Marge encourages Bart to explore his creative side and take music lessons and Bart develops a crush on his beautiful piano teacher, Zhenya. To pay for Bart’s music lessons, Marge agrees to be Slava’s driving instructor. Homer is shocked when he loses the last two remaining hairs on his head and Patrick Stewart teaches Homer how to live with his newfound baldness. Justin Bieber tries to get into a talent show that Bart is playing piano in and they won’t admit him.
Oh goodie, Justin Bieber plays himself tonight. At least Bart will fall in love again, because lord knows how long it has been since he last did that.
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Justin Bieber. I wish I could say I’m surprised.
Bart in love….AGAIN. I hope she does not also have feelings fro him.
She didn’t.
Zombies don’t have feelings, it seems.
Except for the ones in “Warm Bodies”.
Here’s how it could’ve been watchable:
“Marge and Homer enroll Bart for music lessons in order to get rid of him for the upcoming summer vacation. Bart develops a crush on his beautiful FEMALE piano teacher with a Russian name Zhenya (because in Russian, this is a unisex name) and suddenly gets interested. In order to pay for Bart’s music lessons, Homer has to work overtime at the Nuclear Plant and within two weeks loses his final hair. He then goes nuts and rampages the Plant, taking Burns and Smithers hostage in it. In order to lure Homer out, Marge invites Patrick Stewart who comes, says something, and everyone’s happy again. Meanwhile, Justin Bieber gets punched in the face.”
Happy a boresome 8 o’ clock everyone!
You know your Russian culture, Stan. I’ve been a student of Russian for over a decade. How did you know that
“Zhenya” = “Evgeniya” and “Evgenij”?
lol maybe because I’m a fluent Russian speaker? =)
Шутите? Или правда знаете русский? И если знаете то откуда?
Find me on livejournal. Shadiac. I’ll tell you more there.
Ugh. I don’t “get” the livejournal. Your user info is pretty minimal :)
@UchiAnglijskij
What really bugged me is that they were calling her “Zen-ya”. ZH is a fucking JAY people! JAY-NYA.
Urghh.
I noticed that too. But actually /zh/ and /j/ are different phonemes in English. It’s “Zh” where “zh” is the sound in “azure.”
Yeah. Or in жопа.
Hey, let’s give the sailor talk the ole’ “heave ho”!
At least you’re not Russian in mentality. That is good.
Fuck. This. Show.
The best summation of ZS is that ZS is “The Simpsons” told by Grandpa. My hat goes off to whoever came up with that.
I wrote it here: http://deadhomersociety.com/2013/04/15/behind-us-forever-what-animated-women-want/#comment-27125
Grandpa wouldn’t have put Justin Beiber in the episode, though.
Kudos to you. I think I’ll make it my new Zen mantra.
I’ve said that before, lol. Grandpa post stroke I would imagine.
Monkeys with typewriters. Period.
I’m sure a lot of people have come up with that same idea independently of each other.
And my response to that has always been, “Except Grandpa’s stories are actually entertaining.”
…at the very least the randomness of character X showing up at location Y for no reason are similar to the randomness of Gradpa’s stories.
Anyone else remember when there were only two commercial breaks between acts instead of three?
When I first heard about the three act thing (and Moe saying it), I thought it was a joke.
Well, it’s happened. Justin Bieber has guest starred on The Simpsons. Will Kim Kardashian or, heaven forbid, Honey Boo Boo Child herself Alana Thompson be next? Just thinking about it sends chills down my spine.
It would send chills down my spine ~5 years ago. After Lady Gaga I consider it par for the course.
My money is on Sarah Palin.
Why wait for Palin, when here’s Stalin!
Расстрэлять!
Why wasn’t there a warning on the screen for thirty seconds till new Simpsons?
Alright, so I didn’t want to wait for Charlie’s review this time, because, well, there were a couple of Russians in this one. So I tried my best to avoid commenting on Russian jokes (guess you figured out why), as I rarely stay unprejudiced to those. And, of course, haters may just hate ahead. It’s been done anyway.
Without further ado:
1) Intro ad poster. Cute. Far from hilarious though.
2) Chalkboard gag. Hey! They learned to tilt the fonts!
3) Robot Chicken intro gag? ROBOT CHICKEN?! What’s next? Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Okay, maybe I went a tad too harsh on the last time with some cartoonist guy, but this, c’mon, unless you’re a fucked-up-in-the-head bereft of any thinking and didn’t even know you were watching the Simpsons at this very instant, how can you possibly take this for even remotely funny?
4) And the reason Nelson is delivering “messages” to Skinner is…….?
5) And the reason Marge was at Skinner’s office is?
6) Oh he just answers his own question. Um, WHY?!
7) What is it for Skinner to think that Bart should do something productive (and even more – MUSIC all of a sudden). Skinner is not Mr. Largo. Hell, he as anyone knows that all the past incidents trying to “hook” Bart onto something ended as total disasters. So, once again, what’s in it for Skinner?
8) And then he freaks out. Ummm yeeeeah suuuure…
9) Did you even wonder that the viewers think Milhouse was just a talking part of the couch in that scene?
10) Oh right, Lisa’s a musician. She can probably teach Bart some musical skills. Not that there’s something in it for her too, but, you know, just so that- oh wait, Marge takes him to Mel… Comic Book Guy? FRINK?!… Err pass.
11) Homer: “My wife has never seen my head naked”. Past Season 20 she didn’t, you mean?
12) So, the 1st act ends with them finally getting somewhere from what it seems as a paper ad for piano lessons. I’ll drop the ad why part here, but couldn’t you at least elaborate on piano? Why didn’t Bart see that girl before somewhere else, and just get hooked to her first, and then to the piano? Why is this LOGICAL plot element doesn’t hap- Oh yeah, ZOMBIE Simpsons. Sorry.
13) I speak Russian so I’m not going to comment on the Russian accent sounding evil “joke”. So that you don’t think I’m defending it. But, as is with many “it’s weird because it’s X nationality” jokes, isn’t it the lowest form of comedy ever told? Rarely do I hear lamer stand-ups.
14) Yet the drunk driving joke is somehow funny. First time I laugh. 8 minutes into the episode. Hmmm.
15) Wow! The Duff Platinum joke is also funny (allusion to Bud Light I presume). Two in a row. The paste joke isn’t, though.
16) Are the bullies even “bullies” anymore? And why exactly aren’t they allowed to ask about the gender again?
17) Sausage fingers?!
18) Lesson over. And Bart drives back in a crashed car. And then it’s not crashed. Comprehension over.
19) I want the show to become interesting back and forth again, like it happened under Clinton. Is that too much to ask?
20) Second almost funniest moment: “HBO with Sanctuary”. Should’ve changed to “S.Y.F.Y. with Sanctuary” Would’ve hit it hard.
21) So that’s where the Lisa plot comes back. Unexplainedly, she begins to suspect on Bart cheating. As always or just because? With bacon and eggs on top?
22) And then Avery Bullock-type Patrick Stewart voiced whomever comes to Homer apparently through the back wall (with 5% having been in the cafeteria when we didn’t somehow see him) and tells him that, well whatever he tells Homer, and then goes back to the place he came from. American Dad, of course. Swell.
23) “Helen Lovejoy. You always have to explain the plot.”
24) I wish I could do that every time I’d mop myself into a corner while being a busy housewife.
25) If I understood Marge’s dialogue with Bart correctly, knowing the truth could kill her?.. WHOA we’re at some high stake right now!
26) “That’s another 25$ I’ve wasted to appear on this show. Gosh!”
27) Wow was Ralph’s performance better than Bart (who even got a spotlight)!
28) The Telltale Head turns into Marge Be Not Proud turns into aww fuck that let’s just forget the whole thing. Swell.
29) So here the plot explains itself with something that I’m afraid is half-ass contrived because there has never been any setting for this so far. Marge tells Bart that it was wrong of her to force him to go to piano lessons? Or to force him into music in the first place? Or to force him into the 10 year old concert? Did someone else get that, because it just tries to wrap up on an idea so general any mom-son-mother’s-day plot could’ve eventually spat that out. Mild realization. No build-up. Just big yellow smiles, everyone.
30) And then the bald Homer subplot just ends because it has to. Because the time is up and because Justin Bieber.
“And why exactly aren’t they allowed to ask about the gender again?”
Apparently Martin is gay now, and bullies have a don’t ask don’t tell policy?
That same dialogue could’ve went:
– Oh, and btw you guys, I’m gay.
– Shit! Let’s get him down then, we’re not homophobes, are we?
– No sir!
…
LAUGH DAMMIT!
Однажды посмотрел в русском дублировании. Перевод был очень полхой…короче, некокого юмера нет. Может быть русским не понять. Но вы, видимо, знаете английский как родной язык, и может быть поэтому фанат. :)
А какой эпизод ты смотрел?
Я просто в Канаде живу уже скоро 20 лет.
Nice.
This is why someone (everyone?) should live tweet ZS–might actually make something about it fun.
By the way, Susan Sarandon did the whole Russian/East European thing better in the Bart-does-ballet episode. And at least Dan Castellanetta’s couple of Russian lines were half-way intelligible in “Lost Our Lisa.”
The last joke about Grandpa being pleased to receive a plate of crumbs so typifies the style of humor on ZS: similar to what the South Park guys call “Derp!” jokes.
Ugh. I don’t “get” the twitter.
@whyisthere an “@” sign?
Even the angry russian in “we lost our lisa” was much fun.
I have over-the-air TV. My antenna only picks up one channel (hence why I still watch Zombie Simpsons) and if I turn on my computer I get no TV reception. So no live-tweeting for me.
The fact that you (we) prefer ZS to, say, silence says a lot. The writers are least passing *that* bar.
Why does Bart need music lessons when he’s already an excellent drummer? They did an entire episode where he learned to play drums, the white stripes guest starred. In fact he was an eve better drummer than Lisa was on the sax. So why does he need lessons again?
Oh well. I didnt see it, but i imagine it was terrible. I miss the real Bart. The one who quickly lost interest in trying to learn to play electric guitar like his idol Otto because it was too hard. To which Homer replied “son, if somethings hard it’s not worth doing.” Those were the days.
What are you, watching the show to remember previous episodes? Are you, like, a fan, man?
Nope, they never addressed that, or even had Comic Book Guy mention it and then tell him to shut up.
“Hey, put the chicken show back on”
Couldn’t agree more Homer.
Also, the whole “This couch gag sponsored by Subway” was really unsettling. Like, this is the kind of shit the show has been satirizing for years, and now it’s becoming self-fulfilled.
They even sponsored it? Shit man I’m nigh surprised.
The Good: Blue jeans joke(possibly a reference to the counterfeit jean operation back in season 6), Patrick Stewart I guess
The Bad: The entire Justin Bieber “joke”, Marge doing a front flip, Marge forgiving Bart after a 5 second conversation with the Russian guy, “Sausage Fingers!!”, Robot Chicken gag
The Ugly: Small penis joke
The Ugly: 75% of the ep.
The Bad: 25%
The Good: guess
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Justin Bieber is the first guest celebrity to have been born after The Simpsons debuted. At this rate, a future guest voice is probably being born right now.
No, I didn’t watch the episode. Why would I?
What about Miley Cyrus who appeared in that less awful but still boring “Alaska Nebraska” episode?
That was actually Ellen Page playing a Hannah Montana expy. She was born in ’87.
But after looking a bit further, I found that Jordan Nagai (the boy from Up, who was born in 2000) played Bart’s adopted brother in a shitty Season 21 episode. I stand corrected.
Mmm yeah you’re right. But still it’s been at least 15 years now that they invite shitty celebs for guest stars.
Not that the other shows don’t do it, but this “IS” the Simpsons anyway… Officially.
At least the name “Alaska Nebraska” kind of makes me smile. Yay, ZS!
I think you are right, dvcnick.
That wasn’t Miley Cyrus that was Ellen Page.
At least Zombie Simpsons can still create cromulent discussion. Discussion about it’s craptacularness, but discussion, nonetheless.
It’s rather sporadic, if you count the number of my comments in it.
Hey, they should have a new motto: ” ‘The Simpsons’: At least it’s good in , ya know, an ironic way”
No, it should rather be “The Simpsons. Now 90% content-free.”
Almost 60 comments, wow. This article and episode could be one of the most commented on ever here. Right? I think so.
Fox: Sports, News, Domineering Housewives!
The Simpsons:
I can’t think of a “slogan” for a show where Marge has gotten so much worse, the Simpson family themselves (memories and personalities) are retcon puppets for the execs at Fox, a town populated by quirky jerks, a weekly red carpet for celebrities, Facebook, Twitter, Macbook, etc.
But for the sake of trying,
The Simpsons: Matt Groening’s The Muppets