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Originally Posted by CrazyCowboyDion
Oh c'mon people... hardly any love for the Simpsons. I personally have liked the last season a lot, I liked the "Donnie Brasco" spoof (feat. Topher Grace!), I loved the Vermont episode where Moe became a poet (which had freakin' Tom Wolfe and Michael Chabon!) I crapped myself when they got Jack Black, Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes, & Art Spiegelman (tho he IS a longtime friend of Matt Groening.)
These sound like good guest stars to me... and I still laugh out loud during every Simpsons episode.
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Ah, you just mentioned the could have been gold Comic Book episode. I thought it was half decent. Had they followed up on that, and made either the rest of the episode about the new comic store, or made a follow up episode. But they completely lost the episode in a parody of Curves (Take that slightly overweight women in their 40's
) and a Homer and Marge's marriage is in trouble plot.
I think the problem with the Simpsons recently is that they have a few really amazing episodes a year, but they fill the rest of it with pure junk, and a lot of it pandering to the younger audience.
I would have liked the Departed parody a lot better had Recess not done a plot EXACTLY like it (and much better, IMO too) years ago.
But the Primary episode and especially Homer's Mom passing on were pretty well done. I stilll watch as I am a loyalist, and the show does make me laugh every so often, but most of the times I just wish Matt would fire the current writing staff and get as many old schoolers as they can back.