“Simpson, stop frolicking and get to work!” – Mr. Smithers “Right away, Mr. Smithers, I’ll just walk across these slippery rocks . . .” – Homer Simpson Near the end of “The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants” a man on a jet ski appears from the sky just before a raft with several able bodied men plunges over a waterfall because another able bodied man wouldn’t push them slightly to shore. At that point, Zombie Simpsons could safely assume that its audience was completely numb to plot whiplash. I certainly thought I was. Then Homer, who less than a…
Tag: Mother Simpson
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“Are you sure this is the woman you saw in the post office?” – Joe Friday “Absolutely. Who could forget such a monstrous visage? She has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of the career criminal.” – C.M. Burns “Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.” – Mr. Smithers “Of course you’d say that, you have the brainpan of stage coach tilter.” – C.M. Burns Happy birthday Richard Appel!
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“Excuse me, sir, I think there’s been a mistake.” – Marge Simpson “Oh no, no mistake. Your electricity’s in the name of Homer J. Simpson, deceased. The juice stays off ’til you get a job or a generator . . . oh and, uh, my deepest sympathies.” – Sympathetic Utility Guy
Armin Tamzarian, Ken Keeler, and The Simpsons Horde
“This is so weird, it’s like something out of Dickens, or Melrose Place.” – Lisa Simpson A little while back, Dave, Mad Jon, Bob Mackey and I chatted about that most infamous of Season 9 episodes, “The Principal and the Pauper”. Mackey had me stumped in several places because he, unlike the rest of us, had listened to the DVD commentary. The very short version of all that was that Ken Keeler, who wrote the episode and has since gone on to a long and gloriously funny career at Futurama, had defended it in ways Mackey more or less agreed…
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“Mom, there’s something you should know about me: I almost always spoil the moment.” – Homer Simpson “I’m sorry.” – Homer Simpson “That’s okay darling. It wasn’t your fault.” – Mona Simpson
Reading Digest: “Mother Simpson” Edition
“You were a rotten wife and I’ll never, ever forgive you! . . . Can we have sex, please?” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson “Oh, Abe.” – Mona Simpson “Well, I tried. What’s for supper?” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson There’s even less rhyme and reason than usual to this week’s stochastic smorgasbord of Simpsons links. But there are two unrelated links that mention “Mother Simpson” so that gets to be the title. Other than those there’s some nervousness about pronunciation, some fun YouTube, a jerk who doesn’t like Zombie Simpsons but also seems to not like The Simpsons, someone who…
“Trilogy of Error” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Hey Mom, look at me, look at what I can do!” – Homer Simpson “I see you Homer, that’s very nice.” – Grandma Simpson Season 12 was nothing if not a pageant of the trans-mundane and this episode fits right into its dull kaleidoscope. In case you’ve forgotten, this is the episode where they tell three weird stories that are happening concurrently and link them together in various ways. Listening to the commentary it’s very clear that the people behind the scenes were quite impressed with how well all the disparate little events tied together, and they’re right about that. …
Wednesday Evening Cartoons
“Mother Simpson” is an excellent episode for any number of reasons, primarily because it is terribly funny. But considering it in the context of the writhing horror show that is Zombie Simpsons there are two salient points: The first is that it has an ending (pictured above). Despite its many plot twists* there’s a reason Wiggum calls the Simpsons to warn them. It doesn’t just happen apropos of nothing as so many Zombie Simpsons endings do. Second, it doesn’t draw out its suspenseful/emotional moments. When Bart and Lisa figure out that Grandma’s story is fishy there’s no montage of them…
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“Damn you, Walt Whitman! I! Hate! You! Walt! Freaking! Whitman! ‘Leaves of Grass,’ my ass!” – Homer Simpson (Happy 117th birthday, Walt.)
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“You know Lisa, I feel like I have an instant rapport with you.” – Grandma Simpson “Ahh, you didn’t dumb it down, you said ‘rapport’.” – Lisa Simpson