Last night’s Flanders love-in was a near perfect microcosm of Zombie Simpsons crapitude: the Simpsons do something zany, Homer doesn’t worry about it because he knows everything is going to be okay, everything turns out to be okay for some reason, the end. Like much of Zombie Simpsons, there were a few chuckle worthy gags almost totally subsumed by the hurricane force torrents of “What the fuck?”. TV by the Numbers will have the ratings up in a few hours, in the meantime I’m setting the over/under at 7.1 million people. There was no NASCAR preemption this week and it…
Day: March 9, 2009
If You Stop Praising It, Maybe They’ll Let It Die
“Now, at the risk of being unpopular, this reporter places the blame for all of this squarely on you, the viewers!” – Kent Brockman I still have not watched last night’s Zombie Simpsons episode, but I did spend the first 2 hours of my workday reading reviews on various fan sites. If I were 8 years old, obscenely gullible, or a high school student from a Detroit public school, I would run home right now to watch it as it was apparently good. No, not just good: “I claim this as a New Classic!” – Gatorgod (nohomers.net)Super, lemme get AMC…
Quote of the Day
“Well, it sort of looks like Homer Simpson, only more dynamic and resourceful.” – Mr. Smithers