Over its impossibly long run, The Simpsons has done just about everything well. It’s also done just about everything…

In an anything-can-happen setting like The Simpsons’ Springfield, it’s a good creative move to establish some rules.…

Pulling off a heartwarming Bart story is hard to do these days, and “Looking For Mr. Goodbart” almost manages it.…

The Simpsons’ ties to a certain Ivy League school are deep and storied, with some two dozen Harvard alums serving…

It’s the moment Bart loses that watch that does it. “A Father’s Watch” improbably winds together three story strands…

“22 For 30” dresses up The Simpsons’ formula in the gym togs of ESPN’s 30 For 30 sports documentary series, and, as…

Well, no one can accuse The Simpsons of trampling all over one of its all-time best episodes. Actually, wait—I can,…

“The Cad And The Hat” is the first credited Simpsons script from Ron Zimmerman, and, while bringing in new blood to…

“Fatzcarraldo” sees all of Springfield’s fast-food joints go healthy, leading to Homer rediscovering the train-car…

For all the hype about “The Great Phatsby” being The Simpsons’ first-ever hour-long episode, and the understandable…

Of all the Simpsons’ associates that were really important that one time but hardly get referenced ever again,…

It’s a Simpsons Christmas episode! Those words call up some fine Simpsons holiday memories, don’t they? From the…

Writing The Simpsons must be incredibly hard. Hell, writing about The Simpsons is hard. There’s just so much of it…

An emotional journey on The Simpsons is bound by both the show’s running time and the fact that, in the show’s…

When the Simpsons go a-traveling, things can go wrong pretty quickly. Not in the sense of them wrecking up the…

Sometimes you watch an episode of The Simpsons do a number of little things well and realize that, by the end,…

When Harry Shearer announced he was leaving The Simpsons last year, it was big news. After all, Shearer, like the…

That The Simpsons’ 600th episode falls on a “Treehouse Of Horror” is for the best, ultimately. Milestone episodes,…

Almost every bit of promotional material for “The Town” did not look promising. In what’s undoubtedly an effective…

“Friends And Family” takes forever to get going, but, after a turgid opening act that sees Burns seeing his shrink,…