“Please, sir, put some shoes on.” – Principal Skinner “What, you don’t like my bags?” – Moe
Tag: Grift of the Magi
Quote of the Day
“The good news is, we need no longer fear vicious mob reprisal.” – Principal Skinner
Behind Us Forever: The Nightmare After Krustmas
“Let’s just agree that the commercialization of Christmas is at best a mixed blessing.” – Lisa Simpson “Amen.” – Gary Coleman Annual or near annual Christmas episodes were never a hallmark of The Simpsons. The premier episode was a Christmas special, but that was the last time the show did a Christmas episode until Season 7’s “Marge Be Not Proud”. That five season gap has never been repeated. The show went back to the tinsel well in Seasons 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, and now again in Season 28. (And I might have missed one…
Quote of the Day
“Wow, only twenty-two seconds from muttering to door smashing.” – Jim Hope “That projects to a profit of three-hundred-seventy million dollars.” – Lindsey Naegle “I’d still sleep a little easier if I saw some trampling.” – Jim Hope
Quote of the Day
“I am so bored!” – Bart Simpson “Oh, I can’t wait till we’re teenagers. Then we’ll be happy.” – Milhouse van Houten
Quote of the Day
“Ralph, there are no right or wrong answers. But if you don’t pipe down I’m giving you an F!” – Kid First Industries Teacher “The before teacher yelled at me too.” – Ralph Wiggum
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…
Crazy Noises: Grift of the Magi
“So have a merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, kwazy Kwanza, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan. Now a word from my god: our sponsor.” – Krusty the Klown 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 1999, and we want to discuss these…