“Don’t worry Marge. America’s healthcare system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain… well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don’t live in Paraguay.” – Homer Simpson
Month: May 2010
Quote of the Day
“The good lord let’s us grow old for a reason: to gain the wisdom to find fault with everything he’s made!” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson
Phil Hartman Videos
The humane but determined boys down at No Pun Intended have put up a fantastic Phil Hartman tribute that is chock full of video, with everything from Simpsons to Saturday Night Live to Newsradio. Many of these are famous, but some of them are quite obscure. Sadly, Hulu does not have one of my all time favorite Hartman as Clinton skits, Real Stories of the Arkansas Highway Patrol. COPS has become such a part of the culture that we now call men’s undershirts “wifebeaters”, but back then it was all new. Seeing Hartman as the abused husband, in a wifebeater,…
Quote of the Day
“Bart, I’ve asked you not to whistle that annoying tune.” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday Danny Elfman!
Reading Digest: Refusing to Play Along Edition
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Salim Virji. “I think stealing cable is wrong. So I’m choosing not to watch it in the hope that others will follow my example. It’s the last you’ll hear from me on the matter. Thank you for your time.” – Lisa Simpson We’re no strangers to traffic whoring here at the Dead Homer Society. (Will Pornography Monday return this summer? You get two guesses, but you’re only going to need one.) But even I have my limits, and this week there are some things I’m boycotting completely and not linking. The…
Quote of the Day
“Who’s Disco Stu?”- Marge Simpson “Oh, I wanted to write ‘Disco Stud,’ but I ran out of space. Not that Disco Stu didn’t get his share of the action.” – Homer Simpson
Summer Programming Note
“In the coming weeks, you will notice some rather sweeping changes in our program. Please do not be alarmed. Itchy and Scratchy will still have a home here, but we will also learn about nutrition, self esteem, etiquette and all the lively arts.” – Sideshow Bob We’re free – free! – from new Zombie Simpsons for at least four months. Woo-hoo! Of course, that also means we’ll need to find something new to chew on around here. Fortunately, there’s Season 9. Last summer we had one of our little on-line chats about most of the episodes from Season 8. We…
Crazy Noises: Judge Me Tender
“Your Honor, the prosecution moves that Principal Skinner’s testimony be stricken from the record.” – Prosecutor “Denied!” – Judge Snyder 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 “DeGeneres”). One of the few good jokes from…
Quote of the Day
“Princess Opal?” – Chief Wiggum “I see nothing here. But I’m afraid it’s splitsville for Delta Burke and Major Dad.” – Princess Opal “But they seem so happy.” – Chief Wiggum Happy birthday Jo Ann Harris!
Zombie Simpsons Is Off the Air, How About Some Futurama News?
I remain at least slightly nervous about the return of Futurama, but this interview with David X. Cohen (who was David S. Cohen during his time on The Simpsons) is pretty reassuring. Everybody’s back and Fry and Leela will not be getting married and moving to the suburbs. The concepts are a clever as ever, and Cohen discusses a number of them. This may be my favorite: the Professor invents a time machine that only goes forward in time. Once they start going, there is no hope of return. And the initial goal is to just go a minute forward…
Quote of the Day
“Everyone turn around and look at this!” – Helen Lovejoy “What is it? A Unitarian?” – Grampa Simpson
Synergy Can’t Go Along With This
“He crossed that line between everyday villainy, and cartoonish super-villainy.” – Waylon Smithers Up until this week, IGN had been doing a bang up job of sucking up to its paymaster. But the reeking desperation and overwhelming obviousness of making the season finale an American Idol commercial was too much, even for them. FOX let IGN down, man, now they don’t believe in nothin’ no more. IGN’s going to law school! As always, I’ve edited out the synergy. As a conclusion to one of the best worst seasons of The Simpsons Zombie Simpsons in the last few years, the series…
Quote of the Day
“Okay, we’re young, rich, and full of sugar. What do we do?” – Bart Simpson “Let’s go crazy Broadway-style!” – Milhouse Van Houten
Desperate Ratings Ploy Fails Miserably
“Well, your honor, we’ve got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.” – Lionel Hutz I’ve still never seen the 24 episode of Zombie Simpsons, but it couldn’t have been any more whorish than last night’s extended American Idol promo. Why anyone would want to watch Simon Cowell pretend to make fun of himself for ten minutes is beyond me, but that was nothing compared to the scene with the rest of the Idol judges. It would be difficult to imagine a more formulaic, by-the-numbers, and downright lifeless segment. They had the cast of another television show…
Quote of the Day
“This is the best part of the week!” – Homer Simpson “It’s the longest possible time before more church!” – Lisa Simpson And this is the best part of the year, it’s the longest possible time before more Zombie Simpsons!
Sunday Preview: “Judge Me Tender”
Synergy, synergy, synergy! At long last, we’re at the end of Season 21 with “Judge Me Tender,” which for all intents and purposes seems to be a tacky commercial celebrating the Fox Network. My memory’s a bit hazy – I seem to recall Zombie Simpsons spoofing – by which I mean not ridiculing and using wholesale – an “American Idol”-like concept before, but I can’t be bothered to look it up. Anyway, the show’s saved its big guns for the finale with guest stars aplenty, including Rupert Murdoch. Here’s Simpsons Channel with the description: Moe discovers a talent for judging contests…
Quote of the Day
“I might remind you both I did design that racer. The driver is essentially ballast.” – Martin Prince
Quote of the Day
“That’s for employing me for eight years, haha!” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Alien Olympics Edition
Image taken from myfreewallpapers.net. “I am so fuckin’ embarrassed.” – Marge Simpson As of this writing, the above is the seventh result on Google Images for “wenlock mandeville”, the names of the two suspiciously Rigelian mascots recently unveiled for the London Olympics in 2012. Kang and Kodos appear again at #9. The actual mascots appear nowhere. That will change, but it’s still a pretty devastating roll out for your shiny new public relations vehicle. I only included two links to this topic, though there were many more if I wanted them. Oh well, the run up to every Olympics…
So Much For That Theory
“Why are you guys jumping to such ridiculous conclusions? Haven’t you ever heard of Occam’s razor? The simplest explanation is probably the correct one.” – Lisa Simpson Last week, I speculated that FOX might have a dual purpose in trying out their new animated show “Bob’s Burgers” in the fall, before they had to make a decision on whether or not to bring back Zombie Simpsons for 2011-2012. Not so much: Expect a new animated comedy titled “Bob’s Burgers” during the midseason (which won’t be a success, I can tell you that now). “Bob’s Burgers” won’t be showing up until…