“Mom! We can go on the factory tour and I can complain in person!” – Lisa Simpson
“Honey, you’re not going to throw red paint at the executives, are you? The Keebler people were very upset.” – Marge Simpson
Welcome to tonight’s open thread, or live blog, or live watch, or whatever it is we’re doing for the Season 5 episode “Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy”. The comment section is open, the Twitter hashtag is #NewHat, and feel free to quote things as you see fit. Also, please tell us, during or after, how you think we can improve this. As I said earlier in the week, I really don’t know how this wants to work or what I’m doing. But it seems like there’s enough Simpsons fans on-line that watching together should be more fun than watching apart, and suggestions are welcome. Now let’s forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream.
Edit 9:00pm: Well, that was fun. It was a controlled disaster, but first times of anything usually are. (I’m reminded of Jay Sherman reminiscing about “the agony of my first public shower”.) Dave and I got way out of sync on Twitter, I foolishly thought my wireless would be fine if I sat out in the yard instead of closer to the hub (it died with about three minutes to go), I got started late because I had to reboot my laptop, and running these episodes with no commercials makes quoting and commenting on the fly hard to do. On the other hand, I got to watch The Simpsons, which I am pretty much never unhappy about. Thanks to those who watched and commented along, here and on Twitter, and we’ll try this again next week.
