Not surprisingly, theDolby Digital 5.1audio ofThe Simpsonsremained consistent with the sound heard during the first two seasons, though I thought it might have expanded slightly. The audio remained generally anchored in the front channels, and at times, the sound seemed like little more than glori...
I also thought theDolby Digital 5.1audio ofThe Simpsonswas a little better than what I heard in prior years, though I didn’t discern enough of a difference to change my grade. As always, the soundfield focused on the front channels. In that realm, they offered quite good breadth and mov...
The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening and produced by the Fox Broadcasting Company. The main characters are a satire of a working class family, consisting of lazy family father, Homer, hard working stay-at-home mother, Marge and their three children, tr...
Simpsons Worldprovides a delightful trove of content for fans. In addition to streaming every episode, the site includes episode guides, scripts, and audio commentary. I wrote code to parse the available episode scripts and attribute every word of dialogue to a character, then ranked the character...
After the Simpsons move into 742 Evergreen Terrace, Ned and Rod Flanders sing "We Welcome You to the Neighborhood" to Homer. The song is to the same tune as "We Welcome You to Munchkinland", which the Munchkins sing for Dorothy. 72 "Selma's Choice" On the way to Aunt Gladys' fun...
…“Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes,” unsurprisingly, is an ode toRay Bradbury, which the episode fully embraces. In many ways, it’s a successful counterpoint to “Treehouse of Horror IV’s”Night Galleryinfluence, except this time it’s riffing on Bradbury rather thanRod Serling.The episode...
In honor of 35 years and counting of ‘The Simpsons,’ here are 100 episodes, spanning the show’s many eras, that paint a picture of all the things TV’s longest-running sitcom does best.
Each of the groups laid down audio separately, recording voice parts amid their respective touring and recording schedules.The Simpsonsmade sure to give every band member at least one line. “We invite the whole band, we don't invite one person," Pietila laterexplained. "So if the whole ban...
Each of the groups laid down audio separately, recording voice parts amid their respective touring and recording schedules.The Simpsonsmade sure to give every band member at least one line. “We invite the whole band, we don't invite one person," Pietila laterexplained. "So if the whole ban...
“The Simpsons Movie”(2007). The screenplay to the film was written (in the first draft) byRon Friedman. Friedman had a writing career that spanned back to the early 1960s with writing episodes of TV shows like“My Favorite Martian”(1965),“Get Smart”(1965),“Bewitched”(1965),“...