September 27, 2009
The Simpsons returned Sunday night for its 21st season; though the opening episode wasn’t among the series’ strongest, The Simpsons remains one of prime time’s best comedies and sharpest satires.
The Simpsons returned Sunday night for its 21st season; though the opening episode wasn’t among the series’ strongest, The Simpsons remains one of prime time’s best comedies and sharpest satires.
Homer becomes both a superhero and a movie star when he lands a role in the big-screen adaptation of Comic Book Guy’s ‘Everyman,’ a comicbook about a painfully average guy with super powers that let him absorb the powers from any comicbook he touches. To help Homer lose weight for the part, the studio heads bring in Lyle McCarthy (Seth Rogen), personal trainer to the stars.
Everything goes well until McCarthy abandons Homer and he falls back to his old eating habits, gaining all his weight back and ultimately losing the Everyman part. In fact, Homer’s so horrendously bad, that a voiceover at the end informs that Everyman has been permanently and unanimously banned by all the major studios from any further film or television adaptations.
Seth Rogen gets plenty of laughs as McCarthy, a stereotypical, double-talking, back-stabbing tinseltown sychophant; he’s slimy, shady and completely superficial. Homer is, of course, his usual idiotic, completely clueless self; he's the perfect dupe for McCarthy’s underhanded style and delivers some of the episode’s best one-liners. The complete episode is embedded below.
Not a bad way to kick off the 21st season—of any show.
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