Quote of the Day

“Hey everybody, if you look real close, you can kinda make ’em out.” – Bart Simpson “Hey, yeah.  Yeah!  I think I can.” – Homer Simpson “I think this is sick, you’re staring at a dot.” – Marge Simpson Happy birthday Sam Simon!

Quote of the Day

Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user jaxed. “Now, this girlfriend of yours, is she a real looker?” – Abe Simpson “Un-huh.” – Homer Simpson “A lot on the ball?” – Abe Simpson “Oh yeah.” – Homer Simpson “Oh son, don’t over reach.  Go for the dented car, the dead end job, the less attractive girl.  Oh well, I blame myself.  I should’ve had this talk a long time ago.” – Abe Simpson “Thanks, pop.” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday Mike Reiss!

Quote of the Day

“Oh how I miss TV!  Dear god, just give me one channel!” – Homer Simpson Happy 20th Anniversary to “The Way We Was”!  Original airdate: 31 January 1991.

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“Senator Mendoza is one of the most respected citizens in this state, McBain, and yet you ran his limo off a cliff, broke the necks of three of his bodyguards, and drove a bus through his front door!” – Captain “But captain, I have proof that he’s head of an international drug cartel!” – McBain “I don’t want to hear it, McBain!” – Captain

Quote of the Day

“Would you go to the prom with me?  I can think of a dozen highly cogent arguments.  Now, the first is from Time magazine, dated January 8th, 1974, ‘America’s Love Affair with The Prom’. ‘Even wallflowers can look forward to one date a year.’” – Artie Ziff Happy birthday Jon Lovitz!

Quote of the Day

“Fellow classmates, instead of voting for some athletic hero, or a pretty boy, you have elected me, your intellectual superior, as your king.  Good for you.” – Artie Ziff “Very well said.” – Principal Dondelinger Happy birthday Mike Reiss!

You Forgot Someone (updated)

“Marge, I would appreciate it if you didn’t tell anybody about my busy hands.  Not so much for myself, but I am so respected it would damage the town to hear it.” – Artie Ziff Today a website called “The Top 13” (they make – you guessed it – Top 13 lists) ranked the top thirteen guest voices on the Simpsons.  The best part about it is that there is nary a trace of Zombie Simpsons.  Indeed, this is from the intro: But as the show has changed over time, in our view the quality of the guest appearances has…

Saturday Morning Cartoons

“You know, when that Simpson boy showed up it took years off my life.” – Mr. Bouvier “Will you stop it, she went out with the good one.” – Mrs. Bouvier The image above is among the many tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of reasons that The Simpsons flat out works in a way that no other television show, and certainly not Zombie Simpsons, works.  It’s not that other shows have never used snapshot photos to advance the plot, it’s the fact that Simpsons is so dense with jokes and ideas that rather than spending even a moment…

Take this episode, please!

“It’ll be great to see the old gang again, Potsie, Ralph Malph, the Fonz.” – Homer Simpson“That was ‘Happy Days’.” – Marge Simpson“No, they weren’t all happy days, like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle, or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back.” – Homer Simpson The next new Zombie Simpsons episode is less than a week away. The buzz seems to revolve around the fact that it will be in HD, but I don’t care about that. I, like everyone else who is fortunate…