Don’t count on The Simpsons to deal with any hot-button political matters in its thirty seventh season, which launched over the weekend (September twenty eighth).
Whereas up to date long-running animated present South Park has generated numerous headlines this season with provocative story traces across the likes of ICE, Donald Trump and, um, Devil, The Simpsons’ showrunner, Matt Selman, has made it clear that Homer Simpson and firm is not going to be making an attempt any related type of political statements.
“Once you write a present that doesn’t come out till 10 months after you write it, it form of takes the strain off, as a result of who is aware of what the fuck we’re gonna be taking a look at in 10 months,” Selman informed Leisure Weekly. “So like South Park, they make their present in every week, and even they will’t keep updated on issues.”
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Whereas Selman confirmed assist for Jimmy Kimmel (“I’m glad he’s again on TV. Censorship sucks. What can I say? Censorship sucks”), he emphasised that he hopes The Simpsons is a present that anybody can get pleasure from, no matter political affiliation.
“Ideally, I want to suppose that folks on either side of our divided nation can watch The Simpsons and really feel that, like America, Springfield is a city of people who find themselves good, however simply misled,” he mentioned. “No matter your definition of misled is, you possibly can apply that to the present.”
Selman went on so as to add that “it’s not our mission assertion to answer the disaster of the second. It’s extra a few city of good-natured dum-dums coping with a altering world, but our characters by no means actually change. The world adjustments round them.”
Earlier this 12 months, it was revealed that Fox gave The Simpsons a four-season renewal, which can end in new episodes via the 2028-2029 broadcast season. No less than one long-time fan of the present is hoping that season would be the present’s final.