“Ah, the reward for a year’s worth of toil and sacrifice: Retrospecticus.” – Lisa Simpson It being the end of the year and all, people are taking stock and looking back. This week that includes one long generalize look back at the show and two people who did what I did and looked back at “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”. In addition to that we’ve got lots of usage, retrospectives on other Christmas specials, David Silverman’s New Year’s card, old t-shirts, and a couple of people finding inner peace through The Simpsons. Enjoy. Review of Daft Puck’s album Tron:…
Year: 2010
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“Take it easy Homer, I learned how to make other drinks at bartender school. Gin and . . . tonic? Do they mix?” – Moe
The Frying Game Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Before I go I want to say something. Game shows aren’t about cruelty. They’re about greed, and wonderful prizes like poorly built catamarans. But somewhere along the line you lost your way. For shame.” – Homer Simpson This is the final sentence of the plot summary on the Wikipedia entry for “The Frying Game”: Carmen Electra tries to explain, but Homer is too busy looking at her chest. Nothing further need be said. There are nine people who felt the need to commiserate though, including Groening and token woman Deb Lacusta. 0:50 – The “Screamapillar” was Swartzwelder’s idea. And it…
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“Is my dog dead, ma’am?” – Bart Simpson “You don’t know how often I’m asked that. ‘Choke chain’ is a misnomer, trust me, they are always breathing.” – Emily Winthrop Happy birthday Tracey Ullman!
I Am Furious (Yellow) Makes Baby Jesus Cry
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user heath_bar. “How about if we tell you our problems with relationships?” – Principal Skinner “Yeah, yeah, that’ll eat up some time.” – Homer Simpson Stan Lee did a guest voice in this episode and they invited him back for the commentary. If you’ve read any of the previous installments in this series, or listened to any of these commentaries, you can probably guess what happens. This is basically twenty-two minutes of them shooting the shit with Stan Lee. The episode itself is about as lazy and uncreative as they come, though…
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“Sorry kids, the trip to Albany is off, and there is to be no more recycling.” – Principal Skinner “But we didn’t do that badly. We collected enough paper to save one whole tree.” – Lisa Simpson
Wonder-Homer
“Something told me this was a very special, very magical piece of wood . . . that I could make a bat out of.” – Homer Simpson What do you see in the picture below? If all you see is a pile of wood in a plastic bad then you are only partially correct. For at the time this picture was taken, one of those pieces of wood held a bitching carving of Homer Simpson. Click here for the full gallery of images, from unformed to carefully carved with hair on top. I know I say this a lot, but…
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“Mr. Plow, for making it possible for people to get where they’re going without resorting to public transportation or carpooling, I give you the key to the city.” – Mayor Quimby
Knowing When to Hang It Up
We get a fair amount of traffic here from random message boards where The Simpsons comes up in conversation and someone posts a link to us. This is often in the midst of one of the usual spats about when the show fell apart or whether or not Family Guy is better. About a month ago I was reading through one of these threads (though I neglected to save the link, whoops) and someone posted an excellent quote from Bill Watterson, the guy behind “Calvin and Hobbes”. Thanks to Google, I was able to find the quote (bold in the…
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“Don’t worry, Simpson, it just so happens I have a chair at Springfield University.” – C.M. Burns
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“You’ve reached the party line. In a moment you’ll be connected to a hot party with some of the world’s most beautiful women. Now, let’s join the party.” – Party Line Recording “Hello?” – Krusty the Klown “Hello?” – Lonely Man #1 “Hello?” – Lonely Man #2 “Are there any women here?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “Hello?” – Krusty the Klown “Are you a beautiful woman?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “Do I sound like a beautiful woman?” – Krusty the Klown “This is not as hot a party as I had anticipated.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
The Passion of Homer Simpson
“I don’t deserve you as much as a guy with a fat wallet and a credit card that won’t set off that horrible beeping.” – Homer Simpson Many horrible things befall American everyman Homer Simpson in “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”. With the quick and relatively harmless exceptions of a snow cushioned fall off the roof and hitting his head on the doorframe of Santa’s workshop, these things aren’t physical. Nor, for that matter, are they malicious or deliberate. Ned Flanders is far too guileless to understand that his Christmas decorations are humiliating to Homer. Bart isn’t trying to…
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“Bart, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” – Lisa Simpson “Probably not . . . Lie in the snow and count to sixty! . . . Hi-yah! . . . Merry Christmas, suckers!” – Bart Simpson
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“That just leaves little Maggie. Oh look, a little squeak toy! It says it’s for dogs, but she can’t read.” – Homer Simpson
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“Mr. Burns is suffering from what we medical men call hypohemia. In layman’s terms, it’s quite simply a lack of blood.” – Dr. Hibbert “Damn it doctor, I’m no idiot, I know what hypohemia is! What I want to know is what can we do about it?” – Mr. Smithers “Well, at this point our only hope is a transfusion.” – Dr. Hibbert “How long does it take to sterilize a needle?” – Mr. Smithers “A few seconds.” – Dr. Hibbert “Well skip it! Just leave me enough to get home!” – Mr. Smithers Happy birthday Harry Shearer!
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“Your lifelong dream was to be a contestant on ‘The Gong Show’, and you did it in 1977, remember?” – Marge Simpson “We got more gongs than the break dancing robot that caught on fire.” – Homer Simpson
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“Bart, come quick, there’s an Itchy & Scratchy movie!” – Lisa Simpson “If you want suspense . . . romance . . . you’ll find it at the Itchy & Scratchy movie, coming soon to a theater near you. Fifty-three percent new footage.” – TV Announcer Happy Birthday Phil Roman!
Year End Posting Schedule
“Milhouse, I found a hive of killer bees. You want to go throw rocks at it?” – Bart Simpson “Sorry Bart, I’m deeply immersed in the Teapot Dome Scandal.” – Milhouse van Houten “Huh?” – Bart Simpson “However, it might be feasible in a fortnight.” – Milhouse van Houten “Wha?” – Bart Simpson “I can play in two weeks.” – Milhouse van Houten “Juh?” – Bart Simpson Apologies in advance for the vagueness of this, but posting is going to be random and light for the next couple of weeks (quotes of the day will continue as usual, of course). …
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“But Mom, if you take our cartoons away we’ll grow up without a sense of humor and be robots!” – Lisa Simpson “Really? What kind of robots?” – Bart Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge”! Original airdate 20 December 1990.
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user joiseyshowaa. “Remember Dad, the handle of the Big Dipper points to the North Star.” – Lisa Simpson “That’s nice, Lisa, but we’re not in astronomy class, we’re in the woods.” – Homer Simpson Note: It’s actually the handle of the Little Dipper, but such things were a lot harder to look up in 1989.