I am not your Gary Busey boy

[vovat]

Despite the subject line, there really isn't anything about Gary Busey in this entry. Still, since he appeared in last night's Simpsons episode, which this post is primarily about, I couldn't resist using it.


I found the episode to be a bit unbelievable, even for The Simpsons. The premise reminded me of Bart getting emancipated in the not-really-the-300th episode, although it was somewhat more realistic than that one. I don't think I ever actually did a review of "Barting Over," but one thing that bugged me about it was that, in order to make Bart's emancipation even slightly believable, they made Homer worse than usual, with his losing the money from Bart's commercial just being the last straw. In the end, though, the commercial money was really the only issue that was resolved. I guess it was kind of the ultimate in the "Homer (or somebody else) does a lot of mean and/or selfish things, but then makes up for it with one unselfish act" types of episodes. The most recent episode (yes, I'm actually getting to it now, believe it or not) actually had kind of an interesting twist on this, in that Bart's last unselfish act turns out to actually be something bad, but Lisa forgives him anyway. (Speaking of that part, I loved the lines about "every effigist's worst nightmare"). The rest of the episode had some funny parts, but I think it could have been better. And, as bethje pointed out while we were watching it, the whole thing about Bart not being allowed in the school building made no sense. What, Mrs. Krabappel's classroom is now only twenty feet away from Miss Hoover's? That might have worked a little better if they'd done it AFTER Judge Harm had increased the distance to 200 feet. I did enjoy the opening, with its digs on the government's denial of globing warming ("You mean you're WALKING on the GLACIER!").

The subplot, with Homer working as a Sprawl-Mart greeter, seemed kind of tacked on, since it really didn't connect to the main plot at all. There were some good jokes in it, though, one of my favorites being the customers acting disoriented because they hadn't been greeted. Oh, by the way, when would Homer have worked at an all-night diner for three years? The general impression seems to be that the power plant was the only job that Homer has kept for more than a month or so. The more recent episodes seem to be playing even more with time than the earlier ones, though. I guess if "All's Fair in Oven War" could take place over a period of more than two years, there could be an unspecified three-year period where Homer worked at a diner.


I had a dream last night about an evil wizard committing arson on a college campus. The thing is, it started out where I was simply observing the events, and they had no relevance to me, like it was just a story or movie. Later on, though, the library caught on fire, and I had to contact the fire department or something.

I wonder whether anyone is at all interested when I post about dreams. I never get comments about them. Oh, well. I'll probably keep doing it anyway, just for my own benefit.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

Dreams are awesome to read about, though, often, there is nothing to add. They are what they are.

But yeah -- I noticed the similarity between that one and Barting Over. I think this was way better than Barting Over, though, mainly because it didn't have Tony Hawk and Blink 182 in it. And Gary Busey's always better than some dork on a skateboard. Because he's batty, and the dork on a skateboard's just a dork.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Some of Tony Hawk's interaction with Homer was kind of funny, but I did think that episode tried to focus too much on guest stars popular among the Hip Youth. Blink-182 was especially pointless, not just because I don't like them, but because I think their whole part was one guy saying one line.