“I make no secret of my past. But isn’t our system of justice based on the idea that a man can change?” – Sideshow Bob “Uh, have the boys check into that.” – Chief Wiggum
Tag: Brother From Another Series
Quote of the Day
“There may be a slight ringing in your ears. Fortunately, you’ll be nowhere near them.” – Cecil Terwilliger
Zombie Simpsons Misses the Point
“And sure, he’s probably so insane with rage that he’d butcher you horribly if he could.” – Homer Simpson Yesterday, it was noted in many, many different places that Zombie Simpsons mentioned the censoring of last week’s South Park in the chalkboard gag: There are two ways to look at this. The first (and this seems to be the dominant on-line opinion) is to see it as a nice gesture from Zombie Simpsons, a show of support for South Park in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. The second (which I’m more inclined to take) is a lot less positive. First, set aside all the other issues at play here, from war and torture to religious extremism and censorship. What happened on South Park was a brave act (at least as brave as one can be making cartoons for a living), the point of which was to demonstrate that fear about showing Mohammed is overblown. The “death threats” that got such wide press came from an obscure website run by a nobody with no connection to anything (scroll down to point 2 in the update here to see what I mean). Everyone pitched a fit except Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who remained quite calm and basically said that they wouldn’t give in to hysteria. The fundamental point they were making (last week and in 2006) is that such fear is unfounded, and that the real problem is the absurd overreaction to empty threats. Yet there’s Zombie Simpsons, declaring themselves “so scared”. I understand that they’re trying to be supportive in a funny way. But what Zombie Simpsons actually did was reinforce and legitimize the overhyped fear that Parker and Stone were explicitly attacking. They could’ve said “South Park-We Support You And Wanted To Say [Bleeeeeeeeeeeep]”, or “South Park-We’d Stand By You If We Thought It Mattered”, or anything that didn’t say that they were afraid. Instead, they bought right into the hysterical framework that South Park was criticizing. Like all Zombie Simpsons, it was well meaning but brainless, and they’d have been better off not saying anything.
Quote of the Day
“How can you even think of releasing Side Show Bob?!?” – Marge Simpson “He’s Just faking it to get out of jail! He’s a maniac!” – Bart Simpson “Bob is no maniac. He explained his reasons for trying to kill us all, and I assure you they were perfectly sane.” – Mayor “Diamond” Joe Quimby
Quote of the Day
“I think I wet my bed.” – Ralph Wiggum
Quote of the Day
“That guy’s a genius! He’s gonna change the way we think about getting hit by pies.” – Krusty the Klown