“Hey Mom, Dad’s in a mental institution.” – Bart Simpson “Oh my god, mother was right.” – Marge Simpson
Tag: Stark Raving Dad
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“Bart! I asked you to watch your sister!” – Marge Simpson “I tried to stop her, but she overpowered me.” – Bart Simpson
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“Everything changes when you hit the big One-Oh. Your legs start to go, candy doesn’t taste as good anymore . . .” – Bart Simpson
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“Bart . . . Bart . . . Hey, Bart . . .” – Lisa Simpson “Lisa, it’s six-am. Something’s wrong? Dad died!” – Bart Simpson “No, no, he’s fine.” – Lisa Simpson “Well, whaddya? I’m relieved.” – Bart Simpson
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“Please, feel free to express yourselves. In these sessions, we want you to feel relaxed and uninhibited.” – Nurse at New Bedlam Rest Home for the Emotionally Interesting
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“Your father really needs your help. You don’t want him to get a lobotomy, do you?” – Leon Kompowsky “Hmm, lobotomy…” – Bart’s Brain “That’s alright, son.” – Lobotomy Homer “Well, there’s probably a downside I don’t see.” – Bart Simpson
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“Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday, overlooked middle child. Happy birthday to me.” – Lisa Simpson Happy birthday Yeardley Smith!
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“Homer, please, no one’s going to notice if you wear a pink shirt to work.” – Marge Simpson “Wait a minute, go back! Zoom in!” – C.M. Burns
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“Forget it, pal. There’s only one way out of here and it ain’t pretty.” – Not Jack Nicholson “What’s that?” – Homer Simpson “Dating the nurse.” – Not Jack Nicholson
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“Bart, in the split-second before he died, I bet Scratchy appreciated his birthday present. You see how this relates to us?” – Lisa Simpson “Hey, you want that once a year empty gesture? You got it, sis.” – Bart Simpson
Behind Us Forever: The Wreck of the Relationship
“Smithers, I seem to recall you had a penchant for bell bottomed trousers, back in ’79.” – C.M. Burns “Sir, that was my costume from the plant production of HMS Pinafore.” – Mr. Smithers “Oh, yes, of course. Your spirited hornpipe stole the show as I recall.” – C.M. Burns Another week, another forgettable episode from Zombie Simpsons. Homer and Bart get into a fight about broccoli, then end up on a father-son sailing ship. Along the way, Homer gets scurvy, is thrown overboard a couple of times, vomits, and gets attacked by an octopus. Meanwhile, in the B-plot, Marge…
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“To make a tired point, which one of us is truly crazy?” – Leon Kompowski “Not me, I got this!” – Homer Simpson
Compare & Contrast: Involuntary Commitment
"Sir! I’m so sorry my grocer committed you. We’ll never shop there again." – Mr. Smithers Like the practice of medicine in general, the treatment of mental illness has a longstanding history of cruelty, incompetence and abuse. People have undergone everything from lifetime confinement and mind changing drug regimes to electric shocks and lobotomies because of pseudo-scientific theories that often had (and have) more to do with the ignorance and prevailing prejudices of the people administering the "treatments" than they do with making the patients better. On top of that is the frightful prospect of a mentally healthy person becoming…
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“Mr. Simpson, after talking to your wife, we believe you’re no threat to yourself or others.” – New Bedlam Psychiatrist “That’s the most flattering thing anyone has ever said to me. Could I have it in writing, please?” – Homer Simpson “Of course.” – New Bedlam Psychiatrist
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“I could call ’em for you.” – Leon Kompowski “Oh, great. And try to put a good face on this. Tell ’em this one of those places where rich women lose weight.” – Homer Simpson
Compare & Contrast: Megastar Guest Voices
“We want Michael! We want Michael! We want Michael!” – Crowd “Here he is, here’s the guy want to see!” – Homer Simpson “He’s three hundred pounds!” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “He’s white!” – Woman in Crowd “He’s dressed without flair!” – Moe “Boooo! Boo!” – Crowd It would take an awful lot of words just to catalog, to say nothing of exploring or explaining, the myriad of mistakes that comprise “Lisa Goes Gaga”. The episode had it all: bizarre and comedy free flights of fancy, unvarnished celebrity marketing, excruciatingly bad exposition, magic powers, characters acting bizarrely out of type (Lisa,…
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“Aw, she looks sad.” – Leon Kompowsky “That’s cause she knows you’re looking at her.” – Bart Simpson “Although I’m aware you’re looking at me, I would look exactly the same even if you weren’t.” – Lisa Simpson [Initially scheduled this for pm instead of am. Whoops.]
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“We call this guy The Chief. He’s been here in 1968, never says a word, never moves a muscle.” – Leon Kompowsky “Hey, Chief.” – Homer Simpson “Hello. Well, it’s about time somebody reach out to me.” – The Chief Happy 20th anniversary to “Stark Raving Dad”! Original airdate: 19 September 1991.
Reading Digest: You Guys Are Giving the Internet a Bad Reputation Edition
“This is what Michael Jackson looks like! You look like a big, fat mental patient.” – Bart Simpson “You’d be amazed how often I hear that.” – Leon Kompowsky The pop culture internet had a minor conniption this week when one of the world’s least reputable news sources, TMZ, reported as a “bombshell” (their word) that Michael Jackson hadn’t done the singing in “Stark Raving Dad”. This is something you can find out by reading just the introduction to the Wikipedia article for that episode. You don’t even need to scroll down, it’s right there at the top; but if…
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“Marge, I can’t wear a pink shirt to work, everybody wears white shirts. I’m not popular enough to be different.” – Homer Simpson