In an odd coincidence, there are three pieces of excellent usage this week that are just one word away from being dead on. Being my nitpicky self, I’ve added the correct words in, but all three still rate as excellent usage in my book. In addition to that we’ve got lots of fan art, including a bunch of drawings of Homer and Marge as famous fashion people. There’s also a couple of great YouTube videos, some love for Season 3 and 5, an unconvincing defense of Season 9’s most infamous episode, and lots of other stuff. Enjoy. The Many D’ohs…
Tag: Lisa’s Wedding
Crazy Noises: Holidays of Future Passed
“Hey, I remember you. Mayor Quimby, right?” – Lisa Simpson “I, uh, er, ah, no. Look at this license: Mohammed Jafar.” – Mohammed Jafar 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…
Compare & Contrast: Maggie’s Silence
“Will that girl ever shut up?” – Homer Simpson The more I think about it, the more “Holidays of Future Passed” feels like a flashy, stripped down remake of a classic movie. The effects are splashier, the budget higher, and the cast larger, but despite the occasionally entertaining scene or idea, the whole thing is a jumble. Too often you’re just marking time until the next segment begins, hoping it’s better than what you’re currently seeing. To illustrate that, I’d like to take a look at a running joke “Holidays of Future Passed” slavishly copied from “Lisa’s Wedding”: Maggie’s silence…
Quote of the Day
“Are you okay?” – Lisa Simpson “I’m fine, Lisa. Fortunately, the compost heap broke my fall. Be a dear, run a bath.” – Hugh Parkfield
Reading Digest: Lisa’s Wedding Edition
“We’ve been invited to the wedding of our only graduate to read at an adult level.” – Principal Skinner “It must be Lisa Simpson, because of course, Martin Prince perished in that science fair explosion.” – Miss Hoover “Not quite perished, my lady love. Although some days I wish I had.” – Martin Prince Lots and lots of people made note of the fact that last Sunday was Lisa’s wedding date. Most of the blog posts and articles I came across were little more than a screen grab of the invitation and a few words about the passage of time. …
Time Flies
Quote of the Day
“Mr. Smithers plus guest. Well, there’s only one person I would want to bring . . . oh Mr. Burns, we’ll thaw you out the second they discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in the back. How’re we doing boys?” – Mr. Smithers “Well, we’re up to fifteen!” – Professor Frink
Vitruvian Homer
“I’ve eaten eight different meats. I’m a true renaissance man.” – Homer Simpson A bunch of landscape architecture students from Florida International University won a sand castle competition in Miami with Homer laid out in Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” pose: Image shamelessly stolen from their Photobucket album, which has many more pictures. Congratulations and bravo, that is excellent. If I ever need a landscape architect (note: highly unlikely) I will ask for an FIU alum. My only complaint is that instead of letting his genitals hang out like in Da Vinci’s original, they covered Homer’s shame with a literal…
Quote of the Day
“And I love that painting. Judging by the clothes, I’d say seventeenth century?” – Lisa Simpson “Actually, Lisa, it’s just uncle Eldred.” – Mrs. Parkfield “I get me brain medicines from the National Health.” – Uncle Eldred Let’s hope Uncle Eldred doesn’t forget to vote.
Etsy FT-EPIC-W
“Hugh, there’s something I want you to have. My dad gave me his cufflinks to wear on the day I married Marge, and they brought us good luck. I couldn’t imagine a happier marriage. We don’t have many traditions in our family, but it would mean a lot to me if you kept this one alive.” – Homer Simpson “Well I’d be honored, to . . . wear . . . those . . . things.” – Hugh Parkfield Stop everything you’re doing and look at this: The attention to detail is stunning, from the feet to the cravat to…
As It Was, As It Is
“I see an Eastern university in the year 2010, the world has become a very different place . . .” – Renaissance Faire Fortune Teller Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way first: I love this episode. I’ve seen it more times than I can count and I never fail to laugh my ass off. It was first broadcast in 1995 and it foretold the world in 2010, which is now here. So let’s take a look at how things actually turned out. I don’t think the writers were trying to predict 2010; I just think it’s…
Pornography Monday
“Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white, I mean . . . Milhouse.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, Milhouse doesn’t count.” – Marge Simpson It’s time for another installment of the pornographic search terms the world has used to find our stupid little blog. Many are just the usual requests for intergenerational incest and what have you. I was pretty amused by “extra porn lisa simpsons and milhouse”. What, exactly, makes porn “extra”? sex bart and marge simpsons homer and marge porn bart fucks milhouse free video bart bones marge bartporn (homer and lisa) simpson porn sex marge simpson und homer homer…
Quote of the Day
“Quimby, after this fare get your indicted ass out to the convention center.” – Otto “I cut the ribbon at that convention center.” – Mohammed Jafar
Crappy Merchandise: Cufflinks
Do you often think to yourself, “What I really need is a good pair of humorous cufflinks”? Is there someone you love who may be a great person but whose life is clearly lacking in this critical way? Fear not, for the Cufflinks Depot is here! For just $45 American you can purchase one of these fine novelty items, sure to produce that always entertaining mixture of fake gratitude and suppressed disappointment on the face of the recipient. (And make no mistake, these are gag gift only items, the websites that peddle them all but beg you to use them…
Zombie Simpsons: Copy & Paste FAIL
What to make of the images below? Were these clever throwbacks designed to be shoutouts to long time fans? Or was it simply a copy and paste job done out of laziness? The rest of the episode, a hodgepodge of chases and exposition, sucked too. Given last week’s dismal viewership I’m going to be hopeful and set the over/under at a flat 6.00 million viewers. C’mon under. Update: TV by the Numbers says, “I just received notice that the Sunday Night fast affiliate ratings that we use for our posts have been delayed due to Nielsen processing…
Simpsons Wedding List
“Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean . . . Milhouse.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, Milhouse doesn’t count.” – Marge Simpson I’m attending a wedding this afternoon. One thing I’ve learned through experience is that a Simpsons equipped laptop is a handy thing to have at such occasions, especially if you’re more or less required to get there several hours in advance. So, without further Apu, I present my Simpsons wedding list which, in various forms, I’ve used several times over the last few years. Simpsons – 220 – The War of the Simpsons Simpsons –…
No Seriously, Take it!
“Oh come on Edna! We both know these children have no future!!” – Seymour Skinner In the second part of my two part series chronicling my hatred of Zombie Simpsons episodes involving time shifts, I will address the failures of episodes with a flashforward premise. As I warned in the end of part one, there will be some similarities in this post. If you think I am just being lazy (which I do not deny), try this exercise: Make a list of reasons you think the shit your dog took this morning was gross, then make a list of reasons…