Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane might be hosting this Sunday's Academy Awards, but his rival cartoon is actually up for an Oscar. The Longest Daycare, the Simpsons-inspired short film starring Maggie Simpson that played in front of this summer's Ice Age: Continental Drift, is one of the nominees for Best Animated Short. We've already seen a…
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Five years ago The Simpsons Movie hit screens, and while the show has soldiered on in the interim, TV's amazingly long-lived family hasn't hit movie screens since. That changes next week with the opening of Fox's Ice Age: Continental Drift. Playing before that movie will be a Simpsons short called The Longest Daycare, in which…
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"It’s hard to do a 20-minute Maggie episode, but in four minutes it’s great. She's like Charlie Chaplin." That's Simpsons executive producer Al Jean describing to Entertainment Weekly why the youngest member of The Simpsons was chosen to star in The Longest Daycare, a four-minute 3D short film that'll play in front of Ice Age:…
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A highly underrated moment in the history of The Simpsons was in 2006 when 20th Century Fox sneakily placed the first teaser trailer/announcement of The Simpsons Movie in front of Ice Age: The Meltdown. That relationship between Homer and Scrat continues next month as a 3D Simpsons short film will play in front of Ice…
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