Animation Domination, Live Action Surrender

[vovat]

Isn't it a bit late in the game to do a Simpsons episode promoting American Idol? The show has been on for years now, and just about every joke you can make about it has been made, many of them on Idol itself. Simon is mean, Randy spouts a lot of slang, and there's a shit-ton of product placement. It was mildly amusing, but didn't really have

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[vovat]

I've never watched Lost either, although certain aspects of it do sound interesting.

I think my first trip to Atlantic City was when I was eight, and I was excited to see all the Monopoly streets.

[vovat]

Slow news day in the UK, I suppose. {g}

[revme]

Yoda's the guy who runs the convenience store where Chris works. (Voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, who is awesome

[vovat]

Yoda's the guy who runs the convenience store where Chris works.

Yeah, I think I remember him now.

I didn't get the ending either and what Rupert Murdoch was doing there.

As far as I could tell, the entire joke was that even Murdoch hates his own network, which isn't that funny. It kind of seemed like they felt they needed to get in a dis at Fox since much of the rest of the episode was a blatant promotion of a Fox show.

Also, isn't Simon leaving after this season? So why would he care if Moe does the same schtick for cheaper?All I can figure is that he hadn't made up his mind to leave at the time they were recording his parts for the episode. If that's true, though, it was pretty bad timing to have a show about Simon worried about keeping his job broken up by commercials announcing his last episode

[revme]

The weird thing is the Murdoch bit just seemed.... I don't know. It felt like it was more a dis of NBC than Fox, and made Moe's earlier "Thank god I can't watch Fox" type comment a "ha-ha, just kidding" type of feel. I don't know. It was just... so poorly done.

With the line-record that might be the answer. I'm kinda suprised they didn't have him re-dub them. And, it's not like it would have been hard to think of a replacement joke -- instead of what it was, just throw in "Well, turns out I actually AM a huge dick." and call it good.

I'm really hoping they do something about the whole Stewie begat Chris/Lois thing in the inevitable 3rd one. If they don't, that'll be lame.

I can't remember if in the DVD version if they do the kiss at all -- if they do, it's played straight, nothin' Oedipal or anything.

[vovat]

The weird thing is the Murdoch bit just seemed.... I don't know. It felt like it was more a dis of NBC than Fox, and made Moe's earlier "Thank god I can't watch Fox" type comment a "ha-ha, just kidding" type of feel.

Maybe it was kind of a "Fox sucks, but it's no worse than the other networks" thing? I don't know. I agree that it was poorly done.

I'm really hoping they do something about the whole Stewie begat Chris/Lois thing in the inevitable 3rd one. If they don't, that'll be lame.

I agree, although there have been other FG episodes with the characters playing other roles and not acknowledging their real-life relations. The one with Stewie as a king who wanted to marry Lois comes to mind.