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The Brooklyn Nine-Nine And New Girl Crossover Episodes Created Some Problems, Folks
Big TV crossover events aren’t nearly as ubiquitous as they used to be. Forget about huge interconnected universes like the Arrowverse and don’t even get me started on the many Marvel heroes beginning to cross paths on Disney+. I’m talking about the magic of “Scoobynatural,” or that time the Simpsons met the Griffins when “Family […]
Continue readingA Simpsons Writer Still Defends This Infamous Episode
Across the 700+ episodes of “The Simpsons,” you’d be hard-pressed to find one which exists in as much infamy as the second episode of season 9, “The Principal and the Pauper.” Principal Seymour Skinner (Harry Shearer) is revealed as an imposter named Armin Tamzarian, a former street punk who took the name of his Mia […]
Continue reading‘Better Call Saul’ Review: ‘Nippy’ Says a Bitter Hello to the Future and the Past at the Same Time
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Better Call Saul” Season 6, Episode 10, “Nippy.”]At this juncture of “Better Call Saul,” the biggest unanswered question might well be “What does this guy have left to live for?” And that’s not just true of Gene Takovic (Bob Odenkirk), firmly entrenched in his third distinct identity […]
Continue readingWhy A Rutherford Falls Halloween Episode Is So Special To Ed Helms
Halloween episodes are something special for TV audiences. Some series, like “The Simpsons,” take the opportunity to don darker clothing in their October “Treehouse of Horror” episodes, ramping up the mischief-making. Others, like Netflix’s nostalgia goldmine “Stranger Things,” bring a lighthearted blend of hilarity, horror, and maybe a little bit of nostalgia-mining. Among them all, […]
Continue readingMatt Groening Thinks Futurama Is More ‘Real’ Than The Simpsons
In “A Big Piece of Garbage,” the eighth episode of “Futurama” (first aired on May 11, 1999), it was revealed that 20th-century Earth solved its overflowing landfill problem by balling up all the world’s trash, attaching it to a high-powered rocket, and launching it into space. It turns out this was only a temporary fix, as, […]
Continue readingThe Simpsons’ Production Crew Has Officially Unionized
20th Television Animation, the studio behind Fox’s “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and “American Dad,” has agreed to acknowledge the production workers from the three shows forming a union within The Animation Guild. This voluntary recognition is a legal term that signifies an employer’s official recognition of an organization as the bargaining agent for a group of […]
Continue readingBreaking Its Own Sci-Fi Rules Paid Off Big For Futurama
After a ridiculously successful decade of writing and creating “The Simpsons,” creator Matt Groening and “The Simpsons” writer David X. Cohen approached Fox with a new adult animated series, the sci-fi comedy “Futurama.” It was apparent pretty early on that Fox wasn’t completely invested in the series, but despite decisions like dumping the show on Sunday […]
Continue readingJohn Waters: ‘Trump ruined bad taste – he was the nail in the coffin’
The film-maker and ‘filth elder’ has made a career out of generating shocks. Now a debut novelist, can his book’s talking gay penis save camp?If John Waters had existed in ancient Rome – and he’d be the first to point out that he’s been around for a while now – they would have made him […]
Continue readingProduction Workers For The Simpsons, Family Guy, And American Dad Are Looking To Unionize
Today is a great day for the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, as the production workers at “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and “American Dad!” have filed to join and begin collective bargaining for their very first union contract. All three series have a history on the Fox “Animation Domination” block and represent some of the […]
Continue readingTV, Interrupted: Clerks The Animated Series Deserved At Least 37 More Episodes (In A Row)
(Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.)In the modern era of television, animated sitcoms are nothing new. “The Simpsons” is one of the longest-running shows in television history and it inspired a […]
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