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Author Topic: REVIEW: Funeral For a Fiend  (Read 191 times)
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« on: November 26, 2007, 01:40:01 am »

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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2007, 10:46:40 am »

Wait, it's actually good? Amazing!
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« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2007, 12:32:10 am »

Hm, there was nothing I hated about it, but the whole thing did feel a little unfocused. SOrta like they were following the Bob episode formula and not putting all that much thought into polishing the script/plotting. But it was decent. B-
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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2007, 08:41:24 am »

I actually watched an episode!  Gasp!

My review's pretty on par with Steve's.  I didn't hate it, and there were some really funny jokes here and there, but it was a little unfocused and unpolished.

Bob's got quite a family, heh.
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2007, 06:54:52 pm »

Once again, I missed an episode becuase my roommate and his girlfriend were watching the freakin' football game.  I wish they'd watch the game at her house once in a while...
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« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2007, 06:09:26 pm »

This really was pretty terrific (if a bit abruptly handled in the beginning).  A lot of neat callbacks (Cecil and Bob's rivalry chiefly) and Lisa got to be the driving force behind the family's heroics, shades of Bart's rescue of Selma in "Black Widower".  Only Bob would go to such lengths to finally kill his rival. 

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Pretty good stuff all around, actually.  Less abruptness in introducing Bob's deception at the beginning would have pushed this over the top.  As it is, A-
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2007, 02:01:09 am »

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