The Simpsons - "Coming to Homerica" - Talkback [5/17]

Compare this to season 7's "Much Apu About Nothing" and it's a pretty big difference. This episode 13 years later feels like a pale imitation of both that episode and a 5-year-old South Park episode, coming off as a bunch of stock talking points in animated form instead of really using the show's strong characters to satire the immigration debate. I'm not saying it was super-preachy, just... lifeless.

Pretty bad way to end the season.
 
This was the first Simpsons episode I've seen in a long time, I think since last year and it was terrible. I could barely watch the whole thing. This show is so boring and dull now.
 
Homer was fired again for showing up late drunk?

The surprising part was some people temporary getting sick from eating the NATURE BURGERS which caused the barley poison outbreak - Does this tie in with the news of outbreaks of poisoned food like spinach and tomatoes and not the news about the swine flu? It was even gross to see Homer vomit on Lisa's saxaphone.

I even noticed the "PREVENT CHILD ABUSE" sign.

Good thing the Odgenville people after the wall was built didn't knock it down with pick axes like it happened to the Berlin Wall in 1989, but why a door?

I can't wait for Season 21 of The Simpsons in Fall 2009. Maybe we might see 4 stories in the Halloween 2009 Treehouse of Horror instead of 3!
 
Refresh my memory. When was the last time we actually saw Homer working at the power plant before last night. I may have missed an episode but I honestly don't remember.
 
They only show him there maybe once a season now so it wouldn't be hard to believe that this might have been the first time since last season.
 
I'm with you. Except for the couch gag; that was reused from earlier in the season. I meant the whole Krusty thing. That was good, but everything afterward was poop.

Had to be. And why not? It's a guaranteed seller. (I hope.)
 
I dont see how the "Up" reference is an "Up" reference. I thought the joke was using the old cliche of people using a bunch of balloons tied to a chair to fly through the sky. We've seen that done before "Up."

I think the real joke was Homer was too fat so Lenny and Carl replaced him and flew right up. The idea that they went up right away was implying they are gay because a stereotype for gay males is that they are "light on their feet".
 
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