“I want you to throw away these old calendars and TV Guides.” – Marge Simpson “Are you mad, woman? You never know when an old calendar might come in handy. Sure, it’s not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. And these TV Guides? So many memories, ‘Gomer upsets Sergeant Carter’, oh, I’ll never forget that episode.” – Homer Simpson Remember The Face magazine? I don’t. But I’m not British, so it’s okay. Wikipedia informs me that: The magazine, often referred to as the "80s fashion bible", was influential in championing a number of fashion music and…
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Season 5 Marathon: 22 episodes, 22 beers, 8h:24m:50s
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user rodricg. “Daddy has to go to a beer drinking contest today.” – Homer Simpson “Think you’ll win?” – Bart Simpson “Son, when you participate in sporting events it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how drunk you get.” – Homer Simpson “Gotcha.” – Bart Simpson Good morning everybody and welcome to the Simpsons/Beer marathon! I’m planning on updating this whenever the hell I feel like it (the idea of adhering to a schedule on this most relaxing of Saturdays makes me nauseous). I might do six updates for three hundred…
Crazy Noises: Million Dollar Maybe
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Lisa Brewster. “Bart, with $10,000 we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like . . . love.” – Homer Simpson In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we’re bringing back our “Crazy Noises” series and applying it to Season 21. Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we’re still using this “chatroom” thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool. This text has been edited for…
DJ 3000 Lives
“Hey, hey. How about that weather out there? Woah! That was the caller from hell. Well, hot dog! We have a weiner!” – DJ 3000 “Man, that thing’s great!” – Bill “Don’t praise the machine!” – Marty Recently I discovered that one of the radio stations in my listening area has converted to a DJ 3000 format. There are no DJs, all the music is alt/pop rock from the mid 90’s ’till now, and the commercials are only 1 minute long and always followed by the Computer saying something like “That was short, now back to the music..” or “92.3,…
An Illustrated Example of Good and Bad Vortex Humor
In Season 5’s “Bart Gets an Elephant”, Stampy escapes and Homer and the family try to find the pachyderm by following the trail of destruction. Unfortunately, a tornado has come through since Stampy did. Homer then points up and says, “Look, it got Patty and Selma!” We’re then shown Patty and Selma in rocking chairs (a la The Wizard of Oz) and they make a joke: Now, compare that with Season 8’s “Hurricane Neddy”, which we discussed at length back in June. Homer ventures out of the basement during the eye of the storm; then, for no real reason, he’s…
Quote of the Day
“Where’s my elephant?!” – Bart Simpson
For Once The Government And I Agree
“Hey Clinton, get back to work!” – Moe “Make Me!” – Bill Clinton There has been much talk about The Simpsons postal stamp deal and even though most of my thoughts about the subject fall in the ‘Unimpressed/Murderously Angry’ category, it has occurred to me that the US Government has made an overlooked statement here. Unless I am incorrect, and that may be the case as I have done absolutely zero research on the subject, a person must be dead for ten years before they are eligible to be on a postage stamp. I believe this to be the case…