{"id":39763,"date":"2025-07-26T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39763\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:53:08","slug":"matt-groening-says-delete-fox-news-simpsons-season-37-guest-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39763\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Groening Says ‘Delete Fox News’; Simpsons Season 37 Guest Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKieran Culkin (\u201cSuccession\u201d), Glenn Howerton\u00a0(\u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d), Albert Brooks and Cole Escola (\u201cOh Mary\u201d) are among the guest stars stopping by Springfield during the upcoming Season 37 of \u201cThe Simpsons<\/a>,\u201d the show\u2019s producers announced Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso Danny Pudi (\u201cCommunity\u201d), Adam Pally, Brendan and Domhall Gleeson, together at last!<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso during the panel, \u201cSimpsons\u201d producers shared a sneak preview of one of this year\u2019s \u201cTreehouse of Horror\u201d Halloween segments. Idris Elba, Michael Keaton and Viola Davis will be guest starring on that episode, which will feature an opening from guest animator Stan Kelly (from The Onion).<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong those on stage: creator Matt Groening<\/a>, executive producers Matt Selman and Mike Price, director Matt Faughnan and consulting producer\/director David Silverman. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI honestly thought 36 was where we were going to end it,\u201d Groening joked. \u201cNo, there\u2019s no end in sight. We\u2019re going to keep going. We\u2019re going to go until somebody dies. When you know who dies, the Simpsons predicts the there will be dancing in the streets. Except President Vance will ban dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s coming up next is the show\u2019s landmark 800th episode, which will air on Fox in February 2026. \u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to do 800 shows, and so we\u2019re going to be doing two brand new original episodes that night,\u201d Selman said. \u201cThey\u2019re top secret for now, but I promise you, they\u2019ll be the best 800th episode of anything you\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the recent \u201cColdplay\u201d incident, in which the Astronomer CEO and its HR head were caught in a tryst, a deep fake claimed that \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d predicted it. Selman warned fans not to fall for these \u201cSimpsons predicts the future\u201d memes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho could be so dumb?\u201d he said. \u201cOf all our 800 episodes we did, that those two dumb white folks \u2014 I don\u2019t what to call, the takes are done \u2014 like, who could think, who has such little reactive intelligence that this is in \u2018The Simpsons\u2019? And of course, the answer is hundreds and hundreds of millions of people! But when you see something that claims to be a \u2018Simpsons\u2019 prediction, just think for one second. Could that have possibly been on the show? That\u2019s all, just think one second and then comment on the thing \u2018they are magic, they\u2019re wizards, they did it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGroening joking said he had the counterpoint: \u201cWe are time travelers.\u201d Here were some of his upcoming predictions: \u201c\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 predicts Elon Musk will be the first man to land on Mars. Amazingly, he will crash land on Mars. But he will radio back that he is marooned there forever. And most emotionally of all, he will be able to hear the cheering all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso: \u201cAmerica will return the Statue of Liberty to France and North America remembers what the word Liberty means.\u201d And most importantly: \u201c\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 predicts kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA. And here\u2019s how you do it. Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list and delete Fox News<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs part of the event, the \u201cSimpsons\u201d team attempted to play a game that Selman dubbed \u201cSimpsons Comic-Con Pictionary,\u201d but the technology was not cooperating. Nonetheless, during that segment, guest animators\/writers Michael Cusack (\u201cSmiling Friends\u201d) and Mike McMahan (\u201cSolar Opposites\u201d) came on stage to also talk and ask about \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd of course, addressed was the recent surprising uptick in online hot takes about Marge Simpson dying in the show\u2019s Season 36 finale. As Selman recently told Variety<\/a>, she had done no such thing and that what happened in the recent season finale of the series was not canon, since \u201cthere\u00a0is\u00a0no canon,\u201d he said at the time.\u00a0\u201c\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 doesn\u2019t even have canon!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s like in every episode,\u201d Selman said at the panel. \u201cThere\u2019s a new economy of headlines that try to trick you. I call it \u2018trick bait.\u2019 The million headlines saying \u2018Simpsons\u2019 kills Marge, and then even those articles admit it, of course, \u2018they didn\u2019t do we just wanted you to read our headline.\u2019 So again, just a little ounce of thinking after you read something make your lives a little better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kieran Culkin (\u201cSuccession\u201d), Glenn Howerton\u00a0(\u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d), Albert Brooks and Cole Escola (\u201cOh Mary\u201d) are among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27298,88,11320,32274,32275],"class_list":{"0":"post-39763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox-news","11":"tag-matt-groening","12":"tag-the-simpsons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}