“Temper, temper, you know Cousin Merle ain’t been quite right lately.” – Cecil Terwilliger
Month: May 2016
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“Ugh, my grampa Zev would turn over in his grave if it wasn’t filled with some veteran!” – Krusty the Klown
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“And, should there be a request for an encore, we will reprise Pop Goes the Weasel. Otherwise, we will file out quietly.” – Mr. Largo Happy birthday Danny Elfman!
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“And then they gave me back my five hundred dollar investment and kicked me out of the club.” – Marge Simpson “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, back up a bit, Marge. When are the pancakes coming in the mail?” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Azaria Graduates Edition
“Now, come and get your catskins, uh, I mean sheepskins.” – Krusty the Klown Short reading digest again this week, but we’ve got a couple of great links, including a guy who truly hates Zombie Simpsons, and an amusing YouTube video from Azaria. Enjoy. Hank Azaria gives graduates advice as characters from ‘The Simpsons’ during commencement speech – Azaria is a crowd pleaser, “When in doubt, always pull out the Simpsons voices”: I don’t know if he wrote these or had one of the writers do it, but there are some pretty good ones in here. I particularly liked Apu: “Remember…
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“Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, Mr. Burns, what’s your first name?” – Postal Clerk “I don’t know.” – Homer Simpson
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“Hi, Ned, I didn’t know you were an actor.” – Marge Simpson “Oh, indeed-illy-doodily. I’ve even been in Streetcar once before. I played Blanche DuBois! Just part of the fun of going to an all-male school.” – Ned Flanders
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“Oopsie! Let’s pretend we didn’t see that.” – Evan Conover
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“And earlier today, I saw him asleep inside a radiation suit. Can you imagine that? It was hanging from coat hook!” – Frank Grimes “He had three beers at lunch. That would make anybody sleepy.” – Lenny
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“Listen, someone’s got to get that Mr. Burns. Where’s a gun toting lowlife when you need one?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “Sorry, I was in the can.” – Snake
Sunday Preview: Orange is the New Yellow
When Marge gets arrested for letting Bart go to the park unsupervised, she serves time only to realize that prison is a welcome break from the demands of her life as a mom and wife. In her absence, Homer struggles to manage all of the parenting responsibilities that Marge usually handles. This plot certainly sounds very familiar. But who cares if we already did this story, Orange is the New Black is really popular, and considering we’ve got Simpsonized versions of Red and Suzanne in this promo image, I’m sure we’re in for plenty of OITNB references thinly disguised as…
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“Then we figured out we could park them in front of the TV. That’s how I was raised, and I turned out TV.” – Homer Simpson
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“Anybody up for some clog dancing?” – Luann van Houten “Why don’t you try and stop me!” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Happy birthday Rich Appel!
Reading Digest: Cake and Stupidity Edition
“See? You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a first class wedding reception.” – Homer Simpson Zombie Simpsons had a gimmick last Sunday, which was Castellaneta taking live calls while very little happened on screen. It was novel but pointless, so as far as the desperation of their publicity stunts go, this ranks somewhere in the middle. Marketing and pageview desperation being what they are, plenty of people on the internet wrote it up. There’s a couple links below, though none of it is really all that interesting. The tl;dr version is that they used thinking…
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“My standards are just too high, you know? I feel like nobody’s good enough for me. . . . Whoa, you think you got ’em all, but you forget about the eggs.” – Otto
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“Wel-diddily-elcome, Simpsons. Oh, jeeze, he actually wrote diddily.” – Homer Simpson “That was thoughtful.” – Marge Simpson “I left a few helpful notes around the house.” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Summer of 4 Ft. 2”! Original airdate 19 May 1996.
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“Hello, bands! Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra? Come on, people! Somebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra . . . possibly while high . . . Cypress Hill, I’m looking in your direction.” – Hullabalooza Stage Manager “Hey, man, did we order an orchestra? . . . What’s up with this orchestra, man? . . . Where’d the orchestra come from? . . . I don’t know, man. . . . They didn’t tell me about this. . . . We gotta do something. . . .” – Cypress Hill Whispering “Uh, yeah, yeah, we think we did.”…
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“What about military school? It set my brother straight. Now he owns and operates a famous cave.” – Chief Wiggum
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“Bart, this could be priceless!” – Lisa Simpson “Priceless like a mother’s love, or the good kind of priceless?” – Bart Simpson
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“It’s just that you and Maude live like royalty in your fancy castle while I got Marge trapped over there like a pig in a mud beehive.” – Homer Simpson “Oh, we’re not as well off as you think. We give to eight different churches just to hedge our bets.” – Ned Flanders