I wonder how combining all three shows in one thread will work. At least Fox didn’t join the Simpsons already in progress. Lisa and Marge didn’t get enough screentime, but it was nice seeing Lisa act like a kid for a change. King of the Hill was pretty funny. Hank is incredibly naive. I wonder what dirt Peggy’s has on Minh.
I may have invented some new curses while waiting for that freaking NASCAR event to end.
Anyway I liked this Simpsons a lot. They came up with some great Bart pranks, which I always enjoy, and I got a hard laugh out of the cover of the Catholic school punishment book. This one had a good plot and I liked the space the Donny character filled. I hope we see more of him, although I’m sure we won’t.
The Dropkick Murphys song seemed really out-of-place in The Simpsons.
The whole Bart/rat plot was a parody of Scorsese’s “The Departed” which made use of that song in the film.
Enjoyed the Simpsons. It seems to me like we haven’t been hearing as much from Harry Shearer this season, so it was good to have a nice big part for Principal Skinner.
Was the Family Guy more story-and-character driven and less jokey than usual? Was it just written to give Seth MacFarlane chances to sing? Is NyQuil a beverage?
The Brian/Lois thing seems kind of played out, but the episode did have:
“Kiss her? I’m going to destroy her.”
:smack:
I saw that movie, too.
I totally wrecked that thing on the way out.
Though after Chris it wasn’t that hard. I sauntered out swinging a cane.
(paraphrased, of course)
An actual good episode of The Simpsons this week! I don’t believe it. It almost felt like old school Simp’. That relish joke was the most clever joke on the show in years.
“This is how I save money on ketchup and mustard.”
“Do you do it with relish?”
“No, I’m pretty embarrassed about it.”
King of the Hill was funny, as usual. No Lucky, so that’s always good. Family Guy was meh , as usual. I pretty much hate that show these days. I watched about 5 minutes of whatever that new show was before turning it off.
How does that stuff even make it on the air? I could literally tell from a two sentence description in a TV listing that it was going to be terrible. The commercials for it only reinforced that.
Don’t they have test audiences and little things like common sense to tell them that a new show is abysmal and that they’re just wasting their time by airing it? I honestly don’t understand that, and yet TV has always been that way. 
Didn’t see them, I had the Tivo set to record Simpsons and FG, but all I got was 25 minutes of race instead of Simpsons and and KOTH instead of FG. 
Yeah, but if you throw enough shit on a wall, some of it sticks (Two and Half Men, According to Jim, etc.). I watched two minutes of the new show and while it sucked, I’m sure its no worse than many big hits.
And I agree, Brain wants to bang Lois is pretty tiresome, which they pretty much admitted when Brian said he’d never do it again. And the Simpsons episode was OK, and worth it for Ralph’s spot-on jab at Scorsese- “the rat stands for oboviousness”.
The last scene in the Simpson’s was hysterical. I think the Departed is a vastly, vastly overrated movie (basically they needed to give Scorsese an oscar before he dies). Martin hit the nail right on the head.
I found Herbert listing “Cambodian” as a type of pet to be both funny and creepier than usual. Is he attracted to Stewie as well or just Chris?
I didn’t really get that joke.
No kidding, but you are in fancy New York. I thought it was just hee haw america with this problem. I’m just glad they didn’t go back to the Simpsons “already in progress”.
Looking online, Cambodia is apparently a popular spot for pedophiles.
Wasn’t the boy who escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer, only to be returned to him by the police, a Cambodian? That’s what flashed in my mind.
I thought Family Guy was pretty good; though the Lois/Brian thing is familiar, it was handled with enough seriousness that it worked. I always love it when Brian’s dog-ness shows through, as it did in his fight with Peter.
The Simpsons was about average, not as sucky as normal. It might’ve helped had Topher Grace made an effort to sound like an actual young person. King of the Hill I enjoyed, but I find that show pretty consistently reliable for good laughs.
The ethnicity of a single Dahmer victim from 17 years ago is a bit of an obscure reference to go for, I would think - even for Family Guy.
mobo85 has it right. Although they’ve tried to tighten things up in recent years, Cambodia has a reputation as a haven for pedophiles. Unashamed child sex enthusiast and glam rocker Gary Glitter moved there in 2002 and was soon after arrested on suspicion of sex crimes and subsequently deported.
I don’t get it. Having never seen any Scorsese movies, it went straight over my head.