“Uh, these aren’t real x-rays are they?” – Milhouse van Houten “Good question! We’ll check into that. Okay, x-ray machine to full power and . . . action!” – Director
Tag: Radioactive Man
Knowing Your Audience
“Thank god we’re back in Hollywood, where people treat each other right.” – Movie Guy No sooner do I make fun of Zombie Simpsons for its relentless Hollywood navel gazing than they spend an entire episode navel gazing in Hollywood. Starting with that interminable Itchy & Scratchy thing and running through awards ceremony cliches and a stunning number of glacially slow short films, this thing was one long exercise in entertainment industry self congratulations. (I’m sure these sorts of things will get people at L.A. area cocktail parties to praise them, but for the rest of us it’s a little…
“Jaws Wired Shut” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Excuse me, you didn’t answer me. You just trailed off.” – Kirk van Houten “Yeah, yeah, I did kinda trail off there, didn’t I?” – Chief Wiggum I had such high hopes for this commentary. It has Joe Mantegna, a man with a proven ability to rescue Zombie Simpsons commentaries from their ordinary mediocrity. Sadly, although Mantegna was here, he barely spoke. The commentary was actually worse than normal, in no small part because the third act of this episode is so wretchedly bad that Al Jean and company basically admit it sucks and then talk about anything else that…
Quote of the Day
“Oh, I only grew half an inch. I’m still too short.” – Bart Simpson “Growing half an inch in one day is still pretty good, Bart.” – Marge Simpson “Yeah that’s how fast Grampa is shrinking.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh I’m as tall as I ever was.” – Grampa Simpson
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“William Faulkner could write an exhaust pipe gag that would really make you think.” – Moe Szyslak
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“Oh my god! He’s killed the original Alfalfa!” – Studio Hand “Yeah. Luckily Alfalfa was an orphan owned by the studio.” – Moe
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“Milhouse, baby! Lionel Hutz your new agent, body guard, unauthorized biographer and drug dealerrr . . . keeper-awayer.” – Lionel Hutz
Picked Up Right Where It Left Off
“Go ahead, try and grab some flab.” – Homer Simpson Season 21 picked up pretty much where Season 20 left off, in the darkest center of a comedy black hole from which nothing can escape. It hit all the usual Zombie Simpson notes: recycling plots and jokes, filling time with humor free “action” sequences, giving Homer a new job, and having him act bipolar. In this particular instance it was a wretched cross of “Radioactive Man” and “King of the Hill”, only it was actually worse than that because it was so openly aping Entourage that it mentioned one of…
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“I don’t see why Rainier Wolfcastle should be the star. I think we should bring back Dirk Richter, kids will want to see the original Radioactive Man.” – Movie Executive #1 “I keep telling you, he’s 73 years old and he’s dead.” – Movie Executive #2 “Granted.” – Movie Executive #1