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1* AdoredByTheNetwork: FXX reruns this movie very often and is usually the thing shown when they don't feel like showing more episodes of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons the show it's based on]] or ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
2* BreakawayPopHit: The choral version of "Spider-Pig" became a hit single in several countries, making it, at a scant 61 seconds, the shortest recording ever to chart.
3* DeletedRole:
4** Creator/KelseyGrammer's Sideshow Bob and a family therapist voiced by Creator/MinnieDriver were originally going to be in the film, but for some reason their scenes were cut.
5** Creator/IslaFisher, and Erin Brockovich-Ellis also recorded lines, but their scenes were cut.
6** Creator/KevinBacon had a small cameo with his sons, Exon and Kris P., as an alternative Flanders family living outside of the dome. The scene was eventually cut.
7* DeletedScene:
8** When Homer returns to Springfield, he hitches a ride with a truck driver for "Delicious Sausages". He's taken in the back of the truck, where the sausages are kept. After Homer gets off he thanks the truck driver and walks away. The truck driver then goes to check on his sausages and just as he opens up the truck's back door, the scene cuts back to Homer who's guzzling the last string of sausages as we hear the driver's BigNO in the distance.
9** When the dome lands on Springfield, the news reports that there's no weather, so all of the crops are dying, merchants are charging exorbitant prices for basic necessities, and the effects of the dome on the world of sports.
10** Everyone in Springfield goes crazy and damages Springfield by trashing it (which is how when Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie returned to Springfield and found it in ruins).
11** Moe becomes the town's emperor when Springfield is covered up by the dome, and Marge asks him how he did it. Moe explains why, showing photos of how the citizens were, first a dystopia, then a utopia, and then finally an autopia. He says that the town through some very horrible and very intense times, leaving many locals dead, and many others also dead as well.
12* DemandOverload: The Simpsonize Me website that was launched concurrently with the film saw so much traffic during its early life on the internet that it frequently saw downtime. The fact that the site also utilized high-quality animated graphics didn't help either.
13* DVDCommentary: There's two, included in both the DVD and the Blu-Ray and on Disney Plus.
14** First commentary, with writer-producers Creator/MattGroening, Creator/JamesLBrooks, Al Jean and Mike Scully, producer Richard Sakai, director Creator/DavidSilverman and voice actors Creator/DanCastellaneta and Creator/YeardleySmith.
15** Second commentary, with director David Silverman and sequence directors Mike B. Anderson, Steven Dean Moore and Rich Moore. (The others, Gregg Vanzo and Lauren [=MacMillan=], were not available)
16* EnforcedMethodActing: In order to make her sound properly emotionally drained, director Silverman had Creator/JulieKavner record [[spoiler: Marge's goodbye monologue to Homer]] close to one hundred times. The final take is the one that made it into the film.
17* FirstAppearance: Of Homer's license plate number "[=1PHL07=]", which is a reference to ''Literature/TheBible''. Previously, whenever it was shown in the series, it was always a different number. Starting with the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E12HomerTheFather Homer the Father]]", however, it is consistently "[=1PHL07=]".
18* KidsMealToy: Burger King released a set of sixteen talking figures, including one of Russ Cargill with [[EarlyDraftTieIn his original design]].
19* MissingTrailerScene: Many shots from the long inventory of characters the narrator reels off, including:
20** A scene where Wiggum and Apu converse as they flee from the hounds, which was apparently Wiggum chewing out Apu for blowing their chance to get power from Mr. Burns.
21** Marge and Lovejoy are discussing the footage of Grampa's prophecy and Lovejoy says "Here's the MoneyShot".
22** A shot of Mr. Burns bathing in a bathtub of jewels and diamonds
23** A shot of Groundskeeper Willie looking out of his truck.
24* OrphanedReference: In the wide shot of the dome on the town (when Homer screams "DOOOOOME!") you can see the baseball stadium has been bisected by the base of the dome. This was a setup for a later joke where West Springfield thrash North Springfield at the game since the ball keeps rebounding off the dome, making it practically impossible to catch the batter out, but the scene didn't make the final cut.
25* TheOtherMarty:
26** Maile Flanagan was the original voice actress for Colin, but she was let go at some point in production and Creator/TressMacNeille re-recorded the dialogue.
27** Creator/EdwardNorton initially recorded the part of the man who gets crushed by the dome using a Creator/WoodyAllen impression, but the crew felt the voice too distracting, so Creator/DanCastellaneta re-recorded the dialogue with a different voice. [[HilariousInHindsight Norton would later go on to voice an Allen-esque bagel in]] ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty''.
28* SparedByTheCut: In at least one draft, Cargill was going to die at the end of the film.
29* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: The [[https://mcfarlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/what-you-lookin-at-simpsonmovie-2007.jpg "What You Lookin' At?" figurine set]] depicts the scene where Bart Simpson and Ned Flanders discover the mutant squirrel. The officially solicited photos of the set at least had the decency to censor the spoiler itself.
30* ThrowItIn: Music/HansZimmer produced a choral version of "Spider-Pig" for the soundtrack just for shits and giggles, but the music worked so well with the epiphany scene that the producers placed it there. Turns out to be an overblown gag that snowballed out of control, as FOX also had to secure the rights to the song, and Zimmer had to redub it into different languages!
31* TouristBump: 20th Century Fox invoked this trope by giving every town in America named Springfield the chance to host the premiere of the movie. The towns had to send in a film to explain why their Springfield was the best choice. The winner was Springfield, Vermont.
32* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
33** A ''Simpsons'' film has been planned since the 1990s, but the writers couldn't figure out how to stretch the plot to feature-film length. Episodes that were considered for a feature-length movie are "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]" (which became the fourth season premiere) and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E1BonfireOfTheManatees Bonfire of the Manatees]]" (the season 17 premiere). Before his death, Creator/PhilHartman had expressed interest in doing a live-action Troy [=McClure=] film.
34** Though the producers claim the film changed so often that at least another film's worth of material made it to storyboard and/or animatic, only a few minutes of (finished) deleted scenes appear on the DVD.
35** Hank Scorpio from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]" was going to be the villain instead of Russ Cargill. Hell, they not only share the same voice actor, but the same ''voice''. They decided against it because Scorpio was found to be [[AffablyEvil too likeable]] to turn into an all-out villain.
36*** Speaking of Cargill, he was supposed to have a completely different design from the one seen in the final film. It made him look more like Bert from ''Series/SesameStreet'' than an industrialist/government official. ([[EarlyDraftTieIn The original design was still used for the Burger King toys.]])
37** The film was going to have more PG-13 language than just Marge's sole "Goddamn".
38** In the original storyboard, the silo containing the pig's crap had "pig shit" written on it.
39*** On that note: Marge's line about what Homer was doing with the pig's "leavings" began as what Creator/MattGroening described as "the [[OverlyLongGag world's longest shit joke]]," with Marge giving a [[HurricaneOfEuphemisms long list of euphemisms]] for crap/shit, none of which would register to Homer.
40** Instead of being destroyed by the sinkhole, the Simpson house was originally burned down. Reverend Lovejoy set Maggie's crib on fire, which spread throughout the house. This scene was later deleted and replaced with the former scene, although the house being on fire is still shown when Marge runs in and out of the house to grab their wedding video.
41** The carnival scene was originally much longer and included the family auditioning to be clowns and getting jobs there.
42** There were more scenes of the family escaping from Springfield, including a scene where they go into a museum and Bart gets trapped in a coffin, and the family is getting chased by cops and Homer throws flaming mummies from the same museum.
43** Apparently, it was originally supposed to be President Schwarzenegger who managed to KO Cargill (with a tree branch!), instead of Maggie dropping a boulder on him.
44** Instead of going to Seattle, Marge and the kids were going to go on ''Series/TheView'' where Cargill shows up, gets in a shotgun duel with Joy Behar, and has the Simpsons arrested.
45** Originally, Marge, not Grampa, was supposed to be the one to have the prophecy at church, but the writers admitted they were a little disturbed by the fact the entire family would just ignore when someone as reserved like Marge would completely wig out, so they changed to the character that everyone ignored anyway.
46** The scene even went far into production to where it was storyboarded and Julie Kavner did voice work.
47** Kang and Kodos were at one point going to appear, given that Creator/HarryShearer is credited for playing Kang in the end credits.
48** President Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger originally had a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} blimp on his desk.

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