“If I were you I really would use those quarters for laundry.” – Noiseland Video Arcade Guy The internet is filled with people who love television and video games, and so the brief Halo/teabagging bit from last Sunday’s Zombie Simpsons was mentioned in many places. I saw it on Joystiq first, but this description from Kotaku sums things up well: I guess we can move the trend marker for “Teabagging in Halo” on the downward trajectory of its lifespan, just to the right of the shark fin. That’s about right, by the time Zombie Simpsons gets around to mentioning something…
Tag: Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh
Synergy Fakes an Orgasm
“Hey everybody, I’m gonna haul ass to Lollapalooza!” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson This week’s IGN Zombie Simpsons fellatio is an exercise in sloppily faked enthusiasm. Lisa’s teacher is Miss Hoover, not Mrs. Hoover (part of the fun of Ms. Hoover is that she very much wants to be Mrs. Somebody and isn’t). Then there’s “science water”, which very pointedly isn’t capitalized in the episode but is in the review. There are also a couple of basic editing errors. If you’re going to pretend to enjoy something you’ve got to pay attention to the details or else your paramour/meal ticket might become…
Zombie Simpsons: Copy & Paste FAIL
What to make of the images below? Were these clever throwbacks designed to be shoutouts to long time fans? Or was it simply a copy and paste job done out of laziness? The rest of the episode, a hodgepodge of chases and exposition, sucked too. Given last week’s dismal viewership I’m going to be hopeful and set the over/under at a flat 6.00 million viewers. C’mon under. Update: TV by the Numbers says, “I just received notice that the Sunday Night fast affiliate ratings that we use for our posts have been delayed due to Nielsen processing…
The End is Near
Image used under CreativeCommons license from Flicker user windy_sydney The end of Season 20 is finally in sight. Simpsons Channel now has promo images and plot descriptions up for all three of the remaining episodes. It’s almost over. First up is Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh, in which Bart and Lisa go to a rich kids school while Homer enjoys the bachelor lifestyle in the apartment he and Marge rented to get their kids into said school. Also, we’re getting Ellen Page voicing Miley Cyrus Alaska Nebraska. Jon’s Thoughts: Didn’t Homer live the bachelor lifestyle with a couple of gay…