I just had a bank error in my favor, and I'm spending it all on Oriental Avenue hookers!

Another year, another Simpsons Treehouse of Horror that airs too late. Hey, Major League Baseball, if you're so intent on having a game on Halloween, can't you at least have the players wear costumes or something? Anyway, the opening was kind of all over the place, but I'm glad they didn't stick with the fight between Homer and Bart. The Monster Mifflin sequence basically came out of nowhere, but I still liked it, and it was a good play on how people are always saying The Office is just like where they work. Yeah, I'm sure. The board game segment felt pretty similar to the old advertising mascot story, but had enough amusing jokes and clever bits of animation that it was decent despite the rehashed feeling. "Master and Cadaver" seemed too long and convoluted to make an effective Halloween segment, and it probably didn't help that I wasn't at all familiar with the source material. bethje told me what it was most likely parodying, but I've already forgotten. I think the only really memorable thing about it was that they did the whole sequence with Marge in a bikini. Not that I'm into cartoon characters or anything, but it was interesting. As for "Tweenlight," well, Twilight is pretty much a parody of itself as far as I can tell, but it was still funny. Actually, one of the most amusing things might be that the parody stuck much closer to the traditional view of vampires than Stephenie Meyer does.

What else? I watched the Family Guy and American Dad Halloween episodes as well, but I don't think I'll bother reviewing them. I did think the FG episode included a surprising number of subplots, even if one was basically just a gross-out incest joke. Have either of these shows done Halloween stories before? If so, it's certainly not typical. Oh, and it's kind of a weird coincidence that both the Simpsons and FG episodes did fairly long runs on not avoiding the use of brand names. Of course, both shows have mentioned actual brands in the past, so I'm not sure how the rules work.

In other news, I finished with my institutional report and my last discussion question for my Intro to Archives course, so I think that's all the writing I'll have to do until the final exam. Too bad I have no idea what my paper for Digital Preservation will be about. These classes go by so quickly on Drexel's quarter system. I'm signed up to take one on-campus and one online course again next quarter, by the way.