"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, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, D.B. Sweeney, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson 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, John Belushi as Emir Ben Kalish Ezab, Sutton Foster as Janice Ben Kalish Ezab, Jordon Fry as Abdullah, John Travolta as Phillipullus the Prophet, Spike Milligan as Professor Decimus Phos