The Simpsons - "Love, Springfieldian Style" Talkback

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To celebrate Valentine?s Day, Homer takes Marge to the Tunnel of Love at a carnival. But when Bart pulls a prank involving some Jell-O, they become hopelessly stranded. Homer tries to cheer Marge up by recounting some of the greatest love stories of all time, beginning with Bonnie and Clyde (as Marge and Homer) who steal each others? hearts as they rob their town dry. Next, Marge tells the story of two dogs, Sadie (Marge) and Scamp (Homer), in her take on ?Lady and the Tramp.? Lastly, Bart spins the final romantic tale in his recounting of the rock-and-roll romance of the The Sex Pistols when Nancy Spungeon (Lisa) falls for the rebellious Sid Vicious (Nelson) in the ?Love, Springfieldian Style? episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Feb. 17
 
I like the animation on the Lady and the Tramp parody.

"This place ain't no picnic, but it sure beats workin' for Disney! A-hyuk!"

Kind of an awkward joke, but still funny.
 
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Of the three, the Lady and the Tramp parody was the best (I still haven't seen the actual movie) with its interesting animation, and Goofy's appearance. Sex Pistols was a runner-up, mostly for the fun British accent and dialog, and the chocolate montage.
 
I think they wimped out on the Sex Pistols segment with the ending. They could've ended it in a strange tragic farce-like ending a'la the real Sid and Nancy.
 
My biggest complaint about this episode is that all the segments felt too short. The first segment with Bonnie and Clyde seemed like it was just flowing through the motions, while the last finished fine... however the tragedy of the romance was never played up as well as it could have. The whole running plot between them really just felt like filler (as usual, sure) and didn't really feel 'real' (why would Lisa and Bart stand around listening to a story in a middle of a gigantic carnival?). However, the episode was still mostly funny and I really liked the animation on the dog segment.

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The first story ended way too fast, the shooting came out of nowhere, it felt there should have been more to it, same for the last one. But the Lady and The Tramp parody I really liked, it was cute and had a different style all its own, I especially liked the jab at Disney by the fake Goofy.
 
Well after Lady and Tramp have their little romantic night, Jock and Trusty appear the next morning to propose to Lady and make an honest woman out of her. That's pretty much as far as they go with this plot point, but my assumption is that, yes, Lady did get knocked up the night before.

Odd for a Disney more, but there you go.
 
How did the Simpson family ever leave the Jello infested Tunnel of Love?

Nice references to chocolate for the SEX PISTOLS spoof.

Too bad current Disney Goofy voice Bill Farmer didn't voice the Goofy parody.
 
GAH! he had a puppy long before the Cheapquals... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scamp_(Lady_and_the_Tramp)

Anyway, the movie basically (to my memory) ends with the puppies after Lady and Tramp get back together. It ends like it began, during Christmas time. Clearly, they changed the plotline of the film. And that song parody they sang during the film didn't appear at all in the film, not even a song close to that...

Anyway, decent episode. Not terrible, but it didn't leave too much of an impression on me. And the last segment was good, if kiddified. But I think the Lady and the Tramp bit was pretty much the best part of the episode. And I just love how they referenced a not too obscure, but all the while not the most famous Disney film.
 
The visual stylistic variety of this three-story episode made it a little more interesting than the others. Unfortunately, the storylines and dialog weren't even close to being engaging or funny.
 
The Lady and the Tramp story was impressive because it captured many of the scenes/background perfectly. Even the overall animation was tweaked to resemble the film. It's a shame it didn't once make me laugh aside from when the showed Goofy (the first time, at least).
I will say I was happy with the cutback in pointless deaths this time around. Even Willie's obligatory demise was as tame as possible.
 
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