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Man Fined For Viewing Simpsons Porn

Monday, December 8, 2008

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Man Fined For Viewing Simpsons Porn

An Australian man has been fined $2,000 after Simpsons "pornography" was discovered on his home computer. The central issue in the case was whether a cartoon character could depict a real person. Judge Michael Adams decided that it could, and found the man guilty of possessing child pornography.

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Simpsons Returns For Season 19 In Australia

Friday, April 18, 2008

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Simpsons Returns For Season 19 In Australia

Australia, this one’s for you. The Simpsons has been notably absent from Channel Ten in 2008, with the 6:00pm daily slot on hold for the first time in quite a while. With the writers strike, Ten held off airing new episodes in February when the season usually begins. The good news is, new episodes resume at [...]

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Don’t Vote For Mr. Burns!

Wednesday, September 7, 2005

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Things are getting ugly in the latest New Zealand election campaign. A group called “The Lisa Simpsons” has proudly taken credit for altering large numbers of billboards for candidate Don Brash overnight and says it plans to keep doing so throughout the country. The Lisa Simpsons were out last night “repackaging” Don Brash to [...]

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Gay Outing Tops Aussie Ratings

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

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A heavily promoted ‘There’s Something About Marrying’ was postponed by half an hour in Australia last night, but that didn’t stop viewers tuning in to discover which character was gay. The first run Season 16 episode was the highest rating show on any station on Tuesday night, which had similar competition to Sunday’s season finale [...]

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Simpsons Hoax Drives Council Mad

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

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Whittlesea council in Melbourne, Australia has been swamped by legions of Simpsons fans after a hoax spam email claimed the town had built a real-life replica of the cartoon family’s home. Since the email appeared on the net, complete with colourful inside and outside snaps, people have been trying to find it. The email suggested [...]

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Nancy Cartwright Vs. Australia

Thursday, March 11, 2004

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Nancy Cartwright Vs. Australia

Despite being a star of one of the most popular TV series of all time, Nancy Cartwright can usually walk down the street virtually unrecognised. That is until she comes all the way to the other side of the world, where she can hardly walk 2m without a fan stopping her for a chat and [...]

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The Simpsons On Vodafone

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

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The Simpsons On Vodafone

THQ Inc. and Vodafone today announced an agreement for the distribution of ‘The Simpsons’ branded mobile content exclusively to Vodafone customers throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The first content scheduled for release under this agreement, including ringtones, animated picture messages, wallpapers and screen savers, will be available from November, followed by games. “I am [...]

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Change The Channel, NZ!

Thursday, October 9, 2003

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Change The Channel, NZ!

Changes are happening in New Zealand, where in an unusual deal under TV3’s output deal with 20th Century Fox, it is being allowed to take rights from TV2. Canadian-owned TV3 has picked up rights to the upcoming 15th series of The Simpsons and a significant back catalogue that will allow TV3 to run the show [...]

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Down Under Simpsons Update

Tuesday, August 5, 2003

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Down Under Simpsons Update

Good news comes in threes for Australians this week. First up, a specialty DVD titled “The Simpsons: Risky Business” will be released on September 24th, retailing at $32.95. The DVD, which has previously been released in the UK, contains work-related episodes ‘Realty Bites,’ ‘Homer The Smithers,’ ‘Deep Space Homer,’ and ‘Marge Gets A Job,’ as [...]

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Signed Simpsons Art Expo

Monday, August 4, 2003

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Signed Simpsons Art Expo

The Comic Mint Australia is currently running an exclusive on-line Simpsons animation art exhibition with a superb collection of original production cels and drawings for sale, with specially signed cards by the extraordinary voice artist from The Simpsons, Harry Shearer. Harry is the voice of Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner & many others! [...]

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