“I’m telling you, Cecil, I can’t take much more of this! Rustic workmen have turned the sani-john into a smokehouse, coveralls that don’t quite cover all…” – Sideshow Bob
Tag: Brother From Another Series
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“Come now, you speak as if they were a gaggle of slack jawed yokels.” – Cecil Terwilliger “Mr. Terwilliger, come quick! There’s trouble down to the cement mixer, sir!” – Cletus
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“Man, those cons love Krusty. Inside every hardened criminal beats the heart of a ten year old boy.” – Bart Simpson “And vice versa.” – Lisa Simpson
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“You’ve brought shame to this family, Cecil. Oh, I don’t relish having to write the Christmas letter this year.” – Sideshow Bob “Nor I to read it. You know, Bob, all this time I thought you were a bungler. But, destroying a city is far tougher than I thought.” – Cecil
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♫”I slugged some jerk in Tahoe, they gave me one to three! My high priced lawyer sprung me on a technicality! I’m just visiting Springfield prison I get to sleep at home tonight!”♫ – Krusty the Klown
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“When that pie hit your face, I saw my dreams explode in a burst of cream and crust. But I suppose I should thank you. After all, it led me to my true calling.” – Cecil Terwilliger “Cecil, no civilization in history has ever considered Chief Hydrological Engineer a ‘calling’. . . . Yes, yes, the Cappadocians. Fine.” – Bob Terwilliger Happy 20th Anniversary to “Brother From Another Series”! Original airdate, 23 February 1997.
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“Mrs. Krabappel, no! That’s Sideshow Bob!” – Bart Simpson “Well, that’s the last time I announce my dinner plans in class.” – Mrs. Krabappel
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“Temper, temper, you know Cousin Merle ain’t been quite right lately.” – Cecil Terwilliger
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“Don’t you see what you’ve done? Sideshow Bob hasn’t reformed, he’s pure evil! Oh, if only you knew what he’s thinking!” – Bart Simpson “I hope they still make that shampoo I like.” – Sideshow Bob
Behind Us Forever: Treehouse of Horror XXVI
“At last, I’m going to do what Bob never could: kill Bart Simpson!” – Cecil Terwilliger “By throwing me off a dam? Isn’t that a little crude for a genius like you?” – Bart Simpson “Ooh, I suppose it is. Enh. If anyone asks, I’ll lie.” – Cecil Terwilliger The annual Halloween episode has come and gone, and this year’s was just as bland and forgettable as last year’s, and the year before that, etcetera. Perhaps next year’s will break the cycle of boredom, but I guess we’ll have to wait to find out. – Before we get started, let’s just pause for a moment to note that this is the twenty-sixth(!) edition of this. Jebus. – Another weird opening, this time a bad “Grinch Stole Christmas” take off. Took the better part of two minutes, though, so at least there’s that. – Segment one opens with Bart spinning Wendell on a merry-go-round so the kids can gamble on when he’ll puke. Wendell both barfs and doesn’t, so Bart somehow keeps the money and no one cares. This is off to an incoherent start. – Sideshow Bob shows up to tell us what we just saw and explain a joke about the wallpaper on Milhouse’s phone. – Bob’s dancing around with Bart’s intestines on his shoulders. Kinda weird. – Bob is now drinking Bart’s blood with some wine. You know how you can tell these segments are slapdash? We’re two minutes in and barely anything has happened except Bart and/or Bob explaining what we’re seeing at that moment. For a brief comparison, by the two minute mark of “The Shining”, the family has arrived at the house, Bart’s met Willie and had his power explained, and Burns and Smithers are cutting off the cable TV and beer supply. – After nothing happened for another minute, Bob is now using Bart’s corpse for putting practice. – Bob stepped on a rake. Good work, guys. – Bob is expositing again. Seems he misses Bart. – Now we’ve got a montage of Bob killing Bart and reanimating him. This is gonna go on for a while. – Homer just exposited what the “Reanimate” lever does after we saw a montage of it working. – Anyway, that ended. On to segment two, “Homerzilla”! (There’s a fresh idea.) – You know that joke where dubbed Japanese dialogue is deliberately offset from the character’s mouths (they did it at the juicer factory in Season 4)? They just did that joke, but had Comic Book Guy pre-explain it by saying, “Yes, let us show disrespect with poorly dubbed laughter.” Woof. – Two minute mark. Still expositing the setup. – Homerzilla is attacking now. It’s just a series of disconnected and not terribly clever sight gags. Ooh, Homerzilla has the fighter planes on yo-yo strings! – And now we’ve swerved into a movie parody where Hollywood executives remake Homerzilla as a big, American extravaganza. Still mostly just Homer doing weak sight gags like plugging Buzz cola. – And it…
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“Wherever you go and whatever you do, I’ll be there watching and waiting.” – Bart Simpson “He says that, but I bet he gives up pretty quickly.” – Chief Wiggum
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“Hello, brother, all’s well, I trust?” – Cecil Terwilliger “It most certainly is not! The workmen you’ve given me don’t know their asses from the hole in the ground they accidentally blew yesterday.” – Sideshow Bob
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“See, Cousin Merle and me was playing fetch with Geetch, that’s our old smell hound. And . . .” – Cletus “Geetch gone to heaven, Mr. Terwilliger.” – Cousin Merle “Oh, Cousin Merle!” – Sideshow Bob
Reading Digest: Floodwaters Receding Edition
“Marge, I’m going to look for the kids.” – Homer Simpson The Lego episode is now five days in the past and the internet is starting to move onto other things, but this week’s links are still a little thin from that deluge of marketing. Amusingly enough, though this is just my informal observation, there were a lot more links (on commercial publications and personal blogs) before the episode aired than after. Prior to broadcast, my news feeds and Google Alerts were inundated with people posting links to images and that trailer video. Afterwards there were quite a few reviews, mostly of the “it was pretty good” variety, but far far less overall chatter than there’d been for the build up. Anyway, we do have a nice smattering of fan made stuff this week, including two professional artists, some Simpsons inspired heavy metal, a Lego Homer car, and an excellent modification to a couple of those recently released Lego characters. In addition to that, we’ve got some excellent usage, a new makeup merchandising tie in, more on Bartkira, and two people doing some grilling, because it is now that time of year. Enjoy. Custom Lego Zombie Simpsons Homer Marge Treehouse Horror Glow Dark Minifigures – Someone took the Lego versions of Homer and Marge and detailed them to look like zombies. Excellent. The Simpsons at 25: Satire in serious times – A nice writeup of the show and what made it great that is, nevertheless, curiously absent examples from the last fifteen years or so. I wonder why? “Simpsons Doom” band Dr. Colossus release debut EP for streaming – Awesome: So… do you like… stuff? “Imagine if we started the heaviest band in the world, like real doomy, Sabbathy kinda stuff. What would we call it…what’s huge?…’Colossus’?…” “…Or like Dr. Colossus from the Simpsons… Why don’t we just make a doom band where all the songs are based on episodes of the Simpsons?” That’s a basic summary of Melbourne duo Dr. Colossus. It’s the doomy riffs of Black Sabbath and Kyuss meeting The Simpsons’ funniest quotes re-written into lyrics. And the duo have released their debut EP – simply titled “IV” – for streaming on SoundCloud. The dental plan riff has never sounded so heavy. Amazon.com: Homer Economicus: The Simpsons and Economics eBook: Joshua Hall – It isn’t being officially released until next week, but there’s a new book that attempts to explain economics through Simpsons. The Art Of ‘Bartkira’ At Portland’s Floating World Comics – The Bartkira project rolls forward. You can now buy a 96-page “exhibition book” for $15. See Every ‘The Simpsons’ Character In LEGO Form – The fine young folks at Uproxx seem to have about the right take on “Brick Like Me”: was it worth the hype? As a novelty episode of television from a show in its 25th season, yes; otherwise, not really. For the curious, they’ve got screen grabs of what each character looked like in Lego. Welcome To Springfield – The Simpsons and MAC Collaboration for Fall 2014 –…
Compare & Contrast: Sideshow Bob On Top of a Dam
“This looks like the work of crazy old Sideshow Bob.” – Chief Wiggum “No, chief, Bob’s innocent! It’s the truth.” – Lisa Simpson “The truth, huh? That sounds like the testimony of crazy old Lisa Simpson.” – Chief Wiggum Sometimes Zombie Simpsons makes it hard to tell the difference between fan service and one of its regularly craptacular plot zigzags. Was the fact that Sideshow Bob chased Bart and Lisa to the top of a dam at the end of “The Man Who Grew Too Much” supposed to be a shout out to “Brother From the Same Planet”? Or was it just the only thing that came to mind when they decided that it had to end with him plummeting to his apparent death and having gills? Whatever the motivation, they chose an ending with a perfectly superficial resemblance to its predecessor. To get the basics out of the way quickly, “Brother From Another Series” patiently and steadily built up to that climax. The dam’s construction is the center of the plot, and it is only at the end that we find out that Cecil is the one behind its imminent collapse. So when Bob and the children are confronted with their own deaths in and above the dam, we know how they got there and what’s going on. Zombie Simpsons literally just hopped up there: Here we see Sideshow Bob demonstrating his “grasshopper thighs” on a public street in downtown Springfield. The very next shot: Grasshopperus Bob lands squarely in front of Bart and Lisa on top of a dam very far from downtown Springfield. And just in case there was any doubt about where they were supposed to be, here’s the zoomed out view from right after he lands: I coulda swore there was a city around here somewhere. Huh. Guess not. Zombie Simpsons has a lot of long running problems with setting and object permanence, but this is pretty impressive even by their standards. A genetically engineered supervillain leapt from downtown straight to the top of the dam while Bart and Lisa teleported to the same location. It’s like listening to a four-year-old tell a story: Adorable Child: And then Sideshow Bob jumped from the street and landed on the dam! Patient Parent/Guardian: And were Bart and Lisa on top of the dam too, sweetie? Adorable Child: Yes! Beyond the basics of how each episode got to the top of the dam, however, are what Sideshow Bob says and does once he’s up there. Here is the entirety of Bob’s spoken dialogue at the end of “The Man Who Grew Too Much”: “Python jaw: unhinge!” “Who am I kidding? My only exit is a final one.” “Farewell, Simpsons, and, Lisa, when you’re older, write an autobiographical novel trashing the rest of them.” “Oh, right, I gave myself gills.” By any measure that’s very weak, especially when you remember that part of this is him trying to kill himself because of the horrible genetic freak he’s become. But…
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“Hey, you said we were going to Dairy Queen.” – Lisa Simpson “I lied. Now help me rummage through Bob’s trash for clues. Then I promise we’ll go to the water slide.” – Bart Simpson “Okay.” – Lisa Simpson
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“There it is, the future site of the Springfield Hydroelectric Dam.” – Cecil Terwilliger “Just the thought of all that raw, surging power makes me wonder why the hell I should care.” – Sideshow Bob “Because you’ll be supervising the construction crew.” – Cecil Terwilliger “Oh, great. Whenever a woman passes by I suppose it will be my job to lead the hooting. Oh, yeah. Shake it, madam. Capital knockers.” – Sideshow Bob
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“You wanted to be Krusty’s sidekick since you were five! What about the buffoon lessons? The four years at clown college?” – Sideshow Bob “I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way!” – Cecil
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“You do know I used to have a . . . problem with trying to kill people?” – Sideshow Bob “Goodness, I had no idea! For you see, I have been on Mars for the last decade, in a cave with my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears.” – Cecil “Touche, Cecil.” – Sideshow Bob
Ned Flanders: Party Guy
“That was Edna Krabappel. You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel.” – Sideshow Bob Via HollywoodChicago.com comes an interview with Marcia Wallace. She talks about her career, how she got started and, naturally, Mrs. Krabappel. It’s a neat little read, but there’s also this nauseating bit about an upcoming episode of Zombie Simpsons: Carol had better luck than poor Edna, she is looking for love in all the wrong places. I just did an episode last week where I have a romance with Ned Flanders. And there is going to be an online poll to ask America whether they should get together. The only question I have is whether or not this is going to be more teeth grindingly painful to watch than the time they awkwardly shoved Marge and Ned together. Since Zombie Simpsons is nothing if not adept at disappointing its audience, I’ll withhold judgment until I’ve seen it. The online poll is a nice touch, albeit one that reeks of desperation to still be relevant. As much as we loathe Zombie Simpsons around here, we do love Marcia Wallace. The interview is to promote an appearance by her and some other actors in Chicago this weekend (today and tomorrow). It’s mostly people like her, recognizable actors who never become big stars. The guy who played Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos and told Joe Pesci to get his shine box in Goodfellas will be there, as will Cindy Morgan of Caddyshack and TRON fame. So if you’re in Chicago and don’t have plans for the weekend, you could do worse.