“Once in a great while we are privileged to experience a television event so extraordinary it becomes part of our shared heritage . . . 1969, man walks on the Moon . . . 1971, man walks on the Moon, again. Then for a long time nothing happened.” – Krusty the Klown
Tag: The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show
Quote of the Day
“You folks ready to begin?” – Roger Meyers Jr. “Uh, I guess. Is this episode going on the air live?” – Homer Simpson “No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It’s a terrible strain on the animators’ wrists.” – June Bellamy
Quote of the Day
“I’m not gonna let ’em treat Poochie like dirt anymore just because he’s the new guy!” – Homer Simpson “Right on, Mr. S.” – Roy “Put a sock in it, Roy.” – Homer Simpson
Double Secret Probation Makeup Quote of the Day
“Ruff, ruff! I’m Poochie the rockin’ dog! Hi, I’m Troy McClure, you may remember me from such cartoons as Christmas Ape, and Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp.” – Troy McClure
Quote of the Day
“You each have a knob in front of you. When you like what you see, turn the knob to the right. When you don’t like what you see, turn it left.” – Focus Group Guy “My knob tastes funny.” – Ralph Wiggum “Please refrain from tasting the knob.” – Focus Group Guy
Quote of the Day
“When are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?” – Milhouse van Houten
Quote of the Day
“Adding a new character is often a desperate attempt to boost low ratings.” – Lisa Simpson “Yo yo, how’s it hanging, everybody?” – Roy “Morning, Roy.” – Marge Simpson “Yeah, hi, Roy.” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday to David S/X Cohen!
Quote of the Day
“The animal chain of command goes mouse, cat, dog. D-O-G.” – Roger Meyers Jr. “A dog? Isn’t that a tad predictable?” – Not Josh Weinstein “In your dreams! We’re talking the original dog from Hell!” – Executive “You mean Cerberus?” – Not Bill Oakley Happy 20th Anniversary to “The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show”! Original airdate 9 February, 1997. (Sorry for the late post. I apparently cannot count.)
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“I need to purchase a brassiere. You kids wait over here in the credit department.” – Marge Simpson
Reading Digest: Hardcore Fans Edition
“I’ll field this one. Let me ask you a question: Why would a man whose shirt says ‘Genius at Work’ spend all of his time watching a children’s cartoon show?” “I withdraw my question.” – Fat Nerd Mark Kirkland had the above experience more or less exactly on Reddit this week. It’s funny, but probably not for the reasons the Redditors think. In other news, we have a grotesque Bart mask, cheese eating, transparent Zombie Simpsons agitprop, and more. Enjoy. How Homer Simpson, 64 slices of American cheese and a stomach of steel led to #Cheesefest – Smooth Charlie’s Link of…
Quote of the Day
“Hey, Krusty, you look great! You get your teeth bleached?” – Roger Meyers Jr. “Yeah, it’s a new kind of polymer treatment-hey, shut up!” – Krusty the Klown
Some Examples of Jerkass Homer From More Recent Seasons
“Hey, kids? Always recycle . . . to the extreme!” – Poochie Johnny Sugar, who once wrote a guest post for us titled “Where Al Jean Went Wrong”, has made it to what passes for the big time if you’re a blogger, Uproxx. There, he’s been the driving force behind their expanded number of Simpsons posts (you know, the ones that keep showing up in Reading Digest). On Sunday, he put up another one: Homer Simpson’s Changing Ways On ‘The Simpsons’ It’s a rundown of things which will be sadly familiar. In order, they are: He’s More Of A Jerk…
Quote of the Day
“Whoa, a talking dog! What were you guys smoking when you came up with that?” – Otto “We were eating rotisserie chicken. Can you just read the line, please?” – Not David S. Cohen Happy birthday David S/X Cohen!
Quote of the Day
“Is this seat taken, little girl?” – Jasper “I’m not a girl! Are you blind?” – Bart Simpson “Yes.” – Jasper
Quote of the Day
“Excuse me, Mr. Simpson, on the Itchy & Scratchy CD-ROM, is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?” – Database “What the hell are you talking about?” – Homer Simpson
Reading Digest: YouTube Voice Over Edition
“It really is you! How’d you get to be so good?” – Homer Simpson “Oh, just experience I suppose. I started out as Road Runner. Meep!” – June Bellamy “You mean, “meep-meep”?” – Homer Simpson “No, they only paid me to say it once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards.” – June Bellamy With the Fourth of July sitting right smack dab in the middle of the week, the Simpson pickings on the internet were slimmer than usual. However, we do have several links from places that don’t celebrate the Fourth, as well as two links…
Reading Digest: Forgotten Stuff Edition
“Look Scratchy, it’s our new friend, Poochie.” – Itchy “What’s that name again? I forgot.” – Scratchy Thanks to its relentless insistence on being both bland and repetitive, Zombie Simpsons manages to be incredibly forgettable despite its long run on television. Earlier in the week, I joked about “Them, Robot” swarming with magic robots, but I’d completely forgotten that they already did an episode swarming magic robots this season, “Replaceable You”. In case you also forgot (though not everyone did), that was the one where Bart and Martin build an army of robot seals who turn evil and then good…
Crazy Noises: The Book Job
“It’s not your fault, Homer, it’s those lousy writers. They make me madder than a, um. . . yak in heat.” – Marge Simpson As part of our tireless efforts to demonstrate the many ways Zombie Simpsons fails to entertain, Season 23 will be subjected to the kind of rigorous examination that can only be produced by people typing short messages at one another. More dedicated or modern individuals might use Twitter for this, but that’s got graphics and short links and little windows that pop up when you put your cursor over things. The only kind of on-line communications…
If a Show Falls in the Woods and Nobody Watches It, Does It make a Sound?
“That crater is where your lousy cartoon crash landed. It’s ratings poison!” – Krusty the Klown You’ve got to give Zombie Simpsons one thing, when they want to really put on a tour de force of crappiness, they can still do it. They had Bart and Homer acting manic and inserting themselves into other people’s lives just because. They had plenty of pointless filler, including two different scenes with characters clambering over obstacles for no discernable purpose. (And the second one wasn’t even a call back!) They took characters appearing and disappearing from scenes to new heights. And the story…
Still Got the Magic
“It’s back to the basics, classic Itchy & Scratchy!” – Bart Simpson “We should thank our lucky stars they’re still putting out a program of this caliber after so many years.” – Lisa Simpson From time to time, people ask us what we would do if Zombie Simpsons ever broadcast a good episode. Would we kick it just because it’s Zombie Simpsons, or are we open minded enough to say that, yeah, even here in 2011 the show can still be good? Well, I’m here to tell you that last night’s episode on FOX was outstanding from end to end,…