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unusual facts about ''Simpsons''



Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly

The plot is similar to that of the Simpsons episode "Kamp Krusty".

Bruce Karatz

Working with Fox Broadcasting, which was celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Simpsons, KB Home constructed a real-life replica of the Simpsons' home in one of KB Home's Nevada subdivisions, which helped turn Las Vegas into KB Home's top market.

Butterfinger

Similar to Whoppers and Maltesers, they were roughly the size of marbles and sold in bags as well as advertised by the Simpsons.

Captain Wacky

Purportedly the original name for Homer Simpson of The Simpsons according to "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"

Christian Roman

Before Disney, he was a storyboard artist and storyboard supervisor on The Simpsons, during which time he wrote 'How to Storyboard The Simpsons Way'.

David After Dentist

On the Simpsons episode, A Tree Grows in Springfield, when Homer sees his broken Mypad, Homer says he wanted to "see the kid knocked up on dentist gas".

Deep, Deep Trouble

The music video for the single premiered on the Fox network in the United States on March 7, 1991 together with the Simpsons episode "Bart's Dog Gets an F" of the series' second season.

Enormous Omelet Sandwich

Shortly after its introduction, comparisons were made to the parody "Good Morning Burger" breakfast sandwich, shown in the 1992 Simpsons episode Bart's Friend Falls in Love.

Fox cartoons

Futurama, the follow-up series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, began in March 1999, and was later cancelled (with its last episode aired on August 10, 2003) thanks to scheduling changes (the same fate met previously by Family Guy during its original run).

Freej

The Economist said "the show has gained the region-wide, cross-generational popularity of an Arab "Simpsons" and "this depiction of raucous and irreverent Arab matriarchs has proved to be a revelation.

Geek show

In the 1998 Simpsons episode "Bart Carny", Homer and Bart are asked to perform in a geek show to pay off a debt: "You just bite the heads off the chickens and take a bow".

Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble

The lyrics "nothing but trouble" were rerecorded by Jazzy Jeff in Deep, Deep, Trouble from the Simpsons album Sing the Blues.

Gump

"Gump Roast", an episode of The Simpsons, mainly a spoof of Forrest Gump

Haggar Clothing

In the Simpsons episode "The Last Temptation of Krust", Krusty the Clown makes reference to stealing a pair of Haggar slacks.

Harvard International Review

Notable Harvard alumni to have been staff members of the Harvard International Review include Philip A. Brimmer, Bernard Hebda, Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, Simpsons writer Jeff Martin, Robert McCord, Marc Rotenberg, Phillip Steck, John Weston, M. Edward Whelan III, Stephen A. Higginson, and David Laibson.

Hurricane!

Kaiser went on to give the episode a 'B-' grade, scoring higher than the Family Guy episode "Seahorse Seashell Party", but lower than The Simpsons episode "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts".

I Am Not Homer

She did, however, praise the final track "So Dumb", which features Castellaneta singing a song as his main characters from The Simpsons, Homer, Krusty the Clown, Abraham Simpson, Barney Gumble and Groundskeeper Willie.

Joshua Jeays

In 1862, Jeays paid £78 for 16 hectares (39 acres) of land along Simpsons Road, from the corner of Cooper's Camp Road, towards Ithaca Creek and abutting what is now Bowman Park (then known as the 'Cobbler's Flats', because of the abundance of the weed 'cobblers pegs'), west of the area then known as Upper Paddington.

Kings Hill / Southwest Salmon

Simpsons creator Matt Groening etched Bart Simpson into the east sidewalk of SW 18th Avenue in 1996 during the construction of this station.

Kodos

Kodos, a fictional green one-eyed alien of in The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Lady Bouvier's Lover

The episode was recorded at the Darryl F. Zanuck Building on the 20th Century Fox lot in West Los Angeles, where the cast and crew of The Simpsons gathered on a Monday morning in October 1993.

MacNeille

Tress MacNeille, American voice actor on The Simpsons and Futurama

Metric time

In television, the Simpsons episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain" has Principal Skinner saying that, thanks to the city being under Mensa's control, the city's trains are not only running on time, but they are running on metric time, while looking at an analog clock with numbers 1–10 (which indicates decimal time).

Michael O'Connor

Michael J. O'Connor (1938–1992), American animator for the The Simpsons

Mike Anderson

Mike B. Anderson, television and film director for The Simpsons

Moose Mason

Moose has appeared briefly in one episode of the Simpsons, along with Archie, Reggie and Jughead, where they drive up to the Simpsons' house and dump Homer unceremoniously onto the front lawn.

Not Today, Thank You

It stars Harry Shearer (known for the Simpsons and This Is Spinal Tap) as Nostrils, a man convinced that he is extremely unattractive, and Brian Hayes as Brian Hughes, an aging radio presenter who tries to broadcast his radio show from his grandmother's basement before being met by a TV producer.

Pennywise

Jon Vitti, writer for The Simpsons, who has used the pseudonym Penny Wise

Pietilä

Bonita Pietila, Finnish American casting director and producer for The Simpsons

Reassignment centers

The Simpsons episode "The Ned-Liest Catch" features teacher Edna Krabappel being sent to a rubber room after hitting a student.

Replaceable You

As with most episodes of The Simpsons, the music was composed by Alf Clausen and edited by Chris Ledesma.

Robert Terwilliger

Sideshow Bob (Robert Underdunk Terwilliger), a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons

Rusty Nail

Rusty Nails, a children's entertainer who inspired The Simpsons character Krusty the Clown

Separate Vocations

Alf Clausen, a composer on The Simpsons who had previously worked on several police shows, wrote the music for the scene.

SNPP

The Simpsons Archive, a Simpsons fansite frequently referred to as the abbreviation SNPP

Spring-Ford Area School District

Chuck Sheetz, artist, Emmy-winning animator and director for The Simpsons

Starship Regulars

Starship Regulars was an animated Macromedia Flash cartoon series created by Simpsons producer Rob LaZebnik for Icebox in 1999.

Take My Life, Please

It was the first episode of The Simpsons to air in 720p high-definition television, though not the first time The Simpsons appeared in high-definition, as The Simpsons Movie was rendered in HD.

The D'oh-cial Network

This is followed by a short entitled "A Simpsons 'Show's Too Short' Story", animated in the dark, grim style of American artist Edward Gorey.

The Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness

Developed by Distinctive Software, it is based on the Simpsons franchise and features many aspects from the series.

The Simpsons: Road Rage

The Simpsons Road Rage is based on the animated television series The Simpsons.

The Simpsons Road Rage is a 2001 video game based on the animated television series The Simpsons, and is part of a series of games based on the show.

The Sleeping Gypsy

In the Simpsons episode "Mom and Pop Art" Homer dreams of waking up in the artwork with the lion licking his head.

Theodore Edward Coneys

Two episodes of popular American television shows appear to have been inspired by the Denver Spiderman story, the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Stalker" and The Simpsons episode "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner".

Ululation

It appears as comic relief in The Simpsons episodes "The Last Temptation of Homer" and "Midnight Rx"; as well as on Family Guy in the episode "E. Peterbus Unum" where Stewie is curious about the sound Achmed "makes when you're about to assassinate an infidel".

Wes Archer

He was one of the original three animators (along with David Silverman and Bill Kopp) on The Simpsons', Tracey Ullman shorts, and subsequently directed a number of The Simpsons episodes (many of which had John Swartzwelder as an episode writer) before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill.


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