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The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable
The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence.
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Someone Found A Weird Unreleased Simpsons Game On An Old Dreamcast Dev Kit
Sreak, a user over on the Dreamcast-Talk forums, posted the files from an old, broken Dreamcast dev kit hard drive. Users quickly found inside an unreleased, incomplete and odd Simpsons game, which it seems had never been publicly announced or revealed.
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An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons'
"If a gun was put to my head, and they said, ‘Tell me the best episode of television ever,’ it’s this." Transforming the nature of comedy and animation to create perhaps the most successful TV show of all time isn’t quite as glamorous or exciting as you might imagine.
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The story of Virtual Springfield, the Simpsons walking simulator that spawned a tourist attraction
How a small team created the first real map of Springfield, and then lets fans walk around in it on their PCs.
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'Simpsons' Writer Calls Misappropriation of Classic Episode During Coronavirus Outbreak "Gross"
"I don't like it being used for nefarious purposes," Bill Oakley tells THR.
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Does Disney Want Us…Dead?
Marvel overlord Kevin Feige and his two heralds imbued with the Power Cinematic—the Russo Brothers—all made guest appearances on this week’s episode of The Simpsons with a special message befitting the company that gobbled up 20th Century Fox in its quest for global domination: “Spoil our movies at the risk of death, nerds.”
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'The Simpsons’ Showrunner Shuts Down Rumor That the Series Is Coming to an End
Contrary to what “The Simpsons” composer Danny Elfman is saying, the series is still going strong.
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Classic Simpsons episode featuring Michael Jackson missing from Disney Plus
No more ‘Stark Raving Dad’
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How ‘Who Shot Mr. Burns?’ Unlocked The Simpsons’ Potential
Writers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein look back on how one mystery led to a beloved two-part episode and a parade of marketing stunts.
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Here’s Something You Don't Know About ‘The Simpsons'
The writers have often been tempted to break the vow they made to Sir Paul McCartney.
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‘The Simpsons’ Creator Has ‘No Doubt’ Sequel Movie Will Happen Under Disney
The 2007 movie, released by 20th Century Fox, grossed over $500 million worldwide.
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‘The Simpsons’ Will Finally Release Season 19 on DVD, Helping Out Purist Collectors
“The Simpsons” DVD collectors who also happen to be obsessive-compulsive can rest a little easier: You’ll finally be able to fill in that missing Season 19.
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30 Seasons Of 'The Simpsons': How Matt Groening's Cartoon Family Of 5 Became A TV Institution
It’s been almost three decades since “The Simpsons” changed from a rough collection of clips to the lunkheaded family everyone knows. “The Simpsons” started as short cartoons, but when they got their own series in 1989, a historically popular program was born.
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‘The Simpsons’ to Stream Exclusively on Disney+
“The Simpsons” have found a new streaming home. Disney+ will be the exclusive SVOD home of the long-running animated sitcom, with all episodes from the show’s 30 seasons available on the service at launch in November. The announcement was made during the Disney investor day on Thursday. The show is currently available to stream on the app Simpsons World, which was launched by FX after the show began airing on FXX back in 2014. There are also more recent episodes of the series available on Hulu.
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That Ned Flanders-themed metal band appeared on ‘The Simpsons’
In one of the strangest crossovers in recent memory, the famous Ned Flanders-themed metal band just appeared on the show it drew inspiration from; The Simpsons. For a few years now, the Arizona-based Okilly Dokilly have been doing the rounds, delivering metalcore tunes that are derived from the actions and quotes of The Simpsons character Ned Flanders. Although the band are rather divisive in online communities, their general existence is one of a well-thought out parody than anything.
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‘The Simpsons’ Boss: Michael Jackson Used the Show to ‘Groom Boys’
The ‘Simpsons’ showrunner opens up to Marlow Stern about why they removed their Michael Jackson episode, the Fox-Disney merger, satirizing Trump, and much more.
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Online anger over Apu-Modi comparison
An Argentine news channel has come under fire for displaying an image of the Simpsons character Apu as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Buenos Aires. Cronica TV used the headline "Apu arrives" as the Indian PM's plane touched down for the G20 summit. Some say the portrayal of the Indian shopkeeper is racist. Social media users responded angrily to the use of the image.
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Simpsons exec responds to Apu leaving claim
Apu has become controversial recently, with some people arguing that he is an Indian stereotype.
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‘The Simpsons’ Is Eliminating Apu, But Producer Adi Shankar Found the Perfect Script to Solve the Apu Problem
In April producer Adi Shankar launched a spec script contest for “The Simpsons” to solve what has become known as the show’s “Apu Problem.” The long-running character, a convenience store owner voiced by Hank Azaria, has become a controversial figure because many believe him to be an inaccurate and hurtful portrayal of Indian-Americans.
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‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror’: A ‘Jurassic World’ Parody Includes a Very Familiar Dinosaur
It’s well-established at this point: Even in a rarified tropical environment, nothing good happens inside a glass-walled circular travel pod. That lesson seems to play a part in the upcoming “Treehouse of Horror XXIX” episode of “The Simpsons,” which sees the family trapped in a “Jurassic World”-style park. The twist here seems to be that someone has infused dinosaurs with DNA from some familiar faces.
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