The show got renewed for another season of laughs and pranks. Alvin and the Chipmunks can be funny at times when Alvin acts a bit bratty, but I don't remember any pranks like Bart does. I laughed three times the last time I watched an episode. One was the couch gag. The second one was when Homer tried to make himself inflate and by sucking the thing that he used to blow Santa up, and the last one was when Bart complained about having to wait in a long line to see a fat guy when he came there to get away from one. In reality a dad and/or mom would discipline a ten year old for a comment like that, but Homer's gotten a little lax about strangling him.