Welcome to Fine Tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation

who's in commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording

the show on Sunday, March 21st, 2021. Very significant night to animation history drew.

Tonight at the 700th episode of The Simpsons airs on Fox. I did not even know this and tell you

we were talking earlier. I knew for a fact that the 666th episode of The Simpsons, that was one of the

Halloween houses of horror. I'm kind of surprised that this one didn't get more play, but they seem

to have gone all out. There's a brand new Bill Plumpton couch gag out front. We talked back in

December of last year about Bill's next feature film, Slide. I guess he was doing a kickstarter at

that point. They did make their goal. 593 people came forward. They contribute over $84,000, so

we will in fact get to see a brand new Bill Plumpton movie sometime in 2022. Great. On the other hand,

you produce your 700th episode and I guess it was the folks over a variety who asked Al Jean,

the executive producer of The Simpsons. Does he see the show continuing on? You know, do think

they'll make it to a thousand episodes and he pointed out that would be 12 more years of Simpsons.

I could see it happening. Could you? Well, I mean, I think people are going to start dropping dead.

I mean, some of the cast sounds so old at this point, but it's the easiest gig in Hollywood. I

guess they would say I guess I can equipment. Al Jean also got asked now that The Simpsons are

owned by Fox and the Fox of course is owned by Disney. Are we finally going to see a sequel to the

2007 The Simpsons movie and Al responded by saying I would say yes, although we're in the very,

very early stages. We'd love to do one for Disney, but it's not like it's happening next week

and next year. Have you seen any of the stuff bubbling up about The Simpsons and

Universal's theme park rights to this IP? No, I haven't, but I would love to know more. We're kind of in

clickbait country. I mean, if you read these articles, they will, it's like, okay, so if The Simpsons

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