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In the News (Tue 22 Dec 09)

  
 Who turned The Simpsons into a cartoon? By Chris Suellentrop
Another reason for the decline of the Simpsons, perhaps, is that the writers forgot whom the show was about.
To celebrate the milestone, Entertainment Weekly picked the top 25 episodes in Simpsons history: Twenty-four of them come from 1997 or before, meaning that only one comes from the past five seasons (which, not coincidentally, is the time period from which EW selected its "Worst Episode Ever").
The newspaper also asked Simpsons staff members to select their 15 favorite moments and episodes, and only one person (Al Jean, the show's executive producer) chose something that happened within the past five years.
www.slate.com /id/2078501   (1415 words)

  
 The Simpsons: sacrilege or satire
The Simpsons crew was sharp enough to realize this even though, according to Pinsky's estimate, 80 percent of the show's writers over the past dozen years have been either skeptics or atheists.
The Simpsons is indeed a microcosim of the disfunctionality that has crept into everyday american life, basic apathy tword everything, includeing religion.
Simpsons, one of the best show's ever, although it's been noticeably weaker lately.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/586714/posts   (3094 words)

  
 The Sopranos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Gandolfini was initially opposed to the murder of Richie Aprile; however, the writers and HBO disagreed and he was killed in Episode 25, "The Knight in White Satin Armor".
The opening sequence was sufficiently recognizable as a parody on an episode of The Simpsons in 2004, with Fat Tony standing in for Tony Soprano.
The show topped virtually every "Best TV Show" list in its debut season in 1999, with the New York Times calling it "the greatest work of American popular culture in the last 25 years".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sopranos   (7174 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Francis I of France
Not only did Francis support a number of major writers of the period, he was a poet himself, if not one of immense quality.
When Francis comes up in a conversation among characters in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, it is as the great hope to bring culture to the war-obsessed French nation.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Francis-I-of-France   (5567 words)

  
 The Simpsons Archive: FAQs, Guides & Lists
Complete list of songs that have been sung, played, parodied and referenced on the show.
List of writers and directors of each episode.
Welcome to our humble library of Simpsons information, home to documents created and maintained over the years by fans of the show.
www.snpp.com /lists.html   (541 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 300 reasons to love 'The Simpsons'
The most mysterious part of creating an episode takes place in the writing rooms, where two groups work on separate scripts.
Even on hit shows, many writers move on after two or three years, but many Simpsons writers have been with the show six years or more.
Recording a trans-Atlantic guest voiceover with Ian McKellen for an episode in which the Simpsons go to London (God save the Queen).
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-02-06-simpsons_x.htm   (503 words)

  
 The Simpsons Archive: Episodes By Writer
For a list of writers and directors sorted by episode, see Jouni Paakkinen's Writers and Directors list.
For a list of episodes sorted by directors, see Javier Vera's Episodes by Director.
Michael Price (the IMDb lists one writer named Michael Price, but he is not credited as a Simpsons writer)
www.snpp.com /guides/epsbywriter.html   (461 words)

  
 Set in Philadelphia
Their professional affiliations include: Becker, CBS Entertainment, Columbia TriStar TV, IFC Productions, Lifetime Television, The Littlefield Co., NBC, Rhino Films, Showtime Networks, The Simpsons, The Sundance Channel, USA Films.
IMPORTANT: If you plan on attending, please call (215)717-6560 to RSVP (leave your phone number as well so we can call you to confirm) -- your name will need to be put on a list at the ground floor lobby security desk to allow you access to the building.
PGN Treatment and Final Script Reviewers are primarily film and television movie executives and writers (film/movie category), or series producers and development agents (television series category).
www.pages.drexel.edu /faculty/ina22/dwplinks-prism.htm   (334 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: Situation comedy
One example of this is the animated situation comedy The Simpsons, where the characteristics of animation has rendered the characters unchanging in appearance forever—although the characters in the show have sometimes made knowing meta references to this (the writers have made reference to that by calling The Simpsons a "frozen-in-time" show).
The first situation comedy is often said to be Sam and Henry which debuted on the Chicago, Illinois clear-channel station WGN in 1926, and was partially inspired by the notion of bringing the mix of humor and continuity found in comic strips to the young medium of radio.
Traditionally, situation comedies were largely self-contained, in that the characters themselves remained largely static and events in the sitcom resolved themselves by the conclusion of the show.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Situation_comedy   (2613 words)

  
 List of fictional U.S. Presidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the office of President of the United States is somewhat hallowed, fiction writers often choose to 'invent' a president in their stories to prevent a real one from being possibly insulted, to avoid having their stories become 'dated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.
President MacNeil has a rather inexplicable cameo appearance in the first episode of Lost In Space, which was set in the then-future year of 1997, despite the fact that there was no way he could still have been elligiable for office at that time.
President Chastity Bono was mentioned in The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_U.S._Presidents   (7820 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 15 writer favorites
Greaney also cites dialogue from legendary Simpsons scribe John Swartzwelder's "The Cartridge Family" (Nov. 2, 1997), in which Homer faces a waiting period on gun purchases.
Like parents with children, it's tough to get Simpsons writers to own up to favorites.
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www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-02-06-favorites_x.htm   (326 words)

  
 The Simpsons Archive: The Cast List
Weinstein, one of the writers of the I&S&P Show.
In real life -- was one of the writers on the show.
Edward, star of public television show `Edward the Penitent'.
www.snpp.com /guides/castlist.html   (3843 words)

  
 alt.tv.simpsons - List of Inquiries and Substantive Answers: Cast, Staff & Production
A list of all Simpsons writers with Harvard ties, as well as a list of all Ivy League references made on the show, can be found at http://www.snpp.com/guides/ivy.html.
In addition, for a comprehensive list of all the celebrity guest stars, please refer to Simpsons Guest Stars.
It includes a comprehensive list of everyone associated with the show who has since passed on, whether they be a cast member, celebrity guest, or someone on the production staff.
www.snpp.com /guides/lisa-4.html   (3949 words)

  
 Observer Newspaper - News
Garden, who lists Steve Martin, Monty Python and The Simpsons among his strongest influences, was working at a liquor store in Madison when he first drew the attention of then Onion editor Dan Vebber.
Throughout the 36 years of the annual Sophomore Literary Festival, a distinguished list of satirists has graced Notre Dame with their wit and anecdotes.
Monday night another popular and widely-read satirist joined writers like Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut on that list.
www.nd.edu /~observer/02112003/News/5.html   (675 words)

  
 The Simpsons Archive: Episodes By Writer
[3F19] Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
[4F22] The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
This list shows which Simpsons episodes each writer wrote.
www.snpp.com /guides/epsbywriter.html   (675 words)

  
 List of political epithets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coined by writers of the animated television show, The Simpsons, the phrase was repeated by the political right in the United States and the United Kingdom in the run-up to the Iraq War, especially by Jonah Goldberg.
This epithet for impractical political and social philosophies that emerge from emotionalism and spirituality, rather than rational, philosophical and scientific views, is sometimes used pejoratively as "New Age." Use by religious conservatives, scientists and others has caused the term "New Age" to sometimes have a derogatory connotation.
Moonbat is a political epithet coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of Samizdata.net a libertarian weblog.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_epithets   (6754 words)

  
 List of fictional U.S. Presidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since the office of President of the United States is somewhat hallowed, fiction writers often choose to 'invent' a president in their stories to prevent a real one from being possibly insulted, to avoid having their stories become 'dated' over time, for dramatic license, or to provide literary flexibility.
A list of US Presidents since the 1950s in Robert Heinlein 's book Job: A Comedy of Justice concludes with "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy", presumably referring to both Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
Dictator of the fictional country Latveria, Doom arrives in the year 2099 from sometime in our near future via unknown means.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_U.S._Presidents   (6754 words)

  
 CABF14
All quoted material and episode summaries remain property of The Simpsons, Copyright of Twentieth Century Fox.
This episode was obviously an exercise in nonlinear storytelling, but if its notions of story-telling economy and plot resolution rub off on the regular episodes, well, then so much the better.
I believe that Matt [Selman] has a personal talent for writing episodes where the whole family is the star, as "Trilogy of Error" proves that fact [indisputably].
www.snpp.com /episodes/CABF14   (6485 words)

  
 [3F16] The Day the Violence Died
I try not to be too critical of "The Simpsons" because I enjoy them as escapism, but, if I were grading that episode, I would give it a C+.
All in all, a B- episode, raised to a B by an absolutely brilliant skewering of "Schoolhouse Rock" near the end.
Don Del Grande - A-minus - one of the better episodes this season, although it did slow down slightly at the beginning of the third act, and the ending was sort of "hanging".
www.snpp.com /episodes/3F16.html   (7542 words)

  
 List of neologisms on The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the episode "Home Away From Homer", Lisa listens to a radio program on obscure music, and hears the host refer to a guest as a banjologist, using ology as the suffix for the study of a subject (or sometimes the subject itself, although this is technically incorrect).
Indeed the DVD commentary for the episode Lisa the Iconoclast makes a point of reinforcing that "embiggen" and "cromulent" are completely made up by the writers and have since taken on a life of their own via the internet and other media.
From the episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons   (8964 words)

  
 languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.
(Not talking about you, of course, but the listmakers and writers of books like 1001 Mistakes in English You Make Every Day, You Pathetic Uneducated Fool!)
An idiotic list of alleged mispronunciations compiled by someone going by the alias "Dr. Language" has been making the rounds of the internet, and now that it's turned up on MetaFilter as well, I guess I'll bite the bullet and blog the thing.
This reminds me of a list I read in W.R. Espey's (sp?) An Almanac of Words at Play that was supposedly meant to test whether or not you were worthy of enunciating for (I think) the BBC.
www.languagehat.com /archives/001217.php   (8964 words)

  
 List of neologisms on The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indeed the DVD commentary for the episode Lisa the Iconoclast makes a point of reinforcing that "embiggen" and "cromulent" are completely made up by the writers and have since taken on a life of their own via the internet and other media.
The original source of the phrase is The Simpsons episode Lisa's First Word.
It is one of the more frequently used made-up words from the Simpsons, and, like a few others, was being used before The Simpsons made it popular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons   (8959 words)

  
 CABF14
All quoted material and episode summaries remain property of The Simpsons, Copyright of Twentieth Century Fox.
This episode was obviously an exercise in nonlinear storytelling, but if its notions of story-telling economy and plot resolution rub off on the regular episodes, well, then so much the better.
I believe that Matt [Selman] has a personal talent for writing episodes where the whole family is the star, as "Trilogy of Error" proves that fact [indisputably].
www.snpp.com /episodes/CABF14   (6485 words)

  
 The Simpsons Archive: George Meyer Interview (March 2000)
Meyer caused consternation at "The Simpsons" when, in 1995, he announced that he wasn't going to renew his contract at the end of that season, the show's sixth.
Now the average comedy is about a bunch of people who hang around in some generic urban setting having conversations and sniping at each other.
That's why the biggest comedy stars tend to be people like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, because audiences never have to guess when they're trying to be funny It's the same as the phenomenon of seeing a joke in a movie trailer.
www.snpp.com /other/interviews/meyer00.html   (7112 words)

  
 Homer Simpson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homer's lack of creativity is on display at the Kwik-E-Mart, where a list of banned check-writers includes the names Homer J. Simpson, Homer S. Simpson, H. Simpson, Homor Simpson, and Homer J. Fong.
Homer Jay Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is one of the main characters in the animated television series The Simpsons.
Homer became a Grammy Award-winning singer as a member of the Be Sharps, as depicted in the episode Homer's Barbershop Quartet (but Homer does not consider the Grammy to be a prestigious music award at all, as shown in many episodes).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homer_Simpson   (4609 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Today's issues The Simpsons
Blair was dogged by controversy after Downing Street rejected a scene showing his cartoon counterpart giving a corgi to the Simpsons "because Downing Street felt there was a risk that he would be seen as America's poodle", according to Al Jean, one of the show's writers.
When the Simpsons visited Brazil, the Rio de Janeiro tourist board objected to the show's portrayal of the capital as a city where all men are bisexual, fearsome monkeys roam the streets, and tourists are kidnapped by taxi drivers and mugged by children.
The Simpsons started life as a series of shorts on the Tracey Ullman show.
www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,331998,00.html   (451 words)

  
 Look At This...: September 2005
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers.
Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.
seehere.blogspot.com /2005_09_01_seehere_archive.html   (1613 words)

  
 Toon Zone - Your Source for Toon News!
Don't be dazzled by claims from rebellious writers on the interweb or self-described "historians" that animation is just another medium and one eminently suitable for telling any kind of story.
Ignore the success of The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, and that troublesome Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network.
Most animators are the spiritual children of Tex Avery, the free-spirited anarchist who helped create the Looney Tunes when he was at Warner Bros. and then blossomed into pure anarchy when he moved to MGM.
news.toonzone.net /article.php?ID=4875   (1309 words)

  
 Subtly Simpsons
So, the writers were making fun of the Cape's name-changing by IMAGINING that it was once called Cape Arbuckle in honour of Fatty, but changed to Canaveral after the scandal.
This is a reference to the large number of Nazi's who fled post-war Germany to South America, particularly Argentina.
Shelb.: I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins.
www.westegg.com /simpsons   (4822 words)

  
 alt.tv.simpsons - List of Inquiries and Substantive Answers: Cast, Staff & Production
Several of the writers and producers do have e-mail addresses, but they are not publically available and should not be given out as a matter of courtesy.
This isn't because the writers are being snobs, it's because of union rules, the violation of which could cause people to get fired, or even sued.
Most of the "producers" credited at the start of each show are the writers for the show.
www.snpp.com /guides/lisa-4.html   (3949 words)

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