“So, Milhouse, it must be a little tough giving up all that glamour and coming back to school, huh?” – Bart Simpson “Quiet! Maybe I can get my citizenship.” – Milhouse’s Stunt Double
Tag: Radioactive Man
Makeup Quote of the Day
“All these new superheros suck! None of them can hold a candle to Radioactive Man.” – Bart Simpson “The only decent new one is Radiation Dude.” – Milhouse van Houten “Nah. He’s just a cheap imitation of Radioactive Man.” – Bart Simpson “Explain.” – Milhouse van Houten “The similarities are subtle, but many.” – Bart Simpson
Quote of the Day
“I just missed out on the greatest opportunity of my entire life! George Burns was right. Show business is a hideous bitch goddess.” – Bart Simpson “Cheer up, Bart. Milhouse is still gonna need a true friend. Someone to tell him he’s great. Someone to rub lotion on him. Someone he can hurl whiskey bottles at when he’s feeling low.” – Lisa Simpson
Makeup Quote of the Day
“I’m sorry, can’t hear you, son! I’m wearing a jacuzzi suit.” – Luann van Houten
Quote of the Day
“You were one of the original Little Rascals?” – Barney Gumble “Yeah.” – Moe “Which one were you? The ugly one? . . . Were you the ugly one?” – Homer Simpson “No, I was the tough kid, Smelly.” – Moe
Quote of the Day
“At last the world is safe, eh, Fallout Boy?” – Lunchlady Doris “What’s for lunch tomorrow?” – Ralph Wiggum “Next.” – Big Shot Hollywood Director Happy birthday, Brad Bird!
Quote of the Day
“Up and atom.” – Acting Coach “Up and at them.” – Rainier Wolfcastle “Up and atom!” – Acting Coach “Up and at them!” – Rainier Wolfcastle “Up and ATOM!” – Acting Coach “Up and AT THEM!” – Rainier Wolfcastle “Better.” – Acting Coach
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Oh, here he comes. What is it now, Quimby?” – Hollywood Producer “Nothing, nothing, only the city has just passed another tax on, uh, puffy directing pants.” – Mayor Quimby “But I don’t wear puffy pants!” – Hollywood Director “I meant a tax on not wearing puffy pants.” – Mayor Quimby “Oy.” – Hollywood Producer “I’m sorry.” – Mayor Quimby Happy Birthday Brad Bird!
Quote of the Day
“Students, I have an announcement. One of your favorite comic book heroes, Radio Man…” – Principal Skinner “Radioactive Man, stupid!” – Nelson Muntz “…strange, I shouldn’t have been able to hear that.” – Principal Skinner
Quote of the Day
“My eyes, the goggles do nothing!” – Rainier Wolfcastle Happy 20th Anniversary to “Radioactive Man”! Original airdate 24 September 1995.
Reading Digest: Arty Milhouse Edition
“Ever since I became a movie star I’ve been miserable. I had to get up at 5am just for makeup. I like the way the blush brings out my cheekbones, but it’s not worth it.” – Milhouse van Houten There’s a simple and very creative Lego Milhouse picture this week that headlines a collection of cool fan art in the mediums of Lego, ink, cross-stitch and more. We’ve also got a bunch of lists, more Season 2, Burns memories, a couple of pieces of great usage, and more. Enjoy. May-August developments in new works… – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the week is this collection of freaky Simpsons collages. Stop the Planet of the Apes on top of young Master Burns’ eyes is particularly good. The Character Files: Mr. Burns – This list of recommended episodes is, of course, very long. And: Well, to his friends he’s known as Monty. But to you it’s Mr. Burns. I can’t read that without singing it. Movie Music: Danny Elfman – I forgot he did Men In Black. My 6 Favorite Simpsons One-Off Characters – Oh, you gave him a quarter! Professional Lego builder’s life-sized Homer heading to Edmonton Expo – A giant Homer made of Lego and dressed as Spock? Well done, sir. Mirror – And speaking of Legos, Milhouse sees himself as Fallout Boy. Piggie-gang – The Lego boys with pig bodies. There really should be more easily decapitate-able toys. The Top 25 Simpsons Episodes – Reader Eric P. sent in yet more proof that nobody cares about Zombie Simpsons. The Top 25 Simpsons Episodes – And here’s someone else observing: My absolute favourite show is The Simpsons. Older episodes of the Simpsons that is. There are barely any good new episodes. I’d go with none, but that’s just me. (Looking forward to your list, though!) Eye On Springfield With Diego Fernandez of Eye Of Horus – Remember when the Devil told Bart to listen to heavy metal music? Looks like it works: Like most people, I started watching over the shoulder of my parents, then when I was old enough, I would watch them on my own. I remember the first time I saw the show because it was also the first time I heard ‘ass’ being said on TV. Obviously hearing that at such a young age is what set me off into being a death metal musician! Stark Raving Dad – Other things that enjoyably warped my childhood brain: -“Marge, I can’t wear a pink shirt to work. Everybody wears white shirts! I’m not popular enough to be different.” And then, of course, Mr. Burns commenting on the pink garb: “Well, judging by his outlandish attire, he’s some sort of free-thinking anarchist!” Friday Conversation: The Geekiest Pop Culture Merchandise You’ve Owned – One of us: Stacey Ritzen Like many people who grew up with The Simpsons, I used to be an enormous fan, until the gradual decline in quality a decade or so ago began to disenchant and eventually disinterest me in the series. But when Playmates Toys released their World of…
Quote of the Day
“We have thirty million dollars to spend.” – Producer “We’ll blow up our dams, destroy forests, anything! If there’s a species of animal that’s causing you problems, nosing around your camera, we’ll have it wiped out!” – Mayor Quimby
Quote of the Day
“Mickey Rooney!” – Bart Simpson & Milhouse van Houten “Hi, Milhouse! The studio sent me to talk to you, being a former child star myself, and the number one box office draw from 1939 through 1940.” – Mickey Rooney “Wow, spanning two decades.” – Bart Simpson (Thanks to commenter dvcnick for reminding me that I hadn’t used all the Rooney quotes yet.)
Behind Us Forever: Steal This Episode
“Come on, Milhouse, you have to do this. If not for yourself, then for the movie going public, and for the foreign markets that more important than ever nowadays, and finally, for me, the Mickster.” – Mickey Rooney“No.” – Milhouse van Houten“Alright, I tried.” – Mickey Rooney I’m on record as saying that the “travel” episodes tend to be the least unwatchable. They still can’t tell a story for shit, the dialogue remains hamfisted and expository, and nothing makes sense even within individual scenes, but giving them a fresh topic usually does result in a couple of decent laughs. “Steal This Episode” was basically that, except instead of traveling somewhere, Zombie Simpsons turned its cataract clouded eye towards movie downloading. It lent itself to some decent jabs at the entertainment industry for a while until, as they always do, things went haywire with prison bus crashes, Swedish consulates, weird courtroom drama, and the almost obligatory crush of self voiced celebrities. – This Radioactive Man spoiler thing got tiresome quickly. It’s fun to make fun of absurd comic movie plot twists and all, but it probably shouldn’t take the first five minutes of the episode to do so. – “Joke?” on the church sign may be the laziest thing ever put there. It’s like a script note that never got looked at. – So, Bart hasn’t seen the movie even though he was sitting at Krusty Burger with Milhouse getting the toy thirty seconds earlier? I guess they didn’t specifically say he saw it, but they have intra-episode continuity problems so often that they don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore. – “Hey, they tricked us, that’s a commercial.” Just once this season I’d like to get through an episode where what I just saw isn’t explicitly explained to me immediately after. This is the ninth episode, so there’s probably about thirteen to go. I don’t like my chances. – The FOX logo with the NASCAR thing keeping people from finding out how to download stuff was funny. The callback was weak, but at least it was brief. – Steady stream of animated misfires was good, too. – But the FBI angle is getting worn out already. – The Star Wars crawl was pretty good even if things are starting to spin out of control. – And the FBI thing has officially disintegrated with earplugs, blinders and all kinds of screaming. The whole thing is pointless filler. – “It’s probably someone I would never suspect, never suspect. Your moans of sympathy are all I have! Whoever did this to me will be haunted by unbearable guilt forever . . . forever.” – This kind of intentionally silly exposition could be funny if it were a) done better and b) not done every other damn scene. – Someone thought prisoners talking like entertainment industry insiders was very funny. You know, up until the pointless bus crash. – And now we’re at the dinner table for more of Expository Guilt Theater:…
Reading Digest: Variety (The Newspaper) Edition
“So where could we shoot this picture? We need a city that has a nuclear reactor and a gorge and can guarantee us the full cooperation of city officials.” – Movie Executive #1 “I’ll check Variety.” – Movie Executive #2 This week we’ve got three links to Variety. (Weird.) One is about the brand new cable deal FOX just announced with itself, and the other two are about a couple of panel discussions at USC. In addition we’ve got the typical assortment of usage, some excellent fan made stuff, a bridge possibly getting named after Lisa, a trans-Atlantic look at “The Crepes of Wrath”, and more. Enjoy. Simpsonization of Russian Art – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week are these famous Russian artworks Simpsonized by Russian art students. Excellent. The Simpsons – They say the children are our future, in which case I think the show will be okay. Here’s a discussion between a nine-year-old, his five-year-old sister, and their dad about The Simpsons. Plus there’s a drawing the brother did that has Bart stepping on Homer’s eyes. ‘The Simpsons’ Lands $750 Mil Cable Syndication, VOD Pact with FXX – This was late breaking and is filled with the typically overwrought horseshit you find in Variety. Here are the important details minus the glamour quotes, entertainment industry circle jerking, and as much of the stupid as I could excise: With 530 episodes and counting, the sale is valued at upwards of $750 million over the life of the deal. […] The term of the deal is said to be about 10 years. […] FXX and FXNow will have access to the past 24 seasons of “Simpsons” starting in August. The following month, the show’s 25th season will become available, as the show begins season 26 on Fox. It’s unclear how many older episodes will be made available at any given time on FXNow. (Details of the FXNow launch will be unveiled at a Gotham news confab on Dec. 3.) FXX is expected to stack six to eight episodes on one or two nights, probably in thematic packages, rather than air them across the week as in traditional syndication. Long story short: FXX will be broadcasting old episodes starting in August of 2014. Their new streaming thingie will be detailed next month. No word on how they’ll choose which episodes to broadcast or stream. It’ll be interesting to see how much higher the ratings are for The Simpsons than for Zombie Simpsons. They’ll be higher, the question is how much. THE BEST EPISODE THINGY THERE EVER WAS ROUND 1 Brush With Greatness vs. Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes On Every Fish – I used to wonder about this when I was a kid: The only minor blemish I find in this episode is that seeing as how Burns was so critical of the other portraits that were done of him prior to going to Marge for help, shouldn’t he have wanted to see Marge’s finished painting before the unveiling at the museum?…
Quote of the Day
“Mom, don’t make me do this. I don’t want to be an actor.” – Milhouse van Houten “Nonsense, you’re going to be great! Now, take off those glasses so they can see your beautiful eyes.” – Luann van Houten
Quote of the Day
“Hey, didn’t you direct ‘Unnatural Discretion’?” – Homer Simpson “Well, yes, I did.” – Director “Phew-ee, whew, oh, you know I never walk out of a movie, but yecch.” – Homer Simpson Happy Birthday James L. Brooks!
Quote of the Day
“Movie stardom is just so hollow.” – Milhouse van Houten “Hollow? The only thing in show business that’s hollow is the music industry.” – Mickey Rooney
Reading Digest: Internet Tips Edition
“Okay, here we are, alt.nerd.obsessive. Need know star RM pic.” – Comic Book Guy We have two amazing compilations of Simpsons stuff this week, one is merely big, the other is huge. The merely big one is a YouTube rich list of Simpsons quotes that get used in everyday conversation. The huge one is a list of all the famous paintings and such that have been in episodes one way or another. As befits this modern time, I found both of these through regular people blogs; many thanks to them. There are also three fan made Simpsons Pokemon cards, some excellent usage, another blog taking a futile whack at ways to revitalize Zombie Simpsons, a sweet fan made quick, a DVD review that agrees with us, and the poignant, life affirming story of a Homer Simpson cardboard cutout. Oh, and just for fun, in response to this morning’s quote on Twitter, a lonely spam bot replied with this: @deadhomers Check out here to see if you’ve already met your true love! Happily, the account has already been suspended. I don’t know if this has been anyone else’s experience, but Twitter spam seems to be greatly down in the last 6-8 months. Enjoy. 13 Simpsons Quotes We Use In Everyday Conversation. – The first of our awesome lists comes via The Nerdy Girl Life, and is chock full of YouTube and great examples. Art History via The Simpsons – Holy crap: I grew up watching The Simpsons and was introduced to so much history and popular information that way, for better or for worse. Music, fairy tales, world events… I’ve had several occasions where, when asked if I recognize a particular name or fact will instantly brighten up with “oh yeah, that simpsons episode!”. Art is no exception to this. Complex.com has put together a complete list of all art references during the course of The Simpsons. When they say “complete” they aren’t screwing around. Wow. Quiz: Tom Berenger or Troy McClure Film Title? – Berenger has been in a lot of terrible movies. Law Man Walking: Nature Treks With Bill Holston – This was making the rounds on Twitter this week, but near Dallas there’s a lake called Bart Simpson Lake. It was the result of a levee built after floods in 1989. You can see a satellite picture of the lake here, but you’re going to have to squint if you want it to look like Bart’s head. The Simpsons aim for viewer world record – As a publicity stunt for the 500th episode, which is officially going to be broadcast on February 19th, FOX is asking people to sit in and watch all the episodes in a row. The current record is eighty-six hours. Out of curiosity, I just queued up a bunch of seasons, and if you go from Season 1 through Season 10, it’s 86h:16m:34s. I wonder if the previous record holder staggered through Season 10, then ran screaming from the room at the thought of…
Reading Digest: YouTube Mashup Edition
“Thanks to modern editing techniques we can using existing footage to complete the film without Milhouse. Watch.” – Hack Editor “Looks like we’re in trouble, Fallout Boy.” – Radioactive Man “Jiminy Jillikers, Radioactive Man!” – Fallout Boy “We’ll have to fight our way out. Are you ready?” – Radioactive Man “Yes.” – Fallout Boy “Seamless, huh?” – Hack Editor “You’re fired.” – Movie Producer “And with good cause!” – Hack Editor We’ve got quite a bit of video this week, including two Simpsons mashups, one with Kanye West and the other with Breaking Bad. God bless modern editing techniques. There’s also video of an office with some nice optical illusions and the best rolling trampoline you’ll see all day. In addition to that we’ve got an excellent selection of fan art, a podcast that dislikes Family Guy, the usual assortment of usage, and some more postcards like the Barney one from last week. Enjoy. Lord of the Simpsons – These fan made drawings of Simpsons characters as Lord of the Rings characters is easily Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week. They look fantastic, and Moe as Gollum is inspired. Check out her DeviantART page for some additional crossovers, including Lisa in Assassin’s Creed and Skinner as Severus Snape. Bravo all around. Mash-up Monday: Bart Simpson vs. Kanye West feat. Daft Punk- “Do the Bartman (Stronger Remix)” – If I couldn’t embed this it would be Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week. But I can embed it so you don’t actually need to click through: At first I thought it was just the song and the video, but then they kept the vocals from “Do the Bartman” on top. Sweet. And for our second mashup . . . Simpsons/Breaking Bad Mashup Wins The Internet This Week – . . . you need to know at least a little bit about Breaking Bad to get this, but it’s pretty good: Sadly it involves that stupid, out-of-nowhere meth plot on Zombie Simpsons from a couple of weeks ago, but the vast majority of the clips are from the before time, the long long ago. New map: In honour of 22 years of "The Simpsons", Springfields of the world – Maps of both the US and the world with various Springfields plotted on them. There are quite a few in Australia. Maggie Simpson – Remember that Barney postcard from last week? Here’s Maggie’s from the same series. There’s a high-res copy if you click through and want to read Maggie described baseball card style. (Oh, and thanks for the link.) Spreading some Love – And here’s one of Bleeding Gums Murphy that looks like it was done a long time ago. It quotes about half his dialogue from “Moaning Lisa” and lists him as “Lonely Bluesman”. Aww. The Lucy Show…In 10 Words – So many harebrained schemes. The Nine Best Sitcom Couches – A truly cromulent list: 1. The Simpsons Tell the truth. When you saw the headline, did you think that any other…