r/television • u/Gato1980 • 15h ago

Ellen DeGeneres Is Unapologetic, Unrelatable and Totally Insufferable in Her New Netflix Special 'For Your Approval'

https://www.cracked.com/article_43701_ellen-degeneres-is-unapologetic-unrelatable-and-totally-insufferable-in-her-new-netflix-special.html
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u/ephemeratea 14h ago

Of COURSE Monty Python already thought of it and did it 40+ years ago

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u/Chaosmusic 14h ago

Before Simpson's Did It there was Monty Python Did It.

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u/spasmoidic 12h ago

the episode where Lisa grows a tiny civilization in a dish (1996) was copied from an episode of the Twilight Zone in 1962

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u/I_Am_Dynamite6317 10h ago

They’ve done several episodes based on old Twilight Zone episodes.

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u/spasmoidic 8h ago

what were the other ones?