A Brilliant Deconstructive Comparison Again Proves That Which No Longer Needs Proving
You Don’t Have To Live Like A Referee was the latest installment of The Simpsons. It included a critical moment which echoes another critical moment from one of the best (some say the very best of all, I say it is second only to A Streetcar Named Marge) episode in the series’ history, Last Exit To Springfield. Charlie Sweatpants of the Dead Homer Society has the postmortem, a fine piece of critical artistic analysis demonstrating the state of creative bankruptcy that plagues today’s The Simpsons such that those who have truly loved the series for so long now call for the bitter mercy of euthanasia.
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Last Exit is, I believe, the very best. But Streetcar is so right up there next to it, along with whatever the episode is with Troy McClure getting married and starring in the Broadway version of Planet of the Apes.Report
In the “Men Don’t Go to Broadway” discussion, I was itching to suggest that the solutuon was Planet of the Apes, the Musical.Report
Y’all are forgetting about Deep Space Homer or the one when Bart joins to Junior Campers (or whatever they were called).Report
I think they were really good around the time I was in high school through college 1994-2002. That was the high of Simpsons.Report
7 year itch.Report
I think the baseball episode tops them all.
It might not be the funniest, but it is a beautifully subtle satire of every sports movie ever made. IMO.
Later Simpsons, just like Family Guy, confused pop culture references and allusions with satire and parody.Report
I actually think it’s gotten better in the last year or so (from brief glances at other people’s TV). Two/three years ago, it was all stupid references on the “Wow, I got that!” level. Not funny.
Now, the new writers (I think they switched staff… again), are trying to at least make jokes.Report
“Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy” has my favorite Simpson’s moment of all time.Report
*sigh*
All these moments will be lost, in time. Like tears… in rain.Report
ah, @burt-likko did you just break somebody’s fingers or something?Report