“Aw, Pop, don’t get me wrong, it’s great to be here. But how’s a guy like you wind up with a son like me?” – Larry [Programming Note: Sorry for the late posting on this. Reading Digest should be along at roughly the usual time later today.] The most obvious repeat in “Four Regrettings and a Funeral” was the use of “Memories” for Homer’s flashback. Par for the course for Zombie Simpsons, it was a very weak imitation. In “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”, we see Homer reminiscing about all the things he did with his stomach over the years,…
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Behind Us Forever: Four Regrettings And A Funeral
“I regret nothing!” – Doomed Guy in Movie Ticket Line If any of us had been wondering what it would be like if Zombie Simpsons took the unrelated tales from one of their four-part storytelling episodes, jammed them together with a bunch of expository and often unrelated flashbacks, and dropped in a self voiced celebrity, we need wonder no more. Proving that Season 25 can employ all the same flat out lazy shortcuts as Seasons 24, 23 and so on, we had characters telling us exactly how they feel, people wandering in and out of scenes seemingly at random, and…
Sunday Preview: Four Regrettings and a Funeral
When a beloved Springfielder dies, four residents recall life events that they would like to do over. Among them: Homer bemoans selling a tech stock to purchase a bowling ball, and Marge fears that she’s the reason Bart is such a rebellious child. Others wishing for a do-over are Mr. Burns, who recalls a long-ago romance with a lovely Parisienne, and newsman Kent Brockman who regrets not leaving the local station to take a job with cable news. After the replay of Bart the Lover, this fresh zombie simpsons will hit the air. Not sure who is going to die, but it…