Showing posts with label The Simpsons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Simpsons. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Simpsons Wear Prada, or How I'm Seeing Double

Who knew all three Prada-attired ladies had guested as young Springfieldians? 
And you can totally see Jessica Lovejoy saying "That's all!"

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Lisa the Drama Queen, or How I'm Seeing Double




The Simpsons' "Lisa the Drama Queen" took a page (or two) from Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (minus the whole matricide, of course...)

And it left me wondering: so is Lisa Kate, then? Or would it be the other way around?

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Wish I could be in Springfield, or How it's Homer "Don Draper" Simpson to you!

A new series to keep the blog going. I'm choosing on a weekly basis (Wishing Wednesdays!) someone/thing I wish I could be from whatever popular culture outlet I choose.

Wish I could be... in Springfield:

The Treehouse of Horror episodes are usually brilliant, and this Sunday's promises to be one for the books. Here's the Mad Men opening credits courtesy of a Mr Homer Simpson giving us one last MM fix before we start the countdown for Season 3 to start next July (now if only AMC would sign Matthew Weiner already!):



Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Retroactive TV Sunday, or How Star Wars is the New Pink

Sunday

8:00 The Simpsons (FOX)
Knowing how good The Simpsons movie was, and knowing that Stephen Colbert was guest-voicing a part in the premiere episode, I was very excited to see the new Simpsons season kick-off. Sadly, I was not impressed at all. Instead of the refreshing comedy in the movie (albeit never achieving 'classic' status) we got a standard late-Simpsons season episode: not really funny, really good animation, good guest voices with the odd laugh-inducing gag (In this episode it was the opening sequence - completely revamped! and ending with a Spider-pig appearance at the couch). But other than that, nothing from the movie seems to have affected the Simpsons dynamics: why did we get yet another "Homer disappoints family" storyline crossed with "Homer gets a new job (sort of)" storyline? I don't know. Also: not enough Lisa.

Favourite part of the episode: Bart's blackboard reading "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie" (Oh self-awareness! how we love thee)

9:00 Family Guy (FOX)
So, if the Simpsons premiere was underwhelming, the Family Guy one was overwhelming, in many levels! For those of you who have been living under a rock, the one-hour season premiere was a re-enaction of A New Hope, FG style: Lois as Leia, Chris as Luke, etc. And not only was the animation amazing when trying to mimic the 1970s style effects but the inside jokes regarding the popular culture surrounding Star Wars were clever and almost always laugh-inducing. Stewie as Darth Vader was hilarious and the jokes poked at the original Star Wars (I especially liked the "John Williams everybody!" sketch when Luke is gazing at the two suns and the music seems so over the top and you turn and meet the entire John Williams orchestra). All in all it was a treat to watch, even though I am not a regular FG watcher, but this was not an event to miss.
Favourite part of the episode: "Hi I'm Han Solo and the only actor whose career isn't destroyed by this movie" and Leia trying to record the "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi" message and having to ask what "buffering" is and dealing with R2D2's Windows asking her to download Real Player 7 to continue.