Monday, April 6, 2009

March 29th episode - Wedding for Disaster

The Simpsons episode “Wedding for Disaster” began with a clever new intro that depicted each member of the Simpson family in a different type of food, such as spaghetti and soup. I thought it was interesting that the ending with the family sitting on the couch was not portrayed in its usual way, but instead the picture was outlined through the napkin that the customer eating the food was using. The episode itself caught my attention because I recognized that part of it was a spinoff of the horror movie Saw. It also demonstrated modern sentiments about going to church and religion. In the very first scene, one of the characters faints when he hears that the parson is coming to the First Church of Springfield. Homer sees this as a prime opportunity to make a run for it as he grabs his family and announces that they will go get “smelling salts” to help the man. As we see the Simpsons drive away in the middle of mass, Homer yells “suckers!” to everyone still inside, expressing the common disinterest in going to church among many people, and especially younger people today. The movie Saw was imitated when Marge’s sisters kidnap Homer on his wedding day and chain him up in a torture chamber. They use a voice modulator to sound like the voice in the movie, except they don’t give him legitimate ways that he can save himself, because they don’t want him to be with their sister. I thought it was funny in the end when Lisa and Bart found out what their aunts had done and they made them pay for a proper reception for Marge and Homer’s remarriage.

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