Morgan Spurlock was at some FOX promo event and was briefly interviewed about the Simpsons special. You can watch all two minutes and fourteen seconds of it here. There’s not much in the way of news, it’s mostly just him being excited. He did say he’s watching all the episodes though, at chunks of 5-6 per day. I’d be fine with that through about Season 9 and then they’d have to put me on suicide watch.
Oh, and since it’s hosted by the always lame TV.com you’ll have to turn off any adblocking software you may be using in order to view it. And just for the record, TV.com ad-people, I neither watched nor listened to your ad. Multi-tab browsing is a bitch.
Did you guys see the Al Jean interview at Hitfix (http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-the-fien-print/posts/hitfix-interview-the-simpsons-showrunner-al-jean)?? Relevant excerpt:
HitFix: So how are you participating in this “Best. 20 Years. Ever.” Anniversary celebration the show is doing?
AJ: A few ways. Matt [Groening] and I, we’re doing a two-hour block. We hav the one-hour documentary by Morgan Spurlock, which I participated in. We had a contest Morgan and I, plus Matt Selman, were the judges trying to find the biggest “Simpsons” fan ever. I’ve worked with him and I think he’s great. We want sort of an outside-inside look. We wanted to do a history of the show, but not to take ourselves too seriously and to be more interested in “Who in the world has the most ‘Simpsons’ tattoos?” or “What does the world look like if you’re inside a Homer suit?” And then the rest of the night, the second hour, is two new episodes, one starring Anne Hathaway, in which she sings and she’s brilliant, and then another good episode with Chris Martin of Coldplay. And then there’s a contest that ties in with it where a fan gets to create a new character that we’ll introduce in the second episode of the night.