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bethje took advantage of some deal where you could get extra value when buying restaurant gift cards, and one of them was for an Italian restaurant called Il Mulino, located in the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. So we went there yesterday, and I don't think we have to go back. Not that it was bad, just very far from worth what we paid, even WITH the gift card. It was cool that they had sorbet for dessert, but not cool that they charged $8 for one scoop.
Not a particularly great Simpsons episode tonight, but not bad either. The parts with Bart and Lisa with the ants, while few and far between, might have actually been the best. The main plot was pretty amusing as well, although it wasn't resolved all that well. Homer and his friends break Burns out of prison, and no one goes after him? I know the cops in Springfield are lazy and corrupt, but that's going a little too far. I did like the framing story with Burns, especially when he segued into the commercials. (By the way, at least in our market, that bit was immediately followed with a trailer for a Steve Carell movie called Dinner with Schmucks, and Beth and I couldn't figure out whether it was real at first.) One joke I sort of figured out ahead of time (but not exactly) was with the book that the prisoner thought was the Bible, because I thought it looked like Charles Manson before they revealed the punchline.
As for Family Guy, it was all right, although it had the show's typical problem of dwelling too long on gags that weren't that funny to begin with. I have to wonder if it was pure coincidence that they had the pretty long run on Peter being prejudiced against ants on the same night as a Simpsons episode with a subplot involving ants. And I was glad to see American Dad back again, and with a pretty good plot at that. I appreciated how absurd Roger's corruption was.
bethje took advantage of some deal where you could get extra value when buying restaurant gift cards, and one of them was for an Italian restaurant called Il Mulino, located in the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. So we went there yesterday, and I don't think we have to go back. Not that it was bad, just very far from worth what we paid, even WITH the gift card. It was cool that they had sorbet for dessert, but not cool that they charged $8 for one scoop.Not a particularly great Simpsons episode tonight, but not bad either. The parts with Bart and Lisa with the ants, while few and far between, might have actually been the best. The main plot was pretty amusing as well, although it wasn't resolved all that well. Homer and his friends break Burns out of prison, and no one goes after him? I know the cops in Springfield are lazy and corrupt, but that's going a little too far. I did like the framing story with Burns, especially when he segued into the commercials. (By the way, at least in our market, that bit was immediately followed with a trailer for a Steve Carell movie called Dinner with Schmucks, and Beth and I couldn't figure out whether it was real at first.) One joke I sort of figured out ahead of time (but not exactly) was with the book that the prisoner thought was the Bible, because I thought it looked like Charles Manson before they revealed the punchline.
As for Family Guy, it was all right, although it had the show's typical problem of dwelling too long on gags that weren't that funny to begin with. I have to wonder if it was pure coincidence that they had the pretty long run on Peter being prejudiced against ants on the same night as a Simpsons episode with a subplot involving ants. And I was glad to see American Dad back again, and with a pretty good plot at that. I appreciated how absurd Roger's corruption was.
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I also got "Dinner With Schmucks" and also thought it was a joke bumper at first, given the way Burns threw to commercial. That and the title was awful. And then it turned out the trailer was awful too! Hooray!
Family Guy just seemed that it had two episodes, a short one about the end of the world that was decent, and then one aborted one about the kids. (Pardon the punnish thing.) It really felt half-finished, just like "oh fuck, we're out of time. Don't bother writing an ending, just say EVEYRTHING'S BACK TO NORMAL and call it good."
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Family Guy just seemed that it had two episodes, a short one about the end of the world that was decent, and then one aborted one about the kids.
Yeah, and despite the title of the show, family-based plots rarely work all that well on FG. We've seen how Peter treats the kids in pretty much every other episode, and now we're supposed to believe they're surprised that he doesn't care for them?