Images shamelessly yoinked from SimpsonsChannel. “Oh, Lisa, this isn’t real. It’s just how you might look if you were a cartoon character.” – Homer Simpson Despite it’s football inflated numbers the last couple of weeks, Season 22 is still on pace to set a record for the lowest ratings. But that’s not the only record it’s on pace to break. Through eight episodes, Season 22 has managed to cram in an astonishing eighteen (18) different guest voices. That’s the most since way back in Season 11 (which had a record breaking 23 through eight episodes), and in terms of people…
Category: Celebrity Voices
Springfield city league softball is finally safe again
“Pick me! Pick me!” – Ken Griffey Jr. “I pick Ken Griffey Jr.” – Ralph Wiggum “Ah jeez…” – Bart Simpson For those that haven’t heard yet, Ken Griffey Jr. retired from Major League Baseball last week. During the prime of his 22 seasons, Griffey was one of the best all around center fielders and a serious threat each time he stepped to the plate. If the latter part of his career hadn’t been injury plagued, he would have probably ended higher up on the all time home run list than 5th. Additionally, he seems to be one of the…
Zombie Simpsons Ruins Another List
Zombie Simpsons has cheaply cashed in on the success of its preeminent forerunner in many, many, ways. One of the most prominent is by cramming musical guests into episodes with little to no purpose and few, if any, jokes. This list, which purports to be the top ten musical guests, contains only 60% real Simpsons. The White Stripes, Lionel Ritchie, Metallica and Green Day all make the cut from Zombie Simpsons (or the movie), but none of the following from actual good episodes do: Tito Puente (Who Shot Mr. Burns 1 & 2) Cypress Hill (Homerpalooza) Peter Frampton (Homerpalooza) Tony…
You Forgot Someone (updated)
“Marge, I would appreciate it if you didn’t tell anybody about my busy hands. Not so much for myself, but I am so respected it would damage the town to hear it.” – Artie Ziff Today a website called “The Top 13” (they make – you guessed it – Top 13 lists) ranked the top thirteen guest voices on the Simpsons. The best part about it is that there is nary a trace of Zombie Simpsons. Indeed, this is from the intro: But as the show has changed over time, in our view the quality of the guest appearances has…
Harvey Fierstein – Springfield Hero
Book promotion seems to involve taking excepts from the book and repackaging them into headlines as a way to interest people in purchasing the thing. In that vein I wanted to highlight one of my absolute favorite parts of Ortved’s book. (Which you should think about buying, or at least getting from your local library where you can “borrow” books for free.) Harvey Fierstein has solid Simpsons credentials. He was the voice of Karl in Season 2’s “Simpson and Delilah” and Patty and Selma were stunned to learn that he was gay in Season 6’s “A Star Is Burns”. Harvey…
Poor Seth
“Your life long dream was to run out on the field during a baseball game, and you did it last year. Remember?” – Marge Simpson Last night I came across something in a news feed. I had already known that Seth Rogen was the writer of last Sunday’s Zombie Simpsons, but I didn’t know that it was some sort of attempt at self-actualization. AP Television writer Lynn Elber, stating this was a dream of Rogen’s, quotes him as saying “As a writer it always just seemed like the Holy Grail…. …I can die a happy man now.” I hate to have…
Unsubstantiated Internet Rumors? Well, This IS a Blog
“Say it ain’t so Krusty.” – Bart Simpson Is this going to be the kind of blog that overreacts to internet rumors of uncertain sourcing? If it’s Friday and we’re looking for a cheap post, you’d better believe it is. Look what the internet brought this morning: Anne Hathaway to Voice Krusty’s Girlfriend in ‘The Simpsons’ Another celebrity voice (quite possibly playing herself), whatever; I’m numb to them at this point. Wait . . . what? Oh, fuck: Contact Music reported that her role will be the girlfriend who testifies in court in defense of Krusty the Clown who is…