“What’s with the lead pipe? Were you gonna give my noggin a floggin’?” – Ned Flanders One of the true hallmarks of Zombie Simpsons is the way relationships between characters have changed for the worse. To take but one example, Lenny and Carl were once a pretty normal pair of work buddies and, as work buddies often are, they were hilarious together. Gradually that perfectly workable comedy devolved into not-gay/gay/hetero-life-mate/I-don’t-even-know-how-to-describe-it-because-no-one-in-real-life-is-anything-like-them. They stopped being recognizable characters and became an institution. Much the same thing happened between Homer and Flanders. Homer used to simply resent his neighbor for being a better and…
An ongoing ramble by Charlie Sweatpants . .