Dave’s busy being a real adult and doesn’t have time for childish photoshop follies. (At least, that’s what he told me.) So instead of another bloodied preview image I thought I’d put up a picture of Joan Rivers doing something that’s actually funny. Simpsons Channel has us covered for the other thing:
Krusty the Clown is stuck in a rut when the television network pulls his show from the air and his talent agency drops him as a client. But when the Simpsons introduce him to seasoned agent Annie (guest voice Joan Rivers), they are surprised to learn that Annie was Krusty’s very first agent. Despite their rocky relationship, Annie is convinced to re-sign Krusty and craft his career comeback. But when Krusty’s retro comedyshow reboot is deemed a critical success, Krusty must decide to stay with his agent or side with the network executives.
That sounds like a well plotted piece of non-claptrap that isn’t going to make me want to retch.
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“Joan Rivers doing something that’s actually funny.” Heh, that’s rare. Mel Brooks is a miracle worker.
Zombie Simpsons, however, is not.
So, they conceived this episode knowing that “Krusty Gets Kancelled” exists, yet they just went ahead and produced it anyway?
The past decade of episodes proves they have no shame.
I’ve seen worse. I am literally excited that there was so little Sideshow Mel in that episode.
Not the best ep and not god-awful (I really believe that you just like to find faults in everything, but I respect your honest opinions on this blog regardless), but ones co-written by Dan Castellaneta and his wife tend to go into the “okay” pile, like this one.
“Joan Rivers doing something funny.” Tress MacNeille’s impression of her is funnier than the real thing, Spaceballs excepted (one of my favorite movies, BTW so kudos on the page image).
Besides “Krusty Gets Kancelled” the following eps were rehashed and/or retconned: “Like Father, Like Clown,” “The Last Temptation of Krust” (the OTHER Krusty reinvents himself episode), and, hell, I’ll even throw in “The Itchy & Sratchy & Poochie Show” which addresses Krusty losing his luster rather than I&S/The Simpsons.
Krusty’s stage show and subsequent cable show reminiscent of Pee Wee Herman (who was mentioned) and Conan O’Brien reeked of missed opportunity. If they wanted to bring back old characters for nostalgia value…WHY DIDN’T THEY?! Where was Tina Ballerina, Corporal Punishment, Sideshow Raheem, or Ms. No Means No?!
Yeah, that sounds about right. This episode wasn’t offensively bad, but it wasn’t particularly good either. I liked Not-HBO’s slogan “It’s not TV, it’s more expensive” and Moe talking about how he had never seen The Wire and had to bluff his way through a lot of conversations, but that’s about it.
Weird, I just finished the Wire like an hour before this Simpsons episode aired. I didn’t see The Simpsons cuz I didn’t realize Wire’s series finale was 90 minutes long. Anyway.. The Wire!
I all flaws can be explained because the creators’ percadan addiction. If you ask me, that stuff ROTS your brain.
The end of that plot description reminded me of the end of You Kent Say What You Always Want (or something on the lines of that). Seriously there’s no tension or drama and it can only go one way or the other…
This episode was so mind numbingly dull, I felt like my mind had been erased ala “Men in Black.”
Also, I’d never expect joan rivers to appear in it a simpsons episode after they insulted her daughter in “viva Ned Flanders.”
And that comment about Joan in ‘Make room for lisa’
I’m sure she never saw those. Or doesn’t remember since those were over ten years ago, and terrible episodes.
Did Joan Rivers guest star in “Viva Ned Flanders”, or was it someone else portraying her?
Oh never mind, she wasn’t a guest in that one.
Also did anyone catch Family Guy’s latest episode tonight called ‘Cool Hand Peter’ which featured a simpsons jury cut-a-way and peter and the guys talking about going to McDaniels and Burger Queen and Quagmire pointing out how ridiculous it is and how obvious it is that they mean the real life counterparts but coz they’re on tv they have to call it that (note: family guy have make this kind of a joke before too). If that episode aired on the same night as the episode which featured all the obvious “parodies” it would have helped with the compare and contrasts and such.
I will give the show some credit for acknowledging their laziness with that Itchy and Scratchy thing. It wasn’t that funny, but it at least shows they’re aware of it. Now if they could only listen to that and NOT bombard us with references from a year ago, then we’d all be a little happier.
The Simpsons cutaway made me smirk, the rest of the episode… not so much…
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I just saw this new episode. Another “Krusty loses his show” episode? Next week they’ll undoubtedly go in a bold new direction, maybe “Selma gets married” or “Bart gets a girlfriend”
Self plagiarism is an obvious problem with Zombie Simpsons
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At first I thought the picture represented the adult thing Dave was busy with
Ha.
he had as many arms as Vishnu and they were all very busy.
That appearance by Squeaky-Voiced Teen was very unfortunate. Did anyone else notice him slip into a man voice near the end the scene?
I’m going to go ahead and call “permanently unusable” on the character. Anyone second the motion?
Yeah, Jeremy sucks now. I hope they don’t ruin Raphael too.
“But when the Simpsons introduce him to seasoned agent Annie (guest voice Joan Rivers), they are surprised to learn that Annie was Krusty’s very first agent.”
I’m not even going to ask why it would be the Simpsons who introduce him to a seasoned agent. You just have to assume now that the Simpsons are the most important people in the world, and they know everybody everywhere.