New episodes return to Fox tonight, with an episode previously scheduled for earlier this month titled My Big Fat Geek Wedding. The episode has been in the media since it will mark a voiced appearance by creator Matt Groening. Here’s a rundown of what to expect from the episode. “When Principal Skinner gets cold feet before pending nuptials, his fiancé, Edna Krabappel, calls off the wedding. Determined to win her back, Skinner enlists Homer’s help. Meanwhile, Marge is convinced Edna can do better. Edna rebounds into the arms of Comic Book Guy, who whisks her off to a comic book convention, where they run into Matt Groening (guest-starring as himself) signing autographs. Skinner shows up at the convention in a last, desperate attempt to fight Comic Book Guy for Edna’s heart.” The episode is followed by a rerun of The President Wore Pearls. Don’t miss it.
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VH1 Says “Don’t” Do The Bartman
“Do The Bartman” has been named by VH1 UK as one of the top 40 worst #1 singles of all time. The song which peaked at #11 on the US charts spent three weeks at #1 in the UK in February 1991. In the special which aired on VH1 over the weekend, Do The Bartman was selected as #36 on the novelty chart. Charting before it were Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” Chef’s “Chocolate Salty Balls,” while songs considered worse than Bartman included “Tragedy” by Steps, “Barbie Girl” by Aqua, “Star Trekkin” by The Firm, and “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” by Bombalurina. It’s a little known fact that Michael Jackson penned the Bart classic which remains a favourite with Simpsons fans worldwide. Thanks to George Cauldron at the No Homers Club for the news in an otherwise slow news week.
Marge’s Interview With Maxim
Marge Simpson, the covergirl for the April issue of mens magazine Maxim, has revealled all the juicy details in her interview which is now available to read online. All the saucy information as well as two revealing photographs are on the website. In 15 questions you’ll discover what Marge finds sexy in a man, gossip about Springfield and her husband Homer, and tips for cleaning as well as getting a hairstyle as tall as hers. The magazine is still available on newsstands for another week or two, but if you don’t have the cash, Read The Interview >>>
Simpsons Movie A Long Way Off
Work has now started on a Simpsons feature film, but fans of the cartoon creations will have to wait years before it hits the big screen. Yeardley Smith, voice to Lisa Simpson, said writing was already under way, but recording would not start until after the present TV series was completed. And even then it would be three years before the film reached cinemas because the animation process took so long. “Animation takes forever,” she said. “My wish for the show is that we go out with a bang not a pimple. “If we can do a movie and it can be as good as our best episodes, I’m thrilled. I think that would be wonderful.” Her only fear was that fans of the cartoon classic may have grown bored of the show, which is now in its 15th season. She told Associated Press radio in the United States: “I just hope that at this point… people aren’t like ‘Oh, a movie, we’re over it’.” Read More >>>
Can You Outsmart Bart?
Bart Simpson has found his way onto the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine (9th April 2004 edition). The magazine itself doesn’t include a Simpsons feature, but he appears on the cover to promote their Great American Pop Culture Quiz for the 90s. The quiz includes 100 entertainment related questions to test your knowlege of the 90s. The Simpsons are only mentioned in two of the questions, but Bart makes a great coverboy for the quiz in general, having got an A+ himself. The answers are jotted on his hands, legs and arms. The magazine is available to buy right now.
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A Serious Look At Springfield
It doesn’t sound all that exciting: another college student writing about Homer’s odyssey – until you realize this trip ends not with Penelope in Ithaca, but with Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart. Credit Steven Keslowitz, a Brooklyn College sophomore who turned his Sunday night obsession with The Simpsons into a scholarly study of the Springfield scene, ruminating on subjects from Bart’s bad boy persona to Marge’s towering ‘do. In The Simpsons and Society, Keslowitz fixes a serious eye on America’s favourite dysfunctional cartoon crew, looking for deeper meaning in the antics of Krusty, Chief Wiggum and the rest of the townsfolk. He actually finds some, too. “I’ve been watching the show for years,” said Keslowitz, a Simpsons geek who never misses an episode of the Emmy-award winning show. “In college, I realized the show had academic issues that merited serious attention.” Read More >>>
Simpsons Cast Demand Raise
A festering stalemate in contract negotiations between the stars of “The Simpsons” and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Television is threatening to kill the 16th season of the wildly successful animated sitcom. The six top actors who voice the characters of “The Simpsons” – Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Harry Shearer have joined in a united front to demand a huge raise from the network. Fox has flatly refused their demands – which Azaria rep Stan Rosenfield yesterday said was simply “to be paid their fair share.” The six (who have been earning less than $1 million each per season) want in excess of $8 million per season to stay on the show – which has conservatively earned Fox hundreds of millions of dollars. The six actors have not shown up for two script readings in the past few weeks, holding up production on the upcoming 16th season.
Ratings: The Wandering Juvie
The Simpsons double once again proved fairly successful for the Fox network. The Wandering Juvie at 8pm peaked at 10.5 million viewers, while the 8:30pm rerun of The Regina Monologues scored 11.4 million. Fox tied with NBC this Sunday for first place in the 18 – 49 demographic. Fox looks set to pack new episodes into the May sweeps period to ensure big ratings. With evidence that the show pulls its best ratings at 8:30pm, the network has held back My Big Fat Geek Wedding till April 18th and replaced it with a rerun this weekend. This leaves an incredibly short time for Fox to air the remaining Season 15 episodes, which means we’ll either a short season, or a May packed with double new features. We’ll keep you updated in our panel on the right.
The Wandering Juvie Airs Tonight
Sarah Michelle Gellar is the latest guest star to hit Springfield in tonight’s new episode titled ‘The Wandering Juvie.’ A description follows. “When Bart gets busted for stealing wedding presents, Judge Harm (guest star Kaczmarek) sentences him to six months in Springfield Juvenile Correctional Facility. While in the clink, Bart befriends tough girl Gina (Gellar), and the two devise a scheme to break out of “juvie.” Earlier reports suggest the episode will act as a parody of ‘The Defiant Ones.’ Following this episode is a rerun of last years ‘The Regina Monologues,’ in which The Simpsons visit England and Homer has a run-in with Queen Elizabeth. Catch an hour of The Simpsons from 8 on Fox tonight.
Matt Groening Gets Animated
After 15 seasons of The Simpsons, creator Matt Groening finally gets a guest spot in the episode ‘My Big Fat Geek Wedding’ airing next Sunday, April 4. “The writers wrote it in as a goof. I thought, ‘I’ll show them. I’ll do it,'” he says. He has supplied a couple of sounds; Maggie’s pacifier, a Ned Flanders scream — but this time Groening plays himself. He’s identified as the creator of Futurama. (He couldn’t be the creator of The Simpsons on The Simpsons or “the whole universe would implode.”) Though Groening didn’t draw his picture, it’s closer to real life than one earlier depiction as “an eyepatch-wearing, head-shaved, right-wing gun nut.” In the episode, Edna Krabappel runs off with Comic Book Guy to a comic convention, where Groening is autographing robot dolls of Futurama’s Bender. Read More >>>
Season Four Box Art Released
Get excited, this is what will appear on the box you’ll be able to hold in your hands on June 15th. The Complete Fourth Season DVD box art was released to online retailers today, and as you can see, it’s stuck to the same style as the previous three sets. Dark blue (I like to think of it as simpsonschannel blue) is the color of this set, while Barney, Ralph, Santa’s Little Helper, and Snowball II appear on the box in addition to the family members, giving us an idea of how they’ll combat cover similarities in the future. 83 days to go. Keep on counting, it’ll arrive in no time.
Ratings: Co-Dependent’s Day
Fox’s comedy lineup finally bounced back out ahead Sunday after the network dropped some dead weight. With redesigned 7pm and 8pm hours, Fox placed first among adults 18-49 for the night. NBC was second, ABC third, with CBS coming in fourth. Positions were switched overall, however, with CBS in first place and Fox in fourth, but both are great results for the networks in their own way. The new episode of The Simpsons titled ‘Co-Dependent’s Day’ was once again outrated by the 8:30pm repeat of ‘Milhouse Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ which came in at #20 for the week with 11.8 million viewers. The new 8pm schedule is a permanent fixture (for now), with The Bernie Mac Show being shifted to Mondays.