My review of the latest Simpsons episode, "Gorgeous Grampa," is at the A.V. Club. An excerpt:
For a lot of Simpsons fans, the biggest news from “Gorgeous Grampa” is a new entry in the Great Springfield Songbook. Montgomery Burns does a klezmer-style number that proclaims “it’s high to be low,” giving us the unsurprising news that the nuclear tycoon revels in being the object of hatred. (Update: The song is actually called “It's A High To Be Loathed,” but Mr. Burns is no Ella Fitzgerald when it comes to elocution.)
“Don’t really care for chasing women/Never was keen on booze/Don’t take cocaine or mary jane/No, I get drunk on boos,” Mr. Burns begins as he leaps to the stage of a supper club. (There’s no more need for Smithers to protect him by saying, “No, they’re saying boo-urns.” Poor, useless Smithers.) He makes shadow puppets comparing himself to such villains as South Park’s Eric Cartman, Star Wars’ Darth Vader, and someone named Nader—presumably Ralph, and presumably a villain for his anti-nuclear views, not for his role in electing George W. Bush. The big finish: “You know you’re gonna live forever/if everybody wants you dead.”
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