the nurses are actively working their 12 hr shifts and there is a movement to ditch the torture shifts fro residents and allow proper sleep. Cat naps do not support good learning and decisions 

Frest dough, fresh pizza. I learned of the new showrunner during this story so I am going to give them more trys at watching going forward. But, I am a terribly boring person in the view of many people; I am entertained by watching Archer episodes on a loop until I switch to watching Rick and Morty episodes on a loop.…

Yeah it is Bart, when they going to leave him out of promotional materials...for an episode about homework being able to kill people? [yes, that is a very basic summary of Death Note] I still have my Number #1 issue of the Bartman comic book...

Longest running sitcom. General Hospital and Days of Our Lives have been airing since the 60s. The Tonight Show since the 50s. Meet the Press since the 40s.

Or more time rolling back access to safe and legal abortion being that this is definitely one of the companies that tried their hardest to make sure Roe v. Wade was overturned...

Futurama’s anime parody was particularly painful, especially coming from a show that had such a good track record of understanding its nerd culture influences.

I work long hours in an office (10 - 12 hours a day, and paid OT), and that’s still tiring. And I’d take it any day over working a mere 4 hour shift at Starbucks like I did years ago.

13-14 hour shift

First thought was “Yeah, they then won’t have to provide health insurance since they would be under 30 hours” but damn, a 13-14 hour shift? You can see how some states are more protective of workers than others. CFL saw no cost difference in FL because OT doesn’t kick in until 40 hours are worked. In CA OT kicks in…

It’s a parody of several things. Westworld is among them.

“Along with some tired references to tentacle porn, a genre that hasn’t been popular since the late 80s.”

The Simpsons has had a few ‘different’ episodes lately that actually haven’t been bad , like a recent one where a pretty run of the mill episode about Bart and Lisa being scouts gets ‘hacked’ and instead a load of weird clips plays instead ( turns out Lenny only exists in Carl’s imagination...who knew?!?), or a full…

Last season and this current one have been especially strong. I don’t know if they got a fresh batch of writers in but something has made a difference.  It could also be, like you referenced, that Matt Selman took over as show runner. He’s been with the show awhile and before he was show runner, the episodes he had a…

Like a lot of classic episodes of The Simpsons, Itchy & Scratchy Land wasn’t a spoof on just *one* cultural thing, anyway. Disney and Jurassic Park provided a lot of fodder. It’s hard to think of it as “the Westworld spoof” episode.

Excuse me, That “weird monster” is called Willem Dafoe.

Disco Stu says aishiteru!

I watched a pretty recent one after kind of leaving the show behind around season 10 and it was pretty funny. I was shocked. 

I’ve actually heard good things about the recent simpsons. It seems like it’s turned around with a new show runner.

This story is missing the really cool context: this episode all began with one Deviantart image by a Simpsons fan.

Which is weird, given The Simpsons has already done a Westworld thing, one that lasted an entire episode and is one of the series’ all-time greats, but I guess 1994 was long enough ago (and the modern HBO series so different) that they feel like they can do it all over again and newer viewers won’t even notice.