“Bart, have you ever read ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’?” – Mrs. Krabappel “I’m halfway through it, I swear!” – Bart Simpson Before we return to our regularly scheduled programming tonight, I want to highlight a few comments from the original book post: Anonymous 19 May 2012 at 6:12 pm Awesome! But I must ask… do you have any plans to publish this in ePub format, so it can be read on every single e-reader in the world that isn’t a Kindle? Yes? I’m very new to this whole eBook/e-reader/e-words thing. (I don’t even own a Kindle, I had to…
Month: May 2012
Quote of the Day
“Don’t be discouraged, son, I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the lightbulb.” – Homer Simpson
Saturday Afternoon Cartoons
“Goodbye, Maggie, stay as sweet as you are . . . Goodbye, Lisa, I know you’ll make me proud . . . Goodbye, Bart . . . I like your sheets.” – Homer Simpson I know all these episodes so well that I often forget just how gobsmackingly amazing they are. The entire premise of “One Fish Two Fish Blowfish Blue Fish” is that Homer is going to die. The episode is mostly heartfelt moments and sadness, and yet it is laugh out loud funny and beautifully drawn. Even compressed and scaled down, you can see the bittersweet emotion on…
Quote of the Day
“What do you have to say to all those Marge Simpson wannabes out there who wish to suppress David’s doodle?” – Dr. Marvin Monroe “Hmm, I don’t know. I guess one person can make a difference, but most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” – Marge Simpson
Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?
“I’m not some dizzy starlet who can’t string two words together!” – C.M. Burns It is my great relief to announce a project that has been the better part of a year in the making: “Zombie Simpsons: How the Best Show Ever Became the Broadcasting Undead”. It’s a mini-book (~22,000 words) that is as close as I can come to a definitive statement on how The Simpsons became Zombie Simpsons. Table of contents: Part I – Putting the Spring in Springfield 1 – What Is Zombie Simpsons? 2 – The Terrible World of 1980s Television 3 – The Most Anti-Authority…
Reading Digest: The Popularity of Others Edition
“The easiest way to be popular, is to leech of the popularity of others.” – Patty Bouvier “So we propose changing our name from ‘Springfield’, to ‘Seinfeld’.” – Selma Bouvier As expected, the word “Simpsons” appeared near the word “Gaga” an awful lot this week; there were links about seeing her behind the scenes, about what she thought of doing the voice, and just about any other bit of non-news that can be used to put the words “Lady Gaga” in a headline and generate some pageviews. As there is no need to worry about any of that until Sunday,…
Quote of the Day
“We’re going to take a test.” – Miss Hoover “Alright, a test!” – Lisa Simpson “It’s called the Career Aptitude Normalizing Test, or CANT.” – Miss Hoover
Crazy Noises: Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend
“Alright, folks, show’s over. No more to see, folks, come on. Only sick people want to see my folks kiss.” – Bart Simpson 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…
Quote of the Day
“Dad, can I ask you a question?” – Lisa Simpson “Sure, honey.” – Homer Simpson “Why are you dedicating your life to blasphemy?” – Lisa Simpson “Don’t worry, sweetheart, if I’m wrong, I’ll recant on my deathbed.” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“My name’s Harv Bannister, I work for Tipsy McStagger’s Good Time Drinking and Eating Emporium.” – Harv Bannister “Oh, yeah? Hey, what’s Mr. McStagger really like?” – Moe “Actually there is no Tipsy McStagger, he’s just a composite of other successful logos.” – Harv Bannister “Well, you tell him from me that he makes one great mozzarella stick.” – Moe “Yes, fine, I will.” – Harv Bannister
Compare & Contrast: Wedding Reception Guest Lists
“Would you guys do a favor for a guy in love?” – Kirk van Houten “Sure.” – Drummer “Yeah.” – Doobie Brother “It’s why we’re here.” – Keyboardist “Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend” uses a lot of ideas, characters and jokes from earlier episodes. There’s a religious school that’s more expository and less believably insane than the one in “Whacking Day”. There’s Flanders calling a talking dog “the spawn of the devil” when we all know from “Bart the Lover” that it’s Todd who considers the idea of a talking dog “blasphemous”. There’s even that poorly stereotyped theater guy, who’s not…
Quote of the Day
“Do you ever hide beer around the house?” – Marge Simpson “Do I ever!” – Homer Simpson
A Season Best and an All Time Worst
“Like one out of every nine Americans, I’m left handed. And, let me tell you, it ain’t all peaches and cream. Your writing gets smeared, Lord help you if you want to drive a standard transmission.” – Ned Flanders I have two good things to say about “Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend”. First, we dodged the “storytelling episode” bullet. When they were backstage at the beginning talking about why they didn’t do Lenny’s story, I thought for sure we were in for four short, equally dull segments, but it turned out that they went with the less annoying single, long dull…
Quote of the Day
“Well, this reporter was possibly a little hasty earlier, and would like to reaffirm his allegiance to this country and its human president. It may not be perfect, but it’s still the best government we have . . . for now . . . Oh, yes, by the way, the spacecraft still in extreme danger, may not make it back, attempting risky reentry, blah blah blah blah blah, we’ll see you after the movie.” – Kent Brockman
Sunday Preview: Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend
Image bloodied by Dave. After an exhaustive ten second search, I gave up on finding a preview image for tonight’s Krabappel-And-Flanders-Stayed-Together story. Instead I just grabbed the above from that delightfully clumsy social media campaign they flopped with last summer. Here’s the details: When the town of Springfield discovers that Ned and Edna have secretly gotten engaged, Marge offers to throw them a congratulatory reception. However, bringing everyone together makes them all realize that no marriage is perfect. Meanwhile, Edna tries to help Ned’s children become more socially acceptable by changing some of the rules. The most worrisome phrase in…
Quote of the Day
“Now, we are going to set this pile of evil ablaze, but because these are children’s toys, the fire will spread quickly. So, please stand back and try not to inhale the toxic fumes.” – Reverend Lovejoy
Quote of the Day
“Prepare to engage enemy . . . bogey’s airspeed not sufficient for intercept. Suggest we get out and walk.” – Air Force Pilot
Reading Digest: Baby Gaga Edition
Give Lady Gaga credit, she’s so popular right now that a little thing like Zombie Simpsons releasing a picture and short clip of her doing a guest voice for an episode that doesn’t even air for a week and a half caused a minor internet conniption. I’ve been expecting the Gaga explosion since last year when her guest spot was first announced, but even I didn’t think it’d start the week before the episode. It’s impressive, though next week when the full grown hysteria hits I’ll be lucky to find five links that aren’t about her. Anyway, none of those…
Quote of the Day
“Homer, do you have any plans for after graduation?” – Guidance Counselor “Me? I’m gonna drink a lot of beer and stay out all night!” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“But killing snakes is evil.” – Lisa Simpson “Maybe so, Lisa, but it’s part of our oh so human nature. Inside every man is a struggle between good and evil that cannot be resolved.” – Homer Simpson “I am Evil Homer! I am Evil Homer! I am Evil Homer! I am Evil Homer!” – Homer’s Brain It’s May 10th, Happy Whacking Day, Everybody!