“The National Weather Service says dawn is still scheduled for 6:20 tomorrow and to please stop calling.” – Lisa Simpson
Month: May 2014
Reading Digest: No One Cares About the Season Finale Edition
“Aren’t you going to watch the rest of your cute cartoons?” – Marge Simpson “Nah, come on Lis.” – Bart Simpson “Maybe there’s something else to do on this planet.” – Lisa Simpson Thank Jebus, most of the Lego hoopla has fallen down the internet memory hole and we’ve got a full set of great links for what feels like the first time in forever. There’s crazy people driving a Simpsons car across Australia, tons of cool fan made stuff (everything from Homer as a serial killer to a nice Malibu Stacy cross stitch), some fun lists, several people who…
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“Two tickets for-” – Homer Simpson “Lemme guess: Look Who’s Oinking?” – Googolplex Guy “That’s right.” – Homer Simpson “Sold out.” – Googolplex Guy “Ohhh.” – Homer Simpson
Compare & Contrast: Adult Game Night
“Oh, I hate having parties. The toilet always gets backed up.” – Homer Simpson “I don’t care if the sink shoots sludge, we’re having a party!” – Marge Simpson There’s an inescapable lameness to those adult games that get broken out after dinner parties. When kids get together, they can easily make up games on the fly (you’ve got to reach home base at the couch, the lava starts at the edge of the carpet, etcetera), but grown-ups tend to need a little more structure, especially if they’re playing against people they don’t know that well. Trivial Pursuit, Scattegories and…
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“I’ve always admired car owners, and I hope to be one myself as soon as I finish paying off Mother. She insists I pay her retroactively for the food I ate as a child.” – Principal Skinner “Yeah, yeah, uh, unfortunate. Well, Seymour, I make superintendent money, which amply covers both food and car.” – Superintendent Chalmers
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“Duh, stay out of Riverdale!” – Moose
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“Hey, Moe, how come you never got cable for the bar?” – Barney “Well, it was either cable or the mechanical bull. I made my choice, and I stand by it.” – Moe
Behind Us Forever: Pay Pal
“And this is Lord Thistlewick Flanders.” – Ned Flanders “Charmed . . . Uh, googily doogily.” – Lord Thistlewick Flanders Every once and a while we get episodes like “Pay Pal” that seem to be made up of B-plots that got discarded from other episodes and were found lying on the writers’ room floor. The first thing that happens is that there’s an Evergreen Terrace block party, then John Oliver shows up as a new British neighbor. Then he gets into a fight with Homer and vanishes completely from the episode. With the “British neighbor” story concluded, there’s a new…
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“You know, you remind me of poem I can’t remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “You’re so sweet.” – Jacqueline Bouvier Happy 20th Anniversary to “Lady Bouvier’s Lover”! Original airdate: 12 May 1994.
Sunday Preview: Pay Pal
When Marge swears off becoming friends with couples, after Homer insults the new neighbors, Lisa declares she doesn’t need friends either. Not much to go off of there. However, Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell are guest starring as themselves, so you can be sure there will some good ol’ fashioned NPR humor for you tonight.
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“Yeah, everyone’s heard of angels. But who’s ever heard of a ‘neanderthal’?” – Chief Wiggum
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“Everyone likes Whacking Day, but I hate it. Is there something wrong with me?” – Lisa Simpson “Yes, honey.” – Homer Simpson Happy Whacking Day everybody!
Reading Digest: Floodwaters Receding Edition
“Marge, I’m going to look for the kids.” – Homer Simpson The Lego episode is now five days in the past and the internet is starting to move onto other things, but this week’s links are still a little thin from that deluge of marketing. Amusingly enough, though this is just my informal observation, there were a lot more links (on commercial publications and personal blogs) before the episode aired than after. Prior to broadcast, my news feeds and Google Alerts were inundated with people posting links to images and that trailer video. Afterwards there were quite a few reviews,…
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“Ugly . . . ugly . . . butch.” – Patty Bouvier “What’s the matter, can’t you find a hairstyle you like?” – Marge Simpson “Oh, hold the phone, that’s the one for me.” – Patty Bouvier “Ed Asner?” – Marge Simpson “No, next to him: Mary Tyler Moore.” – Patty Bouvier Happy birthday James L. Brooks!
Compare & Contrast: Comic Book Guy As Villain
“Tonight’s episode: Enter . . . The Collector.” – TV Announcer There are basically no characters on the show who haven’t undergone a serious dumbing down in the Zombie Simpsons era (Gil, maybe?). Some of them gradually devolved, others had sudden changes in a single episode; either way, there’s often a moment when you knew that the original version was never coming back. For Comic Book Guy, I’ve always thought that moment came in Season 11 when he materialized out of nowhere to complain about the Simpsons getting a horse again. Homer asks if anyone cares what “this guy” thinks, and the assembled…
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“Hey Lis, what do you call those guys in chess that don’t matter?” – Bart Simpson “Well, a blockaded bishop is of little value, but I think you’re referring to a pawn.” – Lisa Simpson “Right. I am a pawn.” – Bart Simpson “Mmm, I know.” – Lisa Simpson
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“Bart Simpson, meet Jay Sherman the critic.” – Homer Simpson “Hello.” – Jay Sherman “Hey, man, I really love your show. I think all kids should watch it! Ew, I suddenly feel so dirty.” – Bart Simpson Happy birthday Mike Reiss!
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“Told the Rev I was going to my room to say my prayers.” – Jessica Lovejoy “Smart, beautiful, and a liar. So much better than that Sarah plain and tall.” – Bart Simpson
Behind Us Forever: Brick Like Me
“George Carlin on three.” – Miss Pennycandy “Yeah? Lawsuit? Oh, come on! My seven words you can’t say on TV bit was entirely different from your seven words you can’t say on TV bit. So I’m a thief, am I? Well, excuse me! . . . Give him ten grand.” – Krusty the Klown “Steve Martin on four.” – Miss Pennycandy “Ten grand.” – Krusty the Klown Let’s get this out of the way first: this is the best they can do and they know it. If the PR machine is to be believed, this episode took two years to make…
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“Can’t let Dad see me playing hooky.” – Bart Simpson “I can’t let the boy see me skipping work.” – Homer Simpson “Good afternoon.” – Bart Simpson “How do you do, sir?” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “The Boy Who Knew Too Much”! Original airdate: 5 May 1994.