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 The Simpsons 421-425 Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes This episode premiered on September 28th, 2008. The lead in show was the OT and it was followed by King Of The Hill. It ran opposite Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Amazing Race and Football Night In America.  The title comes from the 1989 movie Sex, Lies and Videotape. The couch gag is the family sits on the couch but are frozen in carbonite and Boba Fett comes and carries them off. A spoof on the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back It's St. Patrick's Day, the river has been turned green from the nuclear power plant. Quimby announces that they are having a booze free celebration, everyone is mad. The Pride Of Ulster show up, Lisa sings Toora Loora Loora to try to maintain the peace, however a fight still breaks out. When a group of children show up and steal Marge's cupcakes Patrick Farrelly saves them and offers her a job in his bakery. Homer gets arrested and his bail is $25,000 so he decides to become a bounty hunter. ...

The Simpsons 416-420 Papa Don't Leech This episode premiered on April 13th 2008. The lead in show was American Dad and was followed by King Of The Hill. It ran opposite Oprah's Big Give, 60 Minutes and Monk.  The title comes from the 1986 Madonna song Papa Don't Preach. The couch gag is an artist brush paints the family onto the couch while cartoonish music plays. Homer is letting Grandpa drive. Abe tries to find a song he likes and clips Patty and Selma coming the other way. Homer and Abe go over the side of the road and roll down the hill eventually landing in the middle of the highway, where Grandpa once again drives off a closed road and crashes. When Grandpa says he'll have to live with the Simpsons Homer strangles him, however it's Homer dreaming, while he's driving Lisa to deliver Gal Scout cookies. When Lisa goes to Quimby she discovers that the town is broke. The Mayor offers to pay Lisa double next year however she refuses. Quimby threatens to pass a b...

 The Simpsons 411-415 That 90's Show This episode premiered on January 27th 2008. The lead in show was Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader and was followed by King Of The Hill. It ran opposite Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Shark and the U.S. Figure Skating Championship. The title comes from That 70's Show. The couch gag is the family is sitting on the couch and underneath is written Ceci n'est pas une couch gag. This is a play on the painting The Treachery Of Images by Rene Magritte. They then zoom out to a group of museum patrons looking at the painting. The joke, of course is that nothing is happening so it isn't a couch gag and yet the play on the famous painting makes it a couch gag. Get it? The family is freezing because Homer hasn't paid the heating bill because he thought global warming would have kicked in. While finding things to burn Bart comes across Marge's old memory box. Lisa finds Marge's diploma from Springfield University. Lisa does the math...

 The Simpsons 406-410 Little Orphan Millie This episode premiered on November 11th, 2007.  The lead in show was the OT and it was followed by King Of The Hill. It ran opposite Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Amazing Race and Football Night In America. The title of the episode comes from the comic strip and movie Little Orphan Annie The chalkboard gag is "There is no such thing as an iPoddy" and the couch gag is the family is on the cover of Modern Couch Gag magazine "10 couch gags to spice up your marriage. The boat painting is crooked. At a picnic a bee gets on Maggie. Homer panic and jumps up getting the hive stuck on his head, he falls into a blueberry bush staining it and then ends up rolling in the green blanket. He comes up looking like Marge and she gets mad at him for mocking her. Kirk and Luann announce they are getting remarried. Homer can't pick out a tie so Marge says to pick out one that goes with her eyes, he doesn't know the color so they have ...

 To the people who actually read this. This holiday season is starting to become a bit overwhelming. Decorations, parties and a funeral. Basically I haven't had time to watch The Simpsons. So, I'm on temporary hold until after January. I promise to be back watching again. I promise. But for the next few weeks I got other things to do.  Sorry.

 There have been several eras of The Simpsons, The Golden Years 1-9, The Mediocre Years 10-13, The Dark Years 11-18. We now move into the Post Movie Years. Will the show get better? Will it still be hit and miss? I guess I'll find out as I venture further into my Simpsons Odyssey. The Simpsons 401-405 He Loves To Fly And He D'ohs This episode premiered on September 23rd, 2007. The lead in show was The OT and it was followed by King Of The Hill. The show ran opposite Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Power Of 10 and Football Night In America. The title is based on the Delta Airlines slogan We love to fly and it shows. The chalkboard gag is "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie" and the couch gag is a montage about the post dome Springfield, see below* Mr. Burns is shopping at the mall, he accidentally swallowed a cell phone and it's set to vibrate. Smithers goes to get the number delisted. Burns is wandering around when he spots a penny in a fountain, h...