“Geez, you’re pretty uppity for someone who eats bugs all day.” – Bart Simpson
Month: October 2014
Quote of the Day
“All these celebrities on the walls. I just know a big star like you is up there somewhere.” – Selma Bouvier “Ah, yes, I’m over there.” – Troy McClure
Reading Digest: Crossover Fallout Edition
“Bart, we can’t let Bob steal the spotlight. We’re gonna have to stoop to the lowest common denominator.” – Lisa Simpson “I can do that.” – Bart Simpson Seemingly everyone with an internet connection weighed in on the Family Guy crossover this week. I couldn’t possibly read or link them all, so the below is by no means a definitive, or even a representative, sample, but broadly reactions seemed to fall into two categories. There were people who hated it and there were people who liked it. The difference is that the people who hated it, really hated it, while the people who…
Quote of the Day
“You know, at times like these, I used to turn to the Bible and find solace. But, even the Good Book can’t help me now.” – Ned Flanders “Why not?” – Homer Simpson “I sold it to you for seven cents.” – Ned Flanders “Oh.” – Homer Simpson
On the Family Guy Thing
“And if you ever want to visit my show…” – Jay Sherman “Nah, we’re not gonna be doing that.” – Bart Simpson Family Guy has been a raw nerved subject for Simpsons fans pretty much since it began. This owes in part to the fact that no less a person than Harry Shearer has said that it was cooked up by FOX for the express purposes of squeezing the underpaid voice actors on The Simpsons. (I don’t know if that’s actually true or not, but it certainly sounds like something FOX would do and Shearer is orders of magnitude more trustworthy…
Quote of the Day
“I think there’s really something wrong with Santa’s Little Helper. He was up barking all night and dug up the back yard worse than ever.” – Marge Simpson “My bongo drums!” – Lisa Simpson “My strobe light!” – Bart Simpson “My Best of Ray Stevens, featuring The Streak album! So it was the dog that buried all our stuff.” – Homer Simpson “Yes. The dog.” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday Mike Scully!
Compare & Contrast: Krusty’s Struggles
“Hi, kids. Today’s show is gonna be the funniest, side-splittinest, cavalcade of . . . ah, the hell with it. Roll the cartoon.” – Krusty the Klown There are a lot of big, flashing similarities between “Like Father, Like Clown” and “Clown in the Dumps”, most prominently that both are about Krusty and his father, and, even moreso, about Krusty missing his father. But there are also a lot of small, individual scenes and jokes that are very similar. So let’s consider one of the former and then one of the latter. For our overarching theme, just look at how…
Quote of the Day
“Aren’t you being a little hard on old Homie?” – Ned Flanders “Oh, forget about him, let’s rehearse the bottle scene!” – Marge Simpson “Let’s not and say we did.” – Ned Flanders