“Mr. Burns, this is Base Command. The intruder appears to be a young male, age nine to eleven.” – Guard “Release the hounds.” – C.M. Burns
Year: 2014
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“They swore they’d get us back by spiking our water supply, but they didn’t have the guts.” – Homer Simpson “Ohhh, the walls are melting again.” – Marge Simpson “Personally, I think I’m overdone.” – Turkey Happy birthday Wes Archer!
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“This is hour fifty-seven of our live, round-the-clock coverage outside the Simpson estate. Remember, by the way, to tune in tonight at eight o’clock for highlights of today’s vigil, including when the garbage man came, and when Marge Simpson put the cat out. Possibly because it was harassed, we don’t know.” – Kent Brockman
Behind Us Forever: Covercraft
“Yes, son, you can have an electric guitar just like your old man.” – Homer Simpson “Dad, I’m asking if I can get a job.” – Bart Simpson “Gig, son, when you’re a musician a job is called a gig.” – Homer Simpson In the past, I have described watching Zombie Simpsons episodes as akin to listening to a 5-year-old tell a story. It’s just an endless series of “and then this happened”. In “Covercraft”, which had no B-plot, Moe trashes the music store, and then Homer bought a bass guitar, and then there was a montage, and then Homer…
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“Dad, do I have to brush my teeth?” – Bart Simpson “No, but at least rinse your mouth out with soda.” – Homer Simpson
Sunday Preview: Covercraft
Homer has a mid-life crisis, takes up bass guitar and forms a cover band with some of the other dads in town. But the band’s modest early success is soon overwhelmed by the breakout potential of their most unlikely star, Apu. The Red Rocker himself, Sammy Hagar, will guest voice tonight in an episode that I can only speculate to be ‘dad-rrific’. If you are feeling musically inclined however, I would suggest pulling out your season 5 DVDs and watching “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet” instead.
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“My attorney, Lionel Hutz, calls your attention to municipal code 147(c), Protection of Antiquities and Fossils.” – Lisa Simpson “That’s right.” – Lionel Hutz
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“Aw, cheer up, Lis. You got a good grade without even reading the book. That’s win-win.” – Bart Simpson “Can’t you see the difference between earning something honestly and getting it by fraud?” – Lisa Simpson “Hmm, I suppose, maybe . . . if, uh . . . no. No, sorry, I thought I had it there.” – Bart Simpson
Reading Digest: Passing Time
“Egad, man! How are we supposed to pass the time?” – C.M. Burns “Best bet is to stake yourself out a good spot at the starin’ window.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson It’s another short Reading Digest this week. As always we’ve got some good stuff, including an insane Lego video, the magical touch of Harry Shearer’s Twitter account, a sexually unusual farm animal, more clothing, and several great pieces of usage, but overall volume remains pretty low. Not sure why. Anyway . . . Enjoy. Fast Food Formations: Homer Simpson Built From Junk Food – Some crazy geniuses constructed a life size…
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“You’re too late, Homer. Barney sucked it dry. Cut his gums up pretty bad.” – Moe
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“Yeah, I might’ve seen her. It’s hard to tell from this old picture, you know?” – Cabbie “Well, according to our computer aging program, she should look about twenty-five years older.” – Bill Gannon “Yeah, I seen her! Uh, that is to say, I saw her.” – Cabbie
Compare & Contrast: Pranking the New Teacher
“Kids have been doing that one since my day.” – Marge Simpson Rather than get into the nonsensical pageant of the transmundane that was the last third of “Blazed and Confused”, I’d like to take a look at a small moment from the beginning that illustrates the general shallowness of this episode. Specifically, the way that Bart’s closet/skeleton “prank” fails as both a prank, a joke, and as a part of the rest of the episode, especially when compared with Bart’s similar actions in “The PTA Disbands”. While the backstories differ considerably, the immediate situation in both episodes is remarkably similar. In…
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“The torch has been passed to a new generation of, uh, snow plow people. . . . Come on, gimme the key . . . these look like teeth marks.” – Mayor Quimby “I thought there was chocolate inside. . . . Well, why was it wrapped in foil?” – Homer Simpson “It was never wrapped in foil!” – Mayor Quimby
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“Okay, kids, now I’m gonna teach ya how to trap wild animals. But this should only be used in a life or death situation.” – Ned Flanders “Ooh, floor pie.” – Homer Simpson
Behind Us Forever: Blazed and Confused
“Camp is gonna be great! Seven days without parents, homework or ear medicine!” – Milhouse van Houten The best thing to say about this episode is that at least the designers and animators had some fun (including David Silverman, who even got a line!). Other than that, this one was a cheerless, contradictory mess. There’s a new teacher, who’s some kind of psychotic, rule crazy nutjob, but who nevertheless is a regular at “Blazing Guy”, a Burning Man parody so uncreative that they actually tried to make fun of themselves for it. Nothing we see of this guy would indicate…
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“My name is Larry. I’m here to see Mr. Burns.” – Larry “Well, I hate to break it to you, Larry, but if Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.” – Mr. Smithers
Sunday Preview: Blazed and Confused
Zombie Simpsons (finally?) takes on Burning Man Blazing Guy in tonight’s assuredly half-assed “Blazed and Confused”. Also, for reasons, Willem Dafoe is in it. The synopsis-bot sez: Bart faces a tough test at school when he gets a new teacher, Mr. Lassen (guest voice Willem Dafoe), who vows to crush his spirit in the all-new “Blazing Guy” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Nov. 16 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX Cool story, bro.
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“Now, no tour would be complete without a visit to Edison’s boyhood gift shop.” – Tour Guide Happy birthday John Swartzwelder!
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“I just don’t have the discipline to be a hippie.” – Homer Simpson “Does this mean you’re going to start showering again?” – Marge Simpson “Perhaps . . . in time.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Futurama Crossover Reviews, Edition
“Say, let’s bring him back to life by using technology!” – Future Guy “Aye caramba!” – Bart Simpson “Yay!” – Future Crowd Unsurprisingly, there were a boatload of crossover reviews this week, everything from big publications to regular ole bloggers who just wanted to chip in their two cents. We’ve got a bunch below, but having read even more of them than I linked, this appears to be the general consensus: 1. It was better than the Family Guy crossover. Outside of that, opinions diverged. Some people really loved it, others thought it was just plain bad. More than a few people…