Watching the creation of an episode of “The Simpsons” is exciting — or at least hearing it is. After all, the series has been dubbed the greatest show of the 20th century by Time magazine. Each week, it begins at the “table read” on the Fox studio lot. Here, cast members try out a new script as writers and producers take careful notes, sometimes based on the reactions of the roughly three dozen guests ringing the room in padded blue chairs. Part assembly line and part creative gestation, it will take another nine months for the finished episode to see the light of a television screen — such as the show’s belated Halloween special, “Treehouse of Horrors,” which aired Nov. 6 on Fox. And you thought putting a “Simpsons” episode together was some chaotic laugh riot thrown together in a week? D’oh!
SOURCE: Monterey County Herald