The Simpsons returned this week for a post-Halloween “Treehouse of Horror”-branded episode celebrating legendary science-fiction creator Ray Bradbury. “Simpsons Depraved This Approach Comes” featured three tales impressed by Bradbury’s work, the third of which was a parody of the traditional e book Fahrenheit 451.
The unique novel is a couple of chilling dystopia through which the written phrase is outlawed, and a legion of “firemen” are chargeable for burning any and all remaining books. In The Simpsons model, it’s “lowbrow leisure” that’s been banned, forcing residents to look at solely status TV that’s been authorized by critics of the longer term, like Alan Sepinwall the The Third — which seemingly got here as a shock to the actual Alan Sepinwall.
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That signifies that TV’s dumbest reveals are unlawful, together with America’s Funniest House Movies and Preserving Up With the Kardashians. Homer finally tracks down an underground group of rebels, led by Krusty the Clown, who’ve secretly preserved a library of horrible tv. The rubbish content material archive is housed beneath Comedian Guide Man’s store, The Android’s Dungeon. How do they entry this repository of pop-culture slop? A secret passage is revealed by pulling on a Stewie Griffin toy.
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As followers are nicely conscious, The Simpsons and Household Man have been dissing one another for years. It seemingly began again in 2002, with “Treehouse of Horror XIII,” which discovered Homer duplicating himself utilizing a magic hammock, producing numerous clones together with Peter Griffin.
Just a few years later, they playfully joked that Household Man had copied The Simpsons, and that American Dad was only a copy of Household Man.
In 2005, Household Man creator Seth MacFarlane responded to the “slam” by claiming that Peter was “extra much like Ralph Kramden” than Homer. He additionally labored in an insult of his personal, admitting that he was as soon as a fan of The Simpsons, including “however it’s not the present it was. It could possibly’t be. You’ll be able to’t do 16 seasons and be constant.” Fast reminder: Household Man is at the moment in its twenty third season.
As we’ve talked about earlier than, that very same yr, Household Man responded to the lighthearted barb with a chronic, hostile joke involving sexual assault and homicide (it has been censored on subsequent broadcasts).
The Simpsons’ references to Household Man have been comparatively rare, however MacFarlane’s present continued to allude to the rivalry (usually in a extra self-deprecating method). Any sense that there was a legit “feud” between the 2 reveals was seemingly put to mattress by the controversial Household Man-Simpsons crossover episode “The Simpsons Man.”
However now The Simpsons has taken one other shot at their Fox colleagues for the primary time in an extended whereas. Certain, it’s only a transient second, however making a Stewie toy the important thing to getting into a set of lowest frequent denominator-approved TV appears fairly scathing.
Presumably, Household Man will reply to this innocent joke by burning The Simpsons places of work to the bottom.
