On this day in 1989, "Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire" became the first episode of that series to be broadcast. Which one are you: Someone who remembers watching the episode when it aired, or someone who doesn't remember a world where "The Simpsons" wasn't on TV?
The last great season of "The Simpsons" was the seventh, which ended back in 1996. There is no disputing this. It is not even the fault of the makers of "The Simpsons"; seven years is probably about as long as anything can go before it starts to feel stale and repetitive, a problem the show itself acknowledged with the "Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie" episode of the mediocre eighth season. (This problem can occasionally be avoided; a good example is "Cheers," which essentially got a fresh start in its sixth season, and bought itself a few more years of creativity.) So the news that the show may finally be [...]
Here is what 46 tons of pot being burned by the Mexican government looks like. This was in May, and they hired a marching band and everything. They'll be burning even more soon, as military police just completed the biggest pot bust in the country's history: 105 tons of the stuff, wrapped in 10,000 packages, in Tijuana. As the BBC reports: "The drugs, found in houses and vehicles, were wrapped in differently coloured packages that had markings and pictures on them, including the cartoon character Homer Simpson." Who has been declared a "true Catholic," according to L'Osservatore Romano.
"Thanks for 20 wonderful years. Now stay tuned for three Seth MacFarlane shows."
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Qaddafi seized control of Libya when he was 27! When I was 27, all I was seizing control of was myself.Thu Feb 24 15:46:19 via webTim Longmrtimlong
Sometimes I unfollow him because he's Canadian. But then I remember that he was a factchecker at Spy (a factchecker at Spy!) and has written some very good episodes of "The Simpsons." Also he hates Jay Leno, so. .bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1298064126/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}
Currently on inflight entertainment: Leno doing headlines. No one watching except a baby, who screams with a pain [...]
John Ortved's "The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History" is out and available for purchase by you! (It is currently only #285 in books on Amazon; you can help!) Would you like to try a small sample? In this excerpt, we learn about how love money hurt the show's co-developers Matt Groening, Sam Simon and James L. Brooks.
Here is a preview for the 'Simpsons' porno flick that absolutely nobody was clamoring for. May God have mercy on our souls.
No, I don't know what the impetus for replacing The Simpsons' theme song with the perpetually disheveled pop star Ke$ha's ode to Autotune and staying out all night "Tik Tok" this week was, either. (Perhaps it was a consolation prize for her losing out on the live-action Smurfs movie's Smurfette role to Katy Perry?) But points for having smooth-voiced criminal Snake Jailbird lip-sync one of the yodel-y bits of the chorus, which just seems so right. [Via]
"A kind of middlebrow 'Simpsons' written by public university grads rather than the Harvard elite, 'The Family Guy' prides itself on pushing the envelope of good taste whenever possible."
