Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Simpsons - 23x17 - Them, Robot

    Homer is the only human employee (besides Mr. Burns) remaining, after the entire staff of the power plant is replaced with robot workers.
    It's an enjoyable episode, but it doesn't feel like it has much of a structure.  Mostly just a collection of robot gags, without too much plot development happening.  Not that I expect heavy plot from The Simpsons at this point.
    It's a pleasure to hear Brent Spiner voicing the robots.
    There was a lot of wasted opportunity.  The replacement of workers with robots has ample room for all sorts of jokes about outsourcing.  Instead, a surprising amount of the episode is devoted to sight gags.  That isn't to say that they're bad sight gags.  I liked seeing all of the robots sacrificing themselves in the road for Homer's stupidity.

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