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“Hey, Colonel Homer! And you must be-” – Lurleen Lumpkin “Mrs. Homer Simpson.” – Marge Simpson “Charmed.” – Lurleen Lumpkin “I thought you said she was overweight.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, it takes two to lie: one to lie, and one to listen.” – Homer Simpson;

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“That spot says Compact Only.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, that’s just a suggested car size. . . Easy . . . easy . . . how’m I doing on the right?” – Homer Simpson “Uh, we’re getting a lot of sparks over here, Dad.” – Lisa Simpson “Uh-huh . . . easy . . . perfect! Alright, everybody out the window!” – Homer Simpson

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“We’ll take two tickets to . . . The Stockholm Affair.” – Homer Simpson“Ooh, the paper called it a taught political thriller.” – Marge Simpson“Political? Oh.” – Homer Simpson“Mr. President, disturbing news. Serious cracks developing in the Greco-Bolivian alliance.” – Movie General“Get me Jed Collick!” – Movie President

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“Excuse me, are you Colonel Homer Simpson?” – Record Executive “Yes, I am.” – Homer Simpson “I’m from Rebel Yell Records, a division of Tokusagi Corporation.” – Record Executive

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“Now, before we negotiate, I have to tell you I’m desperate to unload Lurleen and I’ll take any offer.” – Homer Simpson “I’ll give you fifty bucks.” – Rebel Yell Records Executive “You son of a! . . . sold.” – Homer Simpson

Compare & Contrast: Marge Gets Jealous

“Lurleen, we’re gonna have to cut you off. We’re getting some kind of grinding noise on the track.” – Hicksville U.S.A. Recording Producer  NOTE: I will be at Classic Simpsons Trivia in Brooklyn tonight. If you’re there, feel free to look for the tall, gumpy white guy in this t-shirt and say hello.  “Friends and Family” provided an embarrassment of riches for Compare & Contrast material. This is a partial list of topics I considered: – The family going to live with Burns the same way Bart did in “Burns’ Heir” – In the original, Bart had to be convinced to live there by Burns, lied to about his family, and ultimately saw through it. Now, the whole family just goes there and stays because . . . uh, look over there, isn’t it wacky that they’re wearing motion capture suits and have weird heads? – Burns wanting a family – This would also be to “Burns’ Heir”, but instead of demonstrating how out of character the family was behaving, it’d be Burns: pining for love instead of wanting a son who could continue his evil after he was gone. Also: there was a scene with kids trying out and Milhouse getting rejected was a lot better the first time. – Homer being alone in the house – This one is a twofer, since I could compare the goofy montage in Zombie Simpsons to “Homer Alone” or “Bart After Dark”, both of which saw Homer inhabit the house in clumsy ways instead of running the lawnmower in the living room. – Homer meeting a very Homer-like woman – “The Last Temptation of Homer” did this far better, including showing Homer’s resistance to being attracted to Mindy until even Colonel Klink forsakes him. In particular, both episodes feature Homer at a romantic restaurant with Marge’s would-be competition, the big difference being that on The Simpsons they got forced to go to a Chinese restaurant that was nice enough to make them cheeseburgers, whereas on Zombie Simpsons Homer and his platonic friend – who’s supposed to like sitting on her duff and drinking beer just like him – go to a fancy restaurant so they could do yet another Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene. – Jewish funerals – Krusty’s was a lot more fun than the one for that guy who was Burns’ therapist for two minutes. Ultimately, I couldn’t resist this episode’s finale, a bizarre, senseless, and out of left field rant from Marge when she returns home to find Homer – gasp – talking to a woman on the phone. It gets weird fast and stays that way, so I’ll quote it extensively. To start, Homer is sitting on the couch and has just gotten off the phone when Marge and the kids walk in for what would seem to be the first time in weeks or months: Homer: Hey, guys, good to see you! Marge: Good to see you. Who were you talking to? Homer: My friend Julia. Lisa:…

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“Marge, you’re standing in the way of my boyhood dream of managing a beautiful country singer!” – Homer Simpson “Your boyhood dream was to eat the world’s biggest hoagie! And you did it at the county fair last year, remember?” – Marge Simpson

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“Tonight I’d like to try something a little different. It’s a song I wrote while I was mopping up your dried blood and teeth.” – Lurleen Lumpkin

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“Homer, how much did you just give that man?” – Marge Simpson “Calm down, Marge.  It’s just our life savings.  I’m not going to go into hock for this.” – Homer Simpson

Reading Digest: It’s Not Supposed to Be Good Beer Edition

“Duff, please.” – Homer Simpson “We don’t sell Duff.  We sell Fudd. ” – Beer -N-Brawl Bartender “Okay, Fudd me.” – Homer Simpson This week we’ve got two links to Australian beer aficionados who were less than impressed with the recently released “Duff” beer.  Long story short, it’s meh at best and kinda gross at worst.  This is unsurprising, as crappy merchandise is crappy merchandise, even when it is infused with sweet, mind numbing alcohol. More amusing, however, is the fact that Duff isn’t supposed to be good.  It’s supposed to be the kind of thing German executives consider swill, where you might find a rat, a syringe, or even Hitler’s head in a bottle.  They’re marketing it as a good beer because they have to.  Budweiser and Miller Lite are called good beers by the people who make them as well, but that doesn’t mean anybody believes it, and this “Duff” falls into the exact same category. What makes it funnier is that, unlike Bud and Miller, Duff was originally intended to be crappy.  So, through no fault of their own, the merchandising pukes may have managed to finally, at long last, make something actually worthy of the show.  Duff is supposed to be barely drinkable piss, that’s why Homer drinks it, and they seem to have succeeded in bringing it to life.  Well done. In other links, we’ve got fan painted nail art celebrating national donut day, Mike Reiss being a mensch, a quick Homer haiku, some comedy theory, and much more.  Plus there’s a couple of people who agree with us, one in an actual newspaper. Enjoy. The Top Simpsons Episodes – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this rundown of favorite episodes, one each from Seasons 2-10.  Plus there’s lots of good Youtube, a healthy dislike of Zombie Simpsons, and a great Hank Scorpio picture.  Well done lists are so much better than slapdash ones. “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” – The Mr. Burns play is now showing in London at the Almeida theater.  It opened yesterday and runs through July 26th.  The linked review is quite up on it. Had enough of Duff – The Australian Duff would appear to not be very good: But Duff isn’t a stock-standard lager. It’s a good deal worse than that. It starts off with an odd, slightly chemical flavour before some malt notes come barging in out of nowhere. Then the malt disappears, leaving that that odd flavour centre-stage. Duff beer – Review – This one’s a little more positive, but still concludes: Drinkable for a gimmick beer, but not something I’d frequently buy. Sadly, they obviously didn’t make it as cheap as Duff is in the show. “Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.” – Exploring the background and wisdom of one of Homer’s most famous political quotes. TV: Saturday, June 14 – The Sydney Morning Herald is starting to sound like me: Remember when The Simpsons was wet-your-pants funny? When every line sparkled with wit and pitch-perfect cultural references? This is the…

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“Two tickets for-” – Homer Simpson “Lemme guess: Look Who’s Oinking?” – Googolplex Guy “That’s right.” – Homer Simpson “Sold out.” – Googolplex Guy “Ohhh.” – Homer Simpson

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“Hey, hey, Lurleen!  I gotta say something to you.” – Homer Simpson “I’m listening.” – Lurleen Lumpkin “Your song touched me in a way I’ve never felt before.  And which way to the can?” – Homer Simpson (Sorry for the late quote.)

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“Marge, what do you think?” – Homer Simpson “It’s nice.  But who is this woman?” – Marge Simpson “Well, right now she’s an out of work cocktail waitress, but she’s going to be a country music super star like, uh . . . that jerk in the cowboy hat, and that dead lady.” – Homer Simpson “I don’t like you hanging around some cocktail waitress.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, you make it sound so seamy.  All I did was spend the afternoon in her trailer watching her try on some outfits.” – Homer Simpson

Saturday Morning Movie References

“Oh, wait, I heard how this ends.  It turns out the secret code was the same nursery rhyme he told his daughter.” – Homer Simpson This started making the rounds yesterday: Every Movie Reference In ‘The Simpsons’: Seasons 1-5 | NextMovie It’s twenty minutes long, but don’t let that discourage you.  If it doesn’t have every single one, it’s gotta be awful close.  There are a couple that I think are a little bit of a stretch, but not many, and there were definitely a few I’d never noticed before.  (Thanks to Michael for the e-mail reminder.) 

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“So, what are we going to see?” – Marge Simpson “Earnest Cuts the Cheese!” – Bart Simpson “Honey, I Hit a School Bus!” – Lisa Simpson “Look Who’s Oinking!  Look Who’s Oinking!” – Homer Simpson

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“Do you think I could get a copy of it?” – Homer Simpson “Sorry, darlin’, all my songs are up here: I’m Basting a Turkey with My Tears, Don’t Look Up My Dress Unless You Mean It, I’m Sick of Your Lying Lips and False Teeth.” – Lurleen Lumpkin

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“She’s wonderful.  I could feel her sweet country soul in every digitally encoded bit.” – Lisa Simpson “Country music sucks.  All it does is take precious airspace away from shock DJs whose cruelty and profanity amuse us all.” – Bart Simpson “Shut up, boy.” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Colonel Homer”!  Original airdate 26 March 1992.