“Time’s up, you may now undermine each other’s confidence.” – Test Proctor “Yarr, I nailed that one about houseboats, did you?” – Captain McAllister
Month: February 2011
Animating on Eggshells
“Look here, that’s enough now, I own sixty percent of that network!” – Rupert Murdoch A couple of weeks ago, Banksy posted his original storyboard (via) for the Zombie Simpsons opening that ran back in October. It makes for interesting viewing, and most of the ideas contained therein made it into the finished product. There are a couple of minor touch ups, mostly sanitizing some of the gorier sketches Banksy did, but on the whole it is pretty faithful to the original concepts . . . with one telling exception. Here is one of the panels from Banksy’s original: And…
Quote of the Day
“Jessica, I think this is too steep.” – Bart Simpson “Bart, you can’t trust your perception at this altitude.” – Jessica Lovejoy
Armin Tamzarian, Ken Keeler, and The Simpsons Horde
“This is so weird, it’s like something out of Dickens, or Melrose Place.” – Lisa Simpson A little while back, Dave, Mad Jon, Bob Mackey and I chatted about that most infamous of Season 9 episodes, “The Principal and the Pauper”. Mackey had me stumped in several places because he, unlike the rest of us, had listened to the DVD commentary. The very short version of all that was that Ken Keeler, who wrote the episode and has since gone on to a long and gloriously funny career at Futurama, had defended it in ways Mackey more or less agreed…
Quote of the Day
“It’s the rapture! Quick, get Bart out of the house before god comes!” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“Homer, this is never easy to say: I’m gonna have to saw your arms off.” – Guy with Circular Saw “They’ll grow back, right?” – Homer Simpson “Oh . . . yeah.” – Guy with Circular Saw