“Nobody likes Milhouse!” – Mr. Largo Most weeks I’m content if I find one link where someone mentions how much worse Zombie Simpsons is than The Simpsons. This week I found four! It was a good week for it too, because I had to ignore about thirty links to posts of the “Simpsons mentioned South Park . . . durrrr” variety. There’s also a very old commercial for the show, more graffiti than the “Graffiti Edition”, real life Duff Beer, and a guy who looks like Dr. Nick. Enjoy. Rare Television Commercials – There are a number of neat, old…
Month: April 2010
Quote of the Day
“Now they’ll never save your brain, Hitler.” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson
Crazy Noises: The Squirt and the Whale
“Ahhhh! Shark-boy!” – Homer Simpson In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we’re bringing back our “Crazy Noises” series and applying it to Season 21. Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we’re still using this “chatroom” thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (especially on “environmentalists”). A couple of weeks ago I pointed out how Zombie Simpsons is extremely careless when it comes to staging and continuity, even…
Quote of the Day
“I know we haven’t had much luck shooting you out of this cannon, but maybe that’s because we haven’t used enough gunpowder! . . . Britney, do the honors.” – Krusty the Klown Happy 20th Anniversary to “Krusty Gets Busted”! Original airdate 29 April 1990.
Synergy Confuses Fiction and Reality
“Oh no, Willie didn’t make it, and he crushed our boy.” – Movie Mom “Ugh, what a mess.” – Movie Dad “Oh, I don’t like this new director’s cut.” – Homer Simpson IGN did two things I appreciate with this week’s corporate fanboy ode to Zombie Simpsons: 1) Kept things ridiculously positive – It’s a lot easier to edit out the synergy when I can replace words like “best” with “worst” and leave the underlying sentence structure untouched. 2) Exposed the shallowness of its sycophancy – This is a little more subtle, but I like how the comedy free tear-jerker…
Quote of the Day
“Oh my god! He’s killed the original Alfalfa!” – Studio Hand “Yeah. Luckily Alfalfa was an orphan owned by the studio.” – Moe
Zombie Simpsons Misses the Point
“And sure, he’s probably so insane with rage that he’d butcher you horribly if he could.” – Homer Simpson Yesterday, it was noted in many, many different places that Zombie Simpsons mentioned the censoring of last week’s South Park in the chalkboard gag: There are two ways to look at this. The first (and this seems to be the dominant on-line opinion) is to see it as a nice gesture from Zombie Simpsons, a show of support for South Park in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. The second (which I’m more inclined to take) is a lot less positive. First, set…
Quote of the Day
“Okay Homer, pick out any one you want.” – Herb Powell “Are you sure you want to give me a car?” – Homer Simpson “Hey, you know what these things cost me? There’s maybe forty bucks worth of steel in ’em.” – Herb Powell
Euro-Marge
Check out what a guy named Micky Hulse did to Europe: The Spanish region of Galicia will hence forth be known as Boob Land. (via)
Jumping Sharks and Riding Whales
“Now, Henry Winkler, there’s a father. Listen to what he told a close friend, ‘I don’t always keep my cool like the Fonz, but my love for my kids has given me plenty of happy days’.” – Selma Bouvier While Homer was being menaced by sharks this week, I couldn’t help but think of that most damning of cultural epitaphs: jumped the shark. Isn’t falling into the ocean from a magically conjured motorboat, getting hit in the head by a bucket (why a bucket?), and then being saved from sharks by riding a whale at least as bankrupt an idea…
Quote of the Day
Image taken from Wikipedia. “The capital of North Dakota is named after what German ruler?” – Grade School Challenge Host “Hitler!” – Homer Simpson “Hitler, North Dakota?” – Marge Simpson
Sunday Preview: “The Squirt and the Whale”
Happy Sunday, everyone. I’m afraid I have two pieces of bad news. First, there’s new Zombie Simpsons tonight. I know, I know, it hurts. Let’s get the description, courtesy of Simpsons Channel, out of the way: The Simpson family erect a turbine in their back yard. When Homer realizes that some of the power from the turbine is directed for the local electric company, he removes their house from the grid. Meanwhile, a storm appears and Homer and Lisa try to save a 100-foot long whale, brought to shore by the storm. Ha, “erect.” Seems to be a fairly obvious…
Quote of the Day
“Alright, I’m gonna make a little deal with you mugs. I’m gonna let you all out to see my team play the hockey game, if you promise to return to your cells.” – Chief Wiggum “Sorry, pig, we can’t make that promise.” – Snake “Alright, alright, I’ll sweeten the deal. You can see the game, you don’t have to come back, but you have to promise not to commit any more crimes. Okay?” – Chief Wiggum “No.” – Snake “I’ll take that as a ‘Yes’.” – Chief Wiggum Happy birthday Hank Azaria!
Compare & Contrast: Counterfeit Clothing
“Oh no, it’s Gloria Vanderbilt, out for revenge!” – Hired Goon Near the end of “Chief of Hearts”, Fat Tony and the gang are counterfeiting clothing in the woods for some reason. Homer and Wiggum are there for some other reason. Homer and Wiggum then get thrown in the trunk for yet another reason. While in the trunk, they have an earnest and humorless heart-to-heart moment that finally pushes their earnest and humorless plot line towards the finish line. As if to underscore how lazy this entire setup is, just about the only stab at comedy in the entire ending…
Quote of the Day
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Travis S. “Brace yourselves gentlemen, according to the gas chromatograph the secret ingredient is . . . love?! Who’s been screwing with this thing?” – Professor Frink
Reading Digest: Graffiti Edition
“Our city is under siege by a graffiti vandal known as ‘El Barto’. Police artists have a composite sketch of the culprit, if anyone has any information, please contact us immediately.” – Chief Wiggum “Cool, man.” – Bart Simpson We have two links to some awesome Homer graffiti this week. One is just random, the other was apparently commissioned by the building owner, but has now been painted over. Also, we have a 2-year-old Simpsons fan, legal advice from the show, vintage bootleg t-shirt images, illegal hallucinogens, and some excellent usage. Enjoy. Just What Are Diapers For? – Awesome 2-year-old…
Quote of the Day
“But Marge, what about dessert?” – Homer Simpson “For god sakes you can pull the lid off your own can of pudding.” – Marge Simpson “Fine, I will! . . . Ahhhh! Oh no, my pudding is trapped forever!” – Homer Simpson
Crazy Noises: Chief of Hearts
“At last, an excuse to wear makeup!” – Chief Wiggum In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we’re bringing back our “Crazy Noises” series and applying it to Season 21. Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we’re still using this “chatroom” thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (though, for comedy purposes, “cumly” has been left alone). Zombie Simpsons likes to graft hackneyed plot ideas and story structures…
Quote of the Day
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Ian Broyles. “Hey Krusty, Krusty, you remember the time we got loaded and set those beavers loose in that pine furniture store?” – Chief Wiggum
Mike Reiss Compares Zombie Simpsons to Senile Old People
“So how long before you shipped Grandpa off to the old folks home?” – Bart Simpson “About three weeks.” – Homer Simpson Well, okay, he didn’t use the word “senile”, but he came awfully close: For those who say the show is no longer funny, Reiss has a simple answer: "Well, don’t watch it!" He likened the 450-episode show to a person. "The Simpsons change the way people change. Think of your grandparents. The either get boring or crazy and weird. I like to think ‘The Simpsons’ has gotten crazy and weird." First of all, most of the people who…