8 reviews
Bad to worst. Maybe its time to pull the plug.
This episode is hard to watch, unfunny and makes me yawn. There are not only many awkward and forced gags( I get second-hand embarrassment) but also I wonder how many uninspiring infinity pool jokes they intend to put in one season. The idea of Marge becoming a writer is fair play, they could have done so much with it, but they decided instead, to make a huge Mickey out of Ellen DeGeneres.
It is one thing to be funny but another thing to be mean and kick a dog when it is down.
Like the previous episode before it, this one also subtly hints at the producers/writers getting a bit jaded at producing new Simpsons episodes, seeing how they keep taking a dig at its current popularity or lack thereof, and how there is no need to make new episodes for a classic tv series.
Season 34 is setting out to be one of the worst, if perhaps not, the worst season ever. And as a huge Simpsons fan, I am so sad and disappointed.
Maybe they should respect the memory of our favourite cartoon family and pull an 'Undertaker' on them.
It is one thing to be funny but another thing to be mean and kick a dog when it is down.
Like the previous episode before it, this one also subtly hints at the producers/writers getting a bit jaded at producing new Simpsons episodes, seeing how they keep taking a dig at its current popularity or lack thereof, and how there is no need to make new episodes for a classic tv series.
Season 34 is setting out to be one of the worst, if perhaps not, the worst season ever. And as a huge Simpsons fan, I am so sad and disappointed.
Maybe they should respect the memory of our favourite cartoon family and pull an 'Undertaker' on them.
- Leonickove
- Oct 16, 2022
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A great episode
The King of Nice
Pretty Nice
Certainly thin, but much more enjoyable, to me, than similar Marge episodes. I recently watched the "Marge is a high-end pot saleswoman" episode, yet ultimately felt blasé by the end. It was all a tad forced, with only a couple of good quips in it, much of the humor overshadowed by the premise. Conversely, "The King of Nice" just feels well-written, and is well-paced: there's a sense that it flows, and the jokes contain more than surface-level wit. There's something inspired to the way we cut back to Marge's abandoned intervention, where the assembled group scrambles to find somebody else's problems to address. Moe asks Homer how his drinking is; he replies, "The same."
In short, you can feel the effort here: there's just something refreshing to the way the episode keeps purring past its opening minutes, where many lesser Simpsons episodes dump all their best material (albeit by design). It's not a great episode, and, arguably, barely even a good one. But it's still clever, not only consistently, but surprisingly so, with unexpected moments of wit that catch you off guard. I like this version of The Simpsons, however imperfect. To me, it's as a far cry from mediocrity, having seen what that looks like firsthand.
In short, you can feel the effort here: there's just something refreshing to the way the episode keeps purring past its opening minutes, where many lesser Simpsons episodes dump all their best material (albeit by design). It's not a great episode, and, arguably, barely even a good one. But it's still clever, not only consistently, but surprisingly so, with unexpected moments of wit that catch you off guard. I like this version of The Simpsons, however imperfect. To me, it's as a far cry from mediocrity, having seen what that looks like firsthand.
- collinschris-49632
- Jun 2, 2024
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As of now, the worst Simpsons episode i've ever seen.
I'm not one to give 1/10 scores whenever i remotely dislike a show. In fact, i've tried to have mercy on Season 34 considering how solid Season 33 was. However, this episode drove me over the top. Jokes consistently flop and come off as incredibly cringe. Writers are trying wayyy too hard to write relevant/modern material. They place more emphasis on the audience recognizing cultural references than actually attempting to write clever comedy. I know the show has had this issue for years now but it feels like this episode is the culmination of everything the show SHOULDN'T be about. Just because you're airing in 2022 doesn't mean you have to remind your audience of that with every episode. Leave it to modern Simpsons for making a joke about TikTok feel incredibly dated. Also, just as a side rant, Bart's little jab about the show still making episodes is such a tired piece of writing. Why do the writers keep going back to this specific joke as if they haven't made it multiple times already?? Frustrating and not as witty as they think.
- BradenLambdin
- Nov 25, 2022
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Great
I only knew bits about the Ellen story, but knew enough to get the references. I feel like The Simpsons has got hold of something South Park has been doing well for at least the past seven years: making episodes satirising very current things, so it's social commentary on something that's trending or in the news this year, or even recently before the episode airs. I like that approach. Can't the reviewers who keep coming back on here every time to write, "Worst, episode, ever!" realise that they are Comic Book Guy? He was created specifically to mock them and their haughty attitudes. Having never created anything good themselves, they constantly moan about how terrible other people's creative work is. Worst reviewers ever. The Simpsons isn't in decline. It's still good. That many people who love it have written it off years ago and won't watch the new episodes is sad. They still write good stuff. Yeah, there are a few duds, but there always were a few. Often, they hit the mark.
- exuberantloquacity
- Feb 3, 2023
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Krusty the Clown's Character Damage in a Millennial Narrative
Disney's version of The Simpsons is like a nightmare I had of an episode with ultra-high definition quality, where one side of the face was clear and the other was drawn with the typical simple digital shadow seen in recent episodes, featuring a secondary character who is a kid with reddish-brown hair that had nothing to do with the Simpsons I remember and liked and whose way of speaking seems oversmart, but because in reality, without you realizing it, every sentence he say is a pathetic attempt at a joke, as it is based on a stand-up comedy script. The show used to have rough but more attractive drawings, and didn't need to create new secondary characters for each episode that spewed affection for the terrible current culture, music, and way of life.
That nightmare has become reality, and the show now feels like it belongs to a team of millennial writers who want to make it into millennial-style soft humor and soft storytelling, naively thinking that style will appeal to someone looking for something softer than Family Guy. But there are no humorous moments, and the show is not about a funny Homer entertaining us with his antics as it used to be or uttering messianic or ridiculous therapeutic phrases that do not align with his ethics or way of life, nor spontaneous humming or belching as in real life, no, now the show it's about millennial characters trying to understand how to fix their flaws in the millennial world they've been thrown into, and that's what the show has become in the Disney era, folks. The episodes are now terribly produced since the switch to Disney, the narrative structure is always vague and naive, and for the current production team, the show's fascinating past is just a rumor that doesn't really exist. The current production team thinks that The Simpsons are a tool for promoting feminist ideologies and other millennial values. If you fast-forward through each episode produced now, you'll realize that many of them are attempts at typical situational comedy stand-up jokes about people who can't adapt to the new times, rather than the powerful character-driven style of the show's popular era. Reminding us that the new times are the best makes the viewer feel bad about themselves. The first three seasons had a therapeutic value, while the recent ones have the opposite effect, destroying the self-esteem of fans and other viewers.
There's one future prediction that The Simpsons couldn't have made: their writers would become millennials in the future.
Now they are resorting a lot to telling feminist stories around the characters, and this episode is an example of that. It is also an example of how to damage a character who was a favorite of some fans, like Krusty the Clown, by fitting him into a millennial narrative style that doesn't fit with The Simpsons that we remember and would like to see. In this episode, he dances to an obnoxious and aggressive music of the current times, that is, they praise horrible music that in the future will be the music that was playing fifty years ago, right? Instead of promoting the recovery of beautiful works of art that are on the verge of extinction from the past for not having achieved fame. And aside from that, it is such a bad episode, within the abhorrent style that has destroyed the series and made it more infamous, that you end up disconnecting and not understanding what is happening.
That nightmare has become reality, and the show now feels like it belongs to a team of millennial writers who want to make it into millennial-style soft humor and soft storytelling, naively thinking that style will appeal to someone looking for something softer than Family Guy. But there are no humorous moments, and the show is not about a funny Homer entertaining us with his antics as it used to be or uttering messianic or ridiculous therapeutic phrases that do not align with his ethics or way of life, nor spontaneous humming or belching as in real life, no, now the show it's about millennial characters trying to understand how to fix their flaws in the millennial world they've been thrown into, and that's what the show has become in the Disney era, folks. The episodes are now terribly produced since the switch to Disney, the narrative structure is always vague and naive, and for the current production team, the show's fascinating past is just a rumor that doesn't really exist. The current production team thinks that The Simpsons are a tool for promoting feminist ideologies and other millennial values. If you fast-forward through each episode produced now, you'll realize that many of them are attempts at typical situational comedy stand-up jokes about people who can't adapt to the new times, rather than the powerful character-driven style of the show's popular era. Reminding us that the new times are the best makes the viewer feel bad about themselves. The first three seasons had a therapeutic value, while the recent ones have the opposite effect, destroying the self-esteem of fans and other viewers.
There's one future prediction that The Simpsons couldn't have made: their writers would become millennials in the future.
Now they are resorting a lot to telling feminist stories around the characters, and this episode is an example of that. It is also an example of how to damage a character who was a favorite of some fans, like Krusty the Clown, by fitting him into a millennial narrative style that doesn't fit with The Simpsons that we remember and would like to see. In this episode, he dances to an obnoxious and aggressive music of the current times, that is, they praise horrible music that in the future will be the music that was playing fifty years ago, right? Instead of promoting the recovery of beautiful works of art that are on the verge of extinction from the past for not having achieved fame. And aside from that, it is such a bad episode, within the abhorrent style that has destroyed the series and made it more infamous, that you end up disconnecting and not understanding what is happening.
- santifersan
- Jan 20, 2024
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The Daytime Marge show
Marge centric episode have a tendency to be hit and miss. Considering how much she either enjoys being a stay at home mom or gets too invested in the thing she's doing this week. As far as Marge episodes go, this is meh at best, just a big ongoing joke about daytime shows like Ellen and Oprah but Marge gets too invested in her job and her family tries to pull her out of it.
Its an inoffensive episode. Its not unfunny, I enjoyed a good number of the bits and Krusty trying to adapt to doing a talk show. But it never goes far enough or does anything with either premise of the episode. And in this case I wish they had gone farther or did something with it then a lukewarm delivery.
Its an inoffensive episode. Its not unfunny, I enjoyed a good number of the bits and Krusty trying to adapt to doing a talk show. But it never goes far enough or does anything with either premise of the episode. And in this case I wish they had gone farther or did something with it then a lukewarm delivery.