The Critic

Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, Simpsons.

And then you've got to ask yourself, where are you going to put The Critic? And people are like, what? John Lovitz, The Critic? Oh, yeah.

I think I enjoyed it more for the voices maybe than the comedy.

The critic was great.

But yeah, I think I do Archer and Bob's Burgers because I like it only when one guy does the voices.

And then Family Guy and then Simpsons.

And this week's episode is A Star Is Burns.

Bart Simpson, meet Jay Sherman, the critic.

Hello.

Hey, man, I really love your show.

Man of the House tops the box office.

Models Inc. is canceled before The Simpsons can even make fun of it.

And The Critic returns for its second season, moving from ABC to Fox.

Okay, now Man of the House.

I mean, Garrett Graham, a ton of good genre movies and just a hell of an actor.

And he did 23 episodes of The Critic, the animated series on Fox in the 90s, which I loved.

It stinks.

I love that show.

So it's always kind of been there.

The Michael Myers mask has always kind of been in my subconscious from a very, very young age.

So we'll give our rating as soon as we hear some reviews from the critics.

Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times says Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to Psycho.

But he

had that cartoon, The Critic.

Did you ever watch that?

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

that's a scally cat.

shooting billiards, but it's a real cat.

It's not a cartoon cat.

It's not

Yeah.

Or the one I was thinking of because I just rewatched it and it was such a short run show was The Critic.

The Critic was two seasons on two

different networks.

Absolutely.

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Henry, what is happening at that $10 level?

He, he was in those early De Palma movies, Greetings, and he's also in Hi, Mom, right? I think he is.

And, um, and, uh, yeah, and oh, and then he was the, he's the, the, what? Uh, Jay Sherman's adopted father on The Critic, which was rumored to be rebooted soon, and, uh, I guess without him now.

Unless like the King of the Hill people, they just go ahead with the, without the people who passed away.

[laughs]

Mm-hmm.

We, me and him basically play it, but instead of saying the game, you sing the teepee peepee song from The Critic.

And-

Which g- Google that and/or insert it here, Som, right now.

Yes.

Like me and King.

In fact, everyone stop watching anime for this week and go watch Jon Lovitz The Critic, okay? Like please, just wa- go watch all of The Critic.

It's so good.

is just a guy.

So we don't cut to Jay Sherman, which brings us to the many method jokes that we're going to be hearing because this is a crossover episode in case you haven't watched it.

Yeah, it is.

Which...

have to get the audio, and then, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, Simpsons.

Just in case you wanted confirmation this is a crossover, the announcer on television goes, it's time for the Flintstones beat the Jetsons, which prompts Bart to go, I smell a cheap cartoon crossover.

At which point, Homer walks in and goes, Bart Simpson, meet Jay Sherman, the critic.