“Homer, are you alright?” – Marge Simpson “I guess so, but that first month was pretty rough.” – Homer Simpson “You’ve only been gone two days.” – Marge Simpson “Really? Without teevee it’s hard to know when one day begins and the other ends.” – Homer Simpson
Tag: Missionary Impossible
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“You can even keep in touch with him on this ham radio.” – Reverend Lovejoy “Jebus, where are you? Homer to Jebus!” – Homer Simpson
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“Hey, what happened to all the shirtless girls you see in all the geographical magazines?” – Homer Simpson “Craig and Amy gave us the gift of shame.” – Q’Toktok
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“Sanctuary! Sanctuary!” – Homer Simpson “Oh, why did I teach him that word?” – Reverend Lovejoy
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“We taught them some English, and ridiculed away most of their beliefs.” – Craig “So, you can take it from there. Bye!” – Amy “Don’t let the bed bugs bite!…Seriously.” – Craig
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“Sure, FOX makes a fortune from advertising, but it’s still not enough.” – Telethon Guy “Not nearly enough!” – Rupert Murdoch So long (once again) Futurama!
Reading Digest: Family guy Crossover Edition
“So, if you don’t want to see crude, low brow programming disappear from the airwaves, please call now.” – Betty White It was going to be a slow week for Reading Digest, and then the hard working scribes at Entertainment Weekly reported that Zombie Simpsons will be doing a crossover episode. Predictably, that caused everyone and their sister to comment on it, even though the episode won’t be airing until Fall of 2014. Plus, despite taking place in Springfield, it’s going to be a Family Guy episode. By the laws of blogger kanly I supposed I have to say something about this, so here it is: meh. Both of these shows are long past their expiration date and this won’t change that at all. We get linked from random internet forums, discussion boards and the like quite a bit, so I see a lot of generalized fan discussion about the show, which often includes discussion of Family Guy as well. Based on that anecdotal experience, my sense is that a lot of fans have the same opinion of current Family Guy episodes that we do about Zombie Simpsons: that it basically goes through the motions and isn’t nearly as funny as it once was. (For whatever it’s worth, I gave up on Family Guy about three years into the second run. I thought their first season back was one of their strongest ever, but they ran out of steam very quickly.) In addition to the crossover non-event, we’ve got the usual smorgasbord of Simpsons goodness: lots of fan art, some excellent usage and references, a couple of lists, more graffiti from Illinois and British Columbia, a comparison of Martin Prince and James Joyce, and proof that extreme dog grooming can be used for good, instead of evil. Enjoy. High Art: Interview with artist Ryan Humphrey – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this interview/photo spread of one of the guys who’s working on the Bartkira project. Plus this: When looking at something like your version of ‘Battle Royale’ with the characters from ‘The Simpsons’ it would seem that some type of sketch work would need to be done beforehand, yet you keep the work so loose and alive. What’s your process on a project like that? It’s strange because most of the work I do there is hardly any planning at all. Some of the ideas that pop in my head appear instantly and then I start to work right away. I work usually in one good hit; nearly all of my work will be completed in around 3 days. I try to make them as fresh as the idea is in my head. Click through for a bunch of cool Simpsons sketches. Someone Please Help This Poodle Groomed to Look Like The Simpsons – You should probably look at this dog. Wow. Saturday Mornin’ Cartoons: My Top 5 Animated Shows – The show takes its proper place at #1 here, with this cromulent insight: The Simpsons is one…
Crazy Noises: Missionary Impossible
“Oh, save me, Jebus!” – Homer Simpson For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the show. Since Skype and podcasts didn’t exist in 1999, and we want to discuss these episodes the way the internet intended, we’re sticking with the UTF-8 world of chat rooms and instant messaging. This text has been edited for clarity and spelling (especially on “amalgamation”). Today’s episode is 1115, “Missionary Impossible”. Tomorrow will be 1116, “Pygmoelian”. A Brief Note on “Jebus”: As discussed below, this episode is illogical, racist, and really terrible in a lot of ways, but it did give the world “Jebus”, a fantastic term that has spread far and wide in the years since it first appeared. I’ve seen it used in more publications and by more people than perhaps any other creation of the show outside of “D’oh” and “Worst/Best. [Blank]. Ever.”. That said, I am mystified as to why it is sometimes spelled with two “e”s, “Jeebus”. There’s even a guy quoted in this episode’s Wikipedia article spelling it that way. I’m not king of words or anything, and my own spelling is atrocious enough that I am in no position to cast stones or point at the mote in my brother’s eye (as it were), I just don’t see why you’d spell it that way when it’s pronounced exactly like the original word. Charlie Sweatpants: Shall we get to it, then? Mad Jon: Let’s. Dave: Yes, let’s. Mad Jon: Missionary Impossible? Charlie Sweatpants: I have a very simple opinion on this episode: it sucks . . . but it gave the word "Jebus", and that is worth the rest of it. Dave: Jebus is a wonderful thing Otherwise this episode doesn’t register at all Mad Jon: It’s like a travel episode where they forgot to bring the rest of the family. That’s two strikes right there. Although I thought the PBS pledge drive had a few ups. Charlie Sweatpants: Structurally, it is a complete mess, and the weirdness ebbs and flows like a toilet tank that hasn’t been given enough time to properly refill between flushes. Mad Jon: But for me, the rest was kind of a random amalgamation of events loosely structured around Homer teaching the natives to be Homer. …So I basically agree with you. Charlie Sweatpants: You’re just relaxing after the whole Bart-as-Homer thing, and then it’s time for a giant earthquake/volcano/whatever. Mad Jon: You mean the end? Charlie Sweatpants: Yeah. Mad Jon: Where everyone died but Betty White? Charlie Sweatpants: What I mean is that this one goes back and forth between being kinda calm and then turning into something approximating a Halloween episode, and it does this like every thirty seconds. One minute, Homer…