The Simpsons has revealed that a short film based on the long-running hit animated series will debut on the streaming platform. 

The news was announced by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. 

“Greetings Friends! Earlier this year we made a nifty little short film called Playdate with Destiny. The response was so gratifying we wanted everyone to see it at home. So here ya go — stream it starting April 10th on Disney Plus,” he wrote on Instagram. 

According to multiple outlets, in Maggie Simpson in Playdate with Destiny, the 1-year-old finds friendship with a baby on the playground while facing dangers in the park.

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Multiple outlets confirm that Azaria, who has voiced the Kwik-E-Mart owner, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, since the character was creating in 1990, is stepping down from the role. 

“What they’re going to do with the character is their call,” Azaria said. “It’s up to them and they haven’t sorted it out yet. All we’ve agreed on is I won’t do the voice anymore. […] We all feel like it’s the right thing and good about it.”

Controversy over the character was sparked back in 2017. Back then Azaria said: “As far as The Simpsons is concerned, it’s often a fine line between what’s comedy and what’s offensive and insulting and upsetting.”

It is still unclear whether the character will actually be dropped from the cartoon, transition to a 2020-standards version or will be voiced by someone else. 

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Academy Award-winner and star of Netflix’s acclaimed drama The Crown, Olivia Colman, has joined season 31’s stellar guest roster. 

The news was first announced by executive producer James L. Brooks who tweeted Friday: “Just this second came from recording one of the best guest appearances in Simpson’s history. No kidding, I am flying.”

Colman has joined the forthcoming guest appearance by John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Jason Momoa, Bob Odenkirk, John Mulaney, and Jane Goodall. 

Brooks added that Colman has lent her voice to “the most down home femme fatal ever who attracts every man she’s ever met but falls hard, harder than she ever imagined, for Homer Simpson.”

The Simpsons returns for its 31st season on September 29. 

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The forthcoming season of everyone’s favorite yellow family has just added husband and wife John Legend and Chrissy Teigen to its 31st season guest roster. 

Fox announced the news Wednesday. 

According to Entertainment Weekly, the couple will play themselves. “Who else but John Legend could sing a song so emotionally powerful that it would make the people of Springfield do something smart?” Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman told the outlet. “Who else but Chrissy Teigen would befriend Marge in the comments section of Instagram?”

The next season of the Fox animated comedy has a slew of A-listers signed up to lead their voices including Jason Momoa, Bryan Cranston, Niecy Nash, Megan Mullally, Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, and Billy Eichner. 

The Simpsons returns to Fox on September 29. 

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The Better Call Saul star will make a guest voice appearance on Fox’s iconic animated series. 

Odenkirk’s character is said to be a mob lawyer. The episode is penned by his brother Bill Odenkirk. 

“He charges by the minute so he speaks… really… slowly,” elective producer Al Jean says of the character. “He just wants money for talking to Fat Tony.” 

The episode involves sting operation and the Simpsons patriarch. “Homer is the mark because he’s got such a big butt so he’s a good target for pickpocketing,” explains Jean. “Fat Tony is arrested but he didn’t do it — and he has to find out who did do it.”

Here’s to seeing Odenkirk play a shady lawyer with slippery interpretations of the law — again!

Season 31 of The Simpsons debuts in September. 

Entertainment Weekly was the first to report the news. 

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The weirdly wonderful band is a five-piece from Arizona and dress entirely in Ned Flanders-inspired clothing. They constantly reference the character’s lines and recently released a record called Howdilly Twodilly, which gained the attention of The Simpsons writers on the show.

The Arizona five-piece, who pay homage to Homer’s Christian do-gooder neighbor, describe their unique sound as “Nedal” and each dress up in Flanders’ attire. Their music also makes reference to some of the character’s best-known lines.

“Myself and everyone involved with Okilly Dokilly are so very honored,” Okilly Dokilly’s frontman said. “The fact that the ‘White Wine Spritzer’ video appeared on an episode of The Simpsons is still unreal to us. We are very excited and beyond humbled to have been a part of the show’s legacy.”

Executive Producer, Al Jean, added: “We saw the video and knew they had to be on the show. We do not endorse their message of indiscriminate drinking of white wine spritzers.”

The song was featured on Sunday’s (April 7) episode of the show.

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Yeardley Smith, the actress who has voiced Lisa Simpson for the past 30 years, however, reckons that the show would sooner be cancelled than changed.

“When you’re dealing with something that is still so culturally relevant, and sort of such a pillar of our culture, if you’re going to mess with that, that’s some pretty risky territory,” Smith told The Hollywood Reporter. “So my feeling is — and I could be completely wrong — is that they would cancel it before they would change It [creatively].”

Smith also weighed in on what will happen to the 700+ episodes of The Simpsons that already exist and supposes that Disney will use the episodes for their new streaming service.

“When you are building a silo, you need content,” Smith explained. “Even though we have 700 episodes, when we have a marathon and you can devour that in 14 days, dude, you better keep making those episodes. For us, I think it’s very, very good as long as the writers and executive producers still want to keep making the show.”

She adds: “I’m optimistic.”

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Barbara passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92 and once referred to the show as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen”  after her husband former President George H.W. Bush had already indicated that he was not a fan of the production.

“However, it seems a letter sent to the first lady from Marge Simpson made the former see the cartoon family in a different light,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “In the letter, Marge told Bush she was ‘deeply hurt’ by the criticism of her family.”

Marge is reported to have said in the letter:

“I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common. I hope there is some way out of this controversy.”

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Below are five spooky times The Simpsons correctly predicted what actually ended up happening:

Donald Trump becoming president of the United States

Predicted: 2000

Happened: 2016

During an episode when Bart has a vision into his adulthood, he sees his sister Lisa succeeding Donald Trump. “The country is broke?” she says in one scene.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2016, writer Dan Greaney explains this was meant to be a warning.

The NSA spying scandal

Predicted: 2007

Happened: 2013

The Simpsons are forced to go into hiding following their escape from the EPA biodome, which encloses Springfield in The Simpsons Movie. The NSA, however, manages to locate Marge by listening in to one of their conversations. Six years later, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the government’s mass surveillance of Americans’ phone and internet records.

Smart watches

Predicted: 1995

Happened: 2014

When Lisa visits a fortune teller, she is transported to the year 2010, when smart watches exist. Smart watches, however, became reality in 2014, which was four years later than The Simpsons had predicted.

FaceTime

Predicted: 1995

Happened: 2010

Lisa talks to her mother Marge using her phone’s video chat capability.

FIFA corruption scandal

Predicted: 2014

Happened: 2015

In a 2014 episode of The Simpsons, an official from FIFA asks Homer to help repair the image of the organization. Just a year later, many officials from the organization were fired after they were found to have engaged in corrupt activities.

The same episode also correctly predicted that Germany would defeat Brazil during the World Cup.

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An upcoming episode of the Simpsons will star Ray Liotta as Morty Szyslak, a more cunning and evil version of his son and helped mold Moe into the grumpy character which he is. The show is set to be broadcast in April and will also feature Debi Mazar voicing Moe’s sister Minnie.

The Simpsons executive director Matt Selman teased the possibility of the Moe episode earlier on this year, describing it as a “Shakespearean family drama set against the backdrop of a fading mattress store empire.”

As Moe and Shakespeare do not go together, this promises to be a great and very entertaining episode.

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The Simpsons has revealed that a short film based on the long-running hit animated series will debut on the streaming platform. 

The news was announced by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. 

“Greetings Friends! Earlier this year we made a nifty little short film called Playdate with Destiny. The response was so gratifying we wanted everyone to see it at home. So here ya go — stream it starting April 10th on Disney Plus,” he wrote on Instagram. 

According to multiple outlets, in Maggie Simpson in Playdate with Destiny, the 1-year-old finds friendship with a baby on the playground while facing dangers in the park.

The post A “Simpsons” Short Film is Heading to Disney+ appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Multiple outlets confirm that Azaria, who has voiced the Kwik-E-Mart owner, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, since the character was creating in 1990, is stepping down from the role. 

“What they’re going to do with the character is their call,” Azaria said. “It’s up to them and they haven’t sorted it out yet. All we’ve agreed on is I won’t do the voice anymore. […] We all feel like it’s the right thing and good about it.”

Controversy over the character was sparked back in 2017. Back then Azaria said: “As far as The Simpsons is concerned, it’s often a fine line between what’s comedy and what’s offensive and insulting and upsetting.”

It is still unclear whether the character will actually be dropped from the cartoon, transition to a 2020-standards version or will be voiced by someone else. 

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Academy Award-winner and star of Netflix’s acclaimed drama The Crown, Olivia Colman, has joined season 31’s stellar guest roster. 

The news was first announced by executive producer James L. Brooks who tweeted Friday: “Just this second came from recording one of the best guest appearances in Simpson’s history. No kidding, I am flying.”

Colman has joined the forthcoming guest appearance by John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Jason Momoa, Bob Odenkirk, John Mulaney, and Jane Goodall. 

Brooks added that Colman has lent her voice to “the most down home femme fatal ever who attracts every man she’s ever met but falls hard, harder than she ever imagined, for Homer Simpson.”

The Simpsons returns for its 31st season on September 29. 

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The forthcoming season of everyone’s favorite yellow family has just added husband and wife John Legend and Chrissy Teigen to its 31st season guest roster. 

Fox announced the news Wednesday. 

According to Entertainment Weekly, the couple will play themselves. “Who else but John Legend could sing a song so emotionally powerful that it would make the people of Springfield do something smart?” Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman told the outlet. “Who else but Chrissy Teigen would befriend Marge in the comments section of Instagram?”

The next season of the Fox animated comedy has a slew of A-listers signed up to lead their voices including Jason Momoa, Bryan Cranston, Niecy Nash, Megan Mullally, Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, and Billy Eichner. 

The Simpsons returns to Fox on September 29. 

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The Better Call Saul star will make a guest voice appearance on Fox’s iconic animated series. 

Odenkirk’s character is said to be a mob lawyer. The episode is penned by his brother Bill Odenkirk. 

“He charges by the minute so he speaks… really… slowly,” elective producer Al Jean says of the character. “He just wants money for talking to Fat Tony.” 

The episode involves sting operation and the Simpsons patriarch. “Homer is the mark because he’s got such a big butt so he’s a good target for pickpocketing,” explains Jean. “Fat Tony is arrested but he didn’t do it — and he has to find out who did do it.”

Here’s to seeing Odenkirk play a shady lawyer with slippery interpretations of the law — again!

Season 31 of The Simpsons debuts in September. 

Entertainment Weekly was the first to report the news. 

The post Bob Odenkirk to Star on “The Simpsons” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

The weirdly wonderful band is a five-piece from Arizona and dress entirely in Ned Flanders-inspired clothing. They constantly reference the character’s lines and recently released a record called Howdilly Twodilly, which gained the attention of The Simpsons writers on the show.

The Arizona five-piece, who pay homage to Homer’s Christian do-gooder neighbor, describe their unique sound as “Nedal” and each dress up in Flanders’ attire. Their music also makes reference to some of the character’s best-known lines.

“Myself and everyone involved with Okilly Dokilly are so very honored,” Okilly Dokilly’s frontman said. “The fact that the ‘White Wine Spritzer’ video appeared on an episode of The Simpsons is still unreal to us. We are very excited and beyond humbled to have been a part of the show’s legacy.”

Executive Producer, Al Jean, added: “We saw the video and knew they had to be on the show. We do not endorse their message of indiscriminate drinking of white wine spritzers.”

The song was featured on Sunday’s (April 7) episode of the show.

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Yeardley Smith, the actress who has voiced Lisa Simpson for the past 30 years, however, reckons that the show would sooner be cancelled than changed.

“When you’re dealing with something that is still so culturally relevant, and sort of such a pillar of our culture, if you’re going to mess with that, that’s some pretty risky territory,” Smith told The Hollywood Reporter. “So my feeling is — and I could be completely wrong — is that they would cancel it before they would change It [creatively].”

Smith also weighed in on what will happen to the 700+ episodes of The Simpsons that already exist and supposes that Disney will use the episodes for their new streaming service.

“When you are building a silo, you need content,” Smith explained. “Even though we have 700 episodes, when we have a marathon and you can devour that in 14 days, dude, you better keep making those episodes. For us, I think it’s very, very good as long as the writers and executive producers still want to keep making the show.”

She adds: “I’m optimistic.”

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Barbara passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92 and once referred to the show as “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen”  after her husband former President George H.W. Bush had already indicated that he was not a fan of the production.

“However, it seems a letter sent to the first lady from Marge Simpson made the former see the cartoon family in a different light,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “In the letter, Marge told Bush she was ‘deeply hurt’ by the criticism of her family.”

Marge is reported to have said in the letter:

“I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common. I hope there is some way out of this controversy.”

The post How Former US First Lady Barbara Bush Became a Fan of “The Simpsons” appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Below are five spooky times The Simpsons correctly predicted what actually ended up happening:

Donald Trump becoming president of the United States

Predicted: 2000

Happened: 2016

During an episode when Bart has a vision into his adulthood, he sees his sister Lisa succeeding Donald Trump. “The country is broke?” she says in one scene.

During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2016, writer Dan Greaney explains this was meant to be a warning.

The NSA spying scandal

Predicted: 2007

Happened: 2013

The Simpsons are forced to go into hiding following their escape from the EPA biodome, which encloses Springfield in The Simpsons Movie. The NSA, however, manages to locate Marge by listening in to one of their conversations. Six years later, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the government’s mass surveillance of Americans’ phone and internet records.

Smart watches

Predicted: 1995

Happened: 2014

When Lisa visits a fortune teller, she is transported to the year 2010, when smart watches exist. Smart watches, however, became reality in 2014, which was four years later than The Simpsons had predicted.

FaceTime

Predicted: 1995

Happened: 2010

Lisa talks to her mother Marge using her phone’s video chat capability.

FIFA corruption scandal

Predicted: 2014

Happened: 2015

In a 2014 episode of The Simpsons, an official from FIFA asks Homer to help repair the image of the organization. Just a year later, many officials from the organization were fired after they were found to have engaged in corrupt activities.

The same episode also correctly predicted that Germany would defeat Brazil during the World Cup.

The post 5 Times the Simpsons Correctly Predicted the Future appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

An upcoming episode of the Simpsons will star Ray Liotta as Morty Szyslak, a more cunning and evil version of his son and helped mold Moe into the grumpy character which he is. The show is set to be broadcast in April and will also feature Debi Mazar voicing Moe’s sister Minnie.

The Simpsons executive director Matt Selman teased the possibility of the Moe episode earlier on this year, describing it as a “Shakespearean family drama set against the backdrop of a fading mattress store empire.”

As Moe and Shakespeare do not go together, this promises to be a great and very entertaining episode.

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