Life Imitating Art

    “Oops, I shoulda warned you, that clock gets incredibly hot if you leave it plugged in.” – Krusty Merchandise Executive   I really don’t think there’s a whole lot that needs to be said about this.  It was satirized by the show it’s based off of seventeen years before it even existed.    To be fair, this one cannot burn you if you leave it plugged in as it cannot be plugged in, it can only run on four AA batteries.  Four!  And the only display appears to be a small (and from the looks of it non-backlit)…

Simpsons Chewable Morphine

“You look familiar, sir.  Are you on the television or something?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “Sorry buddy, you got me confused with Fred Flintstone.” – Homer Simpson I always enjoyed it when the show would make fun of the neverending parade of shoddy merchandise Fox would roll out to pad the margins.  But with this, I think they’ve crossed a kind of cosmic line of irony and self ignorance hitherto unknown to humanity.  The Simpsons put animation back into primetime two decades after The Flintstones went off the air and had the good sense to drop knowingly ironic references to it.  Of…