Nerdvana’s Cartoon Election Special: America Flips a Coin!
Cartoon election special: The Klute’s list of the best animated shows about politics.
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Get Simpsonized at Simpsons Trivia Night!
Simpsons fans are guaranteed a great new year if it starts like this, with a Simpsons Trivia Night at Bragg’s Factory this Saturday, January 3. Form a team to answer questions about Springfield, and get Simpsonized by local artist and regular Nerdvana contributor Russ Kazmierczak, Jr.! Check out the event’s Facebook page here.
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Howl’s Moving Kwik-E-Mart? Watch The Simpsons’ homage to anime master Miyazaki
This Sunday, The Simpsons will feature a sequence honoring Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
ContinueReview: Ice Age: Continental Drift – Mammoth-sized mistake
I’m not opposed to prehistoric sit-com style humor, in fact I love The Flintstones (the cartoon that is – not the John Goodman films), but the new movie Ice Age: Continental Drift is more along the line of a bad, extended episode of Growing Pains – with emphasis on the ‘pain’ part for anyone having […]
ContinueMesa’s 2nd Friday March shenanigans
The theme of downtown Mesa’s 2nd Friday art walk for March is the “Spring Wellness Festival,” but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a gaggle of geeky genre goodness going on. In addition to free back massages and yoga classes, make sure you hit up some of the following events: “Build the Robots” Art Show […]
Continue‘The Simpsons’ meets ‘Doctor Who’ in fab fan art
Springfield Punx is a terrific blog by Dean T. Fraser, in which the artist takes the unique style of The Simpsons and applies it to characters and celebrities from other media, like comics and sci-fi television. Last week was devoted to the most recent season of Doctor Who starring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, which […]
ContinueAmerica’s newest sex symbol: Marge Simpson?
Playboy has announced that their cover model for the November issue will be Marge Simpson. Not only will she grace the cover, she’ll also have a two-page centerfold spread. The magazine coyly won’t say how much will be revealed by the blue-haired mother of three. All they’re saying is that is that it will be “very, […]
Continue‘The Simpsons’ honor Michael Jackson
So The Simpsons on Sunday night got into the act of honoring Michael Jackson — who, you might have heard, died on Thursday. The venerable primetime cartoon didn’t air the 1991 episode in which Jackson — uncredited — provided the voice of an obese white man who was institutionalized because he thought he was Michael […]
ContinueThe King of Pop’s forgotten pop culture empire
Michael Jackson was so much more than music videos, money troubles and legal problems. Remember this? Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker rocked arcades and home video game consoles in 1990. The game, a tie-in to the Moonwalker film, features Michael going after kidnapped children with the help of Bubbles the chimp (who gave him the ability to […]
ContinueIs television more valuable online?
Online broadcasters Hulu and TV.com are charging more for commercials online than during traditional network showings. Television advertisers usually pay $20 to $40 per thousand viewers. Hulu charges $60 per thousand viewers for a commercial during online broadcasts of “The Simpsons“. It makes sense given the rise of home digital video recorders that allow viewers […]
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