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I didn't watch it, heard it was crap anyway.
That's how I feel about Australian episode.
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« Reply #322 on: 04-04-2009 13:22 »
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Yay, more Simpsons info!
The Good, the Sad and the Drugly When Bart and Milhouse pull off a prank at Springfield Elementary, Milhouse takes the fall and gets suspended from school. Homer forces Bart to sign in under Homer’s name and visit Grampa at his retirement home, and Bart soon becomes smitten with a delightful 11-year-old volunteer named Jenny (guest star Anne Hathaway). Hoping to impress Jenny, Bart offers to volunteer at the home. But as Bart and Jenny’s relationship progresses, Milhouse emerges from his suspension and is less than thrilled about Bart turning his back on him for a girl. Meanwhile, Lisa does a report on what Springfield will look like in 50 years and becomes very depressed at the dreary outlook. A concerned Marge takes Lisa to a psychiatrist who diagnoses Lisa with Environment-Related Despair and puts on her on an antidepressant to cure her eco-blues. Airing April 19th
Father Knows Worst When Homer observes Bart and Lisa struggling in certain aspects of their academic and social lives at school, he becomes a proponent of “helicopter parenting,” the process of closely monitoring a child and forcing them to succeed. Homer takes hovering to a new level when he chooses a nearly impossible subject for Bart’s balsa wood model-building competition and gives Lisa some not-so-friendly advice on how to make friends. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the Simpson family’s basement that she finds hard to resist. Airing April 25th
Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh When Marge learns Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, she and Homer rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills school district so Bart and Lisa can attend a better school. Bart establishes a new bad boy image to impress the other students and increases an ostracized Lisa’s popularity by telling everyone she is best friends with pop star Alaska Nebraska (guest voice Ellen Page). Meanwhile, Homer moves into the rented Waverly Hills apartment and gets used to the bachelor lifestyle. Airing May 3rd
Four Great Women and a Manicure Marge and Lisa visit the nail salon where they engage in a spirited debate as to whether a woman can be smart, powerful and beautiful all at the same time. To prove their point, they spin four tales of famous women featuring famous Springfield faces: Selma as Queen Elizabeth I, Lisa as Snow White, Marge as Lady Macbeth and Maggie (guest voice Jodie Foster) as the idealistic architect protagonist from Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” Airing May 10th
Coming to Homerica When nearby Ogdenville’s economy crumbles due to tainted barley discovered in Krusty’s veggie burgers, the unemployed workers of Ogdenville flock to Springfield. After Mayor Quimby closes Springfield’s borders and enlists private citizens to help patrol them, Homer organizes a border patrol group. Airing May 17th (season finale)
I love heaps of information at one time instead of getting one piece at a time.
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I seen the episode last night where Moe's girlfriend is really tiny. it was a really sweet episode I think. the scenes with Maggie and Homer where cute too. the big bully baby makes me laugh
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*Bump*
So I got the season 11 DVD way back in December, but I've only made my way through a disc and a half so far. I know pretty much every Scully-era episode is viewed as being complete garbage--and that S11 is kind of the show's crappy apex--but damn. I mean, I used to like some of these episodes. "Brother's Little Helper", "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", "E-I-E-I-(ANNOYED GRUNT)", "Take My Wife, Sleaze", "Grift of the Magi"--they all used to seem like pretty respectable efforts. But the only moments that really made me laugh--or at least smile--on Wednesday when I broke out disc two were the NRBQ song in "Take My Wife, Sleaze" ("Like mayonnaise and marmalade and other spreadable things..."), and Bart and Lisa caroling in "Grift of the Magi." In fact, those are probably the only two episodes from season 11, so far, that I've genuinely enjoyed.
Nothin' like some decade-late ranting early in the mornin'. Yessiree.
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« Reply #327 on: 08-01-2009 17:52 »
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I actually really enjoy much of season 12 (of course, maybe I'll find that I like it a whole lot less when the DVD comes out and I can rewatch all the episodes), season 13, and season 15. 'Course, I haven't watched many new episodes since S15 anyway, so I can't speak for the current quality of the show. But, yeah, I wish they'd just let it die with a modicum of dignity already.
I have, however, seen the movie. Multiple times. And I think it was pretty fantastic. I really wish the show would learn to focus on the family again (I like the Oakley/Weinstein dictum of ultimately bringing the stories back to the the Simpson family itself; that's why season 7 is one of my favorites). Or, at the very least, I wish the writers would stop being so gimmicky and meta. Just, like, forget the fact that it's become more a cultural staple than a TV show.
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You're not. Quite a few other people didn't like it either. You'll burn in Hell alongside them.
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I just thought that it was reminiscent of, say, a season three or four episode tonally. Compared to the series as it stands now, I think the movie was excellent. And compared to an episode from the golden age of the show--well, I still think the movie can hold its own.
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Gorky

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Ditto. I was actually on vacation on opening day, but I still went to see it on the 27th, in a tiny movie theater in Maryland that reeked of, like, cat pee. Good times.
Books, I'm sort of curious as to why you didn't like it. I mean, to each his own and all that, but I'm just wonderin'.
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Ditto. I was actually on vacation on opening day, but I still went to see it on the 27th, in a tiny movie theater in Maryland that reeked of, like, cat pee. Good times.
Books, I'm sort of curious as to why you didn't like it. I mean, to each his own and all that, but I'm just wonderin'.
Oh, sure, blame it on Maryland...
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Gorky

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Oh, sure, blame it on Maryland...
I blame it on Ocean City, specifically. I'm sure most other theaters in your fine state don't smell like the urine of small, domestic mammals. Anyway. I'm still plugging through the season 11 DVDs, and I was pleasantly surprised by "Faith Off." Sure, Homer's a big ol' jerk-ass, per usual--but Bart is surprisingly sympathetic and, well, childlike (his sincere guilt over Milhouse's unfortunate, uh, run-in with a truck surprised me, because I always think of the Scully years as being so crass). Generally speaking, I'm a fan of the episodes where the kids act like kids. In fact, this episode kind of reminded me of "Bart Sells His Soul", thematically ('course, BSHS is an infinitely better episode; I just think the comparison can be drawn, if you're in a particularly charitable mood). Marge's reason for 'finally' leaving Homer seemed arbitrary and rather capricious (considering what she has stayed with him through in the past).
I'm sort of repeating FistfulOAwesome's sentiments here, but the reason I really love the movie is because Marge and Homer's relationship is genuinely put in jeopardy (or at least that's how I see it). The reason may be arbitrary, but it is so simple at its core--Homer doesn't understand what is important to Marge--and it seems like an organic reason for her to leave him. Yes, there have been Marge-is-Gonna-Leave episodes in the series itself, and episodes where their relationship has been rocky--but they've all been kind of half-hearted. Marge leaves Homer with such conviction (god, that tape she leaves him is so heartbreaking; Julie Kavner nailed that performance), and that enabled me, at least, to suspend my disbelief and allow myself to think that, Hey, maybe they won't get back together.
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Gorky

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Although I think Morgan Spurlock is a wee bit...uh...obnoxious, I'll definitely try to catch that documentary when it airs. Nice find, sO.
And I finally finished up the season 11 DVDs, commentaries and all. Is it wrong that I actually enjoyed "Kill the Alligator and Run" and "Bart to the Future"? 'Cause I think it's kind of wrong.
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Is it wrong that I actually enjoyed "Kill the Alligator and Run"
Only if you didn't build this city on rock and roll.
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Oh, jeez, that's the Seth Rogen episode, right? It might be a nice idea, if it didn't seem to incorporate the same basic concepts present in "King of the Hill", "Radioactive Man", and "Simple Simpson."
That's basically my complaint with the more recent episodes: they're not unfunny, they're just a retread of stuff that's already been done. For example, I watched "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly" on Hulu today, and all I could think was, This'd be kind of a nice episode, if I hadn't already seen "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" or "Bart's Girlfriend." (And I kind of enjoyed Lisa's subplot, even though I did eventually draw a comparison to "Brother's Little Helper.") There are only so many stories out there, and I think the show has exhausted nearly all plot possibilities. I don't doubt that there are still some good ideas, but this current staff doesn't seem too capable of coming up with them.
So, yeah. Basically, I refrain from watching the new episodes because I inevitably start to feel like Jeff Albertson the Comic Book Guy. And even I can't keep up that level of obnoxiousness on a daily basis.
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"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
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