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What Ellen’s character could look like…
I couldn’t fool my own mother on the foolingest day of my life with an electrified fooling machine, and so you know it’s not a lie when I tell you that Wikipedia told me that Ellen Page will be appear on the May 3 episode of The Simpsons as pop singer Alaska Nebraska.
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This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2009.
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Good for her but as any diehard Simpsons fan knows, its 10 years too late.
Agreed, Cranky. Just another Simpsons episode with an out-of-place celebrity guest star.
yeah but Ellen probably had fun! Good for her.
OH just STOP with the “It hasn’t been good since the ’90s” line. Only people who stopped watching when it wasn’t “cool” anymore say this. Do you really prefer an episode from 1993? Just because it’s no longer water-cooler or trendy doesn’t mean there isn’t a flash of brilliance in every episode, which PS there is.
And there have been guest stars since the beginning. Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman and Elizabeth Taylor all appeared in the so-called “golden” era you people claim to hold in such high regard.
All of you just shut it.
E-Page is a big Family Guy fan; this is a much better choice.
I *have* been watching it since 1993. I think it peaked around 1998 or so (but hasn’t jumped the shark) and there *have* been a few good episodes (last weeks as actually the first one in awhile where I thought they were getting things back on track), but yeah, appearing on this show now is kinda like joining the cast of The Muppet Show during its last season, dig?
nice to see you back Regina. we’ve missed you.
It’s not Ellen’s fault she was 10 and not famous when the show was at its (alleged) peak. Is she supposed to not appear on one of the greatest shows in television history just because it’s in its 20th season? Should she not have hosted Saturday Night Live (or Dead, har har har)? The logic is flawed.
Just finished watching the episode— Ellen Page appeared in all of 1 minute of it. Wow. Something to rave about. Terrible episode by the way.
Regina, do you perhaps remember one of the episodes during it’s “peak” where Phil Hartman as Troy Maclure says: “who knows what wacky adventures they’ll have between now and when the show becomes unprofitable.” There is a lot of truth in that line. The show stopped being funny a long time ago. I still find the episodes that aired over 10 years ago more funny than the ones now.
I don’t think anyone cares (other than you) if Ellen Page(or any other star) does a guest appearance on the show or not. Most people out there agree that the show is not what it was 10 years ago. Tonight’s and last weeks were actually very funny. The 1st act tonight was brilliant.
Did it matter that Ellen Page delivered those 2 or 3 lines instead of a regular voice actor? Probably not, but its another credit for her filmography and it pays the bills.
Is your problem that we don’t care if Ellen was on the show or is it that we think it sucks compared to when Conan O’Brien was running it(as an example of when I think it was funny)?
I’m still watching it after all these years, don’t ask me why. I guess I’ve been waiting to LOL just like old times, tonite I got the payoff.
How could people who stopped watching it when it stopped being cool know that it isn’t any good anymore?
Nothing to do with Ellen — it’s this weird fanboy bullshit snobbery about The Simpsons.
I am not arguing that those mid-to-late ’90s years were great, but the way an entire decade gets dismissed is infuriating and incorrect.
“The Simpsons were so much better on vinyl, man…”
ALSO Jodie Foster is on next week as the voice of Maggie and I am fucking stoked.
That’s awesome! I’m gonna have to track that episode down.
The only reason I’m a tad bit bitter in regards to Simpsons still being on the air, is that Futurama is not. Sigh.
Jodie Foster doing the voice of Maggie? So, it is indeed jumping the shark. Ha ha.
Its not a snobbery thing, I just prefer the older episodes.
The Johnny Cash episode was fun. I think that was within the past 10 years.
Marge, where’s my chilli boots? We’re gonna miss the chilli!
“cranky” doesn’t like something? wow big surprise. Simpsons maintains the best comedy writing to this day. I have not seen it slow down at all. The quality just increases. It could be that “cranky” just likes to be a crank. Big surprise there. In spite of cranky’s baseless cranks, in reality, the show continues to be a financial, critical and popular success, and it is a great success for Ellen to be on the show.