Not only did we forget to put up a preview post in time, but the venerable Simpsons Channel doesn’t have one either. (I guess everybody’s falling apart these days.) This and the above image are from Simpsons Wiki:
Homer joins the "Springfield Preppers," an off-the-grid survivalist group whose leader (guest voice Tom Waits) has set up a top-secret retreat outside of town to prepare for the end of the world. But Marge grows skeptical of the group’s alarmist shenanigans.
Ick. Didn’t they do a survivalist camp last year? Yeah, they did. Oh well, here’s Tom Waits doing something that’s actually worthwhile:
Dead Homer Society 
10 responses to “Sunday Preview: Homer Goes to Prep School”
Apparently Herman dyes his hair pink.
They seem to put in a lot of Herman nowadays, and he is a pretty meaningless character by my standards.
I love Herman!
Although he is pretty meaningless, he has a ton of potential. It’s all in the image.
What kind of potential? An instrument for jokes about one-handed people and mass shooters? If they want to lean Family Guy style then yes he’s a gold mine for these.
The fact that most sitcoms have adapted their characters for cheap one-time gags about losers, gays, fat people, skinny people, different people and whatnot, doesn’t excuse the once great show that was The Simpsons, which played a lot on emotions and feelings rather than prejudices, from doing the same lame shit.
And for me, personally, it never will.
I really enjoy Tom Waits’ music, and in the past he’s seemed to pick really cool acting roles. But when I heard he was going to appear in ZS, he lost face in my eyes.
Didn’t Homer go on his own apocalyptic trip to a mesa at one time or another?
At least this one didn’t end with three-minute-long filler about Frink explaining some scientific shit about why nothing happened on December 21. After Burns’ venture into economy all is possible now.
Oh wai… There was this zombie asteroid bit at the end. Crud.
Thanks for posting, Charlie Sweatpants! Normally, I never miss any part of FOX’s Animation Domination, but I had to work late at DISH last night and missed the whole block of shows. Thankfully, the PrimeTime Anytime feature I enabled on my DISH Hopper DVR records the whole prime time line up from FOX, ABC, CBS and NBC and stores those shows for up to 8 days. I just watched this episode, and I knew “Lloyd’s” voice from somewhere, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Now that I know it was Tom Waits, I am more than a little surprised at myself for not knowing that.
Now I want to rewatch The Wire…