The Simpsons (season 20)
The 20th season of the American animated television series The Simpsons was first broadcast on 28 September 2008 to 17 May 2009 on American broadcaster Fox. The German Air Date sent ProSieben of 7 September 2009 to 13 April 2010.
- 4.1 criticism
- 4.2 Awards
Characters
Development and production
The production of the 20th season was delayed by difficult negotiations with the six main voice actors. The dispute ended when the salaries of voice actors has increased to $ 400,000 per episode. Due to the delay in production only 20 were produced instead of 22 episodes. Dan Castellaneta, American voice of Homer Simpson, was first listed as a consulting producer in the credits. The other main speakers were Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer; for supporting roles were mainly Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor and Karl Wiedergott responsible.
The first episode was broadcast in HD, the tenth of 20 Squadron, bollocks; it was erstausgestrahlt on 15 February 2009 in the United States, Germany was the premiere on November 17, 2009. too, the new header was introduced in this episode.
20 years The Simpsons
2009, when the Simpsons were shown 20 years in television, Fox announced that for this reason a special named Best 20 Years. Ever will radiate to the Simpsons. The broadcast was finally held on 14 January 2009 to 14 January 2010 at the same time several competitions were held, at which fans of the series eg could design a poster Simpson.
As part of the celebration of the Irish- tinged episode was aired in the name of his grandfather on 17 March 2009 in the UK and Ireland. This was the first episode that was seen earlier in Europe than in the United States. In the USA Original Air Date on 22 March 2009 in Germany on 12 January 2010.
Episodes
Reception
Criticism
" The 20th season of " The Simpsons " was borderline euphoric expected. After twenty years under its belt, it may nevertheless already times lack of creativity and originality, or at least weaker. This is a natural evolution and basically already normal. But "The Simpsons" falter not, on the contrary. In the Jubilee Year Cast & Crew go again everything on what they have to offer biting, ironic and sarcastic wit. At times, the bitter and makes really, really fun! "
Awards
The episodes of the 20th season were nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards. The result on the hunt for the jewel of Springfield was in the categories of Outstanding Animated Program ( for Programming Less Than One Hour ) and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series. Dan Castellaneta won the category Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the episode The Papa 's is not addressed; Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer were nominated in the same category for the consequences of large, small or love Yes, this bee, I mean, which is called Monty. The winners were announced on 12 September 2009. In addition, Joel H. Cohen was awarded the Writers Guild of America Awards 2010.