“Ahhhh! Shark-boy!” – Homer 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 for clarity and spelling (especially on “environmentalists”). A couple of weeks ago I pointed out how Zombie Simpsons is extremely careless when it comes to staging and continuity, even…
Tag: The Squirt and the Whale
Synergy Confuses Fiction and Reality
“Oh no, Willie didn’t make it, and he crushed our boy.” – Movie Mom “Ugh, what a mess.” – Movie Dad “Oh, I don’t like this new director’s cut.” – Homer Simpson IGN did two things I appreciate with this week’s corporate fanboy ode to Zombie Simpsons: 1) Kept things ridiculously positive – It’s a lot easier to edit out the synergy when I can replace words like “best” with “worst” and leave the underlying sentence structure untouched. 2) Exposed the shallowness of its sycophancy – This is a little more subtle, but I like how the comedy free tear-jerker…
Zombie Simpsons Misses the Point
“And sure, he’s probably so insane with rage that he’d butcher you horribly if he could.” – Homer Simpson Yesterday, it was noted in many, many different places that Zombie Simpsons mentioned the censoring of last week’s South Park in the chalkboard gag: There are two ways to look at this. The first (and this seems to be the dominant on-line opinion) is to see it as a nice gesture from Zombie Simpsons, a show of support for South Park in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. The second (which I’m more inclined to take) is a lot less positive. First, set…
Jumping Sharks and Riding Whales
“Now, Henry Winkler, there’s a father. Listen to what he told a close friend, ‘I don’t always keep my cool like the Fonz, but my love for my kids has given me plenty of happy days’.” – Selma Bouvier While Homer was being menaced by sharks this week, I couldn’t help but think of that most damning of cultural epitaphs: jumped the shark. Isn’t falling into the ocean from a magically conjured motorboat, getting hit in the head by a bucket (why a bucket?), and then being saved from sharks by riding a whale at least as bankrupt an idea…
Sunday Preview: “The Squirt and the Whale”
Happy Sunday, everyone. I’m afraid I have two pieces of bad news. First, there’s new Zombie Simpsons tonight. I know, I know, it hurts. Let’s get the description, courtesy of Simpsons Channel, out of the way: The Simpson family erect a turbine in their back yard. When Homer realizes that some of the power from the turbine is directed for the local electric company, he removes their house from the grid. Meanwhile, a storm appears and Homer and Lisa try to save a 100-foot long whale, brought to shore by the storm. Ha, “erect.” Seems to be a fairly obvious…