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Simpsons apocalypse cow watch online1/27/2024 ![]() ![]() Dan Rather and Jon Stewart offer their voices in a show about Springfield becoming the first city in America to hold a presidential primary, and in a takeoff of “That ‘70s Show” Marge and Homer recount their turbulent lives during that decade (Kurt Loder, Weird Al Yankovic). Kelsey Grammer returns as Sideshow Bob in “Funeral for a Fiend,” which features fellow Frasier castmates John Mahoney and David Hyde Pierce. Marge fears for her safety after breaking a promise to a convict in “I Don’t Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (Steve Buscemi, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Ted Nugent), and starts her own successful gym in “Husbands and Knives” (Jack Black). In “He Loves to Fly and He D’ohs” Stephen Colbert guest stars with Lionel Richie, the latter coached by Homer to sing one of his standards using only the word “beer.” In “The Homer of Seville” Homer becomes an opera star (Plácido Domingo and Maya Rudolph guest star), while in “Midnight Towboy” he starts a tow truck business and has a run-in with guest Matt Dillon. And the titles alone tell you how much fun the writers had with pop culture this season. This season falls into what many consider the Simpsons’ golden era before the style of animation changed. In fact, The Simpsons itself is such a cultural phenomenon that celebrities have eagerly been a part of various episodes. The animated show’s success can be attributed to three things: engaging characters, sharp writing, and a steady diet of topical humor and pop culture allusions that keep the writing (and the writers) fresh. ![]() Bartender Moe (Hank Azaria) also never ages, nor does Flanders (Harry Shearer), Wiggum (Azaria), Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu (Azaria), Principal Skinner (Shearer), bully Nelson Muntz (Cartwright), teacher Edna Krabappel (Marcia Wallace), or Bart’s friend Milhouse (Pamela Hayden). Cartoon families are fun because no one ever ages, and the baby Maggie keeps sucking on her pacifier year after year. Marge (Julie Kavner) is Homer’s long-suffering wife, while daughter Lisa (Yeardley Smith) somehow managed to beat the family’s gene pool to be born brainy and ambitious. Homer Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is part Archie Bunker, part Al Bundy, and part Rain Man, and his clueless but try-anything demeanor gets him into all sorts of escapades, sometimes with his über-delinquent son Bart (Nancy Cartwright). In Springfield, where nuclear power is the big employer in town, the stream has multi-headed fish and everyone and everything in town is just a little strange-whether it’s hyper-Christian Ned Flanders, dumb-as-a-baton Chief Wiggum, Marge Simpson’s blue hair, or the Simpsons’ deep yellow pallor that tip you off. Then again, there might be something to that. With the 31st season in progress, it’s the longest running TV sitcom and also the longest running scripted primetime TV show.Ĭartoonist Matt Groening struck gold with this series about a nuclear power plant worker who’s so dumb you’d swear there’s a leak at the plant. It’s almost unfathomable to think that a TV series that first aired in 1989 would still be on the air, but The Simpsons keeps chugging happily along and shows no signs of slowing down. Not rated (would be PG for some drinking, smoking, and adult situations)
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