EDT) revolves around Homer's brush with mob life and includes Joe Mantegna as Springfield's big boss Fat Tony and Michael Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano of "The Sopranos." You don't see them on 'SpongeBob,'" Groening noted, slyly. In an episode in which Lisa helps Moe the bartender become a poet, she encounters Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe, voiced by the literary giants themselves. The program is known for its stellar guest stars and promises not to disappoint this season. I thought people might be jaded but, no, they weren't." Groening called the latest award "a shot in the arm. Last month, it won its ninth Emmy for best animated series and has received best voiceover performance and other honors. Burns and Hank Azaria as police Chief Wiggum (Azaria and several others in the cast perform multiple voices). The ensemble voice cast includes Nancy Cartwright as Bart, Dan Castellaneta as dad Homer, Julie Kavner as mom Marge, Yeardley Smith as sister Lisa, Harry Shearer as boss man Mr. "The Simpsons" has been renewed by Fox through its 19th year. But also to try to top ourselves," Groening said. "The people currently on staff are determined not to be the staff that caused the show to crash and burn. The series is seen in more than 70 countries, which along with scads of "Simpsons"-based merchandise has made it a reported billion-dollar cartoon cash cow for Fox parent News Corp. They also don't want to be the ones who disappoint the nation, not to mention the world. "But there's a really good-natured spirit of competitiveness among the youngest writers on the staff who basically grew up watching the show and have a great memory for everything that's gone before," he said. It has, in fact, brilliantly lampooned nearly aspect of American life and culture. The key is to keep surprising the audience, which he acknowledged has become tougher because the show has "covered a lot of territory" through the years. "We've always tried to entertain ourselves and figured that the outside world would be entertained if we were making ourselves laugh." "My attitude at this point is, as long as the people who work on the show are having a good time, let's keep doing it," he said. Groening's reasoning is sound: The show, which returns Sunday night, is fun to make, fun to watch, just earned its 23rd Emmy and is finally jumping to the big screen with a summer 2007 movie about Bart and the rest of Springfield's first family. As Bart Simpson skips into his 18th season of TV mischief, fans will be glad to know that creator Matt Groening sees no end in sight for the wayward lad or "The Simpsons."
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