“The Simpsons” — He Loves To Fly and He D’Ohs
Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does all the things that a Spider-Pig does
Glad to see the opening sequence got the post-blockbuster-summer-movie treatment as Bart skateboards through the wreckage that is undomed Springfield. For a show that has the luxury of never having to worry about continuity (with a few exceptions: Ned’s wife, Selma (or is it Patty) as a lesbian, Milhouse’s dad being divorced) I’m glad they did something to aknowledge the fact that a pretty significant piece of Simpsons’ history has passed us by. More after the jump…
As for the nineteenth season’s premiere episode it was great in a way few recent Simpsons episode have been: it somehow managed to tell a cohesive story from act one through act three (and in the process managed a few jabs at Chicago “Canada’s Miami”). While I’m of the opinion that I’d rather live in a world with so-so new episodes of The Simpsons than having to live in a world with only four hundred episodes in syndication, I will concede that in recent years the storytelling has suffered. Homer joins the fire department so that he can rob houses? Really?
Here things seemed almost old-timey in Homer’s desire to impress his family. It was a good way to start the season (despite the fact that most of these pre-baseball episodes were made last year).
