“Come on, Homer, join the party.” – John As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another. More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things. The only kind of on-line communications we like are the kind that could once be done at 2400 baud. So disable your…
Tag: Lisa Goes Gaga
Compare & Contrast: Megastar Guest Voices
“We want Michael! We want Michael! We want Michael!” – Crowd “Here he is, here’s the guy want to see!” – Homer Simpson “He’s three hundred pounds!” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “He’s white!” – Woman in Crowd “He’s dressed without flair!” – Moe “Boooo! Boo!” – Crowd It would take an awful lot of words just to catalog, to say nothing of exploring or explaining, the myriad of mistakes that comprise “Lisa Goes Gaga”. The episode had it all: bizarre and comedy free flights of fancy, unvarnished celebrity marketing, excruciatingly bad exposition, magic powers, characters acting bizarrely out of type (Lisa,…
A Spectacular and Unwatched Catastrophe
“What the hell was that?” – Krusty the Klown Give Zombie Simpsons credit, when they embarrass themselves for a pop star, they really embarrass themselves for a pop star. From start to finish, “Lisa Goes Gaga” relentlessly displayed the pitiful imagination and mediocre craftsmanship behind Zombie Simpsons. In an episode where they outright tell the audience, right up front in an opening narration, that they’re discarding the usual rules and that weird and strange things are going to happen, just about the only weird and strange things that they managed to conjure were a lot of Lady Gaga outfits. Unfortunately…
Sunday Preview: Lisa Goes Gaga
Image bloodied by Dave. The picture above is the preview image of a YouTube video they put out to promote this week’s episode. Even if it weren’t bloody, I think flying, headless, boob-cannons nicely sums up what we’re dealing with: Lisa tries to reverse her status as one of the least popular girls in school by ghostwriting positive things about herself on the school blog. When her plan backfires, her social ranking plummets to a new low – until a psychic force tells Lady Gaga (guest-starring as herself) that Lisa needs her help. With Gaga’s assistance, Lisa and the entire…