"No Loan Again, Naturally" predictably awful

It goes without saying that we here at the Dead Homer Society hated “No Loan Again, Naturally.” From the number of times Homer was seriously injured (4, including the opening sequence and couch gag), to Bart randomly being outed as a redhead, to the piss poor way Patty and Selma were drawn, there was very little to love. Even more charming moments, like the note Homer leaves upstairs, felt cursory in the broader context of the ham-handed plot. You mean Homer takes advantage of Flanders’ generosity — again? Get out. Honestly, getting a lecture from Zombie Simpsons about the consequences…

And the Hits Keep on Coming

Last night’s Flanders love-in was a near perfect microcosm of Zombie Simpsons crapitude: the Simpsons do something zany, Homer doesn’t worry about it because he knows everything is going to be okay, everything turns out to be okay for some reason, the end.  Like much of Zombie Simpsons, there were a few chuckle worthy gags almost totally subsumed by the hurricane force torrents of “What the fuck?”. TV by the Numbers will have the ratings up in a few hours, in the meantime I’m setting the over/under at 7.1 million people.  There was no NASCAR preemption this week and it…