The Scifi Wire has an interview up with the Executive Producer of The Simpsons Al Jean about this year's upcoming Treehouse of Horror Halloween episode. Apparently, this year they are finally getting around to spoofing the Peanuts Halloween special "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". Oh, and for some reason they'll also be spoofing the Transformers movie (a property with no Halloween related reason whatsoever).
"I'm really excited that we finally got to parody It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," Jean said in an interview at a party to celebrate Fox's fall season in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 8. "The Great Pumpkin comes to life and is so upset about the way people treat pumpkins that he goes around trying to kill everybody."
Simpsons animators have adapted their characters into versions of the famous Peanuts gang. "Bart's like Charlie Brown. Milhouse is like Linus. Lisa's like Sally. We did the backgrounds in a similar style. We actually were able to clear the Vince Guaraldi music, which, of course, is like hardwired into everybody's DNA from childhood."
Another segment lampoons Michael Bay's Transformers movie. "What happens is Bart gets a Christmas present from a 99 Cent store, and it turns out to be a Transformer. They take over Springfield, and they're fighting all over the place. Then Marge says to the Transformers, 'Why do you have to fight?' And they go, 'We agree. We'll just team up and take over you guys.'"
This would have been news I cared about 10 years ago or so, back when the Simpsons were still funny and the Halloween Episodes still meant something. But nowadays I don't really even notice these things . The show stopped being relevant to me the moment I realized the glory that is Futurama. But that's just me. I know there are still many a Simpsons fan out there, and so I pass this information on to you.
I will admit though, next year's Halloween special does sound like it has some potential. They're going with a zombie story for next year.
"We do this post-apocalyptic 28 Days Later/Children of Men thing," Jean said. "Krusty makes his hamburger out of mad cows, and it winds up turning everybody into zombies."
Homer Simpson gets to weigh in on the "Fast-running zombies vs. slow, George Romero zombies" debate. "We do a joke where Homer sees the zombies coming, and he goes, 'Oh, zombies, you can always outrun them.' Then they start running really fast, and he says, 'Stupid fast-running modern zombies.'"
Stupid fast-running modern zombies indeed. I couldn't have said it better myself.
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