Simpsons Film in Preproduction 331
93,000 writes "According to Yahoo news, a Simpsons feature film is now in preproduction. In TFA, Nancy Cartwright is quoted as saying "We've just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we've been promoting that we're going to do it, now we're actually doing it and are in production . . ." Also from TFA: "'They are working on hammering out a script, but there's no title or production date or release date,' studio spokeswoman Antonia Coffman told E! Online Wednesday. 'We always wanted the show to end first but it just keeps going. Now they've worked out a team to simultaneously do [both the film and show].'""
More info at Wikipedia (Score:5, Informative)
Smithers (Score:1, Informative)
Umm, Smithers was never in the closet. (according to the writers) Matt Groening did an interview where he was asked point blank about Smithers sexuality. His answer was, "I think Smithers sexuality is pretty apparent, he's gay."
Re:Jump Shark (Score:1, Informative)
Re:So what's going to be the big draw to this? (Score:3, Informative)
Smithers is a burnsosexual and i don't really think he is in the closet to anyone except Mr Burns who has a fairly good idea anyway
Re:So what's going to be the big draw to this? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Let me be the first to say (Score:5, Informative)
Anchor Kent Brockman draws the only assumption that can be drawn: (stolen from snpp.com)
Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Re:Jumping the Shark (Score:5, Informative)
QUIT USING THAT PHRASE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!
'Jumping the shark' references a Happy Days sketch in which the Fonz jumps over a shark on water skis. For many, this episode epitomised the moment that the show stopped being funny (or in a broader sense, as good as it once was) and thus the phrase has been adopted to reference similar points in other shows and even non-television situations. For example:
Slashdot jumped the shark when it hit 700 thousand members.
Re:So what's going to be the big draw to this? (Score:3, Informative)
YES, Advancing the characters (Score:5, Informative)
For example, if you were to watch just one episode of The Simpsons, you'd think Homer is just a regular angry fat man who is a bad father. But after watching more episodes you get to sympthathise with the character. He works hard to provide for his family and really loves his kids, even though he finds parenting a struggle. This is what advancing a character is about - turning them from a drawing into a fleshed-out and believable human being by exploring their relationships with other characters such as spouses, children and parents. This is shown through emotionally charged episodes in the early seasons.
Then you look at the recent seasons and see that character advancement is impossible because full emotional capacity has been reached. We know what happened to Marge's father. We've seen the marital problems between Marge and Homer. We've shed a tear of sympathy for poor misunderstood Lisa. We've seen the childish Bart deal with love and other 'adult' issues. It is nigh on impossible for a writer to create such emotionally charged plots without retreading old ground. The only thing to do is put them in a yet another 'funny' and wacky situation with some flavour-of-the-month celebrity. OH LOOK HOMER BOUGHT A HELICOPTER WHAT FUNNY ADVENTURES WILL HE HAVE?
Not to flame, but give me some fucking credit and don't take things too literally in the future.