To your credit, my mom bought the first Simpsons Christmas special (“Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”) for me at a flea market when I was a kid, and I remember watching it over and over again. I remember really feeling for Homer and how hard he had to work to provide for his family, especially with Flanders outdoing…

Okay, You’re fucking with me. I get it. See ya, troll.

....Uh, no it wasn’t. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn. You’re thinking of the Fight Club/Gone Girl/ Social Network guy.

White Noise still makes me laugh.

So, does this episode confirm Rusty and the Monarch are the “Venture Bros.” since they are literally half brothers?

Clancy’s Brown voice as Red Death is so soothing.

I’d also say Rick and Morty and Futurama are some of the few shows to more or less hit the ground running with their first seasons.

I don’t mind the character too much, but his voice sounds like a bad impression of Wooldor from Drawn Together (they probably should have just got James Arnold Taylor to voice Elfo).

It’s not just an “all hope is lost” finale, but it’s also an “every character is either dead, doomed, or lost” finale.

...and played in the crummy Kick-Ass movies by Chloë Grace Moretz

Speaking of vocal performances, I think Nat Faxon is trying a little too hard to sound cute as Elfo. Like he’s doing a James Arnold Taylor impression.

True. It took a while for Steven Universe to get going.

And the Simpsons didn’t really become itself until season 3.

Hell, the first season of the Simpsons was weak, and the first season of Parks and Rec was downright dreadful.

Yeah, and the Simpsons didn’t get off to a good start either. It took almost two whole seasons for it to really find its groove and become the show we remember it as.

“the media would clutch their pearls”

Ah yes, the Draco Malfoy method.

“At the senior staff meeting, Ivanka couldn’t stop bemoaning it, how offensive it was, how ridiculous it was. We’d all been subject to SNL attacks … We’d all been hit, many of us in that same week’s show. But Ivanka would not stop talking about being ribbed. Like her father, Ivanka was thin-skinned and could not seem…

Good.

Something tells me Bordertown is gonna age about as well as those old Looney Tunes shorts with ethnic stereotypes.