Day: September 8, 2009

“Do you remember when you lost your passion for this work?” – Lisa Simpson This one continues Season 12’s depressing insistence on nonsense plots and radical twist endings at the expense of, you know, humor or a story.  Once again the emphasis is directed more at faithfully reproducing a pop culture concept rather than at satirizing it.  In this case they’re trying to send up “con artist” movies like The Sting (which is mentioned in the commentary), but the episode ends up consisting of little more than plot twists followed by explanations and exposition. Now, I don’t recommend anyone watching…