UGGGGGHHHHNNNNNHHHHHH!!!! (Sigh.) Here’s the story from TV Line:

[The Simpsons] has tapped Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein — the stars of IFC’s Portland-influenced comedy series — to lend their voices to an episode set to air next fall (during the show’s 24th season).

The duo will play part of a “cool” family that moves from Portland to Springfield and becomes the Simpsons’ new neighbors. Homer desperately tries to befriend them, but Marge is skeptical that being cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The episode is called “The Day the Earth Stayed Cool.”

UGGGGGHHHHNNNNNHHHHHH!!!! Oh… wait, there’s more.

Exec producer Al Jean deadpanned of Armisen and Brownstein’s casting, “They’re the best thing to come out of Portland since everything our show took out of Portland.”

Okay, that’s kind of funny.

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

9 replies on “<i>Portlandia</i> to Guest Star on <i>The Simpsons</i>”

  2. If you don’t like this episode when it comes out, then it’s just because you’re, like, exactly who it’s satirizing. Presto! More television that comes with its own bulletproof defense.

  4. Two shows that should have been cancelled 10 years ago.

    It seems that every “new” episode of The Simpsons is just a 20 minute long parade of cameo appearances. I hope Matt Groening is happy–greedy bastard.

  7. The Simpsons is grasping at straws when it tries to pull itself up by co-opting itself with Portlandia. Though the end was really fucking nigh – in my book the Simpsons jumped the shark officially with Principal and the Pauper. Re-writing its characters, destroying its own foundations to shoe-horn in a special guest appearance and then trying to un-do the damage by swearing it wouldn’t be brought up again in subsequent episodes.

  8. Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. The Mercury’s trolls are all TOO COOL for the Simpsons and Portlandia. They’re all here to tell us how they’re TOO COOL for that BS. AH, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA.

  9. Did anyone see that “Springface” thing last night?
    So Lisa invents Facebook and all of Springfield become really webby.
    Entire episode. So bad.

    There was a rad vignette at the end, though.

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