“Oh, I know this story. The year is nineteen-aught-six, the President is the divine Miss Sarah Bernhardt, and all over America people were doing a dance called the Funky Grandpa!” – Abe “Grandpa” 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 edited…
Tag: The Color Yellow
Synergy Wasn’t All That
“Alright family, I want the truth. Don’t pull any punches. Am I just a little bit overweight? . . . Well, am I?” – Homer Simpson “Forgive us Dad, but it takes time to properly sugarcoat a response.” – Lisa Simpson This was one of those rare weeks where the Zombie Simpsons episode was so bereft of humor, or even just attempts at humor, that even wholly owned News Corporation subsidiary IGN couldn’t gin up too much praise. It concludes by saying: “The Color Yellow” just wasn’t all that worth it.” Of course the numerical score is still a 6.4,…
An Unmitigated Crime Against Storytelling
“What happened to Mindy?” – Bart Simpson “Yes, what did happen to her?” – Marge Simpson “Enh, she hit the bottle pretty hard and lost her job.” – Homer Simpson “Hm, good.” – Marge Simpson I am not a big fan of Season 12’s “Trilogy of Error”. (In case you’ve blocked it out that’s the one where Lisa invents the robot, Homer gets his thumb cut off and three different stories all unfold at once.) But I do recognize that it took a lot of skill to weave three stories together like that. Getting all those little elements to drop…
Bad, But Not Bad Enough
The numbers are in and last night’s flashback laden series of plot twists was watched by 6.08 million people. That’s not a good number, it’s the third lowest all season and it’s below what Zombie Simpsons was averaging last winter. But it’s above what Season 21 needs to keep its average viewership above the dismal 7.07 million viewers for Season 20. As usual Family Guy pulled in slightly more (despite being a rerun) than Zombie Simpsons and both Family Guy spinoffs did slightly worse. Depending on how many episodes are left (there’ve been 13, Zombie Simpsons seasons typically have 20-22)…
There’s No Mystery, Zombie Simpsons Sucks
For tonight Zombie Simpsons seems to have completely forgotten that it’s nominally a comedy program, instead it decided to be a mystery show. Unfortunately it wasn’t even a good mystery show, with lazy “revelations” coming up like clockwork before each commercial break. Despite the excess of plot twists there was more stalling and exposition than usual. Take, for example, Lisa’s trip to the attic at the beginning. She got stuck with the attic door, Bart then took up a lot of time helping her. Nothing funny was going on, but it did eat some clock. Once she made it too…
Sunday Preview: “The Color Yellow”
Tonight’s Zombie Simpsons will probably engage in a simplistic racial fairy tale that would make James Cameron blush, except that they don’t have any fancy graphics to make it all okay. Other than that, I don’t have much else to add, so here’s Simpsons Channel with the quickie description: When Lisa discovers that her Southern ancestors helped a slave named Virgil (guest voice Wren T. Brown) escape to freedom, she presents her family’s story during Black History Month. And here’s one HOMER-MANIACO Internet-orgasming over said description: THE SIMPSON ARE THE BEST SERIES OF HISTORY,THE KINGS OF TV,I LOVE SIMPSON,MY FAVORITE…