May 22 2016
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In the end of “Orange Is The New Yellow,” The Simpsons’ 27th season finale, there’s a prison riot and a tornado.…
The Simpsons - Season 27
May 15 2016
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Okay, let’s get the gimmick out of the way first.
May 8 2016
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The Simpsons go to Paris! Wait, have they been to Paris before? [Checking.] Nope—just Bart*. All the way back in seas…
Apr 24 2016
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There’s nothing wrong with repetition on The Simpsons. Apart from having 26-plus years of backstory to adhere to, The…
Apr 10 2016
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Writing The Simpsons has a built-in safety net. Sadly, it’s also got a built-in handicap that brings writers more or…
Apr 3 2016
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Waylon Smithers being acknowledged as a gay man might be greeted with a collective shrug of “Didn’t he do that a…
Mar 13 2016
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There’s nothing wrong with an outlandish Simpsons premise, and “The Marge-ian Chronicles” references one of the…
Mar 6 2016
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“Lisa’s learning about death helped Marge feel again!”
Feb 21 2016
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For all the griping about The Simpsons overstaying its welcome, it doesn’t take much for the show to win back…
Feb 14 2016
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First, a word about the Frinkiac. As you undoubtedly know, and have wasted a lot of time on, it’s a perfect…
Jan 17 2016
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The title of “Much Apu About Something,” about Apu’s nephew Jamshed (or Jay, as he prefers) turning the Kwik-E-Mart…
Jan 10 2016
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In the long history of Springfield’s questionable milk products, “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles’” introduction…
Jan 3 2016
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A quick pace, a brace of committed and funny guest actors, and a smidgen of heart combine to make “The Girl Code” an…
Dec 13 2015
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“Did you ever see the movie Boyhood?”
Dec 6 2015
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It’s hard to credit those who claim that The Simpsons has run out of stories to tell when it seems that every other…
Nov 22 2015
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It’s an episode about Homer losing big at poker and costing Lisa her chance to go to High Notes Music Camp (motto:…
Nov 8 2015
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Oct 25 2015
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It’s that time of year again, when a Simpsons writer’s mind turns to the annual “Treehouse Of Horror,” and the…
Oct 18 2015
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The Simpsons is doubling down on Halloween this year, and, while next week’s annual “Treehouse Of Horror” should be…
Oct 11 2015
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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…