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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 5 Review: The 7 Beer Itch

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 5 It feels like weeks since Homer last tasted the sweet temptation of bitter fruit, but there’s lime in his cognac, and extramarital peril in the air on The Simpsons season 32, episode 5. “The 7 Beer Itch” is, hopefully, the season’s traditional flirt gone awry episode. The Simpsons, as a family, like to keep their options open when it comes to romance, but with every near event the show confirms what we all know. The only thing Homer really loves more than Marge is beer. The title refers…
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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 4 Review: Treehouse of Horror XXXI

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 4 Halloween is the special time for many series, giving them the chance to throw logic and canon out the window to plumb the fantastic for fearful flights. But The Simpsons season 32, episode 4, “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” opens with the scariest of all fantasias: Reality. The episode begins a short while after Halloween on what looks to be the most frightening day in recent memory, the upcoming election between Trump/Putin and Someone/Anyone. The sequence includes a list of reasons to vote against Trump (Made it okay to…
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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 3 Review: Now Museum, Now You Don’t

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 3 While it may not be a masterpiece, The Simpsons season 32, episode 3, “Now Museum, Now You Don’t” can hang in most galleries. Beyond the humor, the visuals are quite impressive, and varied. This is another story-time episode for The Simpsons, repopulating pages from history with Springfield residents.  Lisa is home sick, so delirious she thinks she’s in school. Marge, ever the enabler, encourages her in her fantasia. When Lisa asks if she will be graded on whatever she reads, Marge promises pop quizzes galore. This really encapsulates…
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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 2 Review: I, Carumbus

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 2 In order to stay relevant in the present, The Simpsons’ season 32, episode 2, moves back to the past. History has a way of repeating on itself, as does The Simpsons, and “I, Carumbus” is a cautionary tale, twice told, if you watch it again on demand. Just like the often-misinterpreted “Revelations” of The Bible was actually about Emperor Nero, the tale of Obesius and his son Bartigula, is a warning shrouded in the mystery of parable. Just like that guy Jesus used to do before his people…
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The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 1 Review: Undercover Burns

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 1 In The Simpsons’ season 32 premiere, “Undercover Burns,” the needs of the many are outweighed by the wants of the one. It begins on “take your kids to work day” at the Springfield Nuclear plant and the offspring which managed to make it out of the workers’ radioactively damaged reproductive systems are being culled for slave labor like inmates at a for-profit prison. This of course leads to the most intrepid isotot, Lisa Simpson, to expose the labor abuses for what they are: just another day at the…
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The Simpsons Recasts Carl Carlson for Season 32 Opener

Homer Simpson’s African American nuclear plant supervisor Carl Carlson will be voiced by Alex Désert on The Simpsons season 32 premiere, according to Variety. There is now word yet on whether Désert will continue to voice the character beyond Sunday’s episode “Undercover Burns.” Désert is a veteran animation voice actor, appearing as Swarm on Disney XD’s Spider-Man: Maximum Venom, Mr. Bojenkins on Adult Swim’s Mr. Pickles and its spinoff, Momma Named Me Sheriff, and on The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. He was a regular on the TV series Becker, which starred Ted Danson, and appeared on such varied shows as…
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The Simpsons – The Eighteenth Season

Recommended Like Old Man River, The Simpsons just keeps rollin' along. Recently renewed for two more seasons of 22 episodes each, by 2019 The Simpsons will have been on the air for 30 years with 600-plus episodes, making it the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running animated series. (However, Japan's Sunday night staple Sazae-san, has it beaten by a mile: 48 seasons and around 7,500 episodes.) Like the 20-year run of Gunsmoke, which produced about as many shows, the cast of The Simpsons has remained remarkably, virtually unchanged. Fans and critics generally agree that The Simpsons has been in steady…
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