“Goodbye, Springfield, from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!” – C.M. Burns The line everyone knows from 1987’s Wall Street is, “Greed is good”. Of course, Michael Douglas doesn’t quite say that; his actual line is “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good”. Either way it’s not the best line in the movie. That honor goes to Martin Sheen, playing the skeptical head of an airline mechanics union. Sitting in Gordon Gekko’s excessively 1980s penthouse as the iconic bankster of the time licks his chops over wage cuts now for theoretical profit sharing tomorrow, Sheen sagely notes: “The…
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Behind Us Forever: Labor Pains
“Step aside, I’ll deliver this baby.” – Homer Simpson “Uh, why don’t you let me handle it, Homer?” – Dr. Hibbert “Oh, college boy, eh?” – Homer Simpson “Homer, for God sakes, let him deliver the baby!” – Marge Simpson In its never ending desperation to come up with something – anything – that hasn’t specifically been done before, Zombie Simpsons will try everything from relatively mundane stories to outlandish fantasies. This episode had two of the former. In the A-plot, Homer helps deliver a baby after getting stuck in an elevator. In the B-plot, Lisa tries to help professional…
Open Complaint Thread: Labor Pains
We didn’t get a preview up yesterday, so I shudder think what kind of volcanic build up there is about last night’s almost certainly forgettable “Labor Pains”. I haven’t watched it yet, but it certainly sounds dull: While trapped in an elevator Homer helps a woman deliver her baby who she gratefully names Homer Jr. Homer then gets emotionally attached to the little guy. Meanwhile Lisa is recruited to be a cheerleader. As I am on the road in Chicago today without access to my usual array of electronics, “Behind Us Forever” will have to wait until tomorrow or possibly…