TORONTO — David Silverman has directed two dozen episodes of The Simpsons, 2007’s The Simpsons Movie and last year’s Oscar-nominated short The Longest Daycare featuring Lisa Simpson.
But there’s one thing he’d still like to do on the show.
“I’d like to do a voice on The Simpsons,” he said Friday during an appearance on Global Toronto’s The Morning Show.
When he was immortalized — as an animator, of course — in The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show on an episode of The Simpsons, he was voiced by Harry Shearer.
Silverman, 56, is the keynote speaker Saturday morning at the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International in the atrium of the Corus building on Queen’s Quay.
He said The Simpsons has endured for 25 seasons because it’s funny, smart and topical.
The episode that stands out most in his mind? Three Men and a Comic Book from Season 2.
“It’s about kids wanting this comic book and then it turns into this parody of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with a little Maltese Falcon thrown in there, so it has all these cultural references,” he recalled. “It has real drama at the end.”
The Simpsons airs Sunday nights on Global.
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