Showing posts with label The Simpsons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Simpsons. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The problem with The Problem with Apu is that not enough people are going to see Hari Kondabolu's terrific documentary

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This is the last all-new blog post before this blog's absolute final post in December 2017. Fuck all these (predominantly white) s...
Monday, December 5, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: Not everyone's a critic, which was why Fox's enormously funny The Critic didn't last

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Last week, Uproxx posted a lengthy and enjoyable interview with longtime writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss about their short-lived...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: The Simpsons, "Halloween of Horror"

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(Photo source: FY Springfield ) This week, The Simpsons aired its 600th episode, "Treehouse of Horror XXVII." The following ...
Monday, August 8, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: The Simpsons, "Simpsorama"

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(Photo source: FY Springfield) The following is a repost of my November 14, 2014 discussion of the Simpsons / Futurama crossover. Fu...
Friday, October 30, 2015

"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of Last Week: The Simpsons, "Halloween of Horror"

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Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. The "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" S...
Monday, October 5, 2015

What makes a shitty trailer? (Horrible music and comatose-sounding announcer copy)

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Examples of the not-so-shitty work of Mark Woollen's trailer house (Photo source: New York magazine) Movie trailers are a form of...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Timothy Reckart's inventive "Head Over Heels" may be the first film with a featurette about film scoring that's longer than the film itself

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It's been such a long time since I've written enthusiastically about a short film that I've forgotten how my own blog style g...
Friday, January 16, 2015

"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Black Dynamite, "The Wizard of Watts," and Bob's Burgers, "Speakeasy Rider" (tie)

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On some Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" ...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Throwback Thursday: The Simpsons Movie

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Throwback Thursday begins today, the first day of the new year, on the AFOS blog. Every Thursday in 2015, I'll be randomly pulling out...