“There you are! Thought you could get away?” – Homer Simpson “Goodbye.” – Prospective Simpson Neighbor
Tag: New Kid on the Block
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“Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you’d step over your own mother just to get one! . . . But you can’t stop at one! You wanna drink another woman! . . . So I says, yeah, if you want that money, come and find it, cause I don’t know where it is ya baloney, you make me wanna retch . . .” – Homer Simpson
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“But, Marge, I think he should learn about it the same way I did.” – Homer Simpson “Are you sure?” – Marge Simpson “Zookeeper! Zookeeper! Those two monkeys are killing each other!” – Homer Simpson “They’re having sex.” – Zookeeper “Oh.” – Homer Simpson
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“Homer, Bart’s at a very curious age. As his father, I think you should have a frank and earthy discussion about . . . you know.” – Marge Simpson
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“Sometimes I think you want to fail!” – First Guy From Kabul “Shut up. Just shut up!” – Second Guy From Kabul
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“Homer, I’ve a proposition for ye. Fair and true.” – Captain McAllister “C’mon, Marge, let the people see your pretty face.” – Homer Simpson “Come see Bottomless Pete, Nature’s cruelest mistake! Come for the freak! Stay for the food!” – Captain McAllister “Oh, he’s hideous!” – Female Crowd Member “I heard they shaved a gorilla.” – Male Crowd Member
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“Now, if you’ll excuse us, this is a sacred moment between a boy and his father. Son, a woman is a lot like . . . um, a refrigerator! They’re about six feet tall, three hundred pounds . . . they . . . make ice.” – Homer Simpson
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“Hello, what’s this? Wire hangers? Expired medicine? Old newspapers! Okay, Homer, stay calm. Just quietly get this stuff inside your house. Homer! You’re not listening!” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday Conan O’Brien!
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“I’ll send Laura over to babysit as soon as she gets home.” – Ruth Powers “Great. Oh, uh, and there was something else, something I was supposed to tip-toe around.” – Homer Simpson “My divorce.” – Ruth Powers “That’s it! Whew, I’m glad one of us remembered. That could’ve been embarrassing.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Still Waiting For Renewal Edition
“You’ve been flushing for twenty minutes. Is there a problem?” – Principal Skinner “Uh, no, Principal Skinner.” – Jimbo Jones “Very well. I’ll continue to wait.” – Principal Skinner As near as anyone can tell, the show remains without an official renewal. Eika Isabel Vega, who’s been a real good sport about me using her Twitter feed to track the potential death of her job, tweeted this an hour ago: My guess is still that it’ll be renewed, but it looks like production is beginning to shut down, so we’ll see what happens. In regular link news, this week we’ve got some great fan art, the death of DVDs, emoji Simpsons, a look back at when the show knew how to inject culture into its episodes, and more. Enjoy. 11 Minimalist Simpsons Posters – Oh, wow, some of these are outstanding. And you can download them as wallpapers if you like. And now for something completely silly – Classic Simpsons quotes told through emojis. A sample: There’s a few more at the link. The dogs with bees in their mouths in inspired. The Similarities Between Saul Goodman And Lionel Hutz – Pretty much the same guy. Jerkface – The Donut Mobile – Someone painted a small truck with Homer and donuts. Excellent. The Simpsons Outlives DVD Market – Darn, I guess I’ll never get to own all those great Season 18 episodes. Then I will hug and kiss some poisonous snakes. No More Simpsons Seasons Released on DVD – Reader John H. sends in this IGN link, with a picture/headline juxtaposition that doesn’t quite convey the sadness the article presumes to be occurring among fans: Heh. Pixar’s Brad Bird Talks French Food, Animated Rats And New Film ‘Tomorrowland’ – Bird was on some NPR show and they gave him a truly dumb Simpsons quiz near the end. He missed one, but the impression he was supposed to be guessing was terrible. 128th-Final, Round 6: Itchy & Scratchy Land vs. Bart Sells His Soul – That’s a tough one. 11 best uses of bad grammar from The Simpsons – There are about three Zombie Simpsons entries on here, which is three too many considering they left out “perfectly cromulent”, “no more apples in the vending machine please”, and Lionel Hutz not working on contingency. iOS 8.3 Emoji with ‘Simpsons’ complaints – Definitely a bit of resemblance there. Locating Springfield, A Simpsons Theory. – Enjoyably pointless. Heh. The Simpsons and King Arthur – Ah, for when the show made pointed little cultural insights a habit: During its second season, The Simpsons aired an episode entitled “Dead Putting Society,” about a miniature-golf match between Bart Simpson and his neighbor Todd. What qualifies this episode as a “medieval afterlife” is the miniature-golf setting itself. On Bart’s first visit, it’s introduced by a sign at the entrance: “Sir Putt-a-Lot’s Merrie Olde Fun Center,” with a cartoon icon of a jousting knight; further attractions listed include “Her Majesty’s Batting Cage” and “Merlin’s Video Dungeon.” The “Merrie Olde Fun Center” itself, shown in the background, is a pseudo-medieval castle,…
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“That man ate all our shrimp! And two plastic lobsters!” – Fryin’ Dutchman Teenager “‘Tis no man, ’tis a remorseless eating machine. Argh.” – Captain McAllister
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“Aww, not again.” – Clumsy Student Mover
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“That medicine’s not for you!” – Marge Simpson “Come on, Marge, maybe I’m not getting enough . . . estrogen.” – Homer Simpson “Gimme that!” – Marge Simpson
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“There’s a few things you could do to help us sell our home. First, whenever you walk in front of your window, could you please wear pants?” – Mrs. Winfield “Hmmm, no.” – Homer Simpson
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“Grampa, I need some advice. Did you ever have a crush on an older woman?” – Bart Simpson “I had a crush on the oldest woman! One-hundred-and-twenty-years old she was. Here’s a picture of her delivering Eubie Blake.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “What happened?” – Bart Simpson “She fell in with that Guinness Book of Records crowd. Suddenly she didn’t have any time for me. Oh, I wore a fifteen pound beard of bees for that woman, but it just wasn’t enough.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
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“Oh, no all you can eat seafood. I wore my extra loose pants for nothing, nothing!” – Homer Simpson
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“Marge, we’re going to that restaurant.” – Homer Simpson “But I think I’m allergic to seafood. The last time I ate shrimp my throat closed up and I went into convulsions.” – Marge Simpson “Mmmm, shrimp.” – Homer Simpson
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“Shut up, you little monsters! . . . Hello, I was wondering if you’d like to babysit my little angels.” – Homer Simpson “Sorry, this isn’t Abby. This is her sister. I look after her now.” – Abby’s Sister “No, Bart. Put it down. Put it down, Bart. Bart, put it down.” – Abby
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“All you can eat, ha!” – Homer Simpson “Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film ‘The Neverending Story’.” – Lionel Hutz “So, do you think I have a case?” – Homer Simpson “Homer, I don’t use the word hero very often, but you are the greatest hero in American history.” – Lionel Hutz “Woo-hoo!” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “New Kid on the Block”! Original airdate 12 November 1992.
Compare & Contrast: March-April Romances
“She’s beautiful. Say something clever!” – Bart’s Brain “I fell on my bottom.” – Bart Simpson “D’oh!” – Bart’s Brain There are a lot problems with “Beware My Cheating Bart”. For starters, it’s kinda sexist and disturbing. Beyond that, it’s further evidence that Zombie Simpsons has turned its kid characters into empty, anti-human nobodies. And, of course, it manages to lack any kind of story coherence while doing all those things. What makes it all more glaring than usual is the way “Beware My Cheating Bart” so closely follows the plot, structure, and even jokes of the boundlessly superior “New Kid on the Block”. One of the most handy things anyone ever told me about sexism was that the easiest way to gauge how sexist something is or isn’t was by reversing the gender roles and seeing how weird or fucked up it would seem. Applying that little rubric, “Beware My Cheating Bart” fails miserably compared to “New Kid on the Block”. In the latter, it would mean a ten-year-old girl developing a crush on the fourteen(ish)-year-old boy next door, showing him that his girlfriend was bad news, and then ending with them bonding as friends by making a prank call. A little unusual, maybe, but certainly not creepy. In Zombie Simpsons, it would mean a fourteen(ish)-year-old boy flashing a ten-year-old girl, then making out with her repeatedly, hanging around with her in little kid pizza joints, and running about town late at night. That is creepy, no two ways about it, and that means you might not want to be doing it at all. Uh . . . yeah, please don’t do that again. Leaving that unpleasantness behind us forever, the best way to shake off the weirdness of having a character the episode identifies as a “total pre-puber” getting hot and heavy in the privacy of the principal’s office is to remember that it’s been a long time since Bart was anything like a normal kid, and the same goes for Jimbo and everyone else in this episode. Just in that first scene in the movie theater, we get sitcom-tastic clunkers like this: Dolph: We’re gonna to be checking out a delightful Hong Kong horror remake known as ‘Crawlspace’, based on Paxing Kongjian. And this: Jimbo: Shauna, food for thought, if we don’t watch movies about torture in crawlspaces, how will we know what to do if someone puts us in a torture crawlspace? Kearney: Not if, when. Shauna: Nah. I’m gonna go see one of those Jennifer Aniston movies where she rolls her eyes on the poster. This kind of stilted, formulaic dialogue is hacktacular on a couple of levels. First of all, what little humor they’re trying to wring out of these fake movies dissolves away when you have your characters basically explain the jokes as they’re saying them, not to mention the movie posters behind them that do the same thing. Ha! That’s what s/he just said. I get it now! I get jokes. More…
