I'd say the worst song in the Simpsons is probably the framing device song used in All Singing, All Dancing.

Oddly, I'm a big fan of musical comedies.

It seems to be an unpopular position, but I actually don't care for We Put the Spring in Springfield. I'm not sure why it is. Somehow, I felt like it was one of the first times that they were phoning in a song that felt really… obvious. I feel the same way about the Kids/Adults song that showed up. Can I Borrow A…

This is one of the gags that I really liked in this episode. There's something about the hint of melody and rhythm that she uses that is so familiar, and it is chopped off so fast that I'm left wondering what that was a reference to.

I'm a big fan of horror anthologies, but my concern is in the number of stories. It's very difficult to weave a large number of stories together without making most of them unsatisfying. I also have some reservations about using aliens in a horror anthology. Aliens have rarely been effective horror - especially in…

Well, Trick R Treat is the only horror anthology that has stories interconnected by taking place in the same neighborhood (for the most part). But I feel like there must be a sci-fi anthology somewhere.
Searching IMDB right now… I can't believe I forgot about comedy anthologies! Kentucky Fried Movie, The Groove Tube,…

Ahem. Trick R Treat already did it, and did it far better.

Like with VHS Viral, this one has a similar problem/benefit. The quality is higher, but there aren't any segments that are spectacular. But there also aren't any segments that are terrible. Even P for Scary comes close enough to the middle of the movie that it's easier to forget about it by the time you finish.

I was really jazzed about the Serpent Society title as well. The arc is a lot of fun in the comics, it would introduce a whole bunch of lower-tier villains, it would bring a new love interest for Cap with Diamondback, then Crossbones ties into Diamondback… it would be a fun, less consequential movie.

As I watched this, I realized that it felt weird. This story should be completely silly, but it somehow feels much more acceptable. That might be what the Balloonman story did - it adjusted the expectations of the series. I didn't feel like the story was as far out as it actually was.
As detectives though, these…

This is a solid episode, but it included one of the sequences that I think was an early warning of their willingness to phone it in.

I remember that a friend of mine reported that his parents HATED this movie, so I wound up putting off watching it for a long time.When I finally saw it, I remember thinking that I thought it was okay… there were some good bits, but there was also a bit of dead weight. Then some of the gags stuck in my head.
Then I…

I think they're incredibly different. Parker typically learned from a selfish mistake, and was constantly trying to help his friends. Ferris is just a selfish jerk who stumbled into helping Cameron unintentionally. He manipulates everyone around him for his own purposes. Ferris would grow up to be a Goldman Sachs…

Not a problem.

No one has mentioned it yet…

I also asked him if anything was happening with an adaptation of The Pleasure of My Company, and he said something like "yeah… that SHOULD be moving along…" His tone of voice suggested that it was kind of stuck in development hell.

I got to meet Steve Martin about a year and a half ago, and he was exactly as I expected. A bit shy, but pleasant. I got to tell him that LA Story has remained one of my favorite movies, and that his writing for it is fantastic.

I think they were pretty good. So far, my favorite of the promotional flavors has been Lemon, followed by the Limeade ones. The Root Beer Float ones had a strong smell, but were pretty good. I secretly enjoyed Watermelon, and this was about the same level as those ones.

I'm a big fan of his track Jaaam. I've kept that one on my phone, and it's strange, because I never watched Fresh Prince as a kid.

I think there's something fascinating about people putting together music that is intended to be grating or inaccessible. Typically, the goal of most recorded music is to appeal to an intended audience. With no intended audience, music has a chance to reach into areas that we never thought possible… or worthwhile.
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