Comedy

Michael Price has been around for the 300th, 400th and now 500th episodes of The Simpsons. He even remembers the first gag he was assigned to write back in late 2001, which oddly enough was for the 300th episode — the one where Bart finds out he was once Baby Stink-Breath. It involved finding one of Bart’s old commercials on a taped episode of Perfect Strangers and finessing a “Don’t be ridiculous” reference into the script for authenticity. One of his more recent contributions will figure more prominently into the show’s already untouchable legacy. Price is the writer of the 500th […]

Five hundred couch gags, 500 chalkboard punishments, 500 Gracie Films logos appearing after the credits … The Simpsons has certainly surpassed any sensible estimation of success that would have come about at the show’s 1989 premiere. And as the 500th episode sets to debut on Sunday, it’s the perfect opportunity to look back at how it has celebrated its four other “hundredth” episodes. 100 — “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song” (April 28, 1994) Bart’s antics finally have some real-world consequences when his latest prank — unleashing Santa’s Little Helper into the air ducts of Springfield Elementary — gets Principal Skinner […]