“Oh look, you haven’t touched your salt lick. Num-num, good salt lick.” – Lisa Simpson This week we’ve got lick-able food, and some excellent guitar licks. Sadly no salt licks, but them’s the breaks. In addition to that there’s some television retrospectives, a list of people you don’t want as your boss, an awesome new Tumblr, a couple of fan made links (including one by a wee child), and a very creative use of an animated .gif file. Enjoy. [Programming Note: Crazy Noises for “A Midsummer’s Nice Eve” will be along next week, but there’s no new Zombie Simpsons this…
Tag: Lisa’s Pony
Saturday Morning Cartoons
File this under shit I’m still impressed the show got away with in 1991: That is, uh, not subtle.
Crazy Noises: American History X-cellent
“Don’t worry honey, I’m sure your father is . . .” – Marge Simpson “Maybe . . . No . . . That’s a long shot . . . Bingo.” – Marge’s Brain “Don’t worry, he’ll be here.” – 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…
Bart Bucks
This afternoon boing boing had a link to a page with a bunch of drawings people have done on currency. There’s George Washington with an iPod, Andrew Jackson as King Leonidas, and Queen Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. There’s also el Barto: Clicking on the source link at that page took me to Flickr user ChukD. He’s got quite a few of these including an actual Bart Buck: He’s got a bunch on there, with characters from Goofy to Batman to Dr. Zoidberg. Check it out.
You Kids and Your Teevee Programs
“Wait, where’s the hyperspace?” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson As Dave noted last weekend, the Burns for Mayor campaign was a smashing success in that, had only write-in ballots been counted, Charles Montgomery Burns would’ve won the New York City mayoral election in a landslide. The publication of the write-in totals has lead some normally staid political sites to take notice. This one, ballot-access.org, which advocates for easier minor party representation on ballots, wrote it up as follows: The results show that the person who got the most write-ins for Mayor is Charles Montgomery Burns, the fictional character in the Homer…
Quote of the Day
“All the years I’ve lobbied to be treated like an adult have blown up in my face.” – Lisa Simpson
Quote of the Day
“You sound like you’re going to buy a pony. Promise me you won’t.” – Marge Simpson “Mmm.” – Homer Simpson “What was that? Was that a yes or a no?” – Homer Simpson “Buh.” – Homer Simpson “Those aren’t even words!” – Marge Simpson “Snuh.” – Homer Simpson “Mmm.” – Marge Simpson
Saturday Morning Cartoons
“Just sign this form, and the money will be yours.” – C.M. Burns The above is a perfect example of proper plot exposition and minor character usage. I would submit this in direct contrast to, say, Rev. Lovejoy not being holy for a while, Skinner and Comic Book Guy chasing an ancient riddle and especially magical tomato sauce. Homer needs $5,000, Burns gives it to him because Homer doesn’t understand the word “usury”, and the story moves along. There are no words wasted and no more time taken than necessary. The five grand is never mentioned again because it…