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Bart Gets An F (1990) — The Simpsons Cartoon Episode Guide

The Simpsons

CotD: No one ever accused the Simp­sons of being the next Ein­steins, but “Bart Gets An F” is maybe too far to the other side…

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Time Out Of Joint (1993) — The Adventures of Batman and Robin Cartoon Episode Guide

Time Out Of Joint (1993) - The Adventures of Batman and Robin

CotD: From the sec­ond of the Fox/WB Bat­man series, “Time Out Of Joint” fea­tured one of the more obscure Bat-Criminals…

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Futurama” episode winner of Primetime Emmy Award

Futurama

The Late Philip J. Fry,” an episode of Com­edy Central’s “Futu­rama,” won a Cre­ative Arts Prime­time Emmy Award for Out­stand­ing Ani­mated Pro­gram on Sat­ur­day Night.

The Acad­emy of Tele­vi­sion Arts and Sci­ences awarded the 2010-11 Cre­ative Arts Prime­time Emmys for pro­grams and indi­vid­ual achieve­ments at the 63rd Emmy Awards pre­sen­ta­tion at the NOKIA The­atre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.

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Ice Age: Continental Drift” voice cast announced


Ice Age: Continental Drift

Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox Ani­ma­tion and Blue Sky Stu­dios announced Mon­day the voice cast for Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift, the fourth entry in Blue Sky’s block­buster fran­chise, which has grossed over $4 bil­lion in all media.

Fox will release the ani­mated com­edy in 3D on July 13, 2012.

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Fox planning to release 3D “Leafmen” in May 2013


Leafmen

Leaf­men,” Fox’s next major ani­mated film, is being sched­uled by the stu­dio for wide release on May 17, 2013.

Chris Wedge, who directed Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005) for Fox Ani­ma­tion as well, is direct­ing the 3D feature.

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Who Shot Mr. Burns? — Part One (1995) — The Simpsons Cartoon Episode Guide


The Simpsons

It’s bad enough that Mr. Burns steals the newly dis­cov­ered oil under Spring­field Ele­men­tary, but it’s going too far when he steals the town’s sun­shine. He is shot, and every­one won­ders who did the dirty deed.

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Joint Custody (2007) — American Dad! Cartoon Episode Guide


Joint Custody (2007) - American Dad! Cartoon Episode Guide

Roger becomes a bounty hunter, and he and Stan race cross-country to turn in Jeff, who is wanted for smug­gling pot into Florida.

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New “Flintstones” TV series emerges from Rubble


The Flintstones

Yabba dabba doo! Fox has picked up The Flint­stones, a 21st-century ver­sion of the clas­sic ani­mated com­edy from exec­u­tive pro­ducer Seth MacFarlane.

In a cross-studio col­lab­o­ra­tion, The Flint­stones will be pro­duced jointly by 20th Cen­tury Fox Tele­vi­sion and Warner Bros. Tele­vi­sion. Warner Bros. is home to The Flint­stones (1960–1966) via its own­er­ship of the Hanna-Barbera col­lec­tion of ani­mated titles.

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Voice of Bart Simpson denies pushing Scientology

The Simpsons

The actress who voices Bart on “The Simp­sons” denied Wednes­day that she’s try­ing to sneak the Church of Scientology’s teach­ings into Illi­nois classrooms.

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Gay old time to be had at Rio “Diversity” festival


The Ambiguously Gay Duo

Rio de Janeiro isn’t just the set­ting for an ani­mated movie fea­tur­ing macaws.

It’s also the venue for the third annual Diver­sity in Ani­ma­tion fes­ti­val, which gets under­way this Fri­day, May 6.

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Long John Peter (2008) — Family Guy Cartoon Episode Guide

Long John Peter (2008) - Family Guy Cartoon Episode Guide

Yo ho ho! It’s a pirate’s life for Peter when he gets a pet par­rot. But after rais­ing hell in Qua­hog and ter­ror­iz­ing the neigh­bors, Peter acci­den­tally kills his beloved pet. Mean­while, Chris goes with Brian to the vet and falls for the lovely intern Anna.

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Storm forces hurricane-themed Fox episodes off air

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Fox is pulling a hurricane-themed crossover pro­mo­tion of Seth MacFarlane’s ani­mated shows due to the storms and tor­nado dam­age in the South­east­ern United States that have killed about 300 people.

The net­work had planned to air linked episodes of Fam­ily Guy, Amer­i­can Dad! and The Cleve­land Show on Sun­day night. The new install­ments were to have an inter­con­nected story line about a hur­ri­cane on the East­ern Seaboard.

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Some heroes are born to fly.… Rio Review


Rio

Rio opened here last night and it was with a great deal of plea­sure and relief to watch after the awful­ness of Hop. Rio is a gen­uine ani­mated fea­ture unlike Hop, and it has one thing over the bunny disaster.…namely quality!!

I wouldn’t go as far to say that Rio is great because it doesn’t quite lift itself into that league. It isn’t Rango ter­ri­tory, or Pixar even, but it is well above that of the recent Gnomeo and Juliet.

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Chitty Chitty Death Bang (1990) — Family Guy Cartoon Episode Guide

Chitty Chitty Death Bang (1990) - Family Guy Cartoon

It’s Stewie’s first birth­day, and Lois has a big party arranged for him until Peter messes up her plans. Lois is furi­ous with Peter when he allows Meg to attend a party the same day as Stewie’s birthday.

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Rio” much louder than “Scream,” opens at $40M

Rio

20th Cen­tury Fox’s ani­mated fam­ily film “Rio” made much more noise than Scream 4 could, open­ing in North Amer­ica in first place with $40 mil­lion this weekend.

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