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Groening Says The Simpsons Movie Planned 197

Posted by Hemos from the ralph-jesus-does-not-have-wheels dept.
Alex T-B writes "Matt Groening in a news conference revealed that a film based on The Simpsons is planned [Woo-hoo!], although no deals have been struck yet [D'oh!]. (WARNING, geeky Simpsons reference: A film about The Simpsons? That is unpossible!)"
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  • I love the Simpsons, but isn't this a little past due? I mean, they're celebrating their 10th anniversary for god's sake. They're way past their prime.

    Now, if they can get Conan O'Brien at the helm... :)

  • This has been rumored for a while now (Score:5)

    by 22984 ( 149499 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:04PM (#846656) Homepage
    Matt Greoning has been ready for a while, even joking at one point "We should've had 3 movies by now!"

    Here is a link [snpp.com]describing all the various rumors and reoprts of a Simpsons movie.

    FYI: Fox purchased the simpsonsmovie.com [simpsonsmovie.com] a few years back. Currently it's just used as a placeholder housing ads for 20th Century Fox films and video releases.

  • Re:Hemos needs to watch more Simpsons (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    He also didn't say What?

    it's just Me fail English? That's ompossible!
  • What they need to do for the movie is do it in 3D like that one episode they did..that was some of the best 3d work i've seen and all the characters looked awesome...or have the 3d + live action like at the end of the episode..what was the line.. "mmmm erotic cakes"
  • "(Case in point.... Springville demolishes the Burns Casino, and the episode is about Homer teaching Flanders to live a little.)"

    Well, Mr. Superfan, it's SPRINGFIELD, not SPRINGVILLE.

    (Springville is where Mr. Jack-in-the-box must live.)

    -thomas

  • I can't decide if you're trolling or not (if so, GOOD troll!), so I'll answer you as if you aren't:

    SP:BLU was really an animated slice of genius. So many things go by so fast that you have to watch the movie at least 3 times to catch them all; it's very detailed and incredibly funny.

    IMO the Simpsons movie will be up to the same standard of quality, but we'll see.

    Email me.
    Don't trust anyone over 90000.
  • It will be the final downfall of the simpsons :O(

    Every tv show kills themselves when the finally make a movie. Examples: Beavis and Butthead, Southpark (that one happend REALLY fast), The X-Files (debatable).

    I think the simpsons is still very good but it's been slowly degrating over the years. In the opion of a lot of earlier posts: it's just not as good as it used to be. Now they're going to release a movie and finally put it to an end.

    --
    Garett Spencley

  • Last season was the death knell for the Simpsons. The show has descended to a form of humour lower than slapstick; it's become just plain mean. I suspect that the same team is also responsible for the horrifying Futurama.

    I don't think I sat through one episode of the Simpsons last season. Time to call it a day. Either that, or have the writers shot.

  • Let's just say the people at Fox have a few ideas up their sleeves for this one.

    I'm talking, of course, about little green space aliens named Osmodiar that only Homer can see.
  • They always have twists. It's an intro with a few in-jokes and other refences, a knee-slapper or two, and then the twist to the main-ish-er story.

    Consider: all they have to do is add a further twist. Granted, the build will have to be larger, but the movie won't be any different in scale compared to the show as Really, Really Big Man is to Really Big Man.
    ---
  • News of Star Wars Episode II and the Simpsons movie got me thinking...

    "No I'm Luke Skywalker with the light saber and the nnng and the nnng!" -Professor Frink

    Plus we'll finally get to to see "Luke be a Jedi tonight" on the big screen!

    CPT Carl
  • South Park was controversial because of all of its shock value when it first came out. Parents and (more importantly) schools were so angry, they started to ban the t-shirts. This led to the "forbidden fruit" effect, so the shirts became incredibly popular. I remember the same thing happening with the Bart Simpson "Eat My Shorts" and "Underachiever and Proud of it" shirts when the Simpsons were in their infancy. The Simpsons sold out long ago; they've even spoofed this in a recent Halloween special. ("A Simpson on a t-shirt? Well, I never.")

    Now, of course, those same kids who got their kicks with "South Park" have "The Tom Green Show" to fuel their ADD. Ah, what a wonderful time to have cable...
  • Those figures are weekly. If you earn $50 million per week for a few months domestically and abroad, then it quickly adds up toa couple hundred million dollars.
  • >The ironic thing, of course, is that the Simpsons paved the way for all the "prime-time" cartoons on TV now.

    I hate to be a stickler but I think that The Flintstones did that a longgg time ago. From what my parents have told me they were an even bigger sensation than The Simpson's was.

    LL
  • hey what I think would be a really good idea is people send in scripts for short segments... and then having the real writers try to fit a few of them together like a puzzle.... not only keeping with the original style of having one major story line and then lots of back plots... somewhat like 22 short films about springfield episode... that can sure last a good hour and a half... even more
  • Beavis and Butthead was already gone from TV (well, in reruns, not like MTV viewers would notice) when the movie came out. South Park was already on a downswing when its movie came out, as its initial popularity was due to shock value. How can you get any more shocking than an animated movie that was nearly rated NC-17?
  • Unpossible? That's a completely gromulent word.

  • you should go back to your Dharma and Greg episodse and stay away from the Simpsons and South Park which, apparently, go over your head.

    "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" is one of the funniest things ever to cross a movie screen.

    'Essen mein scheisse!"
    ...dave

  • Re:I'll dispense the FUD (Score:3)

    by thegrue76 ( 211065 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @05:45PM (#846673) Homepage
    Nah--they can do a movie-length plot. I mean, if Beavis and Butthead can pull it off--and let's not talk quality here, let's just talk the ability to pull off a feature-length plot--then I'm sure the Simpsons can. B&B had next-to-no "plot" experience before the movie came out--and the movie held up a plot for the duration of the film.

    The "story" would have to have some Very Special Episode quality to it, of course. Kind of like the Transformers movie--the show itself was one thing, and then the movie came out and Whoa--BIG plot! Big themes! Major cast changes! etc etc etc.. not that the Simpsons would do such, necessarily--but I'm sure there's some sort of Comedic equivalent. (I believe the same sort of thing happened with the GI Joe movie, no?)

    I guess the moral here, is that there's a pretty good history of animated shows going to feature length film, that, well, hey.. I have faith in the Simpsons Crew to pull it off.

    What might be a problem is balancing the need to draw in the average fan and the need to make the Devoted fan excitedly happy...I mean, you know they're going to need to make ALLLL sorts of references to past shows.. they need to balance that against getting the Occasional viewer to have fun with the movie, too.

  • Nitpicking, but Skinner says "Radio Man" :)

  • Are you kidding? I went into the South Park movie with no expectations. I'd only seen the show a couple of times and didn't think it was that great. The movie had me laughing as hard as I could for the entire run length!

    Let me put it another way:

    Satan was Saddam's bitch. His bitch!

    <shaking head> There's just no reasoning with some people.

    Beavis and Butthead bad. Simpsons good. (South Park great!)

  • That's unpossible. The best, though, was: Tyranny and oppression are a small price to pay to live in the land of the free. --M. Burns I want to see Hugo again. It's high time Bart's brother started getting his share of the fame and fortune.

  • With money you can buy donuts (Score:5)

    by FascDot Killed My Pr ( 24021 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:07PM (#846677)
    I hope they get $10,000 for this movie. Why? Because with $10,000, they'd be millionaires.
    --

  • Re:....but....but.... (Score:3)

    by Nerftoe ( 74385 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:09PM (#846678)
    SNPP.COM has a 1998 interview with Mike Scully, executive producer of The Simpsons. He basically states that animation is the only way to go. [snpp.com]

    Here's an excerpt from the interview:
    "It would have to be animated. I don't see how we could ever do a live-action movie as funny as the animated series. The animation allows so many creative liberties that you just wouldn't be able to acheive with live-action. I think it would be impossible for a set of actors to portray these characters. The audience likes to see them the way they are, and if you tried to turn, say, John Goodman into Homer, then it ultimately has to be disappointing to everyone, including John Goodman. Obviously, he could never live up to Homer."

  • He'll take shortcuts (Score:3)

    by JasonChu ( 207887 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:09PM (#846679)

    . . . like reusing the backgrounds.

  • Read the Slashdot FAQ, sometimes good stories are rejected. Especially if its a busy news day

  • Prediction: (Score:4)

    by bickle ( 101226 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:10PM (#846681)
    Here's my prediction (if the movie comes out)
    1. Tons of people will see it immediately.
    2. Tons of people will bitch about how it sucked and was nowhere near as good as the earlier episodes.
    3. 2 years later, after seeing the movie a few times, the same people will say that the movie is brilliant.
    4. A year after that, when the sequel is released, tons of people will say that the first movie was better.
  • BRING BACK CONAN!

    ---
    Homer: I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!
  • Actually, Ralph Wiggum said this first. In a later episode, Homer repeated it.

  • Who will play Radiation Man's sidecick?

    NELSON: RadioACTIVE Man, stupid!

    Funny, I shouldn't have been able to hear that...
  • "Either that, or have the writers shot."

    Yeah, that'll teach 'em not to be just plain mean! Oh wait...

  • Depending upon your point of view, the TRUE location of Springfield has already been revealed. In last season's finale "Behind the Laughter", they refer to the Simpsons as a "...this northern Kentucky family".

    BTW, that ep. was one of the funniest EVER!

    -CPT Carl
  • Yup, the Simpsons movie just won't be right without Phil doing some of the voices. No Troy, no Lionel Hutz?

    God damn I miss him! :(
  • From http://snpp.com/episodes/3F13.html [snpp.com]:

    Jebediah: [on film] A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
    Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield
    Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

    And again:

    Homer: You su-diddely-uck, Flanders! [grabs a bell from him] Hear ye, hear ye! Ye olde town crier proclaimed crappy by all! Chooseth Homer Simpson, and he shalt rock thy world!
    Wiggum: Good God, he is fabulous.
    Skinner: Yes, he's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.

    And yet again:

    The credits are superimposed over a shot of the bottom of Jebediah's statue: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Pan up to Jebediah as an old west tune plays:
    Hitch that team up, Jebediah Springfield
    Whip them horses, let them wagons roll
    That a people might embiggen America
    That a man might embiggen his soul
    His soul
    His soul...
    Gracie tune is unchanged.

  • Stupid Slashdot, BE MORE FUNNY!
  • dude, what crack have you been smoking? 'un' possible because of the irony of Ralphie's assertion that it's impossible for him to fail English, yet his statement contains the incorrect (or perhaps uncorrect) negating prefix. 'om' isn't a negating prefix like 'im' 'an' or 'un'. I think your hearing is ompaired.

  • Simpsons movie (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    That "Simpsons reference" was about the lamest thing I ever read. "Me fail english? That's unpossible." has nothing to do with the topic. It was a random line that had the idea formed around the quote. The postperson could have used an open quote like, "This will be the best movie ever, now let us never speak of it again." or something that could universally apply. S/he could have also used one of the myriad quotes from the Radioactive Man (or radioactive men) or Itchy and Scratchy Movie Episodes. Why did s/he pull this random quote and stick it in? I don't know. I would expect that slashdot would have the decency to ban lame people from posting. btw, I am a casual reader so I have no account and don't want to make one.
  • As far as I can remember, Matt Groenig said he won't be using the Troy McClure character any more to respect the memory of Phil Hartmann.

    S1.2 HOM+++>! MRG+ BAR++ LIS++ BNY++>& APU++ I&S++ CBG+ f++ 3G03 o
  • I forgot my favorite (from the same episode):

    Hurlbut: I think, Lisa, that you've been taken in by an obvious forgery. Unfortunately, historical research is plagued by this sort of hoax -- the so-called confession. It's just as fake as the Howard Hughes will, the Hitler Diaries, or the Emancipation Retraction.
    Lisa: But it explains why there's no record of Jebediah Springfield before 1796. He was Hans Sprungfeld until then.
    Hurlbut: That's preposterous. Get out! You're banned from this historical society! You, and your children, and your children's children -- for three months.

  • ahhhhhh... sweet movie
  • I'm hoping (personally) that Leo will have the lead role as Bart. Perhaps Jonathon Taylor Thomas? And maybe an Olsen Twin as Lisa?
  • hey did you think that the show was *really* based on homer's life too?

    No, I imagine that Homer's life is very little like the show.

  • The Simpson's movie had heart, but "Football in the Groin" had a football in the groin.
  • Hey, as long as it's not "The Simpsons Meet the Flintstones", I'll go see it.

    "Simp-son, Ho-mer Simp-son,
    He's the greatest guy in hist-o-ry
    From the
    Town of Spring-field
    He's about to hit a chestnut tree--

    Aiiiiieee!! <CRASH!> "

  • I hope this movie isn't a let down like most movies "ported" over from TV. I was slightly dissapointed with the ST:TNG movies. I hope its a cartoon, and not something stupid like The Flintstones.
  • I don't know - I guess it could work if it's a full-length cartoon, or something...but I can't see a live-action Simpsons.

    Also, I hope they get back some of their old writers for it - because the show's quality has been seriously dropping the last couple of seasons.

    Just my $0.02.

  • If Phil Heartman were still able to work his magic for us we'd some day be able to hear, "Hi! I'm Troy McCluer. You might remember me from other films such as _The Simpsons: The Movie_ and _The Simpsons II: More Money For Us_." Though, it's Lyonel Hutz I miss even more.
    --
  • But Armageddon came before Episode I. And it sucked waaaaay more too.
  • ...see subject, pretty much. Olsen Twins...Leo...(shudder)

  • Lighten up.

    I bet your are a die hard fan of the Simpsons -not unlike- Database is of "Itchy and Scratchy".

    Taken from episode 4F12 [snpp.com]:
    Database: On the "Itchy & Scratchy" CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?

    Homer: What the hell are you talking about?

  • Shopkeeper: This monkey's paw will grant you three wishes, great or small,but...

    Matt: Cool! I'll finally get a Simpsons movie!

    Shopkeeper: Yes, but each wish may carry dire consequences...

    Matt: They can't stop me if I use the paw!

    Shopkeeper: You're not listening! Without Conan or your other old writers it won't

    Matt: I wish...

    Shopkeeper: No! Don't do it!

    Matt: ...that there will finally be a Simpsons movie!

    *whoosh*

    ...Well, I hope it turns out to be a good film, but I'm a little skeptical. Five or six years ago would have been a much more opportune time, and they're not making episodes up to the quality of the old days. But, time will tell, I suppose...

  • Scenes we'd like to see... (Score:5)

    by Pinball Wizard ( 161942 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:27PM (#846706) Homepage Journal
    Nelson Muntz, 20 years in the future, as a Microsoft employee.

    "Vaporware is a victimless crime. Kind of like punching someone in the dark."

  • ...why wouldn't Groening and company be able to make a feature film with The Simpsons?

  • although a CG simpsons movie might be cool instead of 2d animation

    CG was cool, but an entire movie of it just wouldn't be The Simpsons.

    It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good!

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  • All those problems didn't stop Mike Judge from make a Beavis and Butthead movie...

    The ironic thing, of course, is that the Simpsons paved the way for all the "prime-time" cartoons on TV now. And now, after the B&B and SouthPark movies, we finally get the Simpsons one. Here's hoping it doesn't suck.

    I'm guessing that they'll use this movie as the big sendoff for the Simpsons. Probably get 1, maybe 2 more years out of it, the movie, then call it quits. Sure, the Simpson's isn't what it used to be (see Season 4), but it's still one of Fox's highest rated shows, and continues to pull in the ad dollars. 2 more years seems possible.
  • South Park started losing viewers after the whole "Who is Cartman's Dad?" debacle. It started as a cliffhanger, but then 2 or 3 re-runs and the *dynamite* "Not Without My Anus" played before the resolution episode. This pissed off a lot of people who then stopped watching.
    Personally, I thought the whole set-up was brilliant! I think what it did was weed out the true fans who were willing to wait a couple of weeks for the resolution from the hipsters who started watching it because it was the cool thing to do. The 3rd Seasons of South Park has had some great episodes, the 3 or 4 that I've seen.

    Pope

    Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
  • >> Intolerant people should be shot.
    Let's start with you ... :)

    Cheers, (Offtopic, Offtopic, ... I know :) )
  • I hope it's as good as Titan A.E.!
  • I think it's unpossible.

  • What's everyone griping about? Unpossible is a perfectly cromulent word.

    ...you may remember me from such motivational films as "Smoke Yourself Thin" and "Get Confident! Stupid."

    Yoink!

  • 4? Sorry, but you might not think it was funny, but that movie was definately aimed at an adult audience -- as in sophisticated in thinking, not as in able to watch movies with swear words. It put up a veneer of being childish, but that's all it was.

    Well, except for "uncle fucker". ^_^

    Anyway, if you were let down, that must mean you like the series, in which case I must say you were definately on crack if you didn't like the movie. IMNSHOBIK. Have a nice day.
  • About 1/2 way through season 4 FOX switched to a new annimation house which gave it the ppearance of change. Lets also not for get that Season 3 was the last one for Conan O'brian who was a writer. Both of those events changed the look and feel of the simpsons.

    What many people dont seem to realize is that the simpsons is a constantly evolving show. MG is always trying new things...sometimes they work, sometimes they dont. The simpsons have always rocked, the reasons seem to change every couple of years, and right after the change MG and crew are ripped on. Of course looking back, those change seasons seem to be the most popular.

    Check out www.snpp.com for the answers to ANY simpsons question you may have.

    The Following is from it:

    "Rock Bottom" List of corrections:
    "Peoples' Choice Award" is America's greatest honor
    Styrofoam is not made from kittens
    The U.F.O. was a paper plate
    The nerds on the internet are not geeks
    The word "cheese" is not funny in and of itself
    The older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod
    Lyndon Johnson did not provide the voice of Yosemite Sam
    If you are reading this you have no life
    Roy Rogers was not buried inside his horse
    The other U.F.O. was an upside down salad spinner
    Our universities are not "hotbeds" of anything
    Mr. Dershowitz did not literally have four eyes
    Our viewers are not pathetic, sexless food tubes
    Audrey Hepburn never weighed 400 pounds
    The "Cheers" gang is not a real gang
    Salt water does not chase the "thirsties" away
    Licking an electrical outlet does not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger
    Cats do not eventually turn into dogs
    Bullets do not bounce off of fat boys
    Recycling does not deplete the ozone
    Everything is 10% fruit juice
    The flesh eating virus does not hide in ice cream
    Janet Reno is evil
    V8 juice is not 1/8 gasoline
    Ted Koppel is a robot
    Women aren't from Venus and men aren't from Mars
    Fleiss does floss
    Quayle is familiar with common bathroom procedures
    Bart is bad to the bone
    Godfry Jones' wife is cheating on him
    The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick boxing competitions
    The "Bug" on your TV screen can see into your home
    Everyone on TV is better than you
    The people who are writing this have no life
  • They got Conan to come back and help with the script? Thats possible, right?

    Too bad Phil Hartman cant come back, though... the movie, no matter who was writing it and how good it was, would not be as good without Troy McClure. :(
  • But they will always live on in re-runs. Fox needs to have an all Simpsons channel...24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don't think I would leave the house.
  • Bart: "You made a movie?!"

    Barney: "I made a movie?! No wonder I was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly!"

  • If I remember it was somewhere just at or above 30 I believe (although that could have changed).

    However, the FAQ is right, if you use it your more likely to find yourself more harshly moderated. At times I chose not to use it.
  • Maybe we could get Bill to play Mr Burns?
  • Patrick Stewart as Homer...But then Homer might sound eerily similar to the (ex-)head of the Stonecutters.
  • Almost any cartoon translates poorly when played by real people. X-Men is one of the few exceptions.

    Superheroes are designed to look like real people, that's why they stand a nonzero chance of becoming good movies (X-Men / Superman / the first Batman). Or do you know some 10-year old kid who never grows up and has a zig-zag for hair?

    BTW I just watched X-Men today. HOWLEE MAWDAH OF GAWD IT KICKS ASS! Best line: "You're a dick". HAH!

  • UNpossible, fool. Check out the Ralph Wiggum file. Open your freakin' ears, jackass.

    The Ralph Wiggum File [snpp.com]

  • last season had some great moments,..

    "I don't even believe in Jeebus!"

    people said similar crap about the South Park movie, and it was great. so, i advise you to ..

    rm /ass/head

    thanks :)
    ...dave

  • unpossible (Score:5)

    by paRcat ( 50146 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:45PM (#846728)
    What's everyone griping about? Unpossible is a perfectly cromulent word.

  • Just yesterday I was watching the "Itchy and Scratchy Movie" episode, and was thinking "if I&S is what the Simpsons use to be self-referential, then why isn't there a simpsons movie?"

    ----
    Oh my god, Bear is driving! How can this be?
  • that makes no sense at all. clearly the joke's humor lies in the fact that ralph dosen't understand grammar even when he's talking about his english grade. using "un" instead of "im" in "impossible" is funny because it points out the non-uniform use of prefixes in english. OMpossible makes no sense at all. besides, even the SNPP says it's "unpossible" http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F05.html.

  • I'll dispense the FUD (Score:4)

    by cvd6262 ( 180823 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @02:51PM (#846732)
    Do you guys really think that a 1.5-hour-long episode of the Simpsons would be funny after the first, maybe 45 minutes? I'm a big Simpsons fan (I even had Simpsons checks) and I had a Franco-Italien Cinema professor who could go on about the cartitian references and the social commentary in the show, but, really...

    It reality this might wind up like a Money Python movie - a bunch of gut-busting sketches all tied together. Except that, with the Simpsons, one of their best techniques are the subtle plot twists that almost go unnoticed. The episode never starts out having anything to do with the actual plot. (Case in point.... Springville demolishes the Burns Casino, and the episode is about Homer teaching Flanders to live a little.)

    Anyway, I just don't know if a longer, uncut Simpsons episode would really be entertaining. It will be interesting to see what it's rated though.

  • Homer: $20! But I wanted a peanut.
    Homer's Brain: $20 can buy lots of peanuts!
    Homer: Huh? Explain how.
    Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
    Homer: Woo hoo!
  • Let them wallow in their own false crapulence, those fools!

    I'm so not sure about the spelling there, or really how to use the word properly. I heard Mr. Burns use it once. Maybe someone can correct me?
  • I knew the exact quote. I was looking more for the spelling, definition and use of the word, but thanks anyway.
  • There won't be more than one more season of the Simpsons anyway (they said as much in an episode this spring, and it's no surprise, really).

    A feature film is probably more about going out with a bang than it is attempting to boost merchandise sales.

  • Re:unpossible (Score:5)

    by gordon_schumway ( 154192 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @03:03PM (#846749)
    A movie certainly would embiggen the show...
  • It MAY work.. if it's done a la X-Men fashion.. that seemed to work... but perhaps the jury is still out. If they really want to make it work in a Live Action format... perhaps they should retain the services of Patrick Stewart as Homer... God knows he's got the hairline for the part....

  • Staring... (Score:3)

    by NeuroKoan ( 12458 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @04:30PM (#846789) Homepage Journal
    The robotic Richard Simmons.


    Oh my god, his ass is gonna blow!!!




    Double J. Strictly for the . . .

  • You cant show a cartoon movie! People will think it's for little kids, and the adults wont go see it!

    Not necessarily. For example, anime is a subclass of the animated cartoon, but it isn't generally for kids. That is, except for Pokécrap.


    <O
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    XGNOME vs. KDE: the game! [8m.com]

  • Uh oh... (Score:5)

    by rob1imo ( 196470 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @01:50PM (#846794) Homepage
    Homer and company have already survived ONE nasty streak of overmarketing -- I'm not sure it's a good idea to try a movie. It could be the death knell of The Simpsons. If they can't do it PERFECTLY and make the movie in any way weak (e.g. The X-Files) the show could suffer irreparable damage.

    --

  • I've been an avid Simpsons fan since Ulman, but I'm weary of a movie at this late date. IMHO, most of the Simpsons' best eps are long gone, and I really don't see them keeping me in stitches for 2+ hours. I *REALLY* hope I'm wrong, but I'm planning for the worst.

  • Re:You may remember me in other films such as.. (Score:4)

    by zombieking ( 177383 ) on Friday August 18, 2000 @02:48AM (#846807)
    This may be a bit off topic, but here are the film, TV and documentary credits for the legendary Troy McClure. Too bad Phil Hartman isn't around anymore, it would have been great if he was in this movie.

    Movies "Cry Yuma" "Here Comes the Coast Guard" "Preacher With a Shovel" (with Dolores Montenegro) "The Revenge of Abraham Lincoln" "The Wackiest Covered Wagon in the West" "Calling All Quakers" (with Dolores Montenegro) "Gladys The Groovy Mule" "Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die" "Dial M for Murderousness" "The Erotic Adventures of Hercules" "'P' is for Psycho" "The President's Neck is Missing!" "The Boatjacking of Supership 79" "Hydro, the Man With the Hydraulic Arms" "Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out" "Muppets Go Medieval" (1977 - with Dyan Cannon and The Muppets) "The Greatest Story Ever Hulaed" "They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall" "Meet Joe Blow" "Give My Remains to Broadway" "The Verdict Was Mail Fraud" "Leper in the Backfield" "Make-Out King of Montana" "The Electric Gigolo" "The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel" (also director) "David Vs. Super-Goliath" (Bible epic) "Suddenly Last Supper" (Bible epic) "Space Mutants VII: Cry of the Space Mutant" "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" "Jagged Attraction" "Look Who's Still Oinking" "Three Men And A Nuke" "Ten Was Too Many" "The Computer Wore Puka Shells" "The Frontier Family Get Deer Ticks" "The Mediocre Journey" "A Fish Taco Called Juanita" (with Cheech Marin) "Human Fondue - Surviving the Wisconsin Dell's Cheese Factory Explosion" "All the President's Monkeys" "Android Beach Party" "Back to the Sequel" "Butter -- The Motion Picture" "The Cougar and the Polka King" "Cut it Out -- The Wacky Adventures of Jack the Ripper" "Dracula's Disco-Studio Fifty Gore" "Driving Mr. T" "Three Dames And a Dam" (1978 - with Nancy Sinatra) "Saturnforce 3000" "Calling All Lumberjacks" "The Day Paul Bunyan Cried" "Radioactive Man III: Oh God, Not Again" "The Pulverizer" "Radioactive Man II: Bring On The Sequel" "Sleepless in Shelbyville" "The Unbearable Moistness of Sweating" "Coffee, Tea, or Fiddle Dee Dee" "Eenie Meeni Miney, Die" "A Bridge Too Far" (as Todd, the world's unluckiest dentist) "Swing, Swang, Swung" "Three Men and a Bunsen Burner" "Wake Up, Finnegan"
    TV Series "Troy and Company's Summertime Smile Factory" "Buck Henderson, Union Buster" "Handel With Kare" "Son of Sanford and Son" (spinoff) "After Mannix" (spinoff) "Troy McClure's Pre-Teen Soul Machine" "Barnum - The Animated Series" "The Adventures of Achilles" (with Hena, Democratically Elected Princess)
    TV Specials Miss American Girl Pageant (host) "Carnival of the Stars" (host) "Alien Nose Job" (Fox Network Special) "Five Fabulous Weeks of the Chevy Chase Show" (Fox Network Special) "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (host) "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase" (host) "Troy McClure's Aloha from Louie's House of Shaved Ice" (Live Via Satellite!)
    Musicals "Stop the Planet of the Apes: I Want To Get Off!" "Trucks" (as Rod, the happy-go-lucky fire engine)
    Cartoons "Christmas Ape" "Christmas Ape Goes To Summer Camp"
    Educational films and the like "The World Without Zinc" "Fuzzy Bunny's Guide To You-Know-What" "Uh-Oh! Here Comes The Metric System" "Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly" "60 Minutes of Car Crash Victims" "Alice's Adventures through the Windshield Glass" "The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot" Pepsi Presents Fractions Meat Council film : "Meat And You: Partners in Freedom" "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun" "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer" "Shoplifters BEWARE" "Designated Drivers: The Lifesaving Nerds" "Phony Tornado Alarms Reduce Readiness" "Young Jebediah Springfield" (A Watch-and-Learn Production) "Locker Room Towel Fight : The Blinding of Larry Driscoll" "Regional Geographic Presents: Birds - Our Fine Feathered Colleagues" (nature film) "Earwigs: Ewwww" (nature film) "Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory" (nature film)
  • On one hand, there is the "tv show to movie" curse of doom.

    On the other hand, The Simpsons already gets away with tons upon tons of jabs at Fox, Disney (how they weren't sued for the Itchy and Scratchy Land episode, I'll never know). Imagine what they could do without having to get by network censors. And especially if they could retrieve some of the early writers... there's definitely potential here.
  • That is unpossible!

    Actually, from the actual show, the quote should contain a contraction: "That's unpossible!".

    Me fail english? That's unpossible! [duke.edu]

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  • Interesting, since... (Score:3)

    by HMV ( 44906 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @03:49PM (#846812)
    Groening has had almost nothing to do with the Simpsons over the past few years. He has devoted the vast majority of his time to getting Futurama off the ground and left the Simpsons to others...have you noticed his credit on the show lately? Something like "creative consultant". I know it's always gonna be his baby, but I wonder what role he'd really have in a movie.
  • Ah damn, if only they had done this one a few years ago when Phil Hartman was still alive.

    He did so many of the voices of The Simpsons, the show just hasn't been the same since he passed.

    What would a Simpsons movie be without Ted McClure?
  • So it's gonna be like episode 1...

    Oh no, episode one sucked when it came, sucked a year after and will continue to suck until, and after, armageddon.

  • Re:Flashback to Groening in the Middle East... (Score:3)

    by alexgould ( 157186 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @04:57PM (#846820)
    Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free frogurt!

    Matt: That's good!

    Shopkeeper: The frogurt is also cursed.

    Matt: That's bad.

    Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of toppings!

    Matt: That's good!

    Shopkeeper: The topping contains Sodium Benzoate.

    Matt: ... ?

    Shopkeeper: That's bad.

    Matt: Can I go sell out now?

  • Worst article ever! (Score:5)

    by ryder ( 111 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @01:56PM (#846825)
    (In the voice of the comic store guy)
  • With a production as large as a full-scale animated movie, I have to say this sounds more like wishful thinking than anything very real. So far it sounds like they have no ideas, no script, no backing, no firm plans, just Matt saying that they'll be doing one. I'd personally love to see it, but my guess is the show will be off the air before there's a chance to do the movie...I've been watching it less and less as it seems to be running out of steam.

  • Finally, a confirmation! (Score:5)

    by Nerftoe ( 74385 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @01:59PM (#846829)
    Simpsons fans have been waiting for this since '93!

    Check out SNPP.com's [snpp.com] info concerning the Simpsons movie which has been collected over the years.
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  • What? Me fail english? That's unpossible!

    Get off the stage.

  • Better off without him (Score:5)

    by gad_zuki! ( 70830 ) on Thursday August 17, 2000 @05:12PM (#846836)
    If you've seen the early episodes written by Matt you'll be glad he isn't around. Its not that he's a terrible hack, but the magic of the Simpsons was more or less developed by Fox with their assortment of really talented comedy writers. Remember Matt's Homer Simpson? The stern father? That's not the Homer you've fallen in love with, you love the Jerkass Homer.

    Like all television The Simpsons is a huge production, lots of people and lots of work. Matt certainly is the creator but it wouldn't be fair to call him the author. He's a great figurehead, but the less influence he has the better. I'd much rather see Conan attached to this than Matt.
  • Still, it'll be interesting to see if they put a Miguel Sanchez easter egg in the credits :)
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