I’ll try again. :o Tonight is the Simpsons’s 400th episode. Is it and the 399th episode a single hour-long show or two seperate episodes (my TV guide says the former)? 
First commercial break and…
boy does this suck so far.
I like it… not amazing I guess, but a fun sendup of 24.
I’m getting a bit tired of the ‘show multiple shots of the same scene, just slightly diffferent angles’ gag at this point, though.
When’s JACK gonna get here? 
Hopefully that wasn’t his & Chloe’s only scene. This episode is very strange, but in a way food.
Suicide wedgie!
Okay the first episode was quite underwhelming 
. I liked the opening of the second one though.
Mmmmmmm… fooooood.
I wanna know what Kent said.
Were they both new? My wife thought the 24 episode was a rerun we never saw the first time.
The first half, BTW, was the best Simpsons in years. I especially liked the possum placentia in the stinkbomb – one of those jokes that you have to be quick to catch.
Possums are marsupials – no placenta
The second half wasn’t quite as good, other than watching Flanders screen TV shows.
I enjoyed the 24 spoof, I did not like anything in the 400th episode. Worst episode ever! 
Jim
so there wasn’t much material of value?
The problem with The Simpsons seems to be that the writers’ ideas of “jokes” are:
Make a character say something topical
or
Make Homer say something stupid
Neither are funny, unfortunately.
It’s two episodes. Both episodes were new. The first one was better than average and worked both as a 24 parody and a regular episode. The second show was very good- I liked the Tracey Ullman tribute and the ending, as well as Ned as L. Brent Bozell. Krusty’s voice-over was also pretty funny, as was Arnie Pye, news anchor.
JABF14 “24 Minutes” written by: Billy Kimball & Ian-Maxtone Graham
“I’ll teach you to make a Poupon me!”
“The following takes place between 2:34p.m. and 3:04p.m. Or maybe it’s a.m…whichever one is the morning one, it’s not that one.”
“If a dead fish and a homeless person had a baby and the baby puked and the dog ate the puke- this smells like the rear end of that dog!”
“I’ve got a man down…well, not a man. A very special boy.”
“Chloe, I need those schematics now!”
“What? Who is this?”
“I’m Jack Bauer- who the hell are you?”
“Me? I’m…uh…Ahmed Adudi.”
“Chloe, find out all you can about Ahmed Adudi. Does anyone there know Ahmed Adudi?”
“Ahmed Adudi: wealthy Saudi financier. Disappeared into Afghanistan in the late '90s.”
“Really?”
“No Jack, it’s a joke name. You’re being set up.”
JABF15 “You Kent Always Say What You Want” written by: Tim Long
400th Episode! (for real this time, not like that fake 300th episode that almost got me fired)
“I can’t believe Kent Brockman got away with it! Back in my day, TV stars couldn’t say booby, tushie, burp, fanny burp, water closet, underpants, dingle-dangle, Boston marriage, LBJ, Titicaca, hot dog, or front lumps!”
“Kids, your old pal Krusty has had to make a few cutbacks because of a huge fine levied against the station.”
[audience cheers]
“That’s a bad thing! Anyway, we can’t afford to pay the voice actors on Itchy and Scratchy so I’m doing the voices myself. Roll it! I’m a cat, walking down the street swinging my arms. Look, a lady made of dynamite…wait, I don’t know that yet. How about a smooch? Kablooey! Here comes the mouse, whatshisname. That was me that done that! But it ain’t enough so here’s this. That’s what you get for…uh…I don’t know, messing with my wife. And it goes on.”
Casual Aquaintaces who came to stay for a while:
Artie Ziff, Apu, Krusty, Willie, Nelson, Sideshow Bob, Otto, either Kang or Kodos, Gil, Stampy the Elephant
“For years now, Fox has been PROGRAMMING SHOWS THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ENJOY.”
“Oh my God, you don’t suppose they’re going to start ENTERTAINING AMERICA WITH HITS LIKE HOUSE, AMERICAN IDOL, AND AMERICAN IDOL RESULTS SHOW?”
“I’m afraid they might! I will not be silenced- the truth is…[20th Century Fox logo]”
Happy 400th episode, loyal Fox employees! See you in July.
[sub]“Okay…what I was going to say was…”
“Shh!”[/sub]
The first one was pretty good. I couldn’t make it through the second one.
I figure he said “motherf***er-” it’s the only superswear that fits in the sentence (“That hurt like a…”) Also, the drowned-out swear is four syllables long, as is that word.
Was the opening in the style of the old shorts an actual short or something new? I was too young for the Tracy Ullman show and can barely remember when Fox was not much more than The Simpsons and Married With Children.
I think it was a new creation done in the animation/voice style of the shorts. BTW did anyone else think it odd that the Chinese New Year and St Patrick’s Day parades were headed directly into eachother :dubious: ?
It was a real Tracey Ullman short: “Family Portrait,” originally aired March 6, 1988.
Maybe I’m nuts, but I liked both episodes. The first was a good spoof of 24, and they got the style down and spoofed it well. The second episode, even if inadvertent - because production must have been almost done before the Imus thing went down - ended up being their most current social commentary in years.
Next year, for a crazy twist, I think they should try making Homer smarter. Even back to where he was a few years ago, to a less absurd level.
“Odd?” That was a joke. I thought that was very funny and I wish we’d seen the crash.