David X Cohen

[Inamon]

I'm doing many of these, and now we move onto a guy who just ain't a Simpsons legend; he's also the guy - along with Matt Greoning - as the man behind Futurama's creation. Let's see, not included Treehouse of Horror segments:

Lisa The Vegetarian: A
Much Apu About Nothing: A
Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show: A-
Lisa The Skeptic: A-
Das Bus: B
Bart The Mother: A

Consistant writer, but not enough episodes in my taste.

[Mike]

This guy is great. He wrote awesome episodes, and you should of seen him on an easter egg in a Futurama DVD. He was absolutely hilarious.

[Jye]

Really good writer! I love his work on Futurama.

Also was that Easter Egg the one where he was eating the ice cream cone and talking about Coolio and Ron Hughart etc?

[Inamon]

Alright, here are my full reviews;

Lisa The Vegetarian


This episode is perfect. Nearly. It develops Lisa's character, tones the Homer / Lisa relationship like never before and it's one of the most hilarious scripts since "Bart vs. Australia". But there's a thing that annoys me; Paul & Linda McCartney's guest star. Not only it's tacky, it's unneccesary, unfunny, annoying and the friendship and conversiation between Apu and Lisa could have been done without them.

A.

Much Apu About Nothing


I love satire used in The Simpsons. It defines the show to be more than a comedy, and this episode is, like the previous Cohen script, a character developing situation and it's more realistic. Apu's depression was very well done but Homer's characterlisation could have done more. Still, the jokes were hilarious and it wasn't too cringeworthy, and while this episode stayed mean, it sure stayed fresh.

A.

The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show


The last four Itchy & Scratchy episodes were amazing. "Marge" had its strong satire, "Front" was hilarious, "Land" was wacky yet enjoyable and "Violence" was also great and a funny satire. This episode is one of the most satire heavy episodes ever; only "Homer Bad Man" and "Sideshow Bob Roberts" could be more dangerous in such media. This episode was very low on jokes, but was a great episode nevertheless, with good one-liners and brilliant parody, and the characterlisation was excellent.

A-.

Lisa The Skeptic


More preachy version of "Vegetarian", to be honest. The episode was hugely similar to "The Joy Of Sect", but was more interesting due to its mix of science. It may be controversial, but was funny and managed to be a good structure. The character was okay, too. However, the Marge / Lisa relationship plot was so thin and tacky that I never mentioned it at first, which is a huge dissapointment and flaw.

A.

Das Bus


Like "Lisa's Sax" and "This Little Wiggy", "Bus" is an overrated 'favourite' of season nine. The episode was very tacky and the main plot was silly. The episode is praised just because of its parody of 'Lord Of The Files', a kids book. But I never saw the book which is the reason of such a low grade. It's really just a bunch of kids' arguing for ten minutes and Milhouse was a huge jerk. But the subplot shined the episode.

B

Bart The Mother


This episode I enjoyed. It's excellent at first, and gets better. The emotional structure was good if a bit forced and the jokes were hilarious and the Marge / Bart character was superb and couldn't get better at the mainly least.

A-