Maybe we’ll actually get to see the Halloween special BEFORE Halloween this year.
I must at least raise my voice and say that I thought the scene where Homer (while filling in for Fat Tony) shakes Moe down for protection money was one of the funniest in a long time…
I don’t watch, but wasn’t it Nancy Marchand? Or am I misremembering?
Yep, I rather enjoyed that scene too.
Awww it was a TV show that filled time. But it is still funnier than many sitcoms and even though not one of the greatest episodes it did have me chuckle a few times.
So I’ll watch again. If the rest of you are so disapointed and believe this to be “the worst season ever”, stop watching. When the ratings plummet the show will go and you won’t have to worry about the quality slipping.
Is it so wrong to expect more from a show than it “filled time.”
I likely won’t be watching. I was flipping channels when I ran across it-first first-run ep
I’ve seen in more than a year. And what’s up with the meme that says “Only true fans of a series
deserve to watch it” that I keep seeing in various forums?
I kinda liked it, and I’m not even a Sopranos fan.
I’m hard-pressed to come up with any rationale for watching TV that is more wrong.
When are they gonna realize true fans don’t give a shit about pointless celebrity cameos? Do they think they’re gonna convert some Metallica fans with that crap?
As always, with any epsiode of the several years, it wouldn’t make the overall top 100, but still better than an episode of “Friends” or “Will & Grace”. Barely :rolleyes:
I put first-run eps of The Simpsons onto my TiVo Season Pass list a couple ofseasons ago. I wonder if it’s still there?
Wait, what?
Metallica still has fans?
Man, it’s really, really sad to see The Simpsons trying to be like Family Guy in a feeble attempt to scrounge up a few straggling viewers.
I’m not being sarcastic, either. I’ve been a Simpsons fan since day one and I can’t stand the Family Guy.
This episode was horrible. Everytime they even went for a joke it felt like the type of material that the Family Guy ripped from them, chewed up, spit out, and then sold them back the mess.
The whole “Homer and Bart have a different weapon but give the same laugh over and over” thing did remind me of the way Family Guy will beat a joke within an inch of an equine’s life and then keep going until the poor horse is a crimson smear in the dirt.
. . . And the giant truck
. . . And the little dragon that talked to Otto
. . . And the Homer/Moe scene
. . . And, etc. . .
It felt like the world’s leading minds got together and figured out a way to make the creators of Family Guy dumber, and then had them write this episode. My wife and I were sitting on the couch cringing the entire time.
…I liked the truck truck truck.
Except that Family Guy is generally funny and this episode of The Simpsons was not. You may not like Family Guy, but denigrating it because it’s sooooo much better than the show you used to like is childish and stupid. I think you’re suffering from an understandable inferiority complex that is completely useless. The best of The Simpsons is brilliant. The best of Family Guy is about twice as good as the best of The Simpsons. That doesn’t mean that The Simpsons is bad or horrible or junk, it just means that something came along that was better. Simpsons is brilliant. Family Guy is better. Deal with it.
I wouldn’t say that the best of Family Guy is better than the best of the Simpsons, but I would say that even average Family Guy is better than today’s Simpsons.
Pot, meet kettle. By the way, you’re both black
Actually, comparing both premieres doesn’t really favour Family Guy, which ran with the tired theme of Peter being a homophobic idiot, again.