“My theory is: Skinner likes dog food.” – Bart Simpson “Let’s bake him a cake.” – Marge Simpson “Ooh, a fresh batch of America balls!” – Homer Simpson
Tag: The Principal and the Pauper
Double Secret Makeup Quote of the Day
“And for the tribute, I need a volunteer to present an oral report on Principal Skinner’s life.” – Miss Hoover “Miss Hoover, which one is oral?” – Ralph Wiggum “Out of your mouth, Ralph.” – Miss Hoover
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“Superintendent Chalmers, can I offer a cup of coffee flavored Beverine?” – Mrs. Krabappel “I take it grey, with creamium.” – Superintendent Chalmers
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“My name is Armin! This is Armin’s apartment, Armin’s liquor, Armin’s copy of Swank, Armin’s frozen peas.” – Armin Tamzarian “Can I see your copy of Swank, Armin.” – Homer Simpson “Yes, you can.” – Armin Tamzarian
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“Good evening, Edna, I know we were planning to see a film tonight, but instead I’m leaving town forever.” – Armin Tamzarian
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“In honor of Seymour’s twentieth year as principal, we’ve decided to hold a surprise tribute Friday night.” – Superintendent Chalmers “It’s my twentieth year, too.” – Groundskeeper Willie “The teachers’ lounge is for teachers, Willie.” – Superintendent Chalmers
Saddlesore Galactica Makes Baby Jesus Cry
“Come on, get to the part where you steal his identity!” – Bart Simpson “I’m trying to explain how emotionally fragile I was.” – Armin Tamzarian “Oh, it’s one of those stories.” – Bart Simpson The collapse between Season 9 and Season 11 seemed long and painful while it was happening, but looking back over the (now very long) history of the show, it was almost the blink of an eye. Case in point is the commentary for this episode, which is stunning for how closely it tracks later Zombie Simpsons commentaries yet is totally unlike those from just a…
Armin Tamzarian, Ken Keeler, and The Simpsons Horde
“This is so weird, it’s like something out of Dickens, or Melrose Place.” – Lisa Simpson A little while back, Dave, Mad Jon, Bob Mackey and I chatted about that most infamous of Season 9 episodes, “The Principal and the Pauper”. Mackey had me stumped in several places because he, unlike the rest of us, had listened to the DVD commentary. The very short version of all that was that Ken Keeler, who wrote the episode and has since gone on to a long and gloriously funny career at Futurama, had defended it in ways Mackey more or less agreed…
Crazy Noises: The Principal and the Pauper
“Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Capital City’s nakedest ladies. They’re not even wearing a smile. Nod suggestively. Yes, six, count ’em, six gorgeous ladies just dying for your leers and catcalls. Yowza. Yowza.” – Whatever the Hell His Name Is In This Episode There’s new Zombie Simpsons Sunday, so this is the last of our summer series 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…