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The Simpsons Has A New Opening Sequence

Effigy2000 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:33:25 -0800

After 20 years and 429 episodes, The Simpsons has updated its opening title sequence. Here it is. This marks the second time that The Simpsons has changed its opening sequence. Here's the original (sorta) opening from Season One. Season Two started the more familiar opening titles which ran until now. There has, of course, also been a few other one-off opening sequence changes, such as the real-life opening sequence (previously), the first TV opening sequence after the movie premiered and the shortened version (and that's not even including all the couch gags and blackboard jokes) but this one is apparently permanent.

"Don't have a thetan, dude."

Joe Beese — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:17:32 -0800

Bart Simpson is known for prank calls, but Nancy Cartwright, who provides Bart's voice on "The Simpsons," has been heard this week in a phone message using the voice of the cartoon fourth-grader to promote Scientology.

"Yeah... looks like."

starman — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:30:42 -0800

The Simpsons movie references, side-by-side. (two, three) Site is in Spanish.

"Purple Is A Fruit"

amyms — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:22:46 -0800

Saving D'oh: How one blogger learned about "cheap, healthy eating" by watching The Simpsons. The readers' comments are fun too. Via.

Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

mewithoutyou — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:15:00 -0800

Homer Simpson in CSS "...I stayed with the idea in mind that more complex designs could be made using the Verdana font and absolute positioning in CSS, thus generating vector drawings directly embedded in the code html." [via]

Linguistics Humor in The Simpsons

jonson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:06:32 -0800

Heidi's Fourth Annual Simpsons Linguistic Jokes posting. Previously.

If The Simpsons Were Real

fallenposters — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:59:41 -0800

The Real Life Simpsons -- A creepy depiction of how The Simpsons would look if they were real. (via)

Your very own treehouse

blahblahblah — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0800

Make your own Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Trailer. Sure, its an ad for the Simpsons, but with a neat interface and clips like Homer chanting "must eat, then poop," there is Friday Fun to be had. Can you put together something fun for the hivemind? [To share a video, you can email a persistant link to yourself, and then post that link in the thread]

A Noble Spirit Embiggens The Smallest Man.

Effigy2000 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:18:56 -0800

Check out this map of The Simpson's hometown of Springfield. We may never know what state the town is located in, and yes, the show has sucked for at least six years now (if not more) but this map was considered to be so good, it was, apparently, added to the Harvard Map collection. Comic Book Guy would be proud.

Simpsons, Behind The Screen

HiveMind — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:58:29 -0800

A brief look into the making of a Simpsons episode. (Newsfilter)

Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:42:39 -0800

The Simpsons are going to... the Middle East! As a treat for viewers during Ramadan, Dubai-based network MBC has dubbed 30 episodes of the Simpsons into Arabic. But in order not to offend their audience, this version of Our Favorite Family is, well, a bit different; for instance, Homer (rechristened Omar) doesn't eat bacon or drink beer. Speculation about the fate of other characters abounds, One Angry Arab is not impressed.

annoyed grunt

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:46:31 -0800

Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show, 1987-1989. [(Low-quality RealMedia I'm afraid.]

The word unblowupable is thrown around a lot these days.

riffola — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:26:09 -0800

HeiDeas' “Beyond embiggens and cromulent” explores the linguistic humour that appear in The Simpsons.

Simpsons stars strike for more 'D'oh!'

BurnedEve — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:43:30 -0800

Simpson stars strike for more 'D'oh!' The voices of the Simpsons are on strike for $360,000 an episode. Seems almost reasonable for such a pop culture phenomenon, but the voiceover work equates to one work day per episode.

Forget The Simpons - Meet The Singhsons

turbanhead — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:55:34 -0800

Forget The Simpons - Meet The Singhsons 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and begin rants.

Dental Plan / Lisa needs braces!

eyeballkid — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 22:53:50 -0800

Best. Episodes. Ever. Though I think they're wrong about the worst. In honor of the upcoming 300th episode of the Simpsons, Entertainment Weekly looks back at the 25 best episodes and 1 worst. May the arguments, and uneeded meme generation, begin.

xmutex — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:50:44 -0800

Doh! Despite Homer Simpson's worst fears, the Albuquerque Isotopes will take the field next year. However, the team is not originally from Springfield, but from Calgary. The city's AAA baseball team will move to New Mexico next year.

Blake — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:01:20 -0800

Homer Simpson is Canadian, says Groening.
In Montreal for a performance of "The Simpsons", Matt Groening noted his dad was born in Canada and Homer is named for him so... "That would make Homer Simpson a Canadian".
He goes on to say the show will be on for at least another 14 years.
That should give us something to talk abiot.

darian — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 09:47:45 -0800

What about Blinky? (Link to PDF) CA Governor's candidate Bill Simon is taking an interesting approach in his campaign to appeal to a generation... a generation of Simpson fans. In this PDF, he compares incumbent Grey Davis to Mr. Burns... and how Blinky brought down Mr. Burns' campaign.

Vetinari — Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:44:34 -0800

Homer Simpson: Hack your DVD player. It seems in countries in which the DVD Copy Control Authority doesn't own the government, even the giants of corpmedia don't like the "protection" features the platform foists on consumers. On Fox's Simpsons UK DVD release FAQ page, Homer himself says "I have no idea whatsoever what regional coding means. But it is essential that you buy a multi-regional player. Do it now." Is the DVD region-coding system really only relevant in the United States?

jcterminal — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:28:21 -0800

Could the end be near for cult television cartoon family "The Simpsons?"

"I think we are closer to winding it up," the television show's creator, Matt Groening told the Financial Times in an interview published Tuesday."

Rastafari — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:49:29 -0800

What makes "The Simpsons" tick. Long Live The Simpsons!

rev- — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:53:13 -0800

The Simpsons Get Respectable in this play where all the characters from the show act out Hamlet? It's a one-man show in New Jersey, but I'd pay to see this. It proves Hamlet's weird universality, but seeing Apu as "the first murderer" has got to be a rush. (via TV Tattle)

solistrato — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:05:00 -0800

The Road to Springfield hits the second round! Yeah, technically it's a double post, but this is URGENT. Just look what the second round bracket offers: Monty Burns vs. Fat Tony! Apu vs. Kent Brockman! FRINK VS. MILHOUSE! And for god's sake, HANS MOLEMAN is STILL ALIVE!!! Vote early and often! The new round starts Tuesday!

tamim — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:22:12 -0800

The Gospel according to The Simpsons: A study finds that 69% of the episodes have at least one religious reference, while 11% of the episodes have a plot revolving around some religious issue.