Saturday Morning Cartoons

"You know, when that Simpson boy showed up it took years off my life." - Mr. Bouvier

"Will you stop it, she went out with the good one." - Mrs. Bouvier

The image above is among the many tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of reasons that The Simpsons flat out works in a way that no other television show, and certainly not Zombie Simpsons, works.  It's not that other shows have never used snapshot photos to advance the plot, it's the fact that Simpsons is so dense with jokes and ideas that rather than spending even a moment on the painful and distracting image of Marge rejecting Homer, they use this to move on as quickly as possible.