Tag: The Simpsons
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Buffy’s Once More, With Feeling Is the Gold Standard of Musical Episodes
From avid television fans to casual watchers, most viewers are familiar with the concept of the musical episode. While it may seem like an unusual choice, musical episodes have become a rite of passage for many popular TV shows, including The Simpsons, Community, and just about any CW series that lasts for a couple of…
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Solar Opposites Halloween Special Trailer: This Season Is Too Spooky!
“Solar Opposites” is getting into the Halloween special game with one that looks poised to offer the best spooky season-themed animated fun this side of “The Simpsons” Treehouse of Horror specials. Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan’s adult-oriented sitcom about aliens living in the suburbs has always been jam-packed with wild jokes and freaky sci-fi hijinks,…
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Arcane Wins Emmy for Best Animated Program
Netflix’s Arcane has become the first streaming show to win an Outstanding Animation Emmy. The win is notable for Netflix as this is the first time that a Netflix show has ever picked up the award — Big Mouth and BoJack Horseman were nominated in the past, but neither brought the honor home. Other contestants…
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It Takes A Scary Amount Of Work To Make A Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror
The first “Simpsons” Halloween special, first aired on October 25, 1990, was a banner event for the rising tide of “Simpsons” fans. Many a youth rushed to their VCRs that evening, eager to capture on tape an event unprecedented in the show. While “The Simpsons” typically had fewer structural rules than its live-action sitcom counterparts,…
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What Happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons?
Television animated series began with Crusader Rabbit in 1950, followed shortly by The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, a creation of Crusader Rabbit’s producer Jay Ward. Animated series would reach immense popularity with the prime-time show The Flintstones in 1960, proving there was an audience for animation on TV. The Flintstones was the longest-running prime-time…
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The Simpsons Was Never Supposed To Run For More Than 13 Episodes
A rather amusing headline in a 2008 issue of The Onion read “Some Old Man Still Churning Out Marmaduke.” The joke of the article was that Brad Anderson, then 83, the creator of the long-running dog-centric newspaper strip, was toiling away at his 20,000th monotonous “Marmaduke” comic in complete obscurity. Despite being a staple of…
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Only One Part Of The Simpsons Canon Really Matters To The Writers
If you think too much about time while watching the later episodes of “The Simpsons,” you’ll go insane. A recent season 33 episode has Lisa talking to the ghost of Bleeding Gums Murphy (now voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson). Bleeding Gums tells Lisa to search a name up in the phone book, to which Lisa…
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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…
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A 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…
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‘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…