“Oh how I miss TV! Dear god, just give me one channel!” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “The Way We Was”! Original airdate: 31 January 1991.
Month: January 2011
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“You know, Marge, getting old is a terrible thing. I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.” – Homer Simpson
Saturday Morning Cartoons
“Go up to the attic, there’s a whole trunk of clothes up there.” – Homer Simpson The above is yet another one of those little moments on The Simpsons where they came up with a funny concept, and then honed it to triple-ply comedy perfection that takes only a few seconds. Note the tears along the sleeves, shoulder and waist, Homer has ruined Marge’s carefully preserved wedding dress (was this before or after he used it to wax the car?), all because he doesn’t know how, or just doesn’t want, to do a simple load of laundry. Moreover, he’s clearly…
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“You’ve got to listen to me! Elementary Chaos Theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.” – Professor Frink “How much time do we have, professor?” – Itchy & Scratchy Land Technician “Well, according to my calculations, the robots won’t go berserk for at least twenty-four hours . . . . . . oh, I forgot to, uh, carry the one.” – Professor Frink
Reading Digest: Movie Tie-In Edition
“Let’s all go to the lobby, let’s all go to the lobby. Let’s all go to the lobby, get ourselves some snacks!” – C.M. Burns We’ve got a few links to various movies this week and, as a special bonus, not a single one of them mentions the Oscars. There’s a list of what some of Troy McClure’s movies could’ve been, some excellent YouTube of various snack videos and parodies, and even some excellent usage in a movie review. There’s also a return appearance by Marge’s stupid Playboy cover, a rather excellent gambling story about Sam Simon, and one hell…
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“So, uh, you guys are Eurotrash, huh? How’s that, uh, working out for you?” – Moe “Enh, to be honest, we are adrift in a sea of decadent luxury and meaningless sex.” – Gunter “Uh-huh, so, uh, where might this sea be located?” – Moe
Thursday Evening Cartoons
“But at Bigger Brothers, we can help.” – TV Announcer In the hands of lesser mortals, the image of a recently orphaned boy playing catch over his father’s still open grave wouldn’t be funny.
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user graphia. “Uh-oh, two Independent Thought Alarms in one day. The students are over stimulated. Willie, remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.” – Principal Skinner “I warned you! Didn’t I warn you? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!” – Groundskeeper Willie
Crazy Noises: Homer the Father
“You know they got the Velcro straps, a water pump in the tongue, built in pedometer, reflective side walls, and little vanity license plates!” – Ned Flanders In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the technology that brought the word “emoticon” to the masses: the chatroom. Star Trek image macros are strictly forbidden, unless you have…
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user istolethetv. “How come no Chippendales dancers ever come in to renew their licenses?” – Selma Bouvier “They carpool, that’s the problem.” – Patty Bouvier
Compare & Contrast: Mocking 80s Fatherhood
“‘Cosby’s First Law of Intergenerational Perversity: No matter what you tell your child to do, he will always do the opposite.’ Huh?” – Homer Simpson “Don’t you get it, you gotta use reverse psychology.” – Homer’s Brain “That sounds too complicated.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, don’t use reverse psychology.” – Homer’s Brain “Alright, I will!” – Homer Simpson A few months ago, I wrote a post about how you couldn’t really understand where Season 1 was coming from without some grasp of 1980s American television, particularly the enormous number of cookie cutter family sitcoms. The Simpsons, especially in Season 1,…
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“You ugly, hate filled man.” – Ned Flanders “Hey, hey, I may be ugly and hate filled, but I . . . um . . . what was the third thing you said?” – Moe
Leftovers
“You gotta improvise, Lisa. Cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust . . .” – Homer Simpson Have you ever stood in your kitchen, staring at bare cabinets and empty refrigerator shelves, and tried to cobble together one last meal before the next trip to the store? You’ve got a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and hey, those two might work together. Sometimes a bunch of scraps go down unexpectedly well. Sometimes they do not. “Homer the Father” is that disastrous third case where you find yourself trying to induce vomiting just minutes after sitting down…
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“This is our karaoke bar. Now it is empty, but soon it will be hopping with drunken, Japanese businessmen.” – Happy Sumo Hostess Happy 20th anniversary to “One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish”! Original airdate 24 January 1991.
Sunday Preview: “Homer the Father”
Here we go again. Simpsons Channel tells us that two bearded guest stars, David Mamet and James Lipton, will lend their voices to tonight’s “Homer The Father,” which has a plot that sounds nearly as dry as the title: Homer becomes obsessed with Thicker than Waters, a 1980s family sitcom written by David Mamet (pictured left), and models his parenting skills after the show’s sensible father much to the chagrin on Bart, who desperately sets his sights on a brand new dirt bike. But when Homer insists that Bart must earn the dirt bike, Bart takes matters into his own hands…
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“You’re missing the point. The individual doesn’t matter, it was a team effort, and I was the one who came up with the whole team idea! Me!” – Homer Simpson
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“Look, it’s the Seven Duffs!” – Lisa Simpson “There’s Tipsy, and there’s Queasy!” – Bart Simpson “There’s Surly, and Remorseful!” – Lisa Simpson “Hey! Take a picture, it’ll last longer. Get out of here!” – Surly
Reading Digest: Excellently Unorthodox Usage Edition
“Bart, you know that guy on your lunchbox?” – Homer Simpson “Oh, you mean Krusty the Klown?” – Bart Simpson “He’s sort of a hero of yours isn’t he?” – Homer Simpson “Are you kidding? He’s my idol. I base my whole life on Krusty’s teachings.” – Bart Simpson Usually when I link something here and refer to it as “usage”, it’s someone who invokes a Simpsons character in a newspaper article or blog post, or quotes the show to help illustrate a point. That’s all fine and well and good, and I do it myself all the time, but…
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“Marge, you’ll never guess what, my whole class is here! They’re going to observe the human peep show that is our lives.” – Homer Simpson
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“So wait a minute, this means I’m gonna be a failure?” – Bart Simpson “Yes, son, a spectacular failure.” – Homer Simpson “Enh.” – Bart Simpson