For tonight Zombie Simpsons seems to have completely forgotten that it’s nominally a comedy program, instead it decided to be a mystery show. Unfortunately it wasn’t even a good mystery show, with lazy “revelations” coming up like clockwork before each commercial break. Despite the excess of plot twists there was more stalling and exposition than usual. Take, for example, Lisa’s trip to the attic at the beginning. She got stuck with the attic door, Bart then took up a lot of time helping her. Nothing funny was going on, but it did eat some clock. Once she made it too…
Day: February 21, 2010
Sunday E-mail Part 2
A blog called “No Pun Intended” has been, amongst other things, watching and reviewing Simpsons episodes from the before time, the long long ago. I’ve linked to a couple of them in Reading Digest but they deserves a little bit more attention than that (and they sent us an e-mail). Here they are discussing “Mr. Plow”, “Life on the Fast Lane”, and “Lisa the Iconoclast”. Tim, the guy who writes these, has a very keen bead on things. There’s too much for me to quote, but this response to a reader comment ably demonstrates that he is on the side…
Sunday E-mail Part 1
Last weekend we got an e-mail from a guy who is watching all the episodes of Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons. Unlike amateur publicity whore Glen Stott he’s not calling radio shows and bragging about something he hasn’t done yet, he’s simply doing it. (He’s also spreading it out over six weeks instead of stupidly trying to do it in one marathon session.) His Tumblr post about it is titled with admirable succinctness “Why The Simpsons Are Rubbish Now”. In it he specifically compares “Bart’s Dog Gets an F” to some trash from Season 16 (the whole thing is worth a…
Sunday Preview: “The Color Yellow”
Tonight’s Zombie Simpsons will probably engage in a simplistic racial fairy tale that would make James Cameron blush, except that they don’t have any fancy graphics to make it all okay. Other than that, I don’t have much else to add, so here’s Simpsons Channel with the quickie description: When Lisa discovers that her Southern ancestors helped a slave named Virgil (guest voice Wren T. Brown) escape to freedom, she presents her family’s story during Black History Month. And here’s one HOMER-MANIACO Internet-orgasming over said description: THE SIMPSON ARE THE BEST SERIES OF HISTORY,THE KINGS OF TV,I LOVE SIMPSON,MY FAVORITE…
Quote of the Day
“And when the doctor said I didn’t have worms anymore, that was the happiest day of my life.” – Ralph Wiggum “Thank you Ralph, very graphic.” – Ms. (Elizabeth) Hoover