“Now that that unpleasantness is behind us forever . . .” – Selma Bouvier
[Note: It has become apparent, much to my disappointment, that I cannot run a website that criticizes Zombie Simpsons without, you know, watching the damn episodes. So I’m going to try this out as a low effort way to make fun of them and give people a place to bitch.]
- Oh look, a Breaking Bad opening that comes after that show has been cancelled and the internet did a better job a full year ago.
- “The coolest sushi restaurant in town” – Springfield continues to resembled the toniest parts of Los Angeles.
- The fight/flee thing is total filler.
- “Ooh, a cupcake!” – Yeah, that’s something Lisa would do. [sarcasm meter explodes]
- The kids watching A Streetcar Named Desire is lazy even by Zombie Simpsons standards. Ms. Hoover is there for some reason, the kids are paying rapt attention to a slow, literary movie from decades before they were born, and it’s something they’ve used and parodied much better (and several times) already. So it’s nonsense, poorly thought out, and a repeat. It’s the Zombie Simpsons triple play!
- And Skinner just showed up for a punchline and then disappeared.
- Hey, it’s Milhouse in a Bazooka Joe jacket except it’s not a joke, the show is actually presenting him as cool.
- This school therapist scene is godawful, especially the cheap setup/punchline of I’ll-be-there/I’m-fired. This dialogue has none of the wit and sparkle of Murphy Brown.
- Okay, I really shouldn’t have blown up my sarcasm detector so quickly. Lisa’s behavior in this episode is so far out of character for her it’s hard to describe.
- The “Deplete from the ocean” line is kinda funny, and, right on cue, they spoil it by wasting time citing a series of lame examples.
- Uh, why did the food come alive?
- How did we get to Moe writing fan fiction? Did this episode come in fifteen minutes short?
- “Saying it in a singsong fashion” – Nothing says great comedy writing like explaining your jokes while you’re making them. They really should just give up and insert a laughtrack already.
- Not sure who’s doing the Brando impression, but not a lot of effort went into it. And it’s not like Brando’s hard to impersonate either.
- Seriously, why did the food come alive?
So an episode titled “What Animated Women Want” is filled with voiceover and is based on the kind of cliched dating advice that might have been a bestseller in 1973. That’s all pretty bad, but when it’s about a) Marge and Homer having marital problems and b) Milhouse’s crush on Lisa, it’s not only the romantic ideas that are stale, it’s the stories as well.
Anyway, the ratings are in, and they are atrocious. Just 4.07 million people got retrograde dating advice last night. That’s good for second place on the all-time least watched list, trailing only last year’s “Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend”.
