# Simpsons Movie- real or April Fool's joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782 "2006-04-01T00:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/1 "2006-04-01T00:05:05Z")
_The Hollywood Reporter_ [announced today](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060331/film_nm/simpsons_dc_1) that Fox’s new film _Ice Age: The Meltdown_ has an attached trailer for an upcoming _The Simpsons_ movie to be released in July 2007. The producers have said they were in the early stages of making a movie, and the description of the trailer sounds like it could be legit- it sounds like the right type of humor. But then I realized what day it was. Is this trailer really attached to _Meltdown_, or is it an early April Fools’ joke? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/2 "2006-04-01T00:05:46Z")
The movie is real. It’d be weird to have a fake rumor about a trailer, but I guess this is easily confirmed or debunked. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/3 "2006-04-01T00:09:06Z")
On the other hand, both [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462538/) and [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Movie#The_Simpsons_Feature_Film) say the film will be out in 2008, not 2007. But there’s conflicting information out there and both sites can be wrong about these things. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/4 "2006-04-01T00:13:56Z")
Various commentators on Ain’t It Cool News’ forums have said they have seen _Ice Age_ today and the trailer is on some prints of the film. So it appears the announcement is official. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/5 "2006-04-01T00:13:58Z")
OTOH, there have been rumors about this movie floating around out there for well over a decade. I’ll believe it when I’m sitting in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/6 "2006-04-01T00:17:10Z")
Apparently, there are two different trailers floating out there on _Ice Age_ prints: one with Homer on a couch snoring, and one which appears at first to be a trailer for _Superman Returns_. One or both may follow another attached Fox trailer for [Sideshow Bob shudder] _Garfield 2_. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/7 "2006-04-02T08:32:06Z")
Just as an update, Wikipedia lists the Simpsons/Ice Age pairing on a list of real events that were mistaken for April Fool’s Day hoaxes. Some real confirmations apparently went around. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/8 "2006-04-02T09:03:19Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > OTOH, there have been rumors about this movie floating around out there for well over a decade. I’ll believe it when I’m sitting in the theater. So you’ll buy tickets to a movie you don’t believe exists? Hey, whatever floats your boat. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/9 "2006-04-02T15:51:02Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > So you’ll buy tickets to a movie you don’t believe exists? Hey, whatever floats your boat. It would be pretty awesome if the movie was ‘released’ and at the big opening, the projector starts up, and shows Matt Groening sitting down, looking kind of smug for a little, then finally says “You’ve just fallen for the longest April Fools joke in history.” That is, it would be awesome unless you had actually bought tickets to that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/10 "2006-04-02T15:59:55Z")
I saw the Preview Yesterday (tooks the kids to see Ice Age II) and trailer indicated that Simpsons was do out for summer of 2007. Jim ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/11 "2006-04-03T01:31:42Z")
Tonight’s episode of _The Simpsons_ confirmed it by showing the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-movie-real-or-april-fools-joke/350782/12 "2006-04-03T01:38:47Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Tonight’s episode of _The Simpsons_ confirmed it by showing the trailer. [/QUOTE] And telling people to go to [foxmovies.com](http://foxmovies.com) where I could find absolutely _nothing_ about the flick.