The Simpsons

By Brad Trechak With a show like The Simpsons, it's always tough to find new concepts and new characters. The popular theory is that television ideas can be recycled every seven years, but The Simpsons has been around for twenty. Let's hope Ricardo Bomba can inject some life into the franchise. 

By Jonathan Toomey With the holidays fast approaching, it's good to know that Adult Swim is thinking of you. According to their online schedule, Aqua Teen Hunger Force will return on December 13th at 11:45 p.m. ET with an episode elusively referred to as "ATHF Xmas."

By Jason Hughes Starring Jon Lovitz in some brilliant voice work, The Critic ran through two networks in two seasons. Like Futurama and Family Guy, it found some success with reruns on cable -- in this case, Comedy Central -- and a subsequent DVD release. But unlike those series, The Critic remains but a dis...

By Jason Hughes Even the brief encounters with Bart at school fed the main story, and were handled perfectly. This is what The Simpsons is capable of, and despite a few moments that were a bit more crass than I recall the Simpsons of yore being, it was classic Simpsons all over again.Continue reading The Simp...

By Bob Sassone While we wait for the World Series to be over and The Simpsons (and other Sunday night FOX shows) to return, here's something fun: a list of the 14 most awesome fake products from the show (The Simpsons I mean, not the World Series). Watch clips and episodes of The Simpsons and other shows at Sl...

By Bob Sassone I'm sure that Halloween isn't the main focus of tonight's episode of 30 Rock (Liz and Jack going to Kenneth's hometown to audition people for TGS is), but this clip flashes back to a party from last year that Frank, Lutz, and Toofer had. I'm trying to remember if 30 Rock did a Halloween show las...

By Nick Zaino Seth Rogen has always enjoyed Halloween specials, from the TGIF line-up when he was a kid up to The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror. Tonight, he'll be in his own Halloween special, Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (NBC, 8 PM), based on the Dreamworks animated feature Mon...

By Allison Waldman After all, CBS Paramount has done very, very well with that original Star Trek episode. It's regarded as -- and is -- the all-time best show in the entire original ST canon. Ironically, Ellison never liked what Roddenberry and company had done with his script.Continue reading Harlan Elliso...

By Jason Hughes Even after I'd given up on watching The Simpsons every week many years back, I continued tuning into their annual "Treehouse of Horror" specials, the most recent of which aired Sunday. After a few more years of watching just that one episode each year, I eventually let it go as well. But I've b...

By Brad Trechak Despite my own history in musical theater, I haven't been watching Glee. Whedon's involvement in an episode would certainly pique my interest enough to catch it. Perhaps he could get together with his brother Jed and write the music for the episode, as well, turning it into a 42-minute oper...

By Danny Gallagher And here's the best part: you don't even have to know how to draw to enter. All you have to do is describe your character and the animators will draw it for you. That should come in handy for the next WGA Strike. I wonder if the winning character will go in a fire extinguisher case in case of contract...

By Bob Sassone At 7, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos, followed by new episodes of Extreme Makeover, Desperate Housewives, and Brothers & Sisters.CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then new episodes of The Amazing Race, Three Rivers, and Cold Case.NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, fo...

By Kona Gallagher Some of the highlights include a Moonlight marathon starting today on SyFy, as part of their "31 Days of Halloween" programming. On Sunday, The Simpsons is airing their 20th "Treehouse of Horror" episode, while Monday has a some good kids' fare, with Halloween-themed America's Funnies...

By Annie Wu This is one of those episodes I've pocketed away in case I need to subject -- I mean, introduce -- an uninitiated person to the world of Always Sunny.Continue reading It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: The Waitress Is Getting Married

By Brad Trechak As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations, Fox is holding a contest in which fans can create a character online that will appear in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Entries can be submitted on The Simpsons website (although apparently not yet) and should include such information a...

By Jonathan Toomey The episode, entitled "The Incident," was the easily the strongest episode thus far and had so many laugh out loud moments - Manny stroking his Sharpie marker goatee was hilarious. But as Jason pointed out in his review, Dylan's song for Haley and the subsequent montage of the entire famil...

By Bob Sassone Kelsey Grammer's Hank isn't getting any love from viewers and it's not getting any love from critics. Ratings aren't that good and the critics don't like it. So Grammer is doing a bunch of interviews for tonight's episode, including this one over at The TV Addict. He promises that tonight's e...

By Nick Zaino For those who still have last week's episode on DVR and are likely to write us letters because we spoiled it for you - SPOILER ALERT. Then again, why are you reading something about tonight's episode if you haven't watched last week's episode yet?

By Jason Hughes Maybe it's because I don't find Marge to be one of the funnier characters on the show and this episode focused on her, so there weren't as many funny moments in the main storylines. Luckily, there were plenty of side characters and moments to spotlight.Continue reading The Simpsons: The Gre...

By Bob Sassone TBS has Baseball Playoffs all night.At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Three Rivers, and Cold Case.NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, then the Colts vs. the Titans.FOX has a new Brothers at 7.At 7:30, ABC has a new America's Funniest Home Videos (...

By Joel Keller That's the best thing I can say about this episode, to be honest. This one was less funny than last week's episode, which was less funny than the pilot. At least last week's episode had some heartfelt emotion behind it, so the lack of laughs could be excused. But this episode didn't even have tha...

By Danny Gallagher If you fondly remember watching the first Simpsons Movie hoping that the sequel would bring you equal amounts of life affirming excitement, keep hoping. Matt Groening and Al Jean said an interview with Morgan Spurlock, the Super Size Me star and director hired for the show's big annivers...

By Danny Gallagher The Paley Center for Media will pay a special tribute to The Simpsons at this year's annual fundraising gala. The Center's president Pat Mitchell said they chose to honor the show because of its "tremendous impact on the television sitcom over the last 20 years and continues to influence a...

By Bob Sassone Not only is The Lola Falana Show on DVD now, I didn't even know there was a Lola Falana Show. I knew that there was a Lola Falana (that's a fun name to say: Lola Falana Lola Falana Lola Falana). She was a dancer and actress who was pretty well known back in the 70s, but her TV show escaped my radar. This...

By Bob Sassone The fall season has begun and we have a ton of new and returning shows to watch again. It's great to have The Office and The Mentalist and 60 Minutes and The Simpsons back with new episodes, but I still feel a huge void in my TV-watching pleasure. And it's not because Lost and Chuck won't be back un...

By Bob Sassone At 7, ABC has the two-hour season premiere of Extreme Makeover, followed by the season premieres of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters.CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then the two-hour season premiere of The Amazing Race and the season premiere of Cold Case.NBC has a new Footbal...

By Nick Zaino Al Jean started out with The Simpsons 20 years ago as a writer working a couple of days a week. He was there when the series started, and even before it was officially a series, working on the Christmas show in 1989, when The Simpsons first broke away from its beginnings on The Tracey Ullman Sho...

By Brad Trechak Practically every other celebrity on Earth has been a guest voice on The Simpsons. Hell, then even managed to land the reclusive author Alan Moore for a comic book-themed episode. Now, Borat and Bruno star Sacha Baron Cohen will be lending his voice to an episode of the animated series.

By Allison Waldman When Guiding Light airs its final episode today, it won't just be the end of a remarkable television success story -- one that has endured on radio and TV for 72 years -- it will also lower the curtain on some of the most memorable characters ever. In the past 25 years that I've been watching Gui...

By Danny Gallagher The late Sen. Kennedy, lampooned in the long-running Fox sitcom by actor Dan Castellaneta's voice-over caricature, actually embraced the animated politician as part of a contest held in conjunction with the theatrical release of The Simpsons Movie.Continue reading A lesson in humili...

By Joel Keller Guest voices on the 21st season of The Simpsons will include: Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Anne Hathaway, Chris Martin, Sarah Silverman, Angela Bassett, Chuck Liddell, Jackie Mason, Neve Campbell, Eli and Payton Manning, Bob Costas, and the late Eartha Kitt.From November 9 through Novembe...

By Nick Zaino When documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock first saw The Simpsons, he was a 19- or 20-year-old college kid, still living at home with his mother in West Virginia. Having grown up watching Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder, Spurlock was ecstatic to watch The Tracey Ullman Show...

By John Scott Lewinski The Guinness Book of World Records folks put a cap on last week's Comic-Con International festivities by handing out official records to several of the convention's most popular TV franchises, including The Simpsons and Doctor Who (right).

By Bob Sassone Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, has been going to Comic-Con since 1977. That's before a lot of you were born and is so long ago that Lost used the year in their time travel story last season. TV Barn's Aaron Barnhart found Groening roaming the floor and buying comics and filed this vide...

By Allison Waldman What's going on with the writers? 30 Rock dominates the comedy category and Mad Men dominates the drama category. What are the chances that the lone nomination in each category wins? I'd say slim and none. I call for limitations; only two episodes per series. Writing is such a subjective thin...

By Brad Trechak I do hope the documentary has some original material, like a framing sequence with the family. Although that's been done before with the "Behind the Laughter" episode. The Simpsons did it! The title of the documentary says it all: The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3-D on Ice. In 3-D. On...

By Mike Moody Like Joel reminded us last week, the King of Pop provided the voice for Leon Kompowsky, a large and loveable brick layer who says he is Michael Jackson. In the episode, Homer is charmed by Leon and brings him home from a mental institution, where the rest of the family eventually falls in love...

By Danny Gallagher That's why when I become king, I will order all television networks to play nothing but Top Gear and Robot Chicken and that episode of Married...With Children where Al meets a stripper named Rocki Mountains. Anyone who tries to stop me will be thrown into a cell without the benefit of trial and f...

By Joel Keller But when I think of MJ on TV, my mind will always drift to his memorable appearance on The Simpsons. It was the first episode of the third season (all the way back in -- gulp -- 1991), in an episode called "Stark Raving Dad." Homer is thrown in a mental institution for wearing a pink shirt to work. In...

By Bob Sassone It's one of 1500 displays that were sent to movie theaters when The Simpsons Movie came out. Now it's being sold on eBay. You can either bid on it or buy it now for the above price. Might be kind of fun to have the show's couch in your living room next to your own couch.

By Danny Gallagher Now you can change the way it looks from every angle, the way it thinks, and even the way it talks. TomTom unveiled a new voice skin for their GPS devices. Now Homer Simpson, the actual voice of Homer Simpson voiced by Dan Castellanetta, can guide you to locations and it doesn't have to be a dispe...

By Bob Sassone Was there a theme for last night's animated shows on FOX? First The Simpsons has an episode about letting a neighbor (in this case, Ogdenville residents) into Springfield and then building a fence to keep them out. Then King of the Hill had an episode where the guys battled with a new family f...

 CA I have liked a piece of an episode here and there, but mostly, the show is like the Simpsons was after it had its spinoff (Futurama)...the new show is truly the better show and the quality of the original has gone down. I can't say I remember a single ...

 CA At 8, FOX has the season finale of The Simpsons, then the season finales of King of the Hill, Family Guy, and American Dad. PBS has a new Nature at 8, followed by a new Masterpiece Mystery! Disney has a new Jonas at 8, followed by a new Sonny with a ...

By Danny Gallagher Instead, it accomplished something much greater than just ratings or ad dollars. It gave TV cartoons and animation a serious edge. Creator Mike Judge and his team of writers turned the tiny fictional town of Arlen into something very real and genuine and relied on strong characters and viv...

By Brad Trechak The South Park boys are back. And this time, they're bringing a little extra to their DVD set. This is the first set to be available on Blu-Ray, but I have not yet upgraded and only got my hands on the "regular" DVD. That's the one I'll be reviewing.

By Danny Gallagher Filed under: The Simpsons, HDTV, Reality-Free One of television's most beloved and historic television shows is undergoing a major change tonight. Tonight's episode of The Simpsons will update their iconic opening sequence for the second time in its 20-year history.

By Richard Keller That, of course, is where we come in. Sure, first and foremost we are a website that features information on television. But, we also have access to some of the greatest financial gurus that were ever created by television writers. To assist you in the right investment choices, we have compil...

By Richard Keller Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Video, Retro Squad, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.

By Jason Hughes There's all kinds of possibilities for contenders here. I'd give a nod to both Star Wars tributes -- Family Guy and Robot Chicken -- and South Park definitely stretched their animation style with 'Major Boobage,' but I didn't think the episode was all that good. Aqua Teen Hunger Force had so...

By Richard Keller Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Episode Reviews S19E14) "Oh boy, dinnertime! The perfect break between work and drunk." -- Homer J. Simpson Other than that, this was a pretty good episode. Continue reading The Simpsons: Dial 'N' for Nerder

By Richard Keller Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Episode Reviews Rich: Hello, everyone and welcome to this week's review of The Simpsons. I would have to say that, overall, this episode was entertaining and really grabbed the essence of what the 1990's was all about.

Adam Finley: The 14 most touching Simpsons episodes  CA - I'm listing these episodes in no particular order, but this one gets the top spot solely for the final shot of Homer sitting on his car after helping his ... The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season DVD Review IGN all 2 news articles

By Adam Finley Filed under: 24, The Simpsons, Celebrities S18E21) I suppose that in many respects this episode should have been the 400th one. It was fast-paced, exciting and hysterical. However, it will go down in history as merely episode 399. I'll talk more about that in my review of episode 400.

By Adam Finley Like I said in my other review, the "24 Minutes" episode, on the surface, seemed like the better choice for the 400th episode, but I'm glad they picked this one. The only reference to this being a milestone of some sort occurred in the opening: a short from the Tracey Ullman days showing Homer...

By Adam Finley I may be a Simpsons apologist, but that doesn't mean I don't understand where people are coming from when they say the show isn't what it used to be. Even those like myself who defend the series for still being one of the smartest and funniest shows on television can still recognize a lesser ep...

By Adam Finley So I watched The Simpsons and laughed pretty hard for half an hour. It didn't cost me a thing, so I can't complain too much. Still, that maternal side of me knows this episode could have been better, that the best episodes are more than just a lot of funny gags. Then again, maybe this was always int...

By Adam Finley I'm not "humor-impaired," (to quote Dave Barry), but there are two Simpsons episodes that stick out in my mind in which both Homer and Marge were seriously tempted to stray: Marge falling for her bowling instructor and Homer falling for a co-worker who is both very sexy and also, in many wa...

By Adam Finley The first part of this new teaser features the same dancing CGI bunny and flowers as the other teaser for The Simpsons movie, but keep watching, because this is in fact brand new. Click here to watch it (WMV file), courtesy of Empire. I found this one much funnier than the last teaser, and I'm st...

By Adam Finley Filed under: FOX, OpEd, The Simpsons, Animation You'll never take me alive, Grim Reaper! --Grandpa Simpson Moe being tricked by Homer and the family ducking down in the car: "oh, it's just his car." Marge: So, did you call any of your friends?

By Anna Johns Filed under: FOX, The Simpsons, Video, AnimationThis is a great way to spend 10 minutes of your Friday. A preview of season 18 of The Simpsons is online today in advance of this weekend's season premiere. FOX made the first seven minutes of Sunday's episode available on various websites, in...

By Adam Finley 4. More Simpsons: Complaining that the Simpsons has never been able to duplicate what it was in its early years has become a kind of knee jerk Pavlovian reaction on the part of anyone with access to a blog or messageboard. What a lot of these opinions lack, however, is any kind of information to...

By Adam Finley S06E03) The Simpsons has done more than a few clip shows in its almost two decades of existence, and while these looks back at past episodes usually tend to be the least favorite among fans for obvious reasons, I will say that at least the episodes are framed in such a way as to still make them w...

By Scott Weinberg TVS: According to my IMDb expertise, you joined the Simpsons writing staff in 2000, and your first on-screen credit came during Treehouse of Horror 11. Is that accurate? Please tell me you wrote the line "At least stop basting yourself!"

By Ryan j Budke Filed under: Animation, Comedy, FOX, OpEd, The SimpsonsI'm sorry to all of our geeky readers out there, but no, this episode does not revolve around Marge learning how to program in Linux. Instead, it involves an oft-used plot of The Simpsons; where Homer acts stupid and Marge must come to...

By Adam Finley The Simpsons kicks off its 17th season this evening (8pm, FOX, followed by the series premiere of The War at Home and the season openers of Family Guy and American Dad). That means much rejoicing for fans like myself, and the usual bromides from people who say the show began to suck after t...

By Ryan j Budke Filed under: Animation, Comedy, FOX, The SimpsonsI think this is the first season in the last 5 years that Fox hasn't advertised as "epic". The 17th season. Say what you want, that's amazing, I hope when then the final episode airs they show a list of all the shows that the Simpsons has outlast...

By Ryan j Budke Good episode, but I don't like that 3 episodes in we've had 2 that have dealt with Homer & Marge splitting up. The first half of the show was excellent and had some extremely funny moments (Maggie as the "Pox Princess", Homer getting fired so non-chalantly, Homer in the tub of Oatmeal) bu...

By Ryan j Budke So there you have it. The five greatest Simpsons Treehouse of Horror shorts, and of course we all know I can't be wrong, so feel free to pipe in below and let us know just how much you agree with me. ;-) Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By Ryan j Budke Good episode. The Simpsons, even at their worst, are almost always fantastic. This was by no means their worst either. As I said earlier, this is probably the best "Treehouse of Horror" of the past couple of years. Let me know what you think.