“Mr. Mayor, I hate to break it to you, but your city is infested with bears.” – Homer Simpson “Yeah, and these ones are smarter than the average bear. They swiped my picnic basket.” – Moe “Think of the children!” – Helen Lovejoy “Very well, I promise swift and decisive action against these hibernating hucksters.” – Mayor Quimby
Month: November 2013
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“Mmm, donuts.” – Homer Simpson “Hey, Homer, slow down! You’re gonna choke or something.” – Lenny “Don’t tell me how to eat donuts!” – Homer Simpson “Hey, Homer’s choking again.” – Carl “Hmm, isn’t there a first aid chart around here somewhere?” – Lenny “Somebody scare him.” – Carl “That’s for the hiccups.” – Charlie Happy birthday John Swartzwelder!
Reading Digest: Variety (The Newspaper) Edition
“So where could we shoot this picture? We need a city that has a nuclear reactor and a gorge and can guarantee us the full cooperation of city officials.” – Movie Executive #1 “I’ll check Variety.” – Movie Executive #2 This week we’ve got three links to Variety. (Weird.) One is about the brand new cable deal FOX just announced with itself, and the other two are about a couple of panel discussions at USC. In addition we’ve got the typical assortment of usage, some excellent fan made stuff, a bridge possibly getting named after Lisa, a trans-Atlantic look at “The…
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“I’m alive! I’m alive! And I owe it all to this feisty feline.” – Homer Simpson “Dad, ‘feline’ means cat.” – Lisa Simpson “Elephant, honey, it’s an elephant.” – Homer Simpson
Compare & Contrast: James Bond Songs
“Ingenious, isn’t it, Mr. Bont?” – Hank Scorpio “Scorpio, you’re totally mad.” – Bont “I wouldn’t point fingers, you jerk.” – Hank Scorpio “So, do you expect me to talk?” – Bont “I don’t expect anything from you except to die and be a very cheap funeral.” – Hank Scorpio When The Simpsons was still itself it often featured song parodies and takeoffs that were toe-tapping fun. But those songs were never simply direct ports of existing songs with just a word or two changed. When Shary Bobbins sings "A Boozehound Named Barney", it’s recognizable as "Feed the Birds", but…
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“Marge? Marge Simpson? You remember me, don’t you? I’m Helen Lovejoy the gossipy wife of the minister.” – Helen Lovejoy “Yes, hello, Helen.” – Marge Simpson “Well, I had just finished eating and was about to leave when I looked over this way and said to myself, why isn’t that Marge Simpsons over there having brunch with a man who isn’t her husband?, and I just had to come over and say hello.” – Helen Lovejoy Happy birthday Maggie Roswell!
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“You wouldn’t happen to know anything about a cigarette truck that got hijacked on Route 401?” – Chief Wiggum “What’s a truck?” – Fat Tony Happy birthday Joe Mantegna!
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“Yes, Ralph?” – Miss Hoover “My parents won’t let me use scissors.” – Ralph Wiggum “The children are right to laugh at you, Ralph. These things couldn’t cut butter.” – Miss Hoover
Behind Us Forever: YOLO (<- Yes, They Actually Called It That.)
“There is just one dance that will beat them, the Tango de la Muerte.” – Eduardo “Only one man was crazy enough to dance that dance, and he is dead!” – Lisabella “My twin brother, Freduardo! But where he died, I shall live . . . in his apartment.” – Eduardo Woof, this episode is awful. The A-plot consists of little more than a series of montages with “Eduardo”, Homer’s flat, characterless Spanish guardian angel. The B-plot involves Lisa creating an honor code which everyone except Bart follows for some reason, then she tears out some of her hair for…
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“A few weeks ago I was a washed up actor with a drinking problem. Then Brad Goodman came along and gave me this job and a can of fortified wine.” – Troy McClure Happy 20th Anniversary to “Bart’s Inner Child”! Original airdate 11 November 1993.
Sunday Preview: Yolo
Marge convinces Homer to invite an old pen pal to stay with them, an item that was on a to-do list he created as a 10-year old. Meanwhile, Lisa is instrumental in revising the school honor code. Oh goodie. Marge for some reason is encouraging Homer to be even more zombie-homer-ish. That outta work out for all involved.
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“Attention everyone, I say to those who question the value of the space program: behold!” – Martin Prince
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“All my life I’ve been an obese man trapped inside a fat man’s body!” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Krusty Sketches Edition
This week we’ve got some fan made renderings of Krusty (and Bart) that run the gamut from quick sketch to very refined, but all of them have real style to them. In addition to that, we’ve got more than the usual number of people who agree with us, a couple last Marcia Wallace tributes, some local theater, an open letter to Azaria, and a couple of late but worthy Halloween costumes. Enjoy. The Elevens: Tonight: A Shot Of Theater Presents: The Simpsons Did It! – Attention those of you in and around Northampton, Massachusetts, this is cool: “November 7th, 14th, 21st,…
Compare & Contrast: Burns’ Old Romances
“Aw, Pop, don’t get me wrong, it’s great to be here. But how’s a guy like you wind up with a son like me?” – Larry [Programming Note: Sorry for the late posting on this. Reading Digest should be along at roughly the usual time later today.] The most obvious repeat in “Four Regrettings and a Funeral” was the use of “Memories” for Homer’s flashback. Par for the course for Zombie Simpsons, it was a very weak imitation. In “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”, we see Homer reminiscing about all the things he did with his stomach over the years,…
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“I won’t sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I’m lazy! I’m gonna go right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping bag . . . eh, good night.” – Homer Simpson
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“Here, have a flower.” – Rene “Alright, come on, what’s the catch? A gorgeous woman don’t just hand you a free daffodil.” – Moe “Really, you think I’m gorgeous?” – Rene “Well, the part that’s showing. I guess you could have a lot of weird scars or a fake ass or something.” – Moe “You don’t talk to a lot of women, do you?” – Rene
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“Hey, he’s learning on his own.” – Jimbo Jones “Get him!” – Kearney
Behind Us Forever: Four Regrettings And A Funeral
“I regret nothing!” – Doomed Guy in Movie Ticket Line If any of us had been wondering what it would be like if Zombie Simpsons took the unrelated tales from one of their four-part storytelling episodes, jammed them together with a bunch of expository and often unrelated flashbacks, and dropped in a self voiced celebrity, we need wonder no more. Proving that Season 25 can employ all the same flat out lazy shortcuts as Seasons 24, 23 and so on, we had characters telling us exactly how they feel, people wandering in and out of scenes seemingly at random, and…
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“But we don’t have that kind of money. In fact, no school could afford-” – Principal Skinner “Here’s the admission, plus something for you. See that they get a little extra education, would you?” – Principal Valiant “Yes, sir, Principal Valiant!” – Fort Springfield Ticket Taker “He thinks he’s so hot ever since he swept the Princy Awards. Well, those things are rigged.” – Principal Skinner