I don’t know what a “Jonah Hill” is, but apparently there will be one guest starring in this Sunday’s episode of Zombie Simpsons. Here’s the brief description from Simpsons Channel: Bart tracks down Andy Hamilton, Springfield Elementary’s best prankster ever (guest voice Jonah Hill) and they become fast friends until Bart gets Andy a job working for the ultimate clown. Not much to work with, admittedly, but I’m not holding my breath for this one. And, bonus, we’ve got an encore presentation of the dreadful Season 21 opener, “Homer the Whopper.” Fox has deemed it fit to let us revel…
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Synergy Jumps the Gun
“All these new superheroes suck. None of them can hold a candle to Radioactive Man.” – Bart Simpson We’ve seen a pretty hefty increase in traffic around here since Season 20 finally went off the air, so I’m going to explain just what these “synergy” posts are all about. IGN is a wholly owned subsidiary of FOX that publishes “reviews” of each new Zombie Simpsons episode, usually on the Monday after it’s broadcast. (They published early this week because they got an advance copy from their paymasters and wanted to add whatever little they could to the promotional momentum.) To…
Crazy Noises: Homer the Whopper
“So where can we shoot this picture? We need a city that has a nuclear reactor and a gorge and can guarantee us the full cooperation of city officials.” – Movie Executive #2 “I’ll check Variety.” – Female Movie Executive “Wow, look at that ad! Alright this place must be hot, they don’t need a big ad or even correct spelling.” – Movie Executive #2 “I agree with that logic.” – Movie Executive #1 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…
Poor Seth
“Your life long dream was to run out on the field during a baseball game, and you did it last year. Remember?” – Marge Simpson Last night I came across something in a news feed. I had already known that Seth Rogen was the writer of last Sunday’s Zombie Simpsons, but I didn’t know that it was some sort of attempt at self-actualization. AP Television writer Lynn Elber, stating this was a dream of Rogen’s, quotes him as saying “As a writer it always just seemed like the Holy Grail…. …I can die a happy man now.” I hate to have…
Zombie Simpsons Rocked by Family Guy Spinoff
Ahh, the sweet cleansing feeling of numbers. Zombie Simpsons scored the lowest season premier in its history last night, inflicting itself upon a mere 8.21 million people. The Cleveland Show, premiering directly afterwards, increased the ratings by more than a million people (to 9.42). (Family Guy itself checked in at 10.17 million.) There are at least a million Americans out there who’ve become so turned off by Zombie Simpsons that they didn’t even watch it while waiting for the latest from Seth MacFarlane. Excellent. For historical comparison sake, here are the last five season premiers of Zombie Simpsons: Season 16…
Picked Up Right Where It Left Off
“Go ahead, try and grab some flab.” – Homer Simpson Season 21 picked up pretty much where Season 20 left off, in the darkest center of a comedy black hole from which nothing can escape. It hit all the usual Zombie Simpson notes: recycling plots and jokes, filling time with humor free “action” sequences, giving Homer a new job, and having him act bipolar. In this particular instance it was a wretched cross of “Radioactive Man” and “King of the Hill”, only it was actually worse than that because it was so openly aping Entourage that it mentioned one of…
Sunday Preview: “Homer the Whopper”
Oh goodie! Fox has answered our prayers by releasing a nearly 2-minute preview of Season 21’s opener, “Homer the Whopper.” Near as I can tell, it’s only available on iTunes, but if you’re a Zombie Simpsons fan, you won’t want to miss this. There’s jerkass Homer in spades, some unfunny talk about Bart’s thyroid problem, a Lindsay Naegle-esque movie studio executive, and vomit. If this is an accurate taste of what’s in store for the foreseeable future, my only mature, reasonable response is this: That is all.
Slouching Towards Zombie Simpsons
“Get ready for exciting quarter mile action at the Springfield Dragstrip! It’ll be motorized mayhem, mayhem, mayhem! Do we need all those ‘mayham’s? We do. Alright, fair enough. I suppose you know your business.” – Mr. Smithers Watching football on FOX just now there was a promo for the season premier of Zombie Simpsons. The announcer told me to get ready for “action”, “action” and “action”. He literally said it three times. Remember when the appeal of Simpsons was comedy? FOX doesn’t.