“I first knew the show was a hit when I walked into school and a kid was wearing a Bart Simpson t-shirt. FOX had an endless supply of clever slogans, man.” – Bart Simpson
Tag: Behind the Laughter
Quote of the Day
“Okay, the material was a little corny, but Homer and I had real chemistry on screen.” – Marge Simpson “Every day I thought about firing Marge. You know, just to shake things up.” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“Where did the money go? Marge lost much of the family fortune investing in birth control products.” – Behind the Laughter Announcer “I learned something. When people reach for their diaphragm, they don’t want to see my picture.” – Marge Simpson Note: Sorry for the late quote of the day. Should have a Behind Us Forever for whatever dreck their using as a season finale tomorrow.
Behind Us Forever: Pork & Burns
“They can’t take our house! My pot-bellied pig is in there! Oh, Mr. Porky, no!” – Homer Simpson It has long been true that just about the only thing anyone remembers from the bloated mess that was the movie (itself now almost ten years old) is Spider-Pig. In this episode, Spider-Pig comes back as a kind of Mojo-the-Helper-Monkey replacement. Wacky hijinks ensue. In the B-plot, Marge becomes obsessed with de-cluttering her house, which leads Lisa to get rid of her saxophone until it turns out Marge had it all along. No, it didn’t make any sense in the episode either.…
Quote of the Day
“Then we figured out we could park them in front of the TV. That’s how I was raised, and I turned out TV.” – Homer Simpson
Shearer Not Gone After All
“In that family, nobody trusted nobody. They even brought their lawyers to Thanksgiving dinner.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson Harry Shearer has decided to keep doing voices for Zombie Simpsons: Harry Shearer returning to The Simpsons You don’t really need to click that link, it’s mostly nothing and even repeats the dubiously sourced $300,000 per episode number, but it’s been confirmed by a couple of other outlets. The article also says that Shearer signed the same contract as the other five cast members, which (if true) means that money really wasn’t the issue and Shearer really did think the show was…
Quote of the Day
“I want to set the record straight: I thought the cop was a prostitute.” – Homer Simpson
Behind Us Forever: The Man Who Came to Be Dinner
“Are you going to need us tonight?” – Kang “I had ballet tickets! Not that they’ll do much good now.” – Kodos It’s now clear that Al Jean and David Mirkin (who co-wrote), and David Silverman (who directed), would much rather be working on Futurama than Zombie Simpsons, and I don’t blame them. Like various Star Treks, that show gave its writers and directors a functionally unlimited amount of creative leeway. Need to make fun of something? Make up a new planet or a new species or a new anything and there you go. Zombie Simpsons, on the other hand,…
Reading Digest: Crossover Reaction Edition
“Fans reacted to these slapdash episodes with yawns, angry yawns.” – Behind the Laughter Announcer The big news this week was a five minute preview video of the upcoming Family Guy crossover, and it was everywhere. There were so many links from random sites that one was in Cyrillic, but outside of fawning headlines from radio stations and other teevee industry marketing appendages, the reaction was overwhelming negative, and we’ve got several links to prove it. You can see the video at a couple of them, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I made it two minutes in and gave up on about…
Crazy Noises: Behind the Laughter
“I can’t believe it, we won another contest!” – Marge Simpson “The Simpsons are going to Delaware!” – Homer Simpson “I want to see Wilmington!” – Lisa Simpson “I want to visit a screen door factory.” – Bart Simpson “This’ll be the last season.” – Homer Simpson For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the…
Crazy Noises: Love Is a Many Strangled Thing
“And that horrible act of child abuse became one of our most beloved running gags.” – Homer Simpson In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the technology that brought the word “emoticon” to the masses: the chatroom. Star Trek image macros are strictly forbidden, unless you have a really good reason why Captain Picard is better…
3 Hackneyed Teevee Marriages for the Price of 1!
“I felt kinda guilty cause I was always trying to score with his wife.” – Moe I don’t mind exceedingly cliched cell phone shenanigans when they happen in dumb horror movies. We know the characters need to be isolated, and it’s not a big deal. In fact, the chronic failure of cell phones is the kind of thing a mildly comedic show might find some way to satirize. Instead, Zombie Simpsons played it straight, blundering into another pop culture faux pas without even realizing it. But that was only a taste of the horrifyingly unpleasant time to come: Moe…