Well, it’s been a while since I last did an article on this page. Yeah, I know. Since the season finale of The Great North is the last post I published in May, I need a break and recharge before doing something. You try being a one-man band taking charge of this page and doing everything to keep things settled while various social media sites are currently being burnt into the ground. But that being said, with Comic-Con coming up...in less than a week, I might as well get a practice run and some stuff that is coming out in the past week should be the way to go.
We start off with the Emmy nominations since this is the most recent from this week. And despite the ongoing writers' strike and the looming actors' strike once this post is published when the strike will take effect and will be joining the writers in solidarity, we got some shows alongside cast and crew members getting tapped in getting the nod in who’ll be lucky enough to take home the trophy, that being the Emmy award. While everyone will be talking about the Best Drama Series or Best Limited Series or...everything else, animation seems to be the way to go here on this page. Well, two of those series that got the nod for the upcoming Emmy Awards. One of which being my try and true.
Bob’s Burgers, no surprise, made the cut in the Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program with the episode “The Plight Before Christmas” the one that will hopefully get the Bob’s Burgers camp their third Emmy win in franchise history. I knew that this episode was going to get the nomination leading up to the release of the nominees for this category with the Emmys. You might as well consider this Christmas in July because while it is a bit quite of the ordinary, to some, but fuck it, Plight is, and still is, an amazing episode coming out of Season 13.
I said at the end of the review to the episode back in December the week it aired that this episode would likely get the Emmy nomination because of how the episode played out. Lo and behold, it did. So I guess you could call it an “I called it” for saying that the episode would get the nomination because of how much a master class “The Plight Before Christmas” was the more you watch. Already said it once and I’ll probably go and say it again regarding a particular scene from the episode that I didn’t cry at the scene but it doesn’t mean I hate it. It was amazing that Louise had pulled with her poem and Tina came in for the save like she was a kicker kicking the game-winning field goal to send the team to the championship by attending Louise’s performance as she was prepared to speak. Sure, Linda came in later in the performance and yes, still annoyed that Bob and/or Linda didn’t call in for help to see Louise at the library but you gotta hand it to Tina for giving up her spot at her Thundergirls play for the holidays at City Hall to see Louise at the library and gave the star costume to Harley.
Honestly, I do hope that “The Plight Before Christmas” gets the win because this was an incredible episode with how it was panned out from start to finish. And Season 13 has some episodes that are bangers with Plight being one of those episodes from that season. I mean, at this point, I might as well do like...a Top 5 episodes list from Season 13 leading up to the show’s upcoming fourteenth season. Which...y’all already know what the list contains. Fingers crossed on “The Plight Before Christmas” getting the dub. Of course, Bob’s Burgers isn’t the only contestant in town being nominated for the Emmy...
We have Rick and Morty with “Night Family” from Season 6, that being the episode where they parodied the Jordan Peele movie “Us” with the Smith family dealing with a nightmare-sleepless version of themselves. It’s an interesting episode, sure. And you could say that it would be either this episode or maybe “Solaricks” to be the episode that is considered the choice...or maybe another show taking that spot. Sure, it’s any given Sunday because of how the voting process works on who would be getting the award, but I feel like the odds might be...well, it’s there. If they can get past the whole mess regarding Justin Roiland that clouded the series earlier this year, it could have a chance. But going against the likes of Bob’s Burgers, call me a homer if you like, The Simpsons with the latest Treehouse of Horror episode (mostly with the parody of Death Note), Primal, and Entergalatic, which is a show that I myself have never even heard of. May the best show win I guess once we find out come September.
Other than the Emmy nominations, we got some premiere dates. Meaning that your boy will be back to work pretty soon. We had a press release for the upcoming Fall schedule on FOX earlier this week and it’s to coincide with one of the shows that some had anticipated and had been playing the long game for...a while, a long while I mean with Krapopolis. And if you don’t know what that show is...honestly, I don’t blame you. But to sum it up in a short version, it’s a new show by Rick and Morty co-creator, now sole creator Dan Harmon, and the focus, I’m not bullshitting here, is on NFTs. Yeah...kind of a bit late on the whole NFT thing. Mostly because...well, it’s a fastly dying breed that is losing relevancy like most trends these days. I’d probably expect a flock of Rick and Morty fans to come in because the show has Dan Harmon’s name latched onto it. You know his other show Little Demon was a thing, right? Yeah, he’s a producer there but I would’ve at least brought some fans from Rick and Morty there. Plus it has Danny DeVito...I’m pretty sure that should be enough to test the waters. Krapopolis will take the stage on September 24 after the NFL on FOX America’s Game of the Week matchup with a double billing as a two-episode premiere. And will be latching on through the Fall season once October hits. And speaking of October...
This is where Bob’s Burgers (and also The Simpsons and Family Guy) come into the conversation. After a roller coaster ride, if you even want to call it that, that was Season 13 a few months ago with “Amelia” ending the season with a bang, amid the ongoing Writers’ strike that is currently taking place that kicked off during the final few weeks of the season after negotiations went down the toilet and talks of a possible shortened season or pushback had been clouding over the fandom once Season 13 ended. MLB fans had dealt with that leading up to the 2022 season after the World Series ended in 2021. Hopefully, that won’t be the case and that should be cleared up once Comic-Con arrives next week. October 1 is the date for when Season 14 of Bob’s Burgers begins and for yours truly, another round of reviews. But when looking at the post from the FOX page (over on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, etc.), you noticed one show that is missing from the line-up for the Fall.
Talking about The Great North. Might as well get this out of the way, the show isn’t canceled. It’s not going anywhere. According to the Hidden Remote on the FOX Fall line-up, The Great North for its fourth season has been listed in the “held for the midseason” section of the article over there. So what’s the reason for why it’s not listed on the schedule? That I don’t know and hopefully things will get cleared once Comic-Con arrives next week.
I heard one reason might be because The Great North is under the WGA’s umbrella, and the Molyneux sisters, the co-creators and showrunners, are members of the Guild, and production over there is on pause that, and take it with a grain of salt, that a possible shortened season might be the best case once we get to the Spring, that is if the strike comes to an end once we enter the Fall season. Then again, most shows are under the umbrella of the Writers Guild and they’re on hold until a new deal is made. And saying that Krapopolis, who is taking over The Great North’s spot for the time being isn’t with the WGA. I dunno man. It’s been a basket filled with questions since the release of the schedule and with the strike ongoing for the writers and soon the actors, seriously, for the fuck faces that are the Hollywood executives and CEOs, fucking pay the writers and actors and accept their demands, we’ll have to wait for Comic-Con for things to be cleared.
But with the looming Actors’ strike ready to take place, at the time of posting, the strike will be activated, Comic-Con is going to be a weird one this year. Like the early days of the pandemic type of weird where we would expect no audiences in the stands where there will be no cast and crew members and will be only booths and congoers in costumes. The silver lining for that being the case will have people ready to have a last-minute Plan B in buying tickets for the Barbenheimer double feature or trying to find a place to watch a potential Messi Inter Miami debut against Cruz Azul. In short, The Great North isn’t going anywhere but we’ll have to play the waiting game for the time being.
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