Monday, November 10, 2003

EITHER THAT, OR MAYBE THEY'LL BRING BACK ROY: MSNBC's Jon Bonné, who clearly has more time to focus on this than most of us, writes today that while The Simpsons may have recently "lost its soul and devolved into an uneven, slapsticky mess that needed to be put to a respectable death," now the show is on its way back to being good.

Bonné's main criticism of recent seasons? Too much "Jerkass Homer". He says that the new season will be much less Homer-centric.

I dunno. Last night's episode, with Homer's mom coming back, was decidedly meh, enlivened only by the Beautiful Mind reference and Homer's letter to "Die Hard". Just not that good.

Much funnier this weekend was watching (and re-watching) the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent", where Peter Griffin finds the final "silver scroll" and gets to tour noted recluse Pawtucket Pete's magical brewery and meets the mysterious Chumba Wumbas who work there. Hysterical. God bless TiVo.

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