Season 23 Information Thread

[The Governor]

Wow! I'm excited from those clips! The animation was really good in clip #3.

Fuck dat shit. The dialog is more hammy than fish-pork-aroni.

sideshow mel I can understand but why the hell is comic book guy a "foodie" now? this is a guy who eats wheelbarrows full of tacos

The characterisms nowadays are less stable than nuclear talks with Iran.

[Diversity Pumpkin]

Fat people liek food.

[TriforceBun]

That's a lot of similes, Jake!

I like food-centric episodes of shows, but so far, The Food Wife's scenes seem pretty goofy. I do like the last one with the deconstructed caesar salad though. Fine dining is fun to watch. Makes me want to view Ratatouille again.

[Dark Homer]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2...att_selman.php

Matt Selman interview about "The Food Wife" with the LA Weekly's Squid Ink

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2011/1...e-preview.html

A different interview for New York magazine's Grub Street featuring a rap song

In animated TV shows, whenever you're trying to show people having fun doing their new thing, it just kind of becomes a boring montage. And we've done so many montages on The Simpsons over 25 years, it's like, oh God, no more montages. Anything that we can do instead of a montage that accomplishes "people are learning and doing something together and having fun with it." So we were like, "Why not do a silly rap song?" Rapping is sort of inherently boastful, and there's something about being a foodie that's inherently boastful. So it's like the boastfulness links those things.

So Tim and Eric perform a food rap song in the show — an extremely silly rap song, and the name is intentionally silly: "Blogging a Food Blog."

It's sort of vaguely based on "Empire State of Mind" as our starting-off point. I just wanted to be shamelessly goofy with this. These are the lyrics — I'm very self-conscious reading them out loud.

I'm throwing down mad foodie game, knowing all the chefs' names
Rolling into K-Town for beepin' boppin' bulgogi
The hotties I chill with are sriracha and kimchee

So it's all bragging about how awesome and cool you are as a foodie.

Housemade terrines, my ducks are always confit
I braise with a billion more BTUs than I need
I cook a Thanksgiving turkey in a trash-bag, sous vide
Afumatoare in Brindisi Fed-Exes me salami
Don't scoop me gelato unless it's got umami

And then it gets really insane, are you ready?

I'll be "Frank" like Bruni, "Ruthless" like Reichl
"Wiley" like Dufresne, and when I take the mike, I'll
Rhyme about radicchio, criticize Colicchio
Every pub is gastro, and all my beef carpaccio

I mean, that's really goofy.

also this:

I feel like the twist at the end of this episode is, I hope, South Park–worthy.

I guess they look up to South Park now, instead of the other way around

[cloneasaurus]

EDIT: woops, already been posted.

[biffwestwood]

I had just discovered from foxflash.com that the episode "Holidays of Future Passed" will have not one but two encores before the end of the year. This is really ridiculous.

Can't they at least save the third airing for next years Christmas season?



THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) – “Holidays of Future Passed” (all-new)

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and THE SIMPSONS flash-forward thirty years to find themselves in a tech-savvy, futuristic Springfield. Bart (Nancy Cartwright) and Lisa (Yeardley Smith) have children of their own and decide to spend the holidays as one big family at Homer and Marge’s house. Lisa and Bart turn to Homer and Marge for parenting advice and begin to realize that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Don’t miss encores Friday, Dec. 16 (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) and Christmas night, Sunday, Dec. 25 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT).

[cloneasaurus]

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and THE SIMPSONS flash-forward thirty years to find themselves in a tech-savvy, futuristic Springfield.

yay more 'clever' future gags

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

I don't watch the clip from food wife because I don't want to see the quater of the episode before see it...

But this episode looks pretty bad

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

In animated TV shows, whenever you're trying to show people having fun doing their new thing, it just kind of becomes a boring montage. And we've done so many montages on The Simpsons over 25 years, it's like, oh God, no more montages. Anything that we can do instead of a montage that accomplishes "people are learning and doing something together and having fun with it." So we were like, "Why not do a silly rap song?"

Why not? I admit that they wanted to spice up a montage but no amount of original songs or licensed songs can ever ease the pain of a montage, unless it was funny of course.

Rapping is sort of inherently boastful, and there's something about being a foodie that's inherently boastful. So it's like the boastfulness links those things.

Somebody should of told these guys that the Lonely Island were on a boat, seriously... It's different in the fact that it's about food but still...

So Tim and Eric perform a food rap song in the show — an extremely silly rap song, and the name is intentionally silly: "Blogging a Food Blog."

It's sort of vaguely based on "Empire State of Mind" as our starting-off point. I just wanted to be shamelessly goofy with this. These are the lyrics — I'm very self-conscious reading them out loud.

I just rapped the raps (and to the Empire State of Mind instrumental as they said before and it doesn't come across as silly. Sure, it contains funny sounding names but this sounds mostly like a song that a Nerdcore rapper would make... Sure, Tim & Eric are nerds but they were intending for it to come across as mostly comedy; and it mostly fails in that regard...

Let me just state one fact here, Tim & Eric don't belong on The Simpsons; wrong demographic!

[Matty]

I guess they look up to South Park now, instead of the other way around

They look up to each other, I don't think this was ever a secret. Trey & Matt are friends with the Simpsons writers: they hang out & party. Matt Selman was even asked to join the South Park writing room a couple of years back.

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

They look up to each other, I don't think this was ever a secret. Trey & Matt are friends with the Simpsons writers: they hang out & party. Matt Selman was even asked to join the South Park writing room a couple of years back.

So does this include the recent episodes because I don't think those are anything anybody will look up too.

[lolcats]

The preview here is about as good as The Food Wife's previews...

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

The preview here is about as good as The Food Wife's previews...

That's our lolcats!

[lolcats]

Am I right through?

[Flimpson Tide]

I had just discovered from foxflash.com that the episode "Holidays of Future Passed" will have not one but two encores before the end of the year. This is really ridiculous.

That.......matters?

[The Governor]

That.......matters?

Does this mean in the next few seasons of the Simpsons's pun cycle, we'll have an episode called "Holidays of Future Failed?"

[Dark Homer]

The preview here is about as good as The Food Wife's previews...

keep your stupid crap out of this thread

[Captain Squid]

Let me just state one fact here, Tim & Eric don't belong on The Simpsons; wrong demographic!

Wrong! I am a big fan of both The Simpsons and T&E. So at the very least, middle class 27 year old white dudes who are me will like this episode.

I'm also a Gorden Ramsay fan, so that will help.

[qwerasdf]

[Blobulle]

(The 10% solution)

[Toomanygrandmas]

Yay, another 'Celebrity on a background with a slight gradient' promo. Fun.

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

Now in a better context. Ha!

[6F01]

--"THE SIMPSONS" - (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

KRUSTY MAKES A COMEDY COMEBACK ON AN ALL-NEW "THE SIMPSONS" SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, ON FOX

Joan Rivers Makes Guest Voice Appearance

Krusty the Clown is stuck in a rut when the television network pulls his show from the air and his talent agency drops him as a client. But when THE SIMPSONS introduce him to seasoned agent Annie (guest voice Joan Rivers), they are surprised to learn that Annie was Krusty's very first agent. Despite their rocky relationship, Annie is convinced to re-sign Krusty and craft his career comeback. But when Krusty's retro comedy show reboot is deemed a critical success, Krusty must decide to stay with his agent or side with the network executives in the all-new "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Dec. 4 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2302) (TV-PG D, L, S, V)

Voice Cast: Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson; Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson; Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson and Nelson; Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson; Harry Shearer as Skinner; Pamela Hayden as Milhouse; Tress MacNeille as Dolph

Guest Voice Cast: Joan Rivers as Annie

Link: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20111111fox15/

[The Governor]

(The 10% solution)

90% Generic.

[Brad Lascelle]

Even more clips from tomorrow night's episode have been released... this time focused around the numerous video game parodies kicking off "The Food Wife".

Advance to the 1-minute mark to check out the footage and additional commentary from this episode's writer & exec producer, Matt Selman

I feel like we've already watched the first two acts of this ep in their entirety.

[SimpsonArgentina]

Another image...


This episode looks really awful.

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

This episode looks really awful.

Definately... I mean E4? (It'd be funny if they had a definition for the extra forth E.) God of War? You mean to tell me you couldn't think of any parodies that were "recent"... I mean YBox, Protovision, Marching Band, the FPS sequence??? They've even raped and pillage The Simpsons Game for ideas "Grand Theft Itchy" anybody... And the animation looks terrible!

Don't get me started on what Matt Selman thinks as clever; as if E3 was anything like that... I can create a better E3 parody with my eyes blindfolded; hands tied behind my head and my mouth stitched up. I'll elaborate more on my review.

This episode is going to suck major balls.

[Real Melvin]

is CBG Jewish

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

THAT TEARS IT. This is NHC's worst thread of 2011.

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

THAT TEARS IT. This is NHC's worst thread of 2011.

Don't you mean best? I mean it has it all, Season 23 information; criticism; jokes, I'd say it's even funnier then The Simpsons or the upcoming "The Food Wife".