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“If you don’t watch the violence you’ll never get desensitized to it.” – Bart Simpson “Just tell me when the scary part’s over.” – Lisa Simpson “It’s over.” – Bart Simpson “Ahhhhhhhh!” – Lisa Simpson In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we’re bringing back our “Crazy Noises” series and applying it to Season 21.  Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we’re still using this “chatroom” thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool.  This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (especially on “tased”). South Park once did an episode titled “Simpsons Already Did It” where, amongst other things, they made fun of the fact that The Simpsons had been on forever and was now resorting to ideas that were less than clever.  That was seven years ago.  This week Zombie Simpsons had its own little “South Park” sequence.  It didn’t have much to do with anything (why Bart would ever take advice from Ralph is beyond me), but it did serve to highlight just how many jokes, scenes and sequences in this episode were either reminiscent, cribbed, or outright recycled from previous episodes.  We discuss a number of those below but we forgot to mention the whole Kama Sutra thing which, like so many others in this episode, took way too long and made no sense.  Mad Jon: Anyway. I just watched last night’s episode. Charlie Sweatpants: Ouch, wanna start with that one while the trauma is still fresh? Mad Jon: Works for me. Dave: I re-watched it That’s how much I liked it Mad Jon: Masochist eh? Dave: That’s me! Mad Jon: That’s cool. To each their own. Charlie Sweatpants: Was anything particularly worse on a second viewing? Dave: Nah, nothing jumped out. It was as unremarkable tonight as it was last night. Mad Jon: Unremarkable is pretty on the nose. Dave: The writers seem to be forgetting that the show’s supposed to be funny. Mad Jon: It didn’t make me cringe like the Zombies usually do, but I may just be desensitized. Charlie Sweatpants: Unremarkable is a good way to put it. With the exception of the completely unnecessary and pointless South Park thing I don’t think anyone’s going to remember this one a week from now. Mad Jon: On the other hand, I, per usual didn’t even crack a smile. Dave: I did, admittedly, when Chief Wiggum was tased Mad Jon: I almost did at the weather report, but then they took it too far. Always too far. Charlie Sweatpants: When they do come up with a kinda good idea they seem so surprised that they just feel the need to run it right into the ground. Mad Jon: I think the writers look at jokes the way I looked at chemistry experiments in high school. Charlie Sweatpants: I thought the horse thing at the beginning had some potential, but then it…