“Your Honor, the prosecution moves that Principal Skinner’s testimony be stricken from the record.” – Prosecutor “Denied!” – Judge Snyder 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 “DeGeneres”). One of the few good jokes from…
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Synergy Can’t Go Along With This
“He crossed that line between everyday villainy, and cartoonish super-villainy.” – Waylon Smithers Up until this week, IGN had been doing a bang up job of sucking up to its paymaster. But the reeking desperation and overwhelming obviousness of making the season finale an American Idol commercial was too much, even for them. FOX let IGN down, man, now they don’t believe in nothin’ no more. IGN’s going to law school! As always, I’ve edited out the synergy. As a conclusion to one of the best worst seasons of The Simpsons Zombie Simpsons in the last few years, the series…
Desperate Ratings Ploy Fails Miserably
“Well, your honor, we’ve got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.” – Lionel Hutz I’ve still never seen the 24 episode of Zombie Simpsons, but it couldn’t have been any more whorish than last night’s extended American Idol promo. Why anyone would want to watch Simon Cowell pretend to make fun of himself for ten minutes is beyond me, but that was nothing compared to the scene with the rest of the Idol judges. It would be difficult to imagine a more formulaic, by-the-numbers, and downright lifeless segment. They had the cast of another television show…
Sunday Preview: “Judge Me Tender”
Synergy, synergy, synergy! At long last, we’re at the end of Season 21 with “Judge Me Tender,” which for all intents and purposes seems to be a tacky commercial celebrating the Fox Network. My memory’s a bit hazy – I seem to recall Zombie Simpsons spoofing – by which I mean not ridiculing and using wholesale – an “American Idol”-like concept before, but I can’t be bothered to look it up. Anyway, the show’s saved its big guns for the finale with guest stars aplenty, including Rupert Murdoch. Here’s Simpsons Channel with the description: Moe discovers a talent for judging contests…