“I wonder where Marge could be? She’s missing her own initiation.” – Evelyn “I hope she didn’t take my attempt to destroy her too seriously.” – Susan
Tag: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
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“Homer, I don’t think you should wear a short sleeve shirt with a tie” – Marge Simpson “But Sipowicz does it.” – Homer Simpson “If Detective Sipowicz jumped off a cliff, would you do that too?” – Marge Simpson “Oh, wish I was Sipowicz…” – Homer Simpson
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“Marge! You look wonderful! And to think I heard you married Homer Simpson!” – Evelyn “I did marry Homer.” – Marge Simpson “Come, you must show me the pumps.” – Evelyn
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“I’d love to wear this someplace special.” – Marge Simpson “Spurlock’s Cafeteria it is.” – Homer Simpson “What about the symphony, or the theater?” – Marge Simpson “What’s the point of going out? We’re just gonna wind up back here anyway.” – Homer Simpson
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“Do I have to go? That country club is a hot bed of exclusionist snobs and status seeking social climbers.” – Lisa Simpson “I’ve told you I don’t like you using the world hotbed.” – Marge Simpson (Sorry for the late quote. I blame food poisoning.)
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“You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post haste!” – C.M. Burns
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“Where’s Homer? And to think I spent all afternoon baking him this cake.” – C.M. Burns “Mmm…I, ughhh…” – Mr. Smithers “I pickled the figs myself.” – C.M. Burns
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“Now, keep your head down. Ignore all distractions…” – Tom Kite
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“I’ll be there with bells on!” – Marge Simpson “Bells? Where exactly will you be attaching them to that mangled Chanel suit?” – Susan “Oh, don’t worry, Marge, her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation, humorously phrased, and delivered with impeccable timing.” – Evelyn Happy 20th Anniversary to “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield”! Original airdate 4 February 1996.
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“Come on, Mom, you never treat yourself to anything.” – Lisa Simpson “Oh, sure I do, I treated myself to a Sanka not three days ago.” – Marge Simpson
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“You know, Homer, the traditional way to cheat in golf is to lower your score.” – Tom Kite “That’s one way.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Lots of Clothing Edition
“I need a formal dress for tonight!” – Marge Simpson “You’ve come to the right place.” – Patty Bouvier “We’ve got classy duds up the yinyang. . . . I call this one, ‘Fantasy in Maroon’.” – Selma Bouvier “It’s got some cigarette burns, but we can patch ’em up with new vinyl.” – Patty Bouvier “It’s a bit peppery for me. Why don’t we put this in the maybe pile?” – Marge Simpson Season 25 rolled unmourned into the past this week with hardly a peep from the internet. I was sort of hoping for a few more stories about how the ratings are historically low, but Zombie Simpsons has become such a dull and ordinary thing that even that didn’t rate. But we do have the usual smattering of fun stuff, including three links to officially licensed clothing and one to a (far superior) fan made jacket. In addition to that, we’ve got two pieces of Australian usage, some love for Lisa, great Lego pictures, a couple of people who agree with us, and more sand Simpsons from England. Enjoy. A Hypothetical Aside and Round 113: Homer Badman vs. The Wandering Juvie – Smooth Charlie’s link of the week is our old friend Nebel asking what if the show had gone off the air after Season 9? I agree that they probably would have rebooted it by now. I wonder if that would’ve been worse or better than Zombie Simpsons? I am the Lizard Queen – Homemade punk Lisa jacket. Yes. Ten thousand times, yes. The Simpsons™ LEGO® Minifigure Series – Excellent series of fan photos, including such notable pairings and Nelson and Milhouse, Burns and Maggie, and, of course, Homer and Flanders. I used to be with ‘it’… – Excellent .gif of one of Grampa’s greatest lines. Round 111: El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer) vs. Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily – Oh, bitch, bitch, bitch. Round 112: In the Name of the Grandfather vs. Beyond Blunderdome – Nice that “winner” is in quotes for Season 20 vs. Season 11. How Do You Solve a Problem like Animation? – Nice catch on the Chomet couch gag: Even the light switch is French, guys. So it is. Simpsons character leering over Tweed Heads motorists – An enterprising Australian graffiti artist has a mostly complete Burns-as-Dracula done on an embankment overlooking a highway. Fresh victims for his ever growing army of the undead, no doubt. WA’s ‘Flanders’ jokes amid budget gloom – And speaking of Australia, our old friend D.N. sent this in a couple of weeks ago (and I completely forgot about it): Western Australia’s state government has just announced the 2014-15 budget, hiking up prices, hitting families, and selling off billions of dollars’ worth of assets to regain the state’s AAA credit rating. The announcement is not going down well. What does this have to do with The Simpsons? Well… Take a look at the attached photographs. The first is of the front page of the state’s leading daily newspaper, The West Australian (Friday 9…
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“Yay! We’re getting a new TV!” – Homer, Bart and Lisa Simpson “Let’s go to the Sharper Image! They’ve got a TV shaped like a 50s diner.” – Bart Simpson “No, let’s go to The Nature Company, they’ve got a TV assembled by Hopi Indians.” – Lisa Simpson “We can’t afford to shop at any store that has a philosophy. We just need a TV.” – Marge Simpson
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“Marge, did you know that Kennedy and Lincoln had the same handicap?” – Homer Simpson
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“I thought it was so opulent, like the Playboy Mansion, but non-sexual.” – Marge Simpson “That place is weird. A man in the bathroom kept handing me towels till I paid him to stop.” – Bart Simpson “Shoulda held out longer, boy.” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: Terrible Costumes Edition
“This was originally a Halloween costume, but it found its way into my regular rotation.” – Selma Bouvier Once you get above the age of twelve or so, it becomes difficult, bordering on impossible, to wear a store bought Halloween costume without looking like a dork. Things are made even worse if the store bought costume is something that you could’ve put together if you’d given it more than ten minutes of effort. Below we have three examples of why this is. All three are just awful, and all three could easily be done better with spare parts (and probably cheaper too). Boo, store costumes. In addition to that we’ve got lots of other Halloween stuff, including several Treehouse of Horror articles. And on top of those, there’s some carnival games, misquoted closed captioning, a couple of people who agree with us, and a shitload of awesome Simpsons tattoos. Enjoy. Best of the Simpsons: Emotional Moments – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this excellent list of 25 great Simpsons moments, some happy, some sad, and none Zombie. Treehouse of Horror – A brand new blog dedicated to “the greatness of all things from the 80s and 90s” kicks things off by reminiscing about the original “Treehouse of Horror”: That is the warning we get from Marge as the program opens. Hard to believe, but, The Simpsons was considered controversial at the time. In fact, I can remember as a child not being allowed to watch the show. Like many other millions of kids, I watched it anyway, and I turned out just fine. At least I think so. There were always a couple of kids at school who couldn’t watch the show. They felt terribly left out. RTF’s ‘Geeky Tattoos’ #4 (The Simpsons) – A collection of awesome Simpsons tattoos people have gotten. There’s a couple here I’ve seen before, but most of them are new to me. The typewriter monkey and the gummy Venus are just awesome. Sports On TV: The Simpsons’ 20 Greatest Golden Age Sports Moments – Great slideshow, and no Zombie Simpsons: For this week’s Sports On TV column, I used the most generally agreed-upon definition of the show’s prime: season 2 through season 8. Tackling the best sports moments of a monster like ‘The Simpsons’ is tough, so consider this a Part 1 of its own series, destined to include a Part 2, Part 3, and even a Part 4, should we delve into those wretched, later season guest star hives like "Homer and Ned’s Hail Mary Pass". Nah, I wouldn’t do that. It’s all just guest stars where one of the Simpsons says, “Celebrity name X!” and then nothing interesting happens. Language Log » Simpsons – More credentialed people noting that the show has altered the English language: From the November issue of Mental Floss (not online yet), under the title "The 25 Most Powerful TV Shows of the Last 25 Years": You don’t need to turn on the TV to hear…
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“They got valet parking tonight.” – Homer Simpson “We can’t drive this up there. They’ll see the dent. They’ll see the coat hanger antenna. Stop the car. We’re walking.” – Marge Simpson “But, Marge, valets. For once maybe someone will call me ‘sir’ without adding, ‘you’re making a scene’.” – Homer Simpson
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“Oh, Mrs. Simpson, you are looking very prosperous today. Might I interest you in some of our impulse items here by the cash register?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
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“Honey, I don’t think these clothes are us.” – Marge Simpson “Who are they?” – Lisa Simpson “Hey Brandine, you could wear this shirt to work.” – Cletus “Oh Cletus, you know I got to wear the shirt what Dairy Queen give me.” – Brandine Happy birthday Tress MacNeille!
Everything’s Coming Zombie Simpsons! (Except the Ratings)
“Fritz, you idiot! I didn’t order a boloney sandwich, I ordered an abalone sandwich!” – Kent Brockman’s Daughter Zombie Simpsons is sort of the deluded trust fund baby of television. It has all the money and fame it could want, but had basically nothing to do with acquiring them. (There are only a handful of people still working on the show who had anything to do with its success.) As a whole, the program lives quietly off of its inheritance. Only occasionally does it pause to congratulate itself, a sort of nervous tic designed to perpetuate the pleasing fiction that it really deserves all it has. One such occasion came last night when the show invoked a magical eagle. Ordinarily we could chalk such a pointless gimmick up to the usual mix of laziness and apathy that shoves so many obviously shoddy episodes out the door. But this particular magical eagle wasn’t some throwaway joke, nor was it an aside or even a coherent pop culture reference. It was, rather, a self-congratulatory stab at fan service and nostalgia, conjured up to repeat – verbatim – one of the most quoted Milhouse lines of all time. Someone said “How about a magic eagle?”, then someone else pity laughed, and a show I already took for dead managed to die a little more. The show has done stupider things than this, it has done lazier things than this, it has even done more boringly nonsensical things than this. But has it ever done such a thing strictly for the purpose of outright repeating its own dialog from a time when things didn’t suck so much? The rest of the episode wasn’t much to behold either, but it isn’t all that often that Zombie Simpsons finds a new frontier in lack of self awareness. Anyway, the numbers are in and there was no magic eagle to save them. Last night’s parade of unjustified congratulation was scoffed at by only 5.49 million viewers. That’s the sixth lowest number of all time, and the fourth episode since February to rank in the bottom ten. Unless Wikipedia and epguides are lying to me, there are two episodes left in Season 22. If those two episodes average 5.7 million viewers or less, Season 22 will be the lowest rated season ever. That looked pretty improbable just a month or two ago, but the last few numbers have been really atrocious. C’mon Zombie Simpsons, you can do it! And it’s something you can be proud of, because you did it all by yourself.