“Oh, this isn’t gonna be about Jesus, is it?” – Homer Simpson “All things are about Jesus, Homer . . . except this.” – Reverend Lovejoy
Month: June 2011
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“Homer, I can’t get the baby to burp. Could you try for a while?” – Marge Simpson “No problem, I’ll just give her a sip of beer. C’mon Maggie, it’s Miller time.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Alumni Success Edition
“I can assure you our preschool is of the highest quality. Over 75% of our graduates go on to first grade.” – Miss Tillingham’s School for Snotty Girls and Mama’s Boys Administrator It’s always nice to see people who worked on The Simpsons continue to do well, and we’ve got several of them this week. Rich Moore (Seasons 1-5, 9), Donick Cary (Seasons 7-11), Greg Daniels (Season 5-9) and Mike Reiss (um, a lot of Seasons) all either have new projects in the works or are just getting some well deserved recognition. There’s also a lot of great references and…
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Kent Wang. “I shouldn’t have served those North Korean fortune cookies, they were so insulting. ‘You Are a Coward’, no one likes to hear that after a nice meal.” – Marge Simpson
A Simpsons Confession
– By Charles Kenny Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been 6 months since I last watched a new episode of The Simpsons. I sinned against comedy when I decided that one, fateful Sunday evening to watch a film on Netflix instead of ‘Animation Domination’. I knew it was wrong, but by that stage I has reached my wits’ end. Long had I watched the quality of one of my favourite shows decline. I stuck with it through thick and thin; the unmasking of Seymour Skinner, the many instances of Marge kicking Homer out of the house,…
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“Marge, I can’t wear a pink shirt to work, everybody wears white shirts. I’m not popular enough to be different.” – Homer Simpson
Crazy Noises: Treehouse of Horror IX
“To put you at ease, we have recreated the most common spawning locations of your species. You may choose either, the back seat of a Camaro, an airplane bathroom, a friend’s wedding, or the alley behind a porno theater.” – Kodos 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…
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“Wait, she’s about to bring out the big guns.” – Pageant Contestant #1 “Eyelash implants.” – Pageant Contestant #2 “I thought those were illegal.” – Lisa Simpson “Not in Paraguay.” – Pageant Contestant #2
Crazy Noises: Bart the Mother
“For decimating our pigeon population, and making Springfield a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present you with this scented candle.” – Mayor Quimby 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…
Quote of the Day
“Attention, this is Principal Skinner, your principal, with a message from the principal’s office. All students please proceed immediately to an assembly in the Butthead Memorial Auditorium. Damn it, I wish we hadn’t let the students name that one.” – Principal Skinner
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Image shamelessly yoinked from here. “What is your area of expertise?” – Adult Education Annex Administrator “Well, I can tell the difference between butter and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.” – Homer Simpson “No you can’t, Mr. Simpson, no one can!” – Adult Education Annex Administrator Happy birthday Greg Daniels!
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Francesco Zaia. “I’ve been so bored since we moved here I found myself drinking a glass of wine every day. I know doctors say you should drink a glass and a half, but I just can’t drink that much.” – Marge Simpson
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“What if you pretended that this couch were a bar, then you could spend more nights at home with us. Huh?” – Marge Simpson “I’m not going to dignify that with an answer.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: The Late 80s/Early 90s Strike Back Edition
“It all happened in 1990. Back then, the artist formerly known as Prince was currently known as Prince, Tracy Ullman was entertaining America with songs, sketches, and crudely drawn filler material.” – Homer Simpson This week we’ve got several links to blasts from the past, everything from a great bootleg t-shirt, fake grunge in Tampa, and old political controversies to some moonlighting Groening once did for Apple. There’s even a story that involves a fax machine. How quaint things used to be. There’s also several kinds of usage, a cool looking show coming up in New York City, and some…
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“Folks, do you realize without your support public television can’t afford to bring you such award winning shows as ‘Edward the Penitent’?” – Troy McClure “I’m really, really, really sorry.” – Edward the Penitent “I’m afraid sorry doesn’t cut it with this pope.” – Pope
“Cape Feare” Spews Truth
“Okay , it’s over! Get ’em out of here.” – Moe Aside from the way they don’t go off on random tangents and seem to be actually enjoying these episodes, the next biggest difference between these old commentaries and the ones on Zombie Simpsons is simply the number of people on them. On Season 12 or 13, six people would qualify as a very small contingent, here it’d be quite large. I don’t know if that’s the result of the age of the episodes or scheduling conflicts or what, but it makes things a bit more coherent (i.e. they can…
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“Dad, you were supposed to pay for those snacks.” – Lisa Simpson “I saw Krabappel’s butt, I paid.” – Homer Simpson
Wednesday Evening Cartoons
“Hello, Marge.” – Tom Jones “That’s it, big smile, everybody’s happy.” – Mr. Smithers There’s a lot to love about “Marge Gets a Job”, but two things in particular show the kind of care and skill that made excellence typical on The Simpsons. The first is the way everyone in this episode, regardless of the size of their part, acts perfectly in character. The second is the many callbacks that build from one to another, often involving those minor characters. Consider Surly Joe, the only foundation repairman in town. He’s only in two scenes, and in both cases he manages…
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“Marge, we need to talk. You’re spending too much time at the casino and I think you may have a problem.” – Homer Simpson “I won sixty dollars last night.” – Marge Simpson “Woo-hoo, problem solved!” – Homer Simpson
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“You don’t look so rich.” – Homer Simpson “Don’t let the haircut fool you, I’m exceedingly wealthy.” – Bill Gates