Even a die-hard Simpsons fan such as myself–I’ve been watching the show for over half of my life on a near-daily basis–cannot deny that the show has been in a slump for the past couple (some might say dozen) years. And so far, the 2007 season has been pretty awful–even the highly anticipated “Treehouse of Horror” episode failed to elicit a single laugh. So I was unduly excited by the first segment of last night’s episode, which featured three of our favorite comic book writers: Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, and Alan Moore. Jack Black guest-starred as the owner of Coolsville, a new comic book shop where the elite underground trio gathers for a book signing (much to the ire of Comic Book Guy, of course). Somehow (and of course, if you watch The Simpsons, you know exactly how), this plot lasts exactly until the commercial break: in part two Marge opens a gym, and in part three Homer gets plastic surgery. Sigh. Luckily, Youtube allows us to preserve and isolate the most pleasing fragment of last night’s episode and watch it again and again obsessively.
Check out the super trio here (and take note of the prominent display of one of our favorite graphic novels ever, From Hell):
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I haven’t watched the show much in the last few years, so I was pretty surprised at the huge plot leaps in this one.
I laughed out loud, though, when Homer stepped outside of Shapes, looked down a long line of waiting patrons, stepped back inside and exclaimed to Marge, “We’re going to be rich! Now we can finally start a family!”
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I’m really good at utility belts!
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