I don’t think those uniforms would fit him anymore. I saw interviews with him on the recent Seinfeld DVDs, and man, has he ever lost a lot of weight. I don’t think he could do Wiggum properly now.
The whole movie should be about Armen Tanzarian with “Eat my shorts, children!” a frequent tag line.
Yes! I definitely agree with you there.
Once again, I’d just like to say I totally agree with everything you said.
My biggest fear with the Simpsons movie is that it will buckle under the weight of the huge number of secondary characters, cameo appearances and inside jokes that they can do. One time during a particularly boring math class in high school, I started writing down names of characters from The Simpsons to see how many I could remember. Within 10 minutes, I had listed over 60 characters. That’s more people than I know in real life! If you gave every character equal screen time (after all, those voice actors all want their moment in the spotlight) it would be a mish-mash of characters coming into the story and then leaving with no explanation. Kind of like the way most episodes of the show seem to be written these days.
I agree that it should have an epic, movie-sized story. Something with the writing quality of “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” and the emotions and character development (God forbid) of the episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies.
I’ll end up seeing this movie no matter what. I really hope the writers aren’t counting on that fact.
I had a thought, perhaps this is how Groening’s gotten Fox to agree to a couple of Futurama movies. (Yeah, they’ll be straight to DVD, but it’s better’n nuttin’.)
And Steve Buscemi plays the gun store guy.
…And Robert Carlyle as the Scottish janitor Willie, Billy Crystal as Moe…
What, both of them?
Wha the huh? They were short filmmakers, sure, but I don’t think that means they’re any better at handling feature-length format, just that they liked being able to say “fuck” with impunity. I mean, anybody who says that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are great filmmakers has apparently never seen BASEketball.
I’m with you on wanting to see more “Futurama,” though, except I don’t know if it would work feature-length. All the episodes feel really dense and longer than just 30 minutes to me, because they pack in so many jokes and changes in scene. I wonder how much of the humor depends on non-sequiturs and one-liners. An hour would be about perfect.
“The Simpsons” should be fine as a movie, because it’s got so much history and so many side characters now that they can have subplots and asides and such. The trick would be in letting it ramble, I think – if they tried to do one big storyline (like Who Shot Mr. Burns?) then it’d pretty quickly get either tired or maudlin, or both.
They didn’t make that movie, they just acted in it,
Maybe the movie will COMBINE Bart losing his virginity with Michael Jackson coming back.
Wow. Checking IMDB, you’re right. I’d always assumed that was one of their own movies.
Pity. I think it’s an absolutely brilliant movie. I would have loved to be able to attribute it to their writing skills. Oh well, at least they can definitely do live acting as well as voice.
Actually they both went to film school (I think Matt ended up graduating with a degree in math and Trey ended up dropping out to complete his first feature), and their first film - Cannibal! The Musical - probably has less than 5 instances of the work fuck.
As has been mentioned, they didn’t make that film, the guy who made Airplane! did.
…But they did improvise almost all of the dialogue. BASEketball was a very funny and good-spirited movie, IMO.
Futurama has surprising depth of story and it’s not all about the humor (for me, anyway.) I hope we’ll find out soon how good a movie would be :).
Homer Simpson a cult character? When was that written, 1990? I thought his bust had been added to Mt. Rushmore some time before the dot-com bust.
I just read in this interview in Hogan’s Alley with Simpsons producer David Silverman who said MJ declined the credit and the Simpsons people were not happy.
"How did he come to be credited as “John Jay Smith”?
Silverman: We didn’t want him to be uncredited. We wanted him to be Michael Jackson! That was the point of the whole joke of the episode! So we began saying that if you’re going to be a guest on the show, you’ve got to own up to it. I think Dustin Hoffman didn’t want credit; he took the pseudonym Sam Etic. Michael Jackson didn’t want credit, and that kind of stung us. We wanted to use them for publicity [laughter]. So, in the third season we made a rule: You want to be on the show? You gotta own up to it! "
I wonder if the DVD commentary was sugar-coating a negative experience?