Chances are she won't be saying much on the red carpet but Maggie Simpson is up for an Oscar! Yes, that Maggie Simpson. The eternally silent, pacifier-sucking toddler from Fox's long-running series The Simpsons is the star of a four-and-a-half--minute, 3D animated film called Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare. It's one of five 'toons nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Animated Short Film category. Fox will show the short this Sunday following The Simpsons episode airing at 8/7c.
read moreIn this lucky 17th annual Treehouse of Horror, Homer becomes an insatiable blob, and when Dr. Phil tries to cure him he is eaten as well; Bart discovers a Golem from Jewish mythology and uses it to do his bidding; and aliens invade the earth during a scare caused by Orson Welles' classic Halloween radio broadcast. watch
In this fifteenth annual frightfest, Ned Flanders foresees a terrible future--or does he cause it? in "The Ned Zone", Lisa --a brilliant detective with bumbling sidekick Bart--must overcome the incompetent police of Edwardian London in "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" and the Simpsons take a fantastic voyage "In The Belly of the Boss"--one from which Homer doesn't exactly return. watch