In the end of “Orange Is The New Yellow,” The Simpsons’ 27th season finale, there’s a prison riot and a tornado. Marge…
Okay, let’s get the gimmick out of the way first.
The Simpsons go to Paris! Wait, have they been to Paris before? [Checking.] Nope—just Bart*. All the way back in season…
There’s nothing wrong with repetition on The Simpsons. Apart from having 26-plus years of backstory to adhere to, The…
Writing The Simpsons has a built-in safety net. Sadly, it’s also got a built-in handicap that brings writers more or…
Waylon Smithers being acknowledged as a gay man might be greeted with a collective shrug of “Didn’t he do that a decade…
There’s nothing wrong with an outlandish Simpsons premise, and “The Marge-ian Chronicles” references one of the…
“Lisa’s learning about death helped Marge feel again!”
For all the griping about The Simpsons overstaying its welcome, it doesn’t take much for the show to win back viewers’…
First, a word about the Frinkiac. As you undoubtedly know, and have wasted a lot of time on, it’s a perfect…
The title of “Much Apu About Something,” about Apu’s nephew Jamshed (or Jay, as he prefers) turning the Kwik-E-Mart…
In the long history of Springfield’s questionable milk products, “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles’” introduction of…
A quick pace, a brace of committed and funny guest actors, and a smidgen of heart combine to make “The Girl Code” an…
“Did you ever see the movie Boyhood?”
It’s hard to credit those who claim that The Simpsons has run out of stories to tell when it seems that every other…
It’s an episode about Homer losing big at poker and costing Lisa her chance to go to High Notes Music Camp (motto:…
This one got so close.
It’s that time of year again, when a Simpsons writer’s mind turns to the annual “Treehouse Of Horror,” and the…
The Simpsons is doubling down on Halloween this year, and, while next week’s annual “Treehouse Of Horror” should be a…
There are times when the need to grade a TV episode just doesn’t apply. It’d be nice to say I’m flummoxed by “Puffless”…
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