Stark Raving Dad

Published July 5, 2009 @ 18:07 in The Simpsons

homerDid you hear Michael Jackson passed away? CNN is still calling it "breaking news" in their 24/7 coverage of Jackson's death. Coverage that contains almost nothing in terms of new developments, by the way, but I digress.

Jacko's death will reward those of us who still pray at the alter of The Simpsons' glory years when Fox re-airs its 1991 episode “Stark Raving Dad,” in which Jackson voiced a 300-pound mental patient who believed that he was the famous singer. It's a stellar episode, and even though I own the episode on DVD, I'll be tuning to watch the best Sunday night @ 8pm episode in years.

Thanks to Horonymous for the tip.

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6 Responses to "Stark Raving Dad"

A.R.
July 5, 2009 / 19:21

Is there any better television than that classic era of The Simpsons? The density of good humour was extremely high.

And yes, I still watch the show regularly.

Horonymous
July 5, 2009 / 20:03

A bad Simpsons is still miles ahead of the reality crap that proliferates our screens.
But it is sad to see the show not hit the heights it once did.

Thanks for the post MIke

Toronto Mike
July 5, 2009 / 20:18

Here's my most recent take on my favourite comedy of all-time.

http://www.torontomike.com/2009/02/mercy_killing_the_simpsons.html

Horonymous
July 5, 2009 / 22:22

I'm going the PVR the feed from FOX in Seattle. Global as usual butchered the feed and stepped all over the credits.

MJ was a good sport to let the writers for Simpsons have a laugh with a wacky story line.

Toronto Mike
July 5, 2009 / 22:26

I thought he did a good job with this.

Once thing I noticed as I watched it, and I tweeted this, is that question "what happens when you turn 8".

The answer is "the training wheels come off your bike".

I have a couple of kids, and the training wheels come off well before they're 8! What 7 year old still has the training wheels on their bike?

A.R.
July 6, 2009 / 15:33

Maybe it's a metaphor.

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