Glorified Hamster Wheels
- Author: Tom Woodward
- Category: Reflections
- Tags: Humor
The whole episode is worth watching on Hulu, or if that’s not available, the title is “Bart gets a Z.”
Remember, it’s the Simpsons; just a cartoon, just an amusing cartoon- no reality here. Browse along. Nothing to see here.
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As much as The Simpsons gets a lot of flak for not being as good as “back in the day” it can still speak truth so well.
I don’t care what they say, I love the Simpsons.
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It would be hard for me to imagine a better scene than that one.