As always, credit to Dave.
Football season is over; and Zombie Simpsons must grind itself to a conclusion:
Marge & Lisa’s mother-daughter Valentine’s Day plans take a turn when Lisa meets Nick, an intellectual romantic who shares the same passion for culture, history and literature. Lisa and Nick fall head over heels for each other in a fairytale romance and make a secret getaway to Mulberry Island to profess their eternal love. Meanwhile, Bart & Milhouse are inspired by the hosts of “MythCrackers” to “crack” Springfield Elementary’s own legends.
Enjoy Hallmark Day, everyone. It’s just another target Zombie Simpsons can’t hit.
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21 responses to “Sunday Preview: The Daughter Also Rises”
Mythbusters and Michael Cera: I predict this episode will be a great time capsule for what was sort of popular in 2010. The only problem is that it’s 2012.
For variety, the show can swap the tired “Bart’s celebrity love interest” premise for Lisa. Next season we’ll have Jesse Eisenberg, then Andrew Garfield. The list of bland nondescript one-off characters is endless!
You’re acting like this is the first time this happened for Lisa.
Of course not, but it’s not as frequent as the Bart ones. The only two Lisa ones I can think of are Frankie Muniz in “Trilogy of Error” and Jonathon Taylor Thomas in “Dude Where’s My Ranch,” both almost a decade old.
There was also Jesse, the level 5 vegan from Lisa the Tree Hugger voiced by Joshua Jackson.
Don’t forget that boy in the Simpsons Movie.
The real Lisa used to have enough trouble simply making friends with girls her own age, now she finds a new romantic dreamy boyfriend almost every week.
I would’ve liked the episode more if the story made any goddamn sense. Marge was a bit on the creepy side this week.
I loved Milhouse in this, though.
Am I supposed to believe that that was a real 8 year old boy? He didn’t have any child like characteristics. He was essentially just a really short 30 year old. Which is basically what Lisa has been during her entire Zombie Simpson tenure. If you’re going to have children characters who behave like adults at least have the courtesy to make them funny. Compare this one-off twirp on Zombie Simpsons to Stewie on Family Guy. No matter how adult Stewie behaves at times, they always keep him somewhat grounded by having him do typical children things. Simpsons used to do that with Lisa but they gave up. Now she’s basically just a college student.
One way to fix this episode would have been to have the little boy Lisa liked turn out to be some pathetic teenage little person who can’t get any dates with high school girls so he tries the elementary school. Or better yet, end this show altogether.
Or some of the one off kids on South Park.
Problem is Lisa’s character is harder to “get” than Bart’s. This was noted in single digit seasons too. Bart is a definite jock, underachiever and hellraiser. Lisa… is she a nerdy? Not necessarily – she can stand for herself. Is she a prankster like Bart? Not really either. And she ain’t a momma’s girl, or a tomboy, or whatever. So, in other terms, they had her in certain non-stereotypical ways from the beginning, but it quick became ground for introducing a midget-like persona, with the body of a kid and the brain of an adult
Anyway, it’s not funny. That’s one thing everyone would agree on.
I wouldn’t say Bart is a jock. His popularity level seems to change from episode to episode as needed. Just look at how the way bullies treat him is always changing. He’s certainly an underachiever and hellraiser though.
Now what I don’t get is if Lisa is such a feminist, wouldn’t all these boyfriend episodes be sexist and out of character for her? I’d think a strong, independent woman wouldn’t be swooning at the sight of any cute boy that happens to pass her by.
Once again welcome to unforgiving logic-free hell known as ZS or The Shitsons.
Well, Lisa wasn’t really that much of a feminist. The episode about her and Malibu Stacy is the only one that comes to mind for me, and even then, she acted more out of a fighter-for-rights, a justice freak or something, than a feminist.
It’s actually hard to analyze what Lisa’s character was supposed to be after all this sludgy decade-long barf that turned characters into cardboard cutouts. I’d say Groening created a prototype of his sister and stuck it in, but most likely only he himself really got what that was supposed to be… if anything.
So this is still happening, huh?
I agree with Matthew. Nick did not act or talk like a read child at all.
Marge was very self-centered in this one. Doesn’t she want her daughter to be happy?
Welcome to the hell called ZS or The Shitsons.
Yeah…the first thing that went through my mind is “They do remember she’s supposed to be 8, don’t they?” Gross.
My thoughts exactly. Marge was acting more like a stalker than a mother. In theory that was two eight-year-olds out on that island, but she just let the other kid row away.
I don’t ever WATCH these things, I’m entirely going off of what you guys say…it would be really effective torture to force me to see any of these episodes. I would tell you anything you wanted to know.
Quite typical of Zombie Simpsons to jump onto the Mythbusters bandwagon, some years after the wheels came off it.
Apperently only 4.3 million people watched this poorly written episode… whoops!
Guess we have the grammy’s to ‘blame’