– By Andreas “Cool, she’ll be a freak!” – Bart To have an annual Halloween episode is one thing. To freely cram shocking, ghoulish imagery into otherwise normal episodes of a family sitcom is another. But then, The Simpsons’ writers and animators never had much interest in following formulas or obeying TV conventions, preferring to meld their own savagely satirical experiments with an emotionally naturalistic representation of family life. This, and the fluid nature of its animation, meant that the show could veer from mundane reality to nightmarish fantasy in the blink of an eye. Here, then, are ten of…
Month: June 2011
Quote of the Day
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Eric Kilby. “Selma, this wedding is spinning out of control. Can we really afford it? I’ve already run through eight of the ten dollars they gave me when I left prison.” – Sideshow Bob “Hey, relax, I told you, I got money. I bought stock in a mace company just before society crumbled.” – Selma Bouvier
Crazy Noises: Homer Simpson in “Kidney Trouble”
“Aren’t you going to give him the last rites?” – Marge Simpson “That’s Catholic, Marge. You might as well ask me to do a voodoo dance.” – Reverend Lovejoy For the third summer in a row, we at the Dead Homer Society are looking to satisfy your off-season longing for substandard commentary on substandard Simpsons. This summer we’ll be looking at Season 10. Why Season 10? Because we’ve already done Seasons 8 and 9 and we can’t put it off any longer. Prior to Season 10, we watched as the show started falling over, this is when it fell over. …
Quote of the Day
“Boy for sale! Boy for sale!” – Principal Skinner “Is this legal, man?” – Jimbo “Only here, and in Mississippi.” – Principal Skinner
Crazy Noises: Lisa Gets an “A”
“I know a liquor store where we can cash this right now!” – Principal Skinner For the third summer in a row, we at the Dead Homer Society are looking to satisfy your off-season longing for substandard commentary on substandard Simpsons. This summer we’ll be looking at Season 10. Why Season 10? Because we’ve already done Seasons 8 and 9 and we can’t put it off any longer. Prior to Season 10, we watched as the show started falling over, this is when it fell over. And while the dust wouldn’t settle completely for another season or so, there is…
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“Frankly, the Army isn’t quite as I remembered it.” – Sergeant Skinner “Up yours, Sergeant!” – Soldier “Actually, it’s exactly as I remembered it.” – Sergeant Skinner
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“Then where’s Sideshow Bob?” – Chief Wiggum “He ran off.” – Minimum Security Convict “Oh, great. Well, if anyone asks, uh, I beat him to death. Okay?” – Chief Wiggum “Right.” – Lou
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“My best friend shafted me. I’ll never get over this, Otto man.” – Bart Simpson “Oh, sure you will. You know, once my old lady ran off and married my brother. Well, it hurt, but here it is a month later, and I’m sleeping on their couch!” – Otto Edited to fix my inability to discern words in English.
Some Weekend Reading
“Until then, they can watch a tape from our video library.” – Marge Simpson A couple of weeks ago, I came across a new addition to the Simpsons blog universe: Me Blog Write Good. You can get the full background in the introductory post, but the short version is that this fine young man first got into the show on VHS, has been a fan ever since, and is now going to watch every episode from Seasons 1-20 and blog about it. (He’s stopping at 20 because that’s when Zombie Simpsons finally broke his spirit.) He finished Season 1 earlier…
Quote of the Day
“What’s the matter, Homer? You’re not your normal, effervescent self.” – Moe “I got my problems, Moe. Give me another one.” – Homer Simpson “Hey, Homer, hey, you should not drink to forget your problems.” – Moe “Yeah, you should only drink to enhance your social skills.” – Barney Gumble
Reading Digest: 1950s Television Edition
We’ve got three links this week that deal with the ancient dawn of television, some more unintentionally funny than others. There’s also a guy who draws Bart obsessively, alumni updates for Groening and Kavner, some sweet YouTube, and plenty of excellent usage. Enjoy. The Greatest TV Writers Rooms Ever – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this exhaustive and informative article about the most revered television writing groups ever. It starts all the way back in the 1950s, and displays the proper apathy toward Zombie Simpsons by only including people who wrote for the show through Season 5. I…
Quote of the Day
“Because you have impeded science, you must now aid science . . . yes. Starting tomorrow, you will assist me with my amateur astronomy, taking down coordinates, carrying equipment, and so forth, four-thirty in the morning.” – Principal Skinner “There’s a four-thirty in the morning now?” – Bart Simpson
A Lisa-centric Simpsons Marathon
– By Lenny Burnham Yesterday I planned and executed a Lisa-centric Classic Simpsons marathon. I thought I’d make a handy guide of what discs you’ll need if you want to replicate this marathon and throw in a few notes and observations from the discussion that came up while we were watching. Season One Moaning Lisa (Disc One) This episode caused an argument between my roommate and I. She just doesn’t like season one, even though this episode has Lisa saying she’s wailing for the homeless, poor farmers and sick miners and Mr. Largo telling her that none of those unpleasant…
Quote of the Day
“If we quit now, we’ll never know how badly they’re gonna beat us.” – Homer Simpson “Yeah, you’re right. That’s the kind of thing that would haunt you.” – Moe
Crazy noises: D’Oh-in’ in the Wind
“I’ll treasure this poncho forever.” – Homer Simpson “Uh, you might want to wash that. The dog has a lot of skin and bladder problems.” – Seth For the third summer in a row, we at the Dead Homer Society are looking to satisfy your off-season longing for substandard commentary on substandard Simpsons. This summer we’ll be looking at Season 10. Why Season 10? Because we’ve already done Seasons 8 and 9 and we can’t put it off any longer. Prior to Season 10, we watched as the show started falling over, this is when it fell over. And while…
Quote of the Day
Original image yoinked from Wikipedia. “Look at all the wonderful things you have Mr. Burns: King Arthur’s Excalibur, the only existing nude photo of Mark Twain, and that rare first draft of the Constitution with the word ‘suckers’ in it.” – Mr. Smithers
Crazy Noises: When You Dish Upon a Star
Image yoinked from here. “You people must realize that the public owns you for life, and when you’re dead, you’ll all be in commercials dancing with vacuum cleaners.” – Homer Simpson For the third summer in a row, we at the Dead Homer Society are looking to satisfy your off-season longing for substandard commentary on substandard Simpsons. This summer we’ll be looking at Season 10. Why Season 10? Because we’ve already done Seasons 8 and 9 and we can’t put it off any longer. Prior to Season 10, we watched as the show started falling over, this is when it…
Quote of the Day
“Off the record, ma’am, all the gals on the force knew just how you felt.” – Female Cop “That’s nice, you think you could loosen my cuffs?” – Marge Simpson “No.” – Female Cop
A Heartwarming Tale of Friendship Overcoming Zombie Simpsons
“You know, some of these stories are pretty good. I never knew mice lived such interesting lives.” – Homer Simpson If the only thing the dull eyed, undead colossus of Zombie Simpsons cost the wider world was half an hour on FOX every Sunday, it wouldn’t be a problem. There are a lot of television channels these days, and wasting one more timeslot on a mediocre show that fades from your mind as soon as the credits roll isn’t the least bit meaningful. In the context of the entertainment panoply of the early twenty-first century, everything from movies on demand…
Quote of the Day
“Honey, I don’t think these clothes are us.” – Marge Simpson “Who are they?” – Lisa Simpson “Hey Brandine, you could wear this shirt to work.” – Cletus “Oh Cletus, you know I got to wear the shirt what Dairy Queen give me.” – Brandine Happy birthday Tress MacNeille!