Look, let’s just get the obvious out of the way. The idea of a billionaire with a distinctive hairline deciding to run for high office for possibly egotistical or greedy purposes and somehow gaining a lot of support due to cynical manipulation of the average voter…nah, that’s just too unbelievable.
By the by, in this episode, Mr. Burns runs for governor of whatever state they all live in.
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Does it bother Homer Simpson that he’s a bald man? Apparently it does.
Does it bother Homer Simpson that he’s a fat man? That not so much.
Season two has started in the rewatch. See an uptick in the animation if not necessarily an uptick in the quality of the stories.
Not that they’re bad. Just that they will get much, much better.
The Simpsons has a bit of a habit of showing the family routinely traveling to other countries. These trips tend to be controversial many times because the depiction of those countries often showcases the worst stereotypes of that country. The general reply is the people who come off the worst are always the Simpson family themselves. Is that true?
I dunno. Today’s episode has Bart going to France.
Episodes focusing on Marge and Homer’s marriage almost collapsing are old hat by now for longtime Simpsons fans. But as we all know, everyone has to start somewhere.
And this time around, Marge is the problem, not Homer.
Early Simpsons look weird. The background faces in today’s episode, “Homer’s Odyssey,” look weird. It’s like some kid was in a rush to fill in a crowd. It’s just…bad looking.
Oh, and for one episode only, Smithers was black.
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