“You know, kids, I’m sure we’d all like to remember actor Dirk Richter for his portrayal of Radioactive Man, and not the sordid details of his final years, so let’s keep the questions tasteful, okay?” – “Close Encounter of the Comic Book Kind” Convention Guy When The Simpsons was still on the air, one of the most remarkable things about it was the sheer joke density of the writing. There were very few lines that weren’t jokes of some kind. Somewhere in the Ortved book, which I don’t have with me at the moment, someone recalls that at a writers’…
Tag: Three Men and a Comic Book
Quote of the Day
“Here you go, Apu.” – Bart Simpson “Oh, very good. Would you like the deposit defrayed from the cost of a jumbo cherry Squishee?” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon “No, not today. I need the dime.” – Bart Simpson “Oh, it is good to see you are learning a trade.” – Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Reading Digest: Quality(?) Over Quantity Edition
Image used under Creative Commons license from Flickr user Xopher Smith. “Guess what? For a dollar a man sold me thirty-five “Casper”s and a dozen “Lois Lane”s.” – Lisa Simpson I think the total number of links is down this week, but I also think I spent more time on some of them than I usually do. Whether or not this means an increase in quality or an increase in useless bloat is up to you, the reader. There’s an Ortved book review, a great blog (it’s the first link), some fan made art that combines Krusty and vodka, a…
Quote of the Day
“Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich.” – Bart Simpson “Hey, they do look alike!” – Lisa Simpson “Wonder how Richie died…” – Bart Simpson “Perhaps he realized how hollow the pursuit of money really is and took his own life.” – Lisa Simpson “Kids, could you lighten up a little?” – Marge Simpson
Sunday Morning Cartoons
“We worked so hard and now it’s all gone. We ended up with nothing because the three of us can’t share.” – Bart Simpson “What’s your point?” – Milhouse van Houten “Nothing, just kinda ticks me off.” – Bart Simpson That is how you end an episode between Bart and Milhouse. Or, if you need them to reconcile, you can have Bart smash open a Magic 8 Ball on Milhouse’s skull, but it’s a sweet moment because he didn’t use the brick, broken bottle or pair of scissors. Flowers and apologies? Fuck off, Zombie Simpsons.
End the Simpsons #2 – Think of the Children!
“Hey, when I was your age fifty cents was a lot of money.” – Homer Simpson “Really?” – Bart Simpson “Nah.” – Homer Simpson One of the many horrible side effects of the fact that there hasn’t been a genuine Simpsons episode in more than a decade is that we are now raising a generation of Simpsons cripples. Anyone born after the late 1980s didn’t become old enough to really appreciate the show until well after it’d fallen on hard times. These days even the syndication runs are so polluted with Zombie Simpsons and its semi-lifeless forbearers that a decent…