“Hey, Mel, bring me another nicotine patch! Uh, I think there’s some space on my butt.” – Krusty the Klown
Tag: The Front
Makeup Quote of the Day
“It’s so sad that Krusty is ashamed of his roots.” – Lisa Simpson “Marge, it happened again.” – Homer Simpson “What are you gonna change your name to when you grow up?” – Bart Simpson “Lois Sandborne.” – Lisa Simpson “Steve Bennett.” – Bart Simpson
Quote of the Day
“Hello, Dondelinger.” – Old Homer Simpson “Simpson, is that a plunger stuck on your head?” – Old Dondelinger “D’oh!” – Old Homer Simpson
Makeup Quote of the Day Part Deux
“Third notice . . . Final notice . . . Some guys are coming?” – Marge Simpson
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“Welcome to Remedial Science 1A. My wife recently passed away, I thought teaching might ease my loneliness.” – Dondelinger “Will this be on the test?” – Homer Simpson “No!” – Dondelinger “Oh.” – Homer Simpson
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“Hello, Principal Dondelinger.” – Marge Simpson “Oh, Marge Bouvier, it’s so good to see you. Sorry, sir, we’re not letting vagrants sleep in the gym tonight. But we will be putting some scraps by the back door.” – Principal Dondelinger
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“So, this patch steadily releases nicotine into my body, eliminating my need for cigarettes!” – Krusty the Klown
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“Maybe he just didn’t take us seriously cause we’re kids. Let’s put a grown-up’s name on it.” – Lisa Simpson “How about Grampa? He’s pretty out of it. He let those guys use his checkbook for a whole year.” – Bart Simpson
So Long, Sam Simon
“You’re a comedy writer? My God, you’re so old!” – Roger Meyers Jr. “I want my check!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Haha, you’re a writer alright!” – Roger Meyers Jr. Sam Simon, one of the three godfathers of The Simpsons, died today at the age of 59. It was almost exactly two years ago that he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer, and from that moment until his death today he handled it with grace, generosity, and, befitting Simon, a lot of humor. They gave him three-to-six months; he lasted nearly two and a half years, laughing about it…
Reading Digest: High School Matt Groening Edition
“Ah, my high school yearbook. You handsome devil . . . ‘I can’t believe I ate the whole thing’.” – Homer Simpsonr This week we’ve got two links to pictures of Groening, one from just a few years ago, and one from way back when he was a squeaky voiced teen. In addition to that, we’ve got a lot of cool YouTube this week (including a couple of clever Simpsons/Lego ones), some excellent usage, a couple of good lists, and a True Detective/Simpsons drawing from a kid. Enjoy. A tale of two Springfields – Smooth Charlie’s Link of the Week is this…
Quote of the Day
“Hey, Mel, bring me another nicotine patch. Uh, I think there’s some space on my butt.” – Krusty the Klown
O’Brien, Jean, Reiss, Kogen and Martin
“Cartoons have writers?” – Bart Simpson “Enh, sort of.” – Lisa Simpson The 81 minute roundtable discussion Conan O’Brien hosted with Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, and Jeff Martin is now live on O’Brien’s website. (I couldn’t get the embedding to work here on WordPress.) I must warn you: it is very addictive. I started it thinking I’d watch a few minutes and then come back to it tonight when I had more time. Nope. Watched it straight through my lunch. As a Simpsons fan, it’s a must-see. They talk about the origins of the show, joke about specific…
Quote of the Day
“Alright, brain, you don’t like me and I don’t like you. But let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.” – Homer Simpson “It’s a deal.” – Homer’s Brain Happy 20th anniversary to “The Front”! Original airdate 15 April 1993.
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“Abe, tell ’em about your amazing life.” – Roger Meyers Jr. “I spent forty years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson “Wow!” – Roger Meyers Jr.
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Image captured from the website of Brides magazine (the successor to Modern Bride). “When I read your magazine, I don’t see one wrinkled face or single toothless grin. For shame. To the sickos at ‘Modern Bride’ magazine.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
Crazy Noises: Homer Scissorhands
“Homer, what are you doing?” – Marge Simpson “I wanted to surprise you with a kinky summer ’do. How many husbands would do that for their wives?” – Homer Simpson “None, they’d have more sense than that.” – Marge Simpson In our ongoing mission to bring you only the shallowest and laziest analysis of Zombie Simpsons, we’re keeping up our Crazy Noises series for Season 22. Since a podcast is so 2004, and video would require a flag, a fern and some folding chairs from the garage, we’ve elected to use the technology that brought the word “emoticon” to the…
Meta and Morbid
“The guy’s so high he doesn’t even know that’s Dave!” – Homer Simpson “Homer? Homer?” – Bobby Mindich “Homer’s not here, man.” – Homer Simpson “Okay, very good.” – Bobby Mindich No sooner do we poke fun at Zombie Simpsons for its complete reliance on jamming the same few characters into any situation than they have Chong audition every third person in Springfield to replace Cheech. There are about five hundred different things they could’ve done there: they could’ve invented new acts, pulled some other old ones out of retirement, created thinly veiled jabs at comedians who’ve long since faded…
Compare & Contrast: Mocking Awards Shows
“You know the rules, awards for excellence in entertainment are contraband, no Emmys, no Oscars, not even a Golden Globe.” – Prison Guard One of the more revealing ineptitudes of “Angry Dad: The Movie” is the way it fails to copy not one, but two different Simpsons episodes that did the exact same thing it did. (This is particularly stunning coming from a show that loves repeating jokes and unabashedly lives off of fan nostalgia.) Of course, both of those older episodes did things much quicker, and managed to actually mock the kidding-but-serious way awards shows take themselves and their…
Quote of the Day
“Bart, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” – Lisa Simpson “Probably not . . . Lie in the snow and count to sixty! . . . Hi-yah! . . . Merry Christmas, suckers!” – Bart Simpson
“Half-Decent Proposal” Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Oh my god, it’s my old boyfriend, Artie Ziff.” – Marge Simpson “Hello Marge, have you heard? I’m stinking rich. Jealous?” – Artie Ziff “I’ll bet you’d trade it all for one night with my wife.” – Homer Simpson “I would.” – Artie Ziff “Homer!” – Marge Simpson The crazy Act 3 plot swerve was one of the things that finally convinced me to give up on the show ever being good again. Once you get into the double digit seasons, crazier and crazier things began happening at the end of episodes. What had been a bizarre, albeit short and…