Weekend Washout
Mar. 14th, 2010 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatWell, the Monster-Mania Convention was this weekend, and for once ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I didn't attend. We had planned to, but I was thinking I'd might just drop Beth off, since I wasn't feeling well and I'd had a chaotic week. As it turned out, though, there were flooded streets and traffic accidents, and we hardly made it anywhere before deciding it just wasn't worth it to make our way to Cherry Hill. I'm sure we could have reached it, but it would have taken hours. Instead, we spent most of the day in bed, and later went out to eat at Bennigan's. Kind of depressing, but relaxing. I just wish I could get over this stupid cold.
Tonight, we watched the new Simpsons and Family Guy episodes. The Simpsons one was pretty good, I thought. I like it when they occasionally return to the fairly simple plots like this one about Homer and Marge disagreeing on how to deal with Bart. I also thought it was nice that they had a few callbacks to the film at the beginning. I guess the abandoned subway explains why we saw a subway station in "Bart Sells His Soul," but have never seen anyone in Springfield actually riding it. As for Family Guy, it had the same flaw that I think a lot of their longer parodies do, which is that it pretty much hit all the plot points of what it was parodying (in this case, Tootsie) without really putting much of a twist on it. I think I would have actually liked to have seen more focus on the Lois subplot.
bethje and I didn't attend. We had planned to, but I was thinking I'd might just drop Beth off, since I wasn't feeling well and I'd had a chaotic week. As it turned out, though, there were flooded streets and traffic accidents, and we hardly made it anywhere before deciding it just wasn't worth it to make our way to Cherry Hill. I'm sure we could have reached it, but it would have taken hours. Instead, we spent most of the day in bed, and later went out to eat at Bennigan's. Kind of depressing, but relaxing. I just wish I could get over this stupid cold.Tonight, we watched the new Simpsons and Family Guy episodes. The Simpsons one was pretty good, I thought. I like it when they occasionally return to the fairly simple plots like this one about Homer and Marge disagreeing on how to deal with Bart. I also thought it was nice that they had a few callbacks to the film at the beginning. I guess the abandoned subway explains why we saw a subway station in "Bart Sells His Soul," but have never seen anyone in Springfield actually riding it. As for Family Guy, it had the same flaw that I think a lot of their longer parodies do, which is that it pretty much hit all the plot points of what it was parodying (in this case, Tootsie) without really putting much of a twist on it. I think I would have actually liked to have seen more focus on the Lois subplot.
