“Forget it, Marge, there is no way I’m spending my Saturdays at a museum.  Unless . . . museums don’t have foosball, do they?” – Homer Simpson

This week, we’ve got one link to an actual museum, one link to a Bart painting in an art gallery, and an awesome fan made digital gallery that contains a lot of Simpsons characters.  There’s also some excellent usage, an English grammar instructional video, a fan made plaque, and the worst non-Grammy award Zombie Simpsons has ever “won”. 

Enjoy.

Ink and the Bottle, Cartoon Museum, London – Cartoons written by drunks and about drinking are on display in London until February 13th.  Meanwhile, this is excellent usage:

"Ah Andy Capp, you wife-beating drunk," chuckled Homer in an episode of The Simpsons. That comment gets to the nub of the occasionally questionable relationship between comedy and drink.

The episode in question is “Marge vs. the Monorail”, and while it sounds to me more like Homer says “Oh” than “Ah”, I’ve tried to type out various subtle, non-word vocalizations from The Simpsons enough times to know that I’m in no position to judge anyone else on it. 

Gerry Rafferty dies at 63 – A lot of obituaries of Rafferty found their way to my inbox this week, all because Lisa plays “Baker Street” at the end of “Lisa’s Sax”.  If you have ever done anything with The Simpsons, know that it will be mentioned when you die. 

Santa’s Little Helper… – Awww:

Apparently, it can still be yours:

This is a one-of-a kind hand-painted slate plaque shaped like a bone.  G Paul P painted this for the GFNJ Expo held last month.  It is still available!

Back to Work – My usual hatred of collectable crap notwithstanding, the little Devil Flanders doll is pretty cool. 

New Years in Knoxville – Yes:

My primary reason for wanting to go to Knoxville was influenced by an episode of The Simpsons where Bart and company take a kid road trip down to the city.

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Will we see the sunsphere up close? I hope it’s open on New Year’s day.

For a picture of the fabulous Sunsphere, click here.  Sadly, no wigs. 

Fried f’in’ Pork Chops – Homer would definitely like those pork chops, especially at 4am on Christmas Day. 

Present Continuous Simpson Video – Teaching English as a second language through Simpsons.  (Though I’m pretty sure that should be “Homer is eating . . . as usual” at the 0:40 mark.) 

Bart Simpson @ Yerba Buena Art Gallery – Bart looks distinctly nervous to be spear fighting that pumpkin head guy. 

My Art Work – A gallery of sixteen fan made drawings, most of which are Simpsons related.  I like Buddha Homer:

Reality TV with a dose of fiction – This is about a new show that blurs the clear lines between fiction and reality in that Matt LeBlanc, faded teevee star, plays “Matt LeBlanc”, faded teevee star.  But it opens by crediting The Simpsons for these kind of things:

Although Tony Bennett might point to a chart-topping career that began with his first number-one single 60 years ago, some might argue that the American crooner holds an even greater achievement: that of being the first person to play himself on The Simpsons.

Bennett’s appearance as himself on the 1990 episode Dancing Homer would open the floodgates to a steady flow of well-known personalities given a good yellowy transformation on the series. In more than 2000 episodes, the likes of Larry King, Tom Jones, Hugh Hefner, James Brown, Paul and Linda McCartney, Elton John, Britney Spears, Stephen Hawking, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair and countless others would lend their vocals to cartoon renditions of themselves, often agreeing to considerable amounts of mockery in the process.

It goes on to discuss Curb Your Enthusiasm and Extras. 

Homer’s Night Out – Animated .gif of how Homer remembers his evening.  Easily the best part of “Wild Barts Can’t Be Broken”. 

Happy New Year From The Azn Badger! – Yes, there’s a YouTube of “You Don’t Win Friends with Salad”, but the real reason to click is the Spam sushi.  Yes, you read that right. 

Spontaneuosly Simpson – A young man’s paean to Homer, devoid of Zombie Simpsons and including this delightful little nugget:

Peter Griffin is a poor man’s Homer Simpson and anyone who does not see that needs to go watch the first 5 seasons of The Simpsons.

Twilight Tops People’s Choice Awards – I wouldn’t click this, if I were you.  I’m just putting it here to note that receiving the same award that a Twilight movie does, as Zombie Simpsons did, isn’t exactly an honor. 

So there is a Trillion Dollar note… – Who says Robert Mugabe’s disastrous policies never led to anything good? 

Homer Simpson’s Top 10 Inventory Management Tips – Part 1 – This guy is selling some kind of QuickBooks add-on that I don’t care about, but at a glance his Homer quotes appear correct, well done on that. 

Mrs. Pummelhorse – A quick shaky-cam YouTube from “The PTA Disbands”. 

Cancel The Simpsons? – This is a bit more forgiving than I am, but it’s nice to see:

It’s done. It’s like an old, blind dog walking around the house trying to find food. Yeah, you feel sentimental about it, and it’s fun to watch on occasion. But for the most part, you wish you could put it out of its misery.

The Simpsons is like that dog.

Is “The Simpsons” Losing Its Quality? – And finally, one more person out there who agrees with us:

Sad to say it however, at the end of the episode; I was disappointed, severely let down and once again left with the same feeling I get after watching the new episodes of The Simpsons; its tedious, its not funny and its completely lost all quality and originality.

Yes, yes it has.