“Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, your son has clearly been brainwashed by the evil and charismatic Mr. Burns.” – Conformco Guy “Are you sure you can get him back for us?” – Marge Simpson “Absolutely. I’m the one who successfully deprogrammed Jane Fonda, you know.” – Conformco Guy “What about Peter Fonda?” – Marge Simpson “Ohh, that was a heartbreaker. But I did get Paul McCartney out of Wings.” – Conformco Guy “You idiot! He was the most talented one!” – Homer Simpson RIP Peter Fonda.
Tag: Burns’ Heir
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“Alright! We’re finally gonna stop those corporate pigs from dumping that nuclear waste!” – Greenpeace Guy #1 “Oh, no, our boat is sinking.” – Greenpeace Guy #2 “It was I, you fools! The man you trusted isn’t Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time I’ve been smoking harmless tobacco!” – C.M. Burns
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“Sir! Try to land on Leonard’s carcass!” – Mr. Smithers
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“I think Bart and Lisa are feeling a little upset right now. Isn’t there something you’d like to say?” – Marge Simpson “There sure is: kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.” – Homer Simpson
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“Well, I’m sure you’d like to be alone with your possessions.” – Milhouse van Houten “Milhouse, if you stay a little while longer, you can have this blazer. It’s a Bob Mackie original.” – Bart Simpson “Wow! A Bob Mackie!” – Milhouse van Houten
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“I got a mink shammy, sir, I hope it-…Oh, my god, Mr. Burns is dead! Oh, why do the good always die so young?” – Mr. Smithers
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“Bart, I know you children see me as some sort of “booger” man, but I’m really not such a bad “dude”. Oh, your milk’s gone cold, I’ll ring for the maid. Oh, sorry, wrong button.” – C.M. Burns
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“Careful, Smithers, that sponge has corners, you know.” – C.M. Burns “I’ll go find a spherical one.” – Mr. Smithers
Zombie Simpsons Renewal Goes to Overtime
“Hey, you know we’re getting into golden time?” – Estonian Actor “Yes, well just get it right or you’ll all be back doing ‘Come Blow Your Horn’ at the Westport dinner theater!” – C.M. Burns Six months ago, we got word from Al Jean himself that the current TABF production run was indeed a full twenty-two episode order. The most recent episode was TABF10, which means that they have twelve more episodes to broadcast under the current contract. Last night, commenter Mr. Incognito e-mailed me to let me know that Erika Isabel Vega, who’s been with the show since 2006,…
Saturday Marathon Open Thread
Per IGN, here’s the schedule for the next 24 hours: 8/23 11:00 AM ET – “Burns’ Heir” 8/23 11:30 AM ET – “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song” 8/23 12:00 PM ET – “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” 8/23 12:30 PM ET – “Lady Bouvier’s Lover” 8/23 1:00 PM ET – “Secrets of a Successful Marriage” Season 6 8/23 1:30 PM ET – “Bart of Darkness” 8/23 2:00 PM ET – “Lisa’s Rival” 8/23 2:30 PM ET – “Another Simpsons Clip Show” 8/23 3:00 PM ET – “Itchy & Scratchy Land” 8/23 3:30 PM ET – “Sideshow Bob Roberts” 8/23…
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“Okay, let’s make this sporting, Leonard. If you can tell me why I shouldn’t fire you without using the letter e, you can keep your job.” – C.M. Burns “Uh, okay, um, I’m a good work . . . guy.” – Lenny “You’re fired.” – C.M. Burns “But I didn’t say-” – Lenny “You will.” – C.M. Burns “Eeeeeeee!” – Lenny Happy 20th anniversary to “Burns’ Heir”! Original airdate: 14 April 1994.
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“I have nothing to offer you but my love.” – Milhouse van Houten “I specifically said no geeks!” – C.M. Burns “But my mom says I’m cool.” – Milhouse van Houten
Behind Us Forever: Specs and the City
“This is my pride and joy: I’ve had hidden cameras planted in every home in Springfield. I got the idea from that movie ‘Sliver’, what a delightful romp.” – C.M. Burns If there’s one thing Zombie Simpsons has perfected, it’s taking familiar elements of The Simpsons, blasting away everything that made them wonderful, and then propping up the barely recognizable remains as though they weren’t decrepit garbage. In its own ass backwards way, “Specs and the City” was a tour-de-force of that. Homer actually spent time at the nuclear plant and stopped for a beer at Moe’s when he was done.…
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“It’s a little tight.” – Bart Simpson “Yes, that’s to correct your posture. Soon you’ll have a mighty hump.” – C.M. Burns
Compare & Contrast: Children Perform for Burns
“Ow!” – Bart Simpson “Excellent.” – C.M. Burns To say that the evil and charismatic Mr. Burns enjoys having people perform for him is something of an understatement. This is a man who has crippled an Irishman for his own amusement and tied a bundle of cash to a string to taunt an eight-year-old girl. He kidnapped Tom Jones and made him sing while shackled to the stage. The Burns we all know and love to hate likes to see people squirm under duress, preferably duress that he’s causing. You can see this trait in spades in “Burns’ Heir”. In…
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“Due to my hectic schedule and lethargic sperm, I never fathered an heir. Now, I have no one to leave my enormous fortune to, no one.” – C.M. Burns “Ah-hem.” – Mr. Smithers “You, Smithers? Oh, no, my dear friend. I’ve planned a far greater reward for you. When I pass on, you shall be buried alive with me.” – C.M. Burns “Oh. Goody.” – Mr. Smithers
Old Dogs, Old Tricks
“I suggest you leave immediately.” – C.M. Burns “Or what? You’ll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead. Do your worst! . . . He locked the door!” – Homer Simpson Zombie Simpsons frequently repeats things from The Simpsons, but every once and a while they come up with a perfect confluence of failure, where all of the show’s many flaws combine into a single, memorable scene. The most recent one I can think of came last year, when they tossed…
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“Wow, Bart, Mr. Burns gives you everything you could ever want. My parents use that old love excuse to screw me out of toys.” – Milhouse van Houten
“Burns’ Heir” Spews Truth
Image yoinked from Wikipedia. “But I did get Paul McCartney out of Wings.” – Conformco Guy “You idiot! He was the most talented one!” – Homer Simpson Even with twenty years of viewings under my belt, I am continually amazed at the sheer number of cultural references and allusions in The Simpsons. There isn’t a guest voice and the focus of the episode is a story about Burns and Bart, but they bring up or crib from about five different movies and make fun of half a dozen celebrities. They toss them off with remarkable speed so that things never…
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“I propose to you that your heir need not be a boy. In this phallocentric society of ours –” – Lisa Simpson “I don’t know what phallocentric means, but no girls!” – C.M. Burns “So much for Plan B.” – Milhouse van Houten