Tag: The Simpsons
As America continues to examine systemic racism in society, scenes of blackface and white people playing those of color have been cut from several recent shows (which were all on NBC by some coincidence). And it's caused folks in...
We said Disney+ would be making The Simpsons available in its proper aspect ratio on May 28, and lo and behold, it came to pass. But getting there isn't immediately intuitive. Read on to find out how to make...
This has been a long time coming, but we finally have a date on when, exactly, The Simpsons will no longer be uncomfortably zoomed into our faces on Disney+. The streaming service has announced May 28 to be the...
I wonder if anyone will ever believe that there was a brief time when a Pixar movie opened with a Simpsons short before it. The movie was Onward, which will forever have the shortest theatrical run of any Pixar-branded...
Pixar Animation Studios re-popularized the concept of shorts appearing before animated movies when they placed Geri's Game before A Bug's Life in 1998. Ever since then, almost every Pixar movie has included a short subject before it, and rival...
Disney has announced details of it's new streaming service, Disney+, at the Walt Disney Company's 2019 Investor's Day. It will be set to launch in the U.S. on November 12, 2019, for $6.99/month and will include content spanning from...
Variety reports that the classic Simpsons episode "Stark Raving Dad" is being removed from the show, both in syndicated re-runs, the "Simpsons World" on-demand service, and on future re-issues of DVD season sets.
In the first episode from Season 3,...
Last Sunday's episode of The Simpsons addressed controversy over the character of Apu (voiced by the very not-Indian Hank Azaria) in a scene which is, if anything, only intensifying criticism that the character is an insensitive caricature. A scene...
The Walt Disney Company has announced the acquisition of 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion stock deal, bringing The Simpsons, the Ice Age franchise, and James Cameron's Avatar under the same umbrella as Mickey Mouse, Star Wars, and...
In advance of its world premiere at DOC NYC on November 14, 2017, and its subsequent release on truTV on November 19, truTV has released a new clip from The Problem with Apu, a documentary by Michael Melamedoff and...