“Lisa, you got a letter.” – Marge Simpson “It’s from my pen pal, Anya.” – Lisa Simpson “Dear Lisa, as I write this I am very sad. Our president has been overthrown and-” – Anya “-replaced, by the benevolent General Krull. All hail Krull and his glorious new regime! Sincerely, little girl.” – General Krull Russia is having itself an election on Sunday, and earlier this week allegations emerged in Canada, the world’s other giant frozen country, that the current Prime Minister may have taken a few liberties with the last election. We’ve got links for both, though, befitting the…
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Crazy Noises: At Long Last Leave
As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another. More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things. The only kind of on-line communications we like are the kind that could once be done at 2400 baud. So disable your call waiting, plug in your modem, and join…
“The Dad Who Knew Too Little” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Now, don’t you fret. When I’m through, he won’t set foot in this town again. I can be very, very persuasive. . . . C’mon, leave town.” – Crappy Private Detective “No.” – Sideshow Bob “Aw, I’ll be your friend.” – Crappy Private Detective “No.” – Sideshow Bob “Oh, you’re mean!” – Crappy Private Detective They make a lot during this commentary of the fact that there’s an emotional core to this episode, namely Homer trying to connect with Lisa. But whenever they’re trying to push that you can’t help but notice that the stuff going on in the episode…
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“I don’t think this is such a good idea.” – Marge Simpson “This isn’t just because of Sideshow Bob, it’s a chance to turn around all our stinkin’ lives.” – Homer Simpson
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“I say we call Matlock, he’ll find the culprit. It’s probably that evil Gavin MacLeod or George ‘Goober’ Lindsey.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Grampa, Matlock’s not real.” – Bart Simpson “Neither are my teeth, but I can still eat corn on the cob if someone cuts it off and smushes it into a fine paste. Now that’s good eating!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
“Cape Feare” Spews Truth
“Okay , it’s over! Get ’em out of here.” – Moe Aside from the way they don’t go off on random tangents and seem to be actually enjoying these episodes, the next biggest difference between these old commentaries and the ones on Zombie Simpsons is simply the number of people on them. On Season 12 or 13, six people would qualify as a very small contingent, here it’d be quite large. I don’t know if that’s the result of the age of the episodes or scheduling conflicts or what, but it makes things a bit more coherent (i.e. they can…
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“Take him away, boys.” – Bart Simpson “Hey, I’m the chief here. Bake him away, toys.” – Chief Wiggum “What’d you say, chief?” – Lou “Do what the kid says.” – Chief Wiggum
Compare & Contrast: Homer and the FBI
“We have places your family can hide in peace and security: Cape Fear, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville.” – FBI Agent “Ohh, Ice Cream Ville!” – Homer Simpson “No, Screamville.” – FBI Agent Like a lot of Zombie Simpsons episodes this season, there is more than one Simpsons episode to which I can compare “Donnie Fatso”. As has been pointed out in comments, the similarity to “The Trouble with Trillions” is uncanny, and not in a good way. There’s also the epic fail of Homer’s catchphrase toupee camera, something that the hat from “Homer and Apu” would consider far beneath…
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“Dear Life in these United States, a funny thing happened to me… ugh… (head hits desk)” – Sideshow Bob “Use a pen, Sideshow Bob.” – Snake
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“Say your prayers Simpson . . . because the schools can’t force you like they should!” – Ned Flanders
Idiocy Confirmed
“I can’t stand this any longer, somebody please pay attention to me!” – Bart Simpson Glyn Stott, he of the idiotic plan to watch all of The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons in a row, was interviewed by a radio show in Britain. After listening to it any reservations I had about criticizing this guy evaporated. There are two important parts. The first is the hilarity at the 3:00 minute mark when Generic UK DJ Guy asks him about “Cape Feare” and neither of them can remember the title of the Robert de Niro movie (which was itself a remake). I…
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“Take care, Snake. May the next time we meet be under more felicitous circumstances.” – Sideshow Bob “Guh?” – Snake “Take care.” – Sideshow Bob “Buh.” – Snake
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“And once a man is in your home, anything you do to him is nice and legal.” – Chief Wiggum “Is that so? . . . Oh Flanders, won’t you join me in my kitchen? Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh . . . ” – Homer Simpson “Uh, it doesn’t work if you invite him.” – Chief Wiggum “Hi-dily hey!” – Ned Flanders “Go home.” – Homer Simpson “Too-dily do!” – Ned Flanders
The Death of Fun
“This is horrible.” – Bart Simpson “The FOX Network has sunk to a new low.” – Lisa Simpson Season 12 came out on DVD today and we’ll be getting into it a little more in the coming weeks. After all, we’re almost done with our Season 8 series and we’ve got to do something between now and the ignominious debut of Season . . . ugh . . . 21. For now you’ll have to content yourself with crappy, rage inducing clips from some typically brainless Season 12 episodes. There’s a “deleted” scene here and three regular style ones here. I…
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“You have such a beautiful voice.” – Bart Simpson “Guilty, as charged.” – Sideshow Bob