I didn’t want to do this, but I think I have to so . . . fuck it. While I was looking for links this week, I came across new blog dedicated to funny cartoon quotes. I thought it was a neat idea so I clicked around a little. Unfortunately, while I was reading the page of Troy McClure movies, something jumped out at me:*
….such educational films as “Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly,” and “Here Comes the Metric System!”
….such fishing films as ‘Cast Out’ or ‘The Reel Deal.’
….such films as “The Erotic Adventures of Hercules” and “Dial ‘M’ for Murderousness”.
The first one is from “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”; it’s his introduction to the sex-ed video “Fuzzy Bunny’s Guide to You-Know-What”. The third one is from the beginning of “Mr. Plow”, when he’s introducing ‘Carnival of the Stars’: “Live, from Hawaii’s beautiful Molokai Island, ‘We’re not just for lepers any more!’.” However, I couldn’t place the second one. It’s possible that it’s lost on some weird syndication cut but as near as I can tell from Google, SNPP and recollection (Dave’s, Jon’s and mine) it was never in an episode.
Instead, the most likely origin I found for it was someone impersonating Troy McClure. It’s on the “impersonations page” of both nohomers and The Simpsons Folder. It’s also on this old geocities page (mirrored here, though I’m not sure which is the original). In fact, that geocities list is literally the exact same as the one at Favourite Cartoon Quotes. It’s just copied and pasted, right down to the phantom quote about fishing shows.
This isn’t even the first time it’s been copied. I found it on three different message boards, here, here and here. (For whatever it’s worth, the third one has the oldest date on it, May 2004.) It seems very likely that Favourite Cartoon Quotes, in only its second day of existence, violated what is perhaps the only real rule of blogging: always link back.
Now, like I said above, I think posting random cartoon quotes is a pretty neat idea (I’d better, it’s literally half of what we post around here), and it’s already broadened to include Futurama so there’s lots of potential. But even if you’re just going to grab quotes from wikiquote, SNPP or somewhere else, you’ve got to link back.
(NBC’s “The More You Know” image taken from Kissing Suzy Kolber. See? It’s easy.)
* The fact that McClure is spelled “Maclure” in the post title was also a bit of a giveaway.
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2 responses to “Useless Sanctimony”
It’s definitely not a real Troy McClure quote- I should know, as I researched a complete list of things Troy McClure says you might remember him from as a way of paying tribute to the 10th anniversary of Phil Hartman’s death.
The fake fishing quote doesn’t even work as a Troy McClure quote- for one thing, it’s just two bad fishing puns. The things you might remember Troy McClure from have titles that are either extremely cheesy, extremely ridiculous, or both. I don’t know what fishing movies you might remember Troy McClure from, but they certainly wouldn’t be those.
Also, I really like typing the words “Troy McClure.”
Hey Charles, thanks for the linkback, very cool – the cartoon blog has only been around for around a week so yeah, appreciate it.
Totally agree with your words about linking back, I absolutely would if I’d been trawling the net and hunting through wikipedia etc to get them but I haven’t done that.
The blog came about because of all the odd quotes we were throwing around at work, I collected them and then posted them up.
I’m really trying to avoid trawling websites and re-posting well worn quotes. There’s thousands of great lines out there that haven’t been posted which is a shame.
Cheers
R