![]() ![]() The episode is a Frankenstein’s monster of stray plot points and lame gags. Instead, “The Frying Game” just races through them, one after another, with airless scene after airless scene until the credits mercifully roll. None are given the slightest amount of time to breathe or matter or, god forbid, elicit a laugh. None of these developments have anything to do with one other. The whole shebang turns out to be part of a giant, implausible ruse. The Springfield judicial system convicts them and puts them on death row. The pair are, out of nowhere, suspected of murder. He and Marge end up doting on a kindly but needy old lady. Homer performs court-ordered community service. The Simpson family deals with a screeching insect and the hassles of the EPA. ![]() Instead, it only offers a heap of miscellaneous stuff that happens in some vague, undefined order. ![]() Normally I like to give a brief rundown of the premise when writing about a Simpsons episode. It is a nonsensical, irritating, embarrassing blight upon the face of what was once the greatest show on television. What the episode lacks in the casual cruelty of other contemporary Simpsons outings, or the aimless racism of the show’s more regrettable international jaunts, it makes up for in being emblematic of everything wrong with the series at this point in its run. And yet it deserves to be ground into the dirt like the fetid excuse for televised refuse that it is. It’s hard to call “The Frying Game” overrated exactly - forgotten is probably more accurate - but it’s rarely brought up in discussions of the series’s nadir. My poor lost souls, I beseech you to look upon thy screamapillar and weep - weep for us all.īecause “The Frying Game” may very well be The Simpsons’s worst episode ever.Īs I discussed on The Simpsons Show podcast, I don’t make that pronouncement lightly. Cast aside your amorous pandas and bar rags and even your Gagas. ![]()
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