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MAKERS of the hit cartoon The Simpsons have a filmed the show's opening titles using real actors. In the hit viral going around the world we get to see what Bart, Homer, Marg, Lisa and Maggie would look like if they were humans.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most Americans have an easier time naming members of the cartoon Simpson family than listing the five freedoms granted by the nation's founders, a survey by a museum released on Wednesday said. Here's a hint: one of them is not the right to own and raise pets, an error committed by one in five respondents. Half of 1,000 Americans randomly surveyed by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum could name at least two of the five members of Fox Television's Simpson family, the stars of the network's long-running show. But just 28 percent of respondents could name more...

How many of the Simpsons can you name? Now… How many of the rights outlined in the First Amendment can you name? DON'T CHEAT AND LOOK! A recently released survey revealed that more Americans can name two or more members of the Simpson Family than can name two or more rights protected under the First Amendment. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

Americans apparently know more about “The Simpsons” than they do about the First Amendment. Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. (Survey: can you name the five freedoms?) But more than half can name at least two members of the cartoon family, according to a survey. The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just one in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms. Joe Madeira, director of exhibitions...

Bald, chubby underachiever Omar Shamshoon works each day at the local nuclear power plant owned by vulture-like millionaire Mahrooey Bey. Every evening, Omar comes home to a family that includes his blue-haired wife, Mona, hyper-smart daughter, Beesa, and troublemaking son, Badr. Along the way, wacky high jinks invariably ensue, involving the moronic police chief, the television clown and Omar's disturbingly perfect neighbor. Sound familiar? This may not: Omar doesn't drink beer. Instead, he spends time with his buddies at a local coffee shop. At home, he pops open frosty cans of Duff brand juice. ... Nothing seems censored, but episodes...

On the "tin foil" type threads, I've seen a picture of Bart Simpson in a tin foil suit, with a metal trash can lid as a hat. It's from an episode of the Simpsons where he starts taking an ADD drug, and starts thinking that Major League Baseball is spying on him. Does anyone know where I can find it. I can't find it using Google.

The Simpsons might not be the first show you would introduce to the Arab world, with its constant references to things forbidden by the Koran, such as beer and bacon, but Arab Satellite Network MBC has done that."The Simpsons," now called “Al Shamshoon,” features Omar instead of Homer, and Badr substituting for Bart. With 60 percent of the Arab world 20 years old or younger, MBC hopes “Al Shamshoon” will bring in those coveted young viewers. Michel Costandi of MBC TV Network, Inc., says, “I think ‘The Simpsons’ will open new horizons for us to the future." But with a...

They're a famously dysfunctional family from small-town America but suddenly they have all learned Arabic and started talking like Egyptians. The Simpsons have changed their name to Shamsoon. Bart, the skateboarding, gum-chewing delinquent has become Badr. Homer, his slobbish dad, has become Omar and has given up Duff beer and pork sausages, at least for the duration of Ramadan. As a treat for TV viewers during the month of fasting, the Dubai-based satellite network MBC has dubbed into Arabic 30 episodes of The Simpsons and is showing them twice a day. MBC, which has heavily promoted the series, signed up...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- When an Arab satellite TV network, MBC, decided to introduce "The Simpsons" to the Middle East, they knew the family would have to make some fundamental lifestyle changes. "Omar Shamshoon," as he is called on the show, looks like the same Homer Simpson, but he has given up beer and bacon, which are both against Islam, and he no longer hangs out at "seedy bars with bums and lowlifes." In Arabia, Homer's beer is soda, and his hot dogs are barbequed Egyptian beef sausages. And the donut-shaped snacks he gobbles are the traditional Arab cookies...

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When The Simpsons and Family Guy become repetitive, it's ok, because, well, they've earned it. They make continuity flubs, and that's ok too. American Dad hasn't earned that yet, so when they've got an episode devoted to Stan and his son Steve finding common ground a week after they had one, it doesn't sit well. When Stan references the pleasures of porn twice in one episode a week after they spent an episode singing the evils of it, that feels a little off too. American Dad has a lot of potential, but it is certainly not living up to much...

NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Simpsons" took a shot at fellow Fox cartoon "Family Guy." So that series' creator is taking a shot right back. Seth MacFarlane said an episode of "The Simpsons" where a Homer Simpson clone was identified as "Family Guy" dad Peter Griffin was "definitely a slam." But since the "Family Guy" team dishes out plenty of its own insults, it should be able to take some, MacFarlane told Blender magazine. "To me, Peter is much more similar to Ralph Kramden than he is to Homer, right down to his voice," he said, referring to the character...

00:05:16Commentary: The main theme of this story is Marge's sister who wants a baby and upon Lisa's advice, that there are millions of Chinese girls to adopt, visits the Chinese Embassy in Springfield. (Click here for the full synopsis). There are jokes about China as well as America, although much more of the former than the latter. We're going to visit some of the Chinese ones as the American jokes are few in between and mostly about Homer's weight.00:05:18Commentary: Note how all the countries are in different colors except for South Asia.00:05:36Commentary: Note how the word Taiwan is in Country bold, as is South...

I wonder if anyone agrees that it's time for the Simpsons to pack it up. The last 2 seasons have been uninspired and stale. Too bad Futurama wasn't more succesful. I've watched it in syndication and its a hoot.

The scorching-hot SIMPSON sisters are ready to rule the silver screen this summer -- as both JESSICA and ASHLEE are making their movie debuts in lead roles in the very same month -- August. Jessica, as most of the universe knows, will be running around in skimpy cutoffs in the 'Dukes of Hazzard,' out August 5, while Ashlee is a bit more covered up in 'Undiscovered,' out August 26. "It's cool because Jessica and I are doing our first big roles at the exact same time," Ashlee explained. "We call each other and make sure everything is going cool on...

Ulster actor Liam Neeson is to guest star in the Simpsons as an Irish priest converting the cartoon family to Catholicism. The episode in which Neeson's character Fr Sean encourages Homer and Bart to turn Catholic has already gone out on US television and will be shown on Sky this summer. It was due to be shown in America earlier, but had to be rescheduled due to the death of Pope John II. In one scene Homer says: "Catholics Rule! We've got Boston, South America and the good part of Ireland." In another scene involving a dream sequence, Marge ends...

The other day I sat down and had a heart-to-heart with my kids. I wanted them to hear it from me, not some punk at school. The sad day had finally come -- The Simpsons has jumped the shark. TV's longest-running sitcom celebrates its 350th episode tonight. Judging by too many shows this season, it is time to reach for the fork and cue the fat lady. No. 350 features guest voice Ray Romano in a show called Don't Fear The Roofer. Famed scientist Stephen Hawking makes a return guest voice appearance. Say it again: Return guest voice appearance. Despite...

You know that a show has been around a long time when they start measuring milestones in episodic increments of 50. But it's understandable that "The Simpsons" should want to make a big deal out of hitting 350 episodes with this Sunday's installment. As the legendary Fox series wraps up its 16th season, the denizens of Springfield are wading in some uncharted prime-time waters. When executive producer Al Jean boasts that "The Simpsons" "just enjoyed the best 16th season of any comedy ever," that's because no other comedy has ever made it this far. How many episodes is 350? More...

LOS ANGELES IF a person were to, for the sake of art or science, sit down and watch every episode of "The Simpsons" ever made, it would take him more than a week of no-sleep, back-to-back viewing in 350 half-hour increments. In that marathon the viewer would learn that life on a street called Evergreen Terrace never really changes, that Bart, Lisa and Maggie, along with their creator, Matt Groening, will not grow up, and that the Simpsons, once viewed as the shock troops of cultural mortification, are a shining exemplar of family stability in the come and go world...

Fox and the producers of ``The Simpsons'' have decided to postpone a religion-skewering episode in deference to the papal succession, E! reports. The typically irreverent episode, titled ``The Father, Son and Holy Guest,'' features the voice of Liam Neeson as a priest, who inspires Bart after he gets expelled from Springfield Elementary and lands in a Catholic school. Hijinks ensue. Fox decided to move the episode back to May 15 after the April 2 death of Pope John Paul II. The network had figured the date would give plenty of time for a new pope to be elected. Indeed, Pope...