For all its HD animation, celebrity guest voices, and new ways to cause Homer pain, Zombie Simpsons in the 21st season is incredibly bland. The show became deeply unimaginative years ago and by this point all they really do is just fill in the time the same ways over and over again. Was it repetitive? Oh sure. Did Homer cry? You bet. Pointless celebrity guest? Of course. Wildly unbelievable antics even within a single scene? Plenty. Tonight Zombie Simpsons went through the motions with mixed martial arts and there’s nothing memorable about the result. It’s like those paintings of sail…
Day: October 11, 2009
Sunday History Lesson
The Internet is full of little surprises, often anonymously created, but incisive in their brevity. To wit, I found these pictures while browsing Digg this afternoon. Some enterprising folks have used the magic of Photoshop to superimpose words – honest-to-goodness words – on top of existing images. And in doing so, they’ve provided three subtly different takes on the same critical point: “The Simpsons” is the same as its former self in name only. The characters have evolved into nearly unrecognizable personalities while the show’s raison d’être has taken a deleterious turn for the worse. I particularly like the second…
How Not to Photoshop Your Crappy Merchandise
“Ohhh, The Tinkler. I like the sound of that.” – Homer Simpson The image at right is for an AM/FM radio in the shape of Homer. On the product website it is listed as “no longer available”, which is no great loss. What I’d like to draw your attention to, however, is the remarkably smooth line the “water” makes as it runs along Homer’s torso. And I mean really, remarkably smooth, as in no variance whatsoever. It’s one thing to advertise crappy Simpsons merchandise, lots of links I come across do that. It’s another to not even bother to photograph…
Quote of the Day
“Every day, same old cat. I’ll make it more interesting.” – Bart Simpson “Ahhhh!” – Homer Simpson “Ah, there, that’s better.” – Bart Simpson “Much better . . . oh good, the curtains are on fire!” – Marge Simpson