Bart Simpsons is concerned when his parents, Marge and Homer, give him a hug in the Season 36 premiere of The Simpsons. Image via FOX The Simpsons have remained popular for more than three decades due ...

“The Simpsons” travel to “The Yellow Lotus” on Sunday’s episode, where they “encounter death on vacation at a high-end resort.” If that sounds a bit like “The White Lotus,” well, of course. It’s the ...

The Simpsons is partnering with the folks from Stoopid Buddy (“Robot Chicken”) to take on “Venom” in this fall’s annual “Treehouse of Horror” extravaganza. In this case, Homer meets his match with ...

The teasers at the end of Mad Men are often times plotless, incoherent montages that better resemble a schizophrenic Vine rather than an actual teaser. It's infuriating to hear ambiguous phrases and ...

Being a guest star on The Simpsons is a badge of honor for any celebrity, a rite of passage, like The Muppet Show before it, that proves that you've made it. But for a movie director, the highest ...

I'm a follower of pop culture from gaming, comics, sci-fi, fantasy, film, and TV for over 30 years. I grew up reading magazines like Starlog, Mad, and Fangoria. As a writer for over 10 years, Star ...

Vignettes: “The Diving Bell and Butterball,” “Dial D for Diddly,” “In the Na’Vi” The episode also contains a moderately entertaining Dexter spoof where Homer convinces Ned to kill for him, as well as ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...