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WEIRD & WILD: Are you a 'Simpsons' character?

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Here's your chance to crash The Simpsons. But get cracking -- the deadline for The Simpsons Character Contest is this Saturday (Oct. 24).

The series' writers -- who declare they're "tired and, frankly, too rich to care anymore" -- are asking fans to submit character ideas. Dream up a great name, catchphrase and character description. (Fields to be filled out include: age; "sex, if any"; body type; "blood type, just in case.") You don't even have to draw.

Deadline is late Saturday, Oct. 24, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

The winner gets flown to Los Angeles to meet with artists, who'll insert the character into an episode currently planned for Fox airing Jan. 31 as part of the series' 20th anniversary celebration.

Enter here.

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Diane Werts

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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