Extra Seconds – Brother From the Same Planet



This is even more painful than it looks…

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0:00 “abstractions of rain” (Super Dodge Ball) by posu yan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3PS5BAcLU

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24 thoughts on “Extra Seconds – Brother From the Same Planet”

  1. I re-watched this one recently when working on another project, so I decided to give it a review. It's one of those classic episodes I don't hear people talk about that much (heck, I would regularly skip it) but it does do some interesting things and has some great jokes in it. So I think it's worth looking at this odd duck of an episode

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  2. My favorite s4 edisodes in order…

    Brother from the Same Planet
    Homer the Heretic

    New Kid on the Block
    Last Exit to Springfield
    Kamp Krusty
    Marge Gets a Job
    A Streetcar Named Marge
    Mr. Plow
    Lisa's First Word
    Lisa the Beauty Queen

    Everybody always picks Marge vs. the Monorail as one of their favorites. I don't know why. It's memorable, yea, but it's just not funny. I have it at rank 138. (Interestingly, The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular is at rank 72.)

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  3. I have to agree with pretty much all the points in this video. Plot-wise I don't think of this episode that often but I'm amazed by how many great and memorable jokes come from it. My only disagreement is that I like the gradually building sinister tone of the first act as well. Homer's suddenly melting face is a disturbing moment, but in a good and impressive way (one of my favourite examples of "good disturbing" in non-horror Simpsons episodes, along with Laura Powers ripping Bart's heart out of his chest).

    I assume that in any season from 5 onwards the story would likely not have ended with Pepi and Tom getting together and walking into the sunset. I would have probably preferred the more subversive alternative you suggest, but lampshading the cliché with them almost departing before Bart unites them is still good comedy too. We eventually got a more subversive version of this conclusion anyway in The Canine Mutiny with the blind man and Laddie. Besides, playing some clichéd feel-good tropes straight in the first few seasons probably just helped to enhance those screw-the-audience gags of the later golden era. Establishing a style like this first encourages the audience to swallow the hook when they trick us with similar setups later.

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  4. Thing is that through the entire episode, Tom and Peppi are both innocent and are just trying their best, and as a viewer I find myself somewhat rooting for them and I'm glad they get together in the end, I think if they didn't it would just come across as unnecessarily harsh for no real pay off imo

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  5. Simpsons Histories: Bumblebee Man!!!

    There is so much there to explore. From how he was created, to how he's used in the earlier seasons, and how he kinda changes, kinda stays the same later. He's one of those characters that seems like a dead-end when you first think about him, but I think a deep-dive will reveal so much more than you expect.

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  6. Not as badly miscast as Phil was on the Dennis the Menace cartoon. I rewatched one recently and found it very jarring to hear his voice coming from Dennis' nerdy dad.

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  7. Will always be one of my favourite episodes. Like you said, nothing really happens and yet it's so entertaining. The scene when Homer confronts Bart after seeing Tom always cracks me up. And I never noticed Homer watching the puppet show lol.

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