Image shamelessly yoinked from here. “I think what we have on our hands here is a classic case of what laymen refer to as ‘fear of failure’. As a result, Bart is an underachiever, and yet he seems to be, how should I put this? Proud of it?” – Dr. J. Loren Pryor Happy Simpsons Day, everybody!
Year: 2011
Reading Digest: YouTube Mashup Edition
“Thanks to modern editing techniques we can using existing footage to complete the film without Milhouse. Watch.” – Hack Editor “Looks like we’re in trouble, Fallout Boy.” – Radioactive Man “Jiminy Jillikers, Radioactive Man!” – Fallout Boy “We’ll have to fight our way out. Are you ready?” – Radioactive Man “Yes.” – Fallout Boy “Seamless, huh?” – Hack Editor “You’re fired.” – Movie Producer “And with good cause!” – Hack Editor We’ve got quite a bit of video this week, including two Simpsons mashups, one with Kanye West and the other with Breaking Bad. God bless modern editing techniques. There’s…
Quote of the Day
“By all medical logic, steam should be shooting out of his ears.” – Dr. Hibbert “His ears if we’re lucky.” – Krusty the Klown
Crazy Noises: Holidays of Future Passed
“Hey, I remember you. Mayor Quimby, right?” – Lisa Simpson “I, uh, er, ah, no. Look at this license: Mohammed Jafar.” – Mohammed Jafar As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another. More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things. The only kind of on-line communications…
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“And, like Icarus, the rocket foolishly soared too high and lost control of its servo-guidance mechanism, leaving us with some . . . six hours to live.” – Kent Brockman
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“Okay, one more step, I’ve just got to go laminate your license. You’ll get it in two to three weeks.” – Selma Bouvier “Hot damn! No more sittin’ in the dirt at the drive in.” – Cletus
Compare & Contrast: Maggie’s Silence
“Will that girl ever shut up?” – Homer Simpson The more I think about it, the more “Holidays of Future Passed” feels like a flashy, stripped down remake of a classic movie. The effects are splashier, the budget higher, and the cast larger, but despite the occasionally entertaining scene or idea, the whole thing is a jumble. Too often you’re just marking time until the next segment begins, hoping it’s better than what you’re currently seeing. To illustrate that, I’d like to take a look at a running joke “Holidays of Future Passed” slavishly copied from “Lisa’s Wedding”: Maggie’s silence…
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“Excellent. Bribing those two judges has paid off, just as it did during the Miss Teen America pageant.” – C.M. Burns
Didn’t Groening Already Make a Show About This Kind of Stuff?
“What’s normal to him, amazes us.” – Future Guy #1 “He will be our new god.” – Future Guy #2 “Yay!” – Future Crowd I’ll start right off by saying that this is easily the best Zombie Simpsons episode so far this season. That alone isn’t much of a compliment (if it is one at all), so let me clarify by stating unequivocally that the “First Church of Lard Lad” is the funniest thing I’ve seen on Zombie Simpsons in a long, long time. Even better, it was accompanied by a couple of other decent little set pieces that were…
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“Homer Simpson, defying all medical advice, has switched to Power Sauce’s archrival, The Vita-Peach Health Log. Doctors say he may not have the mega-nutrients needed to stave off death.” – Brad
Sunday Preview: Holidays of Future Passed
Image bloodied by Dave, as always. For the final new episode of 2011, Zombie Simpsons is trotting out two ideas that have been done multiple times before, Christmas episodes and future episodes. Get ready for bad cliches and potential spinoff characters galore: It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the Simpsons flash-forward thirty years to find themselves in a tech-savvy, futuristic Springfield. Bart and Lisa have children of their own and decide to spend the holidays as one big family at Homer and Marge’s house. Lisa and Bart turn to Homer and Marge for parenting advice and begin…
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“Look at him wolf down that gristle.” – Patty Bouvier “It’s an accident waiting to happen.” – Selma Bouvier “Do you know the Heimlich Maneuver?” – Patty Bouvier “No.” – Selma Bouvier “Good.” – Patty Bouvier
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Image taken from Wikipedia. “Who was George Washington Carver?” – Marge Simpson “Um, the guy who chopped up George Washington?” – Bart Simpson “Really? Wow.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Esteemed Publication Usage Edition
“Over the years, The Shopper merged with the Springfield Times, Post, Globe, Herald, Jewish News, and Hot Sex Weekly to become Springfield’s number one newspaper.” – Tour Guide There was quite a bit of newspaper usage this week, most of it rather good and from shockingly respectable publications. (There was even one from the Financial Times called “European politicians and Homer Simpson”, but it’s paywalled and I don’t give enough of a shit to register.) More importantly, today is your last chance to tweet your favorite Simpsons quote to Daily Simpsons. I haven’t submitted one, but I’m going to predict…
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“Studio’s closed until Tuesday, animators have AA on Monday.” – Chester J. Lampwick Happy 95th birthday Kirk Douglas! (Left column from top to bottom: “Ace in the Hole”, “Spartacus”, “Town Without Pity”, “The Day the Violence Died”, “The Vikings”. Right column from top to bottom: “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, “Paths of Glory”, “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral”, “Seven Days in May”, “The Villain”. Images for “The Vikings” and “The Villain” from IMDb, all other images are my screen grabs. Yes, that’s Ann-Margret and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the last picture.)
It’s Not a Real Hallway, But an Incredible Simulation!
“Good thing this alley got so narrow in the middle.” – Lou Since I don’t know much about animation, I submit this with my usual caution. But can anyone tell me what the fuck is going on with the hallway through which temporarily crazy Joan Rivers drives a golf cart? First image: Right here this already doesn’t scan. I think they’re trying to go for some kind of fisheye type shot, except that the scale is all out of whack. The door on the right is bowed like it would be, but the closer door on the left is only…
Quote of the Day
“Thank you, Mr. Plow, now my store can remain open.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “Let’s do it.” – Snake
Compare & Contrast: Krusty’s Nadirs
“That dummy doesn’t scare me. I’ve had plenty of guys come after me and I’ve buried ’em all: hobos, sea captains, Joey Bishop.” – Krusty the Klown “Don’t forget the Special Olympics.” – Ms. Pennycandy “Oh yeah, I slaughtered the Special Olympics!” – Krusty the Klown In the introduction to yesterday’s Crazy Noises, I mentioned that “Krusty Changes His Show” should be up there with travel episodes, Homer gets a job, and other serially repeated plots (Lisa gets a cause, Bart gets a girlfriend, etcetera). A corollary to that is the way we see Krusty freak out once he’s at…
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“Wait a minute, you didn’t learn how World War II ended! . . . We won!” – Teacher “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!” – Students “Mmm, I haven’t seen such unfettered hurly-burly since the fall of Saigon.” – Principal Skinner
Crazy Noises: The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
“Ladies and gentlemen, the clown show has been put on hiatus for retooling.” – TV Announcer As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another. More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things. The only kind of on-line communications we like are the kind that could once…