The Simpsons Theme Song interview
Groening talks about the origin of The Simpsons theme song, a collaboration with Danny Elfman.
We hooked up with Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo who had just started to do his film composing. He did Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and Batman and he got it (The Simpsons theme) right away.
French TV interview
Groening and Jean are interviewed on a French television channel. They talk about why it took so long to create The Simpsons Movie and Groening’s favorite characters. Jean:
We wrote the script from 2003 to 2006 and then started animating and then continued to rewrite. We just finished rewriting and reanimated so it’s done as of last week.
Tracey Ullman interview
Ullman speaks about the her thoughts on The Simpsons being a part of her variety show.
The Simpson family are unusual and truthful and it’s quite a lovely thing to add to our variety show format.
