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Well, it took 20 years and we got a moment I didn't think I'd ever see on this show.

An extended bleep.

Lyle: Something bad happens and you cope by cramming a donut in your mouth.
Homer: Yeah well, you don't always have time to **beeeeeeeeeep**

Ok, I get that Seth Rogen wrote the episode. But it still feels odd to have that moment in a Simpsons episode when shock-profanity is usually reserved for a Seth MacFarlane show. It obviously won't become habit, but...still...just felt weird.

Otherwise, the episode was alright, but had some great moments, like Comic Book Guy fainting into a pile of Hulk Hands and Homer's custom montage. After 20 seasons, recycling is rapidly becoming the order of the day, as this episode looked like a combination of the Radioactive Man Movie episode and the Homer Becomes Poochie episode, but it is hard to be original after that long.

A "meh" start to what's supposed to be a milestone season.




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I agree....an OK episode. I thought it was funny even the movie execs were calling him "Comic Book Guy" even though we know his real name now. There were a couple of chuckle-worthy moments, but that's about it.
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My favourite visual gag of last night's episode was the poster for Eddie Murphy in "Fat Suit" ...



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I liked Homer's entrance into the episode:

Homer: "Can you help me out? I need change for a dollar. Also, I need a dollar."
Comic Book Guy: "You... are... acceptable!"
Homer: "Do you want to see me naked?"
Hollywood Producer Lady: "It's not that kind of movie."
Homer: "What movie?"

This was then followed by the mild disappointment of the episode being about Homer in a similar role that worked better (or at least felt more original) with Milhouse as Fallout Boy in the Radioactive Man movie. Act one set up the episode as about Comic Book Guy, which I think I would have preferred.

I did also really like the visual of The Lizard sitting in the movie theater audience for the Everyman screening, and that he was the villain in the movie (with some hilarious facial expressions.)

Oh and the movie poster for Star Wars Episode VII: The Apology, with George Lucas (or was that Randall Curtis?) riding a Tauntaun.

Other than that, meh. Weird that there was no real B story. Not sure Comic Book Guy's couple of scenes at a Hollywood party qualify as a B story. I expected better from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. As guest celebrity writers go, Ricky Gervais from a few seasons ago smoked them.

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I've never noticed anything edited on the [as] airings, but rather stuff has been unedited - like the Henry brothers' "Kicked in the Nuts" bit from the end of "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire."
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