Groening: Simpsons to end in 5 years

End of The Simpsons

SIMPSONS creator Matt Groening has revealed he wants the hit show to end.

Matt, 50, is finding it increasingly tough to think up new ideas for the cartoon family.

He told The Sun: "The Simpsons� success has been unbelievable. But the show gets harder and harder every year because we are trying to keep surprising the audience - and trying to surprise ourselves."

Actors who do voices for Bart and co signed a four-year deal in May, doubling their salary to �147,000 an episode. That takes them up to series 19, in 2008.

Animator Matt hopes to do one more after that, to rival America's longest- running show Gunsmoke, a Western that ran for 20 series.

He said: "I�d love to get to 365 episodes, so there�s one for every day of the year with no repeats."

The show is about to start its 16th series in the US, while series 12 is due on Channel 4 early next month.

But in the final five years lesser characters like Bart�s pal Milhouse will have stronger roles. Matt said: "I expect we�ll do more and more stories about the other citizens of Springfield."

No! Say it isn't so! Plugging my ears and singing "Never end, never end, never end"

M@

"M@" wrote in message news:[email]...

Don't worry, kiddo, the show ain't ending soon. The article you read came from "The Sun", a British Tabloid which has been known to chop up interveiws to make them appear more sensationalized.

As for the show ending, it's beyond the point of ending with dignity, and its life span has become a running joke unto itself.

Making things crash and catch on fire is pretty sensational, too. Baby carriages, soccer goals, Hans Moleman's car, etc.

Space Mvsevm

Why Am I here? wrote:

The Sun sensationalizing???? Surely not.

"Why Am I here?" wrote in message news:...

Like I've said before, (I am concluding this/I have not heard of this anywhere); if the producers don't really care about keeping any continuity/and changing major characteristics of the show -what's to stop a show like, "Simpsons Kids" to pop up one day (after the original Simpsons series has ended)?

Saturday morning cartoons, (with cheesy quality/writing), where the focus is on Bart, Milhouse, Lisa, etc...The adults would just be plot conveniences. Maybe even a (Saturday morning) series of the kids as teenagers. Maybe even "Simpsons Babies"?..."Mini" versions of the Simpsons characters like "Muppet Babies"....

Yeh, sounds ridiculous -but why would they care? Money is money. You think an exec from Fox is going to be like, "Think of the artistic integrity, man!!!"(?)...(Doubt it.)

btw...If the "12th season" is just starting in the UK- does that mean that the first 4 seasons were not shown there when they originally aired? When the 5th season started in the US, that's when they started showing them in the UK (thus, the 4-season delay)?

"888eight888" wrote in message news:[email]...

And they could be in a rock band! And solve mysteries!

"Uniblab" wrote in message news:...

...or maybe "Bart's Moon Party From Outer Space" (with R2-D2 playin' the bass!)

Follow the (mis)adventures of Bart and his sidekick, R2-D2, as two intergalactic pranksters encounter space cops, robo-hippies and a whacky alien landlord named "Mr. Unpronounceable"....hilarity ensues!

"Why Am I here?" wrote in message

LOL! And so true! How great if it had ended on a high note.

Why Am I here? wrote in message ...

interveiws

He said something similar in the Guardian. He also said something about a Simpsons movie.

Why now? Why not three years ago? :-)

Just kidding. Had to use that line from when Krusty retired for the umpteenth time.

:-)

-T-

"slatconsulting" wrote in message news:[email]...

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"slatconsulting" wrote in message news:[email]...

Is your source on this reliable?

"Former Executive Producer Mike Scully" wrote

I believe it was from a bunch of drunken frat boys, one of who gave his name as "I.P.Freely"...

Paul

"slatconsulting" wrote in message news:[email]...

The only thing you can believe in "The Sun" is the date...

"g0ldstarr" wrote in news:2cU8d.171$[email]:

But Groening said the same thing in The Guardian.

"g0ldstarr" wrote in message news:...

Not even...they show it backwards.

"888eight888" wrote in message news:[email]...

I beg to differ - you guys show it backwards. To me, it makes more sense to put the day/month/year. Month/day/year seems silly.

I'm Kent Brockman, and that was my two cents.

Mark Wilson wrote:

Scott Christian would like to counter... It's probably just because we usually leave out the year, and the month is the broader measure. It's like most numbering systems and stuff like 5 feet 3 inches. (Not to mention the general inertia here... discussion exercise: can you find an example of said inertia in my previous sentence?) It makes more sense to me to say 2004.10.08 anyway, though I don't do that in daily life.

"Mark Wilson" wrote in message news:...

When I need to know what the date is and I see the (American version) month first...it's such a relief to know what month it is right away...

If, on a regular basis, I were to have to see the the day first, I don't know how I would feel for that split second...

888eight888 wrote:

I trust you'd get used to if after a few days/months/years.

Mark Wilson wrote:

No computer person would suppport either - if Y2K taught us anything is that dates are best stored internally as YYYYMMDD.

The only reason you prefer DD/MM/YY(YY) is because you grew up with it. If you'd grown up in the States, you'd be just as happy with MM/DD/YY(YY).

"Sparky" wrote in message news:th5ad.30668$[email]...

Perhaps. But it seems more ordered. Left to right in increasing units.... But anyway. Each to their own.

"Mark Wilson" wrote in message news:D06ad.20694$[email]...

YYYYMMDD works the best. With YYYYMMDD, you can also include the time without losing the flow of greatest to least. Ie: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

The YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) format also feels more natural, because people are accustomed to regular numbers where the weight/power of each digit increases going from right to left. In the number "12345", "5" is the least significant, and "1" the most. In 2004-01-31 12:05:59, the 59th second is the least significant, and the year 2004 is the most.

There's no need for a standard though. People could keep their native date formats and satisfy others by giving months alphabetically and whole years. No matter how you write "Apr-03-2002/03-Apr-2002/2002-03-Apr/ 2002-Apr-03/etc.", there's no mistaking that it's April the 3rd of 2002.

In article , Weapon of Mass Delusion wrote:

I don't think we'll ever find the real solution to this conundrum until Xino checks in with his (always incontrovertible) wit and wisdom.

At least thats how I see things on this Sunday (last day of the week... oops first day of the week.. ooops, er sumpthin) on the 10th day of the 8th month (isn't that what "octo" means?)4th year of the 2nd millenium (as reckoned by the Gregorian calendar) Golly, I hope that doesn't upset the Muslim world where it's still 1425. (Hey, is that literally or figuratively?)

DogBoy

Dog Woof wrote in message ...

October, from the Latin "octo" meaning 8, and "ber" meaning ... plus two.

3rd millennium. AD (or CE, if you prefer).

In article , Andrew Bull wrote:

I thought "ber" was the pet that Bart has never yet had....

Touch�! That's what I get for being such a smart buttocks.

Dog Woof wrote:

Indeed it was, and October used to be the 8th month - then TPTB started monkeying with the calendar (namely Julius & Augustus, and an endless line of Popes).

"Sparky" wrote in message news:_Joad.185$[email]...

"I'm really, really sorry," "I'm afraid sorry doesn't cut it with this pope" "Dya ho ho!"

"Dog Woof"

I'd love to help, but I fail to see how this discussion is on-topic.

BTW, yes "octo" is Latin for "eight". Any dorkus melorkus would know that.

XINO

"Xino Kiner" wrote in message news:[email]...

Because certain issues were raised in a certain episode. The one with all the stuff about the things.....uh.....the things.......?

that.

<applause> "Well done old man."

"Mark Wilson"

SUCH AS.................... and I fail to see where that episode is mentioned in this thread.

Chances are that you're older than I, old man. MUCH older

XINO

"Xino Kiner" wrote in message news:[email]...

<sigh> Simpsons joke A. Homer: "Could you repeat all of the stuff you said about the things.....uh.....the things?"

Whoa tough crowd! Simpsons joke B. "Well done old man." Nelson to Bart (8F11).

There was nothing personal in my post, Kiner. You just didn't get my quotes and so thought I was attacking you. Lighten up.

"Oh I get it! I get jokes!"

"Mark Wilson"

Wrong. I was asking which episode contained content related to date format that was being discussed in the show, since Dog Woof asked for my help in an OT. I never said anything about the time when Homer took Smither's place, rather I am well aware of that episode and that line. (One of my favorites actually!)

I also love it when the cereal bursts into flames.

"Xino Kiner" wrote in message news:[email]...

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Don't be such a horse's arse, Kiner. The quote i used was simply to change the subject. It is often used ( as are other quotes) when one has not much else to say on the matter. Get a sense of humour or get a life.

"Dog Woof"

Uhhhh..... that was a Simpson's reference, ignoramus. Bart called Lisa a dorkus melorkus (NOT capitalized.... not a proper noun) to which Lisa replied "That's not Latin!" (in the spring break episode)

Also, it isn't Latin, so you're wrong.

In article , Xino Kiner wrote:

It's not Latin? Really? OK, I stand corrected. Thank you for embiggening me.

"Xino Kiner" wrote in message news:[email]...

You're not in any position to call anybody an ignoramus. Look above this post, Kiner. I included 2 Simpsons references in a previous post and they both flew right over the top of your head. You failed to see the gag, then got catty cause you thought I was having a go at you.

He wanks the highest in Wome.

"Weapon of Mass Delusion" wrote in message news:tUbad.14181$[email]...

is

it.

MM/DD/YY(YY).

units....

Well put :-)

Weapon of Mass Delusion wrote:

This was a major issue when I was with IBM in the late 60's, IIRC they were moving towards "11 Oct 2004" for display dates.

Why doesn't he take some ideas from the excellent SIMPSONS comic books? BTW, those will probably go on even if the series ends, so NO WORRIES. Anyway, here's three off the top of my head:

Homor Simpson becomes Alice Cooper's personal assistant.

Marge becomes a "soccer mom" when Bart, Millhouse, and Nelson join a soccer team.

Lisa Simpson is mistakenly accused of shoplifting while the family is out shopping. In the end, it is revealed that it was actually Maggie that did the shoplifting.

There ya go Matt, three stories off the top of my head, enough to get season nine going...

"We still live, we still love! We shall die dancing in each others arms!" - Townspeople's response to the plague in F.W. Murnau's "Faust".

Apparently, "drsmith666" was able to, in 1997, pick up a post from seven years in the future, and respond to it, through the same anomoly in the space-time continuum.

Either that, or "nine" is the new word for "sixteen," just as we have all become accustomed to saying "dickety" instead of "twenty."