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Brian Kelley (writer)
Brian Kelley is an American television writer. He has written for '' SNL'', ''Newsradio'', ''Clerks'', ''Futurama'', ''Joey'' and ''The Simpsons''. Biography Kelley graduated with honors from Connecticut's Darien High School, and in 1990 he entered Harvard University as a physics major. He became a television writer four years later. Writing credits ''The Simpsons'' episodes *"Treehouse of Horror XIII" ("The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms") (Date November 3, 2002) *"A Star Is Born Again" (Date March 2, 2003) *"Margical History Tour" (Date February 8, 2004) *"Lisa the Drama Queen" (Date January 25, 2009) *"Postcards from the Wedge" (Date March 14, 2010) *"Moms I'd Like to Forget" (Date January 9, 2011) *"Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (With David Mandel) (Date October 7, 2012) *" Homer Goes to Prep School" (Date January 6, 2013) *"Specs and the City" (Date January 26, 2014) *"Brick Like Me" (Date May 4, 2014) *" The Princess Guide" (Date March 1, 2015) *" The Marge-ian Chronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock. Michaels currently serves as the program's showrunner. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title ''NBC's Saturday Night''. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. In 1980, Michaels left the series to explore other opportunities. He was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specs And The City
"Specs and the City" is the eleventh episode of the The Simpsons (season 25), twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'' and the 541st episode of the series. It premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network in the United States on January 26, 2014. The episode was written by Brian Kelley (writer), Brian Kelley and directed by Lance Kramer. The original title of the episode was intended to be "I Only Have My Eyes for You", a take on "I Only Have Eyes for You", but was changed to "Specs and the City", a take on ''Sex and the City''. The Oogle goggles were originally known as "MyEyes". Plot During Christmas at the power plant, Mr. Burns hands out Google Glass, Oogle Goggles to his employees after Homer Simpson, Homer, Lenny and Carl discuss his previous terrible presents. Waylon Smithers, Smithers is сoncerned with his boss's sudden kindness, but Burns reveals to him that he plans on using hidden cameras inside the googles as part of a sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Simpsons (season 34)
The thirty-fourth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'' premiered on Fox on September 25, 2022. The season will consist of twenty-two episodes. The series was later renewed for seasons 35 and 36 on January 26, 2023. Production The season was announced on March 3, 2021, when it was revealed that ''The Simpsons'' had been renewed for its thirty-third and thirty-fourth. The season is the first in which two ''Treehouse of Horror'' episodes are aired in a single season: a single 20-minute parody of the 2017 supernatural horror film '' It'', followed by the traditional anthology episode the following week. Promotion In October 2022, The Simpsons' official Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ... announced a Pennywise–Krusty the Clown theme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Longest Marge
"The Longest Marge" is the eleventh episode of the The Simpsons (season 33), thirty-third season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 717th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox on January 2, 2022. The episode was directed by Matthew Nastuk and written by Brian Kelley (writer), Brian Kelley. This episode is dedicated to John Madden, who appeared in a 1999 episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday." He died five days before the episode aired. The episode was broadcast at 9:00 PM Eastern Time Zone, EST instead of the usual 8:00 PM EST slot. The title of the episode is a reference to the 2005 sports comedy "The Longest Yard (2005 film), The Longest Yard." Plot At the Power Plant, everyone is gone from their workplace, following the sports channel's ''On the Clock'' where Anger Watkins is presenting the Springfield Atoms's draft, picking Grayson Mathers. The workers start rioting the town right afterwards in celebration w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wad Goals
"Wad Goals" is the 13th episode of the thirty-second season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 697th episode overall. The episode was directed by Mike Frank Polcino, and written by Brian Kelley. In this episode, Bart becomes a successful caddy, but Marge worries that it is ruining his character. Stephen Root guest-stars as Bildorf. The episode is dedicated in memory of Marc Wilmore, a writer and producer of ''The Simpsons'' who died on January 30, 2021. Plot On the last day of school, Ralph is walking in the streets thinking that he is in a parade, and discovers a golf course in the middle of Springfield, where rich people like Mr. Burns and celebrities play golf and hang around. He tells Bart, Milhouse, and Nelson about it and the group of friends discover that the golfers pay their caddies a lot of money (or as they refer to it, "wad"). Bart and Milhouse get jobs there as caddies too, and Bart starts sucking up towards the club members after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Simpsons (season 31)
The thirty-first season of the animated television series ''The Simpsons'' premiered on Fox in the United States on September 29, 2019, and ended on May 17, 2020. Al Jean continues as showrunner, a position he has held since the thirteenth season. Matt Selman also contributed as showrunner for the episodes "Go Big or Go Homer", "Livin La Pura Vida", " Thanksgiving of Horror", " The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson", " Bart the Bad Guy", " Highway to Well" and " The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds". Episodes Production Development This season features the first scripts credited to writers Max Cohn and Elisabeth Kiernan Averick. Comedian and writer Pete Holmes also both wrote and guest-starred in the two-part " Warrin' Priests" episodes, making him the third freelance writer to do so after Ricky Gervais and Seth Rogen. While in "Warrin' Priests" Holmes plays the character of Bode, he had previously guest-starred in season 30 premiere "Bart's Not Dead" as a different character. The epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woo-Hoo Dunnit?
"Woo-Hoo Dunnit?" is the twenty-second and penultimate episode of the The Simpsons (season 30), thirtieth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 661st episode overall. The episode was directed by Steven Dean Moore and written by Brian Kelley (writer), Brian Kelley. It aired in the United States on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox on May 5, 2019. This was the final episode featuring Russi Taylor to be released in her lifetime, two months before her death in July 2019. It was the final episode to feature Jackie Mason as Rabbi Krustofsky before his death in July 2021. Plot A documentary crime series, ''Dateline NBC, Dateline: Springfield'', interviews the Simpson family after Marge Simpson, Marge and Lisa Simpson, Lisa, returning home, find that Lisa's college fund of $670.42, hidden in a can of kitchen cleanser under the sink, is missing. The police are called and Chief Wiggum and Lou investigate, but when the narrator casts suspicion on the Simpson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Vebber
Dan Vebber is an American writer best known for his television work on animated shows such as ''The Simpsons'', ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'', ''Futurama'', ''Daria'', ''Napoleon Dynamite'' and ''American Dad!''. He was also a writer on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Vebber was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 2011. Vebber got his start as a cartoonist, writer, and editor at ''The Daily Cardinal'' and ''The Onion'' in the early 1990s. Filmography ''The Simpsons'' episodes * "The Book Job" (2011) * "Lisa the Veterinarian" (2016) * " Frink Gets Testy" (2018) * " 101 Mitigations" (with Rob LaZebnik & Brian Kelley) (2019) * "Thanksgiving of Horror" (2019) * "Bart the Bad Guy" (2020) * " The Last Barfighter" (2021) * " Boyz N the Highlands" (2022) * " Step Brother from the Same Planet" (2022) ''Futurama'' episodes * “ The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz” (2001) * “Love and Rocket” (2002) * “The Route of All Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
101 Mitigations
"101 Mitigations" is the fifteenth episode of the The Simpsons (season 30), thirtieth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 654th episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox on March 3, 2019. Plot Homer Simpson, Homer, Bart Simpson, Bart, Lisa Simpson, Lisa and Maggie Simpson, Maggie are eating at The Gilded Truffle, where they used a misprinted coupon good for 100% off. Meanwhile, with the saved money, Marge Simpson, Marge gets a Massage#Swedish_massage, Swedish massage. Outside the restaurant, Homer warns the kids to not Confidence trick, hustle to get ahead in life. The valet parking attendant Raphael hands Homer the keys to the wrong car, a fancy 1957 Spring green, seafoam Cadillac Eldorado, Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible. They drive away with it, Joyride (crime), having fun on the road. When they go back to the restaurant, Comic Book Guy accuses them of Motor vehicle theft, stealing his father's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Silverman (animator)
David Silverman (born March 15, 1957) is an American animator who has directed numerous episodes of the animated TV series ''The Simpsons'', as well as its film adaptation. Silverman was involved with the series from the very beginning, animating all of the original short ''Simpsons'' cartoons that aired on ''The Tracey Ullman Show.'' He went on to serve as director of animation for several years. He also did the animation for the 2016 film ''The Edge of Seventeen,'' which was produced by Gracie Films. Early life and career Silverman was born to a Jewish family on Long Island, New York. His father, Joseph Silverman, was a chemical engineering professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, for over 30 years. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended the University of Maryland for two years, focusing on art. He then attended UCLA and majored in animation. Early in his career with ''The Simpsons'', he was a subject on the December 26, 1990, episode (#83) of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gets The Blues
"Lisa Gets the Blues" is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-ninth season of the American animated television series ''The Simpsons'', and the 635th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on April 22, 2018. The episode was dedicated in memory of R. Lee Ermey who had guest starred twice on the show as Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap in the episodes " Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" and " Waiting for Duffman". He died on April 15, 2018. Plot Beginning after part of the opening sequence, Mr. Largo discourages Lisa from playing the saxophone on the account that, no matter how hard she tries, some people will be better than her, a claim supported by Principal Skinner. Meanwhile, Homer, Marge, Bart and Maggie wait for Lisa to take part in a lumberjack-themed couch gag. At home, Marge attempts to make Lisa play in front of the family, but is unable to. Looking in the Internet, she finds out she has an incurable disorder called " The YIPS", which disable an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Serfsons
"The Serfsons" is the twenty-ninth season season premiere of the American animated television series '' The Simpsons'', and the 619th episode of the series overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on October 1, 2017. The episode places the citizens of Springfield in a medieval fantasy kingdom called Springfieldia. This was the first ''Simpsons'' episode to be scored by composing team Bleeding Fingers Music since longtime composer Alf Clausen, who had scored the show since 1990, was dismissed from that position in August 2017. To date, this episode marks the final time that Apu is voiced by series cast member Hank Azaria and is the last dub of Homer's Canadian actor Hubert Gagnon following health issues, resulting in his death on June 7, 2020. Plot In the kingdom of Springfieldia, the Serfsons visit Jacqueline Bouvier at The Webs at Giant Spider Acres, a retirement forest, where Marge discovers, to her shock, that Jacqueline is freezing over. At Barber Hibbert's Surgery, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
