"I'm like an ecosystem!": Psuedo-Liveblogging Fox Sunday Night, again

Same way as last time: Instathoughts before the "...", final thoughts after.

The Simpsons, "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words":
"Compared to you, my life is one big half day!"-Skinner

Dug the Vesuvius couch gag. When did Skinner and Krabappel get back together?
"Um, I think it's...we don't have one"-- funniest line reading I can remember that's not by this person. "No...I'm not mad" and "...musn't it not!" came close later on.
"I don't care if it's 45 cents!"
That frame-thing on Lisa's crossword-- reference or cool original idea?
It looks like this title is one of the Simpsons' better puns.
"Another religion! [forgets rest of line]"
Lisa's crossword fantasy is another cool trick, a reference to Wordplay, right.
Snake and Gloria broke up! I'd never have guessed!
"Back then we called them Alphabet Hotels"
I think I'm going to have to watch this twice, with all the visual stuff in the background.
Homer's story ends at the halfway point-- figures.
ILSA--oops, LISA
Lisa does come in second place a lot.
Only five words have been removed? Yeah, right.
Gil sounds different-- or was that another Gunderson?
Homer's very, very bad with money.
"Jackie-O! Like Spaghetti-O! I thought that's where her money came from!"
Gratuitous guest stars! Well, not super-gratuitous.
Is that crossword real? Cause that'd be cool.
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Maybe I'm just in a good mood, but I liked this one. The plot itself was a bit thin, but not Family Guy thin, and the jokes were almost universally good. The ending felt a little rushed, though.

King of the Hill, "A Bill Full of Dollars":
"But then the rash went away, and I coud wear pants again!"-Bill

That guy actually sounds better than the real Jim Cramer, though not as good as the fake one on Arrested Development. Is it weird that I think chocolate-covered chips sound good? Bill gets the racecar cart at the grocery store, despite not having kids. Another is it weird: I have no idea how to buy stocks. Do you go to a store or something? Because I like free money. Dale correctly explains the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, in an oddly Futurama-esque joke. Bobby and Hank don't have a lot to do here, but it's a good subplot, what with Bobby being afraid of his own TV and all. Dale keeps his earnings buried in his backyard. I thought everyone knew you just declared bankruptcy by shouting "I declare BANKRUPTCY!"
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Bill is this show's version of a regular comedic type: the perpetually shit-upon character (or PSUC, a fairly gross acronym). On South Park, it's Butters; on Family Guy, it's Meg; on The Office, it was Pam, and then it was Andy (PSUC-hood is transferable). Of course, this being King of the Hill, his suffering is relatively mundane, and played more tragically than comically. Sometimes it works (what was the wheelchair episode? Was that one good?), sometimes it doesn't.
Not to mention, they wasted a pretty good chance at satire when Peggy, Dale, Mihn were observing Bill, but it didn't go as far as it could have.

Family Guy, "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing":
"Welcome to Executive Bathroom Island"-Some Guy
Sinatra Jr's back!
"What else are you doing that's terrible and stupid?"
"Obvious lesbian will bring great news"
"That sounds hilarious but it also might take awhile" -- too meta by half
They should have waited till the end of the episode with the piano, or just left it hanging for a while, until we all forgot about it. But I bet they do it again by the end of this one.
"Last-clap contest"
Can you say "Happy Gilmore" ripoff?
Boy, that Quagmire sure likes sex!
Reference to pop culture! (note: I didn't actually watch this. It may or may not be the right video.)
I just heard that Hertz Donut joke for the first time on the Daily Show.
Who the hell is Bruce Jenner? Is that a joke?
The pLace logo? Hi-larious
"Andy Dick happened"
Was Omar the kid from Weeds? IMdb doesn't say.
OK, so they didn't do the piano, but they did do another meta-joke ("you'll be out next Sunday at nine," a joke that's been done-to-death already).
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OK, so this episode had the same problem as the Simpsons: almost no plot. And making fun of your plotholes is not the same as having a plot. Also, the jokes weren't as good as the Simpsons.
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Wait, it's not over! There's singing! Which doesn't quite excuse anything else, though it was easily the episode's best joke. Also it was too short.

American Dad!, "Pulling Double Booty":
"I'm gonna buy some beads at the bead store and then open my own bead store!"-Jeff
"Your mother acted it out for me. It was riveting, she took some very rewarding chances."-Stan
"I'd go crazy...rape Roger..."-Haley
"Making out! What are we, two sixteen-year-old girls?"-Stan

Loved Stan's explanation of why he doesn't say "I love you".
Haley handling of rejection badly is a plot that actually fits the character, plus fits because neither does Stan. Then it looks like we get another rebellion/ overprotectiveness story, then it gets weird (a word I've mispelled three times today, and spelled right on the first try zero times). And hey, they brought back Stan's double! And then it gets really weird, and kind of heartbreaking, when Stan was all, "You used to watch Sesame Street". and then it all tied back to the beginning. It both does and doesn't end well.

And somehow cockfighting is involved, which also didn't end well, come to think of it.
Apparently it's summer. Hayley's "doin' it" song may be the funniest thing I've seen all week, and it's another joke that's all in the delivery (well, that and that arm thing). Stan's ringtone is "Yankee Doodle". Reminds me of Arrested Development (the "AD" without a "!")'s ringtone gags.
This whole episode become even more creepy when you remember that Seth McFarlane (Stan/ Bill) and Rachel McFarlane (Haley) are siblings.
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Actually, that pretty much covers it.