“Samantha!” – Mr. Stanky “Dad!” – Samantha Stanky “Noooooo!” – Mr. Stanky As far as nothingburger girlfriend characters go, Kumiko is so empty that she makes the relatively one-dimensional Rene from Season 9 look like Katniss Everdeen. Rene at least talked to Moe before dating him out of pity. Kumiko apparently fell in love with Comic Book Guy without even so much as meeting him. But even that vacuous characterization is rich and deep compared to Kumiko’s father, who shows up out of the blue and instantly becomes the focus of the episode despite failing, after his very first scene,…
Month: January 2014
Quote of the Day
“To Marge, and all the blissful years I’ve spent hiding from her in this bar.” – Homer Simpson “Hear, hear!” – Drunks
Quote of the Day
“Hey, wait! I’m okay today! My mom bought me deodorant!” – Milhouse van Houten
Behind Us Forever: Married To The Blob
"Tell me, how do you feel about forty-five year old virgins who still live with their parents?" – Comic Book Guy "Comb the SweetTarts out of your beard and you’re on." – Comic Babe "Don’t try to change me, baby." – Comic Book Guy [Note: Sorry for the extremely late posting on this one. That kind of week. Compare & Contrast should be along tomorrow.] Over the last ten years or so, Hollywood has become extremely adept at giving "geeks" (for lack of a better term) what they want. The most visible expression of this is the way that comic…
Quote of the Day
“Officer, you have arrested an innocent man!” – Sideshow Mel “Really? Aw, jeez, alright, Colossus, you’re free to go. But stay away from Death Mountain.” – Chief Wiggum “But all my stuff is there!” – Dr. Colossus
Quote of the Day
“I don’t want you playing with something that has such bizarre hair. Awful, awful hair.” – Marge Simpson
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“How are we gonna get out of here?” – Otto “We’ll dig our way out!” – Homer Simpson “No, no, dig up, stupid.” – Chief Wiggum Happy (blizzard belated) 20th Anniversary to “Homer the Vigilante”! Original airdate 6 January 1994.
Sunday Preview: Married To The Blob
Homer offers dating advice to Comic Book Guy when he meets a Japanese manga author who catches his fancy. Oh CBG, how I miss you, and how I loathe what you have become. From what I’ve read they unfroze Stan Lee to say a few lines, and although that isn’t a new thing for Zombie Simpsons, I think it has at least been a while.
Quote of the Day
“And after visiting the area for the past two months, I have determined it is not feasible to construct a supertrain between Springfield and Aruba.” – Mayor Quimby
Quote of the Day
“Marge, did you know that Kennedy and Lincoln had the same handicap?” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Simpsonized Politicians Edition
“Just gonna relax with my U.S. News and World whatnot. Ah, good, roasting the new guy.” – Bush the Elder Before we get to this week’s links, I’d like to show you something that illustrates just how different the attitude of the Zombie Simpsons writing staff is from that of The Simpsons. Yesterday, Matt Selman, who is the longtime second-in-command at Zombie Simpsons and who’s been running some of his own episodes the last two seasons, tweeted this: Zombie Simpsons has long acted as unpaid advertising for businesses The Simpsons genuinely mocked, but it’s another level of commercial apathy to…
Quote of the Day
“My Dad left my Mom after she got hooked on cough drops. By the end, her breath was so fresh, she wasn’t really my mother anymore.” – Nelson Muntz
Compare & Contrast: Federal Hardasses
“With rum running hoodlums in the catbird seat, Springfield sent for the one man who could clean up the town and shoot the gangsters: Rex Banner.” – Narrator Who Is Not Walter Winchell These days there are more teevee cop stereotypes than you can shake a nightstick at. There are the gruff loners who play by their own rules, but they get results, damn it. There are the emotionally haunted forensics experts. There are the (always model pretty) lady detectives who are just as tough as the boys. In the subset of federal teevee cops, we’ve got everything from savvy…
Quote of the Day
“Boy, someone’s really gobbling up the juice, sir.” – Mr. Smithers “Excellent, excellent. Perhaps this energy conservation fad is as dead as the dodo.” – C.M. Burns Happy Birthday Al Jean!
Quote of the Day
“So, what’s the verdict?” – La Pamperie Stylist “Oh, dear God! I can’t even put a bag over my head.” – Woman “Yes, you can.” – La Pamperie Stylist
Behind Us Forever: Steal This Episode
“Come on, Milhouse, you have to do this. If not for yourself, then for the movie going public, and for the foreign markets that more important than ever nowadays, and finally, for me, the Mickster.” – Mickey Rooney“No.” – Milhouse van Houten“Alright, I tried.” – Mickey Rooney I’m on record as saying that the “travel” episodes tend to be the least unwatchable. They still can’t tell a story for shit, the dialogue remains hamfisted and expository, and nothing makes sense even within individual scenes, but giving them a fresh topic usually does result in a couple of decent laughs. “Steal…
Quote of the Day
“It’s 11 KBBL degrees below zero, I hope you’re someplace warm!” – Bill “You bet your sweet . . . ass!” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“Take it easy, folks, it’s snow-picnic out there!” – Bill “I snow what you mean.” – Marty “You’re dead weight, Marty.” – Bill
Sunday Preview: Steal This Episode
Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he’s caught for piracy. Lots of guest stars tonight, including Judd Apatow, Leslie Man, Seth Rogan, Will Arnet, and several more. Which I guess is as good of a group as any to use in an episode about a topic that was actually a topic several years back.
Quote of the Day
“Shaving my shoulders! I’m getting it all shaved off!” – Homer Simpson