“I didn’t want a hokey second wedding like those ones on TV. This one is for real.” – Homer Simpson I highly recommend clicking over to IGN for this week’s edition of Network Synergy and You. Not so much for the “review” itself, as it has been significantly improved below, but for the instantly recognizable image of Marge, which has been labeled with a caption that reads (and I am not making this up): “This is the character Marge Simpson from the animated television series The Simpsons.” Well, holy shit, I would not have been able to figure that one out…
Month: March 2009
Quote of the Day
“Lousy Smarch weather.” – Homer Simpson
Still Shitty
The numbers are in and while they’re a mild improvement from last week they’re still well below both the season average and where they were last year. Last night’s Sideshow Bob cameo popped for 6.58 million viewers, so the over has it. I would also like to point out that “Wedding for Disaster” is a pretty good example of pop culture references instead of pop culture jokes. I’m not opposed to sending up the concept of psychotic brides to be, because it’s a ridiculous concept and could use some satirizing. Nor am I opposed to sending up the bridezillas…
Quote of the Day
“I didn’t think you’d understand.” – Lisa Simpson “Hey, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.” – Homer Simpson
Bubbling with Anticipation
I just clicked on the epguides.com link to tonight’s Zombie Simpsons. Here is what it says: After Marge and Homer’s marriage turns out to be invalid, they decide to re-do their vows. But when Homer goes missing, Bart and Lisa smell something funny and investigate his disappearance. Oh good, it’s a recycled plot and and adventure mystery. Color me tickled pink. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to pre-emptively watch “A Milhouse Divided” and “Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy” to steel my brain against tonight’s onslaught of stupid. (That’s Season 8 Disc 1 and Season 6 Disc 2, respectively, by the…
Quote of the Day
“Go on Homer, our commandments clearly state that beer is alright. Try some.” – Rev. Lovejoy
Quote of the Day
“Two!” – Homer Simpson “Mmnn, actually Homer that’s just one. See, each pushup includes both an up part and a down part.” – Lenny
Friday Link Dump – Obscure Guest Voice Edition
“That guy cheapens our whole profession.” – Bruce Baum T.O. funnyman Bruce Baum soars into cyberspace – Remember the guy pictured above? He’s got a comedy website, TheOuterNet.com (careful, video plays when you click), that The Ventura County Star wrote an article about and, in typical newspaper fashion, neglected to link. Whatever, barbecue armpit deodorant sounds good to me. Channeling Homer Simpson on the Deficit Numbers – MIT economist Jonathan Gruber gets a gold star for excellent usage. Are The Best Days Of ‘The Simpsons’ Over? – The basic premise here is right on, though it’s written for a website…
Quote of the Day
“In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done.” – Homer Simpson
Getting Out of Hand
“I’m in television now. It’s my job to be repetitive. My job. My job. Repetitiveness is my job.” – Bart Simpson Simpsons Channel has a post up with the promo image for April 19th’s Zombie Simpsons, titled “The Good, the Sad and the Drugly”. Here’s the plot description: To win the heart of Jenny (guest voice Anne Hathaway) a sweet 5th grade girl, Bart becomes a good samaritan and gives up his prank-pulling days Given the presence of the perfectly cromulent word “drugly” in the title I’m gonna guess that this girl might have a lesson or two to teach…
Quote of the Day
“You’re like the guy, you’re a legend around here. Can I ask you, is it true you once worked ninety-six hours straight?” – James Woods “Oh yes, it was horrible I tell you. By the end I thought I was a hummingbird of some kind.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
A Lesson in Internet Reading Comprehension
“After breakfast me and Milhouse are going down to the ravine. We got a tip from a six year old that there’s a dead martian down there.” – Bart Simpson I saw goofy little stories like this one and this one and this one on-line last week. They amount to nothing that could be called news and I didn’t even include them in the Friday Link Dump. Then I check in on Simpsons Channel this morning and what do I see? Barack Obama on The Simpsons? Sigh. All of the above links can be traced to this post on the website of…
Quote of the Day
“Mr. Simpson, my husband and I have decided to move.” – Mrs. Winfield “Gonna run out the clock in Florida, eh?” – Homer Simpson
I Can’t Imagine Why Fox Didn’t Like This
I have no insight into why this little musical number from Family Guy wasn’t broadcast. (It looks like it was to have been part of the fall ’07 episode “Lois Kills Stewie”.) The Entertainment Weekly post where I found it thinks it was the network censors, but other than the original YouTube uploader calling it “banned” I don’t see any evidence of that, it may just have not made the final cut. Of course, saying something was “banned” or implying that it’s somehow too “think of the children” for broadcast television certainly makes it more appealing than saying it just didn’t fit in the…
Quote of the Day
“Bart, if she breaks up on you steer away from the grandstands or else you might kill hundreds of innocent spectators. . . . Bart, what did I just tell you?” – Martin Prince “Kill spectators.” – Bart Simpson
Oh Yeah, It Was Bad
That was a fairly typical “Zombie Simpsons goes to X” type episode. A few amusing one liners and cultural jokes are all but lost inside a thin husk of a story that doesn’t make any sense and takes too long to tell. The ratings are in and once again the numbers are bad, with a mere 6.15 million viewers tuning in. That’s up slightly from last week, though it’s still well below average for this season and a million or so people down from the same period last year.
Quote of the Day
“Calls? Oh, calls. Yes, uh, the Supreme Court called again, they need your help on some freedom thing.” – Della “Tell them to sit tight, I’ll get back to them.” – Lionel Hutz
Quote of the Day
“Hmm. You’re not as stupid as you look, or sound, or our best testing indicates.” – C.M. Burns
Saturday Morning Cartoons
“I’ll tell ya the truth, Dad. I wasn’t good at it right away so I quit. I hope you’re not mad.” – Bart Simpson “Son, come here, heh heh heh. Of course I’m not mad. If something’s hard to do then it’s not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your short wave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle, and we’ll go inside and watch TV.” – Homer Simpson “What’s on?” – Bart Simpson “It doesn’t matter.” – Homer Simpson I love the above exchange, it’s Homer and Bart at their best. Homer is…
Quote of the Day
“You know Lisa, I feel like I have an instant rapport with you.” – Grandma Simpson “Ahh, you didn’t dumb it down, you said ‘rapport’.” – Lisa Simpson