“What kind of show you got for us, Mr. Burns?” – Reporter “Well, the ape’s going to stand around for three hours or so. Then we’ll close with the ethnic comedy of Dugan and Dershowitz.” – C.M. Burns “Sensational!” – Reporter Happy Halloween, everybody! This week we’ve got a bunch of Treehouse of Horror related links, include quite a few to people who decided to list individual segments. As always, some are better than others and Zombie Simpsons only gets the occasional pity mention (if that). In addition we’ve got some live sightings of Simpsons clothing, video game ideas, cool…
Month: October 2014
Quote of the Day
“Well, Kang, it seems the Earthlings won.” – Kodos “Did they? That board with a nail in it may have defeated us, but the humans won’t stop there. They’ll make bigger boards and bigger nails, soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!” – Kang
Book Review: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
“What’s your favorite subject?” – Dr. Hibbert “Arithmetic.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, arithmetic. Now, before you know it, you will be back among your polygons, your hypotenuse, and your Euclidean algorithms.” – Dr. Hibbert As an academic subject, math has always stood at the extreme end, as the hardest of the “hard” sciences. Even physics has uncertainty built right into it; math simply has things that have not yet been proven. That’s all well and good for mathematicians when it comes to inter-disciplinary dick measuring contests, but it also makes math more abstract and difficult to explain to the uninitiated.…
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“Hello, once again. As usual, I must warn you all that this year’s Halloween show is very, very scary. And those of you with young children may want to send them off to bed- . . . Oh, my, it seems the show is so scary, that Congress won’t even let us show it. Instead, they’ve suggested the 1947 classic Glen Ford movie, ‘200 Miles to Oregon’.” – Marge Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Treehouse of Horror V”! Original airdate: 30 October 1994.
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“Homer, just give him the donut! Once he has it, that will be the end of all this horror.” – Marge Simpson “Well, okay. If it’ll end horror. . . . Don’t you ever get tired of being wrong all the time?” – Homer Simpson “Sometimes.” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday Dan Castellaneta!
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“I’m sorry, Mr. Blackbeard. We’re low on chairs, and this is the last one.” – Marge Simpson “Arghh, this chair be high, says I!” – Blackbeard
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“What are you spraying me with?” – Homer Simpson “Rum! So no one will believe your story.” – Kang
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“Nice try, Floyd. But you were designed for scrubbing and scrubbing is what you shall do.” – Professor Frink
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“They are all against you, Bart. You must kill them all. They all must die.” – House “Are you my conscience?” – Bart Simpson “I-…yes, I am.” – House Happy birthday Nancy Cartwright!
Reading Digest: Hopeless Lawsuit Edition
“I’m going to write a figure on this piece of paper. It’s not quite as large as the last one, but I think you’ll find it fair.” – C.M. Burns “I think we should take it.” – Lionel Hutz There were two big Simpsons news stories this week. First, the “Simpsons World” app/website finally launched. I took a quick look, but it spent lots of time buffering and seemed to be struggling under launch-day loads, so I’ll come back to that next week. (We do have quite a few links about it, however.) The second was that an actor who…
Quote of the Day
“It’s probably nothing, but we just wanted to be sure.” – Marge Simpson “Ahh!” – Dr. Hibbert “Is there anything you can prescribe, doctor?” – Homer Simpson “Fire. And lots of it.” – Dr. Hibbert “Oh, that’s your cure for everything.” – Marge Simpson
Compare & Contrast: Treehouses of Horror Ending in “V”
“This sandwich tastes so young and impudent. Seymour, what’s with the good grub?” – Mrs. Krabappel “Well, perhaps I ought to let you folks in on a secret. Do you remember me telling Jimbo Jones that I’d make something of him one day?” – Principal Skinner “Are you saying you killed Jimbo, processed his carcass, and served him for lunch? . . . Ha!” – Mrs. Krabappel This year’s Halloween special had three segments: one about a hellish version of Springfield Elementary, one about a Kubrick movie, and one about the Simpson family co-existing with different versions of itself. Twenty…
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“Oh, Homer, you’re not going as a hobo again?” – Marge Simpson “Going where?” – Homer Simpson
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“What he’s typed will be a window into his madness. . . . ‘Feelin’ Fine.’, well, that’s a relief. . . . ooh, this is less encouraging.” – Marge Simpson
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“Simpson, look what you’ve reduced me to.” – C.M. Burns “Please! Please!” – Mr. Smithers
Behind Us Forever: Treehouse of Horror XXV
“Stupid party, wish we was trick or treatin’.” – Bart Simpson The annual Halloween episode tends to be pretty bland in the hands of Zombie Simpsons, and this year was no different. The first story was about Bart going to school in Hell, where he does better than he used to do at Springfield Elementary. The second is a bunch of meandering references to Stanley Kubrick movies that ends with Kubrick himself staring right at the camera for some reason. The third one involved the old Tracey Ullman versions of the characters being ghosts. – Give them this, if they’re…
Quote of the Day
“My baloney has a first name, it’s H-O-M-E-R. My baloney has a second name it’s H-O-M-E-R….Ahhh!” – Homer Simpson
Sunday Preview: Treehouse of Horror XXV
On the annual spooktacular Halloween special, Bart and Lisa are transported to a demon-filled alternate universe after Bart reads a set of Aramaic symbols he finds on the underside of his desk; Moe’s “Clockwork Orange”-style gang is disrupted when Dum (Homer) falls for a girl (Marge) who wants him to give up the thug life; and, in an homage to “The Others,” the Simpsons are visited by their former Tracey Ullman-era versions of themselves Happy almost-Halloween everyone, it’s time for the annual installment of THOH. This is the 25th such episode, which I guess could be celebrated as some sort of…
Quote of the Day
“And so, just as things looked their worst…” – Marge Simpson “I realized I could make money selling my medication to Deadheads.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Grampa, what are you talking about?” – Marge Simpson “Uh, nothing.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
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“A lot of you would think I was crazy if I did this.” – Homer Simpson “He’s crazy!” – C.M. Burns