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I'm not planning on presenting exhaustive lists of Black Friday sales — far too many other sites are doing that — but I am going to point out the ones I actually buy from, such as Amazon's. They put a lot of their stuff on sale plus they've matched many other stores' sales, so now is an excellent time to pick up some DVDs.

Example: Best Buy has seasons 1-10 of The Simpsons on sale for $10.99 – $12.99, but I have all those. Instead I just ordered season 12 from Amazon for $14.99.

Seasons of House for $12.99. Dr. Who for $41.99, half the regular price. Black Adder Remastered: The Ultimate Edition for just $41.99, half off the price and worth every penny.

Plus movie DVDs like Coraline for $8.99 and Star Trek (Single-Disc Edition) for 9 bucks.

If you were interested in getting them anyway (as I was), now's the time to nab 'em.

Usually I try not to post stuff that's already all over the other blogs, but come on, the "Simpsonzu" pic is pretty cool.

An artist named spacecoyote has crafted a great picture of the Simpsons in an anime style. A good chunk of the cast in crammed into the familiar living room and the facial expressions are great. Come to think of it, Bart and Lisa had spiky hairstyles already…

Also, Marge is still a babe.

Nearly a week after Halloween the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVII has now come and gone and, just like the Halloween sale aisles at Wal-Mart, it looks like we were stuck with was left over.

I laughed, I believe, three times. "I kept down Arby's, I can keep down you!" "Ahh! The fire is sealing in my juices!" And Krusty's HD demonstration. Maybe a chuckle for the "War of the Worlds" sound guy, and it was fun seeing the Depression-era Springfieldians.

But wow, was this a dull screamfest that's gone back to the same haunted well too many times. Huge Homer eating people: done that. The Golem segment was just embarassing and I'm not even Jewish. And the War of the Worlds tribute, aside from the fact that it's always a pleasure to listen to Maurice LaMarche, was weak and fairly pointless unless the goal was to get the thinly veiled anti-war commentary in there. Hint for Simpsons writers: "You said we'd be welcomed as liberators!" was funny. Everything after that was a political ad, and not even a good one. Avoid picking sides and stick with funny. Like, say, "Citizen Kang" from Treehouse of Horror VII when Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were replaced by aliens. What was different? The jokes were on the election process and not any one party.

Kang: Abortions for all
(Crowd boos)
Kang: Very well, no abortions for anyone.
(Crowd boos)
Kang: Hmm… Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
(Crowd cheers and waves miniature flags)

On the plus side, it was announced that the trailer for "The Simpsons Movie" would premiere next Sunday night. And at The Simpsons Web site you can still mix and match your own Treehouse of Horror episode, hopefully with better luck.

So what did you think?

Hidely ho, neighborinos! FOX has announced that the animated prime time show The Simpsons has been renewed for two more seasons, providing us with many more hilarious episodes of America's favorite family that are guaranteed to be just as edgy and radical as they have been for the last 17 years.

In fact, I've managed — through means I can't really discuss because I haven't made them up yet — to find out the detailed plans for the next two seasons. And they're even more wild and innovative than they've ever been before! Just look at the ground-breaking, never-before-seen episodes you can look forward to:

Homer becomes obsessed with whatever pop culture fad is hot at the time and takes it to a ridiculous extreme, dragging along the citizens of Springfield until it all crashes down on him.

Bart's classroom prank goes too far and he gets kicked out of school.

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Now this is just creepy.