“Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.” – Jasper (as read by Homer Simpson) Last month, when I was taking all those frame grabs of the seated Cerberus that was the three housewives from “Moms I’d Like to Forget”, I was struck by how modern and colorful their outfits were compared to Marge’s. The next week I noticed something similar in “Flaming Moe”. Characters who’ve been around a long time, like Smithers and Patty, look really out of place next to the one-and-done guests. The more I thought about it, the more it occurred to me that this happens in…
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Crazy Noises: Moms I’d Like to Forget
“That must be the happiest kid in the world.” – Bart Simpson In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the technology that brought the word “emoticon” to the masses: the chatroom. Star Trek image macros are strictly forbidden, unless you have a really good reason why Captain Picard is better than Captain Kirk. This text has…
Compare & Contrast: Marge and Other Women
“Pleased to meet you. You look like such a happy bunch . . . of people.” – Marge Simpson In film criticism there is a concept known as the “Bechdel Test”, which is a kind of quick and dirty measurement of whether or not a movie has any female characters that rise above the level of tokenism or decoration. There are a few variations, but the basic concept is that there needs to be at least one conversation between two named, female characters that isn’t about a male. I was thinking about this during one of the many scenes where…
Sit, Zombie Simpsons, Sit
“Oh, yes, sitting, the great leveler, from the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn’t enjoy a good sit?” – C.M. Burns Despite watching it once and fast forwarding through it a second time, I’m still not sure what the main plot of “Moms I’d Like to Forget” was. Most Simpsons episodes since the dawn of the show have had a main plot, sometimes accompanied by a second one that fills in the time or complements the main one in some way. But “Moms I’d Like to Forget” didn’t seem to have an A-plot at all, at best it…
Sunday Preview: Moms I’d Like to Forget
Dave has neither power nor internet at his house at the moment, but it’s okay because there is no promo image this week that needs to be zombified in Photoshop. Instead all we have is this from Simpsons Channel: When Bart discovers that a fifth grader has a scar identical to one Bart has, Marge tells him about a club of mothers she was in once where they set playdates for their kids; when she tries to reform the club, things turn out better for Marge than they do for Bart. The channel guide on my television isn’t any more…