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The Simpsons Movie PG Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig Rent/Buy 10 December iddle Names You think Also available on Blu-ray M you know the characters inside Stars , out. But do you know which of them ational insults Can Director David Silverman own these middle names? N you identify these nationalities Perfect for Everyone. Oh, come on, Jay 1 from their Simpsons insults? you know it’s true! Cheese-eating surrender monkeys Marie 1 So, after 18 years, 2 The Simpsons Sandal-wearing goldfish-tenders 2 finally make it 3 Jojo into a full-length 3 Puck-slapping maple suckers feature. Was it 4 Underdunk worth the wait? Shatner-stealing Mexico-touchers Hi-diddly-ho, yes! Obadiah Zachariah Jebediah 4 The story is almost 5 irrelevant – it involves a pig, an ecological disaster, a move The Simpsons are animal Mussolini ets to Alaska (where you can never 6 lovers through and through. What P be too fat or too drunk) and a names did they give to these creatures? 7 Fitzpatrick Fitzgerald Fitzhenry showdown with the dastardly 1 A possum found on the monorail President Schwarzenegger (‘I Pinkus Yerucham Shmoikel vas elected to lead, not to read’). 8 Lisa’s expensive pony But the real reason we love 2 The Simpsons is the gags, and they’re here in spades. Homer’s helper monkey 3 From Bart’s ‘doodle’ to Mr Burns’ crowing, ‘For once the rich white 4 Bart’s bad-tempered elephant man is in charge,’ virtually every line crackles. The numerous Homer’s pet lobster sight gags demand repeat 5 views, and superb guest stars – Tom Hanks, Albert Brooks and ’s iguana 6 Green Day – get the yellow treatment. Matt Groening has 7 Spider-Pig every right to be proud and all pening sequence we can say is: ‘Woohoo!’ O What price appears for Maggie when she’s accidentally scanned in extras on DVD the supermarket at the • by Groening, start of every episode? Brooks and Castellaneta (Hint: it was the monthly • Deleted scenes and alternate ending cost of raising a baby • The Simpsons Judge back in 1989)

Did you know? $ • Work on the script began in 2003 and took 158 drafts

• Albert Brooks (who voices Russ

OPENING SEQUENCE: $847.63 PETS: 1. Bitey 2. Princess 3. Mojo 4. Stampy 5. Pinchy 6. Jub-Jub 7. Plopper Plopper 7. Jub-Jub 6. Pinchy 5. Stampy 4. Mojo 3. Princess 2. Bitey 1. PETS: $847.63 SEQUENCE: OPENING

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The Simpsons uimby atin gs BOX SETS Q ‘Diamond’ R With over Simpsons overload: Joe Quimby is 400 episodes Springfield’s made so far, buy now at Blockbuster ‘tax-cheating, The Simpsons wife-swapping, is the longest- Series 10 New! pot-smoking’ running US Listen out for: mayor, allegedly sitcom. The Jerry Springer, based on any of winner of 23 , Dolly the Kennedy clan. Emmys, Time Parton and Magazine named Stephen Hawking. pringfield it the 20th S The location century’s best Series 9 Woohoo: of the Simpsons’ television series. 200 episodes and hometown is still going strong. deliberately reehouse ambiguous – Tof Horror Series 8 From 34 US states Annual Halloween space coyotes to have at least one episodes, each The X Files. Springfield in containing three them. It’s said ‘terrifying’ tales. nder- ermont to be in a state Series 7 George Among the best U achiever V Springfield, that borders Ohio, are Homer selling ...and proud of it! Vermont, Bush moves in and Nevada, Maine all hell breaks loose. his soul for a Bart starts each population 9,078, and Kentucky, donut, Bart and show in detention won a nationwide which is of course Homer entering a writing lines – in competition Who Series 6 geographically 3D world and a the film it reads to host the US Shot Mr Burns? impossible. hilarious parody ‘I will not illegally premiere of The clues are here. of The Shining. download this The Simpsons It’s also where movie’. Bart is Movie – it was up Series 5 The world those loveable the only Simpson against 13 other is not enough: Homer aliens Kang and to feature in Springfields goes intergalactic. Kodos pitch up. every episode. around America.

Series 4 From -Rated ellow The to Mr Plow. X The Simpsons Y Simpsons’ skin Movie is the first film altons colour is instantly with full-frontal nudity recognisable. ‘It Series 3 Aerosmith In 1992, W to escape an adult wasn’t my choice,’ and possibly Michael President Bush rating (R-Restricted) says Groening. Jackson lend voices. said he was trying in the USA. ‘An animator to ‘make American suggested yellow, families more like Series 2 Stars and it looked The Waltons and Dustin Hoffman and right. Then again, less like The Danny DeVito. she also made Simpsons.’ Bart the trees purple.’ retaliated by Series 1 Putting the saying that fun into dysfunctional they were a lot from the start. Zzz ‘Asleep like the Waltons: Z at the switch? ‘We’re praying I wasn’t asleep, series 1-9 are now for an end to the I was drunk!’ available in store Depression, too.’ – Homer

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