Thursday, December 15, 2005

Most Awesome Thing I Saw on TV This Week

This week's Simpson's episode (and let me qualify "this week's": with DVR, I don't have any idea when the shows I am watching originally aired. So "this week's" episode of any given show may well be a Halloween episode or some such nonsense.) was lame, lame, lame, no shock. It was "The Simpsons Do Italy," which they've done before, only they called it "Africa" or "Japan" or "Disneyworld," and you know, we get it. Italians make-a the pizza and drive-a the Ferrari. It's kind of sad that Groening and co. have to take the obvious, but they are still the Simpsons, and God bless 'em.

But the reason I'm talking about I Simpsoni is because "this week's" was a Sideshow Bob episode, and plenty of the jokes were throw-backs to the good old days when Conan O'Brian was writing (TRIVIA! What band lost its founder due to his choice to redirect his career and become a Simpsons animator? Answer at the end.) which include my all-time favorite episode, "Cape Feare."

That's the one where Bart enters the Witness Protection Program and features some great comedy moments, listed in bullet form:

  • "The CIA Sings the Hits of Gilbert & Sullivan" tape.
  • Homer running in Bart's room with hockey mask to show him his new chainsaw.
  • The rakes.
  • Bart running to the stern of the boat: alligators. Runs to the bow: eels. Runs back to the stern: alligators. Bart: "Oh yeah."
  • Bart foils SB by having him sing HMS Pinafore in its entirety.

In this episode, Bob steps on the rakes again, and so does lil Sideshow Bob, and that was the Most Awesome Thing I Saw on TV This Week, but only because it harked back to, like, the best Simpsons episode ever.

This episode, I'll note, tried to marry the word "plagiarizer" with Peter Griffen, and that's just really sad because Seth MacFarlane is totally kicking Matt Groening's ass right now in the quality battle. In the sucking battle, though, Matt G. (the other one) has the lead. But then, above "plagiarizer of a plagiarizer" was the picture of the guy from that other Seth MacFarlane cartoon that everyone hates. And for that, Simpsons, good work. Jaclyn says that show has its good moments, but they're spread much farther apart than on Family Guy, and it just isn't worth the work.

(ANSWER: Eric Stefani left the band he started with his [brunette!] sister after Album 2, sometime in the middle of writing Tragic Kingdom.)

posted by Matt the Great @ 12/15/2005

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