“Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. – Receptionist “Hello, this is Mr. . . . Sampson.” – Homer Simpson “Did your wife just call a second ago?” – Receptionist “No, I said Sampson not Simpson.” – Homer Simpson “Thank God! Those Simpsons, what a bunch of savages! Especially that big, ape father.” – Receptionist Rest in peace, June Foray.
Tag: Some Enchanted Evening
An Observation While Re-Ripping My DVDs
“The way I see it, if you raise three children who can knock out and hog tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing something right.” – Marge Simpson A few months ago I stopped resisting and finally got a smart phone. It’s very snazzy and does lots of things my beloved old flip phone couldn’t do, including play video. Naturally, this got me to thinking about how I could get The Simpsons on there. Way back in 2006, I ripped all my DVDs to .avi files that came in at ~183MB each. (These are the files from which I get…
Some Weekend Reading
“Until then, they can watch a tape from our video library.” – Marge Simpson A couple of weeks ago, I came across a new addition to the Simpsons blog universe: Me Blog Write Good. You can get the full background in the introductory post, but the short version is that this fine young man first got into the show on VHS, has been a fan ever since, and is now going to watch every episode from Seasons 1-20 and blog about it. (He’s stopping at 20 because that’s when Zombie Simpsons finally broke his spirit.) He finished Season 1 earlier…
Quote of the Day
“If you’d like to share your embarrassing problem with our listening audience, we invite you to call our therapist of the airwaves, Dr. Marvin Monroe. Our number is 555-PAIN.” – KBBL Announcer
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Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user geishaboy500. “Uh, I’d like some flowers.” – Homer Simpson “What kind of flowers?” – Howard the Florist “You know, pretty ones, not dead.” – Homer Simpson “Well, we have some beautiful long stem roses. They’re fifty-five dollars a dozen.” – Howard the Florist “One please.” – Homer Simpson
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“Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service.” – Receptionist “This is Marge Simpson, I’d like a babysitter for the evening.” – Marge Simpson “Wait a minute, ‘the Simpsons’? Lady, you’ve got to be kidding!” – Receptionist Happy (slightly belated) 20th Anniversary to “Some Enchanted Evening”! (Original airdate: 13 May 1990) (Ach, I’m bad at these. I don’t think I got even half of them on their actual anniversaries. Note to self: must do better come fall.)
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“Please turn off the TV.” – Ms. Botz
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“Why don’t you pick one that’s a little more frisky, sir.” – Maitre D’ “Why?” – Homer Simpson “Well, when you choose one that’s floating upside down it somewhat defeats the purpose of selecting a live lobster.” – Maitre D’