By now, a generation of TV viewers takes this for granted: Most Sundays nights, Fox has cartoons for grown-ups. And around Halloween, it has “Treehouse of Horror.”
Now “Treehouse” is back. It “airs Nov. 2, which is when we celebrate Halloween in our house,” jokes producer Al Jean.
That slight delay is due to the World Series. When “Treehouse” arrives, it dares to give “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” a dark twist.
“The Great Pumpkin comes to life and he’s so upset at what humans do to pumpkins that he tries to kill and eat everybody,” Jean says.
Hey, that sort of thing happens in “Treehouse.” Since these are just tales, anything is possible. This time, Homer kills celebrities; also, he ends up as a piece of a giant foosball game. All of that is part of a TV tradition. People might forget how unique such shows were.
“Everyone in the dorms would get together to watch ’The Simpsons,“’ recalls Mike Barker, now an “American Dad” producer. “It was a form of community.”
It was also just about the only TV show he watched. When a friend, Matt Weitzman, asked him to co-write a TV script on speculation, Barker says:
“I basically admitted, ‘I don’t watch a lot of television, so I don’t think I’m going to be very useful to you.’
“And he’s like, ‘Well, what if we wrote a ‘Simpsons’”?
They did and got work. After writing regular situation comedies for a while, they’ve spent the past eight years doing “Family Guy,” “Father of the Pride” and “American Dad.”
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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