“Look Maggie, they have a baby too.” – Homer Simpson “It’s like they saw our lives and put it right up on screen!” – Bart Simpson I have no real use for the perpetual “Simpsons vs. Family Guy” debate for the obvious reason that I don’t consider The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons to be the same program. Nor do I know whether or not Family Guy was originally intended as a low cost replacement for The Simpsons. I do know that the format of Family Guy resembles that of The Simpsons pretty closely. I also know that Zombie Simpsons sucks…
Month: February 2011
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“Oh, sorry folks, gee I really hate to spoil this little love-in. But Mr. Malloy broke the law, and when you break the law you gotta go to jail.” – Chief Wiggum “Ah, that reminds me, here’s your monthly kickback.” – Mayor Quimby “You just, you couldn’t have picked a worse time.” – Chief Wiggum
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“Hey Moe, you got any Fudd?” – Homer Simpson “Fudd? I thought they took that off the market after all those hillbillies went blind.” – Moe
Compare & Contrast: Self Help Charlatans
“You know, my course can help you with every personality disorder in the ‘Feel Bad Rainbow’. Let’s look at the Rainbow, what’s in there? Depression, Insomnia, Motor-mouth, Darting Eyes, Indecisiveness, Decisiveness, Bossiness, Uncontrollable Falling Down, Geriatric Profanity Disorder or GPD, and Chronic Nagging.” – Brad Goodman Back when the show still had heart and soul, one of the things they liked to do was make fun of the seedier ends of American capitalism. Sometimes this was Dr. Nick hawking his shabby inventions; sometimes it was the customer contemptuous likes of Stern Lecture Plumbing or Ex-Con Home Security. Then one time,…
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Image taken from Wikimedia Commons. “Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts.” – Troy McClure Happy birthday Matt Groening!
Going Gray
“I guess I expected something different from your photo.” – Mrs. Krabappel “Don’t let my age fool you. Just ’cause there’s a little snow on the roof . . . I forget how the rest of that goes.” – Jasper Intentionally or not, there is an interesting undercurrent to “The Blue and the Gray”, Zombie Simpsons’ latest affront to quality television. Confronted with the unpleasant fact that she’s not quite what she used to be, Marge flips out and returns to the comforting fiction that cosmetic similarities mean she’s just the same as she always was. Remind you of anything’s…
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“Remember you promised you’d try to limit pork to six servings a week?” – Marge Simpson “Marge, I’m only human!” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Principal Charming”! Original airdate 14 February 1991.
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“Here, let me show you how to put on a tie. The hook goes over the top, and these things go in there.” – Homer Simpson
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Image shamelessly yoinked from here. “Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed councilmen, boys and girls, retired people with nothing better to do, danger comes in many, many forms, from the dinosaurs that tormented our caveman ancestors . . .” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: WordPress Meta Edition
“A new and better life awaits you on our distant home plant Blisstonia.” – Movementarian Speaking as someone with experience in setting up and maintaining websites, perhaps the greatest compliment I can give to WordPress is that I almost never notice it. For a cost of precisely zero dollars, they provide professional grade web publishing tools that allow me, the crank with a few things on his mind, to spout my gibberish without worrying that the amateurishness of the presentation will detract from the amateurishness of the content. It’s really a fantastic system, and the “rah-rah, yay! blogging” attitude of…
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“Well, Marge, the other day Milhouse told me my meatloaf ‘sucks’. He must’ve gotten that from your little boy, because they certainly don’t say that word on TV.” – Luann van Houten
That Is So 1991
“Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.” – Jasper (as read by Homer Simpson) Last month, when I was taking all those frame grabs of the seated Cerberus that was the three housewives from “Moms I’d Like to Forget”, I was struck by how modern and colorful their outfits were compared to Marge’s. The next week I noticed something similar in “Flaming Moe”. Characters who’ve been around a long time, like Smithers and Patty, look really out of place next to the one-and-done guests. The more I thought about it, the more it occurred to me that this happens in…
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“Like Stonehenge, this site will forever be a mystery. Who was Bart? And how did he manage to write his name in solid cement?” – Future Tour Guide “He must have been much smarter than his sister Lisa, about whom we know nothing.” – Future Guy
Wikipedia Thinks Zombie Simpsons Is Dull
The vast quality difference between The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons shows itself in a lot of ways. There are direct things, like Zombie Simpsons ever declining ratings, and there are indirect things like the embarrassingly bad IMDB numbers. In that latter category we can now safely add Wikipedia. Wikipedia has individual articles for each season of the show. Those articles were assembled and edited by hundreds of individual users over many years. One person’s bias for or against Zombie Simpsons isn’t reflected, rather these articles are a measurement of what Wikipedia thinks deserves attention, and a quick look at their…
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“Well, looks like we put the kibosh on another two bit telephone swindle, boys. Frankly, I would’ve expected better from Jimmy the Scumbag.” – Chief Wiggum
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Image shamelessly stolen from here. “Oh Abraham, calm down, I’m not here to scare you. They’ve got me haunting a family in Texas.” – Ghost of Beatrice Simmons Audrey Meadows, who was the voice of Bea and played Alice on The Honeymooners, would’ve been 85 today. Happy birthday!
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“Wait a minute, Troy, I’m a little confused. Did you say ‘Cleans and straightens’?” – Tina “There’s no confusion, Tina, just good science.” – Troy McClure Happy 20th Anniversary to “Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment”! Original airdate: 7 February 1991.
Quote of the Day
Mad Jon’s photo. “You see, Lisa, your mother has this crazy idea that gambling is wrong, even though they say it’s okay in the Bible.” – Homer Simpson “Really, where?” – Lisa Simpson “Ahh, somewhere in the back.” – Homer Simpson
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“The time has come for finger pointing, and most of them are squarely aimed at the boy’s parents.” – Kent Brockman “It’s not our fault, we didn’t want the boy, he was an accident.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Mendoza! Edition
“Mendoza!” – McBain If you’re reading this site, then you have probably already seen the fantastic College Humor mashup of all the McBain clips. I would like to point out two things about it. First, between Tango & Cash, Lethal Weapon 2, and License to Kill, 1989 was the year of the suave, well protected drug lord and the heroes who break the rules to bring them down. Second, none of those clips are from Zombie Simpsons. And don’t give me any of that “Schwarzenegger stopped making movies to be the governor” crap. He didn’t stop making movies until Season…