This season’s theme is “2020.” It will (try) to focus on events of 2020 and simpson’s episodes that roughly correlate to these events.
First episode is quite an obvious pick - Season 4, Episode 21 “Marge in Chains.” This was the episode that led people to conclude that the simpson’s “predicted” coronavirus (I personally don’t think there’s much correlation here, people are fucking weird).
Episode starts out with Troy Mclure, star of such films as “P is for psycho” and “The president’s neck is missing.” can’t go wrong there. Pimping a product for juicing oranges - by squeezing it directly into his eye. “Up until now, there was no other way!”
cuts to homer squeezing an orange with his eye socket “You mean there’s another way?” Homer says, as he frantically picks up the phone to order the product, so that he can lose weight and “won’t get chest pain from answering the phone anymore.”
Cuts to this scene in Osaka, Japan. It’s funny watching these early 90’s episodes again, there are a lot of references to Japan and how it was threatening to the US at the time. If these eps were made today it’d probably be china.
Anyway, in Osaka, cut to two workers laughing (with hilarious animation) about how they are both working with illness coughs into homer’s order, and you can see the virus spread throughout springfield.
Poor otto gets puked on by Arnie in the sky.
Bart gets his temperature taken, and it’s normal. He tells marge to “try again” and squeezes his eyes shut. Cut to a scene where the antibodies are getting orders to “lay down their arms” and the virus goes “all riiiiiiiight, let’s make some PUS!”
This comes on the tv, who does it remind you of?
Crowd chanting “We need a cure! we need a cure!” outside the dr office. They frantically search for “placebo” in a truck marked “killer bees.”
Todd Flanders is “speaking in tongues” but is just sick with fever. Flanders wonders what he did to deserve this? Cuts to a flashback of him watching married with children and laughing at a very mild dirty joke, then going “uh oh” as lightning strikes. Lol.
“Ohh, the network slogan is true, 'watch fox and be damned for all eternity!”
Bart wants some flintsones chewable morphine as marge is overwhelmed taking care of the family.
Marge arrested, chief wiggum wants her to come out with her hands up and “something with coconut in it.”
Lol flanders cuts back to his “brush with the law” and it’s just a cop asking him what his name was.
In the courtroom - “Let the record show the witness made a ‘drinky drinky’ motion!”
marge’s lawyer describes the liquor she stole and freaks out and calls his sponsor, who is david crosby.
this clip.
Lol homer. “Marge, I’m gonna miss you so much, and it’s not just the sex, it’s also the food preparation.”
Lots of visual gags in this episode I don’t feel like elaborating on.
Lol, Lisa with a rare laugh. They are complaining about not having any clean clothes because Homer’s running the house, and Lisa goes “It feels like I’ve been wearing the same red dress forever!”
Homer doesn’t have any clean clothes left so he goes to visit marge in a devil halloween costume, lol.
At the bake sale, they’re 15 dollars short. “Exactly what marge simpson’s marshmellow squares bring in!” Idk why this stuff makes me laugh.
The city erupts into riots. Hey, another 2020 reference!
They erect a statue for marge and the kids play tetherball on it. Another visual gag.
Ok, that was my first episode. Next one incoming in ~45 minutes. That took longer than I thought it would. Next one is an actual banger - I think this one was pretty decent though.