Image bloodied by Dave, as always.
Zombie Simpsons goes back to the well of self voiced celebrities this evening:
In order to get back at his dad, Bart goes undercover as a graffiti street artist and plasters Homer’s unflattering image all over Springfield. But one night, Bart and Milhouse get caught in the act by established street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal (guest voicing as themselves), and to Bart’s surprise, they invite him to exhibit his satirical artwork in his very own gallery show. Meanwhile, a hip, new health food superstore opens in Springfield that threatens to put Apu and the Kwik-E-Mart out of business.
Well, that certainly sounds belatedly topical and generally sloppy. I’m going to go huff some paint fumes before it comes on.
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29 responses to “Sunday Preview: Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart”
I don’t watch the show anymore, but judging by the discussions here, it seems like Millhouse is in every episode now.
What was that opening? What was that. What the hell was that.
Trader Joe’s parody. Timely.
This is going to be a rough one, isn’t it?
“What was that opening? What was that. What the hell was that.”
I have no idea either, but I’m sure it’s probably a reference to some (relatively) recent tv series that they assume we’ve all seen.
The AV Club has your answer:
“The Game Of Thrones couch gag is indicative of some of the laziness of the latter-day Simpsons humor. It’s not satire, but an homage, as if to answer the unasked question: What would the Game Of Thrones opening sequence look like if it had The Simpsons cast in it? Now we know.”
I haven’t seen this episode yet, but having watched similar things in recent episodes, I know the feeling.
So it’s just like their take on the Mad Men op. It’s exactly the same, but everyone is replaced with Simpsons characters, and if you’ve never seen the source material it has no entertainment value whatsoever.
Apu’s characterization aside, I liked this one much more than I thought I would.
I wish that rabbit was given a name, though.
We are never going to see the rabbit again so it doesn’t matter that they didn’t even name him.
Yeah, I guess so. Even after 501 episodes, I remain optmistic.
Ok, 2 major problems with this one. First, the plots don’t hold, neither the main one nor the b-plot. Why does Bart suddenly want to do a graffiti humiliating Homer, and that it just looks like the OBEY one. As for the b-plot, it’s just too small a part in it to be interesting. Second, the couch gag opening IS weird.
P.S. They’re back in Springfield, not the Outlands. Not even a ref to it. Anyone notice?
I completely forgot about the outlands. That’s how forgettable zombie simpsons is. In one week and out the other. I was okay with this episode up until the standard unenthusiastic, shameless celebrity guest walk-on spot. Although Bart’s graffiti work has certainly improved since his “El Barto” days. I know I for one found Bart a whole lot funnier when his grafitti art was crude and imperfect. Sort of like the Simpsons animation itself.
I think the animation peaked around 5, when there was a real cartoony expressiveness to the action; from there things went from serviceable to sterile
Season 5 is the time that Matt Groening started creating weird animation rules
Basic problem is that Bart gets to this idea out of nowhere. I can understand Homer’s gift and Paula’s phone calls (although I wish I was called 4 times in a row by some TV host just like that), I can understand the bunny and the cage, heck, I can even understand the Apu vs. Snake thing. But… graffiti artist just like that? The same Bart who made Angry Dad cartoons and El Barto? The. Fuck?!?
Anyhoo, let’s see what Charlie has to say about it.
This sounds a lot like that episode from earlier this season where Marge critiques food and is then invited to by other food bloggers who agreed to voice themselves to join their group.
In the next episode, Maggie’s sandcastles are noticed by professional sand artists, but tensions arise when she becomes a sandcastle diva.
With special guest appearances by famous sand sculptors Jill Harris, Michel Lepire, Thomas Koet, Karen Fralich, Susanne Ruseler, Marjon Katerberg, Leonardo Ugolini, Marc Lepire, Fergus Mulvany, Meredith Corson, JOOheng Tan, Dan Doubleday, Ilya Filimontsev, Suzanne Altamare, Dan Belcher, Jim Richardson, and Brad Goll, voicing themselves.
Add a completely disengaging subplot and you just wrote yourself a new episode
Meanwhile, Barney’s house is foreclosed when he can’t maintain his subprime mortgage payments.
And, as a b-plot, Burns finally marries Smithers, only to discover that he has an affair with Sideshow Mel.
So does that lady still hate Marge? Didn’t they do this with Bansky? Who booked this crap?
More celebs in Springfield for some reason and another [insert simpson here] becomes an instant professional episode… looks like i won’t be watching this…
Yeah, put me on the list as someone who didn’t hate this as much as I expected it to.
The beginning was interesting, and believable, and then when Bart starts the graffiti, it starts to go downhill.
Homer wasn’t too dumb. But I didn’t like the whole speech that Bart gives at the end. He’s an 8-year-old troublemaker not an eloquent orator!
The B story (the whole thing with Apu) was fun.
its because of morons like you that the shows still airing! this episode sucked ass and shut the fuck up!
and it’s because of bullies like you that it’s impossible to have intelligent thoughtful conversation debate on the Web any more.
conversation AND debate, I meant to say
stop contradicting yourself, why do you contradict yourself so much
The moment the guest stars appeared, I had to fight the urge to turn the TV off. The amount of self-serving banter was almost unbearable.
I caught this episode last night. What a stinker. Springfield is basically Los Angeles now? I thought they were “upper-lower-middle-class types”? As for the guest “stars” the only one I’d heard of was Shepard Fairey. Who are any of those other guys? Since when did Marge have a bunny as a child? You’d think after all those years of character development we would have heard about that…
On that note, Homer forcing Bart into the bunny cage just seemed a bit weird. Homer strangling Bart always worked as a gag because it was so over the top, especially given how he acted while it was happening, and other people’s reactions to it. This was just strange, like, almost a bit kinky… definitely odd.
Crap episode. What else is new?
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