'The Simpsons' hit by writer's strike

http://www.thecheers.org/news/Celebrity/news_7654_The-Simpsons-hit-by-writers-strike.html

" Television's most popular animated series 'The Simpsons' seems to have been badly hit following writers' strike as not enough episodes have been completed to last the current season."

Well, who needs new shows? They can't compete with the imagination of a young (at heart) Simpsons fan!

(closes eyes... there's Bart & Homer... they're standing there... Homer looks at Bart... Homer checks his watch... both shrug...)

Damn!

-- R Flowers

R Flowers wrote:

"Actress Yeardley Smith, who provides the voice for Bart Simpson"

I believe the appropriate word here is, "D'oh!"

(And as I said in another post, the strike may have claimed its first victim, if that is the reason they couldn't get the announced Valentine's Day special done in time.)

-- Don

"R Flowers" wrote

Why don't they use Krusty's typing monkeys? Not covered by the union, and they couldn't make a 'blurst' job than what we've already seen in some recent episodes...

Paul

Wern't they Mr Burns' Monkeys?

Oops...

Paul

Never mind, it was the blurst of times, I suppose

Paul Bartram wrote:

Mr. Teeny unionized them - I think it's the Associated Simian Scribes, Writers, and Independent Production Executives.

-- Don

On Jan 19, 8:46 am, Don Del Grande wrote:

Who were trained in the labs of Springfield Heights Institute of Technology...

In article , "R Flowers" wrote:

What are the rules here? If an episode was to the point the script was done, can they go ahead and record it and animate it and do whatever else they normally to finish it as long, as they do not do any rewrites (or whatever else would require someone in the writer's guild)? Are there issues with getting non-writers to cross picket lines, or things like that?

Tim Smith wrote:

The things WGA members can't do are listed here: http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2493 Pay particular attention to rule 12. Simpsons episodes are written longer than will fit in the time slot, so they can cut jokes that just aren't funny when fully animated or don't really fit into the story. However, no WGA member can be involved with this during the strike, so you can't have the writers decide which jokes to cut, and they certainly can't do any rewrites. (Supposedly, the last two or three Family Guy episodes had the same problems, but Fox had them "finished" without that show's writers.)

In addition, if anything needs to be re-recorded, or any lyrics need to be sung to songs on the show (this is usually done near the end, as the final music isn't done until then), the voice actors would have to come back in, but SAG members have said they're not crossing WGA picket lines.

-- Don