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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."
I wonder if any of the writers will be on the show too. Most of the success has relied on excelelent writing. I think this is the first time ever the voice actors have been allowed to do their characters on a television show other than the cartoon itself. James Lipton sure knows how to negotiate for his guests!
Thats right... put a show about the Simpsons on at the same time FOX is showing the real thing...
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.
Ok, before I get flamed, someone posted at the same time as me:
Bravo has thoughtfully repeated the show at midnight so fans can record both.
My gripe has been answered, please ignore my idiocy.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
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Ha ha ha! Well played! Maybe someday they'll have "Inside the Writers' Studio". Until then, the voice talent is who belongs on this show. I'm taping it. In Betamax. By the by, a "Writers' Studio" show would be fascinating.
Umm Microsofts Ultimate TV can handle two streams, so with it you could record two shows at one. I believe it's the only system to offer this in their first version. Perhaps Tivo will have it in their next?
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Oh, that's exactly why I enjoy watching him...I find it hilarious to see Lipton saying things like "your performance in That Famous Movie was absolutely awe-inspiring" while ignoring true interviewing opportunities, such as when Jack Lemmon admitted to having been an alcoholic at the same time he portrayed one. Lipton just stared blankly at him, and changed the subject after the ackward silence.
Could be worse...he could have made the whole interview about that, and then advertise it as "Jack Lemmon tells his deep, darkest secrets"
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I think his impersonation of James Lipton is much more entertaining than Lipton himself.
That is what TV Tuners are for. You could get an extra tuner and hook it up. You could buy a few tuner cards for a computer and record them all at once.
Homer: ...but we're gonna miss Inside the Actors Studio. F. Murray Abraham's on, Marge. F. Murray Abraham!
Shame on Google.
I seeing hate that thing
Me no function beer well without
What I dont understand is ALL frequencies are running through that wire going in to the TiVo. Why cant you just do a stream record of the WHOLE analog signal (ad converter) and then re-play all channels when you want to?
Because the required bandwidth would be obscene. That, and I don't believe we even have any existing technology to simply capture a collection of mixed radio signals and somehow (digitally or analog) store them...
But think of the amount of information contained in each signal. Even if you ignore everything but the video, how do you store all of the detail for 100+ channels (or even just a few)?
Those are only a couple of problems with the theory... I'm sure there are many more, but that's the obvious reason.
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Is she the one who's a member of a criminal nut cult?
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My TiVo already knew it repeats......Ha-Ha
...that they don't have the current writers for the show on his program. That would turn into a lynching.
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Umm Microsofts Ultimate TV can handle two streams, so with it you could record two shows at one. I believe it's the only system to offer this in their first version. Perhaps Tivo will have it in their next?
I believe the DirectTivo variant has had two tuners for a while. Since the dish receiver and Tivo are in the same unit, it made a lot of sense to go ahead and throw in a second tuner.
For a stand-alone unit, this is a bit more difficult. My (now dead, first Philips version) Tivo didn't even have *a* tuner, unless you count tuning in channel 3 or 4 for the RF input. But even so, and even with two, only one could be your cable box/dish receiver, the other could potentially be an antenna or (non-pay channel) cable input... though certainly possible.
My next PVR will most likely be a DirectTV w/Tivo built-in for just this type of reason (plus just being able to channel surf while something else is recording would be nice).
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People who weren't watching the Tracey Ullman show.
That's who.
Send a digital cable signal straight into your computer and dump the raw data on your hard disk, then play it back through a tv tuner. You can play it back as many times as you want to grab whatever channel(s) you want.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
DirecTivos can already do this. They can record one program off the digital feed and one off the analog going in the back... both at the same time.
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Ha!
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
You can do this using MythTV.
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Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa) is kinda cute in a geeky foreign way... I saw an interview of her a few years ago. Apparently more than a few guys have told her that it's their fantasy to make love to her while she screams the famous "More More More!" Lisa Simpson line.
There is no 'n' in fat losers geeze learn to spell...
Very interesting thought. I'd really like to know this 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...
One halloween, a friend of mine got up green tube dress, white choker pearls and did her hair up like Marge. We went to a halloween party, and seriously I've never seen one girl get hit on so many times at a party. Nor have I heard so many attempted Homer-isms as pick up lines.
Thoughtfully? Bravo like all cable shows runs the same 4 hour block over and over. It'll be rerun ad-nauseum like every other cable show with 6 episodes.
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Why do they keep adding cable channels and trying to force me to pay for them, when they dont even bother with enough original content for the ones they have? Eg; I've seen the same stupid hitler documentaries a bazillion times. Do they really need "History International"?
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Of course Nancy Cartwright has no trouble shifting between different characters. According to her religion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcult, she's infested with the souls of dead people & aliens, many of whom were blown up 75 billion years ago by the Galactic Overlord Xenu in volcanoes by H-bombs.
Because of this, and other dirty deeds done by the cult of $cientology, I personally boycott The Simpsons, JAG, Dharma & Greg, South Park, and other TV shows and movies that employ $cientologists. (And yes, my local affiliates and the networks know why I don't watch their shows!)
Hello? Haven't any of you people seen the Tracey Ullman show? Nobody remembers Herman's Head?
Excuse me, I'm just going to sit here and yell at the kids to get off my lawn now.
You can't tune into two radio stations at the same time. For the same reasion, a TV tuner chip can't tune into two TV channels at the same time. You know, circuits and all.
Ah, I missed this one! Thanks. :)
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Well, it would take proportionately more bandwidth than a single channel. Each channel runs at 6mhz, and the total cable can carry 330, 450, or up to 750 MHZ total.
So even if those were just 1's and 0's coming at 750 MHZ, you simply can't write that fast to your hard drive.
But it's actually some analog stream that you'd have to convert to digital form, and I don't know what type of overhead that involves.
yeah.. sure you did.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
That, and I don't believe we even have any existing technology to simply capture a collection of mixed radio signals and somehow (digitally or analog) store them...
;-) ) Real drives are of course smaller and many people have more then 70 channels.
Sounds like what radio telescopes do, and what SETI@Home analyses.
That said, the bandwidth is obscene (as you mentioned), the TiVo hasn't got the processor power to handle that much data (even the lowest scale cable subscription). I didn't do the calculations but I'm pretty confident that even if the TiVo did have the processor power, the hard drive would not be able to write more then five or ten channel's data at a time. And even if it could, the amount of data would overwhelm even a hacked TiVo with a hypothetical terabyte of hard drive space. (I don't think they've been hacked that high but I could be wrong.)
Guestimate such a drive at a thousand hours (1 Hr. = 1GB or so; it's not perfect but who cares?) and call the cable subscription about 70 channels at the least (that's what I get here w/ Basic Only), and you're looking at a whole 14 hours of storage. (Coincidentally that's how much my 1st-gen TiVo stores of just one channel...
You could certainly build a machine capable of doing this but I'm guestimating you're getting into the tens of thousands of dollars to aquire the processor power and the massive RAID-like array needed to compress the stream to a decent size, not to mention the price of the memory bus that can move that much data around. Again, radio telescopes do this stuff so I know it must exist somewhere... but if it's rare enough, the fees associated with the fact that it's a custom solution every time could start pushing you into the hundreds of thousands or millions+ to build a box that just eats the cable signals and stores some decent amount.
(You can shuffle some of the cost by changing the specs of the system, such as needing less processor power if you don't compress, but then you need to spend more on the drive array to up the throughput. If you're on a DirecTV service, all the data is already compressed but you're still going to spend a lot of money on that drive array.)
In conclusion, do not hold your breath expecting to see this in consumer electronics anytime soon.
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I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that in their contracts, it restricts them from doing the character voices in public or on something televised. There was an episdoe of LA Law where Dan Castelleneta plays a character who works at an amusement park as Homer Simpson. Throughout the show you hear the Homer voice but only when he's in the costume. I thought that was a way of getting around their restriction in their contracts.
Anyone know if they actually had to get permission to do the voices for this ep of actors studio?
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Wouldn't they rather show it at 9pm (because there's a second episode at 8:30pm) and have a trailing message saying: or something along those lines...
I remember her acting on Herman's Head on Fox.
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DirecTiVo owners can record both at the same time.
That copper coaxial carries a hell of a lot of crappy content, 24/7. Storing it digitally in a form that you could pull a decent image out of would take much I/O.
The problem with digital, see, is it likes to get it right, every time. Analog is much more forgiving, and will let you manipulate it as much as you like, giving up some quality every time. With digital it's all or nothing.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
Umm Microsofts Ultimate TV can handle two streams, so with it you could record two shows at one. I believe it's the only system to offer this in their first version. Perhaps Tivo will have it in their next?
;-D
UltimateTV (rest in pieces)was a DirecTV only device, like DirecTivo. And like DirecTivo it had a huge advantage of being able to record the digital DirecTV stream in the native MPEG2 form. (which, BTW, means it can (and does) do Dolby Digital 5.1 on some channels). Well, since this means it is not doing MPEG encoding, the overhead for recording a show is relatively low - so they had ability to record more than one show at a time. So from the very first DirecTivo units, TiVo build the hardware to support 2 Tuners.
I think they stopped at 2 because each tuner (for technical reasons I will not go into) required a dedicated LNB (device receiving data from satelite - the "eye" of the dish) and the best available dishes at the time had only dual LNB's. Since then multi-switch technology came out allowing one dish to be used with quite a few DTV receivers, but that is another story.
While hardware was there, the early DTiVo software did not use it. Only around time UltimateTV came out, TiVo added the software to support the second DTV tuner. All DirecTiVos are now capable of recording 2 shows at same time.
To make things nicer, an additional reciever charge from DTV is $5 regardless of the type of device, and you do not have to pay extra subscription charge for 2nd and on DTiVos (DTiVo's subscription is $4.99 per month regardless of number of DTiVo's per household or free if you order their top of the line package).
Further, even the identical DirecTiVo models are able to coexist in same room with unique remote control codes (up to 9 devices for most, plus 3 for sony, which uses different codes)
So, theoretically you can build a home system with 12 DTiVos (9 phillips, 3 Sony) with total of 24 tuners between them recording perfect DTV quality for the hardware price of the units ($200-$400 each) plus multiswitch(s) (who knows, probably $100-$300 total) plus one DTV subscription ($35-$87 per month depending on channels)plus 5x11=$55 per month for extra receivers (I wonder if DirecTV will freak out if you asked for 11 additional receivers).
Now, good luck figuring out which show goes on which TiVo though. Plus you'd probably want to invest in quite a few JP1 universal remotes
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Looks like slashdot aren't the only folks who make dupes.
DirecTivos can already do this. They can record one program off the digital feed and one off the analog going in the back... both at the same time.
DTiVos are not capable of recording analog signals at all (unfortunately), but they do have 2 digital sat. tuners. And since the data is already digital there is not much overhead in recording both at once. The real difficulty for TiVo is that it's AI system needs to be able to plan on using both tuners at once, which is not as easy as it sounds. Incidentally, TiVo does a pretty good job of it, but occasionaly it does silly things like recording same channel on 2 tuners at once. But nice thing about TiVo is that you get updates every now and then which fix things like that.
-Em
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She was also in the movie Billie Jean with Helen and Christian Slater.
Well, according to an online bio, she wouldn't have been much of a kid in the late 80s. Having been born in 1964 would make the chances of that quite slim. But dang if she didn't look 12 on Square One TV.
Anyone know when it'll be shown in Canada? We have a channel called Bravo up here, but it's not the same one as Americans get.
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Because you'll never want to. When will you want to watch 75+ channels of crap? It's bad enough that you can record one channel at a time!
I happened to be on the sreet on opening night and was witness to what followed. There was a large rent-a-crowd of local Scientologists gathered in front of a stage setup on the street, with many more inside the theater they had rented for the evening, in addition the street was packed with the usual Friday night revelers who where all totally perplexed. All of a sudden the loudspeaker came on, and Bart Simpson's voice blared out "Hello, Sydney!" The the video hookup from inside went live and she appeared on the screen, welcoming everyone to the opening. Shortly after Kate Cebrano (tubby Aussie songstress and devout Scientologist) came on stage to annouce the big opening, blah blah blah to the bafflment of the most non-Scio crowd present, then she and the tuxedo wearing tanned yank Scio out from head office began the countdown to the "grand opening". Drums rolled, they hit one - I should mention at this point thaty it had been raining - nothing happend. these two fuckwits are standing on a damp stage in front of what looks like a two story paper mache science project while the only sound is the passing traffic and the noise of hundreds of cinema goes trying to push through the crowds of the faithful to get to their movies. After much running around, swearing and thumping the pyro guys get TWO roman candles to sputter to life as Cebrano and captain Dickhead from LA clap and go "woo.", and the local devotees clap wildly on queue. You know, with so may OT-III's and above present I'd have thought their Thetans could have put on a better lightshow - but what the fuck do I know, right?
Anyway, the point is: Nancy, you got busted going "Bart" to promote your "Church". Betcha thought no-one stateside would ever find out, huh?
Morons...
Or, you could see what the cable companies use. The SEND the digital signal(s) over the cable in the first place, and not all of it is live feed (which would have to be handled anyway). Of course, for the cached feeds, they have to receive them, too, but probably on multiple antennas. Not such a custom solution after all - there's probably one or more in each market. I believe the thingy is called a cable head-end, and is basically a mainframe kinda computer. That probably doesn't do much to solve the price issue, but it's oviously possible - it's their business, after all.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
Ah, oops. My bad. I forget about these dual-LNB things. :)
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Has anyone seen BOB ODENKIRK do his stand-up impersonation of James Lipton? Best. Impersonation. Ever.
"I would just like to thank my wife for doing me the small favor of... redefining the universe."
If I were you I would embrace the freedoms that allow you to get "high" and come back to /. to pontificate. ;-) Kidding!
Seriously though, I have always had an uneasiness with the term "Homeland Security". It reminds me too much of Der Fatherland.
Nancy Cartright and Danny Castelleneta deserve ALOT more respect than this, especially by THIS crowd which obviously worships the show by their fanatical knowledge. Those are some very mean and unnecessary comments about Nancy's religion and Dan's and Yeardley's appearances considering all the laughs these people have brought you folks over the years. Without Nancy and her "wacky" religion America would never have "Ha ha" burned into its collective consciousness. Without that "weasly" looking Dan, America would never know the magic of the words "D'oh" and dozens others. Without that "nerdy" looking Yeardley we would never have that intelligent foil to Homer's idiocy as well as a constant source of moral outrage. So I would please hope you consider any slam against the Simpsons voice actors is a slam against America and we are far to young and dumb to defend ourselves against such onslaughts.
I'm tired of all these whacko relegions running amok on my TV. Look at em all, you got yer scientologisgts, yer christians, yer jews, yer muslims, yer bushists, yer hindus. It's enough to make a guy sick. You'll all see the truth when Marshall Applewhite comes back. Just wait and see, Hale-Bop is coming back and we'll all be taken to the Physical Kingdom Level Above Human. Where's my applesauce?
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...with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. He was the shoeless "maid" with a Spanish accent who was supplying Lane with "pirin" tablets. He was soooooo funny--also (speaking for my two X chromosomes here) extremely cute.
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...but which performer(s) on South Park are Scientologists?
--Matthew
"If the lights of Broadway blind me, I won't mind..."
Add to this the incident where pranksters broke into the projector room and projected porn on to the big screen. It attracted a small crowd and stopped traffic on George St. The cops had to break into the room again to stop the projector.
I never knew that it was a Scieno propaganda tool but now that I think about it the volcano makes sense. The only time I saw something on the screen was the banner advertising Dianetics strapped over it when the screen stopped working.
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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)).
You can see him occasionally on Friends, using his real voice. I still crack up at Mystery Men, even though my friends all hated it. /zim
Me neither. They're suppose to be an artsy station, but they play alot of crap.
I didn't realize there was a need to delineate the two.
--Joey
I live in Montreal, Canada.
Here we have something called, Just For Laugh Festival. It's a two weeks long festival featuring humorists from around the world. Last years' included a show called In The Fless with the Simpsons. It was a live reading of an epidose from the cast of the Simspons followed by a live Q&A with Matt Groening himself.
It's not really related to tonight's show but it can answer some concerns you had about publicly doing the voices.
And it really is funny to see Castalneta going D'Oh! and Hmmmm.
Matt Groening is a funny guy too. His father is actually called Homer, is mother Marguarette, sister Lisa...which leaves him to be incarnated in Bart...which is really just brat with mixed up letters.
He did not answer in which state Springfield is.
A)Uh, no, I don't work at Fox
/. number? It would take quite a fuckwit to lurk on Slashdot for four or five years just so I could post about an obscure show in a few years.
B) The show I mentioned is on barely-watched Bravo, not Fox.
C) The Simpsons needs little promotion: it's Fox's biggest show ever.
D) Notice my relatively low five digit
E) Moron.
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
What the hell kind of onomatopoeia is that? I've always heard "mmmmm, donut"...
Well, duh.
Celebrity status is also what keeps you chained to your television set for hours and hours every day, idly wasting away your life, doing nothing but focusing exclusively on the content that corporate entities want you to focus on...
Geeze. How hard is it to think outside the box?
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Not a religion.
Nice try.
Last year Dan/Homer introduced Paul Krassner at a speaking engagement in LA. Krassner wanted to put it on an album but after reviewing the material, Fox declined. They don't seem to restrict him from posting it on his web site. Check it out. Unfortunately it is in Real. You'd think Krassner would distribute it in Ogg Vorbis.
I thought they reported this here, but a cursory
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Those two guys work together so often, it's easy to get the names mixed up. David Cross did his Lipton impression in a stand-up thing shown on HBO.
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How is this a motherfucking troll? I was pointing out that we just can't end our lives when a new law we don't like is mentioned. We can't just stop fucking everything and go protest. Some people like the simpsons, and they're going to comment about that. A very valid point. Don't moderate comments "troll" just because you don't agree with them. Lord almighty.
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I don't think that is possible because a tuner tunes itself to a certain frequency. it does not receive them all at once and filter out everything but what it needs. My understanding is, the actual tuning hardware adjusts to a certain frequency and amplifies those waves only. To get multiple signals at once, you would have to find the highest common factor of the two (or more) waves and do more tuning and filtering from there.
You'll have to bring me up-to-date on the history of "insane" boycotting "for any reason" being a "proud American tradition".
Are you saying it is RIGHT to boycott WB because they have too many shows featuring African-Americans? Is it right to boycott Outback Steakhouse because they make donations to the Special Olympics and you think that the mentally retarded should be euthanized?
I never said the poster didn't have a right to boycott; but is the basis of his/her boycott ethical? Is it decent? If you're for free speech and the freedom to pursue your preferred religious faith, then it becomes problematic if you suggest that believers in a certain faith should not be allowed to obtain a certain kind of employment.