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Friday, January 13, 2012

Portland / TV Portlandia to Guest Star on The Simpsons

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:59 AM

UGGGGGHHHHNNNNNHHHHHH!!!! (Sigh.) Here's the story from TV Line:

[The Simpsons] has tapped Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein — the stars of IFC’s Portland-influenced comedy series — to lend their voices to an episode set to air next fall (during the show’s 24th season).

The duo will play part of a “cool” family that moves from Portland to Springfield and becomes the Simpsons’ new neighbors. Homer desperately tries to befriend them, but Marge is skeptical that being cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The episode is called “The Day the Earth Stayed Cool.”

UGGGGGHHHHNNNNNHHHHHH!!!! Oh... wait, there's more.

Exec producer Al Jean deadpanned of Armisen and Brownstein’s casting, “They’re the best thing to come out of Portland since everything our show took out of Portland.”

Okay, that's kind of funny.

 

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I CANNOT MEH ABOUT THIS LAZILY ENOUGH.
Posted by Graham on January 13, 2012 at 10:27 AM · Report
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If you don't like this episode when it comes out, then it's just because you're, like, exactly who it's satirizing. Presto! More television that comes with its own bulletproof defense.
Posted by geyser on January 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM · Report
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Fuck Fred.
Posted by Marq on January 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM · Report
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Two shows that should have been cancelled 10 years ago.

It seems that every "new" episode of The Simpsons is just a 20 minute long parade of cameo appearances. I hope Matt Groening is happy--greedy bastard.


Posted by Sūṕër Ḉḩüñdŷ on January 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM · Report
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Is there anyone left who has watched a new Simpsons episode in the past ten years? Anyone who isn't totally lame, I mean.
Posted by Chris Freeman on January 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM · Report
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@Chris - Sure! I have totally watc....oh.

Oh.
Posted by Reymont on January 13, 2012 at 1:39 PM · Report
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The Simpsons is grasping at straws when it tries to pull itself up by co-opting itself with Portlandia. Though the end was really fucking nigh - in my book the Simpsons jumped the shark officially with Principal and the Pauper. Re-writing its characters, destroying its own foundations to shoe-horn in a special guest appearance and then trying to un-do the damage by swearing it wouldn't be brought up again in subsequent episodes.
Posted by The Immortal Goon on January 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM · Report
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Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. The Mercury's trolls are all TOO COOL for the Simpsons and Portlandia. They're all here to tell us how they're TOO COOL for that BS. AH, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA.
Posted by So Over (Wink) on January 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM · Report
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Did anyone see that "Springface" thing last night?
So Lisa invents Facebook and all of Springfield become really webby.
Entire episode. So bad.

There was a rad vignette at the end, though.
Posted by DanielGK on January 16, 2012 at 7:42 PM · Report

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