“Alright, Collector, stick this in your tweezers: I’m not Xena! I’m an actress, you lunatic!” – Lucy Lawless “Oh, please, I’m not insane. I simply wish to take you back to my lair and make you my bride.” – The Collector
Tag: Treehouse of Horror X
Bonus Quote of the Day
“What I’d like to say is: we’re still looking for the real killers. Anyway, in conclusion, a man cannot be forced to testify against his wife.” – Homer Simpson “Stop winking!” – Marge Simpson Happy Birthday Dan Castellaneta!
Quote of the Day
“But I’m sure that once girls get to know the real you, you’ll get plenty of dates. Next question.” – Lucy Lawless
Behind Us Forever: Mathlete’s Feat
“Oh, my God! Lisa! She’s been crushed, and so have the hopes of our mathletics team.” – Principal Skinner Sorry (again) for the non-existant blogging around here, still been busy. There probably isn’t going to be a Reading Digest today, but on the plus side, Season 26 is over, so I’ve got plenty of time to pretend that I’ll get caught up at some point. On the Harry Shearer front, there has been nothing but silence from both sides so presumably they’re still talking. Read into that whatever you’d like. As for the finale, “Mathlete’s Feat” was bog standard: lots…
Compare & Contrast: Comic Book Guy As Villain
“Tonight’s episode: Enter . . . The Collector.” – TV Announcer There are basically no characters on the show who haven’t undergone a serious dumbing down in the Zombie Simpsons era (Gil, maybe?). Some of them gradually devolved, others had sudden changes in a single episode; either way, there’s often a moment when you knew that the original version was never coming back. For Comic Book Guy, I’ve always thought that moment came in Season 11 when he materialized out of nowhere to complain about the Simpsons getting a horse again. Homer asks if anyone cares what “this guy” thinks, and the assembled…
Reading Digest: Goodbye 2012 Edition
“Man alive, what a stink-o thousand years: blimp wrecks, teenagers . . . then again we had two teevee shows with Andy Griffith!” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson For the second week in a row there’s just not much cooking on the internet. But while Simpsons fandom may take it slow from time to time, it never sleeps, and this week we’ve got two links to people saying goodbye to the last year with some very similar Simpsons flair. There’s also a bunch of great fan art, an electronic remix of the theme song, the Prime Minister of Canada’s Twitter aide…
Crazy Noises: Treehouse of Horror X
“Bart, just let me drop and save yourself!” – Clobber Girl “What do you think I’ve been trying to do?” – Stretch Dude For the fourth summer in a row, we here at the Dead Homer Society will be spending some time discussing twelve year old Simpsons episodes. This year we’re doing Season 11. Why Season 11? Because we’ve done Seasons 8, 9 and 10 already, and it’s time to take an unflinching look at the end of the show. Since Skype and podcasts didn’t exist in 1999, and we want to discuss these episodes the way the internet intended,…