Day: February 4, 2009

“You look familiar, sir.  Are you on the television or something?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “Sorry buddy, you got me confused with Fred Flintstone.” – Homer Simpson I always enjoyed it when the show would make fun of the neverending parade of shoddy merchandise Fox would roll out to pad the margins.  But with this, I think they’ve crossed a kind of cosmic line of irony and self ignorance hitherto unknown to humanity.  The Simpsons put animation back into primetime two decades after The Flintstones went off the air and had the good sense to drop knowingly ironic references to it.  Of…