“Bart! Lisa! If you don’t behave we’ll turn this car right around and go home!” – Marge Simpson “But, Marge! I want to see my brother!” – Homer Simpson “Oh, for God’s sakes, Homer, it’s an empty threat.” – Marge Simpson
Tag: Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
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“I know how you feel, Mr. Simpson. I myself have spent years searching for my long lost twin brother.” – Shelbyville Orphanage Director “Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I wish I could help you but we’re looking for my brother today!” – Homer Simpson
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“Every day we’re losing ground to the Japanese, and I want to know why!” – Herb Powell “Unfair trade practices?” – Female Executive “Mushy headed, One Worlders in Washington?” – Male Executive #1 “Some sort of gypsy curse?” – Male Executive #2
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“Homer, I’m happy to say that your father only had a mild arrhythmia.” – Dr. Hibbert “Mild? There wasn’t anything mild about it! Now get back to the pharmacy you quack!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
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“Homer, that heart attack made me realize that I’m going to die someday.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Oh, Dad, you and your imagination.” – Homer Simpson
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“Wow! What are you doing here?” – Dingy Bathroom Guy “What does it look like?” – Homer Simpson
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“A millionaire!? Oh, I kept the wrong one. Look, son, I’ll come as soon as I can get out of here. In the meantime, please don’t do anything stupid.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
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“All born in wedlock?” – Herb Powell “Yeah, though the boy was a close call.” – Homer Simpson
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“You know that little ball you put on the aerial so you can find your car in the parking lot? That should be on every car!” – Homer Simpson “Little ball.” – Powell Engineer
Reading Digest: The Homer Edition
“Dad?” – Bart Simpson “What is it, boy?” – Homer Simpson “I thought your car was really cool.” – Bart Simpson “Thanks, boy. I was waiting for someone to say that.” – Homer Simpson I put Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week up on Twitter yesterday because some things are too much fun to wait for Friday. We’ve got three links to it, and if you’re anywhere near Buttonwillow, California tomorrow, you can see it in person. In addition to that, we’ve got two links involving the old Simpsons arcade game, a molester-y Simpsons van, some excellent fan made stuff, and a couple of pieces of unconventional music. Enjoy. FINALLY: Homer Simpson-Designed Car ‘The Homer’ Comes to Life – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this writeup of the Homer: As you can see in the above video, the team at Porcubimmer Motors has taken the bold, bold steps of making The Homer a reality. What’s more, it’s a race car. The team will be racing The Homer at the 24 Hours of LeMons race on June 29 in Buttonwillow, California. The Homer – a 24 Hours of LeMons race car – And this is their homepage. Worth the click solely for the “PorcuBimmer”, “The BMW with the pricks on the outside!”. Ha. The Homer – David Moore – Fancy photographs of the car that literally has “Powerful like a Gorilla” written on the engine. 19 of the worst bootleg Bart Simpson T-shirts – Some of these are truly atrocious, but the Compton Bart with the thug life tattoo is very good. EXCLUSIVE EDSBS PREVIEW: NCAA 14 – College football’s home for the emotionally interesting takes a look at this year’s video game through avant-garde Simpsons expressionism. IT’S SIMPSONS TRIVIA TIME FOLKS! – I doubt many readers of this site will have trouble with this quiz wherein you must match the quote to the person who said it, but there’s no Zombie Simpsons at all, so it’s fun anyway. French Electro DJs Simpsonized! – Fan art of just what it says, though Daft Punk does kind of come pre-Simpsonized, what with the helmets and such. The Simpsons’ Bacon Love – Bacon on the show. There is some Zombie Simpsons here, but it’s okay: I do love The Simpsons. Maybe not the last couple seasons as much as the ones before, but I it’s a lifetime love I just can’t give up on. Man With a Yellow Octopus on His Head Resembles Homer Simpson – Fan art of a mollusk nature. For $1,200, Choo-Choo-Choose The Simpsons Bus – A rather creepy looking custom Simpsons van. Bart Simpson breaks down Gus Poyet’s TV live sacking in super slo-mo – I don’t know the context or even who this guy is, but that is excellent video usage. Review: World War Z – Excellent review usage: Unfortunately, World War Z manages to dig this genre a deeper grave with this gutsy, but ultimately banal attempt, best summarised in the style of The Simpsons’…
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“What are you blubbering about?” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “This makes me feel special, Dad. Since I’m the one you kept, that must mean you really love me.” – Homer Simpson “Hmm, interesting theory.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Timm Suess. More here. “And thank you most of all for nuclear power, which has yet to cause a single, proven fatality . . . at least in this country. Amen.” – Homer Simpson
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“His life was an unbridled success, until he found out he was a Simpson.” – Lisa Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”! Original airdate 21 February 1991.
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“You certainly broke up that meeting.” – McBain Girl “Right now I’m thinking about holding another meeting . . . in bed.” – McBain “Oh, McBain!” – McBain Girl
“The Simpsons Movie” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Well, you know what? I’m glad you’re nervous, because that means we’re on the right track!” – Herb Powell Several weeks ago I came across bobservo’s post about The Simpsons Movie commentary in which he described how the creators of the movie basically focus grouped it into oblivion. There are two commentary tracks on the disc and, having slogged my way through the all-star one (Brooks, Groening, Jean, Castellaneta, etc.), I have to agree with him. The commentary reveals another problem as well, one that resulted from all that focus group feedback, but we’ll get to that in a second. First, the timidity, then the horrible damage it did. Both The Simpsons and Zombie Simpsons are famous for their lack of network/studio interference; whatever their respective merits, both shows are the product of a group of people who thought A was funny and B was not, the outside damn world be damned. According to the commentary, that famous independence was completely abandoned during the creation of The Simpsons Movie. Rather than the writers writing, the actors acting, the animators animating and letting chips fall where they may, a partially completed version was repeatedly shown to test audiences, and everything was redone based on their reactions. The fickle minds of Sally Housecoat and Eddie Punchclock so terrified the powers that be that they nervously offered up whole new scenes and endings based on the reactions of a few dozen people in Tempe and Portland. For a show that once prided itself on doing what it wanted without interference, this is an unsurpassable capitulation. The result of all that bowing and scraping is a fractured movie. Scenes and characters were added and removed willy nilly such that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. For example, halfway through the movie the family finds itself basically teleported to a carnival so Homer can ride a motorcycle in a big metal ball. Seconds prior to being at the carnival, they were holed up in a hotel room, hiding from a massive police manhunt. There’s no scene of them traveling to the carnival, nor is any reason given why they would want to go there. They’re in the hotel and then – poof – they’re at the carnival. While at the carnival, no mention is made of the police chasing them, nor are they at all concerned about being seen by a crowd. The entire story the movie was telling has been dropped so that Homer can ride a motorcycle. Why does Homer ride a motorcycle? Because he rides one at the end and they need to establish that motorcycle riding is something Homer can do. According to the commentary, they originally had no scene to establish that, and they crammed in the carnival as a patch job when somebody noticed. The next time we see the family, the police chase is back on and they’re once again running for their lives as though the carnival scene had never happened. The commentary…
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“Okay Homer, pick out any one you want.” – Herb Powell “Are you sure you want to give me a car?” – Homer Simpson “Hey, you know what these things cost me? There’s maybe forty bucks worth of steel in ’em.” – Herb Powell
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“Okay this is what you’re gonna do. You’re gonna hang up, call me back, and say the exact opposite of everything you just said. Goodbye. Bart, Lisa, come over here.” – Herb Powell “What is it Unkie Herb?” – Lisa Simpson “I want you to hear what the guys down at the plant think of your old man . . . Hello.” – Herb Powell “Um, Homer Simpson is a brilliant man with lots of well thought out, practical ideas. He is ensuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.” – Powell Motors Engineer
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“All my life, I have searched for a car that feels a certain way. Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball. Now, at last, I have found it.” – Homer Simpson
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“She did things your mother would never do, like have sex for money.” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson