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When Billie Met Lisa
The Simpsons When Billie Met Lisa poster.jpeg
Directed byDavid Silverman
Written by
Based onThe Simpsons
by Matt Groening
Produced by
Starring
Music byBleeding Fingers Music
Production
companies
Distributed byDisney+
(Disney Platform Distribution)
Release date
  • April 22, 2022 (2022-04-22)
Running time
3 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

When Billie Met Lisa is an animated short film based on the American singer Billie Eilish produced by Gracie Films and 20th Television Animation, debuting on the streaming service Disney+.[1] It is the sixth short film in The Simpsons franchise, and the fourth promotional short produced for Disney+.[2] Like the previous shorts, it was directed by David Silverman and released on April 22, 2022.[3]

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Gracie Films

Gracie Films

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20th Television Animation

20th Television Animation

20th Television Animation is an American animation studio that creates, develops and produces adult animated television series and specials. It is a unit of Disney Television Studios, a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company.

Disney+

Disney+

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The Simpsons (franchise)

The Simpsons (franchise)

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David Silverman (animator)

David Silverman (animator)

David Silverman is an American animator who has directed numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, as well as its film adaptation. Silverman was involved with the series from the very beginning, animating all of the original short Simpsons cartoons that aired on The Tracey Ullman Show. He went on to serve as director of animation for several years. He also did the animation for the 2016 film The Edge of Seventeen, which was produced by Gracie Films.

Plot

Lisa is playing the sax on the couch, when she receives a message on her phone by Homer to stop playing so he can work (sleep on the hammock) in peace. Marge comes in the room to clean up and starts bothering her, cleaning the sax too. Lisa relocates on the treehouse, but Bart starts using a chainsaw to bother her too, so she relocates to the music class at the school, where she finds other kids playing. Not finding peace, she relocates under an overpass, where a car stops nearby, and Billie Eilish notices her and invites her to jam at a recording studio owned by Billie, where they play the Simpsons theme and everyone in Springfield appreciates it, while Bart talks about Lisa with Billie's brother, Finneas O'Connell. In the end they end up stargazing above the car where they discuss her family appreciating her music.

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Homer Simpson

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Marge Simpson

Marge Simpson

Marjorie Jacqueline "Marge" Simpson is a character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family. Voiced by Julie Kavner, she first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Marge was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters. He based the character on his mother Margaret Groening. After appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons, the Simpson family received their own series on Fox, which debuted December 17, 1989.

Bart Simpson

Bart Simpson

Bartholomew Jojo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional character in the American animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family. He is voiced by Nancy Cartwright and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening created and designed Bart while waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip, Life in Hell, but instead decided to create a new set of characters. While the rest of the characters were named after Groening's family members, Bart's name is an anagram of the word brat. After appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show for two years, the Simpson family received its own series on Fox, which debuted December 17, 1989. Bart has appeared in every Simpsons episode except "Four Great Women and a Manicure".

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American singer-songwriter. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. In 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), titled Don't Smile at Me. Commercially successful, it reached the top 15 of record charts in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Recording studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enough to record a single singer-guitarist, to a large building with space for a full orchestra of 100 or more musicians. Ideally, both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician or audio engineer to achieve optimum acoustic properties.

The Simpsons Theme

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Finneas O'Connell

Finneas O'Connell

Finneas Baird O'Connell, known mononymously as FINNEAS, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has written and produced music for various artists, most notably his sister, Billie Eilish. He has won eight Grammy Awards among 13 total nominations, including nominations for the Big Four categories. He has made history as the youngest act to win the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category. For his work with Eilish, he has won Record of the Year twice in a row, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. He was also nominated for Best New Artist for his solo work. Their song "No Time to Die" from the film of the same name earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and another Grammy.

Release

When Billie Met Lisa was released on Disney+ on April 22, 2022.[4]

Cast

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Maggie Simpson

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Yeardley Smith

Yeardley Smith

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Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American singer-songwriter. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. In 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), titled Don't Smile at Me. Commercially successful, it reached the top 15 of record charts in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Finneas O'Connell

Finneas O'Connell

Finneas Baird O'Connell, known mononymously as FINNEAS, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has written and produced music for various artists, most notably his sister, Billie Eilish. He has won eight Grammy Awards among 13 total nominations, including nominations for the Big Four categories. He has made history as the youngest act to win the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category. For his work with Eilish, he has won Record of the Year twice in a row, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. He was also nominated for Best New Artist for his solo work. Their song "No Time to Die" from the film of the same name earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and another Grammy.

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Production

Producer James L. Brooks came up with the idea of making a film with Billie Eilish during a conversation with Al Jean. They worked with Disney+ to arrange it, as they had already collaborated with Eilish on "Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles".[5]

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James Lawrence Brooks is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. His television and film work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Simpsons, Broadcast News, As Good as It Gets, and Terms of Endearment.

Al Jean

Al Jean

Alfred Ernest Jean III is an American screenwriter and producer. Jean is well known for his work on The Simpsons. He was raised near Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Harvard University in 1981. Jean began his writing career in the 1980s with fellow Harvard alum Mike Reiss. Together, they worked as writers and producers on television shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ALF and It's Garry Shandling's Show.

Disney+

Disney+

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Reception

Rich Knight of Cinema Blend ranked When Billie Met Lisa fourth in their top of The Simpsons shorts, praised the humor of the short film, and complimented the references to Billie Eilish and her work.[6] Paul Bradshaw of NME found agreeable that the short film provides gags centered on Eilish and O'Connell, praised the new record of The Simpsons Theme, and complimented the end credits for its humor.[7] Mike Celestino of LaughingPlace.com gave a positive review, writing, "On the whole, “When Billie Met Lisa” makes for a fun diversion that is sure to delight crossover fans of The Simpsons and Eilish, though a few of the jokes do fall flat here and there, and like the other above-mentioned shorts it goes by very quickly."[8]

John Schwarz of Bubbleblabber gave When Billie Met Lisa an eight out of ten stating "A few solid jokes jab in before the climax make this a delicious morsel of a snack though I do hope that Billie comes back in the future because it seems the gag department had a bunch of early fun with her that I think can be more fully fleshed out across 22-minutes."[9]

Stacey Henley of TheGamer complimented the humor of When Billie Met Lisa across its gags, acknowledged the references of Eilish and her work, but stated that the short film should have provided a full story and more screen time for Eilish and O'Connell.[10] Jeremy Brown of What'sOnDisneyPlus.com gave the short 2 out of 5, writing, "I’m just not sure what the point of this was other than to put Billie Eilish in a “The Simpsons” short. It’s all technically well done. The animation is beautiful. The voice acting is wonderful. Objectively, there’s nothing wrong with it, but, subjectively, I still don’t get why it needed to be done."[11]

The short was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program at the Primetime Emmy Awards.[12][13]

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The Simpsons shorts

The Simpsons shorts

The Simpsons shorts are a series of animated shorts that aired as a recurring segment on Fox variety television series The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons, before the characters spun off into The Simpsons, their own half-hour prime-time show. They feature Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, and a few secondary characters. The series was created by Matt Groening, who designed the Simpson family and wrote many of the shorts. The shorts first aired on April 19, 1987 starting with "Good Night". The final short to air was "TV Simpsons", originally airing on May 14, 1989. The Simpsons later debuted on December 17, 1989, as an independent series with the Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".

NME

NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a free publication, before becoming an online brand which includes its website and radio stations.

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program is a Creative Arts Emmy Award which is given annually beginning in 2008 to an animated series or special of 15 minutes or shorter in length. In 2008 and 2009, the category was called "Outstanding Special Class Short-Format Animated Program", and was an "area" award which could have one, more than one, or no, winners; starting in 2010, the name was changed, and it was made a "category" award which must have one winner. Note that a show whose episodes mainly consist of multiple stories, each 15 minutes or shorter, can either enter one story in this category, or a full episode in the Outstanding Animated Program category.

74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

The 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2021, until May 31, 2022, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented on September 3 and 4, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. A total of 99 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 93 categories. The ceremonies were broadcast in the United States by FXX on September 10.

Source: "When Billie Met Lisa", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Billie_Met_Lisa.

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References
  1. ^ Disney+ [@disneyplus] (April 14, 2022). "[email protected] is coming to Springfield ‼️ Start streaming the short, @TheSimpsons: When Billie Met Lisa April 22 only on #DisneyPlus" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "Billie Eilish Meets Lisa Simpson In New 'Simpsons' Disney+ Short". Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  3. ^ "Breaking News - "The Simpsons" Fans Will Be Happier Than Ever When the New Short "When Billie Met Lisa" Premieres April 22, Exclusively on Disney+". TheFutonCritic.com. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
  4. ^ Leston, Ryan (2022-04-19). "Billie Eilish Will Appear in a New Simpsons Short to Jam With Lisa". IGN. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  5. ^ "Al Jean Interview - The Simpsons: When Billie Met Lisa". ScreenRant. 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  6. ^ Rich Knight (2022-04-30). "Every The Simpsons Short On Disney+, Ranked By How Funny They Are". CINEMABLEND. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  7. ^ "'When Billie Met Lisa' is a 'Simpsons' short you should watch". NME. 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  8. ^ Celestino, Mike (2022-04-22). "TV Review – Billie Eilish Arrives in Springfield in the New Disney+ Short "The Simpsons: When Billie Met Lisa"". LaughingPlace.com. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  9. ^ Schwarz, John (2022-04-22). "Review: The Simpsons "When Billie Met Lisa"". Bubbleblabber. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  10. ^ Henley, Stacey (April 22, 2022). "When Billie Met Lisa Is A Waste Of Both Billie Eilish And The Simpsons". TheGamer. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  11. ^ Brown, Jeremy (April 24, 2022). "When Billie Met Lisa Review". What's On Disney Plus. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  12. ^ Andreeva, Nellie; Hipes, Patrick (July 12, 2022). "Emmy Nominations: The Complete List". Deadline.com. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  13. ^ "Outstanding Short Format Animated Program Nominees / Winners 2022". Television Academy. Retrieved 2022-08-01.
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