The viewer therefore expects that Maggie will follow the familiar pattern in this episode and remain silent. But then it ...

This weekend, Birmingham-born jazz musician Sun Ra was briefly featured in an episode of “The Simpsons.” In the episode, titled “Convenience Airways,” sister Lisa attempts to entertain baby Maggie ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

“Lisa’s Substitute,” a season-two episode of The Simpsons written by one of the most reliably great storytellers in the show’s history, Jon Vitti, may not have been the first Simpsons episode to make ...

The Simpsonsis among the most influential television shows of all-time, and not just in the genre of comedy, or medium of animation. By offering a satirical take on what the “nuclear American family” ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...