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No good will come of this:
When Bart is forced to chaperone Jimbo’s girlfriend to a movie, she ends up developing feelings for him, resulting in a whole bunch of trouble with the bullies at school. Meanwhile, Homer is persuaded to buy a state-of-the-art treadmill, fully equipped with a television. When Lisa shows Homer that he can access television shows wirelessly, he develops an obsession with watching an old television show from the treadmill, but not actually working out, until Marge decides to intervene.
Since it’s not entirely clear as to which is what, I’m giving 3-2 odds that the thing with Bart and “Jimbo’s girlfriend” (where have you gone, Sara Gilbert?) will actually be the A-plot. Of course, these days, all that really means is that it’ll occupy slightly more time after the unrelated first segment than the B-plot.
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27 responses to “Sunday Preview: Beware My Cheating Bart”
I am guessing from Homer’s notebook in that picture that Stranded will be a “parody” of Loat.
Lost*
So… “New Kid on the Block” raises from the dead, eh? Lesse.
Hey there’s Squeaky-Voiced Teen. Wait…If the normal characters sound awful now, how’s SVT going to sou- OH GOD NO. MY EARS.
Worst yet this season. Margie’s writing is suffering as much as her voice. Might as well kill her off.
Well it seems that we’re graced (cursed) with yet another lengthy couch gag.
But you know what!? It seems that the only romance that Fox f*ckin’ cares about anymore is Homer and Marge’s, where all they do is f*ckin’ canoodle and make out at the all the damn time! In fact, in each episode, after any featured romance falls through, those two showcase their romance as a constant “Homer and Marge are the only true romance” rub in everyone’s face.
Afterall, it was only done so many times in:
-A Milhouse Divided
-Future-Drama
-My Big Fat Geek Wedding
-The Real Housewives of Fat Tony
In addition to this episode, Lisa has proven to be the most self-centered, unreliable worst sister ever to Bart. She obviously doesn’t give a crap about what happens to Bart anymore. Again, this is the ONLY occasion where I cannot for the life of me defend her. Family is such a dead end in the Simpsons, which is why they need REAL friends.
And I couldn’t see Bart and Shauna together anyway. She’s just another tertiarty Tress MacNeille personality anyway. However, it didn’t have to end the way it did.
But while we’re on the subject, anyone else find Marge’s nagging tiresome, pissy, and irritating?
Laura Powers = Classic Simpsons
Shauna ??? = Zombie Simpsons
1) Jimbo scarier than Nelson? Even in “New Kid” he was portrayed as a wuss, not counting the Roosevelt episode. Nelson should come kick his butt sometime soon.
2) So Homer can afford to buy hi-end treadmills now, along with whatever the fuck Marge decorated the bedroom with at the end.
3) Ok, so the bullies come to Bart’s. Why are they there at night still looking for him? Or has the backyard become public property all of a sudden?
4) Shauna falls for Bart because he is shown a man. Why does Bart go out with her? He doesn’t even care for her other than out of fear for being bullied. Or was the point here for him to stand up for himself? It kinda ends as if they had a relationship right there.
5) Intro = terrible. Fuck Oregon. I want a Springfield in Ontario =) Also, couch gag with unreadable signature = commercial spam. Too bad you can’t send it to junk.
P.S. Brain hurt. Should barricade doors next time.
PPS. Been watchin season 14-17 eps all this time, should’ve been prepared.
PPPS. Some voices ARE off, but as
Unreadable signature? Eh? …Anyway, the couch gag was one-man animation genius Bill Plympton. Who is about the furthest thing from commercial you can get (despite doing some commercials). I HIGHLY reccomend Plymptoons. At least check out his smoking short on youtube or something. Brilliant stuff.
Yes, well, I don’t visit youtube to watch videos of people that for some reason go viral. I also never click on promo links of artists who say “we’re not commercial, here, you can download our stuff for free, see, the REAL stars charge you for these things”. The REAL star, fyi, are ten out of a million. The rest are talentless slobs thinking they can poing their guitars or shit pastel on a paper and produce something.
Purelymypointof view, of course. Whatever that is that you think, let me tell you this: before Season 20, I didn’t have to go check stuff on youtube they made references too, I knew what that was. Right now they’re referencing crappy reality shows, internet rumours and stuff that someone famous tweeted to some other guy. You can’t get lower than that… unless you start referencing imageboards or something.
previously stated, late 50s Castellaneta and early 60s Kavner still manage to keep up at least for the main characters.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers figured nobody would remember this episode if it didn’t feature Bart being flashed by a teenage girl? Apart from a few cute (notice I didn’t say hillarious) movie title parodies, this is pretty much generic and forgettable Zombie Simpsons. This show just keeps finding new ways to not impress me.
Oh, and I pretty much feel the same way about the couch gag that I do any time the show uses a guest artist for their couch gags: it’s nice and unique at first, and then I just want it to end.
It’s pretty sad the best joke in the episode was a blink and you miss it shot http://i.imgur.com/fAAxd.jpg
pretty awful stuff
I accidently caught a minute of this one, starting where the exercise machine falls on Homer and a drink gets magically summoned out of thin air so he can do a gag. That’s when I realized, you know, Zombie Simpsons has actually degraded into a skit show poorly disguised as an animated sitcom, hasn’t it? I mean, whenever the writers think of a gag, conflict, or resolution they just summon the necessary elements for it out of nowhere, only to be forgotten just as quickly as they move on to the next gag, conflict, or resolution.
What little connective tissue there is, they obviously put no thought into and want to be done with as quickly as possible so they can arrive at the next skit. And things like characterization no longer matter because Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa et. al. are just actors running around inside their own SNL cartoon. They can go anywhere, do anything, and act however the bit of the moment requires them to.
The problem’s not just that ZS isn’t the same show as The Simpsons anymore, It’s not even the same basic KIND of show anymore. Wow, I can’t believe people are tuning out.
“That’s when I realized, you know, Zombie Simpsons has actually degraded into a skit show poorly disguised as an animated sitcom, hasn’t it? I mean, whenever the writers think of a gag, conflict, or resolution they just summon the necessary elements for it out of nowhere, only to be forgotten just as quickly as they move on to the next gag, conflict, or resolution. ”
That’s a good way of putting it. That could also explain why when they do come up with a good joke, it’s just one line as opposed to an entire scene.
How many fucking times can they do episode titles that just replace the word “heart” with “Bart”?
Good-for-Zombie-Simpsons episode. Probably one of the best this season, some good lines, a Futurama reference (!), and a couch gag that made me think, ‘Wow, this is a pretty good Bill Plympton ripoff!’ and then, uh, it turns out they actually got Plympton to do the gag.
I guess the exclamation point didn’t need to be there after “a Futurama reference” since they’ve had references and appearances before. But I really liked this one. Though the best was probably the HOMR couch gag (er, I think it was that one; the one that has Fry on the couch).
I was right about Stranded!
I didn’t think it was appropriate that Shauna fell for Bart…or flashed him. WHY does a teen girl want a 10 year old? This is almost as bad as the time Bart almost married his pregnant teenage girlfriend!
Maybe the writers have a thing for straight shotacon.
I think the writers of Zombie Simpsons have genuinely forgotten how old these characters, especially the children, are supposed to be. Mind you, it’s always been something of a problem right back to the earliest days of the show, especially in any scenario involving Springfield Elementary, where second-graders are somehow expected to learn junior-high level history and other such subjects.
Therefore it’s almost always bugged me when “The Simpsons” tries to force a romantic plot onto Bart or even Lisa. It’s OK in the episode “New Kid on The Block” because there wasn’t any pretense that Bart’s attraction to Laura was anything more than a one-sided, puppy-love crush. Later episodes, though, treat ten-year-old Bart and even eight-year-old Lisa as though they were high school students. In the present episode it’s especially creepy.
The way I see it is the way Charlie pointed in out some time ago: they make Bart and Lisa (and the rest of the gang) kids when they have to, and then, all of a sudden, they’re adults. There is no more connection between these events, and what ails me even more, is that they don’t even try to deal with it (they could’ve at least make a couple of funny references). This, alongside the fact that nobody remembers what they did in the previous episode (let alone the season), is what kills the show today.
Well Stan, Bill Plympton is the biggest name in Indy animation. He’s actually quite commercial. That smoking short is not some thing that went viral on youtube, but an animation from the 80s that used to be on MTV all the time. He has recently been named the #29 most influential person in animation, 1 place ahead of John Lasseter ( http://www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/top-100-most-influential-people-animation?page=0%2C7 ). Disney offered him a million to work for them, but he declined, because he wanted to work on his own stuff. He’s been friends with Matt Groening since before either of them was famous. And just a terrific artist.
As you say, a REAL ten out of a million star and not some kind of talentless youtube slob just because you don’t know him?
Me not knowing him doesn’t mean he can’t be in the couch gag (read comments to next post). It means watching Homer dating a couch for some reason, then the couch give birth to an armchair, then attempt to suicide and finally be back at the Simpsons where others sit on it, and all this, two minutes long – fuck, I wouldn’t care even if Disney himself did it. THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT TO THAT COUCH GAG!
Btw, if I’d saw Groening’s signature on the show, I’d say the same thing: “What a showoff who thinks he’s so great he can put his signatures all over the place”. Like the Futurama reference (personally I think it’s a stupid show with episodes that don’t make any fucking sense, I pulled myself together more than once to sit and watch it, and still couldn’t) – let’s just see it and keep going, okay?
What no guest voice? I thought they were contractually obligated or something seeing as how more episodes than not these days feature them