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Doh-nite!
4 Episodes. Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria & Harry Shearer. Created By: Matt Groening. On: Hulu & Disney+.
I'm forty, I don't know much about Fortnite (I thought it was two weeks), but I do know something about 'The Simpsons', as my old a## buys a new Evergreen Terrace family sweatshirt from Japan's convenience store, Family Mart, like the two strands on the top of my scalp aren't starting to resemble Homer hair. But I will say this, Fornite x The Simpsons (the 'X' means "and", fellow old heads) was a lot of fun. Much like the 'Funday Football' collaboration with the NFL, this time last year. And now you can replay the live event that streamed from Stockholm on Disney Plus.
I'm more Lenny and Carl (not like that), than Bart and Milhouse, that I can't come up with any good reason why I would want to watch people play video games. OK. I guess I'm more Abe Simpson here. But this is a different type of Twitching. I always wanted to be the one actually playing the game, as I never did have a console as a kid. My parents said it would have distracted me from my studies. They had a point, but I proved them wrong by failing regardless. Yet, here this sponsored contents from Epic Games at Sweden's Comic Con gave us a taste of what it would be like if both The Simpsons and Fornite's worlds immersed and merged together. Exploring this universe really is epic. Whether you're hitting the Kwik-E-Mart, like Snake. Writing lines on the board with Bart. Or sleeping on the job with Homer at the nuclear power plant. It's all accessible. Everything you see under the cloud iconic titles of the Duff Blimp. Which has a different message each time, except that Ice Cube's a pimp!
And if you thought that was it, 'Apocalypse DOH'! As a series of Fortnite related short streams of episodes have been released weekly over this month to celebrate this collaboration with more "content"...that's what the cool kids say, apparently. This merger is made real by the lever pulling back and forth between some Fortnite heroes and your favourite space slobbering aliens who are still merely exchanging protein strings. Kudos to Kang and Kodos for making us not have to concentrate with the science bit. In the first of these epic episode shorts that you should eat, Homer finds a crystal that turns The Simpsons family TV remote control into something similar that Adam Sandler had in the classic 'Click'. With all that power in his hand, Homer can turn fire hydrants into chocolate ones, a cat into an Iron Man like Easter Egg (here's to the Marvel of their Disney neighbours) and our hairlines into something stronger than Mayor Quimby's latest excuse for leaving his mayoral sash draped on the balcony of some sleazy motel.
Then the Michael Keaton like 'Multiplicity' of the next episode, that plays like a trailer for this collaboration, is raining "mmm, donuts", ay, caramba. So much remote power, that even Professor Frink has to spilt. What with the forts and the nites, and soooo maaany bananaaaas. All adding up to an actual, epic episode. As big as the attack of the 50-foot Homer, after police Chief Wiggum got his Neo in 'The Matrix' on, taking out more Homer's than Ohtani. What a trip in the clouds for 'The Simpsons'. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? All the way to the small season finale of 'The Incredible Bulk', with the yellow giant submerged like a submarine. You won't like him when he's hungry. It's enough to make that banana peel. For night time viewing, nothing is bigger than Homer and his new odyssey. Let's play. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'The Simpsons: Yellow Planet', 'The Simpsons: The Past And The Furious', 'The Simpsons: Funday Football'.
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