Watched this one when I got home from work and thought it’d make a nice .gif.
Month: July 2014
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“Hey, hey, Mr. Sparkle! Mr. Sparkle!” – Japanese Man “Konnichi wa.” – Homer Simpson
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“We’re going to have to put a steel rod where your spine was.” – Dr. Hibbert “Will I ever move a piano again?” – Mr. Smithers “Oh, my goodness gracious, no.” – Dr. Hibbert
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“Guess what, Homey? There’s going to be twice as much love in this house as there is now!” – Marge Simpson “We’re gonna start doing it in the morning?” – Homer Simpson “No.” – Marge Simpson “Oh.” – Homer Simpson “We’re going to have another baby.” – Marge Simpson
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“Lisa, when you get to be our age, you’ll learn a few things. Like when a sign says, ‘Do Not Feed the Bears’, man, you’d better not feed the bears.” – Homer Simpson
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“Mrs. van Houten, I’m Bart’s mother. We met in the emergency room when the boys drank paint.” – Marge Simpson “I remember. Please, come in.” – Luann van Houten
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“Hey, Dad, I’ve come to spend some time with my favorite father.” – Homer Simpson “Baloney! You came here to put me in a home.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “You’re already in a home.” – Homer Simpson “Oh, how could you?” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
Reading Digest: Promising Features, Regrettable Drawbacks Edition
“Congratulations, Mr. Simpson, this invention of yours has made us all rich, especially you! It’s simple yet ingenious, and it fits right in the palm of your hand. Every person in America now owns one of these, and in many cases, three or four.” – Imaginary Executive “Uh, could I just get a look at that?” – Homer Simpson “Now, why would you need to see it? You’re the genius who invented the . . . product in question.” – Imaginary Executive The big news this week was the first look at “Simpsons World”, an app/website-of-some-kind that’ll be debuting in October. I…
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“And bring us the finest food you got, stuffed with the second finest.” – Moe “Excellent, sir, lobster stuffed with tacos.” – Gilded Truffle Waiter
Debunking the Zombie Simpsons Apologists (Part 2)
By Calvin [You can check out Part 1 here.] So-called “fans” have always criticized the show, even in its glory days. Al Jean says so. Charlie Sweatpants effectively debunked this argument, but it bears repeating. During the classic years of The Simpsons in the 1990s, Internet access was not even close to being as widespread and democratic as it is now. Many of us relied on dial-up modems at schools and libraries to access the Internet through now-outdated programs like America Online and Prodigy, which were slow and expensive to use from what I remember. I didn’t know Simpsons message…
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“You call hamburgers ‘Steamed Hams’?” – Superintendent Chalmers “Yes. It’s a regional dialect.” – Principal Skinner “Uh-huh, what region?” – Superintendent Chalmers “Uh, upstate New York.” – Principal Skinner “Really. Well, I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase ‘Steamed Hams’.” – Superintendent Chalmers “Oh, not in Utica, no, it’s an Albany expression.” – Principal Skinner
Debunking the Zombie Simpsons Apologists (Part 1)
By Calvin [You can read Part 2 here.] One of the reasons I enjoy visiting Dead Homer Society at least once a week is reading the articulate breakdowns and critiques of latter-day Simpsons episodes, from the show’s desperate efforts to be relevant by bringing in celebrities and making clumsy pop culture references, to the poor and disjointed writing, lame new characters, odd character development, bad animation, and lack of actual, you know, jokes. As a longtime Simpsons fan who reveres its glory years, it was devastating to find myself joining the ranks of its fans-turned-critics and agreeing that it should…
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“Pepe!” – Homer Simpson “Papa Homer!” – Pepe “Son, your life is gonna better, starting now.” – Homer Simpson
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“Right now, I want each of you to try something interesting. There’s no trick to it. It’s just a simple trick!” – Brad Goodman Happy birthday Albert Brooks!
The Day the Laughter Died
By Mike Zanna There was a time when The Simpsons was the best show on TV. The show that currently calls itself “The Simpsons” has little resemblance. It’s not nearly as good. It’s not even good compared to the rest of the stuff on television. It’s like The Simpsons, but without everything that made The Simpsons so amazing. The show has become a hollow shell, a shadow of itself, a ghost of its former greatness. I’m sure there’s another supernatural metaphor I could use. So what the hell happened? At some point, The Simpsons went off the air and was…
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“Maggie is allergic to strained pears and she likes a bottle of warm milk before nap time.” – Marge Simpson “A bottle? Mrs. Simpson, do you know what a baby’s saying when she reaches for a bottle?” – Ms. Sinclair “Ba ba?” – Marge Simpson “She’s saying, ‘I am a leech!’. Our aim here is to develop the bottle within.” – Ms. Sinclair Happy birthday Jon Lovitz!
An Observation While Re-Ripping My DVDs
“The way I see it, if you raise three children who can knock out and hog tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing something right.” – Marge Simpson A few months ago I stopped resisting and finally got a smart phone. It’s very snazzy and does lots of things my beloved old flip phone couldn’t do, including play video. Naturally, this got me to thinking about how I could get The Simpsons on there. Way back in 2006, I ripped all my DVDs to .avi files that came in at ~183MB each. (These are the files from which I get…
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“Wow, a clown! Do you think he’s evil?” – Todd Flanders “He smells evil.” – Rod Flanders “Should we tell Daddy?” – Todd Flanders “No, let’s poke him a little while longer.” – Rod Flanders
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“Mr. Simpson, you’re never gonna own a better RV, and I don’t mean that in a good way. I mean, literally buddy, this is it for you. You know? It’s this or a wagon.” – Cowboy Bob
Reading Digest: Fun for All Ages Edition
“I think it’s nice we’re doing something Maggie will enjoy for once. Besides, I’m sure Storytown Village is also fun for everyone, from eight to . . . God only knows.” – Marge Simpson There are more than a few things that make The Simpsons unique, even when compared to other hit programs. Close to the top of that list, and this is borne out more and more with each passing year, is the damned near agelessness of it. At some point, the world is going to tire of the Simpsons family and it’ll become a part of history, but that…