It is time for us all to be a little more animated again because Fox Sundays are back doing what they do best. Making us laugh with their animated shows.
The Simpsons start it off at 8p. Homer and Bart go viral and they become the biggest thing on the internet. How will they handle their newfound celebrity status? How long until they mess it up?
Talking about messing things up, perfect student Lisa gets in trouble tonight. So much so, she is sentenced to detention. When a corporate entity buys detention, Lisa decides to fight it. Because that is what she does.
The Simpsons, at 31, might be older than a lot of their viewers, but this show never gets old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RldfZ2Ht__s
Then at 8:30p, we get to meet Bless The Harts. This is not an easy show to describe, but it is a show about family.
Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig) lives with her mother Betty (Maya Rudolph) and daughter Violet (Jillian Bell). As if three women living together in tight small house, struggling to pay bills, is not hard enough, her boyfriend also lives with them.
That is enough to make Jenny go crazy. Instead, it makes the girl from High Point, NC have conversations with Jesus. That Jesus.
Maybe one way to describe it is King of the Hill meets Bob’s Burgers.
https://www.youtube.com/wxatch?v=9oUOWxNQ1iU
Which gets us to Bob’s Burgers that moves to 9p. Bob decides to do something very special for Linda for their wedding anniversary. Since he never bought her a ring when they got engaged, he decides to give her one now. He does not want her to find it, so he hides it in a secret place.
However, it is not that secret because their children find it. Gene decides to try it on, and it gets stuck on his finger. It does not want to come off, so he decides it leave it on when they go to the water park,
What happens to your fingers when they are wet for a long period of time? They get skinnier and the ring falls off. Since they were all over the park, they have no idea where it fell off.
Will they be able to find it or is Bob’s romantic gift lost forever? You will want to tune in for a very sweet episode.
Finally at 9:30p, the night is not over until the fat guy sings and Peter Griffin is singing on Family Guy
tonight.
But first, he has a heart attack when his bosses reveal that someone is going to be fired at work. Turns out it was just a panic attack, but it is way a really bad one. His doctors tell him to get some relaxation, so he goes on a cruise with several Soft Rock singers from the ’70s like Kenny Loggins and Hall & Oates.
Everything is going fine until their perfect cruise turns into the Posideon Adventure. If you have never seen that movie? Where have you been because there are three versions of it? Sorry, now four!
Anyways, out of all of tonight’s episodes, this one had me laughing the hardest. In fact, it is the funniest sitcom episode of the week on broadcast. I know this because I saw them all except Mom and Bless This House.
On April 29, 2018, The Simpsons became the longest-running scripted program on primetime television beating out Gunsmoke. You would think that Fox would say this is a good time to end the show. Then you thought wrong. That is because they picked up the animated family sitcom for two more seasons. That brings their total to 32 seasons with 713 episodes…and counting.
I say…and counting because you know Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are not going anywhere anytime soon. They will outlive us all! They are like cockroaches during a nuclear war and that is a good thing. Not roaches (we need to make them extinct already), but The Simpsons will continue to bring joy for many generations to come. Unless there is a nuclear war, then the only ones who will enjoy them will be roaches.
Back in 1987, The Simpsons aired as shorts as part of the Tracey Ullman Show. On December 17, 1989, Fox gave the animated show its first full episode for Christmas. The rest is history. As in it is in the history books for having the most episodes of a scripted series with no end in sight.
Tonight at 8p, Fox takes us back to the beginning and will air that very first full episode. The characters might not age, but their voices and the animation has gotten so much better. It is great to see and hear how different they look and sound. The one thing that never changed is how funny this show is. Which is why it is on its 30th season and counting.
Therefore, you don’t want to miss tonight’s episode where we get to meet The Simpsons and they get to meet Santa’s Little Helper.
Tonight at 8p on Fox, The Simpsons does something that no other scripted show has done. It will air its 666th episode. To honor the special milestone, it is a Treehouse of Horrors episode. How appropriate is that?
Of course, it would have been more appropriate if the writers had one of the segments where Springfield goes to Hell, but they did not do that. Although, there are a lot of other cool stories in the episode. There is a literal killer app, Lisa loses her cool and makes Bart look like the good child and a twist on Jurassic Park that is scarier than dinosaurs.
You better watch because if not, they will dial 666 and give them your name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbXdsQevC8 The Simpsons turn the big 3-0 tonight at 8p on Fox. In honor of the milestone, they do a couch gag that shows an iconic scene from all 30 seasons. It will remind how great this show has been during all of these decades.
Now it is time to talk about the episode. Bart gets into a really bad accident, says that he died and came back. His story gets out there and a Christain film company wants to do a movie about his experience. Homer and Flanders produce the film that will either star Gal Gadot or Emily Deschanel as Marge Simpson. Can this biopic get made without any complications? Of course not which is why we love this animated sitcom so much.
Then at 8:30p, Bob’s Burgers celebrates its 150th episode. Boyz Four, think One Direction, loses a member and they are holding auditions to replace him. Tina goes in disguise to try out and to find a cute boy she saw. While looking for him, she finds another cute boy and another one. Each has their song. If you are going to get this milestone than it is something to sing about and they are singing.
Then at 9p, Brian gets married on Family Guy. Brian wants to meet the perfect woman for him, but the only thing is that she has cancer. When she finds out it terminal, Brian offers to marry her. The two become Quahog celebrities when Tom Tucker features them on his show.
I have seen every episode of the show and I think the 2-part season premiere might the show’s worst episodes yet. Hopefully, they will get better as the season goes on because foRel is going to need it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKZSx7WJ7g
Over at CBS at 8:30p, Miles gets a friend request that will change his life forever on Gd Friended Me.
Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall) grew up with a father (Joe Morton) who is a reverend. When he was a kid something happened that made him lose his faith. So much so, he started a podcast saying there is no Gd.
Then he gets a friend request from Gd and he thinks it is a joke. That is until he gets another request to friend someone else. A man who is about to jump in front of a train until Miles stops him.
Miles gets a new friend request for Cara Bloom (Violett Beane). He thinks the writer is in on it, but she swears she isn’t. She needs to write a story and decides to tells Miles’ tale. Now the two of them, who need saving, try to find out why Gd wants to be his friend.
It has been 18 years since CBS cancelled Early Edition, and I have been waiting for them to do a show as good as that one. Finally, they have done it with this show. This is the only new show that a family can watch together. So sit down as one and watch this drama with your loved ones.
