Hey everybody this is Bob Mackey the host of Talking Simpsons here to introduce

something a bit different than our normal thing this week we will be doing

the first episode of the critic just titled pilot because it

aired in this chronology that we're doing now so it aired in the middle of

season five and we feel like it's so closely connected to the Simpsons we need to talk about it.

Yeah it was January 1994 the end of the month and it was time to move on to it.

I wanted to try doing a special episode like this because we talk about the critics so much

in the show especially talking about all the season four people that left to work

on the critic that I felt we had to at least do the first episode.

And since I was not, I am not on this episode, I'm just in the intro.

You were voted off the Simpson's Island.

But the critic is so good from the first episode I think because of every single lesson learned via The Simpsons.

And also barring a lot of the same talent, like James L. Brooks, Rich Moore, Jay Sherman, it's designed

by David Silverman, a great director.

They set much sillier rules for themselves,

but I think they knew that going in that they wanted

they wanted it to be a sillier show.

And like the show does, it's short lived,

but maintains, I don't know, a pretty perfect tone the whole time.

I really, like it holds up really, really well and it also doesn't hold up really, really well

in that it is a relic of that era and it was supposed to live right now in 1994 and that was all it was

meant to do.

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