“Can you say David Hasselhoff?” – Bart Simpson “David Hassahof.” – Lisa Simpson “Can you say Daddy?” – Homer Simpson “Homer.” – Lisa Simpson The Simpsons did its first flashback episode way (way) back in Season 2. “The Way We Was” introduced us to Homer and Marge as high school kids who had never even met; and along the way answered one of the fundamental questions of the show: why, exactly, is Marge with Homer? Over the next four seasons they flashed back three more times, each time showing the birth of one of the Simpson kids. “I Married Marge”…
Month: April 2015
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“Look, if you ignore me and I die, you’ll get in a lot of trouble.” – Bart Simpson “Read page six of the school charter.” – Mrs. Krabappel “No teacher shall be held accountable if Bart Simpson dies.” – Bart Simpson “We’re also absolved if Milhouse gets eaten by the school snake.” – Mrs. Krabappel “Hey, cool, there’s a rabbit in here!” – Milhouse van Houten Happy 20th Anniversary to “‘Round Springfield”! Original airdate 30 April 1995.
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“You can emerge now from my chips. The opportunity to prove yourself a hero is long gone.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Behind Us Forever: The Kids Are All Fight
“It all began about two years ago before Maggie was even born. Bart, you were Lisa’s age, and Lisa, you were the age Bart was several years ago.” – Homer Simpson As it has doddered along these last few years, Zombie Simpsons has started to turn to flash forward episodes a bit more often where Bart and Lisa are adults with kids of their own. For “The Kids Are All Fight”, they went the other way, going backwards to some indeterminate time a few years ago when Bart was four and Lisa was two. The story, which was even more…
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“The ingredients were, fresh pureed tomatoes, water, salt, and sodium benzoate used to retard spoilage. Once again, if I’m not mistaken, this can contained tomato paste.” – Nelson Muntz “Thank you, Nelson, I look forward to seeing it again next week.” – Mrs. Krabappel
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“You’ve just got to accept it: your GameBoy is gone. It’s at the bottom of the ocean.” – Marge Simpson “Aye. Aye. . . Aye.” – Captain McAllister
Sunday Preview: The Kids Are All Fight
The family takes a trip down memory lane to see the origins of how Bart and Lisa first started fighting with each other. Flashback episode eh? I watched the promos for this episode earlier, and as per usual, I was less than unimpressed. In one of the promos Homer seems to hire Grandma Flanders as a babysitter, and she is remarkably more with it than when we were first graced with her presence during “Lisa’s First Word”. I am now going to go watch that episode to wash the promos out of my eyes.
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“Homer, that crazy lady who lives in our trash pile attacked me again.” – Marge Simpson “That’s not the way she tells it.” – Homer Simpson
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“Milhouse, do you like the beach?” – Principal Skinner “Who doesn’t?” – Milhouse van Houten “Good. I want you to pick up all this medical waste that’s washed up on the shore here.” – Principal Skinner
Reading Digest: Perfectly Timed Door Slam Edition
“I’m glad I’m not crying, because I would hate for you think that what I’m about to say is based on emotion. But you, sir, are a baboon!” – Lisa Simpson “Me?” – Homer Simpson “Yes, you! Baboon! Baboon! Baboon! Baboon!” – Lisa Simpson “I don’t think you realize what you’re saying.” – Homer Simpson “Baboon!” – Lisa Simpson First off, sorry for the lack of Compare & Contrast this week. I’m still in the thick of it at work and didn’t have time. (Things will – he typed hopefully – ease off starting next week.) In regular news, we’ve…
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“He says there aren’t any easy answers. I say: he’s not looking hard enough!” – Bart Simpson
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“Well, it seems some silly twit did not get a big enough oxygen pump, but that’s supposed to be a devil.” – Nigel Tufnel “Filled up with air, it’s very evil and impressive.” – David St. Hubbins “We salute you, our half inflated Dark Lord!” – Derek Smalls
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“Jeez, look at this place. We gotta do something!” – Homer Simpson “Hmm, garbage angels?” – Bart Simpson
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“Your honor, my client has instructed me to remind the court how rich and important he is; and that he is not like other men.” – Blue Haired Lawyer “I should be able to run over as many kids as I want!” – C.M. Burns
Behind Us Forever: Peeping Mom
This single shot from “Sideshow Bob Roberts” contains a more coherent story than the entirety of “Peeping Mom”. After four weeks off, Zombie Simpsons is back. Not much changed. This week, Chief Wiggum accuses Bart of going on a bulldozer rampage, he then hands Bart to Marge so that the two of them can have the same idiotic conversation several times in a row. Because that one note attempt at emotion couldn’t possibly fill twenty whole minutes of screen time, the Flanderses get a new dog who likes Homer better than Ned. – Decent couch gag. – We’re not off to…
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“You mean there are actually people who will pay good money for garbage?” – C.M. Burns “Not good money, really, each can’ll get you a nickle.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, don’t poo poo a nickle, Lisa. A nickle will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake, and a newsreel, with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the Polo Grounds.” – C.M. Burns “There’s a can.” – Lisa Simpson
Sunday Preview: Peeping Mom
Bart’s tall tale about not being involved in a bulldozer accident is a doozy, but a skeptical Marge decides to dog him all over the place until he ‘fesses up. Meanwhile, Flanders gets a new dog which leads Homer to overlook Santa’s Little Helper. I wonder if there will be as many horns as the One Bad Episode from season 7. Who am I kidding, of course there will be. Also, I am offering even odds on Flanders’ new dog being named “Laddy”.
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“Bart, look up here. This is where the tears would be if I could cry. But I can’t. Botched facelift.” – Channel 6 Executive
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“I’ve sold monorails to Brockway, Ogendville, and North Haverbrook! And, by gum, it put them on the map!” – Lyle Lanley Happy birthday, Conan O’Brien!
Epic Agreement (And Show Still on Hiatus)
“Holy moly, nine-thirty! Hello, Marge, sorry I didn’t call, but it’s been a madhouse down here. Yeah, these twelve hour days are killing me.” – Homer Simpson My apologies, but there won’t be a Reading Digest this week. I am eyeballs deep in my stupid real job. However, there are two things I’d like to note. First, the radio silence regarding the show being on hiatus continues. I checked a few staff Twitter accounts and haven’t seen peep outside of Jean responding to someone from No Homers that the negotiations are ongoing. (Sadly, Isabel Vega has deleted her Twitter account…