Quote of the Day And More Site Crap

“Tis a fine barn, but sure tis no pool, English.” – Amish Guy “D’oheth!” – Homer Simpson From an ironic distance it’s impressive how WordPress as a platform has retained its ability to be worse than it was in 2009. As a user it is more frustrating, but on the internet someone else has always had the same problem, and god bless everyone who works on the “Classic Editor +” pluigin and the “Regular Blog” theme because this looked and functioned like shit and now that is less so. Further improvements, hopefully to come. Also, my thanks to everyone for…

Quote of the Day

“Homer, my hat goes off to you.” – Bart Simpson “It’s cool in here, boy. For the rest of the summer, we can live inside the refrigerator.” – Homer Simpson “Homer, the fridge wasn’t meant to be used this way. Although, I must say, it’s certainly refreshing.” – Marge Simpson “I got the idea when I noticed the refrigerator was cold.” – Homer Simpson “Won’t this overload the motor?” – Marge Simpson “Marge, can you set the oven to cold?” – Homer Simpson

Quote of the Day

“Hello? Hey, I’m stuck in here! I gotta think of a way to get out.” – Lisa Simpson “Well, well, well, look who’s come crawling back.” – Lisa’s Brain

Quote of the Day

“What fun can you have in a pool anyway that you can’t have in a bathtub with a garbage bag taped around your cast?’ – Bart Simpson

Quote of the Day

“Looks like it’s just you and me, Barty-boy.” – Bart’s Brain “Oh, great, I get to spend the summer with my brain.” – Bart Simpson

Quote of the Day

“Faithful Milhouse, you’ll spend the long hot days by my side, won’t you?” – Bart Simpson “Uh, I think I lost my glasses in your pool.  I better go in and find ’em.” – Milhouse van Houten “But you’re wearing your glasses.” – Bart Simpson “No, I’m not.” – Milhouse van Houten Happy 20th anniversary to “Bart of Darkness”!  Original airdate: 4 September 1994.

Reading Digest: Summer Lull Edition

“Well, you’re certainly doing your job today, Mr. Sun.  Oh, rats.” – Hans Moleman The internet didn’t have much by way of Simpsons stuff this week, so it must be the middle of August.  We do have some very good reads, though, including a Simpsons themed short story, a passionate, life long embrace of the show, and an excellent job quitting Troy McClure e-mail.  In addition to that there’s some Season 5 and 6 trivia, a couple of food related excellent references, and a couple of haikus. Enjoy. [Note: I’m out of town and away from the internet for the…

Reading Digest: Summer Orphans Edition

“Oh, the gentle caress of a summer breeze.” – Martin Prince  With the Fourth falling on a Thursday this year, the internet has been low all week, so this is a pretty short Reading Digest.  Two items, however, provide quite a few links.  First, a German guy wrote a book praising the show for its long history of not berating the gays; second, a young hooligan in Illinois put up some Simpsons themed graffiti, and we have pictures.  Neither is the world’s most earth shattering news, but it’s high summer, the day after the Fourth of July, and most sensible…

Quote of the Day

“And now, what you’ve been waiting for, another long raga by Ravi Shenker.” – Krusty the Klown “Shankar.” – Ravi Shankar “Shankar.  Groovy, man.” – Krusty the Klown

Compare & Contrast: Suspense Movie Take-Offs

“This can’t be what it looks like.  There’s got to be some other explanation.” – Bart Simpson “I wish there was some other explanation for this, but there isn’t.  I’m a murderer, I’m a murderer!” – Ned Flanders “Then that’s not the real Ned Flanders.” – Bart Simpson “I’m a mur-diddly-urd-ler!” – Ned Flanders “If that’s not Flanders, he’s done his homework.” – Bart Simpson The Simpsons had a long and proud tradition of using classic movies or plot ideas as the basis of an episode.  Being The Simpsons, when they aped something, they didn’t just follow it, they used…

Alone Again Natura-Diddily Makes Baby Jesus Cry

“But I distinctly heard you say that Maude was with God.” – Bart Simpson “Oh, that’s right, I was at Bible camp. I was learning how to be more judgmental.” – Maude Flanders Much like the commentary for the Jockey Elves episode, the commentary for the death of Maude Flanders mostly dances around the actual events on screen and their larger implications for the overall history and health of the show. Also like the commentary for the Jockey Elves, George Meyer is here quietly commenting on things without doing any of the stammering defense/non-defense of the indefensible crap that’s occurring…

Quote of the Day

“Oh, I’m gonna miss the whole summer.” – Bart Simpson “Don’t worry, boy, when you get a job, like me, you’ll miss every summer.” – Homer Simpson

Quote of the Day

“Isn’t it amazing, the same day you got a pool is the same day we realized we liked you?” – Sherri “The timing worked out great, don’t you think?” – Terri Happy Birthday Russi Taylor!

Quote of the Day

“I wish you’d stop spreading bad rumors about people.  Remember how you got Grampa tarred and feathered?” – Marge Simpson “Sure, that was twenty minutes ago.” – Bart Simpson “Gonna be in the tub for a while.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson

Summer Programming Schedule

“I’ll just spend the summer getting better acquainted with an old friend called television.” – Bart Simpson “Hope you enjoyed that, kids, cause Krusty’s out of here for the summer!  In the meantime, we’ll be running, ugh, classic Krusty.” – Krusty the Klown Memorial Day weekend is over and we’re a long way from Labor Day, so it’s time for the annual switch to Dead Homer Society’s summer schedule.  Reading Digest will still go up on Fridays, and we’ll be posting two Season 10 Crazy Noises per week.  (We’re going in broadcast order this time, “Lard of the Dance” should…