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Matt Selman is an American writer and producer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. He has won six Primetime Emmy Awards and co-written the show's film and video games.
Matt Selman is an American screenwriter and producer who has worked on The Simpsons since 1997. He has won seven Primetime Emmys and created the Icebox series Superhero Roommate.
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Matt Selman is an American writer and producer. He is known for The Simpsons in 1989, The Simpsons Movie in 2007, and The Simpsons Game in 2007. After considering a career in journalism, Matt decided to try to become a television writer.
Aug 8, 2022 · Matt Selman, co-showrunner of The Simpsons, talks about the show's enduring popularity, the upcoming season, the video games, and the movie. He also shares some news about a potential sequel and his experience as a guest on Doughboys podcast.
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- "We're still pumping out crazy episodes."
- A Generational Time Capsule
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- Looking Ahead to Season 33
By Kat Bailey
Updated: Jul 28, 2021 7:11 pm
Posted: Jul 28, 2021 6:00 pm
If you want to get Matt Selman talking, you only need to mention Simpsons Hit & Run — the 2003 sandbox action game that took America's most famous cartoon family and effectively dropped them into Grand Theft Auto 3.
Now 20 years old, Simpsons Hit & Run has enjoyed a mini-renaissance among fans of the series, who fondly remember it for its silly, simple gameplay and reams of references. These recollections have created a groundswell of support for a remaster or even a remake — a groundswell that Selman fully supports.
“I would love to see a remastered version of [Simpsons Hit & Run], I would,” Selman tells IGN. “It's a complicated corporate octopus to try to make that happen.”
Like the rest of the show’s ancillary material, Simpsons Hit & Run — and more recently, the crossover short featuring Loki — serve as a time capsule for a show that encompasses multiple pop culture eras. The Simpsons has been in practically every conceivable entertainment medium, from comic books to film to video games. Now in its 33rd season, multiple generations of fans have grown up with the series, which Selman describes as "the ultimate compliment."
Selman himself has been present for several of those eras. While he wasn’t around for the earliest days of the series, he had a hand in several seminal Simpsons moments. His first credited episode was the Season 9 finale Natural Born Kissers — the famously racy episode that ends with a naked Marge and Homer being chased throughout Springfield. Selman would go on to work on several of the games based on The Simpsons, including The Simpsons Game, and talks about being addicted to The Simpsons Tapped Out mobile game, amused by how one could find an “uncensored, bizarre, crazy, bananas joke” buried in one of its otherwise unassuming dialogue bubbles.
These days Selman is the co-showrunner alongside Al Jean, a relationship he describes as "super collaborative." His writing days on The Simpsons largely behind him, he is currently focused on the show’s upcoming 33rd season, which among other things will include a musical episode featuring Kristen Bell, and what Selman calls a massive two-part tribute to prestige dramas like Fargo. He describes himself as a coach, there to give writers, animators, actors, and musicians the occasional nudge while aiding Jean in running day-to-day operations.
If Selman feels the burden of history working on a show like The Simpsons, he doesn’t show it. Even so many years after South Park joked that the Simpsons had already done every conceivable idea, Selman says he’s still able to find ways to put established characters in strange and interesting situations. He points to the Season 30 episode "Krusty the Clown," which finds the cantankerous TV host hiding out in a low-budget circus.
We're not saying this is the official continuity now, and none of that other stuff happened. We're just saying in this one episode, this is a silly way to present the character’s life. It doesn't mean that the people's beloved episodes from the past didn't happen
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As for the perpetual threat of the Simpsons coming to an end, Selman says he’s never really sat down with the team to brainstorm a conclusion, despite rumors of a stealth ending through the years. "That doesn't seem like a fun meeting, that seems like a sad meeting. And maybe we shouldn't even do a last episode," he says. "We should just pick a ran...
For now, The Simpsons can look ahead to another season — and another one beyond that, as it has already been renewed for Season 34. The upcoming year will feature the aforementioned two-parter, which Selman calls an “artistic, ambitious, dark, twisted... kind of chapterized... crime story” — the kind of story that Simpsons can’t normally tell. It will also explore Homer’s relationship with Grandpa, which Selman calls a “great, emotional episode,” and Mo’s love life.
However it turns out, the Simpsons continues to be further than ever from that unprofitable moment once predicted by Troy McClure (rest in peace, Phil Hartman). When Selman came aboard in Season 9, many were predicting that the show was on its last legs. More than 20 years later, it’s still going — the television equivalent of Homer’s bus that couldn’t slow down.
For Selman, its enduring generational appeal — from the show to the games — remains one of its greatest strengths. "The ultimate compliment and one of my favorite things about the show is how many kids in third, fourth, fifth, sixth grade... it becomes their favorite show. They can watch them with their parents who also remember watching it when they were kids
"It's just this multi-generational experience,” he says. “We're still pumping out crazy episodes."
- Kat Bailey
Aug 9, 2022 · The showrunner of the long-running animated series talks about the challenges and rewards of keeping the show fresh and relevant. He reveals the details of the upcoming episodes, including a Death Note parody, a Melissa McCarthy guest role, and a future prediction.
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