“I actually had some doubts about moving to Springfield, especially after that Time cover story, ‘America’s Worst City’.” – Ruth Powers “You can see our house in that photo!” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday Conan O’Brien!
Month: April 2011
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“If you’d like to share your embarrassing problem with our listening audience, we invite you to call our therapist of the airwaves, Dr. Marvin Monroe. Our number is 555-PAIN.” – KBBL Announcer
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“Alright, why do you want to become part of the Kwik-E-Mart family?” – Executive “Because I like people, and I need a place where I’ll be out of the sun.” – Barney Gumble
Reading Digest: Sketches, Drawings and Art Edition
“Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.” – Homer Simpson As the title indicates, there are quite a few different fan made pieces this week, ranging from quick and dirty to very elaborate. We’ve also got some excellent and poor usage, a bizarre video game/music website, a sweet hockey mask, and video of adorable children not paying attention to Zombie Simpsons. Enjoy. Old process, new representation – Smooth Charlie’s click of the week is four awesome pieces of Simpsons art in a gallery in South Korea. The Lisa one is especially fantastic. Sitar Hero – Ten million internet points to whoever came…
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user VirtualErn. “I made some peanut butter brownies for everyone.” – Marge Simpson “Well, would anyone else like a bite of banality?” – Llewellyn Sinclair “I would.” – Chief Wiggum
Faded Stars, Failed Stunts
“Here’s my address book, go get those stars!” – Krusty the Klown According to the schedule on FOX’s website, there’s no new Zombie Simpsons this Sunday (rerun) or next Sunday (rerunning the movie). And while no new Zombie Simpsons is always good news, it also means we’re going to lack for fresh meat around here. (This week’s Crazy Noises should be along in a day or two.) Fortunately, Splitsider stepped into the content gap this morning with an excellent piece by Chris Morgan titled “The Changing Role of Guest Stars on The Simpsons”. The conclusion is a little soft, but…
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“Lindsey Naegle, Advanced Capital Ventures.” – Lindsey Naegle “Oh, what do you produce?” – Lisa Simpson “Synergy, and books on how to cheat at bridge.” – Lindsey Naegle
Compare & Contrast: Magic Tricks
“Behold the box of mystery!” – Milhouse van Houten About halfway through the ridiculous (in a bad way) main plot of “The Great Simpsina”, what’s-his-face (The Great Raymondo) takes Lisa under his wing and tells her the secret he’s kept for decades. In yet another example of the way the attention span of Zombie Simpsons is measured in microseconds, the show treats this revelation as poignant and moving, even going so far as to have the old magician finally decide to tell her after he mentions that he has no children and compares Lisa to his beloved and long departed…
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“This chair is two thousand dollars. We could buy a whole living room set for that.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, there’s an empty spot I’ve always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends. I think this chair is the answer.” – Homer Simpson
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Image shamelessly yoinked from Vintage Space. “Second comes right after first.” – Buzz Aldrin
Taking Attendance
“Okay, when I call your name, uh, you say ‘present’ or ‘here’. No, say ‘present’.” – Moe If there’s one scene that’s been played over and over again in Zombie Simpsons, it’s the listing of the celebrity names. Once upon a time even celebrities playing themselves (James Woods, Tito Puente, everybody from “Homer at the Bat” and “Krusty Gets Kancelled”) got actual introductions. Now they appear and have their names read aloud. This is actual dialogue spoken by Lisa in “The Great Simpsina”: Ricky Jay. David Copperfield. Penn. Teller. It sounds like she’s reading roll call at a talent agency…
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“Incidentally, thanks for not making fun of my genitalia.” – C.M. Burns “I thought I did.” – Marge Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Brush with Greatness”! Original airdate 11 April 1991.
Sunday Preview: The Great Simpsina
Guest stars, guest stars, guest stars. That’s the theme of tonight’s Zombie Simpsons episode, whose description is capable of inducing a brain hemorrhage: The family is greeted by folk singer Ewell Freestone (guest voice Jack McBrayer) when they visit a peach farm, but when Marge goes overboard with peach-inspired dishes, Lisa and Bart try to get rid of the unwanted fruit. Later, Lisa becomes a magician’s apprentice to the legendary Great Raymondo (guest voice Martin Landau) who helps her develop her craft, but a schoolgirl crush clouds her judgment when she is coaxed into revealing the Great Raymondo’s most famous…
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“Oh, Homer, you’re as smart as you are handsome.” – Lurleen Lumpkin “Hey! . . . Oh, you meant that as a compliment.” – Homer Simpson
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“Take him away, boys.” – Bart Simpson “Hey, I’m the chief here. Bake him away, toys.” – Chief Wiggum “What’d you say, chief?” – Lou “Do what the kid says.” – Chief Wiggum
Reading Digest: The Perils of Syndication Edition
“Wow! They’ll never let us show that again, not in a million years!” – Krusty the Klown Assuming that pure joy expands in a circle at the speed of light, the echo of my unbounded glee at learning that reruns of The Simpsons would be on five days a week should be somewhere between Altair and Sigma Draconis by now. In those dark days before DVDs, DVD rips, and bottomless hard drive platters, watching old episodes wasn’t easy to do, and the news that it would be on every weeknight (and sometimes on Saturday) was literally life changing. All those…
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“Marge, you being a cop makes you the man, which makes me the woman! And I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which, as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.” – Homer Simpson
Cutting Digital Corners
“Don’t worry, baby, the tube’ll know what to do.” – Homer Simpson I’ve never worked as an animator, nor even been able to draw decently, so feel free to take the following with a grain of salt. Having said that, I’ve sat through every single one of the HD episodes of Zombie Simpsons, and I think all their digital tools have made it increasingly easy for them to cut corners. Take the image below from “Love Is a Many Strangled Thing”: There’s nothing terribly remarkable, it’s just an establishing shot of the school. (You can see Bart’s stupid tractor ride…
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“Look at these prices! We could finally get rid of those termites for the cost of this meal.” – Marge Simpson
Crazy Noises: Lisa’s First Word
“In a moment, we’ll look at the courageous Korean gymnast Kim Huyang, who made a perfect dismount on what was later revealed to be a broken leg.” – Olympics Announcer 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 this brief, amazing interruption of 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…