Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Simpsons in hi-def: Sharper image

In case you missed it, "The Simpsons" went hi-def tonight, and the producers used the shift as an opportunity to rejigger the opening credits for the first time in the show's history years. You can watch, ironically, a low-quality version of it right now on YouTube, and the higher-quality version should be up on Hulu by morning.

As the episode itself wasn't anything worth writing about (except for me to lament the decision that "That '90s Show," like Armin Tanzerian, is something they'll pretend didn't happen, and that Homer and Marge still went to high school in the '70s), I'll just say that, like any good "Simpsons" nerd, I went frame-by-frame through the whip-pan across the center of town and was pleased with most of the choices of characters with one exception: what's the Roy Scheider circa "All That Jazz" lookalike character doing there?

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