The Simpsons go Medieval on Game of Thrones, but leave the wall standing in The Serfsons.
The Simpsons: Season 29 Episode 1
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They would be dirt poor if dirt wasnt so expensive.
Maestors cost so much Homer lances his own boils, de-icing costs 100 gold pieces.
Lisa suffers from unicorn envy.
Unicorns are supposed to like nice people, like serfs, the lowest of the low.
They are not supposed to like powerful knights who make her father grovel and kiss the hooves of horses.
Lisa sees this as a class war, but in a feudalistic society, what is one to do?
Not that the Hex trade is any better in a kingdom under an all-smelling nose.
As always, Homer is only saying what we are all thinking.
Whats so big a deal about the Iron Throne?
Who wants to sit on that?
Then hes going to throw some cushions on top of that.
The episode throws in a lot of great medievally detailed gags.
Millhouse, the entire multitude of Millhouses actually, suffers from asthma.
He uses a billow as an inhaler.
Ned Flanderss head is on the spike, and its nice to see people you know.
Bart also questions the preconceived notions of the afterlife.
But in the end, it is good old nihilism that gives Springfieldians a sense of comfort.
Its his fathers job to troll the systems beliefs.
Marges mom thinks of Homer as an ogre, but he is no Shrek.
After Homers mother was eaten by an ogre, his father married a different ogre.
The Serfsons is steadily paced, the laughs come regularly and there are a few that really deliver.
The Simpsons season 28 was a very funny season, after two lackluster years.
Hank Azaria plays Kirk Van Houten, Chief Wiggum and Moe.
Harry Shearer is Kent Brockman, C. Montgomery Burns and Waylon Smithers.
Guest star: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
But It All Went By So Fast:Tannery: John Tanner, owner.
Mill, Robert Miller, owner.
Candy Shop, William Childeater, owner.
Springfield Human Power Plant.
Sir Duncans Doughed Maughts.
Banana Monarchy, Fool Locker, Restoration Bard Wear.
Snake is caught reading.
King Mitothin The Statue-Worthy.
Rating:
4 out of 5