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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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Treehouse of Horror XXVI
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It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 25,2015. The episode, like the other Treehouse of Horror episodes, comprises three self-contained segments, showrunner Al Jean gave an interview about the episode in the month before it aired. Kelsey Grammer reprises his role as the guest voice of Sideshow Bob, Treehouse of Horror XXVI was watched by an audience of 6.75 million, the highest on Fox that night. Reception was mixed, with its perceived excess violence and lack of originality being criticized, the spirits chase after the Simpson children to their home, and the Frank Grimes monster takes Homers soul. Bart gets a message from Milhouse, telling him to come to the music room. When he gets there, he finds Sideshow Bob, who lured him there with Milhouses phone in order to accomplish his lifelong dream, Bob kills Bart with a spear gun and takes his body to his house to celebrate his accomplishment. As his main objective in life is done, he decides to complete other dreams, such as becoming a teacher at Springfield University. He discovers that the thing that has made him happy was hunting down Bart for 24 years. Bobs machine is discovered by Santas Little Helper, and the Simpson family break into his basement, Bob appears with a shotgun and has the legal right to kill the intruding Simpsons. Homer attacks Bob with a lamp, ripping his head off, Bart puts Bobs head into the Reanimator with a horn, frog legs, a chicken body, a tail and a booger, making a bizarre-looking creature. In a parody of Godzilla, a crazy old Japanese man based on Grampa Simpson is constantly mocked because every day he drops a perfect donut into the ocean. When asked why he does things, he says that is because if he does not. One day, as he is preparing a donut for his ritual, he chokes on the toppings, with nobody to drop the donuts, a sea monster called Homerzilla wakes up and destroys the city. The scene cuts to the present time, where executives are watching the Homerzilla film, two years later, they release Zilla, a total failure. They throw all the merchandising into the ocean, but the containers wake up Homerzilla, in a parody of Chronicle, Bart, Lisa and Milhouse are walking through a forest. Bart scares Lisa with dead owls, and she hits Milhouses nose with the camera, making him lose his balance, Bart and Lisa decide to jump into the hole to rescue him, making all the three stuck inside of it with nuclear waste from the nuclear power plant. The radioactive goo explodes, sending all three of them back outside the hole, when they wake up, Milhouse and Lisa discover that they have gained telekinesis, so they decide to use the powers for selfish purposes. Lisa only makes a few changes, but Milhouse goes mad with powers only to be struck by lightning, Lisa says she did not do it, making the family curious to discover who did this
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Lisa with an 'S'
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Lisa with an S is the seventh episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 581st episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on November 22,2015, Homer, Moe, Lenny, Carl and Barney start the episode by singing a parody of Tonight as they prepare for the poker night at Moes bar. On his way out, Homer promises Lisa that if he wins, he will pay for her to attend an elite band camp shes been accepted to, a camp that is the best one on their side of the Mississippi River. But Homer fails on a house and ends up losing $5,000 to Broadway legend Laney Fontaine. Trying to convince Laney to give his back, he invites her to dinner only to show her how miserable they are. Lisa asks her to sing a song while she plays the saxophone, thats when Laney realizes that Lisa has a lot of talent and could become a famous show biz kid. She asks Marge to take Lisa for a month to perform on her shows, Marge angrily refuses, but Lisa convinces her to let her go, with a little help from Grandpa saying this might be the only opportunity to live her dreams. Laney takes Lisa to New York City where they met Lisas former ballet teacher Chazz Busby and she easily passes the audition and gets cast in one of the Broadway shows. Later, during a Skype conversation, Marge determines that Lisa is not in a good place, in New York City, the Simpsons and even Marge realize that Lisa fits right into the Broadway show world and they decide to go back to Springfield without her. The episode ends with Homer taking Neds cousin to 740 Evergreen Terrace where Jacob makes Ned realize that hes guilty of pride, both cousins reconcile by hugging Homer, much to his annoyance. Lisa with an S scored a 2.3 rating and was watched by 5.64 million viewers, club gave the episode a C+ saying, Could this heap of half-realized plots coalesce into a satisfying episode of The Simpsons. Sure—if any of them were funny on its own, or if they all tied together in the end. Instead, “Lisa With An ‘S’” just sort of exists, the description of a lot of latter-day episodes. It wasn’t abysmal or infuriating—at least that would leave something to talk about, Lisa with an S at the Internet Movie Database Lisa with an S at TV. com
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Barthood
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Barthood is the ninth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 583rd episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on December 13,2015, the episode parodies the 2014 film Boyhood and marks the final episode to credit Sam Simon as executive producer. The family decides to take Bart to Grandpas house to him away from Homer. As Bart asks Grandpa to play with toy cars, he remembers about an old car he had bought new in 1954. Bart asks if he can sit in it, but Grandpa reveals that Bart can actually drive it, the episode fast-forwards two years to the future in late 2013, with Bart still driving Grandpas car, late for his reading class. Professor Frink tries to him without much success, and discovers that Lisa. Later, Lisa paints a boat on the sea, to which Marge decides to place over the couch, Bart reveals that he made a painting on the entire kitchen. While Homer is painting the walls and furniture to its color, Bart tries to impress Lisa by driving Homers car, only to crash it through the kitchen wall. Homer and Marge decide to go to a psychologist to see why their son is such a troublemaker and she says that it is because of Homers lack of attention for him and that they should go camping together. But instead of taking the boy camping, Homer takes him to an inn to watch ice hockey, Homer tries to reconcile with him by saying he loves both of them the same amount, 40%. Bart makes a bumper sticker for Homers car, but he ignores it because there is no space for stickers in his bumper. The episode fast-forwards to Barts 12th birthday in 2017, where Lisa gets the news that she is student of the month at Springfield Elementary for 48 consecutive months. Bart gets angry because his sister can overshadow him even at his birthday party and they decide to break street lamps, but Milhouse gets arrested and taken to juvenile detention while Bart was hiding at the retirement home, where Grandpa gives him a BMX. Three years later in 2020, Bart, now 15, is good at doing stunts with his bike, Marge and Lisa go to a camp together, leaving Homer and Bart alone. Marge mentions that this could be Homers last chance to have a relationship with Bart, only for them to talk a few seconds. Bart throws a party at their home only to find Homer high on marijuana, where he reveals that he was exactly like Bart, but when he was born, this meant he was not a child anymore. They hug each other, but their moment is ruined when Homer mentions that he not go anywhere or do anything. Bart goes to Grandpas grave, where he gets the idea of going to a BMX competition, in 2024, Bart decides to make caricatures at the port, where he is invited to Milhouses graduation party
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Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles
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Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles is the eleventh episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 585th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 10,2016, groundskeeper Willie is trying to be a substitute teacher for the fourth grade, and reads the poetry of Robert Burns. In order to make the kids quiet, he starts playing a bagpipe, superintendent Chalmers enters the room and tells Willie to stop playing the instrument and leave the room because there is a new teacher, retired Air Force Sergeant Mrs. Berrera. Bart starts acting weird when she first enters the room and later realizes that he has a crush on his new teacher, meanwhile, Homer has to buy a healthy milk for the family, but Apu makes him buy a cheaper milk full of hormones made by Buzz Cola. The next morning, the family discovers that Bart was the first to wake up and was dressed for class. Lisa mocks Bart that hes doing that for his new teacher. Homer drives Bart to school only to see her, and theyre surprised by other dads, later, Bart writes Skinner is a wiener on the schools wall, but is surprised by Mrs. Berrera saying that she needs to see him after class. At their meeting, she tells Bart that hes way behind the class and needs a tutor. When Seymour Skinner offers help on her class by pulling up her maps, Bart discovers that Skinner is also trying to impress Mrs. Berrera, the next morning, the milk hormones started making effect on Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Marge decides to help Lisa while Homer teaches Bart to shave his beard where he discovers that he has to take the cover off the blade for it to work properly. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to hide her face with a hoodie, at school, Bart pretends hes hurt to draw Mrs. Berreras attention and take her away from Seymour to help him with first-aid. At the watching crowd, Nelson discovers that Lisa is using makeup, the next day, at breakfast, Marge discovers that the Buzz Milk is the one causing problems to the kids. They call the number on the box, but Snake picks up the phone in prison, later at school, Bart sees Mrs. Berrera and Seymour kissing in the corridor. He also calls Bart for a meeting, saying that he knows way more things about Mrs. Berrera than Bart does, and that he doesnt have a chance to win her. Angry by Skinners move, Bart decides to prank them by filling a chocolate box given to Mrs. Berrera by Skinner with class pets such as snakes and she notices that the hormone effects are gone, so she decides to leave the party embarrassed for making an underwhelming announcement. Lisa convinces Bart to give up on Mrs. Berrera and let Seymour have her as a girlfriend, when he presents her to his mother Agnes, she gets so disgusted about his mother that she decides to end her relationship with him. At night, Seymour, Bart and Milhouse decided to roast marshmallows at the school, using Barts permanent record as fuel to the fire, while Lisa plays saxophone inside the music classroom. At the next mornings breakfast, Lisas playing saxophone at the kitchen, claiming that never use makeup again
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Much Apu About Something
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Not to be confused with the earlier episode Much Apu About Nothing. Much Apu About Something is the episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons. It aired in the United States on Fox on January 17,2016, Springfield is having a parade in homage to the citys founder Jebediah Springfield. During the parade, Bart activates a fire engines water cannon, at the hospital, Sanjay reveals that he wants to retire from his job at the Kwik-E-Mart and gave his share of the store to his son Jamshed Nahasapeemapetilon. Seeing Barts prank consequences, Homer decides that Bart has gone too far, milhouse tries to bring the old Bart back, but he resisted dropping a beehive on Superintendent Chalmers crotch and releasing the handbrake on Principal Skinners cherry-picker. But his new personality came with benefits, as now hes getting better grades, as a result, Barts having a closer bond with his younger sister Lisa as now he understands her point of view for not having any recognition at all for her achievements. Six weeks after the incident, Apu goes see what theyve done with the Kwik-E-Mart only to find at its place the Quick & Fresh, at the stores restroom, Jay explains that Apu has an addiction to scratching lottery tickets. Because of that, hes the owner of 80% of the store, later, Moe and Apu are talking about what happened to his store. Jay, whos already angry at his uncle for being a stereotype, Apu is so depressed that he goes to Moes Tavern where Moe convinces Homer to turn Bart into a prankster again for him to pull a prank on Jay so Apu can have his store back. Bart, who comes back to his old self Clockwork Orange-style, as none of the products have conservants, everything will get rotten. Hes interrupted by Lisa, who reminds him that after he stopped pranking, Bart misinterprets the expression unconditional love as a sign he can do anything he wants and still be loved by his sister, so he cuts the stores power for a few seconds. Inside the store, all the products start deteriorating, scaring the customers away, when he turns the power back on, two massage stones collide, producing a spark that leads to a major fire. As the firefighters used all their water and foam against the officers on the parade, they have nothing they can extinguish the fire with. Later, Apu apologizes about what happened to Jay, but he found a The Big Bang Theory scratching ticket in the middle of the debris. He scratches it and wins a million dollars—enough money to buy his store back, in the final scene, Mayor Quimby plans to have Chief Wiggum use a tank to destroy the Jebediah Springfield statue. Chief Wiggum fires at the only for projectiles to be deflected enough to destroy the tank much to Mayor Quimby. Much Apu About Something received a 1.8 rating and was watched by 3.95 million viewers, Much Apu About Something at the Internet Movie Database Much Apu About Something at TV. com
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Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4
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Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 is the thirteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 587th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on February 14,2016 and this episode was dedicated to the memory of Julie Kavners father David Kavner, who died in February 2016. Mr. Smithers reminds Mr. Burns about Valentines Day and tries to him to let the employees leave early to stay with their loved ones. Mr. Burns refuses, but Smithers convinces him to host a Sweethearts Dance, while enjoying the party with Marge Simpson, Homer Simpson gets a phone call from Grampa Abraham Simpson saying that hes alone and scared that a cat who can smell death is staring at him. Homer and Marge decide to visit Grampa, spending the rest of Valentines Day with him, at the Retirement Castle, a nurse gives a pill to the elders, making them hallucinate and start dancing with the ghosts of late loved ones including Mona Simpson. Marge thinks its not fair to do that to the old folks, meanwhile at the party, Professor Frink is alone because hes not good in getting a girlfriend. The next day, Homer discovers him sleeping in one of the Nuclear Plants rooms, Frink confesses that Valentines Day is hard for people like him. Homer explains that love is a matter of trial and error, Frink gets the idea of determining what women like in a man and using science to become that person. Frink replaces his glasses with invisible blue contact lenses and uses shoe lifts for him to look taller, Homer suggests it could be because of his voice, so Frink decides to use a chip under his tongue to make his voice more attractive. To test his new self, Frink goes to a yoga class and he manages to impress all the girls in there, but he soon notices that he cant handle his new life and decides to hide inside Moes Tavern where he realizes that most men there are lonely. At the Simpsons house, Marge discovers that Bart Simpson is taking advantage of the old peoples hallucinations to win money on gambling. She takes them back to the Retirement Castle only to discover that the nurse gives powerful drugs to them only to ease her job, the next day, Marge realizes that the elders are extremely depressed. The nurse says that she hid the drugs in the library, during his hallucination, Marge, Bart and Lisa Simpson convince Abraham to leave the past behind and live in the present, where theres people that still love him. Frink is later watching the stars with his companion that he built. In the final scene, Homer and Marge have been experiencing the hallucinations causing them to suspect that the drugs have entered Springfields water system. Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 received a 1.3 rating and was watched by 2.89 million viewers, club gave the episode a B-, stating that the episode, This episode is a moderately amusing mush of good and bad ideas making up two half-realized stories. I found things to like in both, and wished each were better, and longer, Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 at the Internet Movie Database Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 at TV. com
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Gal of Constant Sorrow
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Gal of Constant Sorrow is the fourteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 588th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on February 21,2016, during breakfast, Marge Simpson discovers a loose tile on the floor and says that shell have to call a handyman. Homer Simpson gets the hint that hes not handy and decides to replace the tile himself and he succeeds with the help of an online tutorial, but soon realizes that he has trapped the family cat Snowball II inside the floor. Meanwhile, Bart Simpson is participating of sled race on a hill, Bart knocks Milhouse off, but he loses control of the sled and hits the shopping cart of a homeless woman named Hettie Mae Boggs, throwing it and all of her things into a frozen river. Feeling guilty, he invites Hettie to the Simpsons house, Hettie is getting too comfortable in Barts closet, so she decides to give Bart one dollar per day as a rent. Lisa Simpson soon realizes Barts suspicious income, and discovers Barts scheme and they also discover Hetties incredible talent for music, so Lisa invites her to stay in her closet. During the recordings of one of her songs, Bart warns Lisa that she shouldnt be doing that, because if Hettie lets her down, Lisa showcases the song to Mr. Dewey Largo, her music teacher. He is initially hostile, saying hes come to hate music and she then seeks Mayor Quimby and Krusty the Clown where she manages to arrange a concert and a NPR interview for Hettie. However, during the interview, Hettie reveals that shes a drug, Lisa is shocked when she also discovers that Hettie could be very violent to the point of shooting someone in the face. Meanwhile, Homer manages to free the cat from the walls, later, Bart and Lisa come clean about Hettie to Marge, but Homer interrupts the conversation by falling through the roof trying to rescue Santas Little Helper. Marge reveals that she has rescued him. She also tells Homer about Hettie, but Hettie has gone missing with her concert in thirty minutes, Homer and Bart manage to find Hettie drinking on Cletus Spucklers farm while Lisa is distracting the concerts audience by playing her saxophone. After a conversation and almost getting shot in the face, Homer manages to bring Hettie to her concert, Lisa is heartbroken about Hettie, so she decides to sing one last song dedicated to Lisa, who decides to forgive her. During the credits, Hettie is shown playing in a rehab clinic only for the interns to escape to Moes Tavern through a secret tunnel, one of the interns, Disco Stu, comments that the bar is dirtier than the tunnel. Gal of Constant Sorrow scored a 1.4 rating and was watched by 3.10 million viewers, making it Foxs highest rated show of the night. Club gave the episode a B+ stating, For all the griping about The Simpsons overstaying its welcome, it doesn’t take much for the show to win back viewers’ trust and affection. The characters and pieces are all in place, just waiting for the tune to start moving in a semblance of their former hilarious harmony. For the second episode this season, credited writer Carolyn Omine pitches her script with a deftness, Gal of Constant Sorrow at the Internet Movie Database Gal of Constant Sorrow at TV. com Gal of Constant Sorrow at theSimpsons. com
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Lisa the Veterinarian
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Lisa the Veterinarian is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 589th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 6,2016, the prank causes huge panic, as all the visitors rush outside while Bart enjoys the ride. In the middle of the clutter, a raccoon enters the park, Lisa decides to help the animal by performing a CPR on him, which works. She is proclaimed as a local hero, as she proves to be responsible with animals, Miss Hoover gives her the responsibility to take care of Nibbles, the class pet hamster during spring break. Realizing that being a veterinarian is her new calling, she volunteers as an intern on Dr. Lionel Budgies clinic, later, Marge is stuck in traffic as the clean-up team is not able to reach a car accident scene. Chief Wiggum convinces Marge to clean the street, and she does it remarkably well, Wiggum also invites Marge to make other crime scenes clean ups, as they can keep all the money and jewelry they find. Back home, Marge realizes that their fan is old and unsafe. Her new job is to clean the scene of a suicide-murder and she earns enough money for a new fan, but the body parts and the blood end up traumatizing her. Meanwhile, Lisa is so thrilled by the emotion of saving animals that she has become more ignorant towards others and that is when Bart decides to remind her that she was so busy taking care of other peoples pets that she forgot about her own class pet, Nibbles. He is extremely depressed and ill, and Dr. Budgie says that the solution would be to perform a surgery. However, Nibbles dies only after a few seconds of operation making Lisa extremely sad as she killed an animal by neglecting it. Back home, Homer realizes that if he took Marge to calm Lisa down about the hamster, this could calm Lisa down, but also put Marges emotions back together. In the final scene, there is Nibbless funeral and a memorial with clips of past episodes. Lisa the Veterinarian scored a 1.3 rating and was watched by 3.09 million viewers, as those episodes have shown, all the elements are still in place for the show to reel off a quality episode at any time. Lisa the Veterinarian at the Internet Movie Database Lisa the Veterinarian at TV. com
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The Marge-ian Chronicles
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The Marge-ian Chronicles is the sixteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 590th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 13,2016, after visiting the facilities of Exploration Incorporated, a company that wants to make a Mars colony by the year 2026, Lisa Simpson becomes interested in the project and decides to sign up. The family is highly against Lisas choice, but Homer convinces Marge Simpson to pretend they support Lisa, however, this proves to be inefficient, so the whole family signs up on the project to force Lisa to give up. During one of the tests, everyone fails except for Marge, the projects ideologists Paul and Barry announce that a rival project is almost in completion. So instead of 2026, the launch would be on Thursday, most of the participants give up immediately, but Marge and Lisa decide to stay on the project much to Homer and Barts dismay. During the launch, Marge and Lisa reconcile and decide that they do not want to go to Mars anymore, however, when the countdown reached zero, the rocket doesnt move an inch. Paul and Barry reveal that their spaceship was only the outside of a rocket and they did that only to inspire the next generation and to provide a distraction for them to abandon the project. At home, Lisa comments to Marge that they almost went to Mars out of sheer stubbornness, a fast-forward 35 years into the future in the year 2051 is shown with Marge and Lisa living on Mars. Lisa then says that she wants to leave Mars and move to Venus, during the credits, Paul and Barry are driving away from the fake launching site, planning their future business. The Marge-ian Chronicles scored a 1.3 rating and was watched by 3.07 million viewers, club gave the episode a B- stating, The Marge-ian Chronicles references one of the craziest, while appearing prepared to go that one one crazier. As it turns out, the promise of Marge and Lisa being shot into space is something of a bait-and-switch. Not daring enough to go for broke, it, instead, the Marge-ian Chronicles at the Internet Movie Database The Marge-ian Chronicles at TV. com
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The Burns Cage
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The Burns Cage is the seventeenth episode in the twenty-seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 591st episode of the series overall. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 3,2016, in the episode, Waylon Smithers finally comes out as gay to his boss Mr. Burns, who rejects his love. Other characters attempt to find a boyfriend for Smithers, and he falls for Julio, meanwhile, Milhouse competes against a new boy for the lead role in a school production of Casablanca, so he can act alongside his own unrequited love, Lisa. Openly gay actor George Takei makes a cameo as himself, and the features a variety of cultural references, including to Grindr, Vladimir Putin, Equus. The episode was written by Rob LaZebnik, inspired by when his son came out. Critical reception was mixed, the emotionally touching aspects of LaZebniks script, the episode was covered by international media. Smithers declares his love for Mr. Burns after he saves Burns life in a skydiving accident, angry, Smithers treats Homer, Lenny and Carl harshly, so they determine finding Smithers a boyfriend will ease the ill-treatment. They invite potential partners to meet Smithers at a gay mens singles party, the two fall in love, and Smithers leaves his job at the power plant. Back in Springfield, Burns attempts to find a new assistant prove disastrous and he meets Smithers with money and other enticements to lure him back, but Smithers states that he is not swayed. Burns then says he has kept a secret bottled up, that Smithers performance review is excellent, meanwhile, Springfield Elementary put on a production of Casablanca, in which Lisa gets the lead role of Ilsa. Milhouse wants the lead role of Rick because of his love for Lisa, but he is challenged by a new boy, Jack Deforest. Milhouse enlists the bullies to beat up Jack, but Jack wins the fight, principal Skinner sees this violence and declares that Milhouse will play Rick instead of Jack, Lisa is angered as she does not believe that he is a good actor. Marge tells Lisa that it is important to people who are not skilled by telling them that they are. The production is a success, but at the end it is revealed that Jack was disguised as Milhouse, he, in an epilogue Milhouse goes to Moes Tavern, where Smithers teaches him that romantic setbacks make love feel better when it arrives. Moe tells the pair that he searches for gold, not girls. Smithers unrequited love for Mr. Burns is a gag on The Simpsons, the producers once joked that he was not gay. He added that he pitched the storyline three years earlier, and got approval for his script from his son. Smithers coming out is low-key, as was Johnnys, he told the Post that as he was the gayest little kid, the episode aired five days before Johnnys 22nd birthday, and he said he would have a viewing party because the episode would be particularly meaningful to him
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How Lisa Got Her Marge Back
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How Lisa Got Her Marge Back is the eighteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 592nd episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on April 10,2016, Bart buys a Money Grabber, a device to pull away dollar bills and trick people. However, everyone realizes it is one of Barts pranks, afterwards, Bart is pranked by another group. Later, he tries to pull a prank on Ralph, later at breakfast, Lisa tries to show Homer and Marge her new saxophone solo, but Homer leaves for work and Lisa plays for Marge. Later that day, she tries to play for her parents again, thats when Marge confesses to Homer that she hates jazz, even when Lisa plays it. Unfortunately, Lisa hears her confession and confronts her mother, avoiding her hugs, Marge decides to take Lisa on a trip to Capital City to cheer her up, like taking her on the Capital City Dream Tour. However, Marges attempts to bond with Lisa annoy her even more, in a final attempt to calm Lisa down, Marge takes her to Bad News Bears - The Musical. At the show, Lisa realizes that her mom has very different tastes than she does, at the exit, Marge meets the shows star, Andrew Rannells, and invites him to join them for dinner. Meanwhile, back in Springfield, Homer gives Bart the responsibility over Maggie while the girls are out, Bart soon realizes that playing with Maggie is fun, and she could be his sidekick for pranks. After that, Homer asks Bart to stop using Maggie to prank people, feeling bad, Lisa and Marge apologize to each other. Lisa sings Dont Rain on My Parade, Marge and Lisa are pleased with their trip. Before the end credits, Homer is shown putting different recycling bins full of bottles and Abraham Simpson out at the curb. How Lisa Got Her Marge Back scored a 1.2 rating and was watched by 2.55 million viewers, making it Foxs second highest rated show of the night, behind The Last Man on Earth. Club gave the episode a B- stating, Marge and Lisa have a fight in the first act of “How Lisa Got Her Marge Back”, it’s an endlessly renewable resource where good writers can play out these characters’ stories—silly, emotional, or any combination thereof—again and again. It’s all in how it’s written, how Lisa Got Her Marge Back at the Internet Movie Database How Lisa Got Her Marge Back at TV. com
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Fland Canyon
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Fland Canyon is the nineteenth episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 593rd episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on April 24,2016, Homer is trying to help Maggie sleep. After a few failed attempts, she hints him that she wants to hear a bedtime story and he starts by telling the story of the Grand Canyon vacation with the Flanders. The story takes place two years earlier, with people from the church volunteering to clean skid row on a Saturday, at the end of the cleanup, Ned wins a family trip to the Grand Canyon for being the most selfless cleaner. After reading the pamphlet, Ned realizes that it is a two family trip and they invite the Lovejoy family, but they convince Ned to take the Simpsons with them. At the Grand Canyon, everyone is astonished by the view, Marge is angry at Maude because she thinks that Marge is not a good parent because of Bart and Homers shenanigans, and the Flanders are annoyed for the same reason. During a donkey trail, they are passed by a group of millionaires that use the canyon at their own wish, later, the tour guides donkey falls off the cliff with most of the supplies, leaving both families stranded in the canyon. Homer manages to make Maggie fall asleep with the story, Homer continues telling the story, waking up Maggie who wants to hear it. At the Grand Canyon, Ned and Homer decide to look for supplies when they find the millionaires camping site, Homer convinces Ned to steal their food and supplies and escape down the river using a raft. They manage to reach their campsite and surprise everyone with a breakfast, with caviar, later, they are rescued and Homer and Ned talk about their friendship. When Homer finishes the story, its revealed that Ned is also listening through the window, Homer reminds him that they still owe them a trip. In the final scene, postcards from lots of places around the world go past the screen. It is revealed that its actually the Simpsons family and Flanders familys trip to a postcard museum, when Flanders asks Homer if the place sells postcards at the gift shop, a museum worker states that they dont. Fland Canyon scored a 1.2 rating and was watched by 2.77 million viewers, club gave Fland Canyon a C+. He added The problem with an episode like Fland Canyon is that content to pluck parts from older episodes without doing anything new or interesting with them. That there are here and there isn’t surprising—even on an off day. Fland Canyon at the Internet Movie Database Fland Canyon at TV. com
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Simprovised
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Simprovised is the twenty-first episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 595th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on May 15,2016, Homer is going to make an annual speech at the Nuclear Plant. His original plan is to repeat the speech he did every year. This makes him so nervous that he passes out on the stage, trying to cheer Homer up, Marge takes him to a stand-up comedy show. At the show, Homer is amazed by the talent to improvise. He, Lenny, and Carl then decide to join an improvisation class and they decide to form their own stand-up comedy troupe at Moes Tavern, where Homers act is acclaimed by the public and the critics. In a secondary plot, Bart and Lisa go to Ralphs birthday party, feeling envious, he destroys his treehouse. However, when he says that moms cant build a treehouse, Marge decides to work hard, at the new treehouse, Marge overhears Bart saying to Milhouse that theres no need to thank her, as she is only doing her job. She gets furious at him, and storms off during dinner, when Marge complains at him about Bart and learns about the fringe festival, she accidentally makes Homer insecure about his own act. The next morning, Bart takes Marges breakfast into her bedroom and apologizes, later at the festival, Moe advises a still insecure Homer that he should cheat on his improvisation act, letting Moe pick his premises. However, Lisa finds out about their plans and convinces Homer to make his show the proper way and he does so, and his on-the-spot act is well-received by the audience. Homer is then seen taking questions from viewers as different characters pass by him even when the credits roll. In the international version of the segment of the episode the characters and sight gags remain. Instead Homer gives a three minute monologue chronicling his intentions to run for presidency, only to himself out of it by the end of his speech. Simprovised scored a 1.2 rating and was watched by 2.80 million viewers, club was positive on Simprovised, giving it a B+. He explained What’s so entertaining about Homer’s journey in Simprovised is how it grows out of his character, sure, the episode is pretty streamlined, since those last three minutes were set aside for the big ratings-grab, but lopping off the opening credits entirely helped. There’s even time for a truncated but effective B-story, with Marge getting pissed at Bart for not appreciating her building him a new treehouse, IGN reviewer Jesse Schedeen gave the episode a 6. 4/10. He criticized the episode itself, but enjoyed the part, adding For the most part
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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 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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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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The Simpsons (season 15)
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The Simpsons fifteenth season began on Sunday, November 2,2003, with Treehouse of Horror XIV. The season contains five episodes from the season 14 production line. The most watched episode had 16.2 million viewers and the least watched had 6.2 million viewers, Season 15 received positive reviews, though many reviewers commented that while the episodes were generally enjoyable, they were lesser shows than those of the series first decade. The general consensus is that marked an improvement over the early teen seasons. High Def Digest gave a rating of 4 stars, writing The Simpsons is one of only a handful of shows that I know Im guaranteed to laugh out loud at least once an episode. Even though the cutting wit of the first decade lost its edge a bit, there arent many things that are better than sitting down with a new season of The Simpsons on Blu-ray and watching every episode back to back as fast as I possibly can. While the episodes sort of blend together, the humor is still there, craveOnline rated the season 8. 5/10, noting Some Simpsons fans gave up during a perceived rough patch around season 12, and boy have they missed out. Season 13 was a favorite of mine, but now were over the hump on the DVD releases. Season 15 is kind of a spot, because its got some highlight episodes I love. DVDActive said The Simpsons season 15 isnt one of the series best, screenJabber gave a rating of 4 stars, writing Imagine my surprise when I sat down to review Season 15. and realised that I had never seen most of its episodes. Imagine, then, my joy at being able to enjoy almost 22 episodes of factory-fresh Simpsons, and even though some of the cultural references are a little dated, theres still an awful lot to laugh at and enjoy here. As always, this season of The Simpsons features a stellar line-up of guest stars, and, as always, there are some standout episodes. All in all, a more than decent season of long, long-running show. DIY wrote While Season 15 of The Simpsons may not be golden from start to finish it has a great to soggy episode ratio than more recent seasons. In fact, there are some real gems amongst the 22 episodes. Boxofficebuz gave it 4 stars, and said. Throw in flashback episode The Way We, Pie-Man antics in Simple Simpson, a definite uptick over the previous couple seasons. BubbleBlabber rated it 9.0 out of 10, and concluded In terms of the content, Season 15 was a highly underrated season for The Simpsons, dVDMg gave the season a B, and wrote Should viewers expect greatness from Season 15 of The Simpsons. No, as the year comes with some mediocre shows, still, it delivers a reasonable number of good episodes and seems worthwhile overall. S15 wont win over new fans, but its usually fun
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The Simpsons (season 16)
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The Simpsons sixteenth season began on Sunday, November 7,2004 and contained 21 episodes, beginning with Treehouse of Horror XV. The season contains six episodes from the season 15 production line. Season 16 was released in Region 1 on December 3,2013, Region 2 on December 2,2013 and this season was the first in which Ian Maxtone-Graham and Matt Selman were credited as executive producers. As a result, it aired on May 15,2005 in the United States, while The Girl Who Slept Too Little, the episode intended for the finale of season 16, became a season 17 episode. CraveOnline gave the season a rating of 8.0 out of 10, and spoke highly of its pieces of continuity, sharp parody. Entertainment Focus gave it 4 out of 5 stars, concluding Some people have criticised The Simpsons claiming that the show is tired and has passed its prime. We dont agree with people at all and think The Simpsons has been remarkably consistent in terms of its humour. Sure it may have been eclipsed by the edgier Family Guy in more recent years but The Simpsons is, the Simpsons, Season 16 is another cracking instalment of the hit show and we still, after all these years, just cant get enough. Sixteen seasons in, it seems that the show is a mixture of been-there-done-that sentiment, aside from the so-so image, theres plenty here to keep the die-hard Simpsons fan happy, so this one comes recommended for fans. Cinema Sentries said This is not something to pick up if you are a general TV fan, the overall quality of the season is not high enough, and you may not get satisfactory enjoyment from them. If you sort of turned your back on the show, this isnt the season to check out. However, if you are a Simpsons devotee, then you want to pick it up. DVDTalk wrote The Simpsons, Season Sixteen isnt the best of the run but it is a very strong collection of truly funny. For his musical work in Treehouse of Horror XV, Alf Clausen was nominated for the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series award in 2005, in addition, Michael Price won a Writers Guild of America Award for animation for the episode Mommie Beerest. Also, for his work on Theres Something About Marrying, J. Stewart Burns was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for animation, in 2005, On a Clear Day I Cant See My Sister was nominated for the Best Television Episodic Comedy Environmental Media Award. Also, Goo Goo Gai Pan was nominated for the Turner Award of the Environmental Media Award, in the same year, Matt Warburton was nominated for Writers Guild of America Awards for animation as well for The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star. Bibliography Season 16 at The Simpsons. com
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The Simpsons (season 17)
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The Simpsons seventeenth season originally aired between September 2005 and May 2006, beginning on Sunday, September 11,2005. It broke Foxs tradition of pushing its shows season premieres back to November to accommodate the Major League Baseball games airing on the network during September and October of each year. It was released on DVD in Region 1 on December 2,2014, al Jean remained show runner, with this being his fifth year in the position since he started it in season 13. David Silverman was the director of animation. New writers included Patric Verrone, Daniel Chun, and Stephane Gillis, during this season, there were no episodes that aired during the month of October. Seven hold-over episodes from the season 16 production line aired as part of this season, the season was met with mixed-to-positive reviews. Jeffry Kauffman of Blu-ray. com gave the season 4/5 and he said the season was an arguably an incremental step downward but he still thought There are still delights galore to be sampled throughout the season, Shadowlocked gave the season 4/5 stars. Luke Connolly said that the season did a job at tying things together and praised Girls Just Want to have Sums. He concluded by saying While season 17 shows its age in certain places, its continual pursuit of originality and familiar comedy more than makes up for this, impulse gamer gave the season 3. 9/5 and the reviewer was surprised by how he enjoyed the episodes. Spotlight Report gave the season 3. 0/5 criticizing that it wasnt as funny as previous seasons. The Seemingly Neverending Story won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program, the first Simpsons episode to win since season 14s Three Gays of the Condo, kelsey Grammer received the Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for The Italian Bob. The show ranked 56th in the seasonal ratings tied with Invasion, Americas Funniest Home Videos, and The Amazing Race with a viewership 9.2 million viewers, bibliography Season 17 at The Simpsons. com
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The Simpsons (season 20)
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The Simpsons twentieth season aired on Fox from September 28,2008 to May 17,2009. With this season, the show tied Gunsmoke as the longest-running American primetime television series in terms of number of seasons. The season was released on BD January 12,2010, making this the first season released on BD and it was released on DVD in Region 1 on January 12,2010, and in Region 4 on January 20,2010. The season was released on DVD in Region 2 in a few areas. It contained nine episodes from the season 19 production line. Production on the season was delayed because of negotiations with the six main voice actors. The dispute was resolved, and the salary was raised to $400,000 per episode. The delay in production caused the planned 22 episodes to be shortened to 20, in addition, voice actor Dan Castellaneta was credited as a consulting producer for the first time. The main cast consisted of Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, the recurring cast consisted of Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor and Karl Wiedergott. The Simpsons began high-definition production in season 20, the first episode in HD, Take My Life, Please, aired on February 15,2009. Take My Life, Please is also the first to feature the new opening sequence, also, more episodes were given the TV-14 rating than any other season. In 2009, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of The Simpsons, ever. would run from January 14,2009 to January 14,2010. Several contests were run, including the Unleash Your Yellow contest in which designed a poster for the show. Where fans created their own live-action couch gag video, as part of the celebration, the Irish-themed episode In the Name of the Grandfather premiered on Sky1 in the United Kingdom and Ireland on March 17,2009. It was the episode of the show to air in Europe before being seen in the United States. The American debut of the episode was on March 22, robert Canning of IGN gave the season a 7.9 out of 10 improving 1.3 from the past season. He gave it a review saying that it was Good. If they can keep the momentum moving, the series is primed to once again approach perfection, episodes from the twentieth season received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations
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The Simpsons (season 21)
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The Simpsons twenty-first season aired on Fox from September 27,2009 to May 23,2010. It was the first of two seasons that the show was renewed for by Fox, and also the first season of the show to air entirely in high definition, with this season, The Simpsons established itself as the longest-running American primetime television series surpassing Gunsmoke. The season received positive reviews from critics, with many praising The Squirt. The season featured eight episodes from the season 20 production line. John Frink was credited as a producer for the first time. In 2009, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of The Simpsons, ever. would run from January 14,2009 to January 14,2010. As part of the celebration, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock directed and produced The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D, a documentary special that examined the cultural phenomenon of The Simpsons. Despite the title, Spurlock said the special most likely not be in 3-D nor on ice, Production began at Comic-Con 2009, and the show aired on January 10,2010 on Fox. It included interviews with the cast and fans of the show, for the week of November 9,2009, several Fox shows including House, Lie to Me, Bones and Fringe featured clues and homages to the show as part of an on-air scavenger hunt. Viewers who spotted the clues could win prizes at Fox. com, marge also appeared on the cover of the November issue of Playboy. They aired on Sky1 and Sky1 HD on three evenings from January 11 to 13,2010. They were followed by the UK premiere of season 21s first episode, robert Canning of IGN gave the season an 8.3 saying that it was Impressive. He also stated the improved consistency of memorable episodes this season over years past proved that, even after 20 years, TV Fanatic called the season great while reviewing Judge Me Tender, while Todd VanDerWerff of The A. V. Club, while reviewing the episode, stated I think its picked back up in the last few seasons and particularly in this season. In the seasonal Nielsen ratings in the 18-49 demographic, the season ranked joint 33rd with a 3. 4/9 average and it also ranked 61st in the seasonal total viewers with an average of 7.208 million viewers. Treehouse of Horror XX won for Writing in a Television Production at the Annie Awards, Once Upon a Time in Springfield also received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program, while The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D. On Ice. was nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Special, the show was also once again nominated for Favorite Cartoon at the 2010 Kids Choice Awards. The season is currently nominated for three awards at the 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards, stephanie Gills is nominated for writing Moe Letter Blues as well as Matt Selman who is nominated for Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou
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The Simpsons (season 22)
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The Simpsons twenty-second season began airing on Fox on September 26,2010 and ended on May 22,2011. The Simpsons was renewed for at least two seasons during the twentieth season leading up to this season. The cast is signed through the 30th season. On November 11,2010, the series was renewed for a 23rd season by Fox with 22 episodes and this season ranked 68th among overall viewers and thirtieth among viewers between the ages of 18 and 49. The A. V. but was defeated by the season of Bobs Burgers which received a B+. Bibliography Season 22 at The Simpsons. com
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The Simpsons (season 23)
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The Simpsons twenty-third season began airing on Fox on September 25,2011, and ended May 20,2012. The showrunner for the season was Al Jean, with three episodes ran with Matt Selman, one of those he wrote himself. The shows 500th episode, At Long Last Leave, aired February 19,2012, the season premiere episode The Falcon and the Dohman features a reference to the previous episode of the series, the twenty-second season finale The Ned-Liest Catch that aired May 22,2011. In that episode, the characters Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel started dating, when asked why the writers thought Ned and Edna were the right characters for a cliffhanger like this, Jean said that In life, unusual things happen. People couple together in ways you would not expect, and hes single and we thought it would be funny, the fact that they both have these connections to the Simpsons but they never really met or if they have met it was minimal. The result of the poll were revealed in The Falcon and the Dohman, according to Jean, the poll was very strong in one direction. 20th Century Fox Television released a statement October 4,2011, saying that 23 seasons in, The Simpsons is as vibrant as ever. We believe this brilliant series can and should continue, but we cannot produce future seasons under its current financial model. We are hopeful that we can reach an agreement with the voice cast that allows The Simpsons to go on entertaining audiences with original episodes for many years to come, one of the problems was that The Simpsons was possibly worth more cancelled than on the air. A 17-year-old syndication deal with local TV stations prohibits Fox from selling the show to cable networks, as long as The Simpsons still produces new episodes, Fox cannot break this deal. In the meantime, cable networks have grown to become just as big a market as the local TV stations, another consideration was that Foxs parent company News Corporation was having meetings discussing the possibility of a cable channel that would only air The Simpsons episodes. Analysts consider a cancellation and subsequent second-run deal that includes cable networks to be worth $750 million. On this issue, Al Jean commented in an interview with TV Guide that Its a big company and those interests were superseded because were still valuable to the network in terms of our ratings. The actors were willing to take a pay cut, but wanted a percentage of the back-end payments instead, at one point, Harry Shearer even offered a 70% pay cut in exchange for back-end percentages, but the studio was unwilling to make any deal involving back-end percentages. In the end, the studio and the reached a deal, in which the actors would take a pay cut of 30%, down to just over $300,000 per episode. As well as the actors, everybody involved in the show took a pay cut. This included the animators, writers, post-production crew and even Jean himself, the further use of digital animation also saved money, as the animation of the show became more efficient. The season premiere episode The Falcon and the Dohman originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25,2011 and it was watched by approximately 8.08 million people during this broadcast
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The Simpsons (season 24)
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The Simpsons twenty-fourth season began airing on Fox on September 30,2012 and concluded on May 19,2013. An August 2011 article in Advertising Age reported that the average cost of a 30-second advertising spot during an episode of The Simpsons was $286. In 2012, The Simpsons was the sixth-most expensive television series in the United States to sponsor, the top five were American Idol, New Girl, Modern Family, American Idol, and NBC Sunday Night Football. A first-run, season 24 episode of The Simpsons was the Fox Broadcasting Companys fourth-most expensive program to sponsor, up from fifth in 2011
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The Simpsons (season 25)
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The Simpsons twenty-fifth season began airing on Fox on September 29,2013 and ended on May 18,2014. This is Al Jeans 13th consecutive season as showrunner and 15th overall, Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Matt Selman, and John Frink serve as executive producers. Executive producer Al Jean stated that Edna Krabappel will be retired from the following the death of Marcia Wallace on October 25,2013
