Quote of the Day

“When I was your age I was a hell raiser, too. My slingshot was my cross. But I saw the light and changed my wicked ways!” – Brother Faith “I figure I’ll go for the life of sin followed by the presto-change-o deathbed repentance.” – Bart Simpson “Wow, that’s a good angle. . . . But that’s not God’s angle!” – Brother Faith

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“A&M is gonna kick your ivy covered butts!” – Carl “Yeah, well you went to a cow college!” – Homer Simpson “Oh, you’re only calling us a cow college cause we was founded by a cow.” – Lenny

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“Lisa, ham hock? Tri-tip?” – Homer Simpson “Do we have any food that wasn’t brutally slaughtered?” – Lisa Simpson “Well, I think the veal might’ve died of loneliness.” – Homer Simpson

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“Finally, a chance to relive my golden college years.” – Homer Simpson “Dad, you only took one course.” – Lisa Simpson “Remember my love affair with Ali McGraw? She used to call me preppy. Then she died.” – Homer Simpson

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“Excuse me, neighbor, I couldn’t help but notice you picked pretty much all my flowers.” – Ned Flanders “Can’t make a float without flowers.” – Homer Simpson “True enough.  But did you have to salt the earth so nothing would ever grow again?” – Ned Flanders

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“You’re the miracle boy with the healing hands, arghhn’t ya?” – Captain McAllister “Nah, I don’t do that anymore.” – Bart Simpson “So I guess I’ll have to see someone else about my crippling depression.” – Captain McAllister

Reading Digest: Simpson Alumni Everywhere Edition

“My old roommates, the nerds!  Aww.  You working?” – Homer Simpson “Oh, my, yes, I’m on a secret project that I’m not at liberty to divulge . . . cough, cyborgs.” – Fat Nerd  We’ve got a bunch of news this week about current and former Simpsons staffers: David Silverman got a new job, Harry Shearer is in Wales, Mike Reiss gave a talk at Harvard, and Sam Simon continues to be awesome.  (There’s also a Zombie Simpsons writer making an ass of himself, but he doesn’t count.)  In addition to that, there’s plenty of video game YouTube, fancy New…

Quote of the Day

“Now, folks, a seven and five football season doesn’t come cheap, and this is a fundraiser . . . seal the exits.” – Springfield University Chancellor

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“I invented a program that downloads porn off the internet one million times faster.” – Skinny Nerd “Does anybody need that much porno?” – Marge Simpson “Ohhh, one million times.” – Homer Simpson

Crazy Noises: Faith Off

“You’re playing days are over, my friend.  But you can always fall back on your degree in Communications!  Oh, dear Lord.” – Dr. Hibbert “I know.  Is phony major.  Lubchenko learn nothing!  Nothing!” – Anton Lubchenko For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes.  This year we’re doing Season 11.  Why Season 11?  Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the show.  Since Skype and podcasts didn’t exist in…

Compare & Contrast: Hibbert’s Examples

“I won’t even subject you to the horrors of our Three Stooges ward.” – Dr. Hibbert [Note: Crazy Noises for “Faith Off” and “The Mansion Family” will be along on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.] It’s not exactly news that the show increasingly relied on weird, hyperactive nonsense as it flew apart at the seams and became Zombie Simpsons.  The world of Springfield, which originally had been a recognizable if exaggerated stand in for real life, increasingly became the kind of stylized pseudo-reality where actions didn’t really have consequences and physical realities change from scene to scene.  The simplest way to…