10 things we learned about 'The Simpsons' at Comic-Con

Jul 23, 2011, 10:45 PM ET6 posts by 4 posters
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R Flowers

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/23/simpsons-comic-con-season-23/

Some of these are kind of neat:

The 500th episode (yes, 500th) will air Feb. 19. Here was Jean’s one hint to EW about the episode: “There’s a secret town meeting that the Simpsons aren’t invited to, and then they sneak in and they find out it’s a meeting discussing whether to ban them from Springfield, because people are so sick of them after all this time. But there are more surprises.”

The show will bend its format with an episode that follows the saga of Moe’s bar rag over hundreds of years. “It used be a tapestry and then it was used by Michaelangelo,” Jean teased, “and the voice of the bar rag is Jeremy Irons.”

The Simpsons won’t shoot 3,000 years into the future to do a cross- over with Futurama, but it will jump ahead to a Simpsons Christmas 30 years in the future — and the episode was written by former Futurama writer J. Stewart Burns. In other intriguing news, the family will journey to their seventh and final continent, Antarctica, and in one episode, Mr. Burns has an iPad app called “Angry Burns.”

-- R Flowers

Captain InfinityR Flowers

Once Upon A Time, R Flowers quoted:

Wow, this should be titled "The Simpsons Imitate Real Life"

** Captain Infinity

Captain InfinityWiseguy

Once Upon A Time, Wiseguy wrote:

I'm here for the beer.

** Captain Infinity

Don Del GrandeCaptain Infinity

Captain Infinity wrote:

In that case, it will end with Mayor Quimby letting them stay, as they make far too much money for the town to let them go, and then Bart - well, Bart's lips will move as if he's saying, "Now can you just do something about the trolls?", but the voice will be, "Now can you just make the scripts better?", and there will be a caption underneath: "IFYPFY".

-- Don