The Sun: Cartoon favourite Marge Simpson is to get breasts as big as Pamela Lee — after a boob by a plastic surgeon. Marge goes for a nip-and-tuck operation to get rid of fat in a bid to make hubby Homer fancy her again. But the surgeon mistakenly gives her breast implants and she comes out looking like a Playboy model. Soon she lands a modelling deal and ends up flashing her boobs at the residents of Springfield. Read More >>>
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Like A Rolling Stone
The first time promoter David Fishof organized the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, Jay Leno suggested you could get a better return on your five thousand bucks by checking into the Betty Ford Center, where you’d be certain to meet a higher caliber of rock star.
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Homer, Conservative Hero
“America’s long, national nightmare is nearly over. After a painful, 169-day hiatus, new episodes of The Simpsons finally return to Fox TV Sundays at 8:00 P.M. Eastern. The characters who debuted in animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show in April 1987 launch their 14th season on November 10. The Simpsons now ties The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as history’s longest-running comedy series. How has it flourished so long? The Simpsons’s knack for making viewers laugh out loud is obvious. However, among its secret ingredients, intellectual rigor is key. The uninitiated still assume The Simpsons is a children’s cartoon show. In reality, it is both incredibly adult and, I sincerely believe, television’s single most intelligent offering today.” Read More >>>
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Rock On, Simpsons
Canoe.ca: As any fan knows, Homer can’t get no satisfaction. The same can’t be said of Joel Cohen, the Calgary writer who has helped put the “Doh!” in the animated icon’s mouth for three years now. In Sunday’s official Simpsons season opener, the family encounter a who’s who of dinosaur rockers, including Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. For Cohen, that meant a chance to rub elbows with the aging music gods. “I kind of met Mick,” said Cohen. “You have the recording studio and next to it, the engineering room. So you’ll have people drop in to watch the stars record, depending on who they are. When Mick was there, the room was jam-packed. He didn’t shake hands or show pictures of his family or anything.” Read more on Joel’s experience >>>
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Simpsons Make Rock History!
Rolling Stone magazine is paying tribute to The Simpsons by featuring them on its cover. The magazine is marking the start of the show’s fourteenth series by releasing three different covers with the characters on famous album sleeves. The first one shows Bart as the baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind. The second features Homer as Bruce Springsteen on the cover of Born In The USA. The third shows The Simpsons as The Beatles on the cover of Abbey Road. All three covers have been designed by Simpsons creator Matt Groening himself. The covers can be seen below.
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D’oh! Homer’s Still A Hit
Another ratings report, this one sums it all up. E! Online has posted its Neilsen ratings summary, and The Simpsons cracked the top 10 for the prime-time week ended Sunday. The 14th season debut Treehouse Of Horror XIII was watched by 16.7 million diehard fans, landing the show in tenth position on Neilsen’s ratings meter. In contrast, NBC’s Scrubs and Will And Grace landed in eighth and ninth positions respectively. This definitely looks good for the future of the show, lets see if ratings can remain consistent next week. Go here for a full rundown of the week’s ratings.
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FOX Plays Scary Game
FOX’s broadcast of Sunday’s San Francisco-Oakland game came close to ticking off fans of “The Simpsons.” In endless commercials broadcast throughout the earlier Eagles-Bears game, Fox promoted the cartoon’s season-opening “Treehouse of Horrors XII” episode. The show was to begin at 7:30 p.m., right after the West Coast game. But choke-artist 49ers kicker Jose Cortez shanked a gimme at the end of regulation, and the game dragged into OT. Cortez eventually redeemed himself, winning the game with a 23-yarder. But by then, it was 7:35 p.m. Fox then filled the next five minutes with enough plugs to float the Titanic. And then, it joined “The Simpsons” in progress. Read More >>>
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FOX Wins Sunday Ratings Battle
Even without the World Series, FOX was able to handily win Sunday night in North America, thanks to a couple of series premieres and the Simpsons Halloween special. The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror XIII,” 8.9/13, and the season premiere of King of the Hill, 7.0/10, were tops at 8 p.m. The rating numbers for The Simpsons was the best start for the series in five years. Overall, the network raked in a 7.8 rating/12 share, but its competitors weren’t far behind. Read More >>>
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Send In The Reviews
Seen the new “Treehouse of Horror XIII” episode? Want to comment on it? Well, feel free to express your opinion regarding it (or read the other critiques) at the No Homers Club and Springfield Message Board, two of the most popular Simpsons forums online. And while I’m at it, here’s what our staff thought of the first new Simpsons episode in months.
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Doh! Why We Still Love Em’
Citizen Times: At first, 32-year-old photographer Bo Post didn’t want to go on the record badmouthing “The Simpsons.” “If I tell you my name and that I don’t like The Simpsons, I’m going to get nasty phone calls because most everyone watches it,” she said. At 8:00 on November 3, a good deal of fans will be sitting down for the annual Halloween episode, which unofficially kicks off the show’s 14th season. The official premiere runs Nov. 10.
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Simpsons Enter 14th Season
It is almost a rule that the quality of long-running television shows swirls down the toilet after three or four seasons. Not the Simpsons. The half hour animated show is a clasic, a staple that has remained as true to its roots and is as ingeniously funny today as it was when the Simpson family first appeared in 1987. Now the show opens its 14th season Sunday with its 13th Halloween episode. Read More >>>
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Simpsons Scares Up Laughs
NY DailyNews: What’s scary about the annual Simpsons Halloween special and the upcoming episodes is how the series has maintained its quality, year after year. It’s difficult not to take “The Simpsons” for granted. It’s been around since 1989, when it was launched as a Christmas special. It’s the oldest current comedy on prime-time television, and the seventh-oldest series, period. Read More >>