Season 12 came out on DVD today and we’ll be getting into it a little more in the coming weeks.  After all, we’re almost done with our Season 8 series and we’ve got to do something between now and the ignominious debut of Season . . . ugh . . . 21.  For now you’ll have to content yourself with crappy, rage inducing clips from some typically brainless Season 12 episodes.  There’s a “deleted” scene here and three regular style ones here.  I really don’t recommend any of them.

Season 12 is terrible pretty much up and down the line.  Some lowlights include a panda raping Homer, a crazed woman screaming about diamonds, and the infamous “Worst Episode Ever”.  Lots of people have bitched about the panda rape before (we all know that bears are only funny when they masturbate), and the screaming diamond lady was the scene that finally broke me as a Simpsons fan.  But “Worst Episode Ever” is a monument to the rise of Zombie Simpsons.  The people behind the show began to believe their own bullshit and when that happened they lost the ability to make fun of themselves.  They passed from knowingly ironic into unknowingly ironic and the rest is history.