So we do that on like 85 percent of them. You have to be pushing yourself and challenging yourself and making sure every episode is distinct and emotional and visual and compelling and scary and cinematic. It’s a conceptual episode with lots of crazy stuff in it, but it does an explanation of how The Simpsons can predict the future. And we have another crazy conceptual episode that explains how The Simpsons know the future. She’s plays kind of a quirky kid who has Grandpa’s love and Homer’s like, “Why does Grandpa like this kid? And why didn’t he like me?” It’s really emotional as well. It’s a really juicy, funny part where she plays a kid who’s Homer’s rival for love from Grandpa. And then we have huge guest part for iconic comedy legend Melissa McCarthy coming up. I’m very excited about one where Krusty has a kind of nice-guy-type afternoon syndicated Ellen DeGeneres talk show that surprisingly goes awry. We have our season premiere where Homer gets into a conspiracy cabal while hunting down a missing turtle. We have Simu Liu from Marvel’s Shang-Chi in an upcoming show as Lisa’s perfect future boyfriend. The full-length episode is a parody of Stephen King’s book It with, get ready for it, Krusty as Pennywise. We have an anime parody of Death Note, which I’m so excited about. One is three scary stories like we always do, but very scary and weird. We have two Halloween episodes this year, two “Treehouse of Horror” episodes. It’s probably the best 34th season of any show you’ve ever seen. But you have to have something new to say about the outside world or a new facet of the relationship to explore that’s more specific and more interesting.ĭEADLINE: What’s next for you and The Simpsons ? You can’t cross off emotional family storytelling just because you’ve told those emotional family stories before.
There’s only so many emotional dynamics, like we have a table read where Lisa and Marge have a fight about a charity they co-founded, but Lisa and Marge have had plenty of fights before.
I don’t have any problem with repeating an emotional dynamic. So that’s a thank-you to the world, but also the world needs to do better. Luckily the world keeps delivering things that need reflecting on in the Springfield mirror. SELMAN: That’s our greatest creative challenge, to make sure that every episode is unique and distinct and has something fresh to say. We really wanted to show that as like a special and unique thing to cherish. After all these episodes, to feel like you’re showing something new or having something new to say about their relationship, like that’s a big deal. Homer and Marge around the house at peace with each other is one of the most beautiful things of their relationship. An unsparing look at the fears and dangers of being lost in the cold, icy, wet wilderness with no food and no shelter and how it was the comfort of being in a couple that ultimately saved them, not this kind of false quest for romance that people think they need to make their relationships meaningful. And it started with a kind of sitcom premise where the kids are worried they’re not romantic enough, but then it went in this fairly brutal and unusual direction for a cartoon show. MATT SELMAN: We’ve done more than 700 episodes of the show, but I feel like this one showed a new depth and a new intimacy to the classic Homer and Marge love story.
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I know some of you will say "sure they're good, but classic simpsons was something else", but rather than comparing to what Simpsons used to be, I'm just glad it can still provide hours of genuinely great entertainment, and I hope it can for years to come.DEADLINE: Why was “Pixelated and Afraid” chosen for Emmy consideration? Longevity can be cruel to a TV show, but it hasn’t eroded the core of The Simpsons: the Simpson family, the city of Springfield, the satirical eye that both honors and ridicules American. Frinkcoin (from the lastest season, I loved this episode and it shows it can still be great even today)Īll of these were very fun, and there's plenty of others that I really enjoyed. Halloween of Horror (this is a straight up classic) Some of my favourite episodes in recent years are:
Even the average episodes were still enjoyable in their own way. Everyone knows Seasons 2 - 8/9 are more or less classic, and the general opinion is that it "goes downhill from there", to the point where the term Modern Simpsons is used in an insulting way.īut honestly, after Season 20, the show really started putting out some classic episodes with a lot of laughs. I've been rewatching Simpsons on Disney+, all the way from Season 1.
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