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Raph's Girl
02-26-2009, 11:03 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_en_ot/tv_the_simpsons_2

Fox says it's renewing "The Simpsons" for another two seasons, which will secure its place as TV's longest-running prime-time series.

Now in its 20th season, "The Simpsons" already had tied record-holder "Gunsmoke." The Western drama series aired for two decades on CBS before it ended in 1975.

"The Simpsons" will pass that mark next season. The two-year, 44-episode pickup announced Thursday by Fox will bring the total number of "Simpsons" episodes to 493.

The animated comedy about Homer and Marge Simpson, their children and the town of Springfield is not only enduring but much-honored: It's received a Peabody and 24 Emmys among other awards.

:sleep: :dead:
ThirdMarioBro
02-26-2009, 11:10 PM
They also jacked the cast's pay up to $400,000 an episode. This is what kills all mega-popular TV shows. I give it four more years at best before Fox pulls the plug because the show gets too expensive to produce.
ZariusTwo
02-26-2009, 11:16 PM
This isnt a series, it's Euro Disney
ThirdMarioBro
02-26-2009, 11:31 PM
OH SNAP! Somebody made a Simpsons thread, so now Zarius has to make sure everybody understands just how bad it is. Oh grow the hell up. Some people actually still enjoy it.

I guess this goes three pages before the nasty PM's begins.
Drtooth
02-27-2009, 08:36 AM
Just...make...another...freaking...movie!
The Stryker
02-27-2009, 12:12 PM
OH SNAP! Somebody made a Simpsons thread, so now Zarius has to make sure everybody understands just how bad it is. Oh grow the hell up. Some people actually still enjoy it.

I guess this goes three pages before the nasty PM's begins.

Wow, you telling someone to grow up. Thats hilarious.
Drtooth
02-27-2009, 12:33 PM
...Seriously... ANOTHER movie....
ZariusTwo
02-27-2009, 02:29 PM
I guess this goes three pages before the nasty PM's begins.

Free country pal. Until you make a rule about NOT burying this peice of s*it, you can't really touch me where that's concerned.

Ah, but nice to see how you really feel about me.
ThirdMarioBro
02-27-2009, 06:17 PM
Whatever floats your boat.
Mr._Mutant_Man
02-27-2009, 07:47 PM
Remember the time when someone made a Simpsons thread, and then people commented how the show has jumped the shark?

I'll give Simpsons credit for staying funnier longer than Family Guy did.
Wildcat
02-27-2009, 08:07 PM
Good to hear, I love the Simpsons. Yeah definitly needs to be another movie, just with a slighty better plot. First was ok but ehh, at least it was still funny.
FLAduranie
02-27-2009, 08:27 PM
I haven't watched the Simpsons in YEARS. Just to boring for me to sit through. I'm glad they still have fans that will get to enjoy it for a few more years.
VaughnMichael
02-28-2009, 07:08 AM
Whatever floats your boat.
You sunk my battle ship!
cqb101
02-28-2009, 09:12 AM
Do people actually still watch the simpsons? I don't know anybody who's watched a new episode in years.
Ginny
02-28-2009, 03:02 PM
I am so happy to hear that The Simpsons will be around for a couple years longer. I'll admit, the past few seasons have had some very weak episodes, but the show is still pretty fresh when you consider how long it has been on.
CudleyCowlick
03-01-2009, 01:23 AM
Another.... movie.


Please?
Drtooth
03-01-2009, 01:13 PM
Do people actually still watch the simpsons? I don't know anybody who's watched a new episode in years.

Would they bother renewing it if it wasn't successful enough to warrant it? People still watch it... I still do, since I'm a loyalist, even though I think the writers need to stop treating it as a career stop so they have something high profile to put on their resumes before they start making terrible sitcoms and Porky's clone movies. And... of course, no more high brow architects, writers, musicians, and artists that only the writers know and care about stopping in to say "D'oh."

Man, I miss people like Jon Lovitz and Albert Brooks coming in and playing characters... and not celebs coming in and saying "I was on the Simpsons! I made it!"

Though for the trillionth time, I wanna see another movie. Doraemon has one a year, for crying out loud. You can certainly have 2.
Prowler
03-01-2009, 04:10 PM
I'll give Simpsons credit for staying funnier longer than Family Guy did.
When has Family Guy ever been funny?
Drtooth
03-01-2009, 06:08 PM
When has Family Guy ever been funny?

Before they brought it back... that's for sure.
ThirdMarioBro
03-01-2009, 10:54 PM
I guess it just shows that all humor is subjective because I find both funny as hell.
BubblyShell22
03-03-2009, 01:53 PM
I love both Simpsons and Family Guy, but I feel that Simpsons has declined on humor in recent years. I'm glad to see it's sticking around, but who says it'll stay as long as they say it will? There's only so many ideas you can toss around.
Ra
03-03-2009, 05:48 PM
As soon as the turn of the century accoured, the Simpsons' classic humour died for me.

Kinda agonising to see it get renewed again. Seeing guest star after guest star waltz in, seeing the situations become slowly but surely more and more rediculous and non-family centred (which was one of the things I loved about the Simpsons originally)... Ah well. It's only a matter of time until it gets pulled, I guess...
ThirdMarioBro
03-03-2009, 07:12 PM
How many times a week can we whine about how the Simpsons suck? It's like you all think we've forgotten your opinion from the last thread. You hate the show, we get it. Trust me, we get it. Jesus.
Hannah
03-03-2009, 08:13 PM
Did you know I think the Simpsons sucks? Cause I do. Just sayin'.
ThirdMarioBro
03-03-2009, 08:25 PM
*facepalm*

:lol:
The Stryker
03-03-2009, 08:26 PM
TMB. Weren't you just in 2 seperate threads whining about remakes?
Drtooth
03-04-2009, 08:27 AM
How many times a week can we whine about how the Simpsons suck? It's like you all think we've forgotten your opinion from the last thread. You hate the show, we get it. Trust me, we get it. Jesus.

Dude, everything sucks now. The Simpsons are just an unfortunate casualty. :tsleep: Plus you try having a series go on for 20 years and make it fresh.

That said, I guess they're getting a lot more creative with the couch gags now that they're HD. I really liked that Sitcom retrospective they had this week.
Buffy
03-06-2009, 07:10 AM
It's nice to hear that the Simpsons are returning for 2 more years. The new opening sequence has changed, looking very cool!
gobo
03-06-2009, 09:33 PM
The Simpsons renewed
How the hell do they manage this year after year??
ThirdMarioBro
03-08-2009, 01:48 AM
They do it just to piss off losers such as yourself who have nothing better to do than compare new episodes of a cartoon to the nostalgic sh*t you remember from when you were a kiddie. Now, go and whine about how "Bart doesn't say Cowabunga anymore" and "Homer is an idiot" to somebody who gives a sh*t.
Barkworm
03-08-2009, 03:02 AM
Dude, I also got tired of bashing the Simpsons but are you actually defending this sh*t? Seriously?
The Stryker
03-08-2009, 03:12 AM
They do it just to piss off losers such as yourself who have nothing better to do than compare new episodes of a cartoon to the nostalgic sh*t you remember from when you were a kiddie. Now, go and whine about how "Bart doesn't say Cowabunga anymore" and "Homer is an idiot" to somebody who gives a sh*t.

My god, the irony.
cqb101
03-08-2009, 07:40 AM
They do it just to piss off losers such as yourself who have nothing better to do than compare new episodes of a cartoon to the nostalgic sh*t you remember from when you were a kiddie. Now, go and whine about how "Bart doesn't say Cowabunga anymore" and "Homer is an idiot" to somebody who gives a sh*t.

Dude, calm down. It's just the internet.
Drtooth
03-10-2009, 09:56 AM
"Bart doesn't say Cowabunga anymore"

When did Bart ever say Cowabunga? Wasn't that just a T-shirt?

Still, anyone else loving these extended HD couch gags as much as I do?
VaughnMichael
03-10-2009, 10:45 AM
When did Bart ever say Cowabunga? Wasn't that just a T-shirt?

Still, anyone else loving these extended HD couch gags as much as I do?
I thought this weeks was pretty good and I do love when the tv falls off the wall, but it seems more is put into the intro now than the episodes themselves.