I hope everyone enjoyed their summer, because now it’s time to pay the price. Welcome to season 24, and another episode of Bart in love. When Bart’s love life heats up again it will this time involve five flames. But when Bart learns that Mary has relocated to New York, he decides that she’s the one that got away and embarks on a mission to track her down. Meanwhile in New York, Marge and Lisa try to find something cultural to do that doesn’t cost a fortune. I don’t remember which past girlfriend Mary is, but that’s probably for the…
Month: September 2012
Quote of the Day
“Well, I just have one question: what kind of pet shop is filled with rambunctious yahoos and hot jazz music at one am?” – Rex Banner “Um . . . uh . . . the best damn pet shop in town!” – Moe “Yeah!” – Crowd “Alright, but you people remember, baby turtles and alligators may seem like a cute idea for a pet, but they grow up.” – Rex Banner
Season 7 Marathon: 25 Episodes, 25 beers, 9h:32m:18s
“Anyway, get ready beer belly, we’re gonna show Springfield what we’re made of!” – Homer Simpson Good morning and welcome to the seventh and final Simpsons-Beer Marathon. Today I get to spend my whole Saturday watching Season 7, and it is going to be awesome. As with previous marathons, I will be using the pause and reverse buttons to get a quote down or take a screen grab, but the fast-forward button is strictly verboten. Since I was way too drunk by the end of the Season 6 marathon (I blame Dave) to comment intelligently on “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”,…
Quote of the Day
“No, not another portrait of that bongo beating Liverpudlian.” – Mr. Schindler “But, Mr. Schindler, I-” – Marge Simpson “Oh, someone might have used this canvas to create a masterpiece. Instead you’ve soiled it forever. Now this is art!” – Mr. Schindler Happy birthday Gabor Csupo!
Reading Digest: End of an Era Edition
“We used to have a bus. In a way, the Sixties ended the day we sold it, December 31st, 1969.” – Munchie Before we get to today’s links, a brief site announcement: — Season 24 starts on Sunday. There is no reason to expect that it will be any different than Seasons 23, 22, 21 or any other Zombie Simpsons run. In just the first episode, they’re spamming retread celebrity guests, getting Bart romantically involved yet again, and having the Simpson family take a trip to a place they’ve already been. You couldn’t design a more stereotypically pathetic episode if…
Quote of the Day
“Talking out of turn, that’s a paddling. Looking out the window, that’s a paddling. Staring at my sandals, that’s a paddling. Paddling the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that’s a paddling.” – Jasper
Compare & Contrast: Suspense Movie Take-Offs
“This can’t be what it looks like. There’s got to be some other explanation.” – Bart Simpson “I wish there was some other explanation for this, but there isn’t. I’m a murderer, I’m a murderer!” – Ned Flanders “Then that’s not the real Ned Flanders.” – Bart Simpson “I’m a mur-diddly-urd-ler!” – Ned Flanders “If that’s not Flanders, he’s done his homework.” – Bart Simpson The Simpsons had a long and proud tradition of using classic movies or plot ideas as the basis of an episode. Being The Simpsons, when they aped something, they didn’t just follow it, they used…
Quote of the Day
“Andy Williams!” – Nelson Muntz “Oh, we don’t need to stop here.” – Bart Simpson “Yes we do.” – Nelson Muntz “My huckleberry friend, moon river and me.” – Andy Williams “Wow! I didn’t think he was gonna do Moon River, but then, bam, second encore!” – Nelson Muntz
Compare & Contrast: Homer Parties Like It’s Freshman Year
“Now, the only antidote to a zany scheme, is an even zanier scheme!” – Homer Simpson “Why does it have to be zany?” – Fat Nerd Since the show had all but run out of ideas by Season 11, it’s no surprise that they had to start revisiting topics and concepts that they’d already done with increasing frequency. And while most of “Kill the Alligator and Run” is a bizarre slideshow of the family leaping from one goofy, vaguely Southern situation to another, it gets there by transporting Homer to a raucous college party and having him run around with…
Quote of the Day
“I know Weinstein’s parents were upset, superintendent, but I was sure it was a phony excuse. It sounds so made up, ‘Yom Kip-poor’.” – Principal Skinner
Compare & Contrast: Barney Drunk and Sober
“Well, here I am, right on time. I don’t see Barney “Let’s crash the rocket into the White House and kill the president” Gumble.” – Homer Simpson “Actually, he’s been here since sunrise.” – NASA Guy “Hi, Homer. Since they made me stop drinking, I’ve regained my balance and diction. Observe: I am the very model of a modern major general, I’ve information vegetable animal and mineral.” – Barney Gumble [Programming Note: I’m way behind on Season 11 Compare & Contrasts, and this post is the first of me digging out to finish them off before Season 24 starts on…
Quote of the Day
“I graded this morning’s test over lunch, and most of you did quite well.” – Miss Hoover “I got a B!” – Ralph Wiggum “No, Ralph, that’s an F. I must’ve spilled some Kahlua.” – Miss Hoover
Bonus Bonus Quote of the Day
“Academy Award Playhouse now returns you to Hercules Versus the Martians.” – TV Announcer “Welcome to our spaceship, mighty Hercules!” – Martian Happy birthday to old Simpsons hand and current Hollywood kingpin Brad Bird.
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I’m actor Troy McClure. You might remember me from such TV series as Buck Henderson: Union Buster, and Troy and Company’s Summertime Smile Factory.” – Troy McClure Phil Hartman would’ve been sixty-four today. Happy birthday.
Quote of the Day
“Kamp Krusty is built on an actual Indian burial ground; we’ve got archery, wallet making, the whole megillah . . . and for you fat kids, my exclusive program of diet and ridicule will really get results.” – Krusty the Klown Happy 20th anniversary to “Kamp Krusty”! Original airdate: 24 September 1992.
Quote of the Day
“Marge, I’m gonna miss you so much, and it’s not just the sex, it’s also the food preparation, your skill with stains of all kinds. But mostly I’ll miss how lucky you make me feel each and every morning.” – Homer Simpson
Saturday Morning Navel Gazing
“Anyway, we got a great show for you! Well, actually, the last half hour is a real garbage dump. Ugh. We’ll be right back.” – Krusty the Klown Ever since the entire text was finally published back in June, the web pages for the mini-book have been among the most popular here at Dead Homer Society. The daily numbers bounce up and down like a carnival ride, but the biggest ups come when someone links to it on Reddit, 4chan, a message board, or something similar (note to everyone: please keep doing that). What’s remarkable is how consistent they are…
Quote of the Day
“This barbeque will be hard, thankless work, but I’m sure you’re up to it, Marge.” – Homer Simpson “Well, it could be a good chance to get to know our neighbors outside of a courtroom setting.” – Marge Simpson “You know what you should serve, Marge? More of these lamb chops. These are the best ever.” – Homer Simpson “Why thank you, Homey. You might say the extra ingredient is salt.” – Marge Simpson
Reading Digest: Mindy and Marge Edition
“My job is to show you how miserable life would be if you married Mindy instead of Marge.” – Colonel Klink I’m not sure if the tag feature on WordPress was on the fritz again or what, but there weren’t many Simpsons links this week. There were a hell of a lot of links to a promotional stunt Mindy Kaling did where she dressed up as Marge and got herself photographed on the Simpsons couch to flog her new sitcom. There really isn’t much to the story beyond that so there’s only one link to it below, but that one…
Quote of the Day
“Sir, I run Hullabalooza’s Pageant of the Trans-Mundane . . . the freakshow, and I’ve been looking for a big fatso to shoot with a cannon. I’d like very much for you to be that fatso.” – Freakshow Guy