What's better than television making fun of television? The Simpsons has arguably done it better than any other show, managing to deliver easy laughs in the form of terrific extended parody episodes ...

Some TV shows start strong but end up becoming caricatures of themselves, trading genuine storytelling for silliness and self-parody. From sitcoms leaning into outrageousness to dramas that spiral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow. Or put another way, from a handful of script pages, gargantuan multimedia franchises ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Come sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. Only when “The Seven Castaways” opens Sept. 5 at Hamtramck's ...

The Simpsons gave fans one of the best episodes in the history of the animated series 32 years ago today, and with it also ended up with one of its best movie parodies ever. The Simpsons has had a lot ...

“Weird Al” Yankovic is bigger and weirder this year. And he’s justifiably proud of that. The self-described polka parodist from Lynwood, Calif., has been toting his accordion around for nearly 50 ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...