Rate & Review: "'Tis The Fifteenth Season" (FABF02)

[prince jafar allah]

Originally posted by tim_duncan2000
Yeah, that trip to India thing was pretty out there, but I didn't mind them having James Woods as a Kwick-E-Mart clerk and I fail to see how his appearance was all that zany.

"James Woods taking a job in the Kwik-E-Mart to train for some movie? WTF?"

Originally posted by tim_duncan2000
Until that tidal wave thing, the stuff at Monstromart was pretty good (how was it that different that some of the stuff from this episode?

I like most of the stuff at the Monstromart.

Originally posted by tim_duncan2000
and maybe he did feel the same way as them but then later realized how much he missed working there.

yeah, and that's unrealistic and contrived handling of characters for the sake of a zany musical number. which was my original complaint. that episode seemed very "thrown-together". like they had a bunch of leftover jokes about Apu and tried in vain to string them together into some kind of plot.

Originally posted by tim_duncan2000

No way "LETS" was just a joke parade. It was much more than that.

then what exactly? the main plot is thin, and there is no attempt to make a meaningful conflict out of it, just derive jokes from it from a while before making one side capitulate. there is rarely much continuity between one scene and the next, it has lots of crazy extended sidegags (Burns & Smithers running the plant themselves, Lisa's Yellow Submarine hallucination). it's far from being a fully-formed satire on unions or anything, or a moving story. not that that's a bad thing necessarily - i love LETS, just about all the jokes in its joke parade are genius. but the structure of it is almost identical in style to the structure of Tis The Fifteenth Season.

[tim_duncan2000]

"James Woods taking a job in the Kwik-E-Mart to train for some movie? WTF?"

I could see that happening more than I could see a lot of other things happen when celebrities played themselves in Seasons 10+.

that episode seemed very "thrown-together". like they had a bunch of leftover jokes about Apu and tried in vain to string them together into some kind of plot.

I see what you mean, but I didn't think that it felt much like it was thrown together until he went to India.

it's far from being a fully-formed satire on unions or anything

Really? I thought they did a good job of that. What else could they have done to make it better?

i love LETS, just about all the jokes in its joke parade are genius. but the structure of it is almost identical in style to the structure of Tis The Fifteenth Season.

But I thought you liked that aspect of Tis The Fifteenth Season.

[lance]

hey, let's all hug apu








there's still time. let's hug him again

[unclekyle]

"James Woods taking a job in the Kwik-E-Mart to train for some movie? WTF?"

That actually was a parody of Woods' movie "The Hard Way" with Michael J. Fox, where Fox is an actor pretending to be a cop so he can get a feel for what it is like, thereby allowing him to be a better actor. Quite a funny parody actually.

[whisman]

Woah, I gotta revise my last review, in which I said this episode wasn't very good. Watched it once again tonight and changed my mind slightly. Turns out, this was a good episode. Not a masterpiece but not a disaster. Therefore I strike my last statement and now give this episode a B/B+

[squishee lady]

Wow. I missed it last sunday, but I'm glad I didn't miss it tonight. A+.

[Crotis Jivefunk]

It's just as good the 2nd time around.

[Mr. Plow]

I finally caught it last night and enjoyed it a lot, which is a first for me this season. Tons of great stuff and very few problems. I had some problems with Marge getting the last porkchop, Homer crying..again, and the Homer vs Flanders bit. It reminded me a bit too much of the 'Homer loves Flanders' episode. Other than that, a very enjoyable episode. 4/5

[mayo]

wow

first simpsons episode i actually really enjoyed in a long time

grade: a

[TheBigHurtBEGOOD]

I would rate it But I forgot it

[SpongeBob No Pants]

well i hope there is more high quality episodes like this in the rest of the season

[Lady2Hotty]

I agree 100% with Spongebob No Pants, my thoughts exactly, I must say that it is good to see an overwhelmingly positive response to this new episode. After 15 years, it is still refreshing to see that they've still got what it takes to make the demanding public happy.

[George Cauldron]

I thought it was adequate, in that it was a nice feelgood episode, but not very funny. A giggle or two, but that is about it, and really, not very memorable. Obviously, I need to watch this episode a few more times for it all to sink in. Still, I would take an unmemorable season 15 episode over a notoriously bad season 12 episode that I just could not forget.

[Postmaster]

Yeah I'm suprised at the rave reviews this episode has gotten, it didn't strike me as being incredibly funny, and there wasn't much else particualary memorable in terms of story, satire or emotion. Doesn't touch 'Moe baby blues' or 'The president wore pearls.'

[Rnymd]

For me this episode can be summed up in one word: Overrated. I was really looking forward to this episode, but I was very disappointed. This episode was no where near funny enough, with many jokes falling flat, including Bart shooting USA capital cities on a game. The Prune sequence was very well done, as strange as it was. The main thing that had me annoyed by this episode was the un-developed conflict with Flanders and Homer. It wasn't anywhere near as much explored than I thought it was. The Grinch parody was pretty good, but the end was bad, and the Moe suicide joke was really stupid. Overall, a very average episode in context with the series, and Season 15 keeps on getting more and more mediocre. - C+

[y2dave2004]

6.5/10

[Rnymd]

Originally posted by y2dave2004
6.5/10

If you just post grades and no comment about the episode, no ones gonna read you posts, so you may aswell not bother posting

[Mira]

I really liked it, I thought it was funny.

5/5

[Patriot]

A great episode that was funny and could easily pass for a classic era episode. A nice change with having some moral values in the episode like the classic episodes. 5/5

[Reservoir Dog]

I didnt really like this episode. I felt like ive seen it before.

[Jimbo77]

I personally love the part with the cloraform and the teddy bear 4/5

[coltonwiggum]

A very nice episode, with some great humour. 5/5

[sacrelicious]

I voted 5/5. It probably should be a 4 relative to every other episode, but it gets a bonus point for being an unexpected jewel in what usually was a lot of pain (or worse) episodes.

[Rhodan]

It´s 4/5 for me. Solid gagfest with less embarassing plot than "Fat and the furriest" but it was painfuly obvious that writers had to lose as much time as possible - see various TV programms and driving Buddha vision. i know that people are complaining for the same thing in my favourite "The Front" but there the story seemed natural.

[clemsonfight]

I loved this one when I first saw it, and recently a friend bought me the second Simpsons Christmas DVD (in the middle of the summer, no less ) and I watched it again. I still think its one of the better episodes in recent years. A few jokes fall flat, but I love Homer's grinch song and the "McGrew" Christmas Carol, since it reminds me of all those cartoon Christmas specials I watched as a kid every year

I'll be nice and give it a 5/5

[homer2121]

A vary enjoyable episode, It has some good humor. And grinch parody was great.

5/5

[Starman]

I don't know or care if I've R&R'd this episode in this thread before, because I can't be bothered looking, and there have been heaps of these new R&R threads.

This episode is fantastic. And do you want to know why I love it? Because it feels like a classic episode. It feels like it were made in Seasons 7-9, except it has even better animation (possibly the best the show has ever seen). You can clearly see they were experimenting with colours, and even animation styles (claymation).

Some parts could've been better, but all in all, a really, really great episode.

8.4/10.

[Moe Nopoly]

i think it was great christmas episode. Liked the story and some really funny gags. 4/5

[Tamaki Suoh]

Very funny and mostly well-written episode. The characterization was mostly right-on, which was definitely a pleasure to see, and featuring Flanders in a fairly big role was, of course, a highlight for me. I think the primary aspect about this one that unnerved me was the pacing. The plot wasn't fleshed out enough, the first act ran a bit long, and the third act was resolved too hastily. On a brighter note, the animation was impressive; the characters' expressions seemed more characterful than most of the newer episodes. Overall, 4/5.

[Kyoya Otori]

4/5. A great Christmas episode that I truly enjoy.