While it's certainly deteriorated from the glory days of old, The Simpsons is still good -- and still able to make news. Earlier this year, Banksy's altered opening credits made news for depicting sweatshops making Simpsons merchandise , and recently, The Simpsons aimed for a slightly friendlier jab: FOX News. Of course, that's incensed some of the conservative network's pundits, such as Bill O'Reilly.

In the show, a helicopter bearing the slogan "Fox News: Not Racist But #1 With Racists" was depicted as becoming, according to the pilot, "unbalanced," and subsequently crashing. The "unbalanced" jibe is obviously a reference to the network's slogan of "Fair and Balanced News," which many criticize for being completely obselete due to the network's heavy right lean.

So what did O'Reilly think of the joke? Well, predictably, he didn't think it was too funny. He even criticized the Simpsons network FOX (a sister channel of FOX News), for "continuing to bite the hand that feeds part of it, Fox Broadcasting once again allows its cartoon characters to run wild... Pinheads? I believe so." Obviously, O'Reilly believes that his channel is receiving enough support.

The Simpsons, which was just renewed for a twenty-third season, aired the joke as part of its episode "The Fool Monty," which premiered on Sunday.

O'Reilly closed the short segment with the quip "Pinheads? I believe so."

What do you think? Is the Simpsons joke on-point, or is O'Reilly right in calling the cartoon family pinheads?