“The guys who wrote this show don’t know squat. Itchy should’ve tied Scratchy’s tongue with a taught line hitch, not a sheet bend.” – Bart Simpson “Oh Bart, cartoons don’t have to be 100% realistic.” – Lisa Simpson This is a couple of weeks old now, but it’s a good example of a recurring stupidity I see in a lot of commentary about Zombie Simpsons. In a review of “Wedding for Disaster”, Steve Heisler up at A.V. Club wrote: How does the show pull off yet another wedding episode? By spending 5-6 minutes on the fact that Reverend Lovejoy had,…
Tag: Wedding for Disaster
Put Down The Glass Dick
“Let’s just say that fame was like a drug, but what was even more like a drug was the drugs.” – Homer Simpson I have been perusing some of my favorite Simpsons forums in the last few days and for the most part the responses to last Sunday’s Zombie Simpsons have been par for the season. Most people can’t express enough love for the new episodes, a few are satisfied but have some complaints, and even fewer seem to hate them enough to qualify for membership in DHS. What I have been seeing that bothers me is an increase in…
Grammatically Incoherent Synergy
“I didn’t want a hokey second wedding like those ones on TV. This one is for real.” – Homer Simpson I highly recommend clicking over to IGN for this week’s edition of Network Synergy and You. Not so much for the “review” itself, as it has been significantly improved below, but for the instantly recognizable image of Marge, which has been labeled with a caption that reads (and I am not making this up): “This is the character Marge Simpson from the animated television series The Simpsons.” Well, holy shit, I would not have been able to figure that one out…
Still Shitty
The numbers are in and while they’re a mild improvement from last week they’re still well below both the season average and where they were last year. Last night’s Sideshow Bob cameo popped for 6.58 million viewers, so the over has it. I would also like to point out that “Wedding for Disaster” is a pretty good example of pop culture references instead of pop culture jokes. I’m not opposed to sending up the concept of psychotic brides to be, because it’s a ridiculous concept and could use some satirizing. Nor am I opposed to sending up the bridezillas…
Bubbling with Anticipation
I just clicked on the epguides.com link to tonight’s Zombie Simpsons. Here is what it says: After Marge and Homer’s marriage turns out to be invalid, they decide to re-do their vows. But when Homer goes missing, Bart and Lisa smell something funny and investigate his disappearance. Oh good, it’s a recycled plot and and adventure mystery. Color me tickled pink. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to pre-emptively watch “A Milhouse Divided” and “Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy” to steel my brain against tonight’s onslaught of stupid. (That’s Season 8 Disc 1 and Season 6 Disc 2, respectively, by the…