The Simpsons News

The other day, a friend's e-mail cited the succulent properties of a chicken-fried steak she had prepared for lunch, and I felt the need to chide her about her midday gravy intake.

BethAnn Goldberg, who bakes amazing cakes in her Studio Cakes shop in the Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park, whipped up an especially spectacular creation for the Food Network's Cake Challenge - and took home $10,000 in cash for her efforts.

Working with brainy guests like Stephen Hawking and Thomas Pynchon a ' just two of the hundreds of actors, musicians and other celebrities who have made cameo appearances on the show over the past two decades a ' is truly priceless, he said.

In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons , Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through.

Second-year Duke Law student Andrew Blumberg will appear on the "Simpsons Mystery Cakes" episode of "Food Network Challenge" tonight at 8pm.

Fox Television must be getting nervous about keeping "The Simpsons" fresh now that ita TMs in season 21.

That's the idea behind a contest in which fans are being asked to design a character for an episode featuring Coldplay's Chris Martin as guest star.

Matt Groening is flanked by people costumed as Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson holding Maggie Simpson.

I never set out to create a pretty, peppy, motivational murderess. But Camilla Tannenbaum lured me in, lured me in the way she did Homer Simpson.

There's plenty of chills and cheese on TV leading up to Halloween on Saturday with specially-themed episodes and macabre movie marathons.

Bender's head is packed full of Futurama DVDs in this new set from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Some of the most memorable episodes of "The Simpsons" have involved musical moments and last Sunday's broadcast added a new entry into the animated comedy's musical catalog.

Rick Miller was playing Murderer Number Two in a production of "Macbeth" in Montreal in the mid-'90s when he started hearing Barney the barfly from "The Simpsons" in the voice of the actor playing Macduff.

To make the case that "The Simpsons" is one of the best shows in television history is a bit like arguing that Shakespeare - get this! - is one of the most talented playwrights who ever lived.

The twentieth "Treehouse of Horror" episode included spoofs on Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder , zombie movies like 28 Days Later and I Am Legend , and lastly a musical, similar to Phantom of the Opera .

Bill Donohue says he's okay with "gentle fun" being poked at his faith. But the Catholic watchdog says The Simpsons went too far on Sunday when they cracked wise about the Eucharist.

Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older. See all Student Opinion A " - The Simpsons' has been so influential that it is difficult to find a strain of television comedy that does not contain its bloodline," says John Ortved, the author of "The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History." "Please do not offer my god a peanut." ...

He was already tackling a TV geek's nightmare: the first extensive, behind-the-scenes history of TV's longest-running comedy show, The Simpsons .

The Simpsons writers celebrate Halloween each year by creating a holiday special that is "spooktackular" . For Halloween 2009, the 20 year old cartoon cast will be acting out an episode that tackles a terrifying subject if you are a bovine: mad cow disease.

An Angolan ad agency has turned The Simpsons from yellow to brown in a television campaign promoting the long-running comedy's debut on an African satellite channel.