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Animator Bill Plympton did the entire opening credit sequence for last night's episode of The Simpsons, which you can watch here, since you didn't see it last night, because who watches The Simpsons…   Read Story »
In an interview with Smithsonian magazine, Matt Groening, the creator of Akbar and Jeff The Simpsons, finally ended the decades long mystery about the geographic location of the Simpsons' home town…   Read Story »
It looks like right now the show will only go on if the cast accepts a 45% pay cut. But the characters have so much more left to explore!   Read Story »
FOX has renewed The Simpsons for a 23rd season, during which they will broadcast their 500th episode. That is so many episodes! That is literally too many episodes. Go to bed, The Simpsons.   Read Story »
On last night's episode of The Simpsons, street artist Neckface Banksy animated the "couch gag" at the end of the opening credits, and, uh, it's kind of amazing? BOOM. Open your eyes, sheeple,…   Read Story »
This fan art based on a moment in an old episode of The Simpsons when Ralph Wiggum calls Superintendent Chalmers "Super Nintendo Chalmers," which is incidentally one of my Top Two Favorite Simpsons…   Read Story »
You have to admit, as far as fan art goes, this is pretty great fan art. That's what they would look like! (One could get into the sort of mind-melty problematics of how even the "real" Simpsons are…   Read Story »
Last night's 450th episode of The Simpsons was nothing special. It was a pretty tame and laffless story about Krusty the Klown, although I suppose one could draw some kind of topical meaning from the…   Read Story »
Marge Simpson appears "nude" on the cover of Playboy's November issue. TMZ "leaked" this image of the cover, and provided their classically important and insightful commentary: This is the closest…   Read Story »
People from both the fanboy and hip hop worlds were excited to hear that Matt Groening's Futurama was coming back to TV. But today there is some not so great news for fans: the return of Futurama…   Read Story »