Our review of The Simpsons season premiere contains some spoilers, so beware!
Can you stop comforting me now?
The Simpsonshas been dealing with mortality more and more lately.
Like an Abe Simpson reading the obituaries and not because hes looking for real estate.
I love Krusty the clown.
Even when I tell them I need their fingerprints on a pair of candlesticks.
The kids didnt think everything was all right with the opening couch gag, though.
They were quite perturbed.
The Simpsons Clown in the Dumps was a bittersweet episode.
The episode itself opens with foreshadowing.
Bart writes Spoiler Alert: Unfortunately my dad doesnt die on the chalkboard.
Sheboygan is a great clown-funny sounding name, like Cucamonga, Walla Walla, Keokuk or Seattle.
Rabbi Krustofski always saw his son, the unfunny clown, as a needy nothing.
Krusty has been trying to fill the hole in his soul with laughs.
A long-time hack who only really knows how to shill, Krusty has never even been an also-ran.
The Simpsonsalways make you care for their characters.
The death of Rabbi Krustofski affects the whole of the Krustylu studios and Springfield.
Even Sideshow Bob was allowed out of prison to attend the funeral.
Each of the Simpsons kids reacts differently.
Bart immediately tries to comfort Krusty, his life-long idol.
Lisa only sees a cautionary tale for her sedentary father.
Homer just sees that he has to reach for the popcorn.
Oh sure, its all funny until somebody collapses a lung.
But no one did, so it was.
Lisa wants to control the uncontrollable, fate.
It is a heartfelt episode that does bring on the laughs.
The sadness of the episode to me was Jackie Masons voice, which sounds very tired.
Hank Azaria plays Moe Szyslak.
Guest stars: David Hyde Pierce as Felix, Sarah Silverman as herself, Jeff Ross as himself.
But It All Went By So Fast:Jimbo is now accepting bitcoins for your lunch money.
On the opening sequence: Connecting to neural netwark.
Hail Hail Moon God.
Put in the eye hole.
Beam episode into exo-skulls and vigorously touch flippers.
All hail the Dark Lord of the Twin Moons.
Rub it on your slippars.
Swapper Jacks Supermarket Reopening with Special Guest TV Clown: Grass-fed lettuce, six aisles of olives.
Our meat is lullabyed to sleep.
Tears of a clown grief counseling: Specializing in jesters, harlequins and rodeo clowns.
Rachel Krustofskis Headstone: Beloved mother.
Would it kill you to leave some flowers?
Oys R Us: The Whole Store Is a Complaint Department.
Krustys Ark: Formerly Krustyburger pagacking plant.
The episode was made in honor of Louis Castellenata.
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Rating:
4 out of 5
