The second thing I did like dealt with Marge being upset with the banners she made being used for a 10 second joke. I didn’t even have to try, the originality in this show is so painfully removed. It originally aired on April 26, 2020. And the fact they included a clip from Who Shot Mr. Burns in the intro just makes me wish that was the only two-part episode of the series. In Michigan, Reverend Lovejoy uncovers the reason why Bode left and came to Springfield. After a brief recap, the entirety of act one is all just repeating information we already know: Bode is a hit with the people of Springfield, Lisa admires him as a wise man of faith, and Lovejoy discovers Bode’s secret in Michigan. Wow, this is getting insane. It originally aired on May 3, 2020. I guess what the intention was is that Bode reinvigorated the townspeople’s faith, and this represents the ultimate betrayal of the religious tenants he stood for. I guess it was just to fill two slots for the year. Plot []. This is 100% official from the series. – Lovejoy’s trip to Michigan takes him to the doorstep of the megachurch Bode previously worked at, which only served to remind me of the wonderful HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, a very biting and truly brilliant satire on televangelist empires. But, no. It aired in the United States on Fox on March 8, 2020. "Warrin' Priests: Part One" is the nineteenth episode of season 31 of The Simpsons and the six-hundred and eighty-first episode overall. Also, then we just have a random scene of Bode going to Ned’s house with western-ish music playing for a duel? What a little hellraiser I was. A couch gag from The Simpsons Season 31, Episode 19 - "Warrin' Priests: Part One", where the Simpson family's clothes (Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie) sit on the couch, while the actual family is in the backstage shivering from cold. Marge going out of her way to convince Lisa to never follow her dreams or ambitions has been a writer’s fetish for quite some time. Finally, at minute 15 of the episode, Lovejoy returns for the big reveal: as part of a sermon as a young pastor, Bode burned a Bible. Season 31 has truly toppled Season 28 as the most abysmal of Simpsons seasons. Couch gag: A parody of the opening title sequence from HBO’s Succession, ending with Homer telling his family they won’t inherit anything because he doesn’t have anything. Did I miss a scene where Ned challenged Bode to a duel in his home at a certain time? All Rights Reserved. ( Log Out /  Wikisimpsons has a Discord server! The Simpsons' couch breaks them out, and leads the family to a buried Lard Lad statue. The reaction: So here we have part two, and I still have no idea why they made this a two-parter. Hell, the past 20 years or so have turned him into the worst kind of religious leader; he’s in it only for the money or the fame, and actually detrimental to the cause. "Gorillas on the Mast" is the 5th episode of the thirty-first season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the 667th episode overall. The episode was written by Pete Holmes and directed by Matthew Nastuk. The Simpson family sits on the couch. Both parts of “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” are chock full of set-ups and pay-offs, great character stuff, the building and unraveling of a mystery, and laughs, laughs and more laughs. "Warrin' Priests: Part Two" is the twentieth episode of season 31 of The Simpsons and the six-hundred and eighty-second episode overall. Absolutely no episodes in 2020 with any good moments whatsoever. Haven’t seen the episode, but the Bill O’Reilly line is pretty much the level of political satire I’m used to from The Simpsons now. If so, please let me know how loud you laughed at the opening of this episode. Episodes like this and “Much Apu About Something” present the same problem; the status quo is presented as tired, old, and shitty, with them spending all their time bitching and moaning about how miserable it is to still be doing this, and then something newer, and younger, comes along that presents something different that gives this podunk inspiration, and their reaction is… unbridled rage. Turn's out it's from the HBO series Succession. Just threw on Alessia Cara - Here ^.^ Just messing around. "Warrin' Priests" is a two-part episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons. I genuinely thought this was an actual episode, all the way down to the awful pun. Not that the actual next episode is any better – “The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds”, where Lisa makes friends with another girl who’s a guest star. What a completely flaccid outing. The couch gag opening references the only other two-parter previously broadcast for the show where we learned who shot Mr. Burns. But what I’m ultimately trying to figure out is… what does Reverend Lovejoy earn by chasing off the new guy? Where’s Laney Fontaine, the Broadway star Lisa went on tour with? The Simpsons® is a registered trademark of 20th Century Fox. !” When I was a kid, my conservative father got me the best-selling book “The O’Reilly Factor For Kids,” and in a rare act of teenage rebellion, I burned it in a bonfire with some of my friends. We gotta keep things as is cause as it was Mayor Quimby’s re-election slogan in “See Homer Run”: Change Is Bad. Marge trying not give hope to Lisa… Man, She really wants to destroy Lisa’s dreams. Is it just because the writers keep forgetting that there’s more to Christianity than the staunch Fundamentalists these days, or do they just not care? Bode Wright prays with the Simpsons and asks God to please not let the Simpsons ever end. But “Warrin’ Priests” is just the A-story, and it’s a pretty shocking display of how little they manage to fill the time with. Part One is the nineteenth episode of the 31st season and originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 26, 2020, Part Two is the twentieth of the 31st season and aired on May 3, 2020. That makes no sense either. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Didn’t see the episode so not sure – but why is Krusty in the picture. © 2021 Wikisimpsons. The Extremesons" couch gag was animated by Michał Socha and produced by Ron Diamond. I eventually surmised this must be a parody of a show I wasn’t familiar with, but “thankfully” the show just flat-out told me that, showing a Kent Brockman report with the on-screen title “SHOW PARODIES OTHER SHOW.” Afterward, I figured out this was their tribute to the opening title of HBO’s “Succession,” and once again I’ll say for the ten millionth time that a) recreating a thing doesn’t count as a parody if there’s not a lick of satire to be found, and b) a good parody should still play to the people who don’t specifically know the source material. And the only way they feel goes at it for coming off as an equal opportunity critic is “Oh, that Bill Clinton is still thinking with his peter” stuff that stopped being hilarious 20 years ago. That homeless musician who was a drug addict? This is thread is about the couch gag from The Simpsons episode "Warrin Priests: Part One". Having never seen the show, I have no fucking idea what this was supposed to be. After watching this two-parter, I think i can safely say that this show has no reason to be making any more of these if this is what it comes down to. https://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=Warrin%27_Priests:_Part_Two/References&oldid=983882. On it are photos of characters and moments from previous episodes: Mr. Bergstrom, Princess the pony, Bleeding Gums Murphy, Lisa teaching Mr. Burns about recycling, and Jesse Grass. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the spine-tingling conclusion of “Borin’ Priests!” See you all next week for ANOTHER episode where Lisa Simpson makes a new friend voiced by a celebrity! Lisa … I just don’t get it.” How is Disney doing anything? But I bet it still gets renewed for a Season 33 and beyond. Remixed the couch gag song. A wholly unremarkable outing. As to next week’s thrilling conclusion of “Warrin’ Priests.” I won’t be here, sadly, as the A.V. And so, Bode just leaves town and the episode is over. THE SIMPSONS SEASON 31 EPISODE 20 WARRIN PRIESTS PART TWO - THE SIMPSONS S31E20 (PART 1) ... Simpsons couch gags Season 18 (Homer Simpson, Marge, Bart, Lisa) - … Great Fatsby had no reason to be a two-parter either (let alone a reason to exist). With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith. Ask questions and download or stream the entire … Among the possessions Mr. Burns has are: Not-So-Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, the Wright Flyer, a Mammoth skeleton, Terracotta Army statues, an Egyptian sarcophagus and part of Blarney Castle. Burns?" Instead, their showdown in church is interrupted by a musical number from Lisa about how much she loves Bode, more fluff to pad the runtime out. Season 31 was under development before Disney even bought Fox. IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Burns?" Directed by Mike B. Anderson, Bob Anderson. Click here for your invite! Find out SUNDAY…Sunday…Sunday…on FOX. The concept of instilling Springfield with a practical, malleable version of faith could be an interesting one, but that idea goes completely unexplored and goes nowhere, over the course of two episodes. That’s Al Jean’s Simpsons in a nutshell. It guest stars Pete … As for the “trial” scene, it just felt like “Shit, we need status quo back and fast!” Like Lisa doesn’t even get the crowd to listen to Bode’s side of the story or even ask Lovejoy to actually show the footage of him burning the bible (Heck, she and Lovejoy barely give Bode the time and day at all during the scene). Or Chloe, Marge’s high school friend and roving reporter  Lisa idolized? The premise: Having uncovered Bode’s most terrible secret, Lovejoy returns to Springfield to expose their newly beloved reverend, inflaming the town’s ire and shaking Lisa’s newfound renewed faith. Finally, I don’t get the big deal with burning a bible when there was a purpose behind it. Hi!. It just goes to show the writers are too afraid to make any ever lasting changes to the status quo and that’s fucking ridiculous when you are in Season 31! And, that’s my biggest problem with this episode. Lisa’s Wiccan friends? All he did was burn a dead tree. Warrin Priests (Part One) Warrin' Priests (Part One) is the nineteenth episode ofSeason 31. Make an account! I guess? Regardless the whole stuff with Ned felt tacked on, and we never get why he doesn’t actually accept Bode’s teaching when most Christians would be willing to listen to his words (at least Lovejoy has the excuse of Bode replacing him to hate his guts). As usual, when this show does direct callbacks, it is always something from the show’s most respected years, and it’s always the clearest indicator of how completely disposable and forgettable the last twenty years of the show have been. Directed by: Bob Anderson. Tune in for “Where the Bart-Fullo Roam”, where Homer caves in and buys Bart a buffalo named Matt, Lisa protests, and Marge strains her poor voice again while Disney tries to make Hudson x Maggie work! The Simpsons (TV Series) Warrin' Priests (2020) Trivia. Backstage, the family is shivering in their undies. They scratch the surface of what Ned’s gripes are, but he and Bode never have much of a back-and-forth that amounts to anything interesting. Any readers out there big “Succession” fans? The Simpsons - Warrin' Priests (Parts I & II) Cook'd and Bomb'd. It just came out of nowhere and felt like it was there just to be a time waster. I loved the music that was played for the couch gag. Also, that was the big reveal? ( Log Out /  – The couch gag this week was some bizarre home-movie style thing where the Simpsons are eating outside with some horses? – Marge warns Lisa not to get her hopes up too much over Bode, drawing her attention to the vision board of disappointment conveniently hanging in her kitchen. This is how they would look The Simpsons if they were invisible. The episode was written by Pete Holmes and directed by Bob Anderson. https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Warrin'_Priests_(Part_One)/Gags It’s just “This town likes being an angry mob, so better leave now.”. All but one of these moments are from the show’s golden era, with the lone outlier being from season 12, an episode that aired almost twenty years ago. Warrin Priests (Part Two) 1 Title Screen Gag 2 Billboard Gag 3 Chalkboard Gag 4 Instrumental Gag 5 Couch Gag Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Sure, he gets back his church and his congregation, but the town goes back to ignoring him, and he most likely goes back to giving the same old, tired speeches about sin and damnation that the townsfolk have long droned out of. Three items of note: In a couch gag named, "Planet of the Couches", the Simpsons are being chased by couches through a field, until they are caught and imprisoned. While he rushes back home to reveal the truth, we get some time-filling fluff with Bode vs. Ned Flanders, which really doesn’t culminate to anything. Why would the townspeople, who at the start of part one couldn’t get the hell out of church fast enough, care so deeply now about burning a Bible? 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