Writers Working on 'The Simpsons' Movie

AP/Miami Herald ^ | 4.7.2004

[NYC GOP Chick]

NEW YORK - Lisa Simpson will still be 8 when "The Simpsons" movie comes out - but we'll be a lot older.

Writers are working now, but the voice of Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, said the film won't be made until the series is over, and it still has at least two seasons to go. Smith said it will then take three years to make the movie because "animation takes forever."

Despite the lengthy process, Smith says she's glad to hear about the movie. "My wish for the show is that it go out with a bang and not a pimple," Smith told AP Radio. "And if we can do a movie and it can be as good as our best episodes, I'm thrilled. I think that would be wonderful."

Smith said she hopes the writers will keep Lisa's childlike sense of humor in the movie.

"If they just make her too esoteric, too philosophical, too bright, too much the voice of reason then she really becomes insufferable," she said. "You have to always, always, always remember that she's 8 and that she's a huge Itchy and Scratchy fan, that she loves Krusty the Clown. And that in spite of her beliefs and her issues, she's a kid."

[discostu]

South Park WAS colorforms and stop motion, but that process takes forever so they abandoned it after a few episodes (that actually put in an episode just how painful the stop motion process is when the kids tried to remake the first episode). Then somebody figured out how to make computer animation look almost exactly like colorforms (they never got the shadow under things like in stop motion) but can do a whole ep in a few days.

[freedomson]

"Hey, whatabout your old friend, Gil, huh?

"Aw geez, you're

starting

to

scroll

away

please

come

back

They're

gonna

cut

me

from the

show

if

nobody

pays

attention.

Please,

I'm beggin'

you"

[NYC GOP Chick]

LOL! Thanks. :)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Personally, I owe him a great debt for his 'HOT BUTTERED SOUL' album. It was the 'go-to' sound track for much 'sweet love' during my early days.

"By the time I got to Phoenix" I was rounding 3rd base and going for home.

Thanks for sharing, but that's *way* too much information for me! ;)

[Mr. Bird]

Willie is Scottish!

Important correction. 'Cause as Willie says, "if it ain't Scottish, it's crrrraap!"

Every episode has at least one line that is funnier, wittier, and/or more profound than any line in any other television show. Sometimes an episode will run off so many great lines you get mad because you know you'll never remember them all.

My favorite from this past Sunday? Homer discovers a 60's era ambulance on the used car lot:

"I bet a lot of hippies were denied care in this thing! Heh heh, injured hippies."

[hattend]

Thanks!

[conservonator]

Cool! I wonder who they'll get to play Bart? Oh wait, nevermind.

[Keith]

Important important correction...it's the Mike Myers "All things Scottish" store SNL skit that the line, "If it's not Scottish, it's crap!" line comes from...

...sorry...I take my humor verrrrrrrrrrry seriously.

;)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Why?

[curiosity]

The animation in the Simpsons is a lot better.