Post by The Curmudgeon on May 11, 2014 10:49:15 GMT 2
I'm not a huge fan of these latest publicity stunts by the makers of the Simpson's, but after 20 odd years I guess you got to keep doing stuff to keep people watching.
This time around, cribbing from THAT Game of Thrones episode, "The Yellow Wedding" will see a famous Simpson's character die.
Names like Mr Burns and Granpa pop up, seemingly because of their age, but I cannot ever see them killing them off. Too important, too reliable a character to focus on their present (the Old Folks Home, the Power Plant) or their past. No way will they go. Someone online mentioned Krusty. No fucking WAY.
My pick? Barney Gumble. When they made him tee-total they lost everything funny about him, and so when they just made him a drunk again there was this sort of sadness to it that lost the humour, and it probably didn't sit well with alcohol support groups that a guy gets back on the booze again for cheap laughs. So - Barney is my pick.
Who's yours?
This time around, cribbing from THAT Game of Thrones episode, "The Yellow Wedding" will see a famous Simpson's character die.
Names like Mr Burns and Granpa pop up, seemingly because of their age, but I cannot ever see them killing them off. Too important, too reliable a character to focus on their present (the Old Folks Home, the Power Plant) or their past. No way will they go. Someone online mentioned Krusty. No fucking WAY.
My pick? Barney Gumble. When they made him tee-total they lost everything funny about him, and so when they just made him a drunk again there was this sort of sadness to it that lost the humour, and it probably didn't sit well with alcohol support groups that a guy gets back on the booze again for cheap laughs. So - Barney is my pick.
Who's yours?
