The Simpsons 12/7
 

So far so good

Unfunny clown is right...

The bit with The Simpson's episode book was good.

Yup, the Homer Simpson show was pretty good.

The Lincoln & the FOX gag were hilarious!

Rehash. Not terribly funny. Kinda Lame... but at least it wasn't boring.

Dare I say it? The Simpsons that we fell in love with has returned!

I thought it was hilarious.

I'm curious when you "fell in love" with the Simpsons, because the Simpsons I fell in love with has been dead for many years. I still enjoy the show on a certain level, but it is a very different show now.

Yeah, I agree. It's a shadow of it's former self.

But, still liked the bit where Lisa pulls out the Simpsons episode guide. :lol:

The Lincoln daydreams were funny as were the bits with Mr. T. Not a great episode, but it had it's moments.

I would agree that it is a different show than back in season 3, but any show that has been on the air for as long as this show is going to change. But I think that it is funny again; It's just a different kind of funny. I would agree that the last 3 or 4 seasons have been crap, but it's finally starting to be an enjoyable show to watch again.

Reiner Wolfcastle stopping when Krusty yelled he was anti-semitic was hilarious.

Fox headquarters:lol:

Homer's dreams with Lincoln were also good.

I thought Homer taking Santa's Little Helper for one last night on the town was the funniest part of the episode.

The only odd thing though is that I don't remember Santa's Little Helper having puppies before, like Lisa reads in the guide. When did that happen?

That was from a classic episode where Mr Burns wants to turn all the cute little puppies into a fur coat and he sings "see my Vest"!


Tonights episode was great.

I believe that is the episode where Mr. Burns gets them and wants to make a coat out of their fur.

When Homer and Lincoln were fighting with Oswald, I really was expecting to hear a gunshot go off.

Anybody else have this expectation? ;)

Right! Now I remember. After fifteen years it's getting tougher and tougher to keep track of the show. Or maybe my mind is going.

Anyone else notice that one of Marge's lines got dubbed over? When she's watching TV and just after she says Homer is a "power mad TV star" or something to that effect. The line they dubbed in didn't make a lot of sense (which is why I forgot it already), but it clearly doesn't match the animation of Marge's mouth.

Could have been a replacement line. Or since it was a general shot of her sitting on the couch, it could have just been recycled footage.

They frequently re-use animation from old episodes for the shots where they will fit. That may be why the lip sync was off.

One pretty funny part:

Bart asks Lisa how she knows so much about the Talmud, etc.

"I have an imaginary Jewish friend named *something* Coen."

Rabbi Krustofsky: "That's wonderful!"

Yeah, but I rewound and watched it a couple times before I deleted the show, and it was *really* off. I've seen them reuse shots and animations before, but this gave me the distinct impression of very late editing to replace the line. I'm thinking that they changed the line due to censors or the network or something, esp. when you couple it with the fact that the replacement line was just weird and kinda unusual. If you have the show recorded, check it out. It seems very, very odd.

Also, the couch and room wasn't one seen before. It wasn't the normal Simpson's house couch, it was in the back room of the studio, I assume. While they could have used an animation of Marge from anywhere, I grant you, it just didn't seem that way. This scene was drawn new and then the audio changed too late to redo the scene, I tells ya! :)

Not bad, not great. It just wasn't as funny to me as in previous weeks.

It's very easy to redo the animation with a changed background.

That said, we will probably find out what happened from the commentary once this season is out on DVD. The debate will be settled in 2054!

Any show that has Mr. T in it is automatically great in my book. Nobody is cooler than T.