4th Simpsons Episode.

So this is the 4^th episode blog (from the episode "A Midsummer's Nice Dream) for my QU class and here we go….

So the plot is broken up into two parts. The first deals with Cheech and Chong and the second being the lesser-known character that is the Crazy Cat lady.

It seems that the town of Springfield is awaiting a visit from the aged comedy duo of Cheech and Chong. The Simpsons decide to go see them at the local theatre. While performing, Chong, becoming upset by the repetitiveness of the act, begins to improvise, ultimately leaving the stage. After moments of prompting, Homer takes to the stage and the place of Chong. He begins to recite the lines of the act from his own memory (huh, 22 years the show has been on and there has never been a mention of him being a fan?) Impressing Cheech, he asks Homer to join him on tour in place of Chong (Yeah, makes sense. Do the same act with a different person. We saw how well it worked with The Three Stooges. Also, doesn’t he have a job that he never seems to go to anymore?) The duo title their act Cheech and Chunk. Homer is disillusioned when he discovers that Cheech and Chong's lives are different from the personas depicted. Later, Chong begins auditioning a replacement for Cheech. He ultimately chooses Skinner, titling their act Teech and Chon. They ultimately fail as a duo. Homer convinces Chong to rejoin Cheech on stage to perform and that is the end of this part.

All the while of this going on, Marge discovers that the Crazy Cat Lady is a hoarder. For the people at home, a hoarder is anyone that feels the need to find, collect, keep, pack ANY and EVERYTHING because they do not know how to throw things away. If you want a good belly laugh, watch the shows on TLC about Hoarding. Instantly feel better about yourself. In an effort to help, Marge has the clutter removed from her home. After the loading the waste disposal truck, Marge begins removing items, causing her own home to become cluttered. Eventually, Homer brings back the Crazy Cat Lady to change Marge's new ways, but ends up becoming a hoarder again after seeing all her old items. Homer and Marge eventually just leave her in their house and go off to reunite Cheech and Chong, as the Crazy Cat Lady starts to shout and bang her chest like Tarzan drawing all of her cats into the house.

Nothing much going on in this episode. I am not even sure what I could draw from it. The first part would be I suppose don’t mess with a good thing? I don’t know. From the second part of the show, If there is something to be had from it, don’t’ meddle in others affairs?

Third Episode Blog

Back yet again for another rousing take on the Simpsons by me. I will start off by saying in the beginning of this episode had a lot of actually funny one liners that I enjoyed for once. I was pleasantly surprised. 


The main plots centers around Lisa comes upon a flower called the Springfield Silvertongue in Springfield's desert at a field trip. (Where the hell is Springfield that it clearly has mountains, close proximity to the ocean, heavy snowfall n the winter and a desert?) After almost being attacked by a pair of scorpions, Lisa notices the calming effect the flower has on them and decides to take a batch home.  After she creates a solution extract from the flowers, you can guess by now, Homer gives some to his father after he is kicked out of the old folks home and causes trouble around the house. As with the spiders, the flower has a similar effect and cures Grandpa of his usual crankiness. It is then that a drug industry employee from Hottenhoffer Pharmaceuticals recreates the drug and distributes it to the elderly generation to calm them. 


^{There is a simple notion that most people see older people as simply cranky and they do not wish to deal with them. This rings true with lots of societies but there are also many that revere the elderly to no end. All in all, was a decent episode. I did laugh at the rock climbers bit and one of them getting a sprained ankle. The best line had to come from Nelson though "Aaaaaaaand Remorse."}

Second Episode Blog

As you can guess, this is the second episode of my blog that is being done for my QU 201 class. Due to the Oscars, the episode of the Simpsons on Sunday was a repeat. Originally airing 12/12/2010, It is entitled "Donnie Fatso." Jon Hamm of Mad Men guest starred on this episode as an FBI agent. Clearly this is a take on "Donnie Brasco," a fantastic movie from 1997.

The general plot of the episode followed Homer as he spends the beginning of the new year in the Springfield Penitentiary after getting caught bribing an official. An FBI investigator offers to reduce his jail time if Homer agrees to go undercover as an informant to investigate Fat Tony. (Really? Why Homer? What sense does that make for the series? It would just as much sense to send in Lenny and Carl) Of course this is where the general plot of any script will take a turn and oh look, it did. Homer begins to forge a liking and bond with Fat Tony and his family. He becomes conflicted between his obligation to the government and supposed created loyalty to his new family. (What about his actual family?) A mixtures of Plot Points happen and end with Homer accidentally causing the death of Fat Tony. Fat Tony's cousin Fit Tony (seriously could not come up with a better or different name?) seeks to settle a score with Homer but as you can guess, he winds up teaching him an important lesson and becoming the new Fat Tony.

 It is hard to really care about this episode. It really was just a 14 year later lampoon of good mobster movies. Not a home run episode in my book.

p.s. The joke about the Fox News helicopter saying Merry Christmas and no other holidays? Come on, be smarter than that Simpsons. You have an entire team of writers and the best you can do to try and do an edgy joke is that?