Disney’s D23 Expo, the company’s biennial celebration of corporate consolidation, is in full swing down in Anaheim, and unlike last month at Comic-Con there’s some actual Simpsons news!

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• The upcoming sequel to 2007’s The Simpsons Movie finally has a title: The New Simpsons Movie. I like it and I’m relieved I no longer have to awkwardly write around it.
• During the Disney Entertainment Showcase, they screened an early animatic of a scene from the movie where Homer and much of Springfield chase after a baseball.
• On the show floor, they brought back the hedges from 2024. I’d like to think they overpaid for them and now they have to keep bringing them back to justify the cost. Laughing Place has some photos of the pavillion.
• During a Simpsons panel, Matt Groening may have accidentally revealed The Simpsons: Hit and Run will be re-released “in some form,” which showrunner Matt Selman tried to cover by saying “…or not.” When asked about a potential collaboration with Universal Studios’s Halloween Horror Nights (“Disney loves that question,” quipped Groening), Selman responded “I can’t announce it officially, but I am going to say it out loud: that we are going to begin the process of Treehouse of Horror-ing the Universal experience, probably first with food and experience later.”

Here’s another roundup of small Simpsons and Simpsons-adjacent news from around the web.

• There wasn’t any big Simpsons news out of Comic-Con this year. Maybe they’re saving it all for Disney’s D23 Expo on August 14, like whether the upcoming movie will be in Infinity Vision or not. I need to see Homer’s pupils in at least 14 footlamberts!
• Former Fox Television president Harris Katleman, who was instrumental in getting The Simpsons on the air, died at 97 last month. In his memoir, he tells a story about convincing Oscar-winning director James L. Brooks to jump back to television, which lead to The Tracey Ullman Show and the original Simpsons shorts (though I think the money did most of the convincing). As they were pitching The Simpsons as its own series, Katleman believed Fox network executive Barry Diller would pass, so he secretly screened a presentation for ABC president Bob Iger, who offered to buy the series if Diller passed. Diller was skeptical of greenlighting the show but relented when he heard Iger had made an offer. Sometimes studio executives are good! [Deadline via Talking Simpsons]
• This official Disney article says Bart’s middle name is JoJo, which was just something voice actress Nancy Cartwright ad-libbed once, but was never actually used in the show. Does this mean it’s canon now???
• Back in 2024, Disney outsourced its home entertainment business to Sony. In 2025, Sony announced it would cease Blu-ray production, and more recently announced PlayStation will go digital-only. I don’t know what’s going on over there, but it’s not looking great for Simpsons fans who have been waiting patiently for Season 21 on Blu-ray. [PlayStation.Blog]
• Social Media Watch: Over on Twitter, the reclusive John Swartzwelder has been posting photos from his time on the show, including group shots with guest stars Dr. Joyce Brothers and Johnny Carson standing mere inches from future Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien. Producer and Marvel nerd Al Jean showed off a Spider-Man book autographed by Stan Lee, and the first and last pages of a draft of The Simpsons Movie.

Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks was trapped in an elevator for nearly 30 minutes before being rescued by firefighters on Monday night.

The Oscar-winning director and recent Peabody recipient was stuck in an elevator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures alongside fellow director Wes Anderson and actor Luke Wilson, as well as some other, less important people. The three men had just finished a Q&A session before a 30th anniversary screening of Anderson’s directorial debut Bottle Rocket, which was produced by Brooks’s Gracie Films. Film buff account Save Your Cinema claimed this was a “secret” elevator not accessible by the general public, but The Hollywood Reporter could not confirm this.

A video clip posted on Instagram showed their harrowing escape:

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As shown in the clip, a firefighter theorized the incident was probably caused by “too much weight in there” when asked by Anderson.

It appears the elevator in question was manufactured by MATT Construction rather than one of the major elevator manufacturers. While I do not wish to cast aspersions, I believe Hollywood royalty deserves nothing less than the dependable craftsmanship of ThyssenKrupp (now TK Elevators), which is “as good as it gets” when it comes to elevators. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Frinkiac, the incredible Simpsons screenshot search engine, has undergone a massive upgrade. Every episode has been added, which you can see on a handy navigator page (previously it only went up to Season 17, less than half the entire series). There are also improvements to the gif generator, and the meme creator has been supplanted with a “comic maker” that spits out multiple framegrabs of a scene with more options, including new fonts. These changes also apply to its Futurama counterpart, Morbotron.

Paul Kehrer, one of the developers, outlined all the changes and technical mumbojumbo in a blog post, where he also mentions some future plans:

Visual search! We’ve been working on this for a while, but we’re not happy with the results yet so it’s feature flagged off. The biggest challenge is that the visual models which describe scenes are not good at identifying characters. We need to improve character recognition and integrate it with scene descriptions to provide acceptable visual search results and that remains a work in progress. For example, it is not enough to know that Homer, Bart, and Moe are in a scene, we need the textual description to correctly identify which characters are performing which actions. We make no promises on dates (we did neglect this site for nearly ten years after all), but keep an eye out.

Frinkiac initially launched in February 2016 and is probably the only useful tech innovation in the past decade (well, I guess the COVID vaccine was good too). Younger Simpsons fans will never know what a pain in the ass it was finding the right screencap prior to its creation, let alone create gifs. May it continue living on forever.

Oscar-winning writer/director James L. Brooks’s latest film, Ella McCay is being released soon, and he’s enlisted some old friends to help him market it: the Simpsons.

As of this posting, The Simpsons‘s social media accounts have posted about the film three times. One post has a video with Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge who also has a role in the film, introducing a trailer. In the video, James L. Brooks is identified as “co-creator” of The Simpsons, which is a little eyebrow-raising, given Matt Groening is the sole credited creator. OK, maybe “co-creator” is a little more descriptive to the average person than the nebulous title of “executive producer,” and Brooks did develop the show alongside Groening and the late Sam Simon, so maybe all three should be considered creators. Nevertheless, it’s not a great look for a multi-millionaire Hollywood legend to be grabbing a little more credit for himself decades later. Or are they soft-launching Brooks as the true visionary behind the show in the event Groening suddenly has to withdraw from public appearances…?

Another post features a poster for the film with the cast drawn in Simpsons style, with the caption “They’re not from Springfield, but they’d fit right in.” Would they? Seems like kind of a reach.

The latest post features a particularly shameless animated promo where Lisa and Marge exit a theater gushing about how great the film was. “It’s a very terrific movie,” Marge opines, while Lisa is ecstatic that “finally a movie gets me.” It’s reminiscent of the Riverdale episode where characters go see Love, Simon, a film coincidentally directed by the show’s executive producer.

Both The Simpsons and Ella McCay are produced by Brooks’s company Gracie Films, and the film is being distributed by Disney under the 20th Century Studios label, so maybe a little corporate synergy is to be expected. The Simpsons is, of course, no stranger to promotion – Bart was hawking Butterfingers before the series even premiered – but it’s intensified since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox. The show started pumping out promotional shorts for Balenciaga, Bad Bunny, opera superstar Andrea Bocelli and more, for which they’ve won multiple advertising industry awards. Last month, there were even two couch gags involving Fortnite in the show itself, promoting the Simpsons-themed Fortnite season.

Nor is this the first time Brooks has used the show to push his other projects. A couple years ago, Marge was featured in a promo for the Gracie-produced adaptation of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. And perhaps the Ella McCay campaign is not as egregious as the time Brooks insisted on doing a crossover with The Critic, another Gracie-produced animated sitcom, over objections from the staff (including Groening, who ultimately had his credit removed from the episode, for which Brooks publicly called him an ingrate).

Nevertheless, the Ella McCay cross-promotion still seems a little brazen, even considering everything. There was never an episode where Homer convinces Marge to see Spanglish. Ultimately, Brooks is the boss, and he gets what he wants. Maybe he’ll get the stars of Ella McCay to return the favor and promote the next Simpsons movie, which has just been pushed back to September 2027.

They’ve have been to Australia, Japan, Africa, Brazil, England, China, Antarctica, and even Canada. Now the Simpsons are going to Fortnite Island, where you can finally achieve what Sideshow Bob has only dreamed of: kill Bart Simpson.*

After years of rumors, The Simpsons has been absorbed into the massively popular video game Fortnite in a major collaboration. Starting today, a month-long Simpsons-themed season will have players battle it out on an island map based on Springfield. Marge, Homer, and Ned Flanders are available as rewards with the purchase of a Battle Pass, while other characters (Lisa, Bart, Moe, Krusty, and Scratchy) are or will be available to purchase separately.

Among other stuff, a blog post announced there will be weekly fully-animated cutscenes shorts that will also be released on Disney+ about Homer gaining godlike powers from a shard of primordial energy so even non-gamers can enjoy inscrutable references to Fortnite lore (the first short, “Apocalypse D’oh,” is already up). So far there is voice acting from Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, and Hank Azaria. We hear some laughs from Nancy Cartwright-voiced characters Bart and Nelson in other footage, but no dialogue yet, and Harry Shearer’s characters Kang and Ned Flanders are conspicuously silent (Shearer usually doesn’t participate in these things, like The Simpsons Ride or that Family Guy crossover, so that’s to be expected). It’s a far cry from Lego Dimensions, which only had archival recordings of Castellaneta, or that time when Peter Griffin appeared in a Fortnite short but didn’t speak. Also, Matt Groening’s signature is everywhere, unlike the Futurama collaboration.

The success of Simpsons in Fortnite could prove there is demand for a new Simpsons game. Not counting the freemium mobile game Tapped Out, which shut down earlier this year, there hasn’t been a “true” new Simpsons game since 2007’s The Simpsons Game. Could this herald a new era of Simpsons gaming?

*OK technically they’re not going anywhere because the Simpsons reality merged with the current Fortnite island, Oninoshima. And characters don’t really “die,” they are bloodlessly “eliminated.”

Last month, Disney shocked the world by announcing the long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s The Simpsons Movie by unceremoniously dumping a teaser image on Instagram. In this modern computer age, the sheer tonnage of information being blasted at you like a shotgun can be overwhelming, making it pretty difficult to keep up. So, as a service to you, here’s a list of everything we currently know about the upcoming sequel:

• The release date (July 23, 2027)

Now here’s a list of things that have not yet been officially confirmed:

• The title
• The cast
• Who’s directing it
• Who’s writing it
• Who’s producing it
• Who’s scoring it
• What it will look like (2D? 3D? Live action??)

When the theatrical Bluey movie was announced last year, they put out a press release with all kinds of information about the film, creative team, and plans for its release, peppered with quotes from executives and creatives. It seems odd that Disney has yet to do the same for this upcoming Simpsons movie, which is being released two weeks earlier. Should fans be concerned about the lack of information? Is this movie being rushed and everything’s in flux? Could they be pulling a switcheroo on us? Has the unproduced live-action Krusty sitcom from the 90s been turned into a movie??? Be sure to keep checking IN THE NEWS to stay up to date with the latest news as it’s tortured out of the writers.

In last night’s episode, the skeletal corpse of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon was seen in a long-abandoned Kwik-E-Mart, implied to have engaged in a gun battle with his frequent adversary Snake Jailbird. It’s a sad fate for this father of eight.

There had been a lot of controversy about the character in the past decade, leading voice actor Hank Azaria to step down from the role, but the show refrained from recasting the character or writing him off the show… until now.

It is unclear if Apu’s death will be a permanent part of the show moving forward, or if fan outcry will force the writers to bring him back to life in the next episode, like they did with Marge in the season premiere.

IN THE NEWS was able to obtain a teaser trailer:

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The Simpsons Predicted Trump’s Fall, Vance’s Resignation, and Kamala’s Rise – Shocking 2025 Parallels

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Looks like exciting stuff! Can’t wait to see it on the big screen in 2027!

Earlier today at San Diego Comic-Con, Simpsons producers announced the opening segment of this Halloween’s annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode will be guest animated by The Onion‘s legendary editorial cartoonist Stan Kelly.

A recent South Park episode making fun of President Trump caused a quite a stir, so it’s no surprise to see The Simpsons jumping on the bandwagon and “getting political.” And there’s nobody better to tackle the subject than Kelly, whose name is synonymous with political cartoons. A fixture in the pages of America’s finest news source, Kelly has been using his scathing wit to lambast anti-American elitists, scheming foreigners, selfish hussies, today’s no-good teens, and beeping gizmos since 1966. In recent years, “Sickos Guy,” a character originally from this cartoon, has “gone viral” as a “meme,”* perhaps due to his personification of today’s sick, modern times.

*Latest fad.

It is unclear if Simpsons producers were aware of Kelly’s clear distaste for the show, as expressed in this 2015 comic. Nevertheless, Kelly will soon join an illustrious group of cartoonists and animators who have been featured on the show, including Gary Larson, Roz Chast, Art Spiegelman, Eric Goldberg, Don Hertzfeldt, Alison Bechdel, Daniel Clowes, Bill Plympton, and Matt Groening. [Variety]

After 36 seasons, a beloved television staple is leaving its longtime network.

Inside the NBA, the popular sports analysis show, is moving from TNT to the Disney-owned channel ESPN starting with the 2025-2026 season. TNT’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, lost the NBA rights in a major bag fumble. The show will continue to be independently produced by TNT Sports at its Atlanta-based studio.

The show, which premiered in autumn 1989, ended its run on TNT last night with co-host Shaquille O’Neal giving a profane sign-off: “We’re a family. I’m glad we’re sticking together. And like I said, even though the name changes, the engine is still the same. And to that network we coming to, we not coming to eff around. Since this is the last show, I’m going to say it- we not coming to fuck around. We kicking ass, we taking names and we taking over.” [Yahoo Sports]

Alf Clausen, the composer of The Simpsons for nearly 27 years, has died following a struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 84.

Raised in Jamestown, North Dakota, Clausen’s big break was arranging music for the Donny & Marie variety show in 1976. He would go on to be the composer for the dramedy series Moonlighting and sitcom ALF, and worked on a number of films including Splash, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and The Naked Gun. He joined The Simpsons in fall 1990, having been recommended by writer/producer Jay Kogen, whose musician uncle had worked alongside him numerous times. The first season had been scored by Richard Gibbs, but the producers were trying out new composers for Season 2. Clausen was hesitant about the job, as he recounted in a 2007 interview:

I had no interest in doing animation; I wanted to be a drama composer. And [creator] Matt Groening said his favorite comment to me: “We don’t look upon this as being a cartoon but a drama where the characters are drawn, and we would like it scored that way. Can you do that?” And I went, “Bingo, I can do that. I have technology to do that.”

His debut episode was “Treehouse of Horror,” the first installment of what would become an annual Halloween tradition, which earned him the position of permanent composer. He would go on to score over 600 episodes over 27 seasons. He racked up many Emmy nominations – per Variety, he is “believed to be the most-nominated composer in Emmy history” – with his first win in 1997 for “We Put the Spring in Springfield.”

The late Chris Ledesma, the show’s longtime music editor who’d worked closely with Clausen, sang his praises in a 2011 blog post:

Picking Alf as composer for THE SIMPSONS was the best choice the producers could have ever made. His ability to write in virtually any musical expression or ethnicity has served the show brilliantly. I can’t think of any other TV show in history that has had scores with influences from so many eras in history, locales around (and above and below) the world, and numerous styles from country to pop to acid rock to Broadway and more. More than 470 episodes in, he still continues to amaze and deliver.

In a 2014 interview with the Television Academy Foundation, Clausen talked about the long hours of the job, and confessed it was “very difficult” working with the show’s iconic theme song, which he’d inherited from Danny Elfman. Asked to name his biggest contribution to the show, he replied “I give it a certain special touch that nobody else has.”

Clausen had a particular talent for close-but-legally-distinct musical parodies. Voice actress Nancy Cartwright highlighted this skill in her book My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy:

Part of the challenge Alf faces is how to make the parodies sound like the songs they emulate. This is the genius of Alf. In “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-d’oh-cious,” he had the task of creating a sound that felt like and reminded you of the popular Mary Poppins hit, but was just tongue-in-cheek enough so that it didn’t get us sued. He goes to great lengths to figure out the original songs’ harmonies, melodies, rhythms and orchestrations so that he can then “tweak” this and “sweeten” that and otherwise shift it enough so that this new song reminds the listener, but is still unique.

Some of these pieces were included in a tribute to Clausen during 2014’s “Simpsons Take the Bowl” event at the Hollywood Bowl, including Sideshow Bob’s theme, a takeoff on Bernard Herrmann’s Cape Fear score.

Although Clausen had desired to do longform, feature film work, 2007’s The Simpsons Movie was scored by Hans Zimmer, the acclaimed film composer who’d previously scored several of executive producer James L. Brooks’s films. He seemed unhappy about the decision, commenting obliquely “Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.”

In 2017, Clausen was unceremoniously fired from the show via e-mail. After the news broke, Simpsons producers issued a statement, claiming he would “continue to have an ongoing role in the show” and they remained “committed to the finest in music for the Simpsons, absolutely including orchestral.” The 35-piece orchestra was dropped, and Clausen was replaced by Hans Zimmer….’s music production company Bleeding Fingers Music. He would continue to be credited with the title “composer emeritus” for the next two seasons.

Clausen filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the show in 2019, alleging he’d been fired due to age discrimination. Simpsons producers countered that he’d been let go “because they didn’t think the classical- and jazz-inclined Clausen was up to the challenges of more contemporary tunes,” and claimed he’d been secretly delegating his work to his son Scott, a fellow composer. A particular point of contention was the two-parter episode “The Great Phatsby,” a hip-hop themed parody of the Fox series Empire. The lawsuit was eventually dropped.

In addition to The Simpsons, Clausen worked on the animated series The Critic, the Bette Midler sitcom Bette, and the film Half Baked. He also released a jazz album in 2005.

Following news of Clausen’s death, Matt Groening paid tribute:

Alf was the Man of a Thousand Music Cues — actually probably more than 10,000 — during his decades on The Simpsons. He was tireless, inspired, and always up for the musical challenges we threw at him. I called him our secret weapon.

Over the years, The Simpsons has had a bit of a rivalry with Fox News, its former corporate sibling and farm team for the Trump Administration. In 2003, creator Matt Groening claimed the arch-conservative cable news channel threatened to sue the show over a parody involving its news crawl. Seven years later, disgraced pundit Bill O’Reilly took exception to a gag written on a helicopter, which naturally led Simpsons producers to do it again and again. So it might come as a bit of a surprise that these two American institutions are joining forces to fight a common enemy: cord-cutting.

Fox Corporation recently unveiled its upcoming streaming platform, Fox One, which will give subscribers access to “the full portfolio of FOX brands,” including Fox News, Fox’s sports channels, and the Fox network, which broadcasts The Simpsons. Vulture raises some questions about the service, but for the moment it’s looking like you’ll be able to watch The Simpsons on Fox and then switch over to Sean Hannity on Fox News without ever leaving the app, for the low, low price of “yet to be determined.” Will such wonders never cease?

The Simpsons has had a home at Fox for nearly four decades. Now it looks like our favorite family could be leaving forever.

Los Angeles Times:

Walt Disney Co. acknowledged Tuesday that it will be vacating the storied Fox Studio Lot, where it has been the primary occupant since Disney bought most of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets in 2019. The $71.3-billion deal did not include the studio real estate. However, it featured a provision that Disney would move in as a tenant for at least seven years.

James L. Brooks’s production company Gracie Films, which produces the show, has had offices on the lot since the mid-1980s as a result of his 1984 production deal with Fox. It hasn’t been publicly confirmed if Gracie will be relocating to Disney’s lot in Burbank. However, by comparing a 2014 map of the lot with Fox’s future concept plans, it looks like Fox intends to replace the writers’ building (which has a fountain in front) with new production offices (indicated in blue). Here’s a comparison I whipped up:

Recently, executive producer Al Jean, perhaps feeling nostalgic, has been posting photos of the offices on social media:

Yesterday and today @TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/g2fA0iAsx0

— Al Jean (@AlJean) January 18, 2025

Same bg today… pic.twitter.com/EviuEa0vxM

— Al Jean (@AlJean) March 15, 2025

That building has borne witness to some historic moments in television history, like the time Conan O’Brien and the other writers stuck a huge glob of caramel to the ceiling, and where somebody punched a box. The writers’ room was used as the model for the Itchy & Scratchy writers’ room in the season 4 episode “The Front,” and a cartoon version of the exterior was included in the mobile game Tapped Out.

The Fox lot is also home to the Marge Simpson ADR Stage, where the dialogue is recorded. A big Simpsons mural is on the exterior of Stage 20, and there’s a cafe themed after Moe.

In other news, Fox has renewed The Simpsons for four more seasons, ensuring the show will still have a home on the network until at least 2029.

In the wake of the box office success of Snow White, a live-action remake of the 1937 animated classic, Disney is moving forward with another live-action remake of a beloved property that will certainly excite fans. This property just so happens to be a comedy produced by Gracie Films centered around a certain dysfunctional family that premiered in 1989 and features the voice of Dan Castellaneta…

That’s right, The War of the Roses! Based on the 1981 Warren Adler novel of the same name, the film was directed by Danny DeVito and starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as Oliver and Barbara Rose, bickering spouses whose marriage is falling apart. It was 20th Century Fox’s highest-grossing film that year. Incidentally, it was presented with a Simpsons short from The Tracey Ullman Show, “Family Therapy.”

Now, Disney’s arthouse subsidiary Searchlight Pictures is releasing The Roses, a remake starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. Although Gracie Films isn’t involved with this one, I think it would be a great treat for movie buffs if it premiered with a new Simpsons short, as a “tip of the hat” to the original. The Roses debuts in theaters on August 29, 2025. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Disney+ has finally added a live, 24/7, commercial-free Simpsons channel – excuse me, “Stream” with a capital S – freeing users from the tyranny of having to select a specific episode, a brilliant innovation that FXX’s Simpsons World service had over a decade ago.

From the press release:

Beginning today, Disney+ will add a new 24/7 always-on Stream for THE SIMPSONS with 767 episodes across seasons 1-35 programmed in chronological order at launch. This means a total of nearly 300 continuous hours with the Simpsons family.

“From day one, the fans have asked for a Stream of THE SIMPSONS, and we’re happy to oblige,” said Gabe Lewis, SVP of Programming & Content Curation, Disney+. “Streams on Disney+ have been a fantastic go-to experience for subscribers looking to sit back and relax with their favorite shows and movies, and we look forward to evolving the user experience and expanding the offering with more Streams, to more subscribers, later this year.”

“THE SIMPSONS Stream will deliver a SIMPSONS marathon all day, every day — no matter when you tune in, this ultimate SIMPSONS binge will be there,” added Matt Selman, THE SIMPSONS Show-runner and Binge-watcher.

As a pedant I appreciate that they specifically say 767 episodes and never claim to have “every episode,” as “Stark Raving Dad” remains out of circulation. Though this seemingly implies the two Disney+ exclusive episodes (“O C’mon All Ye Faithful” and “The Past and the Furious”) don’t count.

“The Simpsons Stream,” which I guess is its official name, appears to have gone live at noon Eastern time, and is currently airing episodes in sequential order. The press release also says the programming will be “refreshed monthly” so maybe once it completes Season 35 it will become more random. Amazingly, the pre-HD episodes are in the proper 4:3 aspect ratio, even if you have selected otherwise. Currently it is limited to Disney+ users on the premium (ad-free) plan in the United States.

Back in 2014, the Internet went crazy for FXX’s “Every. Simpsons. Ever.” marathon, where everybody could watch and post about the currently-airing episode live. Could history repeat itself? Sure, this simple livestream was like created to boost viewership metrics ahead of Disney’s Q2 earnings report in May. But maybe, just maybe, it could unite and heal a divided nation.

Yee-haw, pard’ners, it’s a special all-Animation Domination edition of News Roundup, where we wrangle up minor news items from all over yonder.

• Everything’s coming up King of the Hill! Alamo Beer is becoming a reality, Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng is taking over the role of Kahn in the upcoming revival, and Hank Hill is rumored to be an upcoming skin in Fortnite.
• Former Bob’s Burgers voice actor Jay Johnston has been pardoned by President Trump for his actions in the January 6, 2021 fun run, per his fiancée.
• The Cleveland Show voice actor David Lynch has died.
• Seth MacFarlane’s doodle of Brian to thank the firefighters battling the devastating Los Angeles wildfires: charming, cute, inspiring. The Simpsons version put out a week later: maudlin, stiff, indistinguishable from DeviantArt.