J.K. Rowling does The Simpsons!

By Jack February 26, 2003 10:29 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - The creator of Harry Potter, the world's most popular boy wizard, is set to cast a spell over cult U.S. cartoon show "The Simpsons," her spokeswoman said Wednesday.

J.K. Rowling will bring a touch of magic to the animated sitcom about the dysfunctional family by appearing as herself in an episode set in England.

"I can confirm that she did a voice-over for 'The Simpsons,"' the spokeswoman told Reuters.

In the episode, Rowling will meet beer-guzzling Homer Simpson and his family when they visit England to find a girl with whom Grandpa Simpson had a wartime fling.

"'The Simpsons' bump into J.K. Rowling outside a bookshop and they talk all about Harry Potter," Don Payne, executive producer of the cult cartoon told the Sun newspaper.

The episode will also feature "Lord of the Rings" star Sir Ian McKellen, the paper said.

The family go to see him perform the Shakespeare play "Macbeth," but bring him bad luck by saying the play's name aloud -- in defiance of a well-known theatrical superstition.

This leads to the actor being hit by scaffolding and then struck by lightning.

Rowling, who has sold millions of Harry Potter books around the world, joins dozens of stars from Paul McCartney to Dustin Hoffman who have lent their voices to the show.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 27, 2003 6:03 AM

Where's Bexley?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 28, 2003 7:52 AM

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=546500&y=175500&z=3

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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on February 28, 2003 9:54 AM

LOL

Rowling in The Simpsons   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 15, 2003 1:43 PM

WHEN IS J.K. ROWLING GOING TO BE ON THE SIMPSONS?!?!?!?! AAAAH!! WHEN?!!?!?!?!?!?!  HELP!!!  Tell me when please.  I hope soon!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 16, 2003 11:56 AM

Man

simpsons   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 19, 2003 6:43 PM

Does anyone actually know when she's gonna be on, this is going to be brilliant! with ian too? this episode is definatly being taped!

why????   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 28, 2003 2:45 PM

SHE KILLED SIRIUS BLACK!!!! I CANT BEALIVE IT WHY DID SHE! PLEASE TELL ME HES GOING TO COME BACK IN THE 6TH BOOK! BECAUSE MY SISTER AND ALL HER FRIENDS ARE ALREADY BOYCOTTING THE BOOKS BECAUSE OF IT! AND FRANKLY IN NOT THAT FAR BEHIND!! I MEAN HOW COULD SHE! HE WAS MY FAV CHARACTER AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT HE HAS ONLY BEEN IN THE STORIES FOR ABOUT 1 AND A HALF YEARS!!!! ALL I KNOW IS THAT JUST ABOUT EVERYONE I HAVE TALKED TO ABOUT THE BOOK HAS ALMOST DECIDED TO BOYCOTT! I WAS SO UPSET WHEN I GOT DONE READING THE BOOK! SHE ACTUALLY MADE ME CRY!!!!!!!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 12, 2003 10:30 PM

(WARNING: THIS IS A SPOILER FOR THE 5TH BOOK, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)


I THINK the reason why JKR had sirius die is because she had to get harry to run after Bellatrix. Then after he catches up to her and tries to kill her, lord voldemort shows up. This adds a bit of excitment to the end of the book.

I am sad that it had to be sirius too, but i think JKR had her reasons for the ending of the book.

I'm still not sure weather or not this is true or not, but this (like i said)is what i THINK is the reason why JKR killed sirius. I could be wrong.

Quote from J.K. Rowling   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 19, 2003 5:42 AM

This is J.k Rowling talking about why she killed sirius black:

"I think what I was trying to do with the death in this book was show how very arbitrary and sudden death is. This is a death where you didn't have a big death bed scene. It happened almost accidentally and that is one of the very cruel things about death and they're now in a war situation where that really does happen, where one minute you're talking to your friend and the next minute he's gone. It's so shocking and so inexplicable? "Where did they go?" I found it upsetting to write, because I knew what it would mean to Harry."

Simpsons?   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 26, 2003 1:34 PM

I just found out that JKR was/is going to be on the simpsons if i missed it man! But if not YAAAA! TELL ME please TA TA!

BOYDCOTT THAT'S REDICULOUS!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 26, 2003 1:45 PM

JKR did not want to kill Siris but, she had to, to have her plans for the next books to have the plans smooth and besides maybe some how he comes back you might want to get a hp sleuths book I have one it has posibilitys to make you feel better then getting MAD,arested or something!!!
     ~ JKR BIG FAN

How could you boycott?   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 1, 2003 1:41 PM

I cried too, but boycotting is ridiculous. They are some of the best books ever written. A lot of great books have depression and/or make the reader cry. That doesn't make them any less good. Sirius was my favorite character too, and i was in desperate tears, but she is a great author and i am sure she has a plan. Jk Rowling did say in an interveiw that she cried when she that chapter. I think she had a message to get across and i think she did a very good job if we have so many people talking about it. She didn't want him to die either, but she wouldn't do it pointlessly. and if you boycott the books, you'll never know what happens.
If anyone want to contact me you can email me at nikdamri@yahoo.com.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 24, 2003 6:31 PM

I was so upset that J.K.Rowling made Sirius die. It was so upsetting because Harry's parents died.And now the only parent figure he has or I should say had is gone. Now Harry has nobody. It made me cry!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 28, 2003 10:42 AM

I can't bealive she killed him. He was the best character.
I'm glad you put this on
the inter net or I would't have known cause
my parints told me I wasn't alowed to read any of J.K.Rowling's
book any more.


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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on August 28, 2003 10:45 AM

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 26, 2003 5:15 PM

I don't know! You tell me. Im surfing the net to find that exact same anser.

RE: why????   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 26, 2003 5:27 PM

JK Rowling had to put some reality in her books, thats life and thats what JK Rowling wants.
I know because Im her. Im just crusing the internet and saw this and desided to submit to this. Black will not come back but I will be writing an 8th book as a suprise to my fans. I did not want to tell anyone but who cares.

angered!!!!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 11, 2003 9:39 PM

J K Rowling had better bring Sirius Black back to life! I mean the only reason why all the HP books were so successful was because there were no killings in it! OK I did expect that some one had to die, and I thought maybe it would be Snape or Malfoy, I mean everybody just simply hates them, but never Sirius! Honestly I really don't know what's got into her these days! First she tried to kill Ron Weasley, but couldn't because of the millions of fans, and then she deceidedd to kill Sirius, I mean OK, if she really wanted to kill someone close to Harry why not kill one of the Dursleys?(after all they are his only familt left) And then I could've kicked myself when aunt Petunia looked at Harry with those eyes after the howler was sent or something like that!What now? Is JKR going to make aunt Petunia like Harry, and force us, the readers to like her (Petunia) instead? Are we suppose to just forgive her and forget  after all those horrible things she's done to Harry through out his whole life? Either way, I don't know anything about you guys, but I HONESTLY think JKR has lost her mind completely.
I mean could you beleive it, she's now joined the same rank as Stephen King, Sydney Sheldon and all the other saditist writer!? You guys have no idea the rage and anger and the denial that usually gulps me when I use to read the books written by those two, and now to think JKR being in the same rank as they are, pisses me even more! Anyway she'd better bring Sirius back to life because if she dosen't then I don't think any of her books are gonna be a hit with the public anymore, and whats more Bloomsbury is gonna be really shitty with her because the books wouldn't be a hit anymore. And Warner Bros.....lets just say they won't make any more HP movies after the 4th one. Surely JKR dosen't want that.

angered!!!!   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 11, 2003 9:40 PM

J K Rowling had better bring Sirius Black back to life! I mean the only reason why all the HP books were so successful was because there were no killings in it! OK I did expect that some one had to die, and I thought maybe it would be Snape or Malfoy, I mean everybody just simply hates them, but never Sirius! Honestly I really don't know what's got into her these days! First she tried to kill Ron Weasley, but couldn't because of the millions of fans, and the

RE: How could you boycott?   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 11, 2003 9:55 PM

You are perhaps the most silliest, stupidest and the most idiotic person alive! No great books causes any depression to the readers after they've read it! Take the Harry Potter books 1-4 for instance, they are perhaps the most greates books ever written, do you see any big time protest in there from the most loyal HP fans? No! Book 5 is giving us all the headache because of the depression in it! So grow up and admit that you're not a real HP fan.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 9, 2004 5:37 PM

u r stupid!
u.......u...
humans & your
horrible 'feelings'...
*sticks out touge*

why&when?   reply

Posted by Lynnrea M. (rock_angel_2005_lalala89@yahoo.com) on June 21, 2004 11:50 AM

ok,first off I personaly do not think SIRIUS BLACK should have died , but in the long run it realy does give the books story line flavor. people who think SNAPE or MALFOY should have died instead ,they can drop it !! i dont think people would still be interestid still if they would have. OH , and i do hope she would hurry up and get on with the searese....

Why are you people making a fuss?   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 4, 2004 4:05 PM

JKR had her reasons for killing Sirius. So why are some of you people making a fuss about it?

Sirius   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 5, 2004 5:41 AM

Don't you all think is possible that Sirius just became to populair? Harry is the hero, we shouldn't be reading the books just to find out how Sirius is doing. She just killed Harry's rival.

the depression deepens   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 18, 2004 6:15 AM

Everything in the 5th book is depressive: sirius, umbridge, harry, fudge... ABSOLUTLY EVERITHING'S DEPRESSIVE. JK Rowling's got to be depressed.
I'm from Brazil, wich is not like a poor and rural african country: it has the fifth biggest city in the world, giant citys on 70% of it, a few little cities and a tiny percent of indian tribes. That's new for you, you ignorant north-americans and europeans?!!!!