Watching Simpsons

Just about everybody, at one point in time, has had a boss that they really didn’t like, and perhaps that’s putting it mildly. Let me try another way of phrasing it: I’d like to think that, throughout the span of one’s life, they’ve worked for an unbearable person that they’ve loathed. I certainly had, a number of times. Once, roughly a little more than 10 years ago, I worked in a steak house. The boss really was a creep: in his sixties, he saw no problem with hitting on the 16 year old wait staff. I washed dishes at the time, and one day, he had me on garbage duty. It was Mothers Day, and the dumpster was overflowing. He had me – I kid you not – climb into the dumpster with a push broom and “beat down the trash to make more space.”

At least, one can say, employers like the one mentioned above are not as unbearable on TV. Redorbit.com has a tiny list of some of the most offending bosses on TV. Ricky Gervais, in the original version of The Office, not the NBC Remake, tops the list. Others mentioned include Gordon Ramsey, the hilariously mean Brit on “Hell’s Kitchen.” Since the list is likely of British origin, one of the names would seem obscure to American readers. However, the sole remaining, however, knows no boundaries. Montgomery Burns has always been wonderfully megalomaniacal, and his list of evil doing stretches back over the centuries. Still, Mr. Burns is deliciously evil. In real life, however, bad bosses are just jerks. Plus, given the list’s recent posting date, it’s interesting that Dr. Gregory House didn’t make the cut.

Mr. Burns, The Office, House, Gordon Ramsey, The Simpsons, Bosses, Televsion

Sometimes, a trip to YouTube can prove how much a show has really entrenched it’s, for better or worse into the minds of people, and as a result, culture. Here is a guy who, in his spare time “mashed” the themes of Star Trek and The Simpsons together by playing a keyboard, a funnel, and a theremin.

For the record, I’m not a big fan of mash-ups on YouTube. For example, there seems to be a couple of Wu-Tang versions of the Simpsons, and you know, the humor in seeing Homer, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart lip sync Ghostface Killah, Method Man, U-God, and the rest of the crew. Still, once in awhile, you find something that’s so well done, it’s just hysterical. Take the following 300-Simpsons combination. Thematically, it’s all 300, warriors, and Sparta; it is, after all, the audio from 300’s coming attraction, and so the voices are not what one would expect while looking at, say, Homer. As with other fan films on YouTube, it’s all about the editing. Judge for yourself: