“You know they got the Velcro straps, a water pump in the tongue, built in pedometer, reflective side walls, and little vanity license plates!” – Ned Flanders In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the technology that brought the word “emoticon” to the masses: the chatroom. Star Trek image macros are strictly forbidden, unless you have…
Tag: Homer The Father
Compare & Contrast: Mocking 80s Fatherhood
“‘Cosby’s First Law of Intergenerational Perversity: No matter what you tell your child to do, he will always do the opposite.’ Huh?” – Homer Simpson “Don’t you get it, you gotta use reverse psychology.” – Homer’s Brain “That sounds too complicated.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, don’t use reverse psychology.” – Homer’s Brain “Alright, I will!” – Homer Simpson A few months ago, I wrote a post about how you couldn’t really understand where Season 1 was coming from without some grasp of 1980s American television, particularly the enormous number of cookie cutter family sitcoms. The Simpsons, especially in Season 1,…
Leftovers
“You gotta improvise, Lisa. Cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust . . .” – Homer Simpson Have you ever stood in your kitchen, staring at bare cabinets and empty refrigerator shelves, and tried to cobble together one last meal before the next trip to the store? You’ve got a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and hey, those two might work together. Sometimes a bunch of scraps go down unexpectedly well. Sometimes they do not. “Homer the Father” is that disastrous third case where you find yourself trying to induce vomiting just minutes after sitting down…
Sunday Preview: “Homer the Father”
Here we go again. Simpsons Channel tells us that two bearded guest stars, David Mamet and James Lipton, will lend their voices to tonight’s “Homer The Father,” which has a plot that sounds nearly as dry as the title: Homer becomes obsessed with Thicker than Waters, a 1980s family sitcom written by David Mamet (pictured left), and models his parenting skills after the show’s sensible father much to the chagrin on Bart, who desperately sets his sights on a brand new dirt bike. But when Homer insists that Bart must earn the dirt bike, Bart takes matters into his own hands…