In the comments for this week’s Reading Digest Jake pointed out this article from AVClub: How I ended up in Morgan Spurlock’s Simpsons documentary (barely) The bearded guy was Steven Hyden a writer with the A.V. Club. Here’s the skinny: I grew up a huge Simpsons fan, but I haven’t watched the show regularly in about 10 years because, well, it has sort of sucked for a long time. Unless you’re a deeply deluded Simpsons fanatic, it seems pretty obvious that the show is several years past its peak. Anyway, that’s the gist of what I said in this Crosstalk…
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Simpsons & Tom Jones
Via our wonderful commenters last week I learned that the scene where Grandpa and Bea flirtatiously take their pills was from the 1963 film version of “Tom Jones”. (Sadly, Netflix has just informed me that it’s not available on DVD at the moment. Really?) That reminded me of this page (it was linked on boingboing two years ago) which has image by image comparisons of famous movie scenes and their Simpsons equivalents. Here are the “Tom Jones” ones: There are, obviously, a bunch more on there and if you scroll all the way to the bottom they even have links…