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“Aww, Moe, we were saved by a sissy.” – Barney Gumble “Yeah, yeah, we’ll never live it down. Oh, boy, it looks like it’s suicide again for me.” – Moe

Double Secret Makeup Quote of the Day

“Marge, the boy was wearing a Hawaiian shirt.” – Homer Simpson “So?” – Marge Simpson “There’s only two kinds of guys who wear those shirts: gay guys and big fat party animals. And Bart doesn’t look like a big fat party animal to me.” – Homer Simpson “So if you wore a Hawaiian shirt it wouldn’t be gay?” – Marge Simpson “Right. Thank you!” – Homer Simpson

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“You’re being ridiculous.” – Marge Simpson “Am I, Marge? Am I? Think of the property values! Now we can never say only straight people have been in this house.” – Homer Simpson

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“How’d you know that thing would work?” – Bart Simpson “Well, the sound is just brutal. And I figured reindeer would naturally be afraid of their cruel master, Santa Claus.” – John

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“Wow, an actual robot from the movie ‘Clank, Clank, You’re Dead’. Think of awful it’d be for the poor midget inside.” – Lisa Simpson “Aww boo-hoo. That’s what they get paid for.” – Bart Simpson

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“You know me, Marge. I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming!” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Homer’s Phobia”! Original airdate 16 February, 1997.

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“Hey, where’d that cool, creepy Santa come from?” – Bart Simpson “Japan. Except over there he’s called Annual Gift Man and he lives on the moon.” – John

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“But I mean more like inflatable furniture, or Last Supper TV trays, or even this bowling shirt. Can you believe somebody gave this to Goodwill?” – John

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“What am I supposed to do here?” – Bart Simpson “Nothing.  Just sit.  I’ll be back. . . . Well, it’s been two hours, how do you feel?” – Homer Simpson “I don’t know, I kinda want a cigarette.” – Bart Simpson “That’s a good start, let’s get you a pack, what’s your brand?” – Homer Simpson “Anything slim!” – Bart Simpson “Okay, that didn’t work.” – Homer Simpson

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“Dad, it’s barbaric.  How does killing a deer make you more of a man?” – Lisa Simpson “It just does.  Name me one gay Indian.” – Homer Simpsonee

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“And Helen Lovejoy, sure, she looks blonde, but I’ve heard cuffs and collar don’t match, if you get my drift.” – John “I don’t, but I loved hearing it.” – Marge Simpson

Crazy Noises: Lisa Goes Gaga

“Come on, Homer, join the party.” – John As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another.  More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things.  The only kind of on-line communications we like are the kind that could once be done at 2400 baud.  So disable your…

Crazy Noises: A Totally Fun That Thing Bart Will Never Do Again

“Well, I never thought it would come to this, but I guess we’ll have to sell Grandma’s Civil War doll.” – Marge Simpson “Oh, Mom, are you sure you want to sell a family heirloom to pay the gas bill?  I mean, what would your Grandma say?” – Lisa Simpson “I’m sure she’d be proud that her descendant’s had piping hot tap water and plenty of warm, dry underwear.” – Marge Simpson As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that…

Quote of the Day

Image yoinked from Wikipedia. “But what would turn Bart into a man fast?  You have to think for me.” – Homer Simpson “Well, let’s see now, time was you send a boy off to war.  Shooting a man fix ’em right up.  But there’s not even any wars no more, thank you very much Warren Christopher.” – Moe

Compare & Contrast: Gay Bars

“We work hard.  We play hard.” – Roscoe In everything but similarity of title, “Homer’s Phobia” is the obvious choice for a comparison episode to “Flaming Moe”.  But rather than stacking up the plot structures, characters, and jokes and marveling at how greatly Season 8 towers over Season 22, I want to focus on one small aspect of these two episodes that I think goes a long way toward illustrating the point I was trying to make yesterday.  Specifically, it’s easy to see how much more tame and thoughtless Zombie Simpsons is when you compare their gay club, “The League…

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“It’s camp!  The tragically ludicrous?  The ludicrously tragic?” – John “Oh yeah, like when a clown dies.” – Homer Simpson “Well, sort of.” – John