The only thing worse than Simpsons possibly lessening in quality is NOT HAVING THE OPORTUNITY TO WATCH THEM AT ALL ANYMORE :-/
Like here. Poland. Home of the polar bears. well… not quite.
The only thing more enjoyable then a new Simpsons is laughing at the strident efforts of the CBG’s.
Plus you can’t have too many Robocop jokes. . .
After watching last week’s and last night’s, I agree with Tortuga’s assessment. The single-people tax-credit episode was pretty funny, especially since it had one storyline.
With this week’s, I think the creators were trying to do pathos or sentimentalism, but it just came off as mean-spirited. They got the idea for a “Battlebots” parody, decided to employ Homer’s slapstick comedy (which is always funny :rolleyes: ), and threw in a Marge-Lisa subplot to give them something to do. Oh, and since it’s “The Simpsons,” make a few other clever pop-culture (and self-referential) jokes, and instant episode. In this case it just ended up instant crap.
Not quite “Saddlesore Galactica,” but almost.
Any episode with the Crazy Cat Lady leaps into the Top 100.
The B plot (the Dead Cats) was funny. The A plot (Battlebots parody) wasn’t.
I thought this whole episode was hilarious. And I thought last week’s episode was only OK.
A few things that cracked me up:
-Kilhammed Aiee smashing, eating, and excreting a T-1000
-Homer-as-robot defeating Jessica Lovejoy by smashing her remote control
-Gil: “I’m eating food tonight!”
-“Principal Tanzerian”
I thought it excreted a trophy.
The cats hissing and swiping at Lisa and Marge as they are told to leave the shelter, cracked me up.
“Ha Ha…your Dad’s not handy!”
I thought it was a good episode. The dead cats subplot wasn’t very funny, but at least it wasn’t terribly depressing. Snowball II never really had much of a personality. They would have a much sadder episode if Santa’s Little Helper died.
Homer and Bart gave above average performances. I liked Homer’s line about the cats being reincarnated as a higher form of life, “like a dog, or a snowman”. And “I’m riding a unicycle with my pants down! This is every boy’s dream!” is one of Bart’s greatest moments, in my opinion.
In his first appearance ever, when Abe refuses to finance his death ray project, he says “You know, my wife will be happy”. So he was married even back then.
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-Kilhammed Aiee smashing, eating, and excreting a T-1000 [/q]
Yes, yes, but the trophy was made from the T-1000. Even better when it held its excremental trophy/victim over its head.
Ah, the sweet smell of victory.
I missed the episode, D’oh. So I have nothing to add to this but my .sig.
C
As long as we’re nitpicking, it was the T-800.
Damn that mayor’s son!!!
Actually, Snowball I was run over by “the Mayor’s beer-swilling brother, Clovis”.
But this was only mentioned in a Halowe’en episode, so possibly it doesn’t count.