Brush Your Teeth, Comb Your Hair, Eat an Apple or a Pear

With tonight's assignment out of the way, I might as well post about the Simpsons and Family Guy season premieres. Honestly (because normally my reviews are total lies :P), I didn't think either was that great. Maybe I would have liked the Simpsons episode better if I'd ever seen Flight of the Concords. Those guys carried the brunt of the episode, and while I found them likeable enough, I'm not familiar enough with their style of humor for it to really click with me. The subplot had some amusing moments, mostly in terms of the horrible things Krusty had done, but it was kind of a weird fit with the main plot that presumably took place over a period of several weeks. How long were Homer and Bart in the Netherlands, and who was putting them up for all that time? Also, the bit near the beginning with Maggie filling her diaper was rather too low-brow for me (not that I never like low-brow comedy, but I kind of have a sore spot for poop jokes, so you're going to have a put a little more effort into that kind of gag to make me laugh), but she had some other good scenes. I'm not sure why her cutting the new pacifier like a cigar was one of the jokes that stuck with me, but it did. With Family Guy, I give the writers credit for bringing together a lot of characters who don't often interact, and revealing that James Woods had wronged everyone in the town was pretty funny. While some of the character interaction was good, though, the episode as a whole came off as rather too predictable. Not that I guessed who the killer was ahead of time (there really weren't even any clues, were there?), just that it went through the motions of the clichéd murder mystery without adding much of a twist. I also have to wonder why the Griffin kids came along when nobody else brought their kids (no Neil Goldman or Tom Tucker's son with the upside-down face), but I guess they didn't want to make the cast any more unwieldy than it already was. By the way, Seth MacFarlane stated on Twitter that he does consider the deaths to be canon, but it's not like making sense has ever been a strong point of the show, so who knows?

It sometimes strikes me as odd how little TV I watch compared with a lot of other people. Yeah, I know some of you don't watch ANY TV, but for me I think it's mostly a matter of not knowing what shows might be good, combined with preferring to spend my free time online. I usually watch the new episodes of House and Glee with bethje, which I guess basically means that Fox has a monopoly on my television viewing. Is there anything else I really should be watching? There are a lot of shows that I can tell are crap from just a brief bit of watching (Two and a Half Men, for instance), but is there something actually good that I'm missing out on? I sometimes felt like an outcast for never having seen Lost, but what I heard about it didn't make it sound worth seeing, although I'm curious as to what a smoke monster looks like. Didn't Godzilla fight it once? Or was that the smog monster?