“I’m with you, Homer! Fight the power!” – Barney Gumble
Tag: Blood Feud
Makeup Quote of the Day
“Bart, it’s not like I’m asking you to give blood for free. That would be crazy. You’re a little young to understand this, but when you save a rich man’s life, he showers you with riches! Don’t you know the story of Hercules and the Lion?” – Homer Simpson “Is it a Bible story?” – Bart Simpson “Yeah, probably. Anyway, once upon a time there was a big, mean lion who got a thorn in his paw. All the village people tried to pull it out. But nobody was strong enough. So, they got Hercules. And Hercules used his mighty…
Quote of the Day
“Honey, what’s done is done. No matter what happens, we’ll pull through. We always do.” – Marge Simpson “Okay, here’s the plan. You can move in with your sisters and raise the kids and I’ll die in a gutter. It’s practical and within our means.” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day
“Whoa, Otto man, you work here?” – Bart Simpson “Oh, yeah. During the day all my friends are in school, so I got a job as a certified, blood letting tech dude!” – Otto “Now let’s get this show on the road.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, lemme wash up.” – Otto
Quote of the Day
“Hey, come on, Joey! Do you have to twist my arm?” – Homer Simpson “Homer, I don’t tell you how to do your job, okay?” – Joey
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“Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, Mr. Burns, what’s your first name?” – Postal Clerk “I don’t know.” – Homer Simpson
Tuesday Evening Cartoons
“Bart, take a letter. Dear Mr. Burns, I’m so glad you enjoyed my son’s blood, and your card was just great.” – Homer Simpson Liver spots are one of those undeniable signs of aging that remind us and others that the robust younger years are far in the past. Mr. Burns, being very far indeed from his days as a barefoot boy with cheek of tan, has quite a lot of them, something The Simpsons liked to have fun with, most famously when Marge catches Burns coming out of the shower in “Brush with Greatness”. There’s another liver spot joke in Season…
Quote of the Day
“Did you see their faces, Smithers?” – C.M. Burns “Sir, you’re my god of generosity.” – Mr. Smithers Rest in peace, Sam Simon.
Reading Digest: Mr. Burns Play Spreads
“I want the whole world to hear the story of my harrowing struggle with hypohemia.” – C.M. Burns The post-apocalyptic Mr. Burns play continues to spread. Local theater companies in both Arizona and Colorado are putting it on the next couple of weeks, and we have links to both. At this rate, the play itself might survive the apocalypse. In more regular links, we also have a couple more unhappy reviews of the crossover, some excellent usage, several .gifs, an in-depth look at the varieties of Duff on sale in Florida, and the relentless filler of Zombie Simpsons demonstrated in…
Reading Digest: Burns Is The Symbol of All Evil Edition
“Smithers, I’m not going to make it. I want to dictate my epitaph.” – C.M. Burns “Go ahead.” – Mr. Smithers “Charles Montgomery Burns. American . . . and Patriot. American Patriot. Master of the Atom. Scourge of the Despot. Oh, tyrant hear his mighty name and quake! Smithers, I’m back!” – C.M. Burns We’ve got two links this week where the one, the only Charles Montgomery Burns is held up as all that is soulless and wrong, one about finger tenting being a sign that you might be a villain and the other from the race for Illinois governor.…
Reading Digest: Head Art Edition
“Marge, what does it do?” – Homer Simpson “It doesn’t do anything.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, really, what does it do?” – Homer Simpson “Whatever it does, it’s doing it now.” – Marge Simpson This week we’ve got two links to serious artists making Simpsons heads. One is Bart made from old toys and is appropriately creepy, and the other is a series of awesome Krusty drawings that I’m not even going to try to describe. In addition to that, we’ve got an excellent Ralph t-shirt, Olympic and international cricket usage, a completed Lisa cross stitch, a great first family…
Quote of the Day
“I could crush him like an ant, but it would be too easy. No, revenge is a dish best served cold. I’ll bide my time until . . . oh, what the hell, I’ll just crush him like an ant.” – C.M. Burns
Quote of the Day
“Homer, you don’t do things like that to be rewarded. You do them because a fellow human being needs a helping hand.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, you’re my wife and I love you very much, but you’re living in a world of make believe, with flowers and bells and leprechauns and magic frogs with funny little hats.” – Homer Simpson “Yeah, Mom, we got hosed.” – Bart Simpson “Bart!” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday Brad Bird!
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“His pink slip awaits your signature, sir.” – Mr. Smithers “Now that’s odd, I’ve just robbed a man of his livelihood, and yet I feel strangely empty. Tell you what, Smithers, have him beaten to a pulp.” – C.M. Burns
Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?
“I’m not some dizzy starlet who can’t string two words together!” – C.M. Burns It is my great relief to announce a project that has been the better part of a year in the making: “Zombie Simpsons: How the Best Show Ever Became the Broadcasting Undead”. It’s a mini-book (~22,000 words) that is as close as I can come to a definitive statement on how The Simpsons became Zombie Simpsons. Table of contents: Part I – Putting the Spring in Springfield 1 – What Is Zombie Simpsons? 2 – The Terrible World of 1980s Television 3 – The Most Anti-Authority…
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“Oh, no! Mr. Burns! We’ve got to get a doctor!” – Mr. Smithers “Absolutely not! No quack sawbones is going to apply his leeches to me!” – C.M. Burns
“Blood Feud” Spews Truth from Every Orifice
“Perhaps there is no moral to this story.” – Lisa Simpson “Exactly, it’s just a bunch of stuff that happened.” – Homer Simpson About halfway through this commentary, Al Jean notes that the story of a mean letter to the boss had been previously done on The Honeymooners and was a kind of “sitcom staple”. He was saying it sort of defensively, like he’d heard it as a criticism that the episode hadn’t been that original. But parodying sitcom staples was a big part of what The Simpsons did, especially in Seasons 1 and 2. It wasn’t just plots either,…
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“Chief Wiggum, Archbishop McGee, distinguished guests, I am pleased to dedicate this emergency warning system. In the off chance of a nuclear disaster, this sign will tell you, the good citizens of Springfield, what to do.” – Mayor Quimby “Joke’s on them. If the core explodes, there won’t be any power to light that sign!” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Blood Feud”! Original airdate 11 July 1991.
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“What’s the matter, Homer? You’re not your normal, effervescent self.” – Moe “I got my problems, Moe. Give me another one.” – Homer Simpson “Hey, Homer, hey, you should not drink to forget your problems.” – Moe “Yeah, you should only drink to enhance your social skills.” – Barney Gumble
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“Ooh, look Maggie, what is that? Dodecahedron. Dodecahedron.” – Lisa Simpson “Lisa, I don’t know what you’re doing but it’s very strange and your father’s trying to worry.” – Homer Simpson