I don't know if that story of Kurt Cobain visiting Spümcø's studios and demading to be part of a cartoon episode just so John would tell him to frick off is real, but the message is true
The simpsons staff should have learned this with Michael Jackson
Hypothetical situation:
Let's imagine that you finally got off your butt and dedicated yourself fully to that one idea you have - that comic or cartoon or album or novel or whatever. It's a success and within a few months you become a recognized household name as millions of copies of your work are sold. You're bombarded with movie deals, requests for a spinoff series, sequels, convention appearances, the works.
And then, the Simpsons staff asks if you want to guest star in an upcoming episode. You get a bit of freedom with the script, nothing too drastic, and can even throw in an OC or two. They even let you choose between playing a one-shot character or appearing as yourself, voice and all.
Do you take the offer? Keep in mind, this is still zombie Simpsons we're talking about.
Celebrities on Old Simpsons >Played an original character where the actor didn't matter outside of their performance >or poked fun at themselves >or just had a short cameo where they made a couple jokes
Celebrities on NuSimpsons >Almost always either play themselves >Entire episode is essentially a vehicle to promote them and their brand >Are either the focus of the whole episode or always have a major key role in it
That's also a problem with many of the random side character. I think it's just a weird quirk of how over-produced and over-budgeted the show is now.
But it might also be marketing people insisting the celebrity they're promoting have as many of their iconic and recognizable features as possible. A weird vanity thing.
Ringo was one of the first guest stars, in season two. He's a giant nose wearing sunglasses. If you didn't know who the Beatles or Ringo were, you could easily imagine he's just a character invented for the Simpsons. He looks like a Simpsons original
Homer's Barbershop Quartet was only season five, and even by then their ability to translate a real person into Simpson style had deteriorated. George Harrison is portrayed with realistic eyes, and the joke of him being there hinges on you knowing the episode is parodying the Beatles and knowing who George Harrison is. It's still a good episode, but it definitely set precedent for how celebrities would appear later on.
They still mostly do celebrities/guest stars as original characters, you just don't notice because most simpsons guest stars aren't gigantic modern A-list celebrities(mainly since those don't really exist anymore), so when they do get a giant celebrity like Lizzo on, those are the only ones that actually get talked about. Most people aren't talking about David Tennant showing up in an episode this season, meanwhile if Taylor Swift was on the show, everyone would talk about it and she'd almost 100% guaranteed play herself.
>Most people aren't talking about David Tennant showing up in an episode this season
David Tennant is hardly a celebrity.
I watched that episode and recognised his voice because he's not a good voice actor, plus he was playing a stocky character with a forced unconvincing voice. The real one that got me was Karen Gillan voicing Willie's love interest. >when they do get a giant celebrity like Lizzo
kek'd
i just imagine it's like SNL where some celebrities just have better chops when it comes to acting and characters than others and so the writers can do more with them like how certain actors like Ryan Gosling are able to show up on SNL and do better sketches and bits. Or the other side where they used make a character and just see which actors they'd be able to get to play them, only to be told no multiple times, like how they originally wanted Tom Cruise to be the guy from the Big Brother program that Bart goes to, but he said no so Phil Hartman did it instead.
The Stan Lee guest appearance was also decent because it wasn't an excuse to suck his dick, he's presented as a senile old man who ruined a child's toy shill one of his own characters and literally believed himself to be the Hulk. When the guest appearances became nothing more than an excuse for the celebrity to get their dick sucked rather than roasted, that's when they became truly obnoxious.
Where are her HUGE AS FRICK breasts?
That was the most amazing thing I found out after years of not caring; she had huge breasts and I will care, but only BECAUSE huge breasts exist.
This is really funny of the context of that recent Billie Eilish article where she talks about jerking off to herself in the mirror and urging people to jack off more.
This shit was never good idk why muricans ever found it entertaining
Same reason most of the world liked it moron
I've known more european people who are into the simpsons than american
t. american
Simpsons was fricking enormous in Europe, Latin America, and the rest of the Anglosphere you moron. Stop thinking so much about Yanks it's unhealthy.
Simpsons is OUR show, el homosexualo. Stop thinking you own it.
I don't know if that story of Kurt Cobain visiting Spümcø's studios and demading to be part of a cartoon episode just so John would tell him to frick off is real, but the message is true
The simpsons staff should have learned this with Michael Jackson
Noormies like it, the same people who thought Scooby Doo meeting the Globe TRotters was neat
What about the cast of Gilligan's Island meeting the Globetrotters?
But that was one of the best scooby episodes
Billy a guys name.
Ask your parents about Billie Holiday someday.
Doesn't count. She's black.
Hypothetical situation:
Let's imagine that you finally got off your butt and dedicated yourself fully to that one idea you have - that comic or cartoon or album or novel or whatever. It's a success and within a few months you become a recognized household name as millions of copies of your work are sold. You're bombarded with movie deals, requests for a spinoff series, sequels, convention appearances, the works.
And then, the Simpsons staff asks if you want to guest star in an upcoming episode. You get a bit of freedom with the script, nothing too drastic, and can even throw in an OC or two. They even let you choose between playing a one-shot character or appearing as yourself, voice and all.
Do you take the offer? Keep in mind, this is still zombie Simpsons we're talking about.
Could i make a episode where i am the new teacher and i show to actually like Bart more than Lisa?
I thought this hypothetical was going to ask me what I would do if I was Matt Groening and was asked to put celebs in the simpsons
Celebrities on Old Simpsons
>Played an original character where the actor didn't matter outside of their performance
>or poked fun at themselves
>or just had a short cameo where they made a couple jokes
Celebrities on NuSimpsons
>Almost always either play themselves
>Entire episode is essentially a vehicle to promote them and their brand
>Are either the focus of the whole episode or always have a major key role in it
They're also drawn weird now. They're all like more detailed and real looking. It's weird right?
That's also a problem with many of the random side character. I think it's just a weird quirk of how over-produced and over-budgeted the show is now.
But it might also be marketing people insisting the celebrity they're promoting have as many of their iconic and recognizable features as possible. A weird vanity thing.
Ringo was one of the first guest stars, in season two. He's a giant nose wearing sunglasses. If you didn't know who the Beatles or Ringo were, you could easily imagine he's just a character invented for the Simpsons. He looks like a Simpsons original
Homer's Barbershop Quartet was only season five, and even by then their ability to translate a real person into Simpson style had deteriorated. George Harrison is portrayed with realistic eyes, and the joke of him being there hinges on you knowing the episode is parodying the Beatles and knowing who George Harrison is. It's still a good episode, but it definitely set precedent for how celebrities would appear later on.
They still mostly do celebrities/guest stars as original characters, you just don't notice because most simpsons guest stars aren't gigantic modern A-list celebrities(mainly since those don't really exist anymore), so when they do get a giant celebrity like Lizzo on, those are the only ones that actually get talked about. Most people aren't talking about David Tennant showing up in an episode this season, meanwhile if Taylor Swift was on the show, everyone would talk about it and she'd almost 100% guaranteed play herself.
>Most people aren't talking about David Tennant showing up in an episode this season
David Tennant is hardly a celebrity.
I watched that episode and recognised his voice because he's not a good voice actor, plus he was playing a stocky character with a forced unconvincing voice.
The real one that got me was Karen Gillan voicing Willie's love interest.
>when they do get a giant celebrity like Lizzo
kek'd
i just imagine it's like SNL where some celebrities just have better chops when it comes to acting and characters than others and so the writers can do more with them like how certain actors like Ryan Gosling are able to show up on SNL and do better sketches and bits. Or the other side where they used make a character and just see which actors they'd be able to get to play them, only to be told no multiple times, like how they originally wanted Tom Cruise to be the guy from the Big Brother program that Bart goes to, but he said no so Phil Hartman did it instead.
The celebrities pay to appear on the show. It's why the show is still on even though it's sucked for over a decade.
Was this when Lisa lied about Homer not supporting her music?
I thought people would be posting the breasts by now.
The Stan Lee guest appearance was also decent because it wasn't an excuse to suck his dick, he's presented as a senile old man who ruined a child's toy shill one of his own characters and literally believed himself to be the Hulk. When the guest appearances became nothing more than an excuse for the celebrity to get their dick sucked rather than roasted, that's when they became truly obnoxious.
Didn't that episode pretend that Stan Lee created Hulk and a bunch of other characters that Jack Kirby made?
Sounds like dick sucking to me.
Wasn't that also....ya know....back when comic movies weren't billion dollar frick franchises and ppl only knew Stan from fricking comics?
Fricking disney.
A lot of writers have Lisa as their favorite character
Liberal mouthpiece
Why are they always meeting Lisa? Who the frick wants to meet Lisa?
Where are her HUGE AS FRICK breasts?
That was the most amazing thing I found out after years of not caring; she had huge breasts and I will care, but only BECAUSE huge breasts exist.
This is really funny of the context of that recent Billie Eilish article where she talks about jerking off to herself in the mirror and urging people to jack off more.