The Simpsons

Family Guy

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Matt and Trey from South Park hate it.  Sounds like sour grapes.  Supposedly, the writing staff of The Simpsons aren’t thrilled with it, but Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane and Simpsons guru Matt Groening trade gags constantly.  (Peter Griffin called a plagiarist in a Sideshow Bob episo...

Published Tue, Nov 10

At Starz Media

source: TAG Blog

The writers are doing a retreat to get rolling on another thirteen episodes. And I've heard Al Jean say he'd be happy to do The Simpsons for another twenty years ... [pause] I'd be okay with working on the show another twenty years." The Simpsons is the sixth highest earner on television. "We're st...

Published Thu, Nov 5

Generation NEXT at MacHomer 1: A Brief History of the Simpsons.

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Twenty years ago, Matt Groening and the infant television station of FOX began broadcasting The Simpsons.  Originally an animated short on The Tracy Ullman Show, the show quite simply exploded into the mainstream of the American public consciousness just a few short years later.  Now th...

Published Tue, Oct 27

The Simpsons’ Matt Groening and Al Jean @ 2009 mipcom

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Creative Keynote: The Simpsons’ Matt Groening and Al Jean @ 2009 mipcom. Enjoy. Note: With a hologram version of Homer Simpson appearing “on stage”. 20 years of The Simpsons. Cool. Creative Keynote: The Simpsons’ Matt Groening and Al Jean @ 2009 mipcom. Enjoy. Note: With a hologra

Published Sun, Oct 18

Fox Corp has cow over Toronto scribe's Simpsons story

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It turns out Matt Groening was not considered a great asset by many in The Simpsons writers room; he was not a sitcom writer and didn’t really didn’t know how to tell those kinds of stories, and Sam Simon let him know it. Once while discussing a script where Marge finally lets her hair down, Mat...

Published Thu, Oct 15

Simpsons Creator Matt Groening to Curate ATP UK

source: BUZZGRINDER

The man behind The Simpsons, Matt Groening, will be joining Pavement as a curator at the next All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Minehead. So let me leavel you with this, one of the best quotes from The Simpsons in recent memory: “She knew my one weakness … that I’m weak!”

Published Tue, Oct 13

Executive producer Al Jean talks about 20 years of The Simpsons

source: TV Squad

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...

Published Fri, Sep 25

Matt Groening talks about Comic-Con

source: TV Squad

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...

Published Mon, Jul 27