Yeah, I knew that. This is the last year. Shows from the past are coming back, PBS-style. Sesame Workshop has announced a new version of The Electric Company. Sorry for going off-topic.
Whaaa?
First off, X-Men has had at least two cartoons on TV, so there has to be some kind of TV audience for them.
Second off, Simpsons and Futurama both have their own comic book titles, so I can’t imagine that they find “all things comic book to be lame and for losers.”
Third off, egads man! Pop culture is all over comic books lately. They are *not *just for vile geek sub-creatures to drool over. Have you been living under a rock?
Who are the Cohen Bros?
As for the Coen Bros., The Simpsons also named two episodes “Bart the Fink” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (though in all fairness, the TV show appropriated that title before the Coens did).
IIRC, in the episode where Bart gets a ‘Big Brother’ because Homer forgot to pick him up (after soccer practice?), he turns down an invite from Milhous et al – they are excitedly going to see “… an R-rated movie! It’s called Barton Fink!”
I personally liked BF, but there probably isn’t a movie of any rating that 10-year olds dreaming of smut would be more disappointed in.
Wanna bet?
Nelson [walking out of a theatre with NAKED LUNCH on the marqué]: There are at least two things wrong with that title.
Also, in a dream sequence, Homer met Steve Bucemi and referred to him as “the guy who got fed into the wood chipper in Fargo.”
mobo85, I’m aware of the preferred nomenclature.
I don’t think they’ve done furries. True, Homer Simpson was molested by a panda while wearing a panda suit, but since it was an actual panda, it doesn’t count. Bestiality, a whole 'nother thing, I believe.
Well, my point was that the movies based on comic books are popular because of tv shows, not the books themselves. (Just saw Spiderman 2 last night, and laughed when the woman started singing the lyrics I posted. Clearly, the makers of Spiderman were giving the nod to fans of the type I posited.)
Well, I was inferring their sentiment from the depiction of CBG. One could make a similar statement regarding their feelings about bar regulars. I didn’t know they had their own comics, but I certainly don’t see the love for comics on the Simpsons that I do in, say, a Kevin Smith production. (Just as an example.)
Pop culture may be deluged with all things comics, but how did The Hulk and The Fantastic Four do at the box office? My hypothesis (driven by tv, not comics) predicts that The Hulk draws much more money than the Fantastic Four based solely on the Bill Bixby show. I am willing to abandon this theory if it turns out that The Hulk did not draw noticeably more money. (Both were fairly widely panned as sucking, so it would seem to be a reasonable test.)