Oh, Canada, you guys get all the cool stuff. Not only is tomorrow the one night only engagement of the Simpsons burlesque show in Toronto, but Canada is also now home to a wine called “D’Oh”. I would very much like to attend the former, preferably while imbibing the latter. Sadly, I am stuck Stateside. This week we’ve also got two awesome paeans to the show from people who grew up watching it, interviews with Groening and Reiss, a video game mishap, two people making fun of the Game of Thrones opening from last week, and a “needs more weed” television conspiracy theory.
Enjoy.
13. On the Simpsons – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this epic open letter to Matt Groening. It’s got everything: love of the good years, a life changed by The Simpsons, pain at the decline.
Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from ‘The Simpsons’ – Life lessons learned from The Simpsons, with nary a trace of Zombie Simpsons. And yeah, cat in the furnace is one of the greats.
We Put The Spring In Springfield: A Simpsons-Themed Burlesque Show – Want to go:
On March 10, Underground Peepshow will unveil their newest burlesque show, a tribute to what they dub “one of the most influential shows of our geeky generation”: The Simpsons. Expect sexy takes on classic characters – Marge has already received the Playboy treatment, but over a dozen performers will show off their sexy interpretations of the classic animated show – I’m hoping for a Selma and Patty-inspired performance, myself. I’m also looking forward to what are quickly becoming hallmarks of Underground Peepshow performances: elaborate costumes, and fearlessly tarting up and playing homage to some of nerd culture’s least obvious characters. Get ready to look at Groundskeeper Willy or Edna Krabappel in a whole new light.
Here are the details:
Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina Avenue, Toronto ON
Hours
Saturday March 10, 2012
Doors: 9:00 PM
Show: 9:30 PMPricing
Advance: $12.00
At the door: $15.00
Advance tickets available at Toronto Underground Cinema, Silver Snail, Eyesore Cinema, Suspect Video19+
Happily, the official site has a gallery page, so we should get some pictures.
Project 365 or 366 – #31 – They may have Duff beer in Britain, but in Canada they’ve got “D’Oh” wine. I can only hope that a nice liquor (“Crumulent” perhaps?) comes to America soon.
D’OH! The Simpsons: Tapped Out Pulled From App Store – I guess people like Simpsons games:
The Simpsons: Tapped Out has been pulled from the App Store just days after launch. Due to the overwhelming demand for The Simpsons: Tapped Out, the app has suffered connection problems with EA’s servers, D’OH!
For whatever reason, EA simply did not account for a Simpsons game being so popular, that it might cause a meltdown in the EA server power plant.
That’s pretty funny. According to what I can find on-line, it’s still down.
Appointment Viewing: March 5-March 11 – Lenny, bringing her weekly thunder to Sunday’s Zombie Simpsons:
8:00 – The Simpsons (Fox): Following a traumatic incident, Homer’s bed-wetting problem worsens, and his family decide to infiltrate his dreams to get to its subconscious source. And in Homer’s dreams is where his late mother (voice of Glenn Close) resides. Coincidentally, a couple days ago I was trying to decide on the worst Simpsons episode title ever and now here comes an episode that wins by a landslide. “How I Wet Your Mother.”
Let’s see, it’s been about a year and a half since Inception came out, yeah, I’d say we’re due. Bed wetting? Jebus.
“Oh, boy! The deep fryer’s here. Heh heh, I got it used from the navy. You can flash-fry a buffalo in forty seconds.” -Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons) « Freakoutville Xpress – Forty seconds? But I want it now!
leme simpsons – Cool fan made photographic montage of a glass of water and a TV playing what looks like “Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder”.
Who Said It? Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns? – Putting up quotes of Mitt Romney and Mr. Burns, and you didn’t use “What good is money if it can’t inspire terror in your fellow man?”. For shame, Mad Magazine, for shame. (via)
Mike Reiss – Reiss will be in Charlotte, NC this weekend for the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival’s closing program.
Homer and Marge Simpson in my glasses – It’s a blog that’s nothing more than pictures of the famous with this guy’s glasses. Neat idea.
Bart Simpson – It’s a 3D printed Bart walking toy, and you can download the file to print your own.
The Simpsons also love Game of Thrones – The couch “gag” with Game of Thrones was obvious linkbait, and lots of people went for it. This one deserves special commendation however:
Of course the rest of the Simpsons episode kinda went downhill from there – Bart becomes a street artist a la Shepard Fairey to get back at Homer for locking him in a rabbit cage. It was as bland and convoluted as it sounds. As has been said on the show so many times in so many way, Meh.
Indeed. I’ve watched it twice, and what bugs me most of all is that everything works. Shouldn’t some of the gears have seized, causing the power plant to collapse or something?
Game of Thrones/ The Simpsons – Okay, one more:
Possibly the one good thing to come out of the Simpson’s in like 12 seasons, as featured on /Film today– The Simpsons parody of the Game of Thrones opening sequence.
Homer Simpson – Experimenting with an online doodle application by drawing Homer.
The Joy of Sect – Arsenal, Arsene Wenger and The Simpsons – A long but amusing comparison of “The Joy of Sect” and the travails of one professional soccer club.
So Many Possibilities – A bunch of other take offs on “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, including that Simpsons one.
The price of eating well – This post is better at making fun of overly expensive food than this week’s Zombie Simpsons, and it comes with appropriate Homer YouTube.
Rompi Anak Branded Murah Simpsons A2503 – This isn’t in English, but there is a picture of what appears to be an officially licensed baby vest that looks like it might have something to do with soccer and that I don’t recognize from any episode. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is some goofy bootleg, but it also wouldn’t surprise me if it’s legit.
March Madness: TV Conspiracy Theory – The Last Five Minutes of St. Elsewhere – I’d never heard of that. It seems like the kind of thing a stoned Tom Hulce in Animal House would think.
YouTube of My 25 Favorite Original Songs from TV Shows. – Lenny provides a ton of excellent YouTube here, including a couple of great songs from The Simpsons.
“Simpsons” creator visits UW-Madison and longtime friend (March 9, 2012) – Groening was the surprise guest an art lecture. And this is great background:
Though the accounts of their meeting differ – Groening, for his part, says he wanted to meet Barry because she struck up a correspondence with author Joseph Heller by pretending to be Ingrid Bergman – they agree that their work on the college’s newspaper solidified their relationship.
And it comes with a nice plug for college papers.
Matt Groening: I could easily fill up my entire life just working on Futurama – Heh:
You have these two hugely successful shows. Do you have an idea for a third show bubbling away in the back of your mind?
I certainly have enough on my hands to do with these two. But the really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don’t know.
The Perfect Moejito – I chuckled. It’s the look on Moe’s face.
Cindy’s Return to the Universe – The always tricky, “I vow to blog more often” post comes with two pieces of Futurama fan art and YouTube of two favorite Simpsons quotes. I love Flanders’ cider enthusiasm.
Downtown Jersey City bar to host "The Friday After" exhibit featuring local artist – Cool fan made sculpture of Bart standing in front of what kinda looks like the church windows.
Two Things That I Like But That Are Now Dead – And finally, I get to end with someone who agrees with us:
The first thing that I like but that is now dead is The Simpsons.
[…]
A week or two ago The Simpsons aired its 500th episode. It was really bad. For a hardcore Simpsons fan like myself, it was even depressing.
Indeed it was. The other dead thing is David Foster Wallace. Though if he came back as a zombie it might be even worse than Zombie Simpsons.
Dead Homer Society 
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I already posted this over at Lenny’s blog, but “How I Wet Your Mother” sounds like something that even the producers of a How I Met Your Mother porno would probably reject. Between that, the dated Inception parody, the idea of Homer having a bedwetting problem, and the fact that they’re still wasting Glenn Close’s talents even though Mona has passed on, I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up getting “talking bar rag” levels of badness.
“Following a traumatic incident, Homer’s bed-wetting problem worsens, and his family decide to infiltrate his dreams to get to its subconscious source.”
Well, of course they do. I know when I have a family member suffer a traumatic incident, I decide to infiltrate his dreams to get its subconscious source.
Rosebud works as a parody of Citizen Kane because Burns fits that character. Cape Feare works as a parody of Cape Fear because Sideshow Bob fits that character. Not to make too fine a point here, but what the FUCK is this? Every week I think the ideas for episodes can’t get any worse, and yet they still do. The only way this show exceeds my expectations is in showing how bad they can be. Like Elaine said about Jerry on Seinfeld, just when I think you’re the most shalllow person in the world, you manage to drain a little more water out of the pool.
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