“Church cult, cult church, so we get bored someplace else every Sunday. Does this really change our day to day lives?” – Bart Simpson There’s no new Zombie Simpsons until September at the earliest (October? fingers crossed!), so we’re going to spend the summer overthinking Season 9. Why Season 9? Because we did Season 8 last summer, and Season 9 was when the show started becoming more Zombie than Simpsons. Since we’re too lazy to do audio and too ugly to do video, we’ve booked a “chatroom” (ours is right between the one with the sexy seventh graders and the…
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Synergy Sees What It Wants to See
One of these is not like the others. “Wait, I’m confused about the movie. So the cops knew that internal affairs was setting them up?” – Homer Simpson “What are you talking about? There’s nothing like that in there.” – Movementarian Guy “Oh, you see when I get bored I make up my own movie. I have a very short attention span.” – Homer Simpson This week, IGN pulled its usual stunt of disparaging Zombie Simpsons while still giving it a ridiculously high numerical score (6.9). I had to make a surprisingly small number of changes to edit out the…
The Petty Greed of a Large and Wealthy Organization
“Oh I feel for you my child and, I’d like you help you . . . ahem.” – Rev. Lovejoy There was some hubbub over the long holiday weekend because L’Osservatore Romano, an official Vatican newspaper, said some nice things about The Simpsons. This doesn’t particularly surprise me, Zombie Simpsons has become so institutionalized that even the world’s oldest surviving organization no longer finds it threatening. That kind of approval is a pretty damning indictment for a program that found its original popularity in an explicitly anti-authority message. But I was curious as to what exactly the Catholic Church found…
Duff Beer Mystery Solved
“Outsiders have kidnapped some of our property. We must respond with our deadliest weapon.” – Male Movementarian “The lawyers.” – Female Movementarian Those mysterious bottles of Duff beer that have been showing up in Europe have been traced to an entrepreneur in Mexico: That is exactly what Rodrigo Contreras, the real-life producer of Duff Beer, wanted to hear. A marketing man, Mr Contreras has always had an eye for a gimmick. The $140,000 (€93,000, £84,000) investment to establish Duff, his company, came from the proceeds of a book he wrote about Vicente Fox, a former president of Mexico, who is…
Friday Link Dump – Screw Season 21 Edition
“Ladies and gentlemen, behold your new god!” – Mr. Smithers The internet has been producing a mind numbing amount of Season 21 agitprop this week, you will find none of that drivel here. Instead we’ve got fan tributes, Wolf Blitzer exposing himself on national television, a neat compilation of real life actors who might play Simpsons characters, one piece of excellent usage/citation, and an upcoming gossip book about The Simpsons that an editor desperately needs to revise. Enjoy. The 7 Creepiest Simpsons Fan Tributes – I don’t think creepy is really the right word here, though some of them are…
Quote of the Day
“Go on Homer, our commandments clearly state that beer is alright. Try some.” – Rev. Lovejoy