“Insane Clown Poppy” Makes Baby Jesus Cry

“Sorry Fat Tony, I used to think your game was cool.  But now I’ve learned that crime doesn’t pay.” – Bart Simpson “Yeah, you’re right.” – Fat Tony This is a terrible episode.  As is often the case in Season 12 there’s a mildly coherent idea, Krusty has a daughter he didn’t know about, that degenerates into incoherence when Homer and Krusty have to break into a mob summit meeting to steal back a violin that they mob had because . . . ah hell, you can’t even summarize this episode without babbling on like an idiot.  You know what…

John Updike Didn’t Watch Zombie Simpsons

Noted author John Updike died last week.  In 2000 he was a guest star in that excruciatingly bad episode where Krusty finds out he has a daughter and proceeds to get into a mob war over her violin.  (It didn’t make any sense then, either.)  In April of 2001 Updike discussed his guest spot at a “meet the author” type event in Cincinnati; he also said this: I used to watch The Simpsons faithfully until they changed the hour when it was shown, and it suddenly no longer fit with my domestic rhythm.  So I can’t claim to be a morbidly avid…