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“Sorry, son, but there’s a program about campus life that I really should watch.” – Homer Simpon “We now return to School of Hard Knockers, starring Corey Masterson.” – TV Announcer “Dean Bitterman, I hope nothing unsavory happens during my visit. As you know, I am the President of the United States.” – The President “Oh, don’t worry, I’ve expelled those rowdy members of Chug-A-Lug House.” – Dean Bitterman

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“Ah, the college road trip. What better way to spread beer fueled mayhem?” – Homer Simpson “If you’re going for a ride, I’d like you to take Bart and Lisa.” – Homer Simpson “But, Marge, we’re college guys and we’re up to no good.” – Homer Simpson “Mr. Simpson, Gary spilled his ear medicine.” – Fat Nerd

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“Hey, the pig’s acting kinda funny.” – Fat Nerd “He and Mr. Simpson split a case of malt liquor.” – Skinny Nerd “Guys, he’s really sick!” – Black Nerd “Hello, that sounds like a pig fainting!” – Dean Bobby Peterson

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“You’re in big trouble, Burns! Homer Simpson’s job requires college training in nuclear physics. Now, you get your man up to speed or we’ll be forced to take legal action.” – Nuclear Inspector “Is that so? Well, I have the feeling you’ll be ‘dropping’ the charges. . . . Oh.” – C.M. Burns “The painters moved your desk, sir.” – Mr. Smithers “Ah, yes.” – C.M. Burns

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“Homer, we have a perfectly good bookcase.” – Marge Simpson “Yeah, but this is what they’re doing on campus! Besides, it isn’t costing us. I swiped the cinder blocks from a construction site.” – Homer Simpson “Sir, six cinder blocks are missing.” – Foreman “There’ll be no hospital, then. I’ll tell the children.” – Architect

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“I did always want to go to college. But fate stood in the way.” – Homer Simpson “Homer, sign this application and you’re a shoe in.” – Guidance Counselor “That dog has somebody’s ham! This I gotta see!” – High School Homer

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“I’m sorry, boys, I’ve never expelled anyone before.  But, that pig had some powerful friends.” – Dean Bobby Peterson “Oh, you’ll pay!  Don’t think you won’t pay!” – Richard Nixon

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“Homey, here are the responses from the colleges you applied to.” – Marge Simpson “D’oh!  D’oh!  D’oh!  Woo-hoo, a flyer for a hardware store!” – Homer Simpson

Compare & Contrast: Surprise Nuclear Inspections

“The watchdog of public safety, is there any lower form of life?” – C.M. Burns It would be one thing if Zombie Simpsons merely repeated ideas and stories that had been done on The Simpsons.  Given the enormous catalog of episodes, it’s certainly understandable that scenes and concepts would need to get recycled from time to time.  Hell, that was understandable way back in the heyday of the show. For example, Season 2’s “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish” has a great nuclear plant inspection, where we see gum used to seal a crack in the cooling…

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“Hello, Simpson.  My lawyers and I were in the neighborhood and thought we’d stop by.” – C.M. Burns “Would you like to come in for tea and marshmallow squares?” – Marge Simpson “Yes, he would.” – Blue Haired Lawyer

Behind Us Forever: Clown in the Dumps

“My first day of college.  I wish my father was alive to see this.” – Homer Simpson “Hey!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “How long have you been back there?” – Homer Simpson “Three days.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson (Sorry for not getting this up yesterday.  The day got away from me.) Season 26 picked up right where season 25 left off: a time eating guest couch gag, many needlessly self voiced celebrities, characters explaining how they feel and what they’re doing, and plenty of other boring nonsense.  The A-plot was about Krusty being sad and involved the much hyped character…

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“Don’t worry, Mr. Simpson, we can take care of ourselves.” – Black Nerd “Uh, wallet inspector.” – Snake “Oh, here you go.  I believe that’s all in order.” – Fat Nerd “Whoa, I can’t believe that worked!” – Snake “Hey, that’s not the wallet inspector.” – Homer Simpson

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“Marge, someone squeezed all the life out of these kids.  And unless movies and teevee have lied to me, it’s a crusty, bitter old dean.” – Homer Simpson “Hi there, hello, I’m Dean Peterson, but you can call me Bobby.  I just want you to know, if you ever feel stressed out from studying or whatever, I’m always up for some hacky sack.  Or hey, if you just want to come by and jam, I used to be the bass player for the Pretenders.” – Dean Peterson “Boy, I can’t wait to take some of the starch out of that…

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“We played Dungeons & Dragons for three hours, then I was slain by en elf.” – Homer Simpson “Listen to yourself, man, you’re hanging with nerds.” – Bart Simpson “You take that back!” – Homer Simpson “Homer, please, these boys sound very nice, but they’re clearly nerds.” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday Conan O’Brien!

Compare & Contrast: Homer Parties Like It’s Freshman Year

“Now, the only antidote to a zany scheme, is an even zanier scheme!” – Homer Simpson “Why does it have to be zany?” – Fat Nerd Since the show had all but run out of ideas by Season 11, it’s no surprise that they had to start revisiting topics and concepts that they’d already done with increasing frequency.  And while most of “Kill the Alligator and Run” is a bizarre slideshow of the family leaping from one goofy, vaguely Southern situation to another, it gets there by transporting Homer to a raucous college party and having him run around with…

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“Oh, very well, it’s time for your bribe.  Now, you can either have the washer and dryer where the lovely Smithers is standing, or you can trade it all in for what’s in this box.” – C.M. Burns “The box, the box!” – Nuclear Inspector

Reading Digest: The Perils of Syndication Edition

“Wow!  They’ll never let us show that again, not in a million years!” – Krusty the Klown Assuming that pure joy expands in a circle at the speed of light, the echo of my unbounded glee at learning that reruns of The Simpsons would be on five days a week should be somewhere between Altair and Sigma Draconis by now.  In those dark days before DVDs, DVD rips, and bottomless hard drive platters, watching old episodes wasn’t easy to do, and the news that it would be on every weeknight (and sometimes on Saturday) was literally life changing.  All those…