Singin' In The Lane 1/10
More like Singin' In The Lame, am I right?!
Okay, let's get on with this thing.
- Visually the ocean intro is fine, but stop wasting time.
-- Marge's voice when making dinner sounds horrible. I can't be surprised anymore.
# Some typical gags with Homer talking to his brain ensue, nothing really new.
-- Wow, Homer and his friends are acting like real dicks to Moe just because they didn't have more than 4 free tickets to the game. I mean, I know Moe is hardly the greatest friend, but it just feels so bizzarre and off-putting.
--- So Homer actually feels bad for Moe and decides that they should reform the old Pin Pals team, with him onboard this time as well. Only now Moe's fingers are weak or something and he can't bowl??? Okay then!
+ Barney falling down with the song I Get Knocked Down playing was pretty funny.
# Okay, so Moe is gonna be a coach instead? Not a totally bad idea.
PLEASE don't screw this up.
+++ I feel silly for laughing, but Lenny commenting with a tone of annoyance in his voice "Lots of music in this episode." made me laugh so hard that I couldn't stop chuckling until 30 seconds after the joke was over. Not bad, modern Simpsons writers!
# Moe's groaning when his pals rain bowling balls over the head sounds different from the trailer.
- So they're up against a bunch of one-off characters? Boy, that's always a good sign... (sarcasm)
-- Bart when tricking off a bunch of money from a stranger: "Wow, I finally found my path in life. Socio." FUCK YOU! I'm starting to get what people mean now with Bart being depicted as a loser every episode!
-- The Fancy Millionaires Club or whatever the hell they are called are demeaning Bart, and Bart comments "You're treating me like dirt... I belong!" SIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGH.
--- Wow, talk about a hamfisted La La Land reference, and from Moe of all people.
? So what the hell are Lisa and Bart doing still hanging around the millionaires?
-- Oh, and now we get a bunch of "jokes" with Moe getting humiliated and starting to cry. Are you
SURE this is a sequel to Team Homer? Because you sure as hell are not paying a lot of respect to it.
# Also, Hank Azaria breaks into his Frink voice.
- What...? The millionaires tell Moe if he wins they're gonna take his bar away from him, but Moe says if he wins he wants them to do something nice to his friends. Okay, that's kind of an odd proposition, I mean why would he trust the millionaires to ever do something nice to his friends?
--- Oooooh, I get it, Bart hung out with the millionaires so they can set up this stupid subplot where Bart becomes addicted to money. Why does Bart even get "addicted" to money??? Hasn't be scammed off people before? Dumb.
-- And now there's some joke with Barney inhaling beer and roaring like Chewbacca??????? Who wrote this fucking episode?!
+/- What in the living hell was that awfully stock use of the Wilhelm Scream?! I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
- So Lisa has just suddenly been shoehorned into the plot with her own NERD team, and is only there to conclude the subplot with her and Bart bonding over.. Bart not throwing a hamburger at her. I'm not even slightly exaggerating.
--- So Moe decides last minute because he imagines, mind you,
IMAGINES he might start over by going to Paris and having the greatest time. Have we all forgotten that Moe is poor as a church mouse and can't even afford to go to Paris?! Why would he want to lose his match over something he probably won't even be able to do???? I almost take back what I said about Moe's friends being heartless in the beginning, this is just beyond ridiculous!
--- Okay, so the millionaires did do something nice to his friends after all. Hey, wait a minute... If he trusted on the millionaires to do something nice to his friends,
WHY was he so hellbent on losing? Like I said, he wouldn't even afford to go to Paris!
What an insulting sequel to a season 7 classic. I mean, it's not in my top 10 for the season, but it's a very funny and charming classic episode. Why did they feel they ever needed to make a sequel? And if they're gonna make a sequel, at least don't have Moe be the ever-so-annoying whining selfish leech. Part of the problem with trying to make viewers sympathize with Moe being suicidal is that even in a lot of those episodes he still comes off as a huge dickhead. In this episode Moe is just the worst killjoy throughout, and his reason for not wanting to win the bowling match is so poorly thought out and narcissistic that you even miss the cruel Moe from Dumbbell Indemnity. I mean, at least there he had some semblance of a real character, here he makes decisions which make no sense even for him, and acts like his friends don't care about him when ALL he does is COMPLAIN. Fuck Moe!
Yeah, this was worse than Grampy. The sleepily boring guest characters, Moe's godawful characterization and the thin unfocused plot makes this a serious insult to anyone who was a fan of the much better received original episode.
One single joke made me laugh out loud, but apart from that this episode completely lacked any good humor. Where was the heart? Where was the joyful spirit that the Pin Pals had the first time? Just an utter drag to sit through.