The Simpsons - "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" - Talkback [12/13]

That was awesome. Classic Simpsons! It's great to have a Bart episode that makes me like the guy again. It was also neat to see Lisa come find Bart and tell him "maybe you don't have a little brother, but you'll always be a BIG brother to me." There were some really great lines in this episode, and great scenes, can't pick just one. Well, maybe this one: "How did you escape from the Island of Misfit Boys"? LOL!
 
And the Marx Brothers! And the Blues Brothers! And the Smothers Brothers! My dad has a CD of their comedy routines. They're hilarious! One of their songs ends like this:

"Ha HA!" she laughed and jumped up high,
"I bet you thought I'd drowned!"
What a rotten sense of humor has my sweetheart,
Jenny Brown!
 
This being the first episode of a new production line, I notice they seem to have augmented the four-act structure so that Acts III and IV can be pasted together into one act with no ill effect on the pacing. It's now "joke-commercial-follow up joke", continuing with the same scene, with no establishing shot at the start of Act IV. Perhaps when Season 21 comes to DVD, we'll see the three-act format restored.

As for the episode itself, wow, really good! Solid humor all the way through, and good character-based stuff. The writers have been handling Bart really well this year - he's equal parts mischievous and inquisitive. I love that this episode takes place during the winter - the snowstorm sets up the opening set piece of the blackout, but it remains an effective device throughout the story, culminating in Bart and Charlie hiding out in the snowdrift. It also makes for some neat gray-and-cloudy atmospherics, like Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney sitting on top of the drainage pipe. I tell you, it'll be a shame once "The Simpsons" stops using layout artists; they're gonna lose a lot of nice stuff like this.

That "South Park" joke was great. I'm surprised they'd never done it before.

Eight guest voices this week; very close to their all-time record of nine. I knew Charlie sounded familiar, but I couldn't place where I'd heard him until I saw Jordan Nagai's name in the credits. Russell!
 
I liked the episode too, it was cute. For once an episode of this season where you can feel pain for Bart. Where you want to just reach out to huge him :( Yah it was good.
 
Very good episode even the guest stars were funny I knew they sounded familiar. Didn't see the South park reference but the Sex in the city was hilarious. Part of me wishes they could do a whole episode parodying them with the three sisters and Bart as the mule :anime:. A+
 
Ugh, I only really enjoyed that brothers sequence, mostly for the Mario Bros appearance and Sideshow Bob's cameo. Otherwise, completely forgettable episode.

...OK, Homer's part during the credits made me laugh.
 
For the South Park part - Is Ralph really dead now after being hit by Otto's school bus? Otto even said the "Ohmigod" part - so....SIMPSONS DID IT!

I wonder if the guy who hosts the "Under the Wrapper" show could be or could not be the new Troy McClure.

I'm glad the Smothers Brothers - Dick and Tom - voiced themselves! This is the first cartoon voice work for Tom Smothers since the Ted E. Bear specials!
 
^ I don't think Ralph's dead. Even when Kenny died in South Park, he was always alive by the next episode (save for the arc where Kenny was dead "for real").

I thought the funniest parts were Bart powering the DVD player, and the South Park reference, though Nelson getting all emotional (hooked on *can't remember*) was close. Overall, I thought it was good, and I hope future Simpsons episodes are of this quality.
 
That was a really good episode.

Among my favorite parts had to be Bart trying to use static electricity to power his TV and DVD player, the 'brothers' dream sequence, and Bart and Charlie teaming up on Chief Wiggum. Too bad Charlie gets an unhappy ending, but it was still a fun episode to watch.
 
This was a suprisingly good episode. A Bart-centered episode that actually ended with Homer and him bonding together instead of some stupid forced gag. Pretty solid jokes here especially Bart powering his DVD player via static from a balloon, Bart's dream, and Homer's fireworks in the garage.

So this episode was created in a new production line? Hadn't heard of this prior to the episode. Well, if this new production line can create good episodes like this, I hope they keep it up.
 
Not a bad episode at all. Homer was annoying but his presence was pretty marginal, so.

There's something about Bart's delivery of the "a real-life Jaws bit my father's weiner off" that really worked. I don't know why.

The Manning brothers and the Smothers Brothers were actually fun celebrity cameos for once. I even liked that opening TV scene.

If more new episodes were like this one I'd be pretty content actually.
 
I saw this episode again. I didn't like how they were trying to modernize the continuity. They're trying to say Bart was born in 1999 this is the 90's episode all over again.
 
Same here. I was ready to flip the channel then to my surprise I was actually enjoying the simpsons again, like... seriously... I couldn't believe it.

Please whoever's making these new ones keep it up. :eek:
 
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