Getting Out of Hand

"I'm in television now.  It's my job to be repetitive.  My job.  My job.  Repetitiveness is my job." - Bart Simpson

Simpsons Channel has a post up with the promo image for April 19th's Zombie Simpsons, titled "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly".  Here's the plot description:

To win the heart of Jenny (guest voice Anne Hathaway) a sweet 5th grade girl, Bart becomes a good samaritan and gives up his prank-pulling days

Given the presence of the perfectly cromulent word "drugly" in the title I'm gonna guess that this girl might have a lesson or two to teach Bart about growing up.  It's always creepy and rage inducing when Zombie Simpsons goes on one of its weird "we're moralizing/but no we're really mocking moralizing/um yeah, we're actually moralizing" skids.  That was about half the run-time of this season's feculent "Mypods and Boomsticks" episode and it always sucks.  

Well, at least we found out who Anne Hathaway is voicing on the Simpsons.  Apparently it's going to be Bart's love interest, not Krusty's.  The earlier leaked plot was to have her testify in court when . . . ugh . . . Krusty was falsely accused of a crime.  Now it seems she's voicing a goody-two-shoes that . . . ugh . . . Bart straightens up and flies right in order to impress.  I wouldn't rule out the Krusty-accused plot also being included; there's no real limit to the amount of stupidity Zombie Simpsons can jam into a single meandering story.  Of course, if that little gem of a Krusty plot isn't in there on April 19th, we could always see it later.  

On the plus side, the endless repetition of earlier plots may finally be having an effect.  There are some grumbly comments on that Simpsons Channel post from people who otherwise still think it's good.