“That suit’s a little revealing, isn’t it?” – Homer Simpson “Well, it allows for maximum mobility. Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all.” – Ned Flanders For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the show. Since Skype and podcasts didn’t exist in 1999, and we want to discuss these episodes the way…
Month: July 2012
Quote of the Day
“But you can’t just repossess our merchandise. The I Ching said I had six months till bankruptcy.” – Karma-Ceuticals Owner “Hey, channel somebody who gives a damn.” – Repo Man
Crazy Noises: Grift of the Magi
“So have a merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, kwazy Kwanza, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan. Now a word from my god: our sponsor.” – Krusty the Klown For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the show. Since Skype and podcasts didn’t exist in 1999, and we want to discuss these…
Quote of the Day
“The lesson here is that self improvement is better left to people who live in big cities.” – Marge Simpson “No! Self improvement can be achieved, but not with a quick fix. It’s a long, arduous journey of personal and spiritual discovery.” – Lisa Simpson “That’s what I’ve been saying: we’re all fine the way we are.” – Homer Simpson
The Longest Daycare: Maggie in the Spotlight
“We didn’t invite the other babies. Maggie doesn’t seem to get along with the other babies.” – Lisa Simpson Though I still haven’t seen it a second time, after a weekend of mulling it over, “The Longest Daycare” is doing that thing that high quality movies/television shows/books do where it gets better the more I think about it. The story is sweet without being saccharine, exciting without being scary, and plausible without being fanciful. The animation is very similar to the movie and HD Zombie Simpsons, but there’s a not-quite dreamlike quality to it that makes it fit in will…
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“What do you do, Dr. . . Simpson?” – Homer Simpson “Doctor?” – Lisa Simpson “That’s right, I’m chief of complicated surgery at the invasa-care clinic.” – Dr. Simpson
Quote of the Day
“People, our search is over! On this site we shall build a new town where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets.” – Jebediah Springfield
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“Now, Marge, you’ve come to the right place. By hiring me as your lawyer, you also get this smoking monkey. Better cut down there, smokey, ha ha ha.” – Lionel Hutz “Mr. Hutz-” – Marge Simpson “Look, he’s taking another puff!” – Lionel Hutz
Longest Daycare Open Thread
“Don’t like to nap, eh? We have a place for babies like you: the box.” – Ms. Sinclair On a single viewing, The Longest Daycare, which premiered this morning in theaters near and far with Ice Age 4, was very good. I say on a single viewing because this has the feel of elder seasons way more than the movie did, and way way more than Zombie Simpsons does (including the animation), so I’m sure once it inevitably finds its way to home video most Simpsons fans will watch it at least a couple of times. I’ve changed my opinion…
Reading Digest: Unasked Replacement Edition
“Aw, c’mon kid, quit cryin’, it’ll be fun. I promise!” – Ernest Borgnine This week’s Reading Digest contains at least two important concepts. The first is that Ernest Borgnine was fucking awesome and beloved by all the peoples of the world. We’ve got a lot of links to Borgnine memorials below (and a couple of them are chalk full of cool videos). The second is that things can always get worse, as demonstrated by today’s final link. In addition to those, we have a bunch of awesome fan made artwork this week, including a partial skateboard, an oil painting, and…
Quote of the Day
“Book ’em, Lou. One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.” – Chief Wiggum Happy birthday to David S./X. Cohen!
Crazy Noises: Take My Wife, Sleaze
“Eww, these records used to be real accomplishments. Now they’re just gross.” – Lisa Simpson For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the show. Since Skype and podcasts didn’t exist in 1999, and we want to discuss these episodes the way the internet intended, we’re sticking with the UTF-8 world of chat…
Quote of the Day
“I’m sorry, but we’re not supposed to put butter on the Milk Duds.” – Teenager “You’re not supposed to go to the bathroom without washing your hands either.” – Homer Simpson “Touche.” – Teenager “To the top, please. . . . Swim, my pretties.” – Homer Simpson
Crazy Noises: Eight Misbehavin
“Kids are the best, Apu. You can teach ’em to hate the things you hate, and they practically raise themselves, what with the internet and all.” – Homer Simpson “Well, perhaps it is time. I’ve noticed this country is dangerously underpopulated.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the…
Quote of the Day
“Excuse me, sir, has anyone turned in a left Vulcan ear?” – Martin Prince “Let’s see, uh, we got a utility belt, couple of tri-corders, a light saber . . . sorry, kid.” – Comic Convention Lost and Found Guy
Compare & Contrast: Buns in the Oven
“Barnacle Bill’s home pregnancy test? Homer, shouldn’t we have gone with a better known brand?” – Homer Simpson “But, Marge, this one came with a free corncob pipe.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, let’s see, ‘Ahoy, maties, if the water turns blue, a baby for you. If purple ye see, no baby thar be’.” – Marge Simpson “Well, what color is it, blue or purple?” – Homer Simpson “Pink.” – Marge Simpson “D’oh!” – Homer Simpson “Hmm, ‘If ye test should fail, to a doctor set sail’.” – Marge Simpson [Note: Crazy noises for “Eight Misbehavin” and “Take My Wife, Sleaze”…
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“And then I sped away without anyone seeing my license plate.” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“Ah, Monday morning, time to pay for your two days of debauchery you hung over drones!” – C.M. Burns “TGIM, sir.” – Mr. Smithers [Note: The original version of this post had the wrong image. It’s been fixed.]
Quote of the Day
“Legend has it, my great-grand-pappy stumbled upon this recipe when he was trying to invent a cheap substitute for holy water.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
The Glories and Vagaries of Blogging
“Where’s the ‘Any’ key? I see ‘Esk’, ‘K-tarl’, and ‘Pig up’. There doesn’t seem to be any ‘Any’ key!” – Homer Simpson From time to time the tags on WordPress don’t update properly. I have no idea why this is, but it does happen. This week it happened on the “Simpsons” tag: That’s what it looks like this morning, Saturday, July 7th. (And please note that this is in a browser in which I am not logged in with my WordPress account.) Some of those links I used for last week’s Reading Digest, but with the exception of yesterday’s Reading…