“Oh, I hate having parties. The toilet always gets backed up.” – Homer Simpson “I don’t care if the sink shoots sludge, we’re having a party!” – Marge Simpson There’s an inescapable lameness to those adult games that get broken out after dinner parties. When kids get together, they can easily make up games on the fly (you’ve got to reach home base at the couch, the lava starts at the edge of the carpet, etcetera), but grown-ups tend to need a little more structure, especially if they’re playing against people they don’t know that well. Trivial Pursuit, Scattegories and…
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Behind Us Forever: Pay Pal
“And this is Lord Thistlewick Flanders.” – Ned Flanders “Charmed . . . Uh, googily doogily.” – Lord Thistlewick Flanders Every once and a while we get episodes like “Pay Pal” that seem to be made up of B-plots that got discarded from other episodes and were found lying on the writers’ room floor. The first thing that happens is that there’s an Evergreen Terrace block party, then John Oliver shows up as a new British neighbor. Then he gets into a fight with Homer and vanishes completely from the episode. With the “British neighbor” story concluded, there’s a new…
Sunday Preview: Pay Pal
When Marge swears off becoming friends with couples, after Homer insults the new neighbors, Lisa declares she doesn’t need friends either. Not much to go off of there. However, Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell are guest starring as themselves, so you can be sure there will some good ol’ fashioned NPR humor for you tonight.