Comments on: Bees and Donuts: Hyping Bee Movie and The Simpsons Game http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/ Up The Content Stream Without A Paddle Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Media Districts Entertainment Blog » Bees and Donuts: Hyping Bee Movie and The Simpsons Game http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Media Districts Entertainment Blog » Bees and Donuts: Hyping Bee Movie and The Simpsons Game Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:20:52 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/#comment-79 [...] Jonathan Gray put an intriguing blog post on Bees and Donuts: Hyping Bee Movie and The Simpsons GameHere’s a quick excerpt [...] [...] Jonathan Gray put an intriguing blog post on Bees and Donuts: Hyping Bee Movie and The Simpsons GameHere’s a quick excerpt [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Jonathan Gray Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:48:25 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/#comment-52 Yes. I even hear Milhouse makes an appearance as the King of All Cosmos. Too cool Yes. I even hear Milhouse makes an appearance as the King of All Cosmos. Too cool

]]> By: Jason Mittell http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Jason Mittell Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:45:29 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/2007/10/bees-and-donuts-hyping-bee-movie-and-the-simpsons-game/#comment-51 On kids' TV, the Bee Movie spots are typical kids' movie spots - footage & gags from the film. Clearly Dreamworks thought that Bee Movie could cross-over on the back of Jerry... and they were wrong, based on the first weekend's box office. And as I understand it, these game parodies are part of the Simpsons Game itself, which is basically a string of meta-games framed in a story, and hysterical. I'm so there! On kids’ TV, the Bee Movie spots are typical kids’ movie spots – footage & gags from the film. Clearly Dreamworks thought that Bee Movie could cross-over on the back of Jerry… and they were wrong, based on the first weekend’s box office.

And as I understand it, these game parodies are part of the Simpsons Game itself, which is basically a string of meta-games framed in a story, and hysterical. I’m so there!

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