Laney butchers the Beatles.
Here is our review of The Simpsons: Season 27 Episode 7.
ThisThe Simpsonsreview contains spoilers.
The Simpsons: Season 27 Episode 7.
Is that syncopation I hear?
The episode counts off with a parody of the Tonight Tonight medley fromWest Side Story.
Its poker night at Moes and everyone has a secret weapon.
Lenny is getting tips from a beginners guide to poker.
Carl is squeezing into his lucky pants.
Homer is wearing his lucky Snoopy For President t-shirt and is studyingHow to Crush Your Friends At Cards.
Barney is stone cold sober.
Moe plans to blast all that preparation with a special cocktail.
Well, not a special cocktail, a cheap one, but thats Moes.
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Moes is shut down for the game.
If only cops were this helpful.
Homer obviously is no match for miss ladyfingers, regardless of whatever she was huffing.
She graduated from second hand smoke quickly when she was studying ballet.
Marge is probably right to worry.
Stritch is gone but Laney lives on.The Simpsonslove their regular guests and celebrate them when they can.
They often retire characters if the voice actors die, but they do it reluctantly.
In some cases it is better to continue the spirit the actor brought to a role.
Stritch taught Lisa to make wallets at summer camp with Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Elementary School Musical episode.
Thats worth being in the business for 150 years, she concluded.
Tress MacNeille first paid homage to Stritch in the My Fare Lady episode.
The Simpsons have a love-hate relationship with nostalgia.
It is a great source of gags, from Grandpas snake oil to Mr. Burns turns of citizen chicanery.
It gives it the extra bite.
His own parents were beatniks, which didnt make them nogoodniks.
Maybe his parents were shunned and thought of no more by the feared Pennsylvania Amish.
The episode was exquisitely paced and had punchlines galore.
Gags ran like passing tones in a Bob Fosse musical.
Which side of the Mississippi is Springfield on?
Hardees is Sardis there.
Take a walk on the wild side.
Hank Azaria plays Groundskeeper Willie and Moe.
Harry Shearer is Mr. Burns.
But It All Went By So Fast:Watch Extender.
High Note Band Camp: Memories, Mosquitoes, Mozart.
Closed for illegal poker game.
Dont you dare go to another bar.
Dear Pot IOU 5 Grand PS I OUT stands for I owe you.
Laney sings the Blues.
Laney Butchers The Beatles.
Rehab Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
The City Where Howard Stern Met Fred Norris.
Laney Fontaine Shes Still Alive.
Hartford Herald-American: Little Girl Forces 40-Year Vet Out Of Job.
Highway 202 New York City As Seen On The Today Show.
Candu Crush The Musical.
Turn Off The Pork.
Long Days Journey into the M&M Store.
Hedwig and the Furious Foot.
Welcome to Amish Country.
You Shouldnt Be Able to Read This Sign At Night.
Don King And I, Closed.
$20 a minute.
Rating:
4 out of 5
