“Mr. Simpson don’t sit on that filthy thing one second longer! They’ve given you . . . the key.” – Karl 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 “handkerchief”). We’re almost at the expiration date…
Tag: The Devil Wears Nada
A Small Example of a Terrible Zombie Simpsons “Joke”
“How did you get this number?” – NASA Guy After each week’s Zombie Simpsons there’s always one or two (usually one) lines that people begin quoting incessantly on Twitter. This week there were several people quoting “Hello, you are getting cozy with Sarkozy” from that sloppy ending when Homer calls the French President for some reason. This afternoon it started cropping up again (mostly in French language tweets). It took almost a week, but apparently that line made it to France: Their cameos passed largely unnoticed in France until Friday, when news websites started linking to pirated clips of the…
A Quote and a Speculative Question
For anyone wondering whether or not the two officially sanctioned instances of Marge being drawn with little to no clothes were coordinated, wonder no longer. The Toronto Sun has this from Al Jean himself: "It’s a little bit of a reference to our recent encounter with Playboy," Simpsons executive producer Al Jean said. "Marge goes to a photo shoot for a charity calendar and the photographer gets her a little tipsy, so she takes off a little more than she expects to. "The episode idea came first, because we work a year ahead. The Playboy thing (Marge was the cover…
Synergy Hides in the Bureaucracy
“We need to talk about the, marital difficulties, we’ve been having lately.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, there’s just too much pressure. What with my job, the kids, traffic snarls, political strife at home and abroad! But I promise you, the second all those things go away, we’ll have sex.” – Homer Simpson Sometimes even your in-house fanboys don’t like an episode, it doesn’t happen very often, but it does happen. So while the IGN review below has some entire sentences I didn’t need to edit, the numerical score is still a 6.2. 6.2! Even setting aside the goofiness of rating…
Pornographic Cross Promotion (Kinda) Succeeds
Between the drawings of Marge in Playboy and the plot being launched around an (implied) nude calendar, Zombie Simpsons is now more or less totally basing its appeal on masturbatory fanboy voyeurism. Dave and I watched last night’s crapfest together and I was drunk and traumatized enough when we wrote it up that I forgot to set an over/under on the ratings. It’s just as well because the over would’ve had it. Last night’s rambling, Desperate Housewives-esque tale of improbable career moves and potential promiscuity drew in 9.04 million viewers. That makes it the second highest rated episode of the…
Character “Development”
Did you know that Homer is capable of being Carl’s hyper-competent assistant? Did you know that Carl, all previous evidence to the contrary, is secretly a management-level jerk? Then you clearly don’t know your Zombie Simpsons. But wait, there’s more! Homer went to France, and Marge almost kissed Flanders, and then the plot was resolved by – I am not making this up – having Homer call the President of France. That’s a lot to have going on, but if you skimp on the jokes you can still have enough time for five . . . count ‘em five! .…
Sunday Preview: All-over-my-face Edition
Blood-splattered images are fun to make, but I digress. We’re two Sundays away from the next episode of Zombie Simpsons, “The Devil Wears Nada,” and fresh off Marge’s appearance pointless cross-promotion in Playboy, this episode will feature her taking her clothes off left and right. Cartoon nudity-lovin’ weirdos, get your DVRs ready; judging by the promo image, Marge gets white stuff all over her face and Ned puts questionable things in his mouth and possibly sucks on them. Simpsons Channel offers a description: In an effort to raise money for charity, Marge and the “Philanthro-Chicks” decide to pose for a…