What is even going on here?

So, it’s a Muppets Show parody but also poking fun at sitcom conventions and Katy Perry is wearing a dress featuring The Simpsons ON THE SIMPSONS for some reason but then doesn’t even really sing and there’s some kind of coded dig at Sesame Street going on, too, because of the whole Katy Perry on Sesame Street thing even though that was months ago and no one needed The Simpsons to comment on it, and absolutely none of it whatsoever has anything to do with Christmas? Do I have that right? Because I stopped watching The Simpsons 35 years ago and Katy Perry sucks, so maybe I’m missing something.

Comments (93)
  1. she has nice breasts

  2. I’m so glad Gabe and I have the same position on Katy Perry. She really does suck but everywhere I go, it seems everyone loves her.

    • SERIOUSLY! SHE IS JUST CONSTANTLY TOPPING THE DAMN CHARTS! WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT HER? SO SHE’S PRETTY! SHE’S GOT BOOBS! BIG DEAL! SHE CANNOT SING! ALSO: HOMOPHOBIC! FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIG! (Sorry for this dudes, but if it helps, I’m in college)

      Oh: AND she’s married to Russell Brand, who is the worst. GAME. SET. MATCH.

  3. Go to bed, Katy Perry.

  4. Isn’t she married to a muppet?

  5. That poor television show.

  6. For me, she has certain charms.

  7. This is the Muppets In Space of things on the Simpsons

  8. Are they just trying to show up Community’s stop-motion animation episode? Because that’s going to be an impossible feat, I don’t care how large Mrs. Perry’s breasts are

  9. These puppets would be more entertaining if they served as an emotional buffer to let an emotionally damaged man deal with society and put his life back together… and with Mel Gibson’s hand up their asses.

  10. Yes, “Winwood” that includes Katy Perry.

  11. Gabe, you just don’t get it cuz its so bold, so brash

  12. Oh, God.

    Katy Perry’s problem is that she thinks she’s cooler than she is. Shes like the girl who wants and knows how to be cool even though she can’t pull it off. Like, she’d go topless at a mediocre college party pretending she’s drunk even though she only had one mixed drink. And the simpsons trys so hard to reach its own definition of important show its kind of sad. It’s like the rock star who keeps releasing political songs because ‘thats what important artists did back in the day, right?” So this is a perfect match

    In related news, I hate myself

  13. But I think we can all agree that life would be better if more things were brought to us by the symbol Umlaut, right?

    Right?

  14. wait was that suppose to be funny? or funny ironic? or ironic? i couldn’t make it through the whole clip.

  15. Yo dawg, I heard you like Simpsons so we put Simpsons on your Katy Perry so you can….I’m too confused.

  16. For the non-Americans who don’t get access to Hulu for some stupid reason:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/239806

    (but really, I think Hulu was doing us a favour in this case)

  17. I realize this isn’t going to be a popular opinion, but I like Katy Perry! Not her music so much, I don’t listen to anything that doesn’t involve at least one of the Gallagher brothers. But I feel like she’s much more authentic with Lady Gaga. She’s got her own thing going on without making it seem forced.

    Plus, you know…her jugs.

  18. “Ohh, that’s not my bellybutton…. that’s my dick.”

    SURPIRSE!

  19. Next week on the Simpsons:

    (The animated gif was way too disturbing, but seriously, what the hell?)

  20. Remember when the people who decide what is cutting edge and ballsy decided that the Simpsons was like cutting edge and ballsy? Remember how Katy Perry kissed a girl and her totally cutting edge and ballsy song blew up because the PEOPLE loved it so much?

    • To be fair, the Simpsons WAS fairly ballsy when it premiered (I remember this because I am ANCIENT) and there were all sorts of kerfuffles in the lunchroom over who got to watch it and whose parents wouldn’t let them, and oh, it ended it tears so many times. But those times are long gone.

      Katy Perry I hate on principal because when I first heard people talking about “I Kissed A Girl,” I thought Jill Sobule was back in the limelight and was so sad when that was not the case.

      • I very clearly remember being forbidden from watching The Simpsons as a wee taco, yet I was permitted to watch Married…With Children. I think it was mostly just shock of seeing those things coming from a cartoon. People expected more “What’s up Doc,” and less “Eat my shorts.” Looking back, it was all fairly tame.

      • Me too. #JillSobule4lyfe

      • I had a Bart Simpson “Underachiever and proud of it” t-shirt that I wore to school in the 6th grade and was forced by my teacher* to wear it inside out for the rest of the day.

        That teacher was arrested 5 years later for possession with intent to sell. I guess overachieving didn’t do her any favors either.

      • I think a big part of the problem with the Simpsons today (hahaha STATE OF THE SIMPSONS ADDRESS GUYS) is maybe that the people writing it are people like myself who grew up watching the Simpsons and due to their respect of a thing that has been going on for so long therefore generate this really watered down emulation instead of making it their own. We don’t need the Simpsons to weigh in on every internet fad that pops up, we need it to have that smart, quotable element that it has been missing for years. In the old eps the most quotable lines weren’t always the ones that made you laugh. The days of “Ow my eyeball” are over. They just emulate old Simpsons as far as scripting goes, and then they throw way too many guest stars into the mix. Arguably most of the guest star eps from back in the day were bad, and around season 10 they just became way too commonplace.

  21. I thought this was strange. But the real travesty? Terriers was canceled :( . This is not the place for this but it super ruined my day. Best show on T.V. Better than Boardwalk Empire even. As far as I know I haven’t seen it mentioned here, but Terriers was the best. Never forget

    • NO WHAT TERRIERS WAS CANCELLED? Why did you have to ruin my day like this Spaceprophet, why?

    • Amen, brother. It was a brilliant show, but it lacked any sort of a buzz.

    • Now I am effing pissed. If me and my 48 twitter followers, most of whom haven’t seen Terriers probably, couldn’t save this show, then I give up. It was the best, and the opening theme song needs to be turned into a complete real song because it was the best too.

      Can’t believe “V” is going to continue, while Flash Forward stopped. Surfaced! Threshold! Arrrrrggghhhhh!!!! OK, now I’m just dredging.

  22. Gabe, can you lend the Simpsons your Re-set Button?

  23. Guys, my comments won’t work. Videogum thinks that I–fozzy the frickin’ chair–am spam!

  24. remember when the simpsons was good? conan o’brien must be rolling over in his grave!

  25. I’d like to know how she keeps her eyes open with two pounds of fake eyelashes and mascara on. Skills!

  26. “I wish this show had a visit from three new writers.”

    “Well, it’s been a long run, but I think this’ll kill it.”

    – Thanks Grandpa for bringing some sanity to this Christmas nightmare

    P.S. A laugh track on the Simpsons is more unnatural than a talented Katy Perry

  27. also: puppet marge looks a LITTLE thick.
    I mean, it WAS her slender neck that landed her on the cover of playboy.
    #hootiemcboob

  28. And for the record, Lenny and Carl would NEVER have let this happen.

  29. #braggum: Over the weekend, I actually saw Matt Groening walking around the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival (…I know). One guy requested to interview him, then, as his first question, asked, “Don’t you think it’s time to wrap The Simpsons up already?” I know a lot of people feel this way, but this guy was SO rude.

    Jeez, Brooklyn! Show some respect!

  30. We are out of rock stars since all legitimate musical acts are independent these days so the best they could get in the way of “rock star” is Katy Perry. She can’t sellout a stadium show but she is on the Simpsons! A-deeyaba-deeyaba-dat’s all folks!

  31. Is it just me, or is it really sad (and slightly disturbing) that Katy Perry, a grown adult, is still carrying on with a months-long dig at Sesame Street for not airing her segment? At some point, she should remind herself tat at the end of the day, Sesame Street is a show targeted at toddlers to young kids. Not exactly her demographic. (Besides, her singing/overacting were pretty horrendous, so it’snot as if the kids are losing out on a once-in-a-lifetime historic moment.) You got booted, it sucked, now it’s time to fucking move on.

    P.S. The Simpsons really suck at social commentary, almost as much as Family Guy.

  32. Maybe I’m in the minority (only) here, but “Teenage Dream” is a JAM and “California Girls” is a MONSTER JAM.

  33. BOOBS.
    Duh.

  34. I watch the simpsons the way some people watch shows like “the news”

  35. Am I the only one that caught the joke about Moe eating out Katy Perry?

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