One more post about cartoons and I'll be forced to renounce puberty.

The absolute worst thing about Fox getting the broadcast rights to the baseball playoffs, including the World Series is that it has postponed the Simpsons Halloween Specials until November. That's just lame. Halloween-based programming is the the television equivilent of delicious taffy.* But that's only if it thrillingly anticipates the coming of October 31. If it's being shown in November. while people are already taking down their skeletons and putting up pictures of those adorable religious-fanatic-leprechauns, the Pilgrims, it's just sad, like a sack of drowned puppies left over fromthe traditional drunken Labor Day pet sacrifice. This is, as I wisely pointed out earlier, lame, but necessary if the World Series lasts through the end of October.

However, last year when the Red Sox swept the Cardinals in four games, there was no baseball on the last Sunday of October, leaving a big, juicy space for the Simpsons Halloween special. But since Fox had been advertising their Simpsons Halloween special for the first weekend of November, they ran some bullshit, non-Halloween-related reruns on the last Sunday of October. It was a sacrilege on par with shitting in your mom's mouth while she's passed out on the couch. And, worst of all, they're going to do it again this year! The Sox just won the Series (I'm pleased: Fuck Houston, Fuck Barbara Bush's reptilian jaw gnashing behind home plate, hurray for the smashing of jinxes!), so there won't be any baseball THIS Sunday, either. And yet, because they've already been advertising the special for November 6 (a Halloween special on November Sixth? Christ!), they'll probably dump some horseshit on this Sunday instead of sweet, sweet Simpsons Halloween creamy goodness. Goddamn it! That's all I've got to say. Goddamn it!

Fuck.

*Christmas-related programming, on the other hand, is the television equivilent of being force-fed rusty barbed wire wrapped around pages of John Grisham novels.