"The Simpsons" Movie confirmed

[wingsandsword]

I honestly thought it'd be a much longer time until we saw this. Hollywood, being much more comfortable with things already done than new ideas, usually makes movies out of popular TV shows a few decades after they've ended.

X-Files also did a movie and returned to regular filming, and the Simpsons has been going strong for well over a decade, it's not exactly a new idea, Star Trek was turned into a movie when it was as old as the Simpsons. There are probably staff working on the Simpsons now who first saw it in Junior High.

 

[Fast Learner]

X-Files also did a movie and returned to regular filming, and the Simpsons has been going strong for well over a decade, it's not exactly a new idea, Star Trek was turned into a movie when it was as old as the Simpsons. There are probably staff working on the Simpsons now who first saw it in Junior High.

There's a marked difference between the Star Trek situation and this one, however: Trek fans hadn't seen anything new in more than a decade, and were clamoring to see their favorites on the big screen. Despite the general foulness of Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture, I can tell you that it was a thrill to see the new Enterprise, to see Kirk and Spick and Bones and Scotty and all, together again, doing that thing they do. Why would I feel this way about the Simposons? Nostalgia only sells if you actually miss something.

The X-Files comparison is better, with the episodes after the movie just getting worse and worse. But even there, the movie was intriguing beccause we wanted to see the story arc move forward, to better understand all that shadowy stuff, something they weren't revealing enough of (for those who liked it) in the series. Will Bart say "Eat my nads" or something, moving things "forward?" I don't see it.

 

[mojo1701]

Will Bart say "Eat my nads" or something, moving things "forward?" I don't see it.

Either graduate to the next grade (along with Lisa), or pull an "Enterprise" finale and shoot 10 years into the future when Bart and Lisa are graduating Elementary School and College (respectively), and Homer's still chugging virtual fudge.

 

[Fast Learner]

Ooh, what if it was called something like Goodbye, Simpsons, and was a send off, where everyone moves forward in their lives (graduating, as you say, with maybe Marge writing about their lives, etc.), that actually brought the series to an end? Where things didn't return to normal at the end, but time actually advanced?

Now that I'd see.