The Simpsons Film Festival

Any four episodes of The Simpsons chosen at random would make perfectly acceptable entertainment but The Simpsons Film Festival is a particularly happy selection In Beyond Blunderdome Mel Gibson playing himself sends up his toughguy persona when he hires Homer to produce his latest movie Then in A Star is Burns Springfield hosts its own film festival with guest critic Jay Sherman in attendance The competition boils down to Barneys haunting cinema verité short about the horrors of alcohol or Mr Burns grandiose vanity project 22 Short Films About Springfield is a series of parodies within a parody featuring Springfields secondary characters including Milhouses dad and Chief Wiggum in a glorious Pulp Fiction sequence Finally the shows own internal parody cartoon duo hit the big screen in The Itchy and Scratchy Movie while Bart and Homer lock horns about going to see it They sell Soylent Green in the future cinema foyer and Homer loves it of course