I've run out of pie-related puns!

Last night's Simpsons episode wasn't one of the better recent ones. It seemed to have quite a few reused jokes. I loved the "Monster Island is actually a peninsula!" joke from "Lisa on Ice," but they pretty much ripped it off wholesale for the reality TV bit at the beginning of the new episode. Then they used a similar Golden Ticket gag to the one they had used in "Homer: Bad Man." For that matter, the Dalai Lama has been to Springfield before, although he didn't actually appear on-screen, so I don't think that really counts as a recycled joke. The episode had some decent parts, like Lisa revealing how obvious it was that Homer was Pie Man, but overall, it just wasn't one of my favorites.