Bluelitespecial

Well I still have it on my vudu since I bought the episode and I still have my season 3 dvd. Its still on Amazon Prime too.

RichC2

Yep. You can no longer buy the episode on Vudu (but it's still listed, just not for sale) or iTunes. But it's accessible in my library which is the important part.

RichC2

The upstate New York song actually pissed off some politicians

melasnus

ALOT of "skewering" in this episode.
Considering how it attacked Fox, made me wonder if this was the first Disney episode...

Jason

Every once in a while, they surprise me with something really good.

RichC2

From all the tweets from Upstate (the 31 year old mayor of Ithica is a lifelong fan) it seems they skewered a good chunk of their remaining viewers One of them also made a Poochie reference.

​​​​​​it was kind of a choppy episode but it had much funnier gags than usual.

Bluelitespecial

Martin Prince might be retired as a character now that his voice actor Russi Taylor has passed away.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/...-taylor-death/

PhantomStranger

Martin was a key supporting character during the show's golden era. His appearances were always amusing. I guess any show that lasts as long as The Simpsons faces these problems.

Paff

I didn't watch the rerun last night. Did they have an in memorium card for Taylor?

Mike86

Red Hood

This is mostly speculation on ComicBook.com's part more than actual fact. Beside Martin, Taylor also voiced Sherri & Terri and Uter. Uter barely appears on shows but the twins are at least in a couple of episodes per season and Martin even more. I guess the producers are in a hard spot but if they keep doing this for side characters, they are going to lose lot of them in the next 5-10 years or so. Krabapple is out, and so is Apu due to the controversy. I imagine the show will write around these characters being in the background but not being voiced or using old archival voice footage.

Mike86

story

When we were at the school science fair setting up my first grader's display, she looked across the room and saw a kid with geodes.

She said, "My geode must be acknowledged."

Could've cried I was so proud.

RichC2

So somewhat weirdly this was apparently the last scene with Russi:



Solid episode at least

PhantomStranger

I wonder what happens when one of the major voice actors passes away. I really don't like permanently retiring characters, which has definitely blunted the show's creativity over the years.

Bluelitespecial

The Simpsons intro redone for "The Flanderseses". Ned still drives a Geo.

Bluelitespecial

Well Marci Wallace(Edna Krabappel) passed away in 2013. I think the creators did the right thing by retiring her character.

Paff

Morrissey is having an absolute meltdown about the way he was parodied in this week's episode. I haven't watched The Simpsons regularly in more than ten years now, but I made sure to watch this one.

RichC2

The number of people that would have made a direct association would have been a lot lower if he would have just shut up.

Mike86

Wasn’t sure where else to post about this beyond the general Disney+ thread. On Disney+ Day there was a new Simpsons short entitled: The Simpsons in Plusaversary. Definitely felt like shilling, but the writers poked fun at that.

Overall it was a cute little mashup of Disney/Marvel/Star Wars characters interacting with characters from The Simpsons. Almost made me wish it was something a tad longer than a short like a full on episode or something.

whotony

When Homer was talking to Goofy and said he was pretty darn funny.

RichC2

On a side note, these last two episodes... wtf

They do a two parter that's basically just a hybrid of Fargo/Coen Brothers/tv crime drama with many meeting gruesome ends with Itchy and Scratchy levels of violence.

They're actually fairly strong episodes but just came out of nowhere

story

I have really enjoyed this season so far. I've laughed with every episode. The one about old people getting scammed is very good, I kind of think everyone should watch it and show their older relatives.

Count Dooku

Just caught up on the 2022 episodes this weekend. Thought it was very weird that they had an episode with Marge and Homer stranded in the woods with their lives actually being in danger, and then the next week had an episode with Bart stranded, struggling, and in danger.

Count Dooku

It's weird when you open a thread that's been dormant for months and see you're the last one who posted in it.

But anyways, if you had given up on The Simpsons, you might want to come back. This new season has been pretty, pretty good.

The latest Treehouse of Horror is excellent, and the previous episode was a full-episode parody of IT that was excellent.

I'll just say Episode 3 titled Lisa the Boy Scout is a must watch for Simpsons critics. Episode 4 is a too-late take down of Ellen, but still a very good show.

The first two episodes of the season did not set the world on fire, but were good episodes considering that the Simpsons scale is always weighted down with about 200 classics.