Yearly Archives: 2016

Season 28 News: A new Promotional Image and details of “Treehouse of Horror XXVII” have been released!

A new Promotional Image and details of the 600th episode of the show, the upcoming 4th episode of season 28, “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, have been released by FOX. The episode airs October 16, 2016.

In an interview with TV Insider, executive producer Al Jean shared more details on the upcoming 600th episode: “When we hit 100 episodes, we opened the show with Bart writing on the chalkboard, ‘I will not celebrate meaningless milestones’—so that must mean our 600th is six times as meaningless! Yes, this is a big accomplishment, but we don’t want to pat ourselves on the back about it. That would be against everything we stand for. Oh, who are we kidding? It’s incredibly cool.”

The co-executive producer Joel Cohen, writer of the episode adds: “Treehouse of Horror. here are no rules with our Halloween shows, but there are certainly times when we’ve gone, ‘Whoa! This is getting a little too gross!’ Then we pull back on the mangling a bit—just to the edge of bad taste.”

In the opening cutscenes, four bad guys, Sideshow Bob, Frank Grimes, Kodos and the Leprechaun opens off the show seeking revenge on the family. In the first story, “Dry Hard”, the kids of Springfield fight to the death in a parched town to acces Burns’ reservoir, in a Hunger Games parody. Cohen comments on parodying the movies so late: “But in a way it’s good we waited, now we can pay tribute to all four crappy movies at once!”

In the second story, “BFF”, Lisa’s imaginary friend Rachel (Sarah Silverman) gets jealous and is on a rampage to kill all of Lisa’s real friends. In the last episode, “Moefinger”, Moe’s bar reveals a secret base for a James Bond spoof. Al Jean says: “Moe and the other barflies are secretly running a high-tech spy network that’s trying to save the world. Some of the action takes place at a Steely Dan concert where everyone is on drugs. We actually got Donald Fagen to make a guest appearance and say, ‘Drugs at a Steely Dan concert? I never thought I’d see the day.’ When we want to meet a certain celebrity, we write them a part.”

Al Jean continues talking about special guests: “Jim Brooks has always been adamant that we take all points of view and never talk down to anybody. The idea that a Republican candidate for president would talk about the size of his penis during a television debate is beyond anything we would have come up with in the writers’ room.”

The voice of Lisa, Yeardley Smith, talks about the success of 600 episodes next: “We re-up your faith in humanity. While everything from the political scene to the weather changes drastically, we are a constant. We are a reminder that, no matter how crazy things get, love will last, families endure, values matter.”

And about the fact that in twenty-eight years, the characters never aged: “We are frozen in time. Homer will always be a slob and a jackass, and Marge will always forgive him. Bart will forever be a brat. And Lisa will never feel like she truly fits in. But they support each other. They hang in, no matter what.”

Concluding, Al Jean talks about a way the show would end, when time comes: “To my mind, the best way to go out would be to have the final episode conclude with the Christmas pageant at Springfield Elementary School that began our first episode back in 1989. That way, it won’t really be an ending at all. It’ll turn the series into one continuous loop that will play on forever.”

Source: TV Insider

Stay tuned for more!

Homer Votes and the Treehouse of Horror XXVII segments titles drops, with the writer of There Will Be Buds!

The titles of the segments for the upcoming 4th episode of season 28, the 600th spooktacular “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, have been released by FOX. The episode airs October 16, 2016.

The segment titles are going to be: “Dry Hard”, Burns’ Hunger Games for water, “BFF”, in which Lisa’s imaginary friend tries to kill all her real friends, and “Moefinger”, Bart is James Bond for Moe.

Source: Newsday

Meanwhile Homer, tired of waiting and to pass time, goes to vote in the new youtube short “Homer Votes 2016“.

On a final note, the Writer for the 6th episode of season 28, titled “There Will Be Buds“, have been revealed to be Matt Selman!

Stay tuned for more.

600th Episode Build Up: Relive the 400th and 500th milestones!

Just few hours to go now for the 600th episode of The Simpsons, the 4th episode of season 28, “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, Animation on FOX is reliving the last two milestones of the show: You Kent Always Say What You Want and At Long Last Leave. Relive them with us in the wait for the 600th, it air October 16!

Relive the 100th, 200th and 300th now here and stay tuned for more!

Season 28 News: Two new Sneak Peeks for the 600th spooktacular episode: Treehouse of Horror XXVII have been released!

Two new sneak peeks for the upcoming 4th episode of season 28, the 600th spooktacular “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, have been released by FOX. The episode airs October 16, 2016. Also Homer was at Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the episode!

Stay tuned for more

VR Couch Gag sneak peek

Episode sneak peek

Sarah Silverman is the voice of Lisa’s childhood imaginary friend Rachel, which comes back to remove all of her real friends.

Homer is one of the victims of Rachel, though he’s helped from his childhood imaginary friend, Sergeant Sausage.

Source: TvLine

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

600th Episode Build Up: Relive the 100th, 200th and 300th milestones!

Just few hours to go now for the 600th episode of The Simpsons, the 4th episode of season 28, “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, Animation on FOX is reliving the first three milestones of the show: Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song, Trash of the Titans and The Strong Arms of the Ma. Relive them with us in the wait for the 600th, it air October 16!

Relive the 400th and 500th now here and stay tuned for more!

Season 28 and 29 News: Synopsis, Special Guest and Air Date for There Will Be Buds and Treehouse of Horror XXVIII revealed!

Season_28_iTunes_logoSynopsis, Special Guest and Air Date for the 6th episode of season 28, titled “There Will Be Buds“, and next year’s Halloween Special, part of season 29, “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII“, have been revealed!

 

There Will Be Buds

The synopsis for the episode was shown on Fox.com:

Homer gets roped into coaching the kids’ lacrosse team with Milhouse‘s dad, Kirk, who is in desperate need of a friend. When Kirk gets too clingy, Homer vents about how much of a loser he is. Kirk overhears his rant and disappears, right when the team needs him most: the championship game.

The air date of the episode is going to be November 6, 2016.

And a special guest will return once again as Joe Mantegna returns as Fat Tony.

Treehouse of Horror XXVIII

Just 3 days before this year’s halloween special, the 600th episode “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, next year’s special, “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII“, was confirmed by Al Jean on Twitter, and is set to air on Fall 2017, during season 29, which has thus just been confirmed!

Stay tuned for more!

‘Simpsons’ top for Fox, rules the roost outside of sports and debate

“No wonder the viewer count’s down. Those 646,000 living in Boston were too chicken to take it on the chin!”

As you may have seen, Sunday’s preliminaries were all over the place thanks to many areas of the country cocking up their schedules with airing repeats (“Halloween of Horror“/”Friends and Family“) at the wrong times. In any case, The Simpsons was down from last week, but it’s unfair to compare against an NFL-boosted episode, so let’s compare it with the season premiere – which it’s up from.

Sunday’s Boston-bashing outing didn’t stray from the prelims with 1.487/5 but fell to 3.221 million viewers, a lower viewer count than both episodes so far this season.

Elsewhere, only Bob’s Burgers was new on Fox’s truncated schedule, with a solid 1.202/4 and 2.793 million viewers. At 9pm, the debate took hold of the schedules with a total 8.6/24 and 33.54 million viewers across the three broadcast networks that showed it (this was 66.5 million with ALL the networks, such as on cable, having their figures added), while NBC showed football with an average of 5.9/16 and 16.62 million viewers.

With a football lead-in, it being the 600th episode and the usual ratings-booster “Treehouse of Horror” episode next week, we could be having some large numbers on our hand next Monday (but by Sod’s Law, will adjust down on the Tuesday).

Sources: TVByTheNumbers and ShowBuzzDaily

UPDATED 29th December 2016 to include previously excluded unrounded final numbers.