Classic Coverage looks back on the episodes of past shows from a modern perspective.
Spoiler Policy: All spoilers up to and including the currently discussed episode will be unmarked. Spoilers for episodes beyond the current point will be enclosed in Fast Forward blocks, which will include spoilers for the entire series. Arcade Mania Official Description: Steven … Continue reading Steven Universe Rewind: Arcade Mania / Giant Woman
It’s funny how I always looked forward to the “Treehouse” episodes, long after the show started turning to shit, for the same reason I’m wary of them popping up in these reviews: they’re so fast and short that they convey … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Eight, Episode One, “Treehouse Of Horror VII”
Zut alors, mes amis, but it has been awhile, non? Your faithful chronicler’s illness turned out to be quite a bit more serious than suspected, so apologies for the delay in getting back to the bidness. Glad to report things … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S05E03 “The Yellow Iris”
“The Politics Of Human Sexuality” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, December 3, 2009 In popular culture, college is often stereotyped as a period of maximum bacchanalia. Countless movies have depicted students marking their young adulthood by unleashing their wildest … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E11, “The Politics Of Human Sexuality”
Spoiler Policy: All spoilers up to and including the currently discussed episode will be unmarked. Spoilers for episodes beyond the current point will be enclosed in Fast Forward blocks, which will include spoilers for the entire series. Tiger Millionaire Official Episode … Continue reading Steven Universe Rewind: Tiger Millionaire / Steven’s Lion
There are several points that fans consider the ‘true’ finale of The Simpsons, and this is one of them. Partly it’s because after this point many consider the show to lose its consistency (which I understand even as I disagree, … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Five, “Summer Of 4 ft. 2”
“Environmental Science” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, November 19, 2009 From August to December 2009, i was an intern at the sports department of a TV news station. My time there was mostly spent in the editing bay archiving … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E10, “Environmental Science”
Spoiler Policy: All spoilers up to and including the currently discussed episode will be unmarked. Spoilers for episodes beyond the current point will be enclosed in Fast Forward blocks, which will include spoilers for the entire series. Bubble Buddies Official Episode … Continue reading Steven Universe Rewind: Bubble Buddies / Serious Steven
There are moments in art where the work seems to access some kind of divine space, elevated above either genre convention or our petty real-world day-to-day nonsense, where it’s as if all the artifice has been stripped back and you’re … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Four, “Homerpalooza”
“Debate 109” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, November 12, 2009. “Meta” became perhaps the most common descriptor of Community as its run went on; a google search for “Community NBC Meta” returns two and a half million results. But … Continue reading A Community Notification for This: S1E09 “Debate 109”
Spoiler Policy: All spoilers up to and including the currently discussed episode will be unmarked. Spoilers for episodes beyond the current point will be enclosed in Fast Forward blocks, which will include spoilers for the entire series. Frybo Official Episode … Continue reading Steven Universe Rewind: Frybo / Cat Fingers
The thing that bothered me most about the Apu controversy (which, for those who don’t know, was when comedian Hari Kondabolu released a documentary called The Problem With Apu that highlighted both Apu’s effect on the Indian-American community as racists … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Two, “Much Apu About Nothing”
SPOILER WARNING: I’m assuming in these reviews that readers have seen the show. One of my favorite episodes, Tests And Breasts highlights two themes central to every high schooler’s existence: puberty and fear of examinations. That it manages to do … Continue reading Freaks And Geeks: S1E05 “Tests And Breasts”
Mais ouis, but it is good to be back! Unfortunately, your faithful chronicler is now the the death grip of a nasty sinus infection, and so we have but time for an abbreviated recap this week. This would make me … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S05E02 “The Underdog”
It seems like every Simpsons fan old enough to remember a time before home video and streaming has a personal white whale – an episode they heard about that always seemed to slip by them in reruns – and this … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Two, “Raging Abe Simpson And His Grumbling Grandson In “The Curse Of The Flying Hellfish””
“Home Economics” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, November 5, 2009 Relationships that achieve a certain level of closeness will, at some point, cross an irrevocable threshold from casually hanging out to far deeper and more intimate terms. Once you’ve … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E08, “Home Economics”
It’s fairly common knowledge amongst Simpsons fans that the producers were considering either spinning off a show about the whole town of Springfield, or retooling the main show entirely to widen the focus beyond the family, and that this episode … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Seven, Episode Twenty-One, “22 Short Films About Springfield”
“Introduction to Statistics” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 29, 2009. What makes someone fall in love with a show? What makes a television program not just something one enjoys, but a favorite thing, an object to be treasured? … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E07 “Introduction to Statistics”
To me, one of the defining aspects of the show aging is its shift in tone. The animation, while always consciously rough and a little ugly, becomes cleaner; the pace of individual jokes becomes more casual; the plotting and sense … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Seven, Episode Twenty, “Bart On The Road”
We begin with some Old Timey Newsreel footage of Sir John Willard’s expedition to the Valley of the Kings in Cairo, where he’s about the open the tomb of the pharaoh Men-Her-Ra. Helpfully, the newsreel takes pains to introduce the … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S05E01 “The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb”
“Football, Feminism, and You” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 22, 2009 “Football, Feminism, and You” aired as episode 6 of season one, but its production code is 103 – it got shuffled off later into the schedule, presumably … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E06 “Football, Feminism, and You”
