Simpsons insult Butterfinger?

[Jimmy Kustes]

Did anyone see tonight's episode? Police Chief Wiggum throws Butterfingers (you can even see the wrappers) into a fire and they don't burn. And then he says "even the fire doesn't want them.."

Why are they dissing their own sponser?

[Zorakfan]

Because they can, and they do. Notice how much they rip on Fox? I don't care. It's funny. Now what would REALLY be funny is one of Nick's shows dissing them.

[Sheamon]

Any publicity is good publicity, as the saying goes...

[The Mad Hatter]

Yup, I'll bet Butterfinger got a kick out of the idea and approved it themselves. Again, any publicity...

[Terminatah]

It's the self-depreciating humor that has been carrying the show ever since the writers noticed they were no longer laying GOLDEN eggs. Truth is, some people actually like Butterfingers. I like em.

-Terminatah

[Alaskanbullworm]

I felt that this episode was funnier than usual. Maybe this will be a good season, but we'll just have to wait and see.

[Karkull]

The joke could also be interpreted as that Butterfingers are so good that the fire couldn't bear to burn them. Just like the McDonalds jokes from Clerks, they can be interpreted both ways.

"Nothing can kill the Grimace."

[Calhoun07]

There were more laughs in this episode, but it still felt like it was trying to hard in some places. Bridget Jones Diareha....uhhhhggghhhh! :(

[DR. BELCH]

That was maybe the one laugh I had the entire episode--the meta-humor inherent in the Butterfinger bit. Ironically for a script about sugar, this one rang sour for me.
Maybe it was the fact that Homer has already been a sugar salesman in an earlier ep, after he finds the contents of a spilled truck on the road...or maybe it's that the ending, with the sugar spilled in the bay, reminded me a lot of the end of another ep with The Old Sea Captain and the cargo of hot pants. And seeing a toothless grinning Lenny was a definite "ew" moment, with Disco Stu snorting sugar a close second.
Or maybe it rang a bit too close to home--I've heard talk that this nation is getting fatter for some years (though, conversely, they also claim Newt Gingrich and the Republicans were starving schoolchildren and the elderly to death back in 1994--which is it, liberals?)
The Count Chocula parody was one of those jokes that felt like it was "trying too hard", as Cal says. The Bridget Jones joke must have been in the first act, which I (thankfully?) missed. "Ah, Erin Brockovich. The prostitute with the heart of gold."

[Alaskanbullworm]

This kind of reminded me of when there was a ban on beer. It was almost like this storyline.

[James Harvey]

If you look closely, Disco Stu didn't really snort sugar, but sucked it in through his mouth, not nose. While the episode wasn't that great, it was actually a "better than usual" episode. Then again, anything is better than the Golden Globes and there wa snothing else on.

[Supernovametalstar]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
That was maybe the one laugh I had the entire episode--the meta-humor inherent in the Butterfinger bit. Ironically for a script about sugar, this one rang sour for me.
Maybe it was the fact that Homer has already been a sugar salesman in an earlier ep, after he finds the contents of a spilled truck on the road...or maybe it's that the ending, with the sugar spilled in the bay, reminded me a lot of the end of another ep with The Old Sea Captain and the cargo of hot pants. And seeing a toothless grinning Lenny was a definite "ew" moment, with

I think that may have been what they were going for. The episodes you mentioned are considered to be classics or at least good episodes, so they decided to combine some older episodes into a new one, without using old footage :p . And it worked, as people are saying this was a better episode that they've had for a couple of seasons.