Buckingham Green only pawn...in game of life.

Cool. And I ask this respectfully. But how does being "current" = "brilliance." And how does trying to match inane popstar lyrics with familiar cartoon characters = "brilliance?"

I feel like I might better understand said brilliance if I were wildly clapping my hands like a drunken monkey shouting in the voice of Lenny from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, "Ha! Ha! Otto is blotto! It's funny because it's true! Ha! Ha!"

In fact, that's a Simpsons joke. From a time when they would have skewered this very intro mercilessly.

Are our standards for what serves as "brilliance" really so low?

Even if this intro was brilliant, it would still remain a lame commercial and sad reminder of how far the show has fallen.

p.s. Though the intro serves as the final death knell to the Simpsons, my comment isn't a negative statement about you, Jag. You may love this clip. And I cherish you all the same.

Because I certainly know I have my own guilty pleasures. Such as reading my favorite comic series long past their freshness date. And cranking Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" on my ipod as I track the White_Wolf to watch him lick himself clean under the Alaskan Palin moonlight.

You can't possibly be serious.

I'm no fan of Kei$ha (seriously, a dollar sign?), but if you're going to make an honest argument that Uffie isn't identical in its manufactured insincerity or empty packaging then I have a bridge for sale you might be interested in.