FOX is enabling fans to create personalized e-Valentines featuring popular characters from their “Animation Domination” Sunday programming block (The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy and American Dad). The inside of the card can be personalized, while the outside features the character and a witty line, such as:

STEWIE (Family Guy) - “Love, like potty training, is messy, but rewarding.”; or “We all die alone. Happy Valentine’s.”; or “No one’s into you.” [Read more →]

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After a summer movie that was, if not great, at least well above average, and a season premiere that was equally solid (at least during the first half), I had almost forgotten just how unbearable a bad episode of The Simpsons can be. Now I remember.

The bad ones usually start out with a ridiculous premise — such as the Simpsons unwittingly crashing a wake after their post-church search for a meal yields only long lines at establishments such as Griddler on the Roof, Thank God It’s Fried Eggs, Luftwaffles, Bodacious Frittata, Buffet the Hunger Slayer and Denny’s. If the writers had spent as much time planning the rest of the episode as they did in brainstorming funny restaurant names, maybe the episode would have recovered. They didn’t, but at least they gave us Homer’s oh-so-appetizing analysis of roast beef au jus: “Mmm … Au jus. Not quite gravy, not quite blood.” I’ll never order anything au jus again.

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