“Okay, the colors of the Italian flag are red, white, and what?” – Grade School Challenge Host “Blue!” – Bart Simpson “Yellow!” – Homer Simpson “Green.” – Selma Bouvier “Orange! Red!” – Bart Simpson “Green.” – Patty Bouvier “Purple!” – Bart Simpson “Red! White! Black! Green!” – Homer Simpson “Green.” – Grade School Challenge Contestant “I was right!” – Homer Simpson
Tag: Simpson and Delilah
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“Mr. Burns, it is my sad duty to report that one of your executives has bilked the company insurance plan out of a thousand dollars.” – Mr. Smithers “What? Blast his hide to Hades! And I was going to buy that ivory back scratcher.” – C.M. Burns
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“Good morning, Springfield! Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Winfield!” – Homer Simpson “Why don’t you get a haircut, you hippie!” – Mr. Winfield “Good morning, Moe’s Tavern!” – Homer Simpson “Hey, it’s the President.” – Barney Gumble “Good morning everybody!” – Homer Simpson “Good morning!” – Funeral Mourners
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“You know, some women find bald men quite virile.” – Marge Simpson “Marge, weren’t you listening? This is a ‘miracle breakthrough’, not one of these cheapo sucker deals.” – Homer Simpson
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“This bald man has no ideas.” – Male Executive #1 “If this is a joke, I’m not laughing.” – Male Executive #2 “Some nerve, telling us how to run the plant. He doesn’t even have hair.” – Female Executive
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“Boy…must…die!” – Homer Simpson “I love you, Dad!” – Bart Simpson “D’oh! . . . Dirty trick.” – Homer Simpson
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“I don’t have a thousand bucks! But you do, don’t you, Marge? You do! You do! You’ve been squirreling it away, haven’t you? Saving it for a rainy day? That’s what you said, right? Right? Right!” – Homer Simpson “Homer!” – Marge Simpson “Dad is taking this in a less than heroic fashion.” – Lisa Simpson
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“A thousand bucks? I can’t afford that!” – Homer Simpson “Well, we do have a product which is more in your price range, however, I must assure you that any hair growth you experience while using it will be purely coincidental.” – Hair Doctor
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“A lot of you would think I was crazy if I did this.” – Homer Simpson “He’s crazy!” – C.M. Burns
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“Hello, Homie, how’s my big, important executive?” – Marge Simpson “Oh, Marge, every woman I interview for the secretary job makes kissy faces at me.” – Homer Simpson “Hmmm.” – Marge Simpson “Hello, Mr. Simpson, I’m Karl.” – Karl “He sounds good. Hire him.” – Marge Simpson
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“Our first issue, sir, is our low productivity and record high worker accident rate.” – Mr. Smithers “Any suggestions?” – C.M. Burns “A round of layoffs might wake up the idiots.” – Male Executive “We could put caffeine in the water cooler.” – Female Executive “Those are my ideas! You people don’t think, you regurgitate!” – C.M. Burns
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“And what does my little girl want?” – Homer Simpson “An absence of mood swings and some stability in my life.” – Lisa Simpson “Uh, how bout a pony?” – Homer Simpson “Okay!” – Lisa Simpson
Compare & Contrast: Hey There, Handsome
“Attention, Homer Simpson, you have been promoted. You are now an executive. Take three minutes to say goodbye to your former friends and report to room 503 for reassignment to a better life.” – Mr. Smithers Even in the freewheeling world of animation, where it’s just as easy to send Homer to space as it is to send him to the supermarket, every character on screen has a few well established traits that make them who they are. Burns is evil; Bart is a troublemaker; Barney is a drunk, etcetera. Messing with those traits, like having Burns try not to…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“No, no, no, no, no, stand naturally, Mr. Simpson. Let it all hang out. . . . You, conceal it!” – Karl Happy 60th Birthday to Harvey Fierstein, Springfield Hero!
Reading Digest: Curiously Remembered Anniversary Edition
“Happy anniversary, Homer.” – Marge Simpson “What? Our anniversary, are you sure?” – Homer Simpson I lost count of the number of generic blog posts, newspaper articles, magazine profiles, and other such things that crossed my screen this week. The funny part isn’t how similar they are to one another, it’s how similar they are to articles that come out whenever the show hits a milestone or gets renewed yet again. Here is an accurate summary of all of them in Mad Libs form: Can you believe [common phrase from the show]? That’s right, it’s been on since 1989, and…
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“This is hopeless, none of these cretins deserves a promotion.” – C.M. Burns “It’s in the union contract, sir, one token promotion from within per year.” – Mr. Smithers
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“Brilliant. Who could ever have imagined that Simpson’s sweeping reforms would pay off so quickly?” – C.M. Burns “You know, sir, accidents decreased by exactly the number that Simpson himself is known or suspected to have caused last month, and our output level was just as high during Simpson’s last vacation.” – Mr. Smithers “My dear, tired old Smithers, do I detect a note of jealousy?” – C.M. Burns
Sunday Morning Cartoons
“For your free brochure, send five dollars to Dimoxinil, four-eighty-five Hair Plaza, Hair City, Utah.” – TV Announcer The above is one of those dense, layers thick jokes that most shows can’t pull off even once but that The Simpsons tossed around with abandon. Not only are they demanding payment for a free brochure, they’re doing so from an address that is appropriately stupid for those kinds of woo. That it’s in Utah, one of those weirdo states where fellatio is still illegal, just makes it better. There are more jokes in that one line than there are in entire…
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“Okay, I’m not gonna kill you, but I’m gonna tell you three things that are gonna haunt you for the rest of your days. You’ve ruined your father, you’ve crippled your family, and baldness is hereditary!” – Homer Simpson “It is?” – Bart Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “Simpson and Delilah”! Original airdate 18 October 1990.
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“This is Homer? Oh my.” – Patty Bouvier “Patty, stop drooling.” – Selma Bouvier “Look who’s talking.” – Patty Bouvier
