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Vote once a day if you can, not sure if the voting allows it. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/simpsons-contest.htm There are 14 Springfield's but only 3 have population of 100,000 or more which means those should be the top 3. Springfield, Mass is using Amnesty Ted in it's video and Massachusetts is probably in the Top 5 of worst run states Illinois has Barak Obama and Dick Durbin Springfield is where Senator Majority Whip calls his home away from DC. I'm no

7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art. Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees... For 20th Century Fox Film Corp. and Homer's creators at Gracie Films, the stunt is a cheap way to call attention to their movie, since 7-Eleven is bearing all the costs... At 7-Eleven, they're hoping it shows the ability to...

Dear Maceman, I'm writing today to ask for your vote -- and this time it's to bring the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" to Springfield, Massachusetts! The famous TV series is set in a city called Springfield, and celebrated its 400th episode this year. The creators of "The Simpsons" are releasing a major movie version on July 27th, and they're holding a nationwide vote on the USA Today website to see which of our nation's Springfields will win the honor of hosting the premiere. Voting begins today and runs through July 9th, and the winner will be announced soon after...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Two college students believed to be over-exuberant fans of "The Simpsons" stole a life-sized figurine of Homer Simpson from a cinema, but police tracked them down and forced them to return it Thursday.

Count me among those perplexed by John McCain’s decision to go negative. Does the Senator think he’s not coming across as curmudgeonly enough? Does he think he’ll reap some benefit from turning himself into the political version of Grandpa Simpson? If I were McCain, I’d go upbeat and explain my own positions and repair my own relationships with the party faithful. That’s what he has to do. Honestly, is there any Republican candidate out there that McCain would defeat (other than Larry Libertarian) in a head-to-head match-up? He has to tend to his own image. Knocking down nine other...

Springfield, the Oregon one, is on a list of like-named towns competing for the big-screen debut of Homer, Bart and the rest of the TV Simpson family this summer. City officials accepted an invitation from 20th Century Fox to compete for the honor of hosting the premiere screening of "The Simpsons Movie" in July. Fox publicist Gwyne Ortiz said Fox has asked 16 Springfields from Oregon to Massachusetts to participate. Fox will pick the winner after reviewing short film entries showcasing the community's positive aspects and links to the Simpsons, who live in their own fictional Springfield. The prime-time animated...

Fox subpoenas YouTube over "Simpsons," "24" - WSJ Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:26 AM GMT NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp. studio Twentieth Century Fox subpoenaed Google Inc.'s YouTube video service to learn who uploaded pirated copies of episodes of television shows "24" and "The Simpsons," The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The subpoena, filed January 18, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, asks YouTube to hand over information to identify the subscriber so Fox can stop the infringement, the Journal reported. The four-episode season premiere of thriller show 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, appeared...

Kind of long but a good effort, and oh so true.

Simpsons: Protestant Vs. Catholic Heaven One of my friends sent me this YouTube video on Myspace, enjoy!

I was disappointed in The Simpsons tonight; last week the Halloween special took what I considered a good natured shot at the Iraq policy, and though I don't agree with the viewpoint expressed, it didn't get under my skin. But this week, when the U.S. Army was shown to be going after youngsters and ignoramuses to be essentially cannon fodder, I started to get a bit perturbed. Homer gets suckered into joining the Army, and tells his daughter he's going to fight to "keep oil from going over $100 a barrel" or something like that. Homer, too dumb for even...

If you want to understand the huge tail-whuppin' the Republican Party took this week, there's a great Simpsons episode of a few years back that explained it all in advance. You may remember the episode, "Sideshow Bob Roberts." In this classic installment, "Diamond" Joe Quimby, the blatantly corrupt, sleazy, porkbarreling, free-spending, incompetent, unprincipled, oversexed, self-indulgent jackass mayor of Springfield, is running for reelection for the umpteenth time, in this instance challenged by Sideshow Bob, the murderous TV clown. During their televised debate, Quimby, suffering from the flu, flounders badly, and, brushing his hair back off of his sweaty forehead, even...

Thinly veiled smear of our troops and the War on Terror in tonight's Simpsons episode. Blatently attempting to influence the election. I know some people here like the show, but this should be a wakeup call that they're just another part of the Hollywood Left. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6skfbT42lU

As Bart Simpson skips into his 18th season of TV mischief, fans will be glad to know that creator Matt Groening sees no end in sight for the wayward lad or "The Simpsons."

having been a blues DJ since 1988 (and a DJ overall since '81), I figured I'd make a list of some of the blues tunes I can remember that fall into the novelty category. --Can Blue Men Sing the Whites, Bonzo Dog Band. Perhaps inspired by the times when Cream and they appeared on the same concert bill? --Generic Blues, Weird Al Yankovic. From the UHF soundtrack album. "Oh, son, make it talk, make it talk!...Allright, now make it shut up..." --Louis Jordan--the jump blues pioneer who inspired the likes of B.B. King and Chuck Berry did "There Ain't Nobody...

Metallica In Springfield! Metallica's cameo appearance on The Simpsons will air in the season premiere on September 10, 2006 on your local FOX station. (please check local listings for channel and showtime in your area. And as always, schedules are subject to change). James Hetfield's and Kirk Hammett's voices will appear as cameos in the new Adult Swim series, Metalocalypse! You can re-watch this episode on the Adult Swim Fix all this week until Friday. Queen of Denmark: Kirk Sniper: James Fan #1: James Fan #2: Kirk

"The Simpsons" claimed U.S. television's highest honor for a prime-time cartoon on Saturday as Emmy voters shied away from giving the prize to "South Park" for an episode lampooning Scientology and Tom Cruise...

D'oh! China has banished Homer Simpson, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse from prime time. Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves. Foreign cartoons, especially from Japan, are hugely popular with China's 250 million children and the country's own animation studios have struggled to compete. Communist leaders are said to be frustrated that so many cartoons are foreign-made, especially after efforts to...

(AP) BEIJING -- D'oh! China has banished Homer Simpson, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse from prime time. Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves. Foreign cartoons, especially from Japan, are hugely popular with China's 250 million children and the country's own animation studios have struggled to compete. Communist leaders are said to be frustrated that so many cartoons are foreign-made, especially...

Last week's episode of the hit animated series The Simpsons brought to fruition a dream for Stargate SG-1 star Richard Dean Anderson and his career -- and also gave Stargate fans a send-up of their own. The Jack O'Neill actor guest starred as himself in the episode, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore." When Anderson shows up at Patty and Selma's MacGyver convention, he tells the two uber-fans that the show means nothing to him. He proceeds to appear on stage with Comic Book Guy at a Stargate convention, only to be kidnapped by Patty and Selma and taken to their MacGyver...

March 20, 2006 - Fox has announced an early renewal for The Simpsons, and in a surprise move, has also renewed King of the Hill for an 11th season. This was expected to be the last season for Hill, and production had shut down on the animated series a year ago. However, Variety reports that Fox decided that the ratings were still strong enough to allow the show to continue. The entire staff of the show had moved out of their offices and on to other projects, but series creator Mike Judge was convinced to return after Fox was also...