Getting Ready for the Show

"Getting Ready for the Show" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons ninteenth season and was first broadcast on November 18, 2007. It features guest appearances from Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, John Swartzwelder, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner and Harvey Fierstein as themselves as well as Jack Black as Milo, Matthew Broderick as Tintin, Fred Newman as Snowy, Robin Williams as Captain Haddock, Eric Idle and Terry Jones as Thompson and Thomson, Marty Feldman as Dr. Sarcophagus, John Candy as Rastapopalous, Harvey Korman as Zloty, George Takei as Mitsuhirato, Albert Brooks as Muller, Jim Carrey as Professor Calculus, Kathy Bates as Bianca Castafiore, Michael Douglas as Colonel Jorgen, Adam Sandler as Dawson and Chris Farley as Mr. Gibbens.

It was written by Ned Goldreyer and Matt Selman, directed by Nancy Kruse and guest directed by D.B. Sweeney, Kent Butterworth and Sam Simon.

It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.