I think it’s the writer (Meyer) who gets fired in the Poochie episode for suggesting “paradigm” is just a word stupid people use to sound smart.
This was a great show. For me, it’s a vindication of the whole Bleeding Gums Murphy debacle where Lisa sings about the Jazz Man testifying. This ep makes real Jazz accessible and it gives another kid out there a damn good reason to take up the drums. Awesome.
I’m an old drummer and I’m all for kids taking up drums or any instrument.
But what I’m looking for in a Simpsons episode is smart laughs. Or at least laughs.
There’s no Family Guy thread and this question isn’t important enough to justify one – does anyone know who was voice of Mother Tucker? Was it Phyllis Diller? My Tivo cut off the credits.
I’ve got some of the dvds from seasons five and six in my DVD player right now – Bart vs. Australia, Homer vs. Patty & Selma, the PTA Disbands, Lisa’s Rival, Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy, the one where Homer teaches continuing ed., the Treehouse of Horrors with the “Shinning,” Sweet Seynmour Skinner’s Baad Asssss Song! . . then Sunday night I watch this. It’s like watching a dirty movie you made with your white hot college girlfriend then bumping into her at Publix, here it is 15 years later and she’s gotten an ass-annex and a FUPA. Some of the features are the same, but much of the awesomeness is gone.
Then you’re out of the club. I want incisive, bitter, possibly angry humor and by jiminy they’ve got it at 80 rods to the hogshead!
Riiiiiiiight . . . because the Simpsons and Family Guy are the same thing . . .
See the last Simpsons thread - or any other one since that turd got inexplicably unflushed - for further reading.
Could someone tell me the name of the song played while Lisa walked side by side with the two dogs and bird?
Ooh! This gives me a chance to post one of my favorite insults-in-a-footnote-in-a-book of all time: Chris Turner’s dissing of this very song in Planet Simpson:
How well-written an insult that is. I like the song, but I’ll agree that it ain’t jazz.
[sub]pp. 201-202. ©2004 Chris Turner. Published by De Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass.[/sub]
I think it’s called Little Green Bag - I have it on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack.
When you can watch an entire 22 minute Simpsons episode and, like almost all of the above posts, be able to only mention one maybe two jokes you liked or mildly liked, that says everything that need be said.
Wow, that response was really, really uncalled for. AuntiePam explained very clearly why she was asking the question here, and there is obviously a lot of overlap between Simpsons and FG viewers. Not only do you not answer the question, you act like a jerk about it. If her askign the question really got you that upset, maybe you should seek some form of anger management or other professional help.
ANyway, yes, to answer the question, Phyllis Diller did voice the charatcer.
Thanks, Otto. 
I didn’t take offense at Cisco’s response. I knew it was risky, asking the question here, but there was a Family Guy reference earlier in the thread, so I knew somebody here would have watched it.
. . . a joke from “A Star is Burns,” the 6th season, which is telling . . . namely of the fact that there has been little fodder for a humourous line drop in near ten years. How someone familiar with the once great series can find anything even slightly redeeming about the newer shite is beyond me. It makes me want to be violent.
Just as in my allusion to “Jazz Man” (and that scathing review, holy crap mobo85) the show varies widely.
To me it’s like eating a pie cooked over a campfire: sometimes it’s tasty, sometimes it’s squishy, occasionally it’s crunchy, often it’s an undercooked mess. But you’re always better off with the pie than without it. Think about that, willya?
In all earnestness though, sometimes I wonder if I’m not giving them Harvard boys enough credit. Is it possible they made such an insipid storyline with the express purpose of forcing me to download “The Hardest Button to Button”?
Lately (oh, the last 5 years), we’ve been getting a lot more runny messes and a lot less tasty. It truly feels like a different show, in much the same way that season one and season five feel like different shows. I just feel that the ratio of “Jazz Man” episodes to “Homer the Great” episodes has reversed. I must admit, Jazz Man makes me shudder. It is the only episode on my dvd I will not watch.
It’s not my opinion- I told you I was quoting somebody else! Jeez, first the Pope and now me.
Yes, I need anger management and other professional help :rolleyes:.
You should take acting classes; channel that drama into something positive.
I’ll settle for your not acting like a jerk.
How 'bout just explaining why it was really, really uncalled for for me to point out that The Simpsons does not equal Family Guy in a Simpsons thread?
Might be a little different if this was a thread about animated tv shows. Or a thread about comedies. Or a thread about a lot of other things, but would you bust up a thread about Napa Valley to ask a Bartles and Jaymes question?
Sheesh, Cisco. Don’t have a cow, man.
P.S. I liked this episode.
