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6/19 - DOUBLE FEATURE
8:00 - Don't Fear the Roofer (GABF10)
Ray Romano guest voices as a roof repairman Homer meets in a bar, but
when no one else can see him, Marge comes to the conclusion that Homer
has gone crazy
8:30 - Mobile Homer (GABF07)
Fortunately for Homer, he bought a mobile home, as now he has
somewhere to sleep when Marge throws him out of the house for not
consulting her before buying it
6/26 - DOUBLE FEATURE
8:00 - There's Something About Marrying (GABF04)
When Springfield legalizes gay marriages, Homer becomes an ordained
minister over the Internet so he can perform weddings that the church
won't...including his sister-in-law Patty's, to an LPGA professional
8:30 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister (GABF05)
After one too many pranks by Bart, Lisa gets a restraining order
forcing him to stay 20 feet away from her; Homer becomes a greeter
at the new SprawlMart
7/3 - PRE-EMPTED for "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (Fox has already
aired "Independence Day" this year, on Academy Awards night)
Since there won't be any STUFF for a while, it's about time that I
dust off...
A FEW ANSWERS TO A FEW A.T.S. QUESTIONS
aka EVEN YET STILL ANOTHER SIMPSONS FAQ
(Last updated June 12, 2005)
"Okay, where are these other Simpsons FAQs?"
The definitive FAQ is called the LISA - "List of Informative and
Substantive Answers". You can see it online at:
http://www.snpp.com/guides/lisa.html
There is a "Mini-FAQ", which is a smaller version of the LISA,
that is published to the alt.tv.simpsons newsgroup every now and
then; it also includes a few questions not in the LISA (including
one that used to be in this FAQ as well: Homer's 'Do, Re, Mi,
Beer' song - which, by the way, does not appear in any episode).
However, I don't think it has been updated since 1999.
Note that some of the questions here are also covered in part in
the other FAQs (the one about Troy McClure/Lionel Hutz, for
example, is mentioned in the LISA), but the entry here includes
additional detail.
Also note that the questions in this FAQ tend to be moved around
to get what appear to be the most popular questions at the moment
first.
"How do I contact somebody on the show?"
Your best chance is to write to:
Fox Television
P.O. Box 900
Attn: The Simpsons
Beverly Hills, CA 90213-0900
According to Fox, there is no E-mail address to write to that
anybody involved with the show will see it.
Also, don't try getting a "home address" from one of those sites
that sells them, for three reasons:
One, there's no guarantee that the address is accurate (it could
be an old one);
Two, there's no guarantee that, if the letter arrives at the
person's actual home address, that the person will open it
(especially if it looks like a script - for legal reasons, scripts
have to be returned unopened; otherwise, if the writers are
working on the same idea and can't prove they had the idea first,
they have to dump it for fear of being sued for plagarism);
Three, there's always the chance that the person will consider
you a potential stalker.
"Where can I get sheet music for the theme?"
Sheet music for the theme does exist; so far, I've found versions
for piano, handbells (!), and "solo instrumental with percussion".
(For online sources, try a websearch on the words 'Simpsons',
'theme', and 'music'.) I've been told it exists for band, or at
least jazz ensemble, but I haven't seen any; for all I know, it
was arranged by the band's/ensemble's director.
www.musicnotes.com has "digital sheet music" that you can pay for
and download, and has a number of Simpsons songs.
"When will Season <insert a number here> be released on DVD?"
Based on the releases for seasons 4 through 6, it looks like they
are trying to get the seasons released 6-8 months apart. It took
a while for Season 3 to be released; from what I heard, the main
delay was getting everybody together for the audio commentaries.
"Where are the easter eggs on the DVDs?"
On the Season 1 set, they're both on the third disc (at least in
the Region 1 version; I don't know where they are on the other
versions)
To get the news report on Bart Simpson T-shirts:
1. If you're on the "home" menu, select "Extra Features".
2. If you're on the "Extra Features" menu that begins with "Never
Before Seen Outtakes", go down to "Next" and click on it.
3. You should now be on the "Extra Features" menu beginning with
"Tracey Ullman Short".
4. Go down to "Some Enchanted Evening script", but do not click
on it; instead, go to the left, and Bart's T-shirt should
change color. When it does, click on it to see the news
report.
To get the magazine covers, do 1-3 as for the first easter egg,
then:
4. Click on "Art of the Simpsons".
5. On the "Art of the Simpsons" menu, go to "Extra Features",
then go left; Bart's comic book changes color. When it does,
click on it to see the magazine covers.
On the Season 2 set:
Disc 1 - on the "Language Selection" page of "Two Cars in Every
Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish", highlight French,
then press right to highlight Blinky; press enter to see
a "thank you" from David Silverman.
Disc 3 - on the "Language Selection" page of "Bart's Dog Gets an
F", highlight Main Menu, then press right to highlight
the piece of the quilt in Santa's Little Helper's mouth;
press enter to see a sketch.
On the sketch, press right to highlight the head; press
enter to see another sketch.
Disc 3 - on the main page of "Old Money", highlight Language
Selection, then press right to highlight the fez;
press enter to see a sketch.
Disc 3 - on the "Language Selection" page of "Brush with
Greatness", highlight English 5.1, then press right to
highlight the painting; press enter to see a sketch.
Disc 4 - on the "Language Selection" page of "Three Men and a
Comic Book", highlight French, then press right to
highlight the baseball card; press enter to see a sketch.
Disc 4 - on the "Language Selection" page of "Blood Feud",
highlight French, then press right to highlight the
head's eyes; press enter to see some sketches.
When viewing the sketches, press right to highlight the
post-it note; press enter to see more sketches.
Disc 4 - in the Special Features / Art of the Simpsons section,
select "Storyboards from 'Bart Gets an F'". On the
page with a post-it note in the top right corner, press
up to see storyboards from a deleted scene.
On the Season 3 set, four episodes - Stark Raving Dad, Lisa's
Pony, Separate Vocations, and Bart the Lover - have a second
audio commentary track, reachable only by changing audio tracks
"mamually" (using your DVD remote control's audio button, for
example).
Also on Season 3:
Disc 3 - on the main menu, enter 84763 on your remote; a menu
will appear with audio outtakes.
Disc 4 - on the Special Features page, enter 742 on your remote;
one of 13 sketches will appear.
On the Season 4 set, only one has been found so far: "Marge vs.
the Monorail" has a "bonus" audio commentary track with Conan
O'Brien, which has to be selected manually (like the Season 3
bonus commentaries). Supposedly, there is another Easter Egg
on Disc 4, but no one has found it yet.
On the Season 5 set, there is an audio commentary for the animatic
of the last part of the 100th episode. On Disc 4, select "Art &
Animation", then either select "Animatic" and, once it starts
playing, change the audio track, or highlight "Animatic", then
press the left button to highlight the "100th Episode" ribbon, and
then "select" it. Also, each disc's main menu has hidden events
that happen when you select certain items; for example, on Disc 2,
highlight either of the two circles next to "Marge on the Lam",
then press the up button to highlight either the TV or the casino
sign, and select the lit item to see something happen.
"Where can I download episodes online?"
Don't expect that information to be posted in a newsgroup; if it
is, chances are that someone who works for Fox Legal would be
quick to send it a cease & desist order. Even if you ask for an
E-mail reply, you have to be particularly convincing that you
aren't really somebody working for Fox.
"What's with Fox and closing fan websites? We're only giving the
show free publicity!"
A site that has complete video versions of the episodes is making
it that much harder for Fox to sell the episodes on, say, DVD.
The more popular "cable modems" get, the easier it gets for
more and more people to download episodes quickly, and affordable
DVD recorders are not that far away. The same goes for sound
files and the ability to sell audio CDs. (Rhino Records have
released CDs of Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers sound effects;
I would not be surprised if a CD of Simpsons (or Fox animation)
sounds is being planned, or at least considered, as well.)
However, that's not the real problem. The problem is (and this
applies to sounds as well) that Fox has to keep some sort of
control as to its copyrighted properties for fear that some judge
is going to declare it "public domain" someday.
Fox got some more ammunition to defend its practices in June,
2000, when a judge ruled that the estate of Diana, Princess of
Wales, lost the right to defend her image from being sold by the
the Franklin Mint because Diana and her estate did very little to
protect the rights to her image while she was alive. A similar
decision was handed against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences concerning the Oscar statuette a few years ago.
"Why did Maude Flanders die?"
In the show's first ten seasons, Maggie Roswell did the voice of
Maude (as well as Miss Hoover, Helen Lovejoy, Luann van Houten,
and a few others I'm probably forgetting). However, when the
"stars" of the show got pay raises (reportedly approaching
$100,000 an episode), the "also starring" actors didn't (they're
lucky if they get $100,000 a season). Roswell complained that it
wasn't even covering the costs of flying from her Denver home to
Los Angeles, and so left the show. The writers, rather than hire
a permanent replacement for her (notice how different Maude's
voice sounded in Season 11), decided to "kill her off", presumably
to give them a chance to show how someone like Ned would do on the
dating scene. Most of Roswell's other characters were voiced by
Marcia Mitzman Gaven through "Large Marge", but beginning with
"Treehouse of Horror XIII", Maggie Roswell returned, so apparently
she has settled whatever problems she and the show had.
"In what episode, couch opening, or commercial does the winner of the
'1-800-COLLECT' contest appear?"
No episode. If I remember how the contest worked, for every
certain number of people who used 1-800-COLLECT during the contest
period, one person was selected (not necessarily a Simpsons fan),
they named the person that they called, and they selected who they
thought the shooter was from a list of 24 (or so) suspects.
According to an online chat by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein,
none of them said Maggie, so the winner was selected randomly from
those who made (wrong) guesses. The actual winner was not a fan
of the show and was offered a cash prize.
The rules said that the person she called was also a winner; since
there was a report once where someone was flown to Los Angeles
but, instead of being "animated", was given a drawing of
him/herself on the couch with the Simpsons drawn by Matt Groening,
I assume this was the "other" winner. Note that the contest rules
never said that the winner's image would appear in an episode -
only that they "would be animated, and interact with one or more
Simpsons" (I assumed they would be put into a background part in
a second Simpsons 1-800-COLLECT commercial, but no second
commercial was ever made).
"What about the Butterfinger contest in 1999 where the person who
found the wrapper with the blackboard quote Bart wrote in the 11th
season premiere got to be animated?"
I've heard nothing about who won that contest. Since the rules
specified (a) that the person would not get a speaking part (or
a credit), so they could be any of the background characters that
have appeared in the 11th or 12th seasons, and (b) Fox could
substitute a non-speaking walk-on role on one of its live-action
series or movies as its discretion, there's almost no way, short
of one of the show's directors or animators telling us, which
character, if any, represents the winner.
By the way, the winning quote was "Fridays are not 'pants
optional'", although a winner would have been selected randomly
had nobody turned it in by November 1, 1999.
(This is not to be confused with the "Who laid a finger on Bart's
Butterfinger?" contest, which had the six suspects, five of which
had alibis inside Butterfinger wrappers - well, four that we know
of; I've never met anybody that found a Homer alibi - and you had
to send in a postcard with your guess as to who was guilty (note
that there was no rule against multiple entries, so quite a few
people sent in all six names, while others reduced the suspects
to Homer and Krusty and sent in both names), with the winner
receiving $50,000. The commercials, including the one where the
winner is announced, are on the Season 5 DVDs.)
"In 'Raging Abe Simpson and his Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of
the Flying Hellfish"', when Mr. Burns crashes into the room next to
Bart's, is that Lisa or Maggie saying 'Santa?'?"
Well, nobody can say for certain, but I have to say that it's
Lisa, mainly because Lisa's room is next to Bart's while Maggie's
is on the other side of the upstairs hallway. (Also, Maggie is
probably too young to understand Santa, while Lisa (supposedly)
believes that Santa is real, at least according to the first
Christmas special.
"Who would play _____ in a live-action Simpsons movie?"
Since the current plans are for any Simpsons movie to be animated,
this is a moot point. Besides, (a) it's been asked to death, and
(b) the cast keeps changing, especially if you try to cast Bart.
It's gone from Macauley Culkin to Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth
Sense" - note he's done animation) to Jonathan Lipnicki ("Stuart
Little").
Between you and me, if there was ever a live-action Simpsons
movie, I would be VERY surprised if there isn't a nationwide
(or at least Southern California-wide) talent search to find kids
to portray Bart and Lisa (and Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, etc.) who
look something like them (as was done with "The Brady Bunch
Movie"), rather than having "current actors" do it. (Then again,
I was just as surprised that Steven Spielberg refused to direct
the Harry Potter movies because he demanded that a "name" like
Haley Joel Osment play the title role (author J.K. Rowling said,
"No British boy as Harry, no movie"), so I could be wrong here.
Not that there's any guarantee of stardom - quick, what boy played
Charlie in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"? For that
matter, who portray Ron and Hermoine in the "Harry Potter" movies?
(Answer to the first one: Peter Ostrum - and "Wonka" was his only
film; according to imdb.com, he became a veterinarian.
Answer to the second one: Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.)
As for Maggie, most lists that cast Maggie say something along the
lines of "any baby will do"; of course, child labor laws pretty
much require using identical twins. (Not that there would be "two
Maggies at the same time", but the two babies would play Maggie in
different scenes - Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen got their start by
playing the same character on "Full House".)
Personally, I would either get Jim Henson's Creature Shop to make
something that looks like the cartoon version, or "draw Maggie in"
the way Rocky and Bullwinkle were drawn in in their movie.
"I have an idea for the last episode..."
The writers probably do as well. (I believe Matt Groening said
something about having an idea as to how the show would end.)
I wouldn't be surprised if there was no real "last" episode -
neither "The Flintstones" nor "The Jetsons" had one. (This way,
you can restart the series years later with the characters
unchanged - both "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons" made new
episodes with the characters virtually unchanged. (Yes, I know
that CBS had "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" with the two in high
school, but after that, NBC turned them into 12-year-olds, and
then made them babies again, since it just wasn't "The
Flintstones" the other way - as it "just wouldn't be 'The
Simpsons' if Bart, Lisa, or Maggie got older".)) Certainly, if
there is a movie planned, you can't have any of the characters
killed in the last TV episode...
Then again, "Cheers", "Murphy Brown", and "Star Trek: the Next
Generation" had "last" episodes where nothing really changed at
the end. (Of course, "ST:TNG" started making movies pretty much
the day after filming for the TV series ended.)
"I have an idea for something other than the last episode..."
Unfortunately, as the writers have no idea that your idea isn't
also something they thought of first, they can't look at your
idea, because if they discover your idea is something they've been
working on, they have to stop working on it because they can't
prove they didn't steal it from you. (This is why the message
boards on the Fox web site tell you not to discuss story ideas for
its shows.)
You need to submit your idea through an agent. The hard part is
finding one that the show's producers will listen to.
"Will Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz ever return?"
I doubt they will ever have speaking roles again. Hutz has been
in background scenes after Phil Hartman's death (for example, in
the audience in "Faith Off"), the way Lunch Lady Doris still
appears despite Doris Grau's death a few years ago. It's hard to
stick Troy McClure into Springfield crowd scenes, although they
could always have his face on movie posters or things like that.
"How can I get Simpsons cels?"
Well, there are basically two kinds of cels: production cels (that
is, cels that were used to make an episode of the show), and
limited edition cels (including "sericels", which are different in
that they are (usually) not hand-painted). Limited Editions and
Sericels are usually less expensive, as there are more of a
particular cel available (since they're specially made to sell,
rather than taken from production), but don't expect to pay less
than $200 (or $400 for a production cel), although there are
exceptions. (The exceptions work both ways; the limited two-cel
edition "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" sold for $1250, but it was an
especially limted edition and was autographed by Matt Groening.)
I've seen cels of couch scenes, but the last price I saw was
$1800. (There's one exception: one couch scene, with Bart lying
on everybody else's laps, was made into a limited edition of
2500, and has been seen for as low as $150.)
Here are some sites that have a fairly good selection of cels:
* Wonderful World of Animation Art Gallery
(www.animationartgallery.com)
* animation, usa! (www.animationusa.com)
* Gremlin Animation Art Gallery (www.thegremlin.com)
There used to be an "unwritten rule" that an episode would not
have its cels released until at least three years after its first
broadcast. There's no guarantee that every episode will be
released; I have not seen any cels from "Lisa's Wedding" anywhere.
However, there is one definitely written rule: other than
Presidents of the United States and other "public domain"
characters, cels of celebrities are not available (I assume it's
because the celebrities, not Fox, own all sales rights to their
caricatures). I assume it applies to fictional characters who
look like the celebrities doing their voices as well (for
example, Mulder and Scully in "The Springfield Files", or Larry
Burns in "Burns, Baby Burns").
"What happens in 'the future'?"
Well, technically nothing is "in concrete", as, according to
"Behind the Laughter", everything that happens is just a part of
a TV show that happens to star "The Simpsons as themselves".
Assuming the shows are "real", we do know four things:
1. "Forty years from now", Bart becomes Chief Justice of the
United States (seen at the end of "Itchy & Scratchy: The
Movie");
2. In 2014, Homer attends his 40th high school reunion with a
plunger on his head (at the end of "The Front");
3. "1000 years from now", two factions of separate Bart-based
religions (one wears Bart wigs, the other Bartman masks) will
wage war on each other over a disagreement on what Bart taught
(at the end of "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star");
4. In 1,000,000 AD, Burns and Smithers are mainly robots, with
their heads in glass cases.
"Lisa's Wedding" and "Bart to the Future" are "visions", and
"Future-Drama" is a "possible future", none of which are
necessarily going to happen - especially as "Lisa's Wedding" has
her getting married in 2010. (Besides, in "Future-Drama", explain
why a nine-year-old Maggie is on a beach in Alaska while her
parents are home.)
Some things, like Bart being a stripper or Maggie getting married
while Homer has his arms stuck in vending machines, were just
things that happened in someone's imagination.
"Why don't the characters get older?"
Actually, Homer has gotten a little older; in earlier episodes,
he's 34 or 35, but in "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", he says
he's 38.
The kids don't get older because the show is popular with
10-year-old Bart, 8-year-old Lisa, and 1-year-old Maggie. Most
"live action" shows with kids are popular when the kids are young,
but once they get older, the show loses its edge. ("Leave it to
Beaver" is the first show that comes to mind; more recent examples
are "The Brady Bunch", "Eight is Enough", "Diff'rent Strokes",
"The Cosby Show", "Roseanne", and, to a lesser extent, "Home
Improvement" and "Malcolm in the Middle".) Sometimes a show adds
a new kid to fill an "empty spot" ("The Brady Bunch" added a real
young nephew in its last season; "Eight is Enough" added a
teenager); this was even spoofed on "The Simpsons" (the character
added in "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show").
"The Flintstones" tried making Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm older, first
as high school students (CBS, early 1970s) and then as
12-year-olds (NBC, late 1970s), before somebody realized that
people remembered them as babies and wanted them to stay that way.
(Eventually, there were two TV-movies where they were adults; they
got married and Pebbles had twins.)
When new episodes of "The Jetsons" were made 20 years after the
originals, Judy and Elroy were the same ages as in the past.
(In "Behind the Laughter", an explanation is given: Lisa claims
she is given something to stunt her growth.)
"Whose idea was it that Lisa be a vegetarian?"
I've heard different answers to this one, none of which may be
true. One version says that it was David Mirkin's idea, to help
get Paul and Linda McCartney to do the show (he was quite a
Beatles fan, and Ringo Starr and George Harrison had already been
on the show); another says Paul and/or Linda made it a condition
to appear; another says somebody on the staff (the version of the
story I heard said Matt Groening, but I found it hard to believe)
had become an animal rights type overnight after discovering that
a number of animal abuse stories he had heard were all true.
When asked if Lisa would remain a vegetarian (at a San Francisco
benefit show in June, 1995), director David Silverman said
something along the lines of "we promise nothing" - but later said
that she would remain vegetarian. (One report said that it was
done because they could use it as a running gag of sorts.)
"Is Homer related to Mr. Burns?"
No more than anybody is related to anybody else. Even if the
Simpson Family Tree in the Uncensored Family Album was true
(there's another question that disputes this), Homer's
great-great-great-grandfather's sister married Mr. Burns'
great-great-grandmother's brother, so there's no "common blood"
(based on that marriage) to both Homer and Mr. Burns.
"Did Homer appear on another cartoon?"
Well, Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer, is also the voice of
Arnold's grandfather and the ice cream man on Nickelodeon's "Hey
Arnold!", but I assume you're talking about Homer Simpson
"himself".
Homer made an appearance at the end of an episode of "Duckman"
(which occasionally runs on Comedy Central at some godawful time
of the morning). In "Duckman and Cornfed in Haunted Society
Plumbers" (a takeoff on Abbott & Costello films; the main
characters investigate the disappearance of some jewelry,
supposedly by a ghost, while working as plumbers), at the end of
the show, they receive a reward of donuts, a ghost appears, they
run out screaming, and the ghost reveals himself to be Homer, who
grabs the donuts - "The perfect crime!" - and starts eating, only
to face the camera and say Duckman's catchphrase, "What the hell
are you staring at?" (Yes, Dan Castellaneta voices Homer; over
the closing credits, Homer keeps trying to say the line, but
instead says "What the hell are you looking at?" each time.) And
unlike, say, Jay "The Critic" Sherman's appearance on "The
Simpsons", Homer was drawn normally, not in the same style as the
other characters on the show he was on. (Note that "Duckman" was
produced by Klasky-Csupo, who did the main animation for "The
Simpsons" for the first three seasons. Shed no tears for Arlene
Klasky and Gabor Csupo; they also created "Rugrats", which
currently has a 3-0 lead over "The Simpsons" in the movie
department, although they appear to be a shadow of their former
selves.)
Homer and Bart appeared briefly in an episode of "The Critic", but
as TV show characters; when someone was watching TV, they changed
channels and Homer was shown stepping on a rake ("D'oh!"); Bart
responded with "Ay, caramba".
This isn't a cartoon, but an episode of "L.A. Law" featured Dan
Castellaneta as a man who worked at an amusement park wearing a
Homer Simpson costume (he was fired for removing his giant costume
head because it was too hot - a similar event actually happened
with a character at one of the Disney parks). Whenever Dan was in
costume or hidden from view, he did the Homer voice, but when you
saw his face, he did his own voice. There's a courtroom scene
where twelve jurors are all wearing giant Homer heads.)
"How do you spell 'Aye carumba'?"
The proper spelling is "Ay caramba". I'm pretty sure the actual
pronounciation is "EYE car-ROM-buh", although Bart says "EYE
car-RUM-buh".
I've been informed that some of the earliest merchandise has it
spelled "Aye".
"Why does Bart wear a blue shirt in pretty much all of the
merchandising, when his shirt is always red on the show?"
My best guess: it's an attempt to find counterfeit Bart
merchandise, almost all of which would have Bart wearing a red
shirt.
"I saw something in one of the comic books (or in the comic strip, or
in one of the books); doesn't that mean it's 'true'? After all, the
comics all have Matt Groening's name on them..."
First of all, the TV series contradicts itself quite a lot.
Milhouse has had two 10th birthday parties, and Bart was at one of
them ("Homie the Clown") but not the other ("Homer Defined"); Bart
and Lisa have had three "last days of school" (Kamp Krusty; Summer
of 4 Foot 2; The Secret War of Lisa Simpson), and in one of them
it's at a different school; Sideshow Bob's first arrest is
consistently dated as being in 1990, yet the characters don't get
older so they would have to be younger and younger each time it's
mentioned. (Maggie was in the audience when it happened, but in
"Sideshow Bob Roberts" the event happened years in the past, so
Maggie would not have been born yet.)
(Needless to say, the revelation in "Behind the Laughter" that
every episode is, in fact, part of a TV series starring the
Simpsons family means that they have an excuse to break
continuity.)
This discussion happens a lot with other TV series as well, mainly
with novels. As far as I know, the only show where they tried to
make sure what happened in the novels was considered "real" as far
as the TV show was concerned was "Babylon 5".
The general consensus is that only the TV show (besides the
Halloween Specials, or "out-of-place" episodes like the Spin-off
Showcase or "Simpsons Bible Stories") is "canon"; anything that
happens outside of the show "doesn't count". (Never mind that
Matt Groening's name appears in the comic books.)
For example: "The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album" says that
Bart's birthday is April 1, but the TV series had a Bart's
Birthday episode ("Radio Bart") and an April 1 episode ("So it's
Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show") which had entirely different
events. Also in the same book, Marge's mother's first name is
Ingrid, but on the show it's Jacqueline.
Besides, the 100th issue of the Comic Books reveals that the first
99 are fictional even in the Simpsons' own "universe".
"Where can I get a download of the Simpsons Arcade Game?"
I assume this refers to the "real" arcade version, not the port
for PCs (which is a poor copy of the game; besides, I'm not sure
it will even run on newer operating systems).
You need two things. First, you need something called MAME
(Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), which lets you play almost
every arcade game ever made, although the oldest (like Pong or
Computer Space) and the newest ones usually aren't available.
You can download MAME at:
http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/
Second, you need the file for the ROMs from the game. There are
two versions; one for the four-player version, and one for the
two-player version. I recommend the two-player version, as it
lets you select any character for Player One (which is how the
controls are set up easiest); in the four-player version, Player
One has to be Homer. You need access to the
alt.binaries.emulators.mame newsgroup; "simpsons.zip" is for the
4-player version, and "simpsn2p.zip" is for the 2-player version.
"Aren't there enough Simpsons FAQs?"
You can NEVER have enough Simpsons FAQs - at least until every
question appears in two or more of them...
BONUS FUTURAMA QUESTION
"Where is the Futurama Season 5 DVD set?"
There is not going to be one. All of the episodes that were made
are on the Seasons 1-4 sets. The seasons refer to production
seasons, not broadcast seasons; the broadcast season 2 through 5
premieres ("A Flight to Remember", "Amazon Women in the Mood",
"Roswell That Ends Well", and "Crimes of the Hot") appear on the
season 1 through 4 DVD sets, respectively.
There is further confusion caused by Matt Groening saying "See ya
on the next DVD set" at the end of the audio commentary of "The
Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" as a joke.
-- Don
S1.1 MAG+++ LIS++ BAR+ SKI+ MrsK+ MissH+ P&S# FLA- (heresy!)
f+++ n+++ Ilps(w) $+++ M43
For the record, that's seven Simpsons pre-emptions for "Independence
Day" and now six for "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"
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