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It depends. In feature work, the storyboard often times IS the story/script. As a consequence, storyboard will will come before, and may continue during the voice sessions. In TV work, the script is king. I don't know what the order is on the Simpsons, but I suspect that it wouldn't matter - the Simpsons is not traditional sight-gag driven animation, but depends mostly on writer-originated dialogue and situational humor.

At the very least, voice work will always come before timing, since the timer needs to use the approved voice tracks as a timing guide.

Wait a minute - a bit of googling turned up this bit:

Making of The Simpsons

According to the transcript, the script/voice sessions come before the storyboard (at least on the Simpsons it does):

Moore: After the, uh, voice tracks are done, uh, we use, uh, both
the script and the track to come up with the images that we
need to tell the story. What we do in storyboard is we try
to get a blueprint of the show.

Parent was posted by Ralph Wiggum, so a little resect for a real celebrity, please.

Definitely. If it was on Family Guy, it was ripped off from The Simpsons. Specifically, it was episode 5F11.

Marge: So... you want to go on tour with a traveling freak show.
Homer: I don't think I have a choice, Marge.
Marge: Of course you have a choice.
Homer: How do you figure?
Marge: You don't have to join a freak show just because the opportunity came along.
Homer: You know, Marge, in some ways, you and I are very different people.

Episode 3F21, "Homerpalooza"

~Philly

Simpsons Did it. Simpson did it!

Oh no they didn't !

Snpp.com Very extensive information on the Simpsons, reviews, ratings, transcripts, and any other information you could care to know about the show. Interesting to read the "did you notice?" part for each episode. Lots of information, and even info about episodes to come.

Ape: Help, the human's about to escape.
Troy: Get your paws off me, you dirty ape.
Apes: [gasping] He can talk!
Apes: [in unison, rythmed]
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
Troy: [singing] I can siiiiiing!

Holographic trees?

In memory of a real tree

Before I sing the national anthem, I'd like to say that college football diverts funds that are badly-needed for education and the arts!

Thus inspired, a quartet of nerds charge the field.

"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." Abe Simpson

a small handful of religious broadcasting networks that will feed them by satellite from Idaho and California. How does this benefit local listeners? You tell me...

It means that more people will be able to listen to the weekly "Signs of Evil" Countdown!

Or the Council of Learned Citizens.

In case someone doesn't know: Parent is referring to episode CABF12

Get it right, it's Lin(Annoyed Grunt)s.

"You've got leprosy!"

"Goodbye!"

you obviously don't know the episode as to which I am referring:

[3F19] "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"

Specifically:

Then it's up to plan B...

Nurse: Abraham Simpson, your family is here to visit you.
Abe: Hot diggity, my family's come to visit me!
[runs down the hall]
Wait a minute... My family never comes to vi... Whoa!
[a knife flies at his head]
Vidal: [disguised as Homer] D'oh! Not again!
Burns: [disguised as Marge] I can't take much more of your blundering numskullery.
Smithers: [disguised as Bart] I'll be in the car, dudes.

I think Smithers would be better at Milhouse, because according to Milhouses file he has flamboyantly homosexual tendencies.

3G02

Conan O'Brien wrote or cowrote:

• [9F06] New Kid on the Block
• [9F10] Marge vs. the Monorail
• [1F02] Homer Goes to College
• [1F04] Treehouse of Horror IV (wraparounds)

All very fine episodes, and obviously a staff writer will contribute to others' episodes. But that's just 3.3 episode credits. Conan was a contributor, but not a driving creative force.

George Meyer wrote or cowrote:

• [7G13] The Crepes of Wrath
• [7F07] Bart vs. Thanksgiving
• [7F22] Blood Feud
• [8F01] Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
• [8F02] Treehouse of Horror II
• [8F15] Separate Vocations
• [9F01] Homer the Heretic
• [1F05] Bart's Inner Child
• [AABF08] Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
• [AABF22] Brother's Little Helper
• [BABF19] Behind the Laughter
• [CABF22] The Parent Rap

That's a much larger contribution. He's also probably got the most cameos on the show of any simpsons writer (he's the dirty looking bearded guy with the gilligan-style hat found in the unemployment line, in the writers' office at I&S studios, etc). And his tenure at the show is considerably longer.

But my best advice is to go here. It's an archive of a new yorker article profiling Meyer. Conan is a great, talented guy. But don't assume that just because he's the only famous name on the Simpsons writing staff that he's the funniest one.

Conan O'Brien wrote or cowrote:

• [9F06] New Kid on the Block
• [9F10] Marge vs. the Monorail
• [1F02] Homer Goes to College
• [1F04] Treehouse of Horror IV (wraparounds)

All very fine episodes, and obviously a staff writer will contribute to others' episodes. But that's just 3.3 episode credits. Conan was a contributor, but not a driving creative force.

George Meyer wrote or cowrote:

• [7G13] The Crepes of Wrath
• [7F07] Bart vs. Thanksgiving
• [7F22] Blood Feud
• [8F01] Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
• [8F02] Treehouse of Horror II
• [8F15] Separate Vocations
• [9F01] Homer the Heretic
• [1F05] Bart's Inner Child
• [AABF08] Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
• [AABF22] Brother's Little Helper
• [BABF19] Behind the Laughter
• [CABF22] The Parent Rap

That's a much larger contribution. He's also probably got the most cameos on the show of any simpsons writer (he's the dirty looking bearded guy with the gilligan-style hat found in the unemployment line, in the writers' office at I&S studios, etc). And his tenure at the show is considerably longer.

But my best advice is to go here. It's an archive of a new yorker article profiling Meyer. Conan is a great, talented guy. But don't assume that just because he's the only famous name on the Simpsons writing staff that he's the funniest one.

• "The Simpsons" Official Web Site -- Brought to you by Fox (and Matt Groening?)!
  "The Simpsons" Semi-Official Web Site in the UK -- Brought to you by the BBC!

• The Simpsons Archive -- "the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information"
  Last Exit to Springfield -- "For All Your Simpsons Needs" (Well, it looks very well done.)
  nohomers.net -- "the center of all that is simpson"

• The Simpsons Personality Test -- I am Lisa Simpson. My dad is Krusty the Clown. Who are you?

Of course the "purists" will want Dennis Franz as Homer, because he already played Homer, and Neil Patrick Harris as Bart, for the same reason.

Of course the "purists" will want Dennis Franz as Homer, because he already played Homer, and Neil Patrick Harris as Bart, for the same reason.

I read an article on this quite some time ago saying that they were going to pull in a few of the old writers. They also mentioned that the voice actors had been contracted for 3 movies. I thought it was posted on Slashdot, but I can't seem to find it. Either way, here's an interesting page that discusses some of the rumors and has a fairly insightful interview.

Lisa: "Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie." Dad, this doesn't have your name on it.
[Homer looks closely at the card, then lowers it slowly]
Homer: Kids, would you step outside for a second?
[the kids run out]
[standing up] F --
[a church organ plays a chord; birds fly away; everyone stops]
Ned: Dear Lord! That's the loudest profanity I've ever heard.

Simpsons and Star Wars

>It had dozens of quarter sized dimples, and ran really fast. I'm not sure, but it might have benefited from some kind of golf ball wind resistance effect.

Homer: [suspicious] Hey, what are all these holes?
Salesman: [quickly] These are speed holes. They make the car go faster.
Homer: Oh, yeah. Speed holes!

[bullets riddle the car and smash the windshield]

Salesman: You want my advice? I think you should buy this car.

Gotta love snpp!

Slightly Crippled?
But it comes with a free Frogurt.
/ob simpsons quote

Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.
Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: [worried] That's bad.
Owner: But you get your choice of topping!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate.
Homer: [stares]
Owner: That's bad.


snipped from snpp.com

That reminds me of a Simpsons episode Lisa's Substitute:

Homer: Eh, what do you mean by `suggested donation'?
Clerk: Pay any amount you wish, sir.
Homer: And uh, what if I wish to pay ... zero?
Clerk: That is up to you.
Homer: Ooh, so it's up to me, is it?
Clerk: Yes.
Homer: I see. And you think that people are going to pay you $4.50 even though they don't have to?Just out of the goodness of their... [laughs]

I grew up in a country with national healthcare system and I can tell you "why the hell not": people actually realize that taking their kid to the ER for such a reason would be colossal waste of the common resources. Call it social awareness/conscience.

people have to resort to the private sector to get needed care that the government refuses to them.

So now it's a bad thing if, in addition to the national healthcare, we also have private sector health care? And how is "the government refusing treatment"?

I'm pretty well-off and usually have my minor ailments/annual checkups taken care at a private clinic. I wouldn't have to do it that way, it costs me more, but now I don't burden the national system unnecessarily. Larger operations (my eye has been operated twice) have been swiftly taken care of by the national system. Diagnosed on Monday, elective surgery on thursday. Total cost: $40.

So it's come to this: A Simpsons Clip Show

Thats Springfield, USA.

"I wash my [ass] with a rag on a stick." -- Bart Simpson

Some things are so snazzy they never go out of style! Like tail fins... And bubble domes... And shag carpeting...

-- Homer, designing a car, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"

See (and buy) the Homer car here.

Oh SWEET!
Does this mean that, when Darl and co. are found guilty of being lying bastards, that someone gets to kick him in the ass with a boot?

Now thats something i'd pay $699 for!

Actually, that's supposed to be 2064. Exactly one year after the first gay president is elected.

Wouldn't that be 2085?

A gay president.... sheesh! Makes me glad I'll probably have been killed by the Robotrons by then.

Chris Burke: ... and worst, from mankind's eternal nemesis, the Sun itself.


[from snpp]
Burns: Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.

This is in reference to Simpsons episode CABF03 The Great Money Caper.

Mir cosmonauts throw the sturgeon from the station in a fit of rage.... Read more here.

insert russian profanities

I'm all for speaking out against parts of our government, but when you say "The US (as a whole) sucks! and I'm free to say that if I want." Aren't you denouncing the country that gives you such a right?

Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it ?

Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?

Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.

Kent: I see. Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?

Homer: [amused] Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes.

Kent: [pause] Well, touche'. --- [1F09] Homer the Vigilante

"I for one welcome our new asteroid mining overlords. (I've no idea what this means, but it seemed the Slashdot thing to do...)"

It's a reference to a sentence in this Simpsons episode..

Except the Verisign cert actually translates to "This conversation is encrypted, and I paid Verisign a bunch of money so they'd say I'm me." Verisign does fuck all for identity checking. I'm sure they'd gladly issue an SSL certificate to Santos L Halper, as long as he paid them.

The fact is, this is a huge problem, in that you have to basically pay protection money in order to sell stuff online. SSL certificates should be available from state governments, when you get your "Permit to Make Sales at Retail" and that sort of thing. It wouldn't be that difficult to implement.

Also, someone needs to get together and start a new, free Certificate Authority. Or perhaps a nominal processing fee, like no more than $10. They could easily get their root CA into Mozilla and the other open browsers. Netscape probably wouldn't be terribly difficult. IE would of course be nigh on impossible, but that wouldn't be too terrible, I guess. There are enough huge companies backing Free Software these days that it wouldn't be impossible to convince them to start using this new root CA. After all, a free CA is a logical next step from Free Software, in my opinion. Of course, there's the problem of how to verify that people really are who they say they are, and there's no good way to do that without at least coming in in person. Which is probably why local municipalities are a better choice. Companies have to fill out a bunch of paperwork when they want to get started in an area - it wouldn't be hard to issue certificates then.

The problem is, so many cheapskates have now signed their own certificate that the bogus authority error isn't stopping users since it's so common when nothing's really wrong. As a result, we're seeing a lot of look alike sites use SSL to get the padlock to come up, and users not being phased by the red-flag alerts that this doesn't seem to be the site they think it is.

Calling them cheapskates is a bit harsh. It's like saying "those cheapskates who walked to work instead of buying a Lexus". Personally, I think they're quite right to sign their own certs, explain it to their customers, and help to undermine Verisign's "trust", since it's not really trust anyway. The problem is with the system itself, not that people don't want to prop it up.

For my money I would have quoted School House Rock, not Legally Blonde 2. Bad move there.

I tried looking for a Simpsons episode, but all I could find was Mr. Lisa Goes To Washington.

Wasn't there one where they got a section added to a bill by slipping a piece of paper in the bill just before it was read? I recall the speaker saying something like "Well, it must be ok, it's got a paperclip." Or was that a different cartoon -- Family Guy? King of the Hill?

If we're going to be mindlessly quoting that episode dare I say that I have a quote from it that is the best and most mindless of them all?

Kent: We're just about to get our first pictures from inside the spacecraft with "average-naut" Homer Simpson, and we'd like to-- Aah!

[Camera shows a close-up of an ant floating in front of the three astronauts]

Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here.

Kent: (Turns to camera, puts on a happier face) And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

It is Kent Brockmanesque. To quote Kent, "Ladies and Gentleman, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together." -- Kamp Krusty

I thought that was called "Krappenfest" in Germany?

>> Between the MPAA, RIAA, and Ashcroft and the republican regime

It's the two-party regime you have to do something about.

> Yes... there are NO democrats in support of the DMCA...

"I voted for Kodos" is no longer an acceptable excuse.

"The eating of an orange is a lot like a good marriage." - Hans Moleman

All of this is nicely animated in Tree House of Horrors V Act 2: Time and Punishment. Homer goes back into time and his seemingly minute changes have large impact on the future he returns to.

As to another reply to the parent post, "Causality implies a concious action.", I wonder why a conscious action is a requirement for a proposed chaotic universe? Kicking a rock my caught seismic activity to occur if it resonates properly on a fault line for all we know.

"The authorities here finally decided to bankrupt me over a tax debt and I have now had to give the missile to a friend for safe keeping."

You would think that people would learn. If you're going to skirt the edge of the legal system, always pay your taxes!

Remember, Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion, not organized criminal activity. His claim that "The government can't collect legal taxes from illegal money." (1) held no more water than Simpson's claim that the government is trying to "bankrupt" him.

And speaking of Simpsons...

Lisa: Bart. Bart! What are you doing? We've got to get out of here.
Bart: Target sighted. Launching air-to-nerd missile!
[launches a missile model, hitting Lisa]
Lisa: Owww!
- Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

chauffeur, seamstress, and curator of large mammals.

Worked for the Carter Administration!?
Well, you voted for him ... twice!
..Sshhh

From Marge Gets a Job

>I strongly feel that programming is a creative process,

I used to feel like that when I was younger. Some times its not really creative programming, its just that its new and orginal to you.

>It's like out-sourcing art-painters to an other country

They have out-sourced artists. An example is The Simpsons is animated mainly in Korea

One interesting part:
"They don't allow guns in Korea; it's against the law," Kirkland said. "It was an automatic gun so they weren't quite sure how to make the bullet eject out, or the shell eject. So they were calling me: 'How does a gun work?"'

This art house also does Superman, Dilbert, Batman and a whole bunch of other shows.