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The Simpsons Season 2 Reviewed

Season 2 reviewed Nothing really much to say here, so let's just get on with it. (Yes, get on with it. Haha, funny Monty Python reference.) S2E1 - Bart Gets an F "In my opinion, this is the saddest scene in the show." - The Nostalgia Critic on when Bart gets a 59 score (barely D- grade) on his test after studying. Yeah, does kind of feel like a Season 1 type episode where it's a mixture of satire and some sort of moral lesson towards the end about studying. Does kind of capture that sort of alienation that occurs with school where it contrasts Bart not putting any effort into his tests, realising the consequences of that, putting effort into it and thinking he would succeed, only it doesn't play out the way that he expects Do think the ending of this is pretty good though. It goes from emotionally crushing into something where it kind of cheats its way into a happy ending where Krabappel sees potential in him, notices a piece of hard to get knowledge that Bart got...

The Simpsons Season 1 Reviewed

Introduction: This is sort of unlike other projects I've done and mainly it's just me watching episodes of The Simpsons and firing off a paragraph or two as quick capsule reviews for each of the episodes. Sort of see this as more of a fun exercise than anything that's meant to be demanding, so yeah. Separate write-ups for each episodes and then an overarching write-up on each of the seasons. This sort of series did come about because I made a sentiment along the lines of "Whenever I'm feeling a bit burnt out and looking for something to write, I'll write about The Simpsons. So I'm doing just exactly that. Will be much quicker to write and reflect a much looser tone compared to my other writing pieces, but I hope people enjoy reading this, nevertheless. Is sort of an extension of "Five Important Episodes about our Homer" that I wrote a year ago, but a bit more truncated that that was. No images as well, sorry. Starting from Season 1, but I will als...