Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user cogdogblog. “Ann Landers is a boring old biddy!” – Ned Flanders In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we’re bringing back our “Crazy Noises” series and applying it to Season 21. Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we’re still using this “chatroom” thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (especially on “schnapps”). There was some discussion around these parts…
Tag: Postcards from the Wedge
Synergy Agrees With Me About One Thing
Image taken from Wikimedia commons. “It’s true, and we’ll all live in cities on the moon!” – Marge Simpson IGN was in mid-season form this week, slobbering all over lame jokes and unabashedly praising the repetitive nature of the plot. But let’s set aside the fussin’ and the feudin’ and talk about something we can agree upon. The opening of the Zombie Simpsons episode was a reference to old Tex Avery cartoons and IGN thinks that if you’re a young whippersnapper you ought to look them up on your fancy YouTube machine. But IGN doesn’t provide a link, I’ll provide…
Didn’t This Show Used to Have Jokes?
“Okay Bart, this is the card catalog. Let’s see . . . golf, anecdotes, Eisenhower and, profession, humor, Japanese obsession with, ah, here it is: putting.” – Lisa Simpson I just saw the image above over on Simpsons Channel. For now, just ignore the fact that Bart has a TV in his room even though he doesn’t have amoria phlebitis, notice anything else? Look at the very prominent titles on the spines of the books. Not one of them is a joke. Not a single one is even an attempt at a joke, they’re all just straight up titles like…
Mediocrity Punished
“I’d like you to explain why we should build a mass transit system in a small town with a centralized population?” – Lisa Simpson “Ha ha, young lady that’s the most intelligent question I’ve ever been asked.” – Lyle Lanley “Really?” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, I could give you an answer, but the only ones who’d understand it would be you and me . . . and that includes your teacher.” – Lyle Lanley The numbers are in and they’re wonderfully bad. That typically boring and nonsensical Zombie Simpsons episode was endured by just 5.23 million viewers. That’s the third…
Yet Another Sunday Preview: “Postcards from the Wedge”
We’re just a few hours away from “Postcards from the Wedge,” the 14th installment of Zombie Simpsons this season. I scoured the Internets for something more than one sentence description available over at SNPP and Simpsons Channel, but came up short. So here we go: When Homer takes a hard line to Bart’s problems at school while Marge tries a more sympathetic approach, Bart realizes he can play the two of them off against each other to his benefit. Bart manipulating his parents, how unexpected! What daring, uncharted territory for Zombie Simpsons. How do those talented, handsome writers keep rewarding…