The whole “Marge in Playboy” thing was not enjoyable from a Simpsons-blogger point of view. With all the tweets, blog posts, articles and other manner of electronic detritus the signal to noise ratio of Simpsons stuff on the internet dropped like a stone. And most if it was little more than “Marge in Playboy! OMG!”. (That the end result was lame and tame didn’t help.) Among the more perceptive of the widespread opinions was that it was a kind of doubly sad milestone: two aging, largely irrelevant franchises trying to reinvigorate each other, if only for a moment. I liked…
Tag: Playboy
Words fail me
We’ve posted a few Tweets about Marge Simpson’s upcoming Playboy cover, but let’s take a few minutes to assess what is surely one of the show’s most asinine promotional gimmicks ever. Scratch that, let’s just use another animated gif: Genius Playboy CEO Scott Flanders (seriously) says: …The idea is to attract readers in their 20s to a magazine where the average reader’s age is 35. Right, because the first image I want to think of when I’m knocking one out in the morning is a cartoon character and implied nudity. Then again, what do I know? We get more hits on…