Although Marge has always shown a little bit of a wild side when she needs to, it seems to be coming out a little bit more- not too soon after the announcement of the latest Playboy centerfold, Marge risks her life to shut down an MMA league. Not the best episode, but it was certainly more entertaining than last week’s. Among the various gags, I liked Bart hoping that he’d die young and Homer not minding in his typical way and Lenny and Carl talking about how women usually act while themselves acting that way.
Either I’m being wooshed, or i’m wrong about the ending to Rocky III. The show ended with Bart and Lisa in a freeze frame in the septagon about to hit each other.
It was somewhat similar, there was the freeze frame part but not the oil painting. I was disappointed they showed Lisa winning. I’d rather they’d left it ambiguous like in Rocky III.
Haven’t made my second viewing yet, but I’d say this one was similar to last week: there were some very good individual gags, but I struggled to swallow the plot. The training sequences were good, and I liked Lisa’s “He’ll be missed” line about Bart.
The A plot seemed a little tired - Marge becomes a crusader against a popular form of entertainment she has somehow just discovered - and the B plot… was there even a B plot? And there were no memorable characters other than the regulars. But there were several funny lines, so I’d give it a B, compared to last week’s C (not particularly funny, but not actually painful to watch).
In other news, this year’s “Treehouse of Horror” airs in October!
Dunno if this is totally applicable right now, but usually after the shows there is a Simpsons thread, Family Guy, Cleveland, and American Dad threads.
Whomever gets the opportunity to make it (I can do it next week if need be) next week’s should just be
Animation Domination (date). Then we could just put em all in one big thread.
Awful episode. Obviously the writers were thin on ideas this week: note the use of a (repeated) extra-long couch gag, and not one but two spots of unfunny improvised chatter from the women’s group. (Edna: “Oh, he hit him.” Jebus wept.)
I don’t see why there should be one big thread for 4 different shows. It’s cumbersome and since I doubt most people watch all four, would really make conversations confusing. Plus because they’re on the DVR, I usually watch them at different times.
If you want to make one big Seth MacFarlane thread for Family Guy, Cleveland, and American Dad, go for it. I’m not interested enough in any of those shows to sort through them for the Simpsons posts. Please don’t lump the Simpsons in with the rest of those shows.
That started last season, but yes, the show is now doing four acts. It makes for different pacing, so I like it, and I was always irritated by the fact that they went to commercials right after the opening credits - which meant the show didn’t even start until around 8:05.
They only come up with a few new couch gags per year, and sometimes even the really good episodes run short [RAKES!], but otherwise you may have a point. I’m still not crazy about this one after a second viewing. I think there were better directions for this story than putting Marge in the ring. I would have preferred a story about Bart getting into fights and the potential negative consequences. I don’t think it’s in character for Marge to hit someone; we once saw her shoo a spider out of the house, and she’s usually an incredibly gentle person.
And call me old fashioned, but I didn’t want to see Marge get punched. And if you notice, that was the only time she really got hit, so I think the writers realized they couldn’t get away with a lot of violence. Homer and Bart can get beat up all the time, but even in this context it’s not funny for a woman to get slugged.
Makes me wonder what they’ll do with next week’s Treehouse of Horror. 4 stories? One of the stories has a break? Go back to the old way for just the one ep?
Also, Halloween episode in OCTOBER? What is this, 1995?
