The Simpsons
Warning : SPOILERS lie down onwards for May the 12th Be with You !
Summary
The Simpsonsis celebrating Mother ’s twenty-four hours in a unique fresh fashion with itsMay the 12th Be with Youshort . The Disney+ short determine Marge joining up with a salmagundi of mothers and mother figures from Disney ’s 100 - year roster of character to go on a particular intergalactic adventure to celebrate the May vacation . Between trying to retrieve an appropriate vehicle to hold them all to troublesome Stormtroopers , the group will confront a number of screaming hurdle to savour the daylight .
May the 12th Be with Youhails fromSimpsonsveterans Joel H. Cohen , Ryan Koh , former showrunner David Mirkin , Jeff Westbrook and current co - showrunner Al Jean . The short is also directed by David Silverman , who has not only been with the show since it first was whirl off fromThe Tracey Ullman Show , but was also thedirector ofThe Simpsons Movieand every Disney+ unretentive to particular date , which began with 2021 ’s Maggie - ledThe Force Awakens from Its Nap .
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Taking full advantage of its Disney+ home and studio synergy , May the 12th Be With Youincludes characters from every franchise either created or owned by the House of Mouse . Some spectacular examples includeAhsoka Tano from Lucasfilm’sStar Warsuniverse , pattern after Rosario Dawson ’s live - action interlingual rendition , Groot from the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Nani fromLilo & Stitchand various appendage of the Madrigal family fromEncanto , among many others .
Ahead of the short circuit ’s premiere , Screen RantinterviewedThe Simpsonsco - showrunner Al Jean to discussMay the 12th Be with You , the unique way he and his squad look for to honour mothers around the world , including his own who recently pass along , the various Disney Easter eggs and characters riddle throughout the special , and the chances of aSimpsons Movie 2 .
May the 12th Be with YouCame About Quick (& From Jean’s Idea For One Gag)
WithThe Simpsonsseason 35being the show ’s short since its debut season due to the 2023 SAG - AFTRA and WGA strike , it would n’t have been surprising if the team choose to focalize entirely on filling out their time of year rather than develop a new Disney+ short . For Jean , however , he find himself inspired to do a short specifically lionize Mother ’s Day in December , with one joke in particular help him work up out the story of the special :
Al Jean : Well , we did n’t do any , of course , during the writers come upon , and then we were getting back into product on the show in December . I thought , " You know , we ’d done the May the Fourth Be With You special . May the 12th is Mother ’s Day , why do n’t we do that ? " And Jim O.K. and we solve on it . David Silverman came aboard , he ’s directed all of them , which is fantastic . It ’s been in the kit and caboodle since December .
I think it ’d be funny to have Bambi ’s mother be the first joke , and then Jim has always desire us to crossover with Marvel with Star Wars , with everybody on Disney+ . And then , at the last , we say , " Hey , Hulu ’s come aboard , so perhaps we could get Seth to vocalise Stewie at the close of the curt , " which we did , which was a thrill . He did it right off , and we ’re really , really well-chosen about that .
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With so many characters to pick out from , though , Jean and director David Silverman find themselves presented with an interesting challenge of deciding which characters could be " Simpsonified " and which should bide in their original animation style :
Al Jean : In terms of Disney part go to Simpsons style , something like Bambi ’s female parent does n’t Simpsonify , in my opinion . This was fairly much David Silverman ’s selection throughout and how he want to do it . She calculate more like a deer and more like she does the original picture show than a character that ’s more animated and more easily Simpsonified .
So it ’s a mix , it was a complicated offspring , but I thought we really tried we attempt to get everything in . It was difficult to choose one character , but because they go on Ahsoka ’s ship , which you may notice has a window by Boeing . [ Chuckles ] So , to get the ship just right , we consulted with the Lucasfilm masses , who were always very generous with their sentence and experience .
The Simpsons is a long-running animated TV series created by Matt Groening that satirically follows a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield. Homer, a bit of a schmoe who works at a nuclear power plant, is the provider for his family, while his wife, Marge, tries to keep sanity and reason in the house to the best of her ability. Bart is a born troublemaker, and Lisa is his super-intelligent sister who finds herself surrounded by people who can’t understand her. Finally, Maggie is the mysterious baby who acts as a deus ex machina when the series calls for it. The show puts the family in several wild situations while constantly tackling socio-political and pop-culture topics set within their world, providing an often sharp critique of the subjects covered in each episode. This series first premiered in 1989 and has been a staple of Fox’s programming schedule ever since!
Jean Wanted To Highlight “Every Family Unit” In The Special (& Challenges Fans To Spot Every Disney Character)
When it come to then construct out the roster of Disney character who would appear inMay the 12th Be with You , Jean and his creative squad were spoiled with selection as no one was off - limits for the special . The group ultimately made their choices based on the desire to highlight " every kinsfolk whole " that interrelate to a female parent - child dynamic , set out from Lilo ’s bigger sister / mother figure Nani to Ahsoka and Rotta the Hutt :
Al Jean : I was just gon na say , we have a big sister who serves as a mother in Lilo and Stitch , we have a joke about Disney being unfair to stepmothers at the end . [ Chuckles ] I said to David , " permit ’s just get every family unit unit that ’s sort of a female parent - tyke combining , " because it is n’t always just the traditional female parent - tyke any longer . And it ’s a tribute to all of them , it ’s tribute to my own mother , who overstep this year . I would n’t be anywhere without her .
[ No one was off limitation ] . Like , for example , Ahsoka from Star Wars is Rotta the Hutt ’s guardian , so she ’s not really a female parent , but we were happy to have Ahsoka . In short , there was nobody that we wanted to get that we could n’t . I ’ll give a sign script cover to the first person who lists every Disney character in the short . [ Laughs ] meet me on Twitter .
In bet at his favorite Disney Easter eggs and characters included in the peculiar , Jean has a few different option , includingWinnie - the - Pooh ’s Eeyore , since many people are surprised he " has a line " in the little , while also pointing to one fromThe Duchess of Windsor ' own long - running history of characters :
Al Jean : astonishingly , masses are really excited that Eeyore has a line . [ Laughs ] I get laid Eeyore , but that was one , and our lineament Shary Bobbins , which I wrote the original Simpson Shary Bobbins sequence , is in the short , and is the same voice , Maggie Roswell . So , that was a thrill . One of our writers , since we were talking about Lilo and Stitch , Carolyn Omine , does the voice in the short too . So , that was really fun .
Jean Was Thrilled By Seth MacFarlane’sFamily GuyInvolvement (Though Don’t Expect More Soon)
More than just pulling from Disney ’s movie program library , May the 12th Be with Youalso works in some meta humour regarding Hulu ’s roster of characters , featuring appearances fromBob ’s Burgers ' Belcher kin , King of the Hill ’s Hill home , andFamily Guy ’s the Griffins . The latter even results in a vocal cameo fromSeth MacFarlane as Stewie , with Jean praise the multihyphenate ’s creative collaboration of the scant :
Al Jean : We sent it to him , and he just did it . And of course , he ’s very odd , he did ad lib some stuff we bleep . And it ’s bleeped , but we ask him to , it was n’t like he was trying to make problem . [ Laughs ]
Even with it coming up on a decade since the two - episodeSimpsonsandFamily Guycrossover consequence , however , Jean does admonish that this meta appearance by Stewie does n’t necessarily mean another crossing is happening any time presently , as both creative squad require such a story to feel particular rather than expected by audiences . That being aver , the atomic number 27 - showrunner wo n’t rule out the chance for the Simpsons to meet up with the Griffins , or another Fox phratry , in the future :
Al Jean : I was really thrilled with all of it . I have intercourse the Family Guy crossover , which was their script . But I call up that the key was to do it every once in a while , not to make it something that people can require . That ’s why I believe it ’s so fun to have Seth on this . But , we ’re all friends , writers cross from one show to the other , animators have crossed . We definitely consulted with the Family Guy masses on how Stewie should look in this unforesightful , as well as the Marvel masses and Star Wars people . It ’s a smashing social club to be in , I ’m thrilled . We had a full Futurama one , which is a little easier , since it ’s all variety of Matt Groening intent , so thematically , it really fit . But I like Bob ’s Burgers a lot , so maybe .
Jean Is Confident AboutThe Simpsons' Future (Though A Little Cautious About A Movie Sequel)
In wait at the futurity of the franchise , Jean has plenty of ideas and hopes about whereThe Simpsonswill go , namely require to hit a major milestone and even an melodic theme of a potential spinoff centered on Maggie . When itcomes toThe Simpsons Movie 2 , though , the co - showrunner acknowledge the recollective wait may continue a little long for one key understanding :
Al Jean : In the first shortstop we did , I thought , " Oh , if she just pulled her pacifier out , it would look like a lightsaber . " So , she ’s kind of turned into this little warrior , which she always was in the short . I signify , she defeats the bad guy rope in The Simpsons Movie . [ Laughs ] She really does a plenty , so I love the one that we did last class . Writer Dan Vebber had the idea that Maggie gets Grogu ’s baby stroller and goes space - hopping . So , Maggie the Warrior , are you listening , Disney + ? Could be a spin - off .
I remember it ’s a big issue than The Simpsons . On several levels , we ’re really hoping for Inside Out 2 to do great this summertime . I want to see the animation commercial enterprise completely returned to what it was before the pandemic . And then , I think if that was the case , it would make sense to do The Simpsons theatrically . But I understand that it ’s an issue above me about , " Where would you give up it ? And how would you release it ? " And we are , with the shorts and other things , streaming on Disney+ , so I eff see animated movies in theaters . I bang The Boy and the Heron that just won the Oscar . I ’ll always go see the Miyazaki motion-picture show that total out . So , I really am all for liveliness being fully theatrical , so I hope that ’s where it goes .
[ We have not ] formally [ spill ] about a movie , no . We ’re exploring different venue like this [ the short circuit ] for presenting The Simpsons , but it ’d be previous to say we had a movie handwriting in development . With the help of our animators , we had a full slate of shows this year , which look terrific . We did have to just take a rupture for four months because of the tap , which I ’m glad we did , that was what we should have done . But I think the show is in fantastic form . I ’m coloured , but I think that the current installment are , whether I lick on one , a lot or not , are great . And I think that the time to come is undimmed , it ’s gon na go to 800 , and I hope 1000 .
AboutMay the 12th Be with You
It ’s Mother ’s Day and Marge Simpson join the moms of Disney+ on a special holiday outing that turn into an heroic galactic escapade filled with heroes , villains and a surprising old friend .
May the 12th Be with You is now streaming on Disney+ !
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The Simpsons is a long - running animated idiot box series create by Matt Groening that satirically follows a working - class family in the misfit metropolis of Springfield . Homer , a second of a schmoe who works at a nuclear power plant , is the provider for his category , while his wife , Marge , tries to keep saneness and ground in the house to the best of her ability . Bart is a born troublemaker , and Lisa is his crack - intelligent sister who finds herself surrounded by people who ca n’t understand her . Finally , Maggie is the mysterious baby who acts as a deus ex machina when the serial shout out for it . The show frame the family in several wild situations while constantly harness socio - political and dad - culture subject set within their world , render an often acute review of the subjects covered in each instalment . This series first premiered in 1989 and has been a staple of Fox ’s programming docket ever since !
