C & C The Simpsons " The 90's Show " ( 1/27/08)

Wow. I think a lot of people are taking this show too seriously.

I thought it was really funny. Then again, maybe it's because, despite some fond memories of that decade, I realize that the '90s are as ridiculous a period of time as any other. The grunge stuff, the TV references, whale songs, the professor with the overly "politically correct" worldview. Good stuff. Okay, maybe it is a little weird thinking of Homer and Marge as members of Generation X (er, the actual generation, not the Marvel Comics teen mutant group). And the LotR Comic Book Guy gag wasn't that great. Then again, as a comic book fan, I think it would have been funnier to see him buying up hundreds of copies of Youngblood #1 in the belief that it would make him rich someday.
 
I actually thought this was an entertaining episode. The '90s jokes were rather silly and telephoned, but they somehow were still funny. As for the show's continuity, they poked fun at this fact in the very episode. And as Homer himself once said, cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic.



During Hategasm's first performance, there's a spoof of a famous line from Back to the Future: "Hey, Kurt? It's Marvin. Marvin Cobain, your cousin! You know that new sound you were looking for? Here it is!"

Homer and Marge decide not to have sex until they're married, following the lead of famous celebrities- we then see a billboard reading "Sonic the Hedgehog says save it 'til marriage."
 
Weird Al's cameo in '3 Gays in the Condo' a few seasons back was the only bright spot in that episode, so hopefully he can bring the same magic to this episode.
 
Geez, why is every official plot synopsis so darn long. Is it that difficult to summarize these episodes? I guess it's hard to summarize the main plot of these episodes when the it takes a full act and half to get there.
 
There were a few funny bits like Moe's Bar and the Seinfeld reference, but overall I found myself both becoming uninterested in the story it was trying to tell and confused at how much Simpsons backstory was being rewritten in one fell swoop. The latter wouldn't have bothered me that much had the love triangle story had more meat to it and would find a better balance between being a farce and seriousness. The instructor was really too silly in his new age philosphies to really get me to believe that Marge would find him "objective" much less appealing.

Also, I agree that most of the 90s references didn't really fit organically in the story they were trying to tell. That Clinton joke was indeed a real lowpoint, mainly for how long they stuck with it.

Overall, I would have rather heard the gas man's story.
 
"Those who tire of Weird Al are tired of life". Words to live by.

There was some good parts but I give it a 3 for effort. I hate it for messing up the timeline so much, though it seesm more like a time epic parody peice then an acaul peice of the characters history. The Bill Clinton joke came to me as being a stab at Bush much like the LOTR joke where someone could never imagin something horrible happening but in the 2000s it did.
 
I have to say I find it rather annoying how this messes up continuity established by several episodes, such as having it suddenly take place in the 90's, so when DOES the show take place now anyways? The jokes about there "never being a worse President" were funny tho, as was the LOTR gag.
 
Awful. Just a terribly thought-out retcon filled with nothing but cringe-worthy 90's jokes. Almost beats "Rome-old and Juli-Eh" as the worst episodes of the Jean era. The worst ever episodes go to a couple in the Scully era. Those episodes know who they are.

1/5...
 
* turns episode on at 8:06*

Darn, sounds like I missed some good stuff. Of course, everything since then seems to suck.

"You mean America was founded on misconception!?" Who writes this crap?
 
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