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Posted Saturday 7/21/18 at 9:16PM EDT
Watch The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" trailer
"The Spores Attack" shows alien spores attacking Springfield residents.
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The Simpsons creator Matt Groening: Apu debate is "tainted now"
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Groening said of The Problem with Apu director, "my guess is...
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Posted Tuesday 7/17/18 at 9:09PM EDT
The Beatles' Yellow Submarine premiered 50 years ago today, becoming a major influence on The Simpsons
Family Guy and Ren and Stimpy also owe a debt to the 1968 animated film, says former Simpsons and Futurama...
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Posted Monday 7/16/18 at 3:05PM EDT
Tracy Morgan to guest on two episodes of The Simpsons
One episode will have Morgan playing himself in a nod to his survival after a fatal car accident in 2014.
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Emmy nominations showed some progress, but voters were still too reliant on old favorites
The Emmy nominations announced Thursday showed that "the industry and its members are still broadening their scope in terms of...
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Posted Wednesday 7/11/18 at 9:21PM EDT
The Simpsons unveils the poster for the Jurassic Park-spoofing 29th "Treehouse of Horror"
"Treehouse of Horror XXIX" will also send up Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Three Faces of Eve.
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Posted Sunday 7/08/18 at 6:39PM EDT
President Trump shares a YouTube montage of his naysayers that kicks off with a Simpsons clip
"They just didn't get it, but they do now!" the president tweeted Sunday afternoon in sharing a YouTube video of...
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Posted Wednesday 6/27/18 at 1:16PM EDT
Did The Simpsons predict the upcoming World Cup final?
A 1997 episode shows the Simpsons family watching a final between Mexico and Portugal.
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Posted Saturday 6/23/18 at 3:55AM EDT
The Simpsons writer calls Trump "a shot in the arm for the show," defends calling The Problem with Apu "a nasty little documentary"
"I'll get right to it: I mean, the Trump years have been a shot in the arm for the show,"...
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Posted Wednesday 6/13/18 at 3:30AM EDT
New book on The Simpsons is lot like the show itself: Hilarious, joke-a-minute and overstaying of its welcome
Longtime Simpsons writer Mike Reiss' new book Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies From a Lifetime Writing for The...
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Posted Tuesday 5/29/18 at 12:43PM EDT
Remembering Phil Hartman, 20 years after his murder
The Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons star was killed by wife Brynn Hartman in a brutal murder-suicide on May...
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Posted Friday 5/18/18 at 11:54PM EDT
Check out a timeline of the history of TV's working-class sitcoms
The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, Taxi, Roseanne, Married with Children, The Simpsons, Mom and Atlanta all have the same working-class storylines...
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Posted Tuesday 5/08/18 at 1:23PM EDT
The Problem with Apu's Hari Kondabolu thinks it's "too late" for Hank Azaria to step aside from The Simpsons' Apu role
Kondabolu says he doesn't think The Simpsons writers or Matt Groening saw his truTV documentary -- but he thinks Azaria...
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Posted Friday 5/04/18 at 1:53PM EDT
Priyanka Chopra says The Simpsons' Apu "was the bane of my life, growing up"
The Quantico star said she personally experienced the ramifications of the controversial Indian-American character, telling The View: “A lot of...
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Posted Wednesday 5/02/18 at 1:17PM EDT
Longtime The Simpsons writer says Apu is practically already gone from the show
Mike Reiss says he's puzzled by recent The Problem with Apu controversy because the writers were aware three or four...