gimble in the 1976 television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. This led to work in the comedy talk shows Fernwood 2 Night and America 2-Night, in which he played talk show host Barth Gimble, opposite Fred Willard. In 1979, he appeared in the Taxi episode Hollywood Calling, Mull created, wrote for and starred in the short-lived 1984 CBS sitcom Domestic Life, with Megan Follows playing his teenaged daughter. In one episode of The Golden Girls, he played a hippie who was afraid of the outside world and he had a long-running role as Leon Carp, Roseanne Conners gay boss on the TV series Roseanne. During the 1980s, Mull starred in a series of commercials for Michelob and Pizza Hut and he appeared in the Pecos Bill episode of the Shelley Duvall TV series Tall Tales & Legends. Mull voiced the role of The Evil Cad on the 1995–97 animated series Freakazoid and he also did the voice of Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius, the main villain in Danny Phantom. Mull has appeared as a guest star on the game show Hollywood Squares, appearing as the square in the shows final season. In late 2004 and in 2013s Netflix-produced Season 4, he portrayed Gene Parmesan, during 2008 and 2009, Mull guest starred in two episodes of the television series Gary Unmarried as Allisons father. Mull also starred in the Fox sitcom, Dads, Mull broke into show business as a songwriter, penning Jane Morgans 1970 country single A Girl Named Johnny Cash, which peaked at #61 on Billboards country charts. Shortly thereafter, he began his own recording career, throughout the 1970s, and especially in the first half of the decade, Mull was best known as a musical comedian, performing satirical and humorous songs both live and in-studio recordings. His self-titled debut Album, released by Capricorn in 1972, featured many musicians, including Ramblin Jack Elliott, Levon Helm from The Band, Keith Spring of NRBQ. Elvis Costello and Gary Sperrazza attribute the phrase, Writing about music is like dancing about architecture to Martin Mull. Mull has been a painter since the 1970s, and has had his work appear in group and solo exhibits since that time. He participated in the June 15,1971 exhibit Flush with the Walls in the room of the Boston Museum of Art to protest the lack of contemporary
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Yo La Tengo
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Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, in 2015, original guitarist Dave Schramm rejoined the band and appears on their fourteenth album, Stuff Like That There. Despite achieving limited success, Yo La Tengo has been called the quintessential critics band. Though they mostly play original material, Yo La Tengo is renowned for its repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record. Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed the band as a duo in 1984. They chose the name Yo La Tengo in an effort to avoid any connotations in English, the name came from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn, when Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, I got it. Only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish, Ashburn learned to yell, ¡Yo la tengo. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off, as a way to avoid outfield collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, What the hell is a Yellow Tango and they placed an advertisement to recruit other musicians who shared their love for bands such as The Soft Boys, Mission of Burma, and Arthur Lees Love. In 1986, Yo La Tengo released their first LP, Ride the Tiger on Coyote Records. Produced by former Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley who also took over duties on three songs, the album marked Yo La Tengo as a band with real potential according to reviewer Mark Deming. Schramm and Lewis left the band after the release, with Kaplan subsequently taking on the role of lead guitar. The groups next album New Wave Hot Dogs sold poorly, produced by Gene Holder of The dBs, the album was the bands last release on Coyote. Despite the positive reception of the album, sales were still poor, Hubley and Kaplan carried on as a duo and began playing two-electric-guitar shows. Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, started carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket for luck, again produced by Gene Holder, the albums folk sound was a change of pace for the band. Years later, Kaplan recalled that the album was just me and Georgia looking for an excuse to record with Dave Schramm and Al Greller who played guitar and double bass on the album, respectively. In 1991, with Dave Schramm in tow, Yo La Tengo collaborated with Daniel Johnston on the song Speeding Motorcycle which was released as a single
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The Simpsons (season 10)
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The Simpsons tenth season was originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States between August 23,1998, and May 16,1999. It contains twenty-three episodes, starting with Lard of the Dance, the Simpsons is a satire of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Set in the city of Springfield, the show lampoons American culture, society, television. The showrunner for the season was Mike Scully. Before production began, a dispute between the main cast members of The Simpsons and Fox arose. However, it was settled and the actors salaries were raised to $125,000 per episode. In addition to the large Simpsons cast, many guest stars appeared in season ten, despite winning an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Program, season 10 has been cited by several critics as the beginning of the series decline in quality. It ranked twenty-fifth in the ratings with an average of 13.5 million viewers per episode. The tenth season DVD boxset was released in the United States and it is available in two different packagings. The tenth season was the second during which Mike Scully served as show runner, as show runner and executive producer, Scully headed the writing staff and oversaw all aspects of the shows production. However, as he told UltimateTV in January 1999, he did not make any decisions without the staffs input and we have great staffs in all the departments from animation to writing. So I dont want to make it sound like a dictatorship, Scully was popular with the staff members, many of whom have praised his organization and management skills. Writer Tom Martin has said that he was possibly the best boss Ive ever worked for. Scullys aim while running The Simpsons was to not wreck the show, in addition to his role as show runner during the tenth season, he co-wrote the episode Sunday, Cruddy Sunday. In 1999, there were around sixteen staff writers working on The Simpsons, many of them had written for the show for several years, including John Swartzwelder and George Meyer. The third episode of the season, Bart the Mother, was the last full-length episode written by David S. Cohen. He left to team up with The Simpsons creator Matt Groening to develop Futurama, the tenth season marked the full-time return of staff member Al Jean, who had departed from the show after the fourth season to create the animated series The Critic. Between seasons four and ten, he had only worked periodically on the show, the main cast of the season consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer
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Lard of the Dance
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Lard of the Dance is the first episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on August 23,1998, Homer discovers he can make money by stealing and reselling grease, but eventually stops after negative encounters with Groundskeeper Willie and the Springfield Grease Company. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes jealous that a new student is distracting all her friends by using her fashionable personality, the episode was written by Jane OBrien and directed by Dominic Polcino. After going back-to-school shopping, Homer learns from Apu that he can sell grease to make a profit. At breakfast, Homer begins frying up various amounts of bacon to use the grease to make money, meanwhile, on the first day back at school, Lisa volunteers to help Alex Whitney, a fashion conscious new student, by showing her around the school. Homer and Bart begin their business and make sixty-three cents worth of grease from twenty-seven dollars worth of bacon, much to Homers glee. After Bart points out that they need larger amounts of grease, the drive to Krusty Burger. After loading it into Marges car, two employees of The Acne Grease and Shovel Company steal it, claiming they control the grease, Alex convinces Principal Skinner to have a school-dance rather than the regular yearly event of apple picking. The group leave the mall, none speaking to each other, Homer and Bart arrive at the school during the school-dance to steal the grease in the schools kitchen which Bart told him about. They sneak into the kitchen and plants a hose in the fryer to suck it in to the car, but Willie spots them and attempts to stop them, claiming the grease to be his retirement plan. Homer tries to escape, but Willie grabs his legs and strangles him with the hose sucking the grease, a grease fight begins among the students, where Alex eventually joins in after being told by Lisa to act her own age. The idea behind the plot came from Jace Richdale, who came up with the idea of Homer stealing grease. Several aspects of the characters used throughout the episode had been improvised significantly by Lisa Kudrow, ron Hauge, a writer for The Simpsons, came up with the initial character of Alex, and Jane OBrien named the character after her best friend. The scene showing Homers hemorrhaged eye as Groundskeeper Willie strangles him got a big laugh in the studio, mike Scully comments that he now uses it in college clip shows. The title of the episode is a play on the hymn, marge sings her own, altered version of 1990 song Gonna Make You Sweat when attempting to persuade Lisa to attend the dance. Much of the shop where the girls enter to buy clothes is based on Wet Seal, in the same mall is a party supply store, called Donners Party Supplies which has a window sign saying Winter Madness Sale, a reference to the Donner Party. Alex tells Lisa to not be such a Phoebe, a reference to Lisa Kudrows character Phoebe Buffay on the series Friends, Lard of the Dance finished 31st in the weekly ratings for the week of August 17–23,1998 with a Nielsen rating of 7.2. It was the third highest rated show from the Fox Network that week, the episode aired during the summer so that it could serve as a lead-in for the early premieres of That 70s Show and Holding the Baby
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The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
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The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace is the second episode of the tenth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 20,1998, the idea behind The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace came from Dan Greaney, who assigned John Swartzwelder to write the episode. William Daniels made a guest appearance in the episode as the character KITT from the television series Knight Rider, in general, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace received positive reviews from television critics, with many singling it out as a strong beginning to a season. Homer becomes depressed after learning he has lived past the point of the average life expectancy for men without accomplishing anything worthwhile. His family tries to him up by showing him a film of his accomplishments. When the film projector stops working, Lisa mentions that Thomas Edison invented the projector, Homer decides to learn more about Edison and eventually idolizes him. In an attempt to follow his footsteps, he quits his job at the plant to become an inventor. However, they like one particular invention, a chair with two hinged legs on the back, making it impossible to tip over backwards, Homer is encouraged until he notices his poster of Edison shows him sitting in the same type of chair. Bart points out that the chair is not featured on a list of Edisons inventions, feeling a renewed connection to Edison, he decides not to destroy the chair. Homer and Bart return to Springfield, unaware they left Homers electric hammer at the museum, the Wizard of Evergreen Terrace was written by John Swartzwelder, who had a deal with the producers of the show to write five scripts for season ten. Although he was the one who wrote the episode, Dan Greaney was the one who came up with the idea for it. Greaney based Homers intense obsession with Edison on the fact that when he himself would have an obsession with something in life, he would badger and bore people with details of it. The untippable chair was also an idea of Greaneys, while working on the episode, he was leaning back in his chair and fell backwards. He casually said it would be if there were legs on the back of the chair. Soon after coming up with the story, Greaney told it to Swartzwelder so that he could turn it into a script, Greaney said it couldnt in my best dreams have turned out as good as it did if I had written it. Mark Kirkland was the director of The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace and he recalls that when he attended the table-read for the episode, the staff thought it was hilarious and they could tell it was going to be a good one. It was decided that The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace would be the episode of season ten. As a result, the premiere party was held at the Museum of Science
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Bart the Mother
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Bart the Mother is the third episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 27,1998, in the episode, Bart accidentally kills a mother bird with a BB gun, and decides to hatch and take care of the two eggs he found in the birds nest. Bart the Mother was written by David X. Cohen and directed by Steven Dean Moore, the original idea for the episode was intended to be a B story, but because it was too difficult to work into other episodes, it eventually became a primary plot. In its original American broadcast, Bart the Mother finished 58th in ratings for the week of September 21–27,1998, with a Nielsen rating of 7.4, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Barts moral dilemma and soul searching moments. Nancy Cartwright, the actress of Bart, described the episode as one of her favorites. When Marge takes the family to the Family Fun Center, she notices Nelson acting like a bully, especially when he knocks Milhouse off the track, Bart and Nelson attempt to be friends, but Marge forbids Bart to hang out with Nelson. Bart goes to Nelson’s house anyway and starts using Nelsons new BB gun, when Nelson pressures Bart to shoot a bird in a nest, Bart accidentally kills the bird. Marge is furious that Bart killed an animal, but instead of punishing him, after Marge leaves Bart with Nelson, Bart discovers two eggs in a birds nest. Since he does not want the babies to die like their mother, he decides to hatch the eggs, after Bart spends more time in his treehouse, Marge starts to suspect he is up to something. After Marge finds out what Bart has been doing, she tells him she is proud of him, Skinner says the lizards must be killed by law, because they have killed many bird species. Bart escapes and runs away with the lizards, but before he can get away, Skinner catches up to him, suddenly, the lizards glide to the ground, where they start to eradicate pigeons in Springfield. Since the town considered the pigeons to be a nuisance, they are delighted that the lizards have eaten all the pigeons, so, Bart is thanked and honored by Mayor Quimby with a loganberry scented candle. Bart the Mother was the last full-length episode David X. Cohen wrote for The Simpsons, shortly after the episode aired, Cohen teamed up with The Simpsons creator Matt Groening to develop Futurama, where he served as executive producer and head writer for the series entire run. Cohens idea for the episode started out as a B story for Homer, in the original concept, pigeons nest outside Homers window at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Mr. Burns exterminates the pigeons and Homer climbs out onto the ledge of the window, in the middle of a blizzard, to nest the eggs. Cohen said the idea fit in anywhere, so he decided to pitch it as an A story instead, with Bart nesting the eggs instead of Homer. The Simpsons writer George Meyer thought the idea of Bart shooting the bird and simply nesting the eggs was too straightforward, Cohen and Meyer eventually decided the eggs should be lizard eggs. Cohen thought the twist was what made the episode both touching and interesting
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Treehouse of Horror IX
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Treehouse of Horror IX is the fourth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 25,1998, Treehouse of Horror IX was written by Donick Cary, Larry Doyle and David S. Cohen, and directed by Steven Dean Moore. Terror of the Tiny Toon includes a live-action segment starring Regis Philbin, Jerry Springer and Ed McMahon also appear in the episode, voicing themselves, while Robert Englund provides the voice of Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. The episode also features Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th series while various characters visit the talk shows Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, in its original airing on the Fox Network, the episode had an 8.6 Nielsen rating. In 1999, composer Alf Clausen was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for his work on the episode, Snake is arrested for smoking inside the Kwik-E-Mart. Chief Wiggum explains that this is Snakes third strike, so he will be executed in accordance with the three strikes law, before hauling Snake away, Chief Wiggum helpfully points out that Apu, Moe, and Bart are all witnesses, Snake vows to kill all of them. Snake is executed in the chair on Worlds Deadliest Executions, hosted by Ed McMahon. Chief Wiggum then sends the body to the hospital to be carved up for organ donations, shortly afterward, Homer visits Dr. Nick, who transplants Snakes hair onto Homers head. When Homer goes to sleep the night, it plants its roots in Homers brain. With the hair controlling his mind, Homer murders Apu by drowning him in his own Squishee machine, the next day, Homer goes to Moes Tavern, where he removes Moes heart with a corkscrew. Bart realizes that the two witnesses have been killed, and Homer vows to protect him. Homer locks himself and Bart in a room, but Snakes hair takes control of him, Homer starts to try to kill Bart with a sledgehammer. Bart begs Homer to fight the hair and, after a struggle, the hair tries to smother Bart but Homer defends his son by punching the hair. Wiggum bursts through the door with the intention of arresting Homer for the murder of Moe, Homer states the hair is the killer, which makes a jump for the window. Wiggum opens fire and the hair is shot dead, Maggie picks up the hair and lays her head on it as a cushion. The segment also hints at the film Shocker, where Snake is executed via electric chair, comes back from the dead through his hair, and uses mind-control on Homer to exact revenge. Marge forbids Bart and Lisa from watching the Itchy & Scratchy Halloween special, when Marge leaves, Bart finds a small piece of highly unstable plutonium in Homers toolbox and hammers it into the remotes battery slot. When they use the remote, the kids actually enter the world of Itchy and Scratchy after they accidentally press the Enter button while Lisa tries to get the control from Bart
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When You Dish Upon a Star
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When You Dish Upon a Star is the fifth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 8,1998, when the family spend the day at Lake Springfield, Homer meets Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, who are hiding from the media in their secluded summer home. Homer starts to work for them, developing a good friendship and it was the last Simpsons episode written by Richard Appel, and was directed by Pete Michels. Bart and Lisa persuade their parents to spend the day at Lake Springfield, while there, Homer attempts parasailing and is involved in an accident when he tells Marge to send him up far too high, as a result, his rope detaches. He crashes through a roof and into the bedroom of Alec Baldwin. The couple and Homer become acquainted, Homer convinces the couple to allow him to be their assistant, while keeping it secret that the celebrity couple are in Springfield. Homer, at first, works well with the couple, both his attempts at writing for the couple are unsuccessful. Basinger, Baldwin and Howard discover the museum while intending to apologize to Homer, a high-speed chase quickly ensues between Homer, in his mobile museum, and the celebrities in their Hummer. Homer agrees to stop after Ron Howard is injured during the chase, Homer is ordered by a court of law to remain 500 miles away from any celebrity, both living or dead. During the opening sequence, Bart originally wrote butt. com on the chalkboard, however, it was modified to butt. butt, Richard Appel then offered the guest appearance opportunity to Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, but they too turned down the offer. Appel then offered Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger the opportunity to provide their voices, the episode was originally intended to be directed by Mike B. Anderson, but it was held over from season 9 and Pete Michels directed it, in December 2008, in an interview, Ron Howard commented that guest voicing himself was an honour. Probably, from my kids perspective, my coolest turn, Howard once again guest starred on The Simpsons as himself in the season eleven episode Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder. Howard was set to appear in Children of a Lesser Clod and his appearances on The Simpsons also suggest how much he remains an American icon, long after the end of his acting career. Its rare indeed for a director or producer to be as recognizable as most Hollywood stars. The title episode is a reference to the 1940 film Pinocchio, at the beginning of the episode, Homer has a dream that is a spoof of Hanna-Barberas series The Yogi Bear Show, with Homer as Yogi Bear, Bart as Boo Boo and Ned as Ranger Smith. The time machine drawing in Homers screenplay contains a Flux capacitor, the drinks wobbling as the townspeople approach Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwins house is a reference to the film Jurassic Park. Posters for 9½ Weeks and L. A. Confidential, both starring Basinger, are seen in Homers museum, at the end of the episode, Brian Grazer has a poster of the movie Titanic in his office
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D'oh-in' in the Wind
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Doh-in in the Wind is the sixth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 15,1998, in the episode, Homer Simpson travels to a farm owned by Seth and Munchie, two aged hippies who were friends with Homers mother. After finding out his name is Jay, Homer is drawn to the care-free lifestyle of hippies. The episode was written by Donick Cary and directed by Mark Kirkland, Kirkland, who was going through a divorce during the episodes production, assigned Nastuk, his assistant director, to take over direction in his stead. However, after Nastuk had directed a scene, Kirkland felt better, the episode features the revelation of Homers middle name, Jay, which is a tribute to characters from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show who got their middle initial from Jay Ward. The episode features comic actors George Carlin as Munchie and Martin Mull as Seth, Carlin was suggested by Simpsons writer Ron Hauge, who really wanted to meet him, although he did not attend the recording session with Carlin and Mull. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 8.4 million viewers, following the tenth seasons home release on August 7,2007, Doh-in in the Wind received mixed reviews from critics. Mr. Burns plans on eating a jar of pickles for lunch, nobody else in the plant is able to open it, either. As a result, Mr. Burns decides he needs tougher employees, so he directs Lenny, Carl, when Homer sees what a good job he did in the commercial, even though no one read the script, he plans on becoming an actor. As he fills out his Screen Actors Guild form, Lisa points out that he has not filled in his middle name and he consults Grandpa about it, who does not remember its origin, but suggests where it might be. They drive to a run by two middle-aged hippies, Seth and Munchie, who were friends of Homers mother back when she had been a hippie. They point out a mural she painted, which reveals Homers middle name, Jay, Homer sees how care-free his life would be if he were a hippie, and thus decides to become one. Homer dons a filthy old poncho left behind by Mona and carries around a frisbee as part of his hippie guise and he visits Groovy Grove Natural Farm, where he joins Seth and Munchie in their game of hackie-sack. The fun soon ends when Seth and Munchie have to go back to work, because of this, Homer believes that they are not hippies and so convinces them to join him on an old-time freak-out. In fury, they remind Homer that he is not, never was and at the rate he is going, never will be a hippie, a dejected Homer walks away, right before tossing his frisbee behind him, only for it to land in the factory again. At night, Homer plans on making it up to Seth and Munchie by taking the crops from their garden and making the juice with them, however, due to a shortage of juicing crops, he also finds and uses some of their personal vegetables. As a consequence, anyone who drinks the juice has crazy hallucinations, chief Wiggum catches on, and soon the police surround the farm. Homer comes out front to defend Seth and Munchie and hippie honor by reminding the police of the morals taught by the 1960s, however, Wiggum discharges his gun, lodging the flower from it in Homers forehead
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Lisa Gets an "A"
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Lisa Gets an A is the seventh episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 22,1998, in the episode, Lisa cheats on a test for which she fails to study and receives an A+++ grade, but becomes guilt-ridden. Meanwhile, Homer buys a lobster with the intention of fattening him up to eat, however, he becomes attached to it and decides to keep it as a pet named Pinchy. Lisa Gets an A was directed by Bob Anderson, and although it was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham, neither the main storyline nor the subplot was conceived by him. The main storyline was pitched by former staff writer Ron Hauge, while Richard Appel. The episode satirizes educational establishments, and features a parody of the video game Crash Bandicoot, in its original American broadcast, Lisa Gets an A was seen by approximately 8 million viewers, and finished in 51st place in ratings the week it aired. Following its broadcast, a scene in the episode garnered criticism from the The Catholic League, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics, and is considered one of the best episodes of the season. At the store, Homer wants to buy a lobster, but since the ones are too expensive, he decides to buy a small one. Although Lisa hates the idea, Marge wants Lisa to stay home from school for the few days to recover from her cold. She even fakes the perpetuation of her illness so that she can continue playing the game, when Marge finally compels her to return to school, Lisa realizes she is unprepared for a test on the book, having not read it. In a panic she visits Bart, who brings her to Nelson, miss Hoover grades the tests over lunch, and Lisa is awarded the rare grade of A+++. Meanwhile, Homer has become attached to his lobster and names him Pinchy. When the time comes to cook Pinchy, Homer cannot bring himself to do it, the family is extremely proud of Lisas achievement, although she is guilt-ridden at having cheated. Lisa admits that she cheated on the test, but Skinner, Meanwhile, Homer discovers that he has accidentally cooked Pinchy while giving him a hot bath. Later that night, a distraught Homer eats his late friend, Lisa Gets an A was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and directed by Bob Anderson. Although the episode was written by Maxtone-Graham, neither of the plots were conceived by him, the main plot involving Lisa was pitched by fellow Simpsons writer Ron Hauge, and the sub-plot involving Homer adopting a lobster was conceived by former staff writer Richard Appel. The writers found it difficult to get the go, and it took a long time to come up with the third act. The writers debated what name Homer would give his lobster, Hauge pitched that his name would be Shelly, however they eventually settled on naming him Pinchy. Hauge also pitched the name of the grocery store Eatie Gourmets, at the end of the episode, when Homer is eating Pinchy, a lot of the dialogue was ad-libbed by Dan Castellaneta, who portrays Homer among other characters in the series
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Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"
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Homer Simpson in, Kidney Trouble is the eighth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 6,1998, in the episode Grampas kidneys explode, leaving him in urgent need of a donor. His son Homer initially agrees to one of his kidneys. Homer Simpson in, Kidney Trouble was directed by Mike B. Anderson and written by John Swartzwelder, Meyer also pitched the sequence involving the ship of lost souls, which received mixed reactions from The Simpsons staff members. The episode contains references to Night of the Living Dead and North by Northwest, in its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 7.2 million viewers and finished in 54th place in the ratings the week it aired. Following the release of The Simpsons - The Complete Tenth Season, Homer Simpson in, Homer takes Marge and the kids down to Bloodbath Gulch, a ghost town turned tourist destination. On their way there, his car breaks down in front of the Springfield Retirement Castle, Homer is forced to take Grampa with them. Grampa drinks too much sarsaparilla and as the family is leaving, Homer refuses to stop, saying he needs to get home in time to watch an episode of Inside the Actors Studio. Grampa is forced to hold it in for hours and as a result, Dr. Hibbert informs the family that Grampa does not have much time to live and the only way he can be saved is if Homer donates one of his kidneys. Homer happily agrees and is admired and pampered for it by his wife, however, he becomes frightened after finding out about the risks involved in the operation from Moe and his friends at the bar and jumps out a window at the last minute in the surgery room. While there, he meets several people who have their own tales of misery. Homer tells them his story, but the others are appalled, Homer eventually drifts back to shore, where he witnesses a father and son build a sand castle and laments how he never had such a relationship with his own father or his kids. Homer decides determinedly to rectify his mistake and takes off for the hospital, Homer arrives in time, reconciling with Grampa and apologizing for his behavior, but panics and flees again at the last minute. His mad dash from the hospital is stopped by a car carrier. While the driver hits the brakes in time, one of its cars slides off, Homer later wakes up in a hospital bed and is greeted by Dr. Hibbert, Marge and the kids. When Grandpa appears in the doorway alive and well, Homer discovers that while he was unconscious, Homer is angry at first, but settles down after his family tells him he did the right thing for Grampa. They engage in a hug, and Homer proceeds to consider Bart as a potential donor for himself. Homer Simpson in, Kidney Trouble was written by John Swartzwelder and it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 6,1998
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Mayored to the Mob
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Mayored to the Mob is the ninth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 20,1998, after Homer prevents Mayor Quimby and Mark Hamill from being trampled at a convention, Homer trains to become a bodyguard and is employed by Quimby. After Homer discovers Quimby has been making corrupt deals with Fat Tony and forces him to end the deal, Fat Tony threatens to kill Quimby, the episode was written by Ron Hauge and directed by Swinton O. Scott III, and received positive reviews from critics overall. While watching television, the Simpson family sees a commercial for the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, a science-fiction convention featuring Mark Hamill and others, a riot breaks out at the convention after Hamill offers the chance for someone in the crowd to act out a scene with him. Homer notices that Mark Hamill and Mayor Quimby are in danger of being trampled due to the riot, in gratitude, Quimby employs Homer as his bodyguard. Homer begins training at Leavelles Bodyguard Academy, where he quickly graduates, unbeknownst to Homer, Quimby made a deal with Fat Tony shortly after Homer was employed to provide milk to the schools of Springfield. Homer discovers the milk is from rats and confronts Quimby, accidentally knocking him out a window, discovering Quimby hanging from a ledge, Homer makes him promise to expose Fat Tony in return for being pulled to safety. Quimby organizes the arrests of Fat Tony and his men, scared at having to defend Quimby due to the death threats, Homer attempts to reassure the Mayor by taking him to a dinner theater to see Mark Hamill portray Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. Louie attempts to stab Quimby but is stopped in a scuffle with Homer after Hamill advises Homer to use the forks, however, Fat Tony is still able to savagely beat Quimby with a baseball bat. Hamill says to Homer that Quimby will be fine, and Homer helps Hamill escape from the paparazzi. Ron Hauge, writer of the episode, wanted to do an episode where he would use Homers qualities such as oafishness, brute strength, thickness, and loyalty, for good. When Lisa says they have to go back for Maggie after the escape the riot, Homer says Forget Maggie. Matt Groening claims this to be one of his favorite quotes in the show, Hamill only agreed to guest star if he was allowed to voice a character as well as himself. He stated that he loved doing the voice for bodyguard instructor Leavelle a lot more than he did providing the voice for himself, the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con science-fiction convention features numerous references to the genre. Zachary Smith from the series Lost in Space TV show, as well as the robot from the show, real-life astronaut Neil Armstrong is also a guest. Seymour Skinner is dressed as Spock from Star Trek, as are several others, when Comic Book Guy meets a girl with similar interests to him at the convention, Alexander Courages piece Under the Spell from the original Star Trek pilot The Cage is played. A booth for the comic book Roswell, Little Green Man is seen at the convention, the episode contains multiple references to Star Wars, the film series in which Hamill starred. Throughout the episode, Hamill wears the costume of his Star Wars character Luke Skywalker, the convention features a tag-team wrestling match which sees the mighty robots from the series Battlestar Galactica fight the gay robots from Star Wars
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Viva Ned Flanders
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Viva Ned Flanders is the tenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 10,1999, in the episode, Ned Flanders, who is revealed to be 60 years old, feels that he has not lived his life to the fullest. He asks for help from his neighbor, Homer Simpson, who takes Ned to Las Vegas to show him the way to live. However, while there, the two become intoxicated and marry two cocktail waitresses, the episode was written by David M. Stern and directed by Neil Affleck. The revelation of Neds age was heavily debated between the Simpsons staff, and the decision to make him 60 years old could have been inspired from a joke by Simpsons writer Ron Hauge. A scene in the features the song Viva Las Vegas by Elvis Presley. The episode was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 1999, following the tenth seasons release on DVD, the episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. Amber and Ginger have appeared in episodes in the series, the first time being the season 13 episode Brawl in the Family. Mr. Burns Casino is about to get demolished, however, the family goes to the car wash to get rid of the dust, and when Homer is there, he sees that Ned Flanders gets a senior discount. Homer thinks Ned is lying and tries to him at church. Ned reluctantly agrees with this and asks Homer to teach him the secret to his lust for life and this leads Homer to head towards Mr. Burns Casino, but when Ned reminds Homer it is now defunct, Homer instead takes Ned on a gambling trip to Las Vegas. Homer is confident about going there, but Flanders is nervous, when they arrive, they see Captain Lance Murdock doing one of his stunts, and Homer chooses to volunteer, and survives. They wander into a casino called Neros Palace and begin to play roulette, Ned protests against games of chance because of Deuteronomy 7, but Homer ignores him and takes the reference as a lucky number. They win, but immediately lose all they won and they then go to the casinos bar, and Ned gives into temptation and gets drunk on wine spritzers. Homer and Ned wake up the morning in their hotel room married to two cocktail waitresses, Homers new wife is named Amber, and Neds new wife is Ginger. Homer finally realizes he got in over his head, while Homer fantasizes about bigamy, Ned snaps Homer back to reality by saying they were drunk and thus not of sound judgement to have such quickie, plastic weddings, also they are already married. Homer and Ned attempt to escape in a car, but are beaten up in the process and are exiled from Las Vegas, Amber & Ginger angrily tell the two never to marry them again. Homer and Ned head back to their wives in Springfield by hitchhiking
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Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
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Sunday, Cruddy Sunday is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 31,1999, just after Super Bowl XXXIII, in the episode, while buying new tires for his car, Homer meets a travel agent called Wally Kogen. After becoming friends, Kogen offers Homer a free bus ride to the Super Bowl, several people, including Bart, tag along what soon becomes a problematic trip. Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa set out to find the parts of Vincent Prices Egg Magic. Sunday, Cruddy Sunday was directed by Steven Dean Moore and written by George Meyer, Brian Scully, Mike Scully and Tom Martin, Mike Scully jokingly said that the episode was thrown together without thought or structure by the writers. For the subplot, the tried to come up with the most boring thing Lisa. All guest-stars played themselves, except for Willard who portrayed Kogen, the episode pokes fun at folk singer Burl Ives, former United States president Bill Clinton as well as the series fans, among other things. The episode was released on video for the first time in 2004, and in 2007. Following its broadcast, the episode received positive reviews from critics. After its original broadcast, however, a scene in the episode involving a fictitious, in September the same year, when the episode was supposed to repeat, the Catholic League asked Fox if they could censor the scene, which the network agreed to. The networks decision was criticized by journalists and staff members, the censored version of the episode is still in syndication. When Bart, Lisa and the students of Springfield Elementary go on a trip to the post office, Bart gets a coupon book as a souvenir. Homer uses one of his coupons at a business on a free wheel balancing. While waiting for the new tires, Homer meets Wally Kogen and they go to Moes and watch a special on the Super Bowl on TV. Wally says his agency has a bus going to the game and suggests to Homer that he can fill the bus. Moe agrees to come as do other prominent men of Springfield, Homer, Bart and the group arrive at Miamis Pro Player Stadium for pre-game festivities, but the ticket agent reveals the tickets Wally had bought were counterfeit. Attempting to sneak into the stadium, the group is locked up in the detention center and they are freed when Kogens friend Dolly Parton uses her extra-strength makeup remover to dissolve the lock on the door. They run into a suite and get a view of the game until the owner Rupert Murdoch arrives
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I'm with Cupid
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Im with Cupid is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on Valentines Day,1999, the episode takes place on Valentines Day, and the wives of Springfield are jealous of the attention Apu gives to his wife Manjula. Angered by this, the Springfield husbands spy on Apu to sabotage his romantic plans, Im with Cupid was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Bob Anderson. Because the episode was to air on Valentines Day, Fox wanted the episode to relate to the holiday, the title of the episode is based on the popular T-shirt slogan Im with stupid. Elton John guest-starred as himself, and recorded a new version of his song Your Song for the episode, the episode also features references to Breakfast at Tiffanys, Tiffany & Co. and Lisa the Vegetarian, an earlier episode in the series. In its original broadcast, Im With Cupid was seen by approximately 7.7 million viewers, following the home media release of The Simpsons, The Complete Tenth Season, the episode received generally positive reviews from critics. Apu and his new wife Manjula invite Homer and Marge to their house for dinner, however, Apu and Manjula get in a fight, after Marge mentions to Manjula that Apu does not need to work as much as he does. The week before Valentines Day, Apu tells Homer that he is disappointed that Manjula does not love him, until Homer assures him that Manjula will not leave him before Valentines Day, Apu decides to shower Manjula with many romantic surprises to regain her love. However, although many of Apus surprises succeed in fixing his marriage, the rest of Springfields women become jealous from all the attention Manjula is receiving, and find their men to be cheapskates. At Moes Tavern, Homer encourages several of Springfields men that they have to prevent Apu and Manjula from reconciling to save their own relationships and marriages. During Valentines Day, Homer, Chief Wiggum, Dr. Hibbert, Moe and they go around town and Flanders is thrown out of the group for suggesting they should be using their time to be more romantic to their wives instead of trying to sabotage Apu. Following Apu to the airport, the group see Elton John there. However, Apus actual plan is that he arranged for a skywriter to write I ♥ U MANJULA, during the trouble that ensues, Homer jumps on the plane during takeoff to try to stop the skywriter from spraying the message. When Homer destroys the planes canister in mid-air it only sprayed part of the message - I ♥ U *, nonetheless, Elton John is able to perform a private concert for Apu and Manjula, and their marriage is saved. Im With Cupid was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Bob Anderson and it was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on Valentines Day,1999. Because they knew it would air on Valentines Day, Fox asked the Simpsons staff to produce an episode related to the holiday, the episodes ending credits were also painted red in honor of the holiday. The idea for the episode was pitched by Greaney, who wrote the episodes first draft. The episodes title was pitched by fellow Simpsons writer Ron Hauge, however, Hauge later found out that the title had already been used before for an episode of another television series
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Maximum Homerdrive
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Maximum Homerdrive is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 28,1999, in the episode, Homer challenges trucker Red Barclay to a meat eating contest, which Barclay is the long-standing champion of. Barclay wins, but quickly dies of poisoning, making it the first time Barclay will miss a shipment. Feeling bad for him, Homer takes on the duty of transporting Barclays cargo to Atlanta, Maximum Homerdrive was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Swinton O. Scott III. Although the episodes first draft was written by Swartzwelder, the staff was split into two groups in order to focus on both the A-story and the B-story. The episode features references to comedian Tony Randall, model Bettie Page, in its original broadcast, Maximum Homerdrive received a 7.8 Nielsen rating among adults between ages 18 and 49, the highest such rating for the series since Wild Barts Cant Be Broken. Variety credited the boost in ratings to the premiere of Futurama, following the tenth seasons home video release, the episode received mixed reviews from critics. The Simpsons go out to dinner at a new steakhouse, whose existence Lisa is protesting, Homer and Red compete to see who can eat the 16-pound steak, Sir Loin-a-Lot, first. Red wins the challenge, but dies from beef poisoning according to Dr. Hibbert, Homer decides to finish Reds last delivery and brings Bart along with him. During the trip, Homer falls asleep and wakes up abruptly at the wheel of the due to taking a combination of pep pills. He awakes to discover that the truck drove by itself with its Navitron Autodrive System and he informs other truck drivers, who inform him that he cannot let anyone know about the Autodrive system because it would make all truck drivers lose their jobs. However, Homer tells the passengers of a passing bus about the system, but even after the Autodrive system ejects itself from Homers semi, Homer is able to escape from the angry trucker mob. Homer and Bart arrive in Atlanta to finish Reds shipment on time, after installation, Lisa rings the doorbell, despite Marges insistence that they should let visitors do the ringing first. The doorbell starts to malfunction and repeatedly plays the song, Marge attempts to cut the wires to the doorbell, but fails to, since Homer traded their tools for M&Ms. She pulls out a wire, which causes the doorbell to play faster and louder. The doorbell stores mascot, Señor Ding-Dong, appears and uses his whip to silence the doorbell, Maximum Homerdrive, originally called Homer the Trucker, was written by staff writer John Swartzwelder and directed by Simpsons director Swinton O. Scott III. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 28,1999, the meat-eating contest seen in the beginning of the episode was conceived by Simpsons writer Donick Cary during a story pitch-out, according to writer and executive producer Matt Selman. When rewriting the episode, the staff was divided into two groups, so that one group wrote the A-story, while the other wrote the B-story
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Simpsons Bible Stories
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Simpsons Bible Stories is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on Easter Sunday and it is the first of The Simpsons now annual trilogy episodes, and consists of four self-contained segments. In the episode, the Simpson family fall asleep during a sermon in church, Simpsons Bible Stories was written by Matt Selman, Larry Doyle and Tim Long, and was the first episode Nancy Kruse directed for The Simpsons. Because the episode takes place outside Springfield, the animators had to design completely new sets. While the episode features references to the Old Testament and Christianity, it also parodies childrens television programs, American politicians. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 12.2 million viewers, following its broadcast, the episode received mixed reviews from critics, but won an Annie award in the category of Best Animated Television Production. The episodes ending scene is one of series creator Matt Groenings favorite moments on The Simpsons, the episode has been credited with fostering a critical literacy towards religion and the Bible among its viewers. It is an unseasonably hot Easter at church, and no one is interested in Reverend Lovejoys sermons, Marge dreams that she and Homer are Adam and Eve. They peacefully live in the Garden of Eden until a snake tempts Adam into eating dozens of apples from the forbidden tree and he persuades Eve to try one when God witnesses his sin. Even though Adam ate many apples, God only caught Eve eating an apple, Adam is unwilling to come clean, but misses Eve and thinks of a way of getting her back in by digging a tunnel with the help of some of the animals. Gods unicorn, named Gary, becomes exhausted from the digging, the death of the unicorn enrages him further, and he expels them both from the Garden of Eden. Lisa imagines she and all the other Springfield Elementary students are Hebrews in ancient Egypt, only Moses can liberate the Hebrews. When Bart defaces the Pharaohs sarcophagus, supposedly incited by the burning bush, Lisa helps Milhouse produce plagues to scare the Pharaoh into freeing the Israelites, they fail. This in turn gets Lisa and Milhouse thrown in a Pyramid prison, when they escape, Milhouse gathers all the students and they attempt to leave. When they reach the sea, Lisa has an idea to get across, as they cross, the Pharaoh and his guards follow, but the water fills the sea back up and swallows them. They enjoy splashing each other, and then return to the shore, pleased that they have escaped, Milhouse asks Lisa what the future holds for the Israelites, but Lisa disappoints Milhouse when she says that they have to wander the desert for forty years. Milhouse then asks if it is going to be sailing for the Jews after that. Rather than disappoint Milhouse again with news of the ongoing anti-Semitism that will plague the Jews for many centuries, Homer pictures himself as King Solomon
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Mom and Pop Art
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Mom and Pop Art is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It was first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 11,1999, in this episode, Homer inadvertently becomes a well-praised outsider artist after his failed attempts to build a barbecue pit. His exhibit goes to the Louvre, and after Mr. Burns buys his artwork, however, after his new art appears in the Art in America show, Homers artwork is criticized for being too repetitive of his first piece. After his recent failure, Homer tries to devise something groundbreaking, Mom and Pop Art was directed by Steven Dean Moore and was the first episode Al Jean wrote after his return to The Simpsons writing staff. The episodes plot was conceived by Jean, who was inspired by a segment about found artists on the news magazine 60 Minutes. The episode features contemporary artist Jasper Johns as himself, and also features Italian actress Isabella Rossellini as Astrid Weller and it features references to several famous artworks, such as those of Leonardo da Vinci and Henri Rousseau. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 8.5 million viewers, following the home video release of The Simpsons - The Complete Tenth Season, Mom and Pop Art received mixed reviews from critics. Homer is relaxing on a Saturday when Marge tells him that he should be doing work around the house, Homer overcomes his reluctance and takes Bart to Mom & Pop Hardware to get some equipment. But while there, Homer sees a do it yourself barbecue pit and is compelled to buy it instead of anything that might help him with his work, Homer tries to install the pit, but bungles the job when he drops the parts of the barbecue into wet cement. He frantically tries to assemble the barbecue pit before the cement hardens, in the end, Homer is left with a mismatched collection of parts stuck in hardened cement, which angers him. He vents his rage on the construct, mangling it further, later, Homer takes the results of his work back to the store for a refund, which he does not receive. On the way home, Homer loses control of the containing the jumbled mess of concrete. It rolls down the highway and crashes into a womans car, Homer flees the scene of the accident, but the woman tracks him down. It turns out that she is an artist named Astrid Weller, Homers exhibit goes to the Louvre, American Style museum and when Mr. Burns buys his work, Homer becomes a success. Now officially an outsider artist, Homer uses his rage to continue his work and befriends other stereotypically pretentious artists. All the while, his easily achieved fame makes Marge jealous due to her lack of success at becoming a successful artist despite years of effort, down on his luck and starved for inspiration, Lisa recommends Homer visit the Springfield Art Museum. He goes back home, discouraged, but is given another suggestion by Lisa. She tells him about the artist Christo, causing Homer to try doing something similarly groundbreaking and he and Bart flood Springfield by opening all the fire hydrants and putting snorkels in the animals of the zoo
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The Old Man and the "C" Student
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The Old Man and the C Student is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 25,1999, in the episode, after offending the Olympic committee during their visit to Springfield Elementary, the schools students are committed to 20 hours of community service. Bart, along with his sister Lisa, is put in charge of Springfields retirement home, meanwhile, Bart and Lisas father Homer tries to sell springs. The Old Man and the C Student was directed by Mark Kirkland and was the first episode Julie Thacker wrote for The Simpsons. While Barts storyline was pitched by Thacker, the B-story, involving Homer, was conceived by Thackers husband Mike Scully, who also was an executive producer, Jack Lalanne guest-starred as himself in the episode. On its original broadcast, The Old Man and the C Student was seen by approximately 6.9 million viewers, following the release of The Simpsons, The Complete Tenth Season, the episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. When Lisa writes a letter to the International Olympic Committee, they decide that Springfield will be home to the next Olympics, to honor the Olympics, there is a contest for the games mascot. Homer creates a mascot for the Olympic Games named Springy, the Springfield Spring, when the IOC inspects the town, things go well until Bart does a stand-up comedy routine that insults foreign nations, which only Principal Skinner, Homer, and the children find funny. In response, the IOC decides not to let Springfield have the Olympics anymore, Bart is dismayed at how little the seniors are allowed to do. Meanwhile, Homer gets 1,000 springs he intended to sell as Olympic mascots and he uses various get-rich-quick schemes to sell off the mascots, but fails miserably due to Springfields hatred of Barts comedy routine. Ultimately, he is forced to flush the mascots down the toilet, at the time Lisa leads the seniors in imagination time, but when she departs, Bart makes the seniors escape to get a taste of freedom. Bart takes the seniors on a trip on the town and on a ride, and Lisa is initially shocked to see these things happen. The seniors have fun until their boat crashes into Mr. Burnss schooner, the boat begins to sink and the seniors turn on Bart, but Grampa defends him, saying Bart gave them the best fun they have had in years. However, the springs that Homer flushed down the toilet save them, Bart finishes his community service time, but decides to help the seniors still enjoy themselves. The Old Man and the C Student was directed by Mark Kirkland and was the first episode Julie Thacker wrote for The Simpsons and it was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on April 25,1999. The episodes plot was based on a school program, in which students had to participate in community service in order to be allowed to advance to the next grade. Thacker, whose oldest daughter was a student at the school, was signed up to do community service at an old home in the town they lived in. In a scene in the episode, Lenny gets one of Homers springs stuck in his eye, Lennys eye injuries have since become a running gag, and The Old Man and the C Student started the trend, according to Thacker
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Monty Can't Buy Me Love
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Monty Cant Buy Me Love is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 2,1999, in the episode, Mr. Burns is jealous of megastore owner Arthur Fortune, who is beloved by the people of Springfield. In order to win the love, Burns gathers the help of Homer Simpson, Professor Frink. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Mark Ervin, the idea for the episode was pitched by the Simpsons writing staff, who wanted to make an episode in which Mr. Burns becomes a thrillionaire, a millionaire who goes on thrilling adventures. Although it would originally be green, a mistake in the animation led to the Loch Ness monster looking pink. In its original broadcast, Monty Cant Buy Me Love was seen by approximately 7.26 million viewers, following the release of The Simpsons, The Complete Tenth Season, the episode received mixed reviews from critics. On a normal afternoon, Marge wants Homer, Bart, Lisa and they agree when faced with the threat of having to talk to each other, and arrive at a Fortune Megastore, a venture of wealthy Arthur Fortune. Fortune easily charms the crowd and hands out dollar bills to his customers and this embarrasses the unpopular Mr. Burns, who asks Homer to help him be loved by all. As his first activity, Burns has Homer throw silver dollars from the top of a tall building, next, he writes out a check and tells Homer to donate it to the Springfield Hospital, but Homer is mistakenly believed to be the donor and receives the credit. Mr. Burns appears on a show called Jerry Rude. Feeling disappointed, Mr. Burns decides to go to Scotland to capture the legendary Loch Ness Monster with help from Homer, Professor Frink, after little progress, Burns has the loch drained of water to expose the creature. After subduing the monster single-handed, Burns has it sent to Springfield to be unveiled, however, during the unveiling of the monster, Burns is blinded by camera flashes. He runs into a camera, which crashes and starts a fire, following this disaster, Homer then cheers up Burns by pointing out that being loved means you have to be nice to people everyday but being hated means you do not have to do anything. Burns agrees with that logic, saying Im a selfish old crank--and that fits me like a Speedo, in the aftermath of the incident, Homer and Burns give Nessie a job at the Vegas Town Casino. Monty Cant Buy Me Love was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Mark Ervin and it originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 2,1999. The episodes third act went through several incarnations, and the writers had a lot of ideas about what Burns should do once he has captured the Loch Ness monster, eventually, the staff settled on the acts current iteration, which was conceived by Simpsons writer George Meyer. Because it would be too expensive to re-color all the cels in which the monster appears, inside the Fortune Megastore, Simpsons staff writer Ian Maxtone-Graham can be seen. The episode features American comedian and composer Michael McKean as Jerry Rude, Scully stated that McKean was very funny and that his Stern impression was dead on the money
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They Saved Lisa's Brain
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They Saved Lisas Brain is the twenty-second episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 9,1999, in the episode, after writing a thoughtful letter to the Springfield Shopper, Lisa is invited to join the Springfield chapter of Mensa. When Mayor Quimby later flees Springfield, the group control of the town. Meanwhile, Homer poses for a series of erotic photos and they Saved Lisas Brain was directed by Pete Michels and written by Matt Selman, although the idea for the episode was pitched by former staff writer George Meyer. It featured the first official appearance of Lindsey Naegle and was the first episode in which theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking guest-starred as himself. The Simpsons staff wanted Hawking to guest-star because they needed someone who would be smarter than all of Springfields Mensa members, and because they had heard that he was a fan of the show. The episode features references to Star Trek, painter Vincent van Gogh and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and mentions the theory of the universe being toroidal, the same shape as a doughnut. In its original broadcast, They Saved Lisas Brain was seen by approximately 6.8 million viewers, following the episodes broadcast, Selman made a controversial statement about East St. Louis, which was pronounced the least livable city in the United States in the episode. While the episode received mixed reviews critics, Hawkings appearance garnered critical acclaim. Hawking has since appeared in three episodes, and a figure based on his cameos in the series has been produced. Although Hawking has stated that he enjoyed guest-starring on The Simpsons, a low-fat pudding, Grandma Plopwells, is the sponsor of a Springfield contest that promises a luxurious trip to the most disgusting and dimwitted contest participant in town. Many Springfield residents enter the contest, but things do not go well when one of the judges, Rainier Wolfcastle, the contest ends in a riot and Lisa ends up hit in the face twice with pudding. She denounces Springfield for its anti-intellectualism in a letter that ends up in the newspaper. This impresses the Springfield Mensa chapter, which accepts her for membership after Principal Skinner shared her placement tests, Lisa joins Mensa alongside Comic Book Guy, Dr. Hibbert, Principal Skinner, Professor Frink, and Lindsay Naegle. After the pleasantries, Lisa finds herself at home alongside the Mensa members, the Mensa group goes to confront Mayor Quimby about the gazebo incident, until he escapes from the city when he mistakenly thinks the group has evidence about his corruption. The towns constitution states that in the absence of the mayor, now in control of Springfield, the group hopes that things will become much better. Once in control, however, the group allows power to go to their heads, the Springfield townspeople, angered by the new laws, surround the intellectuals in an angry mob and bring an end to Mensas rule. Stephen Hawking has shown up to see what the Mensa group is up to and makes it clear he is unimpressed, however, in the end, Hawking and Homer meet at Moes Tavern for a drink
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Thirty Minutes over Tokyo
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Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo is the twenty-third episode and season finale of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 16,1999, in the episode, after being robbed by Snake Jailbird, the Simpsons visit a money-saving seminar, where they learn ways to limit their expenses. The episode was written by Donick Cary and Dan Greaney, while Jim Reardon served as director and it was one of the last episodes written in its production line, and its title is a reference to the war film 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. Several guest-stars appeared in the episode, including George Takei as the host for The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show, the episode mocks several aspects of the Japanese culture, including the perceived cruelty of Japanese game shows. The episode was seen by approximately 8 million viewers in its original broadcast, in 2005, the episode was first released on home video, and in 2007, it was released as part of the tenth season DVD box set. Following the tenth seasons home release, Thirty Minutes over Tokyo received mixed reviews from critics. Because of a scene in which the Emperor of Japan is thrown into a filled with sumo thongs. While visiting an Internet café with Bart and Lisa, Homer is cyber-robbed by Snake of his banks entire savings account, when Ned Flanders catches Homer burgling his house, he says he got more for less by attending the Chuck Garabedian Mega-Savings Seminar. Homer steals Neds tickets and the Simpsons attend the seminar, in which Chuck explains many money-saving strategies, the Simpsons follow them and save enough for a Garabedian-sponsored vacation. They steal airplane tickets from the Flanders at the airport and go to Tokyo, Homer and Bart separate from Marge and Lisa and attend a sumo match. When a wrestler steals Homers pretzel, he and Bart knock him out, then when the Emperor of Japan, Akihito, congratulates Homer, as a result, he and Bart are put in jail until Marge pays the bail. Consequently, the money the family has left is a one-million yen bill. The family finds work in a factory in Osaka, where they notice a TV game show called The Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show. They go on it, telling the host Wink that they wish for plane tickets to Springfield, in order to get them, they go through physical torture, then must pick them up from a rickety bridge over an active volcano. Lisa is able to get the tickets, but Wink breaks the bridge and the family falls into the volcano. As the Simpsons leave Japan, their plane is briefly confronted by four giant monsters – Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera, the episode, which was originally titled Fat Man and Little Boy, was directed by Jim Reardon and written by Donick Cary and Dan Greaney. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on May 16,1999, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo was one of the last episodes produced for the series tenth season. Staff writers Cary and Greaney wrote the draft in a couple of days, originally, there would be a long scene about how Homer had bought a pre-Columbian vase on the Internet, however the scene was ultimately cut from the episode
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The Simpsons (season 1)
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The Simpsons first season originally aired on the Fox network between December 17,1989 and May 13,1990, beginning with the Christmas special Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. The executive producers for the first production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, the producers considered aborting the series if the next episode turned out as bad, but it only suffered from easily fixable problems. The producers convinced Fox to move the debut to December 17, the first season won one Emmy Award, and received four additional nominations. The DVD boxset was released on September 25,2001 in Region 1, Season one was also released for the iTunes Store on December 22,2010, dubbed a digital edition. The Simpsons creator Matt Groening conceived the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brookss office, Brooks, the producer of the sketch comedy program The Tracey Ullman Show, wanted to use a series of animated shorts as bumpers between sketches. He had asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts, the Simpson family first appeared as shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. Groening submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned up in production, the animators merely re-traced his drawings, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial short episodes. In 1989, a team of companies adapted The Simpsons into a half-hour series for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The team included what is now the Klasky Csupo animation house, during the years of producing the shorts, everything was created in-house. Due to the workload of the full-length episodes, production was subcontracted to South Korean animation studio AKOM. While character and background layout is done by the studio, tweening, coloring. The Simpsons was co-developed by Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon, Groening and Simon, however, did not get along and were often in conflict over the show, Groening once described their relationship as very contentious. Groening said his goal in creating the show was to offer the audience an alternative to what he called the mainstream trash that they were watching, Brooks negotiated a provision in the contract with the Fox network that prevented Fox from interfering with the shows content. Fox was nervous about the show because they were unsure if it could sustain the attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven-minute shorts per episode and four specials until the audience adjusted, but in the end, the producers gambled by asking Fox for 13 full-length episodes. Simon assembled and led the team of writers, consisting of John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, George Meyer, Jeff Martin, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen. Simon has been credited as developing sensibility, ken Levine says he brought a level of honesty to the characters and made them three-dimensional, adding that Simons comedy is all about character, not just a string of gags. In The Simpsons, the characters are motivated by their emotions, what are they thinking. —that is Sams contribution
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The Simpsons (season 2)
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The Simpsons second season originally aired on the Fox network between October 11,1990 and May 9,1991, and contained 22 episodes, beginning with Bart Gets an F. Another episode, Blood Feud, aired during the summer after the season finale. The executive producers for the production season were Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. The DVD box set was released on August 6,2002 in Region 1, July 8,2002 in Region 2, the second season featured a new opening sequence, which was shortened by fifteen seconds from its original length of roughly 1 minute,30 seconds. Starting with this season, there were three versions of the opening, a full roughly 1 minute 15 second long version, a 45-second version and this gave the shows editors more leeway. It would move from 8,00 PM on Sunday night to the time on Thursday where it would compete with The Cosby Show on NBC. Many of the producers, including James L. Brooks, were against the move because The Simpsons had been in the top 10 while airing on Sunday, all through the summer of 1990, several news outlets published stories about the supposed Bill vs. Bart rivalry. At the time, NBC had 208 television stations, while Fox only had 133, Bart Gets an F was the first episode to air against The Cosby Show and averaged an 18.4 Nielsen rating and 29% of the audience. In the weeks ratings, it finished tied for eighth behind The Cosby Show which had an 18.5 rating, however, an estimated 33.6 million viewers watched the episode, making it the number one show in terms of actual viewers that week. At the time, it was the most watched episode in the history of Fox, the next week, Simpson and Delilah had a 16.2 rating and 25% share while the Cosby Show managed to maintain its 18.5 rating. However, viewer-wise, The Simpsons won again with 29.9 million viewers, the next week, Treehouse of Horror fell in the ratings, finishing 24th. Ratings wise, new episodes of The Cosby Show beat The Simpsons every time during the second season, three Men and a Comic Book would boast the only victory over The Cosby Show, finishing 23rd in the weekly ratings while a rerun of Cosby finished 26th. At the end of the season, Cosby averaged as the fifth highest rated show on television while The Simpsons was 38th and it would not be until the third season episode Homer at the Bat that The Simpsons would beat The Cosby Show in the ratings. The show remained in its Thursday timeslot until the sixth season, on aggregate review website Metacritic, a site which uses a weighted mean score, the season scored a 91/100 based on seven critics, indicating universal acclaim. The DVD boxset for season two was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on August 6,2002, as well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material including commentaries for every episode. Bibliography Season 2 at The Simpsons. com Season 2 at the BBC Season 2 at TV. com
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The Simpsons (season 3)
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The Simpsons third season originally aired on the Fox network between September 19,1991 and August 27,1992. An additional episode, Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes, aired on August 27,1992 after the official end of the third season and is included on the Season 3 DVD set. Season three won six Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and also received a nomination for Outstanding Animated Program for the episode Radio Bart. The complete season was released on DVD in Region 1 on August 26,2003, Region 2 on October 6,2003, al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had written for The Simpsons since the start of the show, took over as showrunners this season. Their first episode as showrunners was Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington and they also ran the following season and Jean would return as executive producer in season 13. There were two episodes, Kamp Krusty and A Streetcar Named Marge, that were produced at the same time, but aired during season four as holdover episodes. Two episodes that aired during season, Stark Raving Dad and When Flanders Failed, were executive produced during the previous season by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening. Carlos Baeza and Jeffrey Lynch received their first directing credits this season, alan Smart, an assistant director and layout artist, would receive his only directing credit. One-time writers from this season include Robert Cohen, Howard Gewirtz, Ken Levine, the current arrangement of the theme song was introduced during this season. A crossover episode with the live-action sitcom Thirtysomething, titled Thirtysimpsons, was written by David Stern for this season, the crossover would involve Homer meeting a group of Yuppies and hanging out with them. The season premiere episode was Stark Raving Dad, which guest starred Michael Jackson as the voice of Leon Kompowsky. One of Jacksons conditions for guest starring was that he voiced himself under a pseudonym, while he recorded the voice work for the character, all of his singing was performed by Kipp Lennon, because Jackson wanted to play a joke on his brothers. Michael Jacksons lines were recorded at a session by Brooks. The January 30,1992 rerun of the featured a brief alternate opening. The writers decided that they wanted to respond by adding a response to the next broadcast of The Simpsons, the broadcast included a new tongue-in-cheek opening where they watch Bushs speech. Bart replies, Hey, were just like the Waltons, were praying for an end to the Depression, too. Homer at the Bat is the first episode in the series to feature a supporting cast of guest stars. The idea was suggested by Sam Simon, who wanted an episode filled with real Major League Baseball players and they did manage to get nine players who agreed to guest star and they were recorded over a period of six months
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The Simpsons (season 4)
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The Simpsons fourth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 24,1992 and May 13,1993, beginning with Kamp Krusty. The showrunners for the production season were Al Jean and Mike Reiss. The aired season contained two episodes which were episodes from season three, which Jean and Reiss also ran. Following the end of the production of the season, Jean, Reiss, the season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and Dan Castellaneta would win one for his performance as Homer in Mr. Plow. The fourth season was released on DVD in Region 1 on June 15,2004, Region 2 on August 2,2004, the season was executive produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had also run the previous season. Several of the original writers who had been with the show since the first season left following the completion of the seasons production run. Cape Feare, which was the episode to be produced by the original team. Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky and Jeff Martin wrote their final episodes for the four production run. David M. Stern and Jon Vitti also left but returned to write episodes for later seasons. Reiss and Jean left to produce their own series, The Critic, but later returned to several more The Simpsons episodes. Rich Moore, one of the original directors, also left to work on The Critic. George Meyer and John Swartzwelder stayed on, while Conan OBrien, Frank Mula and future show runners Bill Oakley, one-time writers for the season include Adam I. Lapidus and the team of Gary Apple and Michael Carrington, although Carrington later returned to voice characters in Simpson Tide, simon was involved in a series of creative disputes with the shows creator Matt Groening, producer James L. Brooks and production company Gracie Films. Simon commented that he wasnt enjoying it anymore, and that any show Ive ever worked on, it turns me into a monster. Before leaving, he negotiated a deal that saw him receive a share of the shows every year. This seasons production run was the first to be animated by Film Roman, Klasky Csupo co-founder Gábor Csupó had been asked if they could bring in their own producer, but declined, stating they wanted to tell me how to run my business. Simon commented that, There wont be any change in the quality or look of the show, were not going to compromise the quality of the show, and key creative personnel will continue on the show. A Streetcar Named Marge and Kamp Krusty were holdovers from the previous season, Brooks suggested that the script for Kamp Krusty be expanded and produced as a feature-length theatrically released film
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The Simpsons (season 5)
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The Simpsons fifth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 30,1993 and May 19,1994. The showrunner for the production season was David Mirkin who executive produced 20 episodes. Al Jean and Mike Reiss executive produced the two, which were both hold overs that were produced for the previous season. The season contains some of the series most acclaimed episodes, including Cape Feare and it also includes the 100th episode, Sweet Seymour Skinners Baadasssss Song. The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program as well as an Environmental Media Award and a Genesis Award. The DVD box set was released in Region 1 on December 21,2004, Region 2 on March 21,2005, the season was the first to be executive produced by David Mirkin, who would also run the following season. Several of the original writers who had worked on The Simpsons since the first season had left following the completion of season four. Cape Feare, which was the episode to be produced by the original team. Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky, Sam Simon and Jeff Martin wrote their final episodes for the four production run. George Meyer and John Swartzwelder, Conan OBrien, Frank Mula and future show runners Bill Oakley, OBrien would leave the series halfway through the production of the season to host his own show on NBC, Late Night with Conan OBrien. He had been working on Homer Goes to College when he out he was chosen to host Late Night and was forced to walk out on his contract. He later had an appearance in Bart Gets Famous. He recorded his part while Late Night was on the air, a whole new group of writers were brought in for this season. Jace Richdale was the first to be hired by Mirkin and others to receive their first writing credits were Greg Daniels, Mike Scully wrote Lisas Rival, which was produced for this season, but aired the next. Two freelance writers wrote episodes, David Richardson wrote Homer Loves Flanders while Bill Canterbury received two writing credits, Bob Anderson and Susie Dietter, who had previously worked on the show as part of the animation staff, would direct their first episodes. The season started off with Homers Barbershop Quartet which was chosen as the premiere because it guest starred George Harrison. Even though the episode aired during the beginning of the season, Cape Feare was the last episode written by the original team of writers. Compared to previously produced episodes, the episode featured several elements that could be described as cartoonish, Cape Feare and Rosebud were both broadcast early in the season and are amongst the series most acclaimed episodes, both having placed highly on Entertainment Weeklys list of the top 25 episodes
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The Simpsons (season 6)
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The Simpsons sixth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 4,1994, and May 21,1995, and consists of 25 episodes. The Simpsons is a series about a working class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television. The showrunner for the production season was David Mirkin who executive-produced 23 episodes. Former showrunners Al Jean and Mike Reiss produced the two, they produced the two episodes with the staff of The Critic, the show they left The Simpsons to create. This was done in order to some of the stress The Simpsons writing staff endured. Fox moved The Simpsons back to its original Sunday night time and it has remained in this slot ever since. The sixth season won one Primetime Emmy Award, and received three additional nominations and it also won the Annie Award for Best Animated Television Production. The Complete Sixth Season DVD was released in the United States on August 16,2005, September 28,2005, in Australia, the set featured a plastic clam-shell Homer-head design and received many complaints. David Mirkin served as showrunner and executive producer for season six, steven Dean Moore and Swinton O. Scott III received their first directing credit. Other credited writers included Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, Bill Oakley, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, other directors included Bob Anderson, Wes Archer, Susie Dietter, Mark Kirkland, Jeffrey Lynch, Jim Reardon and David Silverman. The main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, other cast members included Doris Grau, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor and Marcia Wallace. Guest stars included Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Kelsey Grammer, Phil Hartman, Larry King, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder. The seasons first two episodes, Bart of Darkness and Lisas Rival, were held over from the previous season, the season finale Who Shot Mr. Burns. Came from Groening, who had wanted to do an episode in which Mr. Burns was shot, the writers decided to write the episode in two parts with a mystery that could be used in a contest. It was important for them to design a mystery that had clues, took advantage of freeze frame technology, during the production of the season, Groening and Brooks pitched a live-action spin-off series centered in Krusty the Clown entitled Krusty. Groening and Michael Weithorn wrote an episode where Krusty moved to Los Angeles. A recurring joke throughout the script was that Krusty lived in a house on stilts which were continuously being gnawed by beavers
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The Simpsons (season 7)
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The Simpsons seventh season originally aired on the Fox network between September 17,1995 and May 19,1996. The show runners for the production season were Bill Oakley. David Mirkin executive produced the four, including two hold overs that were produced for the previous season. The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program. The DVD box set was released in Region 1 December 13,2005, Region 2 January 30,2006, the set was released in two different forms, a Marge-shaped box and also a standard rectangular-shaped box in which the theme is a movie premiere. The season was the first season produced by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. They were chosen partly because they had been with the show since the third season and they also wanted to produce a Treehouse of Horror episode, episodes about Sideshow Bob, Itchy & Scratchy and several format-bending episodes such as 22 Short Films About Springfield. David Mirkin, who had been producer for the previous two seasons, was credited as a consulting producer for the seventh season but also executive produced the episodes Who Shot Mr. Burns. Radioactive Man, Lisa the Vegetarian and Team Homer, steve Tompkins, Dan Greaney, Richard Appel and Rachel Pulido received their first writing credits while Spike Feresten and Jack Barth received their only writing credits this season. Although the majority of the staff stayed on for the next season. Jon Vitti, who had left following the season, returned to write Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily as well as The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular. Wes Archer, a director for The Simpsons who helped define the look of the show. Anderson, who had worked on the show as part of the animation staff. Doris Grau, script supervisor for the show and voice of Lunchlady Doris died on December 30,1995, the episode Team Homer, which aired eight days later, was one of the last episodes to feature her voice and featured a dedication to her. After that, Lunchlady Doris had speaking parts in Lisas Sax, from season nine until season eighteen, she appeared only as a background character but had a speaking role in The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer where she was voiced by Tress MacNeille. The season started off with the heavily publicized Who Shot Mr. Burns, which was the resolution to the first part, which had been a cliffhanger. Burns, by laying out the clues and identifying the possible suspects. The special was criticized for taking the publicity of the episode too far, several critics said the special tainted Walshs credibility and was described as gimmicky, tacky and blatant groveling for viewers
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The Simpsons (season 8)
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The Simpsons eighth season originally aired on the Fox network between October 27,1996, and May 18,1997, beginning with Treehouse of Horror VII. The showrunners for the production season were Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein. The aired season contained two episodes that were hold-over episodes from season seven, which Oakley and Weinstein also ran and it also contained two episodes for which Al Jean and Mike Reiss were the show runners. Clausen also received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Direction for Simpsoncalifragilisticexpialacious, brother from Another Series was nominated for the Emmy for Sound Mixing For a Comedy Series or a Special. Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awarded the episode the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV – Individual Episode, the DVD box set was released in Region 1 on August 15,2006, Region 2 on October 2,2006, and Region 4 on September 27,2006. The set was released in two different forms, a Maggie-shaped head to match the Homer and Marge shaped heads of the two sets and also a standard rectangular shaped box. Like the seventh box set, both versions are available for sale separately. The DVD boxset for season eight was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on August 15,2006, as well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes, Animatics, and commentaries for every episode. The menus continue the format from the previous three seasons, and the overall theme is various characters posing for photographs. List of The Simpsons episodes Bibliography Season 8 at The Simpsons. com Season 8 at the BBC Season 8 at TV. com
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The Simpsons (season 9)
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The Simpsons ninth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 1997 and May 1998, beginning on Sunday, September 21,1997, with The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson. The showrunner for the production season was Mike Scully. The aired season contained three episodes which were episodes from season eight, which Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein ran. It also contained two episodes which were run by David Mirkin, and another two episodes which were run by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. Clausen was also nominated for Outstanding Music Direction and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for Treehouse of Horror VIII, Season nine was also nominated for a Best Network Television Series award by the Saturn Awards and Best Sound Editing for a Golden Reel Award. The Simpsons 9th Season DVD was released on December 19,2006 in Region 1, January 29,2007 in Region 2 and March 21,2007 in Region 4. The DVD was released in two different forms, a Lisa-shaped head, to match the Maggie, Homer and Marge shaped heads from the three previous DVD sets, and also a rectangular shaped box. Like the previous DVD sets, both versions are available for sale separately, in terms of households, the show ranked just outside the Top 30, coming in at #32 with a 9.3 household rating and a 15 percent audience share. However, in terms of viewers, the show ranked within the Top 20, coming in at #17 for the season. The DVD boxset for season nine was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on December 19,2006, as well as every episode from the season, the DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes, animatics, and commentaries for every episode. The menus continue the format from the previous four seasons. List of The Simpsons episodes General Specific Season 9 at The Simpsons. com Season 9 at the BBC Season 9 at TV. com
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The Simpsons (season 11)
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The Simpsons eleventh season originally aired between September 1999 and May 2000, beginning on Sunday, September 26,1999, with Beyond Blunderdome. The showrunner for the 11th production season was Mike Scully, the season contained four hold-over episodes from the season 10 production line. Towards the end of the production of season 10, voice actress Maggie Roswell and she returned to the show in season 14. Marcia Mitzman Gaven started voicing Roswells characters in hold-over season 10 episode Brothers Little Helper. Writers credited with episodes in the 11th season include Al Jean, Dan Greaney, Donick Cary, Tim Long, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Carolyn Omine, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder, animation directors included Bob Anderson, Mike B. Anderson, Mark Kirkland, Lance Kramer, Nancy Kruse, Lauren MacMullan, Pete Michels, Steven Dean Moore, Matthew Nastuk, Michael Polcino, the main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer. Other cast members included Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor, aside from winning several awards in 2000, The Simpsons family themselves were awarded on January 14,2000, their own star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard. Alf Clausen also received a 2000 Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Television Production for his work on the episode Behind the Laughter, in the same year, Treehouse of Horror X won the CINE Golden Eagle Award. In 2000, music editor Bob Beecher was nominated for the Golden Reel Award for Treehouse of Horror X, at the Prism Awards, Days of Wine and Dohses received a commendation in the Comedy Series Episode category in 2001 for its frank depiction of alcoholism and drug rehabilitation. The show was nominated for a Blimp Award in the Favorite Cartoon category at the 2000 Kids Choice Awards. The show ranked 41st in the ratings making it the second highest rated show on Fox that season after Malcolm in the Middle. The special features include deleted scenes, storyboards/animatics, and commentaries and this is the first season release following the series of five Simpson family member shaped boxes. Unlike the previous seasons, the Collectors Edition packaging is a removable molded face attached to a cardboard sleeve, both versions have changed from a digipak style of disc tray in previous seasons, to an accordion-style series of cardboard sleeves into which the discs slide. General Specific Season 11 at The Simpsons. com
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The Simpsons (season 12)
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The Simpsons twelfth season originally aired between November 2000 and May 2001. It began on Wednesday, November 1,2000 with Treehouse of Horror XI, the season contains four hold-over episodes from the season 11 production line. The showrunner for the production season was Mike Scully. The season won and was nominated for awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards wins and an Annie Award. The seasons executive producer was once again Mike Scully, in his last season as executive producer and he later returned to the series in season fourteen as a writer and executive producer for the episode How I Spent My Strummer Vacation. Mike Scully has stated his goal during his tenure was to not wreck the show, don Payne, John Frink and Bob Bendetson began writing for the series, while Larry Doyle, Julie Thacker and Tom Martin left following the completion of this season. Rob LaZebnik received his first sole writing credit for the episode Homer vs. Dignity, LaZebnik would not get a writing credit for another episode until the 20th season, where he was credited for writing Father Knows Worst. Shaun Cashman received his sole directing credit on the series this season, Tom Gammill and Max Pross have been promoted to produce this season. As of 2009, Gammill & Pross are still credited as such, Mike Reiss returned to the writing staff as a producer. This season brought back Sideshow Bob, who had not been seen since the eighth-season episode Brother from Another Series, the season would also have four episodes that would air the following season. The twelfth season has received positive reviews from critics. Matt Haigh of Den of Geek said that The bad episodes are never really terrible, its more that theyre a bit boring, with this in mind, season 12 ends up being very much a 50/50 affair. Nancy Basile gave a list of Must See TV episodes and Not So Must See TV episodes — with more of the former, HOMR was nominated for various awards. Al Jean received a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program the eleventh win for the series, Another Primetime Emmy Award nomination is for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series. Another win for HOMR is an Annie Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Television Production, other Primetime Emmy Awards nominations include Hank Azaria for Worst Episode Ever. Lisa Simpson also won a Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award, the show also won at the 2002 Kids Choice Awards. The season ranked 21st in the ratings with an average of 14.7 million viewers an episode rising 6% from last season. The Twelfth Season was released on DVD in 2009, bibliography Season 12 at The Simpsons. com
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The Simpsons (season 13)
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The Simpsons thirteenth season originally aired on the Fox network between November 6,2001 and May 22,2002 and consists of 22 episodes. The show runner for the production season was Al Jean who executive-produced 17 episodes. Mike Scully executive-produced the remaining five, which were all hold-overs that were produced for the previous season, the Simpsons is an animated series about a working-class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television. The Simpsons ranked 30th in the ratings with an average viewership of 12.4 million viewers. It was the second highest rated show on Fox after Malcolm in the Middle, the DVD boxset was released in the United States and Canada on August 24,2010, eight years after it had completed broadcast on television. Mike Scully served as producer for the show for seasons nine to twelve. Five of the episodes produced for season 12 were held over and he left the show following season 12 and was replaced by Al Jean. Jean was one of the writers for The Simpsons, and served as executive producer of the third. Jean returned full-time to The Simpsons during the season, this time without Reiss. Jean called it a job with a lot of responsibility. Writers credited with episodes in the season included Joel H. Freelance writers included Bill Freiberger. Animation directors included Bob Anderson, Mike B, Anderson, Mark Kirkland, Jen Kamerman, Lance Kramer, Nancy Kruse, Lauren MacMullan, Michael Marcantel, Pete Michels, Steven Dean Moore, Matthew Nastuk, Michael Polcino, Jim Reardon and Chuck Sheetz. The main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, other cast members included Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor and Karl Wiedergott. DVDDizzy rhetorically asked how the stand up for someone just looking to jump into a full, semi-recent year of episodes. It explained Nearly everything that makes The Simpsons what it is can be found here, the site explained Not every moment here is brilliant. After a rocky start, the season hits its groove a few episodes in. Even though jokes dont always land, there are guaranteed to be at least a few amusing moments per episode, the stylings havent changed all that much
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The Simpsons (season 14)
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The Simpsons fourteenth season was originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States between November 3,2002 and May 18,2003. The show runner for the production season was Al Jean. The other episode, How I Spent My Strummer Vacation, was run by Mike Scully, the season contains five hold-overs from the previous seasons production run. The fourteenth season has met with positive reviews and won two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program, four Annie Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award. On December 6,2011, it was released on DVD and this season contains the shows 300th episode, The Strong Arms of The Ma. Writers credited with episodes in the season included J. Freelance writers included Brian Pollack & Mert Rich, Sam ONeal & Neal Boushall, Dennis Snee. Animation directors included Bob Anderson, Mike B, Anderson, Chris Clements, Mark Kirkland, Lance Kramer, Nancy Kruse, Lauren MacMullan, Pete Michels, Steven Dean Moore, Matthew Nastuk, Michael Polcino, Jim Reardon and David Silverman. The main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, other cast members included Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor and Karl Wiedergott. This season also saw the return of voice actress Maggie Roswell, barting Over, which aired February 16, was promoted as the shows milestone 300th episode. However, The Strong Arms of the Ma was the 300th episode to be broadcast, according to Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star, Its very difficult to find a straight answer why milestone status has been bestowed on. Barting Over refers to the error when Marge tells Lisa I cant count the number of times has done something crazy like this, Lisa responds that it is 300, to which Marge replies that she could have sworn its been 302. Season 14 received generally positive reviews, high-Def Digest was positive recommending the set and writing The show has numerous moments that make you laugh. Casey Broadwater also felt it was an improvement over the Scully seasons, collider gave the season a B-. The reviewer thought As far as the quality of the season, it isnt as consistently good as some earlier seasons but in the evolution of the show. Jackson Cresswell thought C. E. Doh was the best of the season along with Pray Anything and Brake My Wife, Please while citing Three Gays of the Condo, Large Marge, and Helter Shelter as the worst. Ryan Keefer of DVD Talk gave it a 4/5 calling it a spot to start brushing up on things. Episodes of the season won several awards, including two Primetime Emmy Awards. Three Gays of the Condo became the episode of the series to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program
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