Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Sarah_Ackerman. “Well, I guess it’s back to good old Springfield.” – Bart Simpson “But I can’t go back, not after I’ve seen the bright lights of Capital City. I’ll wither and die like a hothouse flower!” – Lisa Simpson In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the…
Tag: The Blue and the Gray
Yeah, They Copied “Family Guy”
“Look Maggie, they have a baby too.” – Homer Simpson “It’s like they saw our lives and put it right up on screen!” – Bart Simpson I have no real use for the perpetual “Simpsons vs. Family Guy” debate for the obvious reason that I don’t consider The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons to be the same program. Nor do I know whether or not Family Guy was originally intended as a low cost replacement for The Simpsons. I do know that the format of Family Guy resembles that of The Simpsons pretty closely. I also know that Zombie Simpsons sucks…
Compare & Contrast: Self Help Charlatans
“You know, my course can help you with every personality disorder in the ‘Feel Bad Rainbow’. Let’s look at the Rainbow, what’s in there? Depression, Insomnia, Motor-mouth, Darting Eyes, Indecisiveness, Decisiveness, Bossiness, Uncontrollable Falling Down, Geriatric Profanity Disorder or GPD, and Chronic Nagging.” – Brad Goodman Back when the show still had heart and soul, one of the things they liked to do was make fun of the seedier ends of American capitalism. Sometimes this was Dr. Nick hawking his shabby inventions; sometimes it was the customer contemptuous likes of Stern Lecture Plumbing or Ex-Con Home Security. Then one time,…
Going Gray
“I guess I expected something different from your photo.” – Mrs. Krabappel “Don’t let my age fool you. Just ’cause there’s a little snow on the roof . . . I forget how the rest of that goes.” – Jasper Intentionally or not, there is an interesting undercurrent to “The Blue and the Gray”, Zombie Simpsons’ latest affront to quality television. Confronted with the unpleasant fact that she’s not quite what she used to be, Marge flips out and returns to the comforting fiction that cosmetic similarities mean she’s just the same as she always was. Remind you of anything’s…