“No, don’t make me take a vacation! Without you I’ll wither and die!” – Waylon Smithers “That’s a risk I’m willing to take.” – C. Montgomery Burns
Tag: Homer the Smithers
Synergy Wears Down
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user marwho. “Homey, why don’t you lie down and relax.” – Marge Simpson “No time, Marge, I think Mr. Burns wants me to do some long division.” – Homer Simpson I think all those staff cuts at IGN are finally having an effect. Last week I noticed that their fluff piece on “American History X-Cellent” was unusually short. Now comes this week’s entry, and it’s even shorter. Out of curiosity, I grabbed all the reviews from calendar 2010 and ran a word count. Starting with “Thursdays with Abie” and running through “The…
Quote of the Day
Image taken from Wikimedia Commons. “Is this the chair I’ll be sitting on?” – Homer Simpson “Yeah. Now, I realize caring for Mr. Burns seems like a big job, but actually it’s just twenty-eight hundred small jobs.” – Mr. Smithers “Uh-huh, but this is the chair, right?” – Homer Simpson
Slouching Towards Zombie Simpsons
“Get ready for exciting quarter mile action at the Springfield Dragstrip! It’ll be motorized mayhem, mayhem, mayhem! Do we need all those ‘mayham’s? We do. Alright, fair enough. I suppose you know your business.” – Mr. Smithers Watching football on FOX just now there was a promo for the season premier of Zombie Simpsons. The announcer told me to get ready for “action”, “action” and “action”. He literally said it three times. Remember when the appeal of Simpsons was comedy? FOX doesn’t.
Quote of the Day
“What’d you get that for?” – Bart Simpson “For knocking Mister Burns out of a third story window.” – Homer Simpson “Makes sense to me.” – Bart Simpson “Did he die?” – Lisa Simpson “What am I, a doctor?” – Homer Simpson