| Monday, April 29, 2002 |
13:12 - Defeated by a ruse so hackneyed, it would make Stan Lee blush!
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Okay, these recent Simpsons episodes are getting so there's something bizarre and surprising and rewarding each week-- and that's not in any way a bad thing.
Last night's episode (which I have to assume is new, judging by the "Bin Laden in a Blender" web cartoon made by a dot-com company that dies in the bubble) took a pretty merciless pot-shot at Stan Lee. I don't know what kind of sordid story lies behind what seems like a growing animosity between the Simpsons producers and Stan Lee, but it's certainly out in the open now. They portrayed the man as an annoying, delusional, paranoid, bitter old coot, hanging around the Android's Dungeon and being so irritating that even the Comic Book Guy spent the whole episode trying to make him go away. One priceless scene has Stan Lee trying to convince a kid that he didn't need to buy a Batman figurine to fit into his Batmobile-- see, the Incredible Hulk can fit into it just fine. See? Rrrgh... <crunch> <smash> rrmph. There! Fits just fine. (Said Batmobile is now a broken shambles.) The kid beats a hasty retreat, and Stan Lee busies himself rearranging the comics randomly on the shelf.
To say nothing of the whole Incredible Hulk ending. This is certainly a lot less flattering a portrayal than Kevin Smith gave him. I wonder what lies behind all this?
UPDATE: Okay, so Stan Lee was actually the voice of Stan Lee. So he's just doing self-effacing humor. In which case he rules.
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