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Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday
droopus writes "So, what does Dan Castelleneta look like? (He's a kinda weasly looking bald guy.) See Dan, Hank, Harry, Yeardley, Julie, Nancy and the rest of the Simpsons cast this Sunday at 8PM (EST) on Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo.
According to the website:
"In anticipation of the landmark 300th episode of The Simpsons, James Lipton sat down with the series' accomplished ensemble to meet the actors behind the voices in order to discover how they have managed to create such a wealth of believable and beloved characters."
I saw a quick preview, and seeing that thin, weasly bald guy go "Aggggggh, donut" was alsolutely hilarious. Watching Nancy Cartwright morph effortlessly from Bart, to Nelson, to Ralph is waaaaay cool. My TiVo is set for this one.
One hitch: it's on at the same time as the usual new Sunday Simpsons episode, so Bravo has thoughtfully repeated the show at midnight so fans can record both."
Or some of them anyway, since many appeared on the original home of the Simpsons, the Tracey Ullman Show.
For all things Simpsons, head over to http://www.snpp.com.
actually they were on conan once, too.
Married With Children fans will remember him from the "Dance Show" episode, where Peg went dancing with Marcy and had a flirtation with a gay guy, whose husband (Castellaneta) went complaining to Al.
Incidentally, how stupid does Bravo have to be to put this on in that slot? Why not Sunday at 10 pm?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Eh, why are we listing stuff. This is the Internet, it's all in the Internet Movie Database
Wow, I didn't know Cartwright was a scientologist. Bummer. Lotta people are nuts, tho.
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DirecTiVo owners can record both at the same time.
Anyone ever see her as a little kid on the Square One TV math show on PBS? I'm revealing my relative youth here (maybe not, Slashdot seems full of teenagers who might not know what Square One is), but on the detective story segment on the show (called "Mathnet" as a parody of Dragnet, I think), she played the caretaker of a gorilla that had gone missing. And the detectives she hired used math to find it, as expected. Getting back on-topic, Ms. Smith sounds EXACTLY the same now as she did then, in the eighties and when she was a little kid. Not like that's some big revelation, but when I first started watching the Tracy Ullman show and later on Herman's Head (which starred both her and Hank Azaria as major characters), I couldn't shake the association of that voice with that of the "Mathnet gorilla girl." ....Well, after some quick googling, apparently it looks like Square One is being shown on the Noggin educational cable channel. Found that bit of info on a site dedicated to the show.
problem is that digital cable is not just one stream of bits (if it were your disk probably couldn't keep up anyway) - it's a bunch of 'qams' each about as wide as an analog channel each of which carries a stream of bits representing 6-10 tv channels - when you switch channels on a digital feed you tune to a qam then select the bits you need out of it's stream. So your tuner could save 6-10 channels at once but you'd need as many tuners as the cable company has qams to get them all
Yeardley Smith got in some trouble for doing voices at a book signing unrelated to Fox but they're more than welcome to do them when promoting the show. There's also supposedly a clause about the things they can say (i.e. they're not supposed to do radio station specific promotions like "You're listening to 96.5! Doh! (in Homer voice)).
Not always.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Not a religion.
Nice try.