FOX announced their midseason schedule today and the Spurlock special will be airing after a new Zombie Simpsons on Sunday January 10th. (It’s got a whole hour devoted to it from 8:30 to 9:30.) Previously the schedule had been announced (or just assumed) as being January 14th, which is a Thursday. I thought they might be doing a one night only return to Thursday to hit the 20th anniversary on the dot, but I guess not. Incidentally, I’ve never fully understood why, in television circles at least, the premier of “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” doesn’t seem to count. …
Day: November 24, 2009
Synergy Pines for Its Lost Youth and Innocence
“There has been a shocking decline in the quality and quantity of your toadying, Waylon!” – C.M. Burns Much like last week, this week’s IGN Simpsons “review” was surprisingly long on criticism within the text before giving it a good number anyway. I don’t want to repeat myself too much, but this episode scored a 6.9 when the actual review was mostly negative even before I edited out the synergy. What would it have needed to do to score less than that? True, the tone is still that of a gently cowed subordinate, but the substance of this review is…
Quote of the Day
“Smithers had thwarted my earlier attempt to take candy from a baby, but with him out of the picture, I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.” – C. Montgomery Burns