“The voices behind the animated Simpson extended family learned from Friends that there was strength in numbers, but their negotiations still turned into a true bloodletting because Fox at first assumed that since the characters were animated, the actors behind them were expendable. Even though there wasn?t any yelling and screaming or Ovitz-ian ?You?ll never work in this town again,? the implied threat was always hanging in the air like a guillotine, not just for the actors, but also for their reps. Not only would the plug be pulled on the Fox series, but on a Simpsons appearance scheduled for the 2005 Super Bowl. It was so tense at one point that, when the two sides broke for lunch, they sat at opposite ends of the studio commissary.” Read More >>>
