Homer heeds the call when he is recruited to be a deacon by the cutting-edge new pastor, but Bart wants to bring back Rev. Lovejoy after Homer embraces the faith a little too zealously. Meanwhile, it is no laughing matter when the dry cleaner mistakenly switches Marge’s wedding dress for one of Krusty’s costumes.
A bit of a contrast from the time Homer was a minister to profit off of gay marriage, but hey, it’s 2013. Apparently there is also a bedbug infestation during this episode, so we got that going for us too!
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26 responses to “Sunday Preview: Pulpit Friction”
Here, let me fix these descriptions:
“Nothing funny happens. You can probably find a decent movie on HBO or perhaps talk to your family.”
Or clean your fucking bathroom until 9 PM.
I’m sure the dean is played by some celebrity, right?
Also, kudos to the promotional blurb for giving us unprecedented accuracy: Indeed, neither the costume mix-up, nor anything the show does, will be a laughing matter.
Again, one can’t help pointing out when Zombie Simpsons rips The Simpsons, and even itself, off but doesn’t that episode where Springfield Elementary gets a ‘cool’ new teacher and Bart doesn’t like it so he tries to get Mrs. Krabappel back?
And Marge loses her weddin dress, hmm? In ‘The Simpsons’ that could sounds like it could go somewhere but then they added ‘ switched for one of Krustys Costumes’. I bet it took a lot of restraint not to include ‘Hilarity ensues’.
Either that or “with sexy results..”
I think Marge having her normal clothes switched with clown suits could have hilarious results, but producing that kind of humor would require imagination.
It’s not and it wouldn’t. When your b-plot becomes related to wardrobe issues – you’re dealing with major script writing dysfunctions.
Have they done “Marge becomes a robot” yet?
They have. In one of their Halloween specials, if I remember correctly.
Ah, then it’s still valid for a “regular” episode. They’ve done “talking bar rag”, why not “Robot Marge”?
It happened in the Heartbroke Kid
Me after watching this episode.
Oh yeah, cutaway gags now become full episodes. I absolutely forgot.
Sigh.
Lampshade-hangings like “Why did I give her a gun?” don’t work when the audience is wondering the same thing.
That is the problem when your show stays on the air for way too long…you start doing the same plots over and over again. The longer something stays around the harder it is to mantain quality.
The problem is not re-doing same plots. It’s re-doing them worse than the original, with little to no regard for their consistency, and not only screwing up the whole episodes, but also somehow making the originals disgusting to watch thereafter.
That “no laughing matter” line is really softballing it in, isn’t it?
It’s true. Zombie Simpsons is no laughing matter.
Avclub rating of this week’s episode: B.
…even if this guy is forgiving of Zombie Simpsons… a fucking B?!
I just read that review. I found it hard to take seriously after he claimed that it was hard to care about Lovejoy’s character because “his defining trait is being stupendously dull”. Can’t say that was a problem in the earlier seasons (but, of course, that could just be what the show’s reduced him to, as is the case with most of the cast).
The sad thing is, I seriously considered giving this episode a chance. However, the more reviews I read, the more I want to steer clear of it.
Finally an episode that makes fun of the 2010 New York bed bug epidemic. I bet it was worth the wait
Yet another episode where I suspect they came up with the title first.
Still, nothing is as bad as ‘Eeny Teeny Maya Moe.’
Sigh. Another terrible episode. I think we should have a thumbs up feature on here btw.
Ok I didn’t see the episode per se (and not planning to), but those who saw it tell me – was there at least ONE reference to Pulp Fiction? I bet there wasn’t and the title is just a dumbwit response on trying to fit whatever the fuck happened in that episode into a famous movie title, yet again…