“It’s a good thing you drifted by this brothel.” – Chief Wiggum Back in 2012, one of this coolest things this blog ever did was score free tickets for commenter Hank Pumpkins to see Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play in Washington DC. You can read his review here. Well, it turns out the play (by Anne Washburn) is getting made into a movie (by Boots Riley). I found this out clicking on Boots’s IMDb just now before going to see I Love Boosters this later this afternoon. No cast or timeline according to this, but I never saw the play so this announcement…
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Hey, Everybody! Zombie Simpsons Got Renewed Again! [Crowd Turns, Shrugs]
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“Can I have my shirts back at least?” – Kirk van Houten “Okay, you heard the lady. Why don’t you take it outside, alright?” – Pyro Zombie Simpsons got the renewal nod from old dad and new dad yesterday. Both are very proud of their large adult son: “It’s a sincere pleasure to announce the Season 33 and 34 pick-ups for THE SIMPSONS. We keep hoping that, eventually, they’ll get it right,” said Charlie Collier, CEO, FOX Entertainment. “Profound respect for and congratulations to Matt, Jim, Al, Matt and the many other wonderful partners working really hard to finally elevate ‘The…
Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?
“Hey, hey! I’ve been in Reno for six weeks, did I miss anything?” – Krusty the Klown Back on Simpsons Day I mentioned a gigantic side project. Well, here it is. “Global Warming: What’s In It For You?” is a (semi-illustrated) guidebook for climate change. It begins with the historic and scientific background, moves through the denier campaign and all the damage it has wrought, and debunks a lot of pretty myths and widespread misperceptions. It also affords me several opportunities to take big dumps on some truly vile people and conglomerates, including Exxon, InBev, and Disney. Basically, I tried…
Happy Simpsons Day!
“Oh, Springfield Elementary, I will have you back again! After all, tomorrow is another school day!” – Principal Skinner Happy Simpsons Day, everybody! Today marks the 30th anniversary of “Simpsons Roasting On an Open Fire” and the beginning of the best ten-ish year streak in television history. I’m sure there are a lot of retrospective pieces up around the internet today, but as you can tell from the near total lack of substantive posts around here, I don’t think there’s much left to be said, so you’re on your own for finding them. About that total lack of posts: I…
DHS on the Road
“I’m tellin’ ya, all a man needs is an idea, and I’ve got an idea!” – Herb Powell “Then how come you’re still a bum?” – Hobo “Alright, a man needs two things: an idea and money to get it off the ground.” – Herb Powell NOTE: Brooklyn October Simpsons Trivia here I (hopefully) come! With the exception of some specific memories of the show and occasionally referring to my backbreaking, mind numbing labor, I try to keep my personal life off of this blog. Dave, Mad Jon, and myself started this as a Simpsons site, and even though I’ve…
Season 28 Publicity Stunts Teased (No, You Shouldn’t Care)
“It’s hard to believe someone that young could’ve risen to the rank of admiral.” – Marge Simpson It’s August, which means that it’s time for the networks to show off their upcoming seasons to critics and advertisers. In addition to celebrating another meaningless milestone (600 episodes, 400+ of which are Zombie Simpsons), they’re going to have a two-part episode: The animated Fox comedy will offer up an hourlong episode (including commercial time) that is a hip-hop homage to The Great Gatsby and features such guest voices as Taraji P. Henson and Keegan-Michael Key, the network announced at the TCA Summer…
John Henry Was a Steel Drivin’ Man
“Can I pick the song?” – Bart Simpson “No. The song will be John Henry Was a Steel Drivin’ Man.” – Mrs. Krabappel Frinkiac.com, the lovable rascals who made creating Simpsons screen grabs far easier than I ever could, have now added .gif support. It’s just you and me now, lock of hair.
So Long, Sam Simon
“You’re a comedy writer? My God, you’re so old!” – Roger Meyers Jr. “I want my check!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Haha, you’re a writer alright!” – Roger Meyers Jr. Sam Simon, one of the three godfathers of The Simpsons, died today at the age of 59. It was almost exactly two years ago that he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer, and from that moment until his death today he handled it with grace, generosity, and, befitting Simon, a lot of humor. They gave him three-to-six months; he lasted nearly two and a half years, laughing about it…
Last Night, On Twitter . . .
“I can’t remember the last time we were all together.” – Principal Skinner “Last year, on that stupid Dame Edna special.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Al Jean continues to ever so gingerly dip his toes into the never ending torrent of love, hate and general bullshit that is Twitter. Last night, he tweeted out this undated picture of some of the old staff: I wasn’t sure who everybody was, so I asked him, and he was kind enough to reply. From left to right it’s him, Mike Reiss, Wallace Wolodarsky, Jay Kogen, Jon Vitti, and Jeff Martin. He also said this:…
Off Topic: A Friend’s Ripping Good Read
“These Hardy Boys books are great, too. This one’s about smugglers.” – Homer Simpson “They’re all about smugglers.” – Bart Simpson “Not this one, The Smugglers of Pirate Cove, it’s about pirates.” – Homer Simpson If you’re reading this post then you’ve probably already read the “Zombie Simpsons” mini-book. That little thing would’ve been much worse if not for the help of, as I said in the acknowledgements, “my friend Liz”. Well, today Liz became a for-real published author with her first dead tree book, Hunted: As you can probably judge from the cover, it’s a mystery novel. Specifically, it’s…
RIP: Marcia Wallace and Mrs. Krabappel
“Bart, it’s such a nice day today, let’s have detention outside.” – Mrs. Krabappel Sad news, Marcia Wallace, Mrs. Krabappel herself, died yesterday. The cause was “complications from breast cancer”: She would also build a second career as a voice-over actress, giving life to Edna Krabappel, Bart Simpson’s cynical and chain-smoking fourth grade teacher on “The Simpsons.” The role, a sublime parody of disaffected instruction, earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992. The show’s executive producer Al Jean said Saturday that the character would be retired out of deference to Wallace’s death. Good on Jean. So…
Simpsons T-Shirt Designs Galore!
“Eighteen bucks for this? What a ripoff!” – Some Guy Yesterday was the entry deadline for Threadless’s Simpsons design contest. All told they accepted 820 submissions (and there was a real rush at the end because that number was 494 when I checked it yesterday afternoon). You can view all of them here, and scoring goes on until Tuesday, so you’ve got plenty of time to vote. I’m not sure how many they are going to actually print, but there are definitely a couple that I’d consider actually buying. Below are some of the ones I liked best, but there…
Free San Diego Swag and Summer Guest Posts
“As Roger Meyers Jr., the owner of the park, I’d like to thank you for stopping the killer robots. And to show my appreciation, here are two free passes.” – Roger Meyers Jr. “But there are five of us.” – Homer Simpson “Here are two free passes.” – Roger Meyers Jr. “That’s better.” – Homer Simpson Last week I mentioned that Simpsons singing group from New York that will be performing in San Diego this Saturday. Well, they’ve been very generous and offered us two free tickets to their performance. Like last year with the Mr. Burns play in D.C.,…
Zombie Simpsons on Wikipedia
“Lisa, I’m afraid we’ll have to stop getting you those volumes of Encyclopedia Generica from the grocery store.” – Marge Simpson “But, Mom, next week is Volume IV, Copernicus through Elephantiasis.” – Lisa Simpson Wikipedia has a simple test for whether or not something merits its own article: notability. Like the rest of Wikipedia, it doesn’t work in theory, only in practice, and the current guidelines list five criteria: "Significant coverage" means that sources address the subject directly in detail, so no original research is needed to extract the content. "Reliable" means sources need editorial integrity to allow verifiable evaluation…
The Simpsons 23rd Anniversary Yellow Jubilee
“Push out the jive. Bring in the love.” – C.M. Burns If there is one persistent misperception about this blog on the wider plains of the internet, it is that we simply hate Zombie Simpsons and that’s it. Beneath that strong and oft expressed dislike, however, is the real reason we’re all here: love. We love The Simpsons. It was a show beyond even the most enthusiastic superlatives, and it remains so more than two decades after it took America and the world by storm. Its creation was a once in a lifetime alignment of immensely improbable coincidences that came…
A Little Unintentional Meta-Blogging Humor for New Year’s Eve
“Good morning, everybody, and welcome to an event that harkens back to the carefree days of the Great Depression: the soap box derby.” – TV Announcer Every once and a while I am moved to briefly praise the people up at WordPress HQ. They do a regularly excellent job of making sure that everything works, the new features that they add tend far more toward “useful” than “bloat”, and their customer support, even for people who aren’t paying jack, is responsive, friendly and informative. Sometimes, though, things go awry. In this case it’s a very harmless awry, and it’s far…
Attention Pittsburgh Readers: Simpsons Trivia Tonight
“It sure was nice of Mr. Burns to invite us for a midnight dinner at his country house in Pennsylvania.” – Homer Simpson Classic Simpsons trivia is spreading. First there was Toronto, then New York City, then Chicago, and now Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Simpsons Trivia Makes our big debut Sunday November 25th at 8pm at Hambone’s in Lawrenceville. We’ll be showing episodes and drinking and giving out prizes to the winners. This is for true fans of CLASSIC Simpsons episodes (nothing after season 9) so bring your A-GAME and come compete against some of Pittsburgh’s finest Simpsons fans. Play by yourself…
Season 15 DVD Announcement
“Otto!” – Bart Simpson “That’s what my driver’s license says!” – Otto We got an e-mail from one of FOX’s hip, edgy Web 2.0 marketing firms announcing some upcoming home video releases, including Season 15 on December 4th. This being a press release, there is very little interesting information contained within. In fact, there’s no text at all about Zombie Simpsons, just two images, one a cover mockup with Otto on the front, the other a recycled idea: Based on this, it’s a standard release with all the usual home video bells and whistles: audio commentary (ugh), deleted scenes, and…
Summer Schedule, Guest Posts, and Free Swag
“Not long ago, the FOX Network approached the producers of The Simpsons with a simple request: thirty-five new shows to fill a few holes in their programming lineup. That’s a pretty daunting task, and the producers weren’t up to it. Instead, they churned out three Simpsons spin-offs, transplanting already popular characters into new locales and situations.” – Troy McClure With Season 23 now rapidly fading into the indistinct blob that is Zombie Simpsons, it’s time for us to get started on our summer schedule. As you can see from the chart below, there are some blank spots on it. We…
Strange New Places
“And where’s Barney?” – Homer Simpson “Oh, he’s with his new girlfriend, the Japanese conceptual artist.” – Principal Skinner “Barbershop is in danger of growing stale. I’m taking it to strange new places.” – Barney Gumble In the interest of not burying the lead: mocking Season 23 has been fun, but it’s also the last time we’re going to go full tilt for a new Zombie Simpsons season around here. Don’t worry, we’re not taking the site down or anything; in fact, for the next few months you shouldn’t notice much difference. Quotes of the Day will continue as normal,…