Last month Homer Simpson was named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years by Entertainment Weekly magazine [here]. The Simpsons premiered in 1987 and for 22 seasons has been making me happy like no other show on television, ever.
These days it’s not cool to say The Simpsons is great and without it no other animated show people love today would have happened. Well it’s true, so that’s that. I can’t imagine what TV or life for that matter will be like once our favourite strange haired yellow family is gone, so let’s not even think about; let’s just tune in every Sunday this season for something special.
This season The Simpsons is set to feature the voices of celebrities such as Daniel Radcliffe, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Glee stars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Amber Riley, House actor Hugh Laurie, Halle Berry, Ricky Gervais, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords, baseball legend Mike Scioscia, Martha Stewart, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, comedy duo Cheech and Chong, Kristen Wiig, sports writer Bill James, Alyson Hannigan, NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Mantegna.
Laurie and Radcliffe provide voices in the 21st annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween special. Other episodes see Hamm portraying an FBI agent and Stewart portraying herself in The Fight Before Christmas, which features live-action puppets.
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