“Vital organs they are what we’re dressed in/ the family dog is eying Bart’s intestine/ Happy Halloween!” – Simpson Family & Groundskeeper Willie 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 “Halloween”). What a complete waste…
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Synergy Resorts to Rote Retellings
Image grabbed from here. “Oh . . . a little sterile, no real insight. What do you think Miss Hoover?” – Principal Skinner “Enh.” – Miss Hoover IGN really phoned it in this week. There are six paragraphs in their review of that reprehensibly dull Halloween episode. There’s an opening full of generic praise, there’s a closing full of generic praise. The four middle paragraphs are dedicated, in order, to simply retelling the story of each of the four segments from the episode, including that tepid little opening. In addition to that, each contains the full title of the segment…
Zombie Simpsons Halloween Scores Historically Low
The numbers are in and they are deliciously poor. Last night’s Hitchcock-copy-pasta/zombie-retread/musical-number was only able to bore 8.59 million viewers. That’s an improvement from last week, but it’s well below the high for the season and it’s the first Treehouse of Horror to ever fall below 10 million viewers. I find this encouraging if for no other reason than the Treehouse of Horror episodes are almost always the highest rated of the season. Obviously there’s going to be a lot of twentieth anniversary promotional stuff going on for the rest of the year leading up to Spurlock’s little special on…
Zombie Simpsons Abandons Precedent
“Please Lis, they prefer to be called the ‘living impaired’.” – Bart Simpson Typically there are three segments to a Treehouse of Horror episode. (Discounting the opening with the monsters at the Halloween party, which was pointless filler if ever there was such a thing.) The first segment was basically a chase scene that had no jokes. The second segment was another zombie segment (that also had a chase scene that had no jokes). The third segment was a bizarre musical theater number that had, quite literally, nothing to do with Halloween with the exception of Kang and Kodos being…