“But Mom, if you take our cartoons away we’ll grow up without a sense of humor and be robots!” – Lisa Simpson “Really? What kind of robots?” – Bart Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge”! Original airdate 20 December 1990.
Tag: Itchy and Scratchy and Marge
Crazy Noises: Loan-a-Lisa
Original concept art for Itchy & Scratchy “Up” parody in “Loan-a-Lisa”. The Itchy & Scratchy bit at the beginning of “Loan-a-Lisa” was, to put it mildly, creatively bankrupt. It starts by spending forty-five seconds re-enacting “Up” with nary a joke in sight; that would be bad enough, but Zombie Simpsons then makes things even worse. Instead of ending with some kind of “Up” inspired violence (a balloon house falling on them, a giant blimp attack, a pack of remotely controlled dogs tearing them to pieces) it ends by repeating not one, not two, but three (3) scenes from previous Itchy…
“The Simpsons Movie” Makes Baby Jesus Cry (Part 2)
“No, make it a pie. Pies are easier to draw.” – Itchy & Scratch Animator “Okay, a pie.” – Roger Meyers Jr. After spending roughly seven weeks in the optical drive of my laptop, The Simpsons Movie is finally in the custody of the United States Postal Service and on its way back to Netflix. (Which means “Lies Make Baby Jesus Cry” should start for Season 13 in the next few days.) The second commentary was done by some of the animators and directors of the film, and while there is some interesting information in here, mostly it’s a blur…
Quote of the Day
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user richardmasoner. “Well, Kent, to me the hijinks of a few comic characters absolutely pale in comparison with the crippling emotional problems a psychiatrist runs into every day. I’m referring here to women who love too much, fear of winning, sexaholism, stuff like that.” – Dr. Marvin Monroe
Quote of the Day
“I don’t believe this. ‘I will never watch your show, buy any of your products, or brake if I see you crossing the street.’ Wow that’s cold. ‘Dear sleaze merchant’, aw come on, that hurts. . . . Gentlemen, the screwballs have spoken.” – Roger Meyers Jr. Happy Birthday to Alex Rocco! (Note: He’s a Feb 29th guy, so no actual birthday for him until 2012. But birthday wishes nonetheless.)
Friday Link Dump – Shutup and Start Masturbating Edition
“I told you she was soft on full frontal nudity.” – Maude Flanders Since we’re very lazy around here we have Google Alerts do most of our web research for us. Unfortunately when something like, oh, say, Marge being drawn into Playboy happens, it means that all of a sudden 95% of the on-line mentions of the Simpsons are about the exact same thing. What’s worse, and I’ll admit I didn’t notice until about the tenth time I saw it, is that everyone uses the word “posing”, as though a cartoon character can “pose” for anything. Anyway, out of the…
Crazy Noises: The Great Wife Hope
“Hello Marge, oh, what is S. N. U. H.?” – Helen Lovejoy “Snuh.” – Marge Simpsons “Oh.” – Helen Lovejoy “It stands for Springfieldians for Non-violence Understanding and Helping. I’ve started a crusade against cartoon violence.” – Marge Simpson In our continuing mission to bring you only the finest in low class, low brow, and low tech internet Simpsons commentary we’re bringing back our “Crazy Noises” series and applying it to Season 21. Because doing a podcast smacks of effort we’re still using this “chatroom” thing that all the middle schoolers and undercover cops seem to think is so cool.…
“Day of the Jackanapes” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“So what’s your big idea, how do we end this?” – Roger Myers Jr. “Hmmm, let’s see . . . um . . . oh, couldn’t Itchy share his pie with Scratchy? Then they would both have pie.” – Marge Simpson “It’s different, I’ll give you that.” – Roger Myers Jr. This is the Sideshow Bob episode from Season 12 and by the rock bottom standards of Season 12 it’s not 100% terrible, more like 95% terrible. So while it has a couple of good lines (I like Bob asking to live in the storage unit) it’s still got a…
Sunday Preview: Auto-fellatio and Curling Edition
“How many times can you laugh at that cat getting hit by the moon?” – Marge Simpson “It’s a new episode.” – Bart Simpson “Not exactly… they pieced it together from old shows, but it seems new to the trusting eyes of impressionable youth.” – Lisa Simpson Guess what? We’re only 54 days away from the premier of Season 21 and there’s already news of an episode of Zombie Simpsons that will coincide with next year’s Winter Olympics. For the uninitiated, the 2010 games will be taking place somewhere in Canada, also known as America Junior (or America’s hat, if…
Quote of the Day
“But that’s Michelangelo’s David; it’s a masterpiece.” – Marge Simpson “It’s filth! It graphically portrays parts of the human body, which, practical as they may be, are evil.” – Helen Lovejoy