“Look Bart, it almost killed me but I handcrafted all seventy-five characters from ‘Oliver Twist’. And now, the coup-de-grace, a bitter snowstorm.” – Lisa Simpson They say it is best to judge a man not by his words but by his actions. By that criteria I would like to thank Morgan Spurlock for publicly disparaging Zombie Simpsons – on FOX itself. To the untrained eye it looked like he was just eating an orange, but to the eye that has brains he was making a guerilla point about Zombie Simpsons. It took a disturbing amount of my (admittedly not very…
Day: January 12, 2010
Does Seth MacFarlane have feelings?
I’ll give the writers of Zombie Simpsons credit where credit is due: when they want to go out on a formulaic note, they don’t hold back. To say that Sunday’s ending was supremely schmaltzy is an understatement, as Krusty and Penelope lovingly floated away on the Seine under a starry sky to an acoustic version of “Moon River.” As if that weren’t enough, the writers took an additional opportunity to blanket the audience with warm fuzzies in the form of a passive aggressive “fuck you” to the haters (i.e., us.): Right. Ignoring the self-delusion in the second line, it’s interesting…
Quote of the Day
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user ktheory. “In a sample taken in this very classroom a state inspector found 1.74 parts per million of asbestos!” – Martin Prince “That’s not enough! We demand more asbestos!” – Bart Simpson