“How ya doin’ fellas?” – James Taylor “With all due respect, Mr. Taylor, this isn’t the best time for your unique brand of bittersweet folk-rock. We have a potentially critical situation here. I’m sure you’ll understand.” – Buzz Aldrin “Listen, Aldrin, I’m not as laid back as people think. Now, here’s the deal: I’m gonna play, and you’re gonna float there and like it.” – James Taylor
Tag: David Mirkin
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“Forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty. Flag’s up to date, very good, Seymour.” – Superintendent Chalmers Happy birthday David Mirkin!
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“Ah, TV respects me. It laughs with me, not at me.” – Homer Simpson “You stupid, ha ha ha…” – TV “D’oh!” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday David Mirkin!
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“Well, Homer, I guess you’re the winner by default.” – NASA Guy “De fault? Woo-hoo! The two sweetest words in the English language! De fault De fault!” – Homer Simpson
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“Sir, the TV ratings for the launch are the highest in ten years!” – NASA Guy “Yay!” – NASA Geeks “And how’s the spacecraft doing?” – NASA Director “I don’t know. All this equipment is just used to measure TV ratings.” – NASA Guy Happy birthday David Mirkin!
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“Loyal Stonecutters! Let us begin our re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg.” – Homer Simpson “Homer, you can’t just keep hanging out with these colobus monkeys. Somebody’s gonna get parasites.” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday David Mirkin!
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“Hey, it’s morning and Mom and Dad aren’t home yet.” – Bart Simpson “Don’t worry, Mr. Hutz is still here to take care of us.” – Lisa Simpson “Don’t touch my stuff! . . . Hey, this isn’t the YMCA.” – Lionel Hutz Happy birthday David Mirkin!
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“People, we’re in danger of losing our funding. America isn’t interested in space exploration any more.” – NASA Guy “Maybe we should finally tell them the big secret, that all the chimps we sent into space came back super intelligent.” – Other NASA Guy “No, I don’t think we’ll be telling them that.” – Space Chimp Happy birthday David Mirkin!
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“Compadres, it is imperative that we crush the freedom fighters before the start of the rainy season. And remember, a shiny new donkey for whoever brings me the head of Colonel Montoya.” – C. Montgomery Burns “What? Oh, and by that I mean of course, it’s time for the worker of the week award!” – C. Montgomery Burns Happy birthday David Mirkin!
Please, Sir, We Want No More
Yesterday Digital Spy put up an interview with longtime Simpsonista David Mirkin. (He worked on the show from the beginning pretty much through the start of Zombie Simpsons and then on-again, off-again in more recent seasons.) It’s an interesting read, including the welcome information that we’re a long way off from a second movie. Here’s the part that rankles: Matt Groening said that he doesn’t see an ending in sight for the show. Do you agree? “I pray for an end! I would like to meet another human being who doesn’t work on the show! And maybe say ‘hi’ to a…