Creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening took the stage at Comic-Con along with Simpsons showrunner Al Jean, animator/director David Silverman, and director Mike Anderson, to announce the air date of this year's Treehouse of Horror special and talk a little bit about Season 26 and the upcoming Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode.

Treehouse of Horror will actually air before Halloween this year - October 19th - and it will feature a segment that Stanley Kubrick fans are sure to appreciate called "Clockwork Yellow," a parody of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Fans on hand got to see a sneak peek of it, featuring Moe in the Malcolm McDowell "Alex" role.

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And for those out there who are fans of songs from The Simpsons, there will be a series of events in September at The Hollywood Bowl where the voice cast and Weird Al Yankovic will perform famous musical numbers from the show.And, of course, no Simpsons panel in 2014 would be complete without Groening interacting with Holographic Homer...Other news? Spider Pig will be back in Season 26. Plus, there's apparently a couch gag coming up "so nightmarish it will change your DNA," Groening says.The upcoming Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode will air in November, and will feature the whole cast of Futurama. Groening said that there are no current plans to bring back Futurama, but that he'd be meeting with the Futurama people tomorrow morning, over waffles, to discuss the show's future.As for The Simpsons itself, the question was posed to the panel, very basically, "Will The Simpsons end?""No," Groening said, "we're going to be around for a while.

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