The Simpsons shorts
Television broadcast | |
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German title | The Simpsons shorts |
Original title | The Simpsons shorts |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Year (s) | 1987-1989 |
Production company |
20th Century Fox Gracie Films |
length | about 2 minutes |
Episodes | 48 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
genre | Comedy, satire |
Director | David Silverman |
idea | Matt Groening |
script | Matt Groening |
First broadcast | April 19, 1987 on Fox |
German-language first broadcast |
March 9, 1992 on RTL plus |
The Simpsons Shorts ( English original title: The Simpsons shorts ) is a series of about one to two minute films that ran for three seasons from 1987 to 1989 on The Tracey Ullman Show , before its main characters, the Simpson family , a half-hour prime time -Series entitled The Simpsons (Eng. Title: The Simpsons ) was developed. It was developed by Matt Groening , who wrote many of the short films.
Five of these short films were later shown in the episode The 138th Episode, a special screening (season 7) in the half-hour series. These five were Goodnight , which was shown in its entirety, and parts of The Perfect Crime , In Space , World War 3 and Bath Time . In the 400th episode of the half-hour series, Das böse Wort (Season 18), the short film Family Portrait replaces the opening sequence , in the 616th episode In Search of Mr. Goodbart (Season 28) an excerpt from Gute Nacht is used at the point .
development
The draftsman Matt Groening came up with the idea for the Simpsons in the vestibule of James L. Brooks' office . In 1985 he asked Groening to present him with one of his ideas in order to create a series of animated short films. Groening originally decided to show him his comic strip Life in Hell . But when he learned that he would lose the rights to this, he changed his mind and designed his own version of a dysfunctional family. So he drew the main characters within 15 minutes and named them after his own family members. Bart Simpson was modeled after his older brother Mark Groening, but with a different name that was an anagram of "Brat". The scripts and storyboards were mainly created by Groening. The characters were still very roughly drawn, as Groening gave the animators sketches in the hope that they would improve them. However, they merely paused them, which gave rise to the simple appearance of the characters in the short films. The animation was produced by Klasky Csupo ; Wesley Archer , David Silverman and Bill Kopp were the animators for the first season. After that, only Archer and Silverman were the authors. Colorist Gyorgyi Peluce was the person who decided to color the figures yellow.
The original speakers who dubbed the characters in the short films also did so later in the half-hour series. Dan Castellaneta dubbed Homer Simpson , Abraham Simpson and Krusty the clown's voices . Homer's voice sounds different in the short films than in most of the episodes of the later series. She was an exact imitation of the actor Walter Matthau , while she later appears more robust and humorous, which gives the character a wider range of emotions. Castellaneta was part of the cast of The Tracey Ullman Show and had done several dubbing with his wife Deb Lacusta. Since voiceovers were needed for the short films, producers asked Castellaneta and Julie Kavner to speak to Homer and Marge instead of hiring more actors. Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith voiced Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson . According to Cartwright, the recordings of the short films were often "primitive"; the dialogue was recorded on a portable tape recorder in an improvised studio that consisted of the video technician's room above the stands of The Tracey Ullman Show . While most of the characters in the short films have a similar personality compared to the later episodes, Lisa has changed a lot, as she is similar to Bart in the short films and later more intelligent than him. However, in the episode Punching Bag , Homer turns out to be quite a family tyrant who also pushes Marge around.
The short films were shown in her for the first three seasons of The Tracey Ullman Show . During its fourth and final season, the first season of the half-hour series The Simpsons was already on the air. In the first two seasons of the short films, they were usually divided into three or four parts; in the third season they were mostly a single part. In Germany , the short films were broadcast for the first time on the private broadcaster RTL in 1992 and featured Norbert Gastell as Homer, Elisabeth Volkmann as Marge, Sandra Schwittau as Bart, Sabine Bohlmann as Lisa, Walter Reichelt as Abraham and Hans-Rainer Müller as Krusty synchronized. Like the original speakers, they continued this later in the half-hour episodes.
synchronization
As with The Simpsons , the German-language dubbing was done by the Munich-based company Elan-Film under the direction of Siegfried Rabe . The voice actors of the main series were again obliged to speak their characters.
figure | Original speaker | Voice actor |
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Homer Simpson | Dan Castellaneta | Norbert Gastell |
Marge Simpson | Julie Kavner | Elisabeth Volkmann |
Bart Simpson | Nancy Cartwright | Sandra Schwittau |
Lisa Simpson | Yeardley Smith | Sabine Bohlmann |
Abraham "Grandpa" Simpson | Dan Castellaneta | Walter Reichelt |
Episodes
season 1
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast (USA) | German language first broadcast (DE) | Prod. Code |
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1 | 1 | Good night | Goodnight* *** | Apr 19, 1987 | 17th Mar 1992 | MG01 |
When Homer and Marge put their children to bed, their stories frighten them. Shortly thereafter, Homer and Marge are also lying in their bed and are disturbed by their children complaining about not being able to sleep, whereupon they go to their parents' bed and they all fall asleep. | ||||||
2 | 2 | watch TV | Watching TV | May 3, 1987 | March 12 1992 | MG02 |
Bart and Lisa argue on the sofa which channel to watch, but finally agree to keep their sister Maggie from switching. | ||||||
3 | 3 | Spring beard | Jumping beard | May 10, 1987 | 31 Mar 1992 | MG03 |
Homer tells Bart to try jumping off a table into his arms. However, on several attempts, Homer is distracted by something each time, causing Bart to fall to the floor. | ||||||
4th | 4th | Maggie babysitting | Babysitting Maggie | May 31, 1987 | 10 Mar 1992 | MG04 |
Bart and Lisa are supposed to play babysitting for Maggie while Marge is away. They ignore her, which is why she climbs to the roof, but is back when Marge comes back from shopping. | ||||||
5 | 5 | The pacifier | The Pacifier | June 21, 1987 | 19 Mar 1992 | MG05 |
Bart and Lisa take Maggie's pacifier away to help her get rid of her addiction. But Maggie refuses to give up this habit and takes a new one from a drawer full of pacifiers. Finally Maggie gives her siblings a pacifier and they suck it. | ||||||
6th | 6th | Burp competition | Burping contest | June 28, 1987 | 9 Mar 1992 | MG06 |
Bart and Lisa burp each other in a competition to see who can make the loudest ones. Marge forbids them several times until Homer comes home and lets the loudest go. | ||||||
7th | 7th | dinner | Dinner time | July 12, 1987 | 27 Mar 1992 | MG07 |
Marge sits down with the family over dinner and tells them to behave. But when the family doesn't stick to it, Bart brings the TV to the table for some entertainment. |
season 2
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast (USA) | German language first broadcast (DE) |
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8th | 1 | Pull faces | Making faces | 22 Sep 1987 | 27 Mar 1992 |
Marge warns the children that if they kept making faces, their face would stay that way forever. Still, the children kept making faces. | |||||
9 | 2 | The funeral | The funeral | Oct. 4, 1987 | June 10, 1993 |
The children behave improperly at Uncle Hubert's funeral. As a punishment, their parents threaten that they took them to a funeral for the last time. | |||||
10 | 3 | What Maggie thinks | Maggie's Brain | Oct 11, 1987 | 31 Mar 1992 |
Bart and Lisa imagine what their little sister thinks while they gaze at her and play with her feet: the exact opposite of what the older siblings think, of course. | |||||
11 | 4th | football | football | Oct 18, 1987 | 13 Mar 1992 |
Bart is supposed to catch passes thrown by Homer with a football so that everyone can get a milkshake "as a reward". After several unsuccessful attempts, Bart catches the ball in his mouth, making drinking the shake difficult for him. | |||||
12 | 5 | The house of cards | House of Cards | Oct 25, 1987 | March 12 1992 |
Bart builds ever taller houses of cards, but they always collapse because he is disturbed by Lisa and Maggie. | |||||
13 | 6th | father and son | Bart and Homer's Dinner | Nov 1, 1987 | 9 Mar 1992 |
While Marge goes to the ballet with her daughters, Bart has to endure the mixture of fish nuggets and pork macaroni that his father serves him. | |||||
14th | 7th | In space | Space Patrol * | Nov 8, 1987 | 9 Mar 1992 |
The children play like they're in space. Bart puts on a vase as a "helmet" and sticks in it. Lisa and Maggie are making fun of it. | |||||
15th | 8th | The new haircut | Bart's haircut | Nov 15, 1987 | July 10, 1993 |
Bart hides his long hair under a sombrero, Homer sends him to the hairdresser, who cuts him bald and gives him a lolly. (An allusion to Kojak .) Bart's attempt to glue the hair back on fails and the family laughs at him. | |||||
16 | 9 | The 3rd world war | World War III * | Nov 22, 1987 | June 10, 1993 |
Homer has set up a nuclear shelter in the basement and annoys the family with nightly evacuation exercises. Finally, Homer is roused from his sleep by Bart with a nuclear war alarm and locked in the bunker by the family. | |||||
17th | 10 | The perfect crime | The Perfect Crime * | Dec 13, 1987 | June 10, 1993 |
Bart and Maggie are sitting in front of a tray of freshly baked cookies they are not allowed to eat. While Bart burns his hand, is caught several times by Marge and finally has to admit, lying on the floor with a stomachache, that the perfect crime doesn't exist, Maggie gets two cookies without being punished for it. | |||||
18th | 11 | Ghost stories | Scary Stories | Dec. 20, 1987 | May 31, 1993 |
Bart tells his sisters scary stories in the dark. First he scares himself because he can't find the light switch, then Maggie chokes him in the dark and makes her sucking noises that Bart and Lisa think she is a vampire. Finally, all children are frightened by their parents entering. | |||||
19th | 12 | Grandpa and the kids | Grampa and the Kids | Jan. 10, 1988 | Dec 17, 1992 |
Homer brings the children to his father, who tells them stories. Bart shoots a target with a ball and Grandpa fakes his death when the children's attention decreases. | |||||
20th | 13 | to go fishing | Gone Fishin '(Sort of) | Jan. 24, 1988 | Dec 16, 1992 |
Bart forgot to wrap sandwiches for the fishing trip with Homer. That's why he improvises and hands his father two empty slices of bread with bait worms, which he also likes. Rapids and a waterfall also make for a less leisurely excursion. | |||||
21st | 14th | go skateboarding | Skateboarding | Feb. 7, 1988 | 26th Mar 1992 |
Bart sees skateboarding as a purely men's business. Lisa and Maggie prove to him that they can do better than him. | |||||
22nd | 15th | The heathen | The Pagans | Feb. 14, 1988 | 11th Mar 1992 |
The Simpsons drive to Sunday Mass. Bart and Lisa don't want that, they refer to their paganism, thank mother nature for a blown tire, organize a (successful) rain dance while Homer changes the wheel and finally flee to church before him. | |||||
23 | 16 | The cupboard | Closeted | Feb 21, 1988 | 11th Mar 1992 |
Bart thinks Homer wants to drag him off to Sunday school and hides in the closet. The family goes to a café to drink chocolate milkshakes. | |||||
24 | 17th | In the aquarium | The aquarium | Feb 28, 1988 | 16. Mar. 1992 |
Homer goes to the aquarium with the kids. While he tries to explain everything to them, Bart prefers to go swimming - in the shark tank. | |||||
25th | 18th | Family portrait | Family Portrait ** | 6th Mar 1988 | July 11, 1993 |
Homer wants to take a family picture with the self-timer. But at first there is too little time, he obstructs Marge's picture, then everyone tenses up as they get closer. On the third attempt, Bart finally sabotages the recording by making faces. | |||||
26th | 19th | Bart's hiccups | Bart's hiccups | 13 Mar 1988 | 4th Sep 1993 |
Lisa wants to cure Bart of his hiccups with the help of Maggie, first with a horrible mixture, then with a dizzying treatment on the swivel chair, finally with a combination of these and by frightening him with a picture of Homer. It still doesn't work out that well, but Bart refuses to show it to them. | |||||
27 | 20th | Money, money, money | The Money Jar | 20 Mar 1988 | Apr 6, 1992 |
Bart and Lisa ask Marge for a pocket money advance. The mother refuses them and asks them not to plunder the jug with the change while she goes shopping. After Lisa has been disturbed by Maggie and Maggie by Bart in the theft, Bart finds out that the jug is practically empty anyway. | |||||
28 | 21st | In the museum | The Art Museum | May 1, 1988 | 30th Mar 1992 |
Marge is dragging her family to the art museum. After initial rejection, Homer and Bart take a liking to the naked women depicted, while Lisa almost knocks over a vase. | |||||
29 | 22nd | Zoo stories | Zoo story | May 8, 1988 | Apr 9, 1992 |
The Simpsons watch a family of monkeys who look like them at the zoo. Homer teases the monkeys with peanuts and gets a load of dirt thrown in his face for it. Beard is forgotten by the monkeys; instead, his monkey counterpart drives along in the car. |
season 3
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast (USA) | German language first broadcast (DE) |
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30th | 1 | Family quarrel | Shut Up, Simpsons | Nov 6, 1988 | Apr 2, 1992 |
While visiting Grandpa Simpson, this homer rebukes not being mad at the children. Then Lisa whines about Maggie, Bart works it for it, Homer attacks Bart about it, Grandpa hits Homer. Bart breaks the ice, everyone forgives each other, but in the end he provokes another argument with Homer and Grandpa. | |||||
31 | 2 | Shell games | Shell Game | Nov 13, 1988 | Apr 9, 1992 |
Lisa tells Bart that he ate cookies. He hides you under a bowl and distracts his parents with a shell game, but is finally defeated inside by Maggie, who eats the biscuit. | |||||
32 | 3 | His own show | The Bart Simpson Show | Nov 20, 1988 | Apr 30, 1992 |
The kids see Itchy & Scratchy . Homer doesn't want them to watch a violent show, so Bart does puppet shows instead. Since he's dismantling the television for this, Homer doesn't like that either. | |||||
33 | 4th | All just game | Punching bag | Nov 27, 1988 | Apr 10, 1992 |
Since Bart works the sandbag a bit laxly while playing, Lisa paints Homer's head on it to motivate him. The noise of the sandbag gets on his nerves, he commands Marge, she should order the children to stop. She goes up there disgruntled, but prefers to use the sandbag herself. | |||||
34 | 5 | Christmas | Simpson Christmas | Dec 18, 1988 | Dec 2, 1992 |
Loosely based on A Visit from St. Nicholas ( Twas the Night Before Christmas ), Bart tells of his Christmas in rhymes. | |||||
35 | 6th | Krusty the clown | The Krusty the Clown Show | Jan. 15, 1989 | Apr 3, 1992 |
The children are invited to the TV show by Krusty as a live audience. But reality disaffects Bart when he realizes that Krusty is an actor. He pulls off his clown nose and creates a commotion that Homer and Marge see on TV. | |||||
36 | 7th | hero of the day | Bart the Hero | Jan. 29, 1989 | Apr 13, 1992 |
Bart happens to be involved in the arrest of a robber who raids candy shops. Homer is thrilled when he sees him live on TV and horrified when Bart tries to get the reward in candy. | |||||
37 | 8th | A beard story | Bart's Little Fantasy | Feb. 5, 1989 | Apr 2, 1992 |
Have the children tidy up their room. Bart avoids it by preferring to tell a story to the others. For this he is sent by Homer to mow the lawn. | |||||
38 | 9 | Fear and Loathing | Scary Movie | Feb 12, 1989 | Apr 13, 1992 |
Bart, Lisa and Maggie go to the cinema together. Bart prevails in the choice of film, then is most frightened about the "space mutants" themselves. | |||||
39 | 10 | hypnosis | Homer Hypnotism | Feb. 19, 1989 | 25 Sep 1993 |
Homer and Marge want to hypnotize their hyperactive children. Bart, Lisa and Maggie pretend to jump on it and turn into zombies. In this way they heal their parents from this plan for the future. | |||||
40 | 11 | A shoplifting | Shoplifting | Feb. 26, 1989 | Apr 15, 1992 |
Bart is caught shoplifting chocolate bars. He's plastering the evidence in the department store office. When he was not remorseful on the drive home with his parents and still bragged that he was being brought home for free, they abandoned him on the street. | |||||
41 | 12 | The echo | Echo Canyon | March 12 1989 | Apr 15, 1992 |
On an excursion, the comic reading children should get out of the car because of a lookout point. They are not interested in it, even if there is supposed to be an echo there. A dispute ensues between Homer and Bart, which is intensified by the echo. Marge is initially enthusiastic about it, when Lisa is unimpressed, Lisa, Maggie and also Marge begin to immerse themselves in comic books. | |||||
42 | 13 | Bath time | Bathtime * | 19 Mar 1989 | Apr 7, 1992 |
Homer drags Bart into the bathtub against his will. The water is initially cold, but after Bart turns on the warm water, he likes the bathtub, but causes a flooding. | |||||
43 | 14th | His nightmare | Bart's Nightmare | 26th Mar 1989 | Apr 10, 1992 |
The whole family seems angry that Bart ate a whole can of cookies. His stomach is aching and he has nightmares about it. He is woken up by the family, who don't seem to be angry at all. Homer offers him a cookie and Bart is shocked about it. | |||||
44 | 15th | Wild children | Bart of the Jungle | Apr 16, 1989 | Aug 14, 1993 |
Homer asks the kids who are frolicking around the house to play in the garden. They build a snare trap there, which Homer then climbs into. | |||||
45 | 16 | Family therapy | Family Therapy | Apr 23, 1989 | July 11, 1993 |
Homer lures the family to see a psychiatrist for family therapy. At first everyone is hostile to each other, but when the psychiatrist insults Bart, they begin to show solidarity with him, so that the family is thrown out by him and in the end everyone laughs together. | |||||
46 | 17th | Maggie in danger (part 1) | Maggie In Peril (Chapter One) | Apr 30, 1989 | Dec 8, 1992 |
Bart and Lisa are supposed to take care of Maggie, but are absorbed in their comics. Bart kicks a ball from Maggie over the fence, she breaks out of her crawl space, pursues the ball on a skateboard, ends up in a sewer and finally falls down a waterfall. | |||||
47 | 18th | Maggie in danger (part 2) | Maggie In Peril (The Thrilling Conclusion) | May 7, 1989 | Apr 8, 1992 |
Maggie comes out of the water on her skateboard, grabs a couple of helium balloons at the fair and ends up back in her crawl space with them unnoticed. | |||||
48 | 19th | The television family | TV Simpsons | May 14, 1989 | Apr 8, 1992 |
The children fly a kite, it gets caught in the antenna and disturbs Homer while watching TV. He climbs on the roof, tears the kite apart and falls down. |
* aired in the 138th episode The 138th episode, a special screening ( season 7 ).
** aired in the 400th episode The Bad Word ( season 18 ).
*** aired in the 616th episode In Search of Mr. Goodbart ( season 28 ).
See also
Web links
- Entry Simpsons Shorts on Simpsonspedia.net
- Detailed episode guide on Die-Simpsons.org
- The Simpsons Shorts on Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
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- ↑ a b c d The Simpsons - Background. In: ProSieben .de. Retrieved June 9, 2012 .
- ^ David Bianculli: Simpson's Creator Matt Groening. In: National Public Radio. February 14, 2003, accessed August 9, 2011 (English, audio interview with Matt Groening).
- ^ Alan Paul: Matt Groening (interview), Flux Magazine Issue # 6. September 30, 1987.
- ^ A b c Cagle, Daryl: The David Silverman Interview . MSNBC. Archived from the original on June 7, 2008. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
- ↑ Harvey Deneroff: Matt Groening's Baby Turns 10 , Animation Magazine, Vol. 14, # 1. January 2000, pp. 10, 12.
- ^ A b Ray Richmond, Antonia Coffman: The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to our Favorite Family . Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, ISBN 0-00-638898-1 , p. 178.
- ↑ Luaine Lee: D'oh, you're the voices , The Age. February 27, 2003. Retrieved August 18, 2007.
- ↑ Lynn Elber: D'oh !: The Voice of Homer Is Deceivingly Deadpan , Associated Press . August 18, 2007. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 29, 2007.
- ^ Nancy Cartwright: My Life as a Ten Year Old Boy . Bloomsbury, 2000, ISBN 0-7475-4748-3 , pp. 43-46.
- ^ A b Ray Richmond, Antonia Coffman: The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to our Favorite Family . Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, ISBN 0-00-638898-1 , pp. 14-15.
- ↑ The Tracey Ullman Show: About the TV series. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved June 5, 2012 .
- ↑ The Simpsons. In: German synchronous card index . Archived from the original on August 25, 2012 ; Retrieved September 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Production code : Shortsguide. In: simpsonspedia.net. Retrieved April 18, 2012 .