“I’m sorry, young man, you’re just not ready. Pick up your check at the front office and for god’s sake put some clothes on!” – Dave Rosenfield The internet pickings were slim this week. I don’t know if it was a hangover from the Fourth or just general summer doldrums, but we do have some summer links, including an RC car, a Spanish clip from “Summer of 4Ft 2”, and a nice baseball story. There are also a couple of lists, an upcoming screening of Harry Shearer’s New Orleans movie, some excellent usage, and even the thinnest of tie-ins to…
Month: July 2011
Quote of the Day
“Sir, we’ve run into a serious problem with the mission . . . these Nielsen ratings are the lowest ever.” – NASA Guy “Oh my god, we’ve been beaten by a Connie Chung Christmas!” – Other NASA Guy
Crazy Noises: Viva Ned Flanders
“And, once again, tithing is ten percent off the top. That’s gross income, not net. Please, people, don’t force us to audit.” – 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. And while the dust…
Quote of the Day
“This just in, Krusty the Klown staged a press conference today to defend himself against charges that his products are unsafe, his theme park is a death trap, and that he’s marketing videos of Tonya Harding’s wedding night.” – Kent Brockman “And I contend that those tourists were decapitated before they entered the Krustyland House of Knives. Next question.” – Krusty the Klown
Crazy Noises: Mayored to the Mob
“Thank you, Fat Tony. However, in the future, I would prefer a nondescript briefcase to the sack with a dollar sign on it.” – 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 while the…
Quote of the Day
“I’d say fifty-three years old and four hundred twenty pounds.” – Guess Your Age & Weight Guy “Ha ha, you lose, thirty-six and two-thirty-nine.” – Homer Simpson
“Burns’ Heir” Spews Truth
Image yoinked from Wikipedia. “But I did get Paul McCartney out of Wings.” – Conformco Guy “You idiot! He was the most talented one!” – Homer Simpson Even with twenty years of viewings under my belt, I am continually amazed at the sheer number of cultural references and allusions in The Simpsons. There isn’t a guest voice and the focus of the episode is a story about Burns and Bart, but they bring up or crib from about five different movies and make fun of half a dozen celebrities. They toss them off with remarkable speed so that things never…
Quote of the Day
“I think, Lisa, that you’ve been taken in by an obvious forgery. Unfortunately, historical research is plagued by this sort of hoax, the so called ‘confession’. It’s just as phony as the Howard Hughes will, the Hitler diaries, or the Emancipation Retraction.” – Hollis Hurlbut
Quote of the Day
“This is the worst Fourth of July ever! I hate America.” – Bart Simpson
Quote of the Day
“C’mon Dad, doesn’t take a genius to realize that Houston’s failed to cover their last ten outings on away turf the week after scoring more than three touchdowns in a conference game.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, my little girl says the cutest things.” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday Yeardley Smith!
Quote of the Day
“Oh, damn FDA, why can’t it all be marshmallow?” – Bart Simpson “Eww, Bart, don’t put the non-marshmallow pieces back in the box. They go in the trash.” – Lisa Simpson
Reading Digest: You Guys Are Giving the Internet a Bad Reputation Edition
“This is what Michael Jackson looks like! You look like a big, fat mental patient.” – Bart Simpson “You’d be amazed how often I hear that.” – Leon Kompowsky The pop culture internet had a minor conniption this week when one of the world’s least reputable news sources, TMZ, reported as a “bombshell” (their word) that Michael Jackson hadn’t done the singing in “Stark Raving Dad”. This is something you can find out by reading just the introduction to the Wikipedia article for that episode. You don’t even need to scroll down, it’s right there at the top; but if…
Quote of the Day
“Are you okay?” – Lisa Simpson “I’m fine, Lisa. Fortunately, the compost heap broke my fall. Be a dear, run a bath.” – Hugh Parkfield