“I’m here for my free birthday sundae.” – Bart Simpson “Eat it and get out.” – Phineas Q. Butterfat Clerk As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another. More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things. The only kind of on-line communications we like are the…
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Compare & Contrast: Simpson Kid Causes Mass Hysteria
“In the spirit of the occasion, I must tell you what I think. You two screwed up royal!” – Mayor Quimby “You know, I really don’t feel like being blamed.” – Bandstand Guy Going all the way back to Season 1, The Simpsons had a knack for telling big and even outrageous stories in a way that that made sense within an episode and in the sometimes strange universe of the show. Whether it was Homer’s safety crusade in “Homer’s Odyssey”, Marge’s campaign against cartoon violence in “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge”, or Lisa’s anti-corruption protest in “Mr. Lisa Goes…
When a Movie Template Goes Nowhere
“Now I finally have time to do what I’ve always wanted, write the great American novel. Mine is about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call it, ‘Billy and the Cloneasaurus”. – Seymour Skinner “Oh, you have got be kidding, sir. First, you think of an idea that has already been done, and then you give it a title that nobody could possibly like! Didn’t you think this through?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon If I wasn’t so inured to the relentless mediocrity of Zombie Simpsons, I might find an episode like “The…
Sunday Preview: The D’oh-cial Network
Image photoshopped by Dave. Just a year after they had Mark Zuckerberg on for his moment of free public relations help, and six years after Time magazine embarrassed itself with its “You” cover, Zombie Simpsons has decided to revisit the idea of social networks. (They’re very in right now.) Despite all that lead time, it’s going to be just as shallow and poorly thought through as you’d expect: As the mastermind and creator of the online social networking phenomenon SpringFace, Lisa is called to trial when Springfield’s obsession with the site becomes chaotic and dysfunctional. Lisa recounts her story and…