“The Simpsons” travel to “The Yellow Lotus” on Sunday’s episode, where they “encounter death on vacation at a high-end resort.” If that sounds a bit like “The White Lotus,” well, of course. It’s the ...

The best parody episodes of "The Simpsons" do more than just poke fun at the thing they're parodying. Case in point, "SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaD'oh!cious" is more than just a hilarious lampoon of ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...