A while back I linked to this post by our friend Friz about how the Simpsons has fallen apart. (For another example in his series, click here to see the decline in relevance of Itchy & Scratchy.) What he did was compare background gags from “Bart’s Dog Gets an F” and some piece of shit from Season 16. Long story short, in “Bart Gets an F” a joke might be on screen for only a fraction of a second. In Season 16, things are left on screen for a long time and Homer even breaks the fourth wall by asking…
Tag: The Old Man and the Key
“The Old Man and the Key” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“What is this place?” – Nelson Muntz “Branson, Missouri. My Dad says it’s like Vegas, if it were run by Ned Flanders.” – Bart Simpson This episode has a lot of problems, most glaringly the heavy dependence on referencing pop culture, going so far as to have a truly dizzying array of guest voices all playing themselves. But that wackiness comes only at the end, by that point the episode has devolved into a nonsensical series of set pieces that have almost nothing to do with the fact that it slowly becomes a travel episode about Branson, Missouri. (Nevermind that…