“Back up or it’ll hurt your eyes.” – Homer Simpson
“Oh, it will not.” – Bart Simpson
“Oh, yes it will.” – Homer Simpson
First off, all the chapters of the “Tapped Out” minibook are now live here at the site. If you’ve been waiting to read it for free, now you can. Thank you to everyone who has purchased it, linked to it from message boards and aggregating sites, or simply read it. Now onto my next hair brained scheme . . .
I’ve threatened to start a regular Simpsons watching liveblog here a couple of times now. With the upcoming release of the show on streaming (albeit with a sadly restricted audience of only cable customers and people to whom they give their logins), now seems as good a time as any to start actually doing so. Repetitive complaining about repetitively mediocre Zombie Simpsons episodes is all well and good, but The Simpsons is always more fun to watch than Zombie Simpsons.
I don’t know quite how this wants to work, but this is what we’re thinking:
- Watch an episode every Thursday evening at 8pm Eastern (currently GMT/UTC -4)
- Put up an open thread here at DHS for comments
- Probably create some kind of hashtag so people can follow along on Twitter
- Let you fine Springfieldians decide which episode we watch
Comments, suggestions and general improvements on how we do this are welcome. In the meantime, and with that final point in mind, I’ve put up a poll on the sidebar at right. For no particular reason, I picked one episode for each Simpson family member. (The numbers and letters in parentheses are that episode’s season and DVD disc.) We can use a different set next week, repeat the ones that don’t get picked, or do something else; whatever happens, that’s a next week problem. This week, on Thursday evening, Dave and myself (Mad Jon’s out of the country this week, but will be along eventually) will watch whichever episode gets the most votes.
Join us here, yell at us on Twitter, or just watch them at your own damn convenience (you guys come to this site from a whole smorgasbord of time zones, so my Thursday at 8pm isn’t most of yours). Whatever you decide, my advice is to ride it out, make an occasional smart alec quip, and before you know it, things will be back to where they started from, ready for another wacky adventure.
