Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Simpsons family with Graggle (far right, circled). Graggle Simpson or Gumbly is a metafictional character purported to be from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.He is the subject of an Internet meme and hoax in which users online satirically claim that the character was a real member of the series' cast of characters (as well as the Simpson family) that had been removed through ...
These days, The Simpsons can be hit or miss, and there was nothing to guarantee success from 'Clown in the Dumps'. However, even if the character death was perfunctory, and Rabbi Krustofski has made only a handful of appearances in over 550 episodes, it was still a funny, solid half hour of television.
The May 2016 addition of the GIF feature was also significantly praised by journalists. [13] [14] As CNET's Claire Reilly wrote, "a million poets could try for a million years and still describe but three-eighths of its beauty". [15] Two of The Simpsons' showrunners, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, have used Frinkiac on a regular basis for ...
In 1998, TV Guide included it on its list of top twelve Simpsons episodes. [19] In 2003, Entertainment Weekly released a list of its Top 25 episodes, ranking this episode in fourth, saying "the episode has arguably the highest throwaway-gag-per-minute ratio of any Simpsons, and all of them are laugh-out-loud funny."
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. [1] [2] [3] It is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
He calls the episode "[one of] the weakest episodes in Simpsons history", and adds, "A blatant, continuity-scrambling plot twist of this sort might've been forgivable if the result had been as funny or sharply satirical as the classics of the Golden Age, but alas it's emphatically not." Turner notes that the episode "still sports a couple of ...
Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character [that] we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in", Scully said. [109] Writer Dan Greaney said it was a great take-off on Levene to make Gil more desperate than he was. Even so, the writers like to write Gil with "a little bit of the old sparkle" left in him. [112]
The episode is a parody of the VH1 biography series Behind the Music and shares its narrator, Jim Forbes.It begins with the Simpson family history and how they got into show business: believing that families depicted in the numerous TV shows they watch together bear no resemblance to their comparative dysfunctionalism, Homer writes and directs an inadequate video "pilot" that fails to attract ...