A little while ago it came out that some of the cast of Glee was going to do voices for an upcoming Zombie Simpsons episode. “Ho-hum and on to the next item”, I thought to myself. But eagle eyed reader Alice noticed something else: ‘Elementary School Musical’, which airs Sunday, September 26, sees Lisa attend performing arts camp, where the Glee stars are fellow campers. Where have I heard that title before? Oh, right. Calling something “Elementary School Musical” isn’t the world’s most cunning play on “High School Musical”, but at the same time, South Park did it two years…
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Zombie Simpsons Misses the Point
“And sure, he’s probably so insane with rage that he’d butcher you horribly if he could.” – Homer Simpson Yesterday, it was noted in many, many different places that Zombie Simpsons mentioned the censoring of last week’s South Park in the chalkboard gag: There are two ways to look at this. The first (and this seems to be the dominant on-line opinion) is to see it as a nice gesture from Zombie Simpsons, a show of support for South Park in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. The second (which I’m more inclined to take) is a lot less positive. First, set…
Crazy noises: O Brother Where Bart Thou?
“If you don’t watch the violence you’ll never get desensitized to it.” – Bart Simpson “Just tell me when the scary part’s over.” – Lisa Simpson “It’s over.” – Bart Simpson “Ahhhhhhhh!” – Lisa Simpson 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…
Spurlock Update: Enter Stan And Kyle
Via Spurlock’s Twitter feed we find that yesterday he interviewed Matt Stone and Trey Parker. There’s no specific word on whether or not this is for the Simpsons special, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned following Spurlock these last few months it’s that he’s involved in an enormous number of projects. But it seems unlikely that he’d be interviewing the creators of the most successful non-Simpsons animated show for something other than his upcoming Simpsons thing. So get ready for the obligatory quotes from Stone & Parker about how much The Simpsons meant for them, how it opened doors,…
Pointless Show Comparisons
When I was taking that quiz Dave put up yesterday I noticed that there were links to quizzes for Family Guy, South Park and Futurama as well. Rather than add to internet’s already vast archive of arguments over the relative merits of these shows, I’m simply going to point out a telling numerical discrepancy. In raw numbers The Simpsons quiz had 63 characters, the South Park and Family Guy quizzes had 42 each and the Futurama quiz had 30. But the Simpsons quiz doesn’t have more characters because it’s been on longer. In fact, all of the 63 characters were on…
Simpsons Did It – The Eternal Cliche
College Humor created a Billy Joel parody video about the cliched stupidity of many comment threads. I found it on boing boing a couple of days ago and I’ll let them explain: College Humor made a hillarious [sic] (NSFW) music video about the deterioration of comment threads, to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” As a wise man once said, “It’s funny cause it’s true.” We Didn’t Start The Flame War (Thanks, Vann Hall!) The “Simpsons did it” line comes at the 0:25 mark, followed immediately by the “southpark did it too” line (the entire 2:40 is…