“He’s gradually getting away, Chief.” – Skinny Boy
“Ah, let him go. I have a feeling we’ll meet again, each and every week, always in more sexy and exciting ways.” – Wiggum P.I.
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17 responses to “Quote of the Day”
One of the great episodes. It knew of what it spoke only too well, since about 90% of the stuff it “joked” about coming soon, have since come true. Ozmodiar is pretty much the only thing we haven’t had.
Ozmodiar was in the episode Homr (Homer has a crayon stuck in his brain
Read this, anonymous shit: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Ozmodiar
You’re welcome.
I stand corrected then. Haven’t seen that ep in a loong time. I’m guessing I’m “anonymous shit”, btw, so thanks, deplorable fuckwad. (And thank you too, Fudge.)
My comment was addressed to AhFudge, and if you’re him (and if you’re the one who has been impersonating me all February this year), then you’re welcome again.
Case of mistaken identity, then. Still good to know about Ozmodiar though. I’m sure they were conscious of the fact when they put him into Homr that they were ostensibly ruining the earlier joke, even if they thought they were simply referencing/laughing at it. Sigh.
One of the very few good lines of an otherwise terrible episode.
“otherwise terrible episode”
You serious, brah? You do know the “terrible”ness were deliberate here, right?
I thought it was terrible too when I initially watched it. Then I studied television history in college and on the Internet and realized that they’re taking the piss out of a lot of crummy TV shows that were popular before The Simpsons came around (and are still around today in some way).
Why do people think this is a bad episode anyway? Were they still angry over “Homer’s Enemy”? Did they really think FOX was going to make a spin-off show featuring The Simpsons in corny stock TV shows (which is kinda what’s happening with the current episodes)? Or did they just feel it wasn’t as funny as it should have been?
I’ve noticed that both this episode and “Homer’s Enemy” tend to elicit a love it or hate it response from Simpsons fans. I think I’m one of the few fans that doesn’t rate either episode at either of those extremes–I certainly wouldn’t change the channel if either episode came on, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch either episode, either. I’ll admit that I find both episodes a little too meta for my tastes (and, yeah, I don’t care for “Behind the Laughter” much because its meta humor lacks subtlety altogether). I’ve also noticed that people who seem to hate this episode usually like the “Wiggum, P.I.” segment the most. To be honest, I like that segment the least.
Huh, but I really like “The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular” even though that’s a pretty darn meta episode, too. I guess there’s so much in its execution and jokes that I like that off-sets what I usually dislike in meta humor, and think that it’s one of the most enertaining clip shows in existence.
138th Episode Spectacular contains many great jokes about the show, from the crappiness of the Tracey Ullman shorts to no one giving a shit about Bleedy Guns Murphy and Marvin Monroe. They didn’t want to make a clip show, and they made it clear. But at least there’s still a lot of care and style in the episode, so I’m never bored.
Homer’s Enemy is still watchable, despite the Zombie issues, and at least I understand the twists, metajokes and the main idea behind the episode. I don’t love the episode but I don’t hate it.
Spinoff Showcase is just intentional bad writting and crappiness for an entire episode, and it sucks. They’re just playing terrible tropes and cliches in a straightforward way but with Simpsons characters. Intentional bad content can only work for very short scenes, and The Simpsons still put some twists and multi-layered jokes. Remember “The Hollywood Squares” segment.
If I want to watch some awful pilot for a detective show, I woul watch a detective show rather than The Simpsons.
Wasn’t that ep the “we read our fans’ mail” one? Like, they just go with what their fans wanted them to make parodies of? MacFartlane did this twice on FG.
No. The spin-off episode was making fun of the fact that FOX was running out of ideas for shows to air (at the time, “Martin,” “Married…With Children,” “In Living Color,” and “Living Single” were either already canceled, moved out of the Sunday night block, or about to end, “King of the Hill” was just starting, and the only shows on Sunday were “The Simpsons,” “Melrose Place,” “The X Files,” and whatever flavor-of-the-month sitcom/drama/special they shilled…and this was years before shows like “Family Guy,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Futurama,” those tasteless reality shows, and “Arrested Development” would come about), so they asked Matt Groening to take his Simpsons show and make spin-offs featuring the side characters (with or without The Simpsons family).
Oh. Thanks for the clarification.
They’ve already poked their fun at the X-Files (needless to say when exactly, I presume), there was also that Melrose Place setup joke, I remember. And then Selma and Patty made fun of Seinfeld once. Wasn’t all that enough?
And frankly, the Wiggum P.I. bit reminds me of a late-1980s show feature some badass leather cop guy in sunglasses I once saw on the TV. I think Sierra made their “Police Quest” game series based on it.
I was thinking about what you(?) said about “Simpsons Bible Stories”, and how they never really did 3-part episodes (not counting the Treehouse of Horror series) until Season 10, so it’s not really defendable as anything else except filler. Even though I don’t really have a problem with the format per se, I also couldn’t really think of any before S10 as well, so I sadly agreed.
But then I remembered this episode, and it was pretty damn good. I do wonder if the Simpsons Bible Stories stuff would be better had it been hosted by Troy McClure instead, rather than having the boring/weird backends that it did.
i never noticed skinner’s reaction to that statement until now :O