“Lisa, get away from that jazz man!” – Marge Simpson “But, Mom! Can’t I stay a little longer?” – Lisa Simpson “Come on, come on, we were worried about you. Nothing personal, I just fear the unfamiliar.” – Marge Simpson Happy 30th anniversary to “Moaning Lisa”!
Tag: Moaning Lisa
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“That was beautiful. What’s it called?” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, it’s a little tune that I call The I Never Had An Italian Soup Blues.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy Happy Birthday, Mike Reiss!
Behind Us Forever: Springfield Splendor
“She doesn’t look sad. I don’t see any tears in her eyes.” – Homer Simpson “It’s not that kind of sad. I’m sorry, Dad, but you wouldn’t understand.” – Lisa After last week’s little experiment, it’s back to regular Zombie Simpsons this week, including plots that don’t make sense, two clock eating montages, several unnecessarily self-voiced celebrities, the standard hacktacular ending, and plenty of characters telling us exactly how they’re feeling. As a sort of bonus, some of this week’s exposition is written down rather than spoken. The story here is – and stop me if you’ve seen this one…
Cruelly Bleak Simpsons Lines
“I’m just wondering: what’s the point? Would it make any difference at all if I never existed? How can we sleep at night when there’s so much suffering in the world?” – Lisa Simpson “Well . . . uh . . . come on, Lisa! Ride the Homer horsey! Giddy-up, weeee!” – Homer Simpson The Simpsons always took a pretty dim view not just of human nature, but of human existence generally. Misdeeds are rarely punished, triumphs are rarely recognized, and justice is all but non-existent. After all, if there’s one thing Homer’s learned, it’s that life is one crushing…
Reading Digest: Moaning Lisa Has Aged Very Well Edition
“Just take mine. A simple cupcake will bring me no pleasure.” – Lisa Simpson This week we’ve got two links hearkening back to Season 1’s melancholy masterpiece “Moaning Lisa”, and two different fond remembrances of the first time someone ever watched the show. Season 1 often gets overlooked for the very understandable reasons that it both looks and sounds quite different than it would even in Season 2, but those episodes still resonate with people, and that’s astonishing. In addition to that, we’ve got a great Spider-Man put down, new old bootleg Bart, some .gifs, and a horrifying soccer mascot.…
Permanent Record: Mr. Largo
“Alright, class, from the top: one and two and three and. . .” – Mr. Largo American primary schools are filled with godawful bands. While a few students might genuinely like playing music and even have some skill, most of the members are kids that have no particular aptitude for music, aren’t overly fond of their instruments, and/or are only in the band because their parents made them join. In this context, “band” is just another class or after school activity, something most of the kids will go through the motions for, if only to keep the adults off their…
Quote of the Day
“My friends call me Bleeding Gums.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy “Eww, how’d you get a name like that?” – Lisa Simpson “Well, lemme put it this way, you ever been to the dentist?” – Bleeding Gums Murphy “Yeah.” – Lisa Simpson “Not me. I suppose I should go to one, but I got enough pain in my life as it is.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy
Compare & Contrast: Existential Crises in Childhood
“I’m still trying to figure out what’s bothering Lisa. I don’t know, Bart’s such a handful, and Maggie needs attention, but all the while, our little Lisa’s becoming a young woman.” – Marge Simpson “Oh, so that’s it. This is some kind of underwear thing.” – Homer Simpson Beneath the unvarnished cruise line agitprop, the hastily dropped money saving plot, and that bizarre encounter with penguins in Ant-fucking-arctica lies what may be the most half-assed aspect of “A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again”, its blisteringly simplistic and incomplete handling of Bart’s serious melancholy. Though the episode…
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“You know, Marge, getting old is a terrible thing. I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.” – Homer Simpson
Crazy Noises: Elementary School Musical
“Now, Miss Simpson, I hope we won’t have a repeat of yesterday’s outburst of unbridled creativity.” – Mr. Largo “No, sir.” – Lisa Simpson There are two horrible, glaring problems with this episode that we didn’t cover at all in the discussion below. The first is that while the Conchords provide what little levity this episode has, they also make no sense, and that’s before they fly off the roof at the end. (Lucy Lawless did that, let me check, eleven seasons ago . . . in a Halloween episode. Bravo for originality.) The idea is that they’re poor artists,…
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“Lisa . . . Lisa Simpson! Lisa, there’s no room for crazy bebop in ‘My Country ’Tis of Thee’.” – Mr. Largo “But Mr. Largo, that’s what my country’s all about.” – Lisa Simpson “What?” – Mr. Largo “I’m wailing out for the homeless family living out of its car. The Iowa farmer whose land has been taken away by unfeeling bureaucrats. The West Virginia coal miner coughing up-” – Lisa Simpson “That’s all fine and good, but Lisa, none of those unpleasant people are going to be at the recital next week.” – Mr. Largo Happy 20th Anniversary to…
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“You know, you play pretty well for someone with no real problems.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy “Yeah, but I don’t feel any better.” – Lisa Simpson “The blues isn’t about feeling better, it’s about making other people feel worse, and making a few bucks while you’re at it.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy
Citation Is Not Satire – Video Game Edition
“If I were you I really would use those quarters for laundry.” – Noiseland Video Arcade Guy The internet is filled with people who love television and video games, and so the brief Halo/teabagging bit from last Sunday’s Zombie Simpsons was mentioned in many places. I saw it on Joystiq first, but this description from Kotaku sums things up well: I guess we can move the trend marker for “Teabagging in Halo” on the downward trajectory of its lifespan, just to the right of the shark fin. That’s about right, by the time Zombie Simpsons gets around to mentioning something…