“Morons, pathetic morons in my employ stealing my precious money.  This is hopeless.  None of these cretins deserves a promotion.” – C.M. Burns

I was slightly afraid we’d be in for some schlock on account of the whole fake 20th Anniversary thing.  I should have been more afraid.  No only did the B-plot pervert Burns beyond even what Zombie Simpsons has done before,* but the last half of the A-plot was a romantic comedy that would’ve made Julia Roberts ashamed.  Also, it’s not a good idea to take up a lot of your run time with things that are deliberately unfunny.  Though the sight of Bart and Milhouse suffering through a total perversion of their favorite show did strike a chord with me. 

That wasn’t even the height of the unintentional comedy though.  Because while I don’t have any real opinion on Domino’s Pizza admitting their product sucked, throwing themselves on the mercy of their customers, and then begging forgiveness, I do find it ironic that they’re advertising this complete top to down overhaul on Zombie Simpsons.  And finally we can add Krusty to the list of voices that don’t sound like themselves and longer. 

We’re going to have to be ready for a massive 20th anniversary/playoff football overtime ratings number on this one.  I’m braced for over 10 million even as I hope against hope it’ll fall short of that. 

*I didn’t like it when they made him incompetent, but he’s never before (to my knowledge) loved his employees.  Ugh.