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The virus was evenm poste4d on the MS website!

To mash a simpsons quote:
"The fingers you have used to [type] are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the key[board] with your palm now"

No that snpp.com uses google as there search engine, simpsons quotes are soooo easy to find.

Bart said that.

Wrong. (from The Simpsons Archive):

Skinner: All right, first academic alert: Wiggum, Ralph.
Ralph: I won, I won! [walks on stage]
Skinner: No no, Ralph, this means you're failing English.
Ralph: Me fail English? That's unpossible!

I bet that evil Jack Valenti has something to do with this!

It's the damn Focusyn!

Homer: Hey, do we get to land on an aircraft carrier?
Pilot: No, Sir, the closest vessel in the USS Walter Mondale. It's a laundry ship. They'll take you the rest of the way.

~Philly

"Eat up Martha?!!"

He's such a caricature of pure evil!

What will he do next? Slant drill for oil under the elementry school? Or Blot out the sun?


Excellent!

And as all interweb nerds know, where Groening and reality disagree, it is obviously reality that is in error!

"Should I whack fast or slooowwww?" -- H. Simspon

Indeed, Gould was in Lisa the Skeptic, but fellow science geek Stephen Hawking was in They Saved Lisa's Brain.

Indeed, Gould was in Lisa the Skeptic, but fellow science geek Stephen Hawking was in They Saved Lisa's Brain.

My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

-- Kodos gives a speech, "Treehouse of Horror VII"

snpp -- the definitive reference

Freemasons run the country!

Bart gets the boot in Australia - after making a prank call, Bart arrives in Australia, unknowingly bearing a simple ordinary bullfrog, whose progeny then goes nuts and devastates the Australian continent.

Marge: We have them in America. They're called bullfrogs.

Clerk: What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them "chazzwazzers".

Ribbit. Not only are the Simpsons running out of ideas, they're now predicting the Future. Any more episodes with Al Gore in them? Look for the season finale! </weak joke>

the throne is hardly the main attraction. having it on one's lap in the living room during the simpsons so you can check the accuracy of snpp's episode summaries is what god and steve jobs intended.

Am i robbing every other station if i watch PBS?

The cliche for PBS is that you're a thief if you watch and don't contribute. Nice twist.

But what about people who actively boycott sponsors because of show content? Another free-wheeling use of the term 'terrorist'?

Quote:While I don't agree that The Simpsons has "Jumped the Shark"

Are you kidding? The Simpsons "Jumped the Shark" the day Homer swore for the first time.

The Simpsons went 10 years without a single character using profanity to get laughs. The day Homer swore is the day the show ran out original material.

Up to that day the Simpsons relied on parody, biting social commentary and literay allusion to generate laughs. The writing was deep and thoughtful, with layers of humor.

Take for example the writing on the episode title "Treehouse of Horror" from the mid-nineties(text of the show here). Homer overhears Lisa telling Bart the Edgar Allen Poe classic "The Raven". Homer imagines the world of the "Raven" with himself as the tortured soul and Bart as the Raven antagonist. The short sequence re-writes the Raven (in Poe's poetic style), uses James Earl Jones as the narrator (for a wonderfully scary effect), and sets Marge Simpsons long lost Lenore. Absolutely wonderful writing and humor.

Juxtapose that short, wonderful segment with a recent episode where Homer secedes from Springfield. The premise of the story is ... well I guess don't know. Homer is mad that because the phone company changed his area code. Somehow this involves a badger and the 70's rock band "The Who".

Homer swears repeatedly for comedic effect. Great. Hilarious. I could have watched Roseanne to see that. Maybe Homer will grab his crotch next.

The Who episode had no story line, no parody and no literary allusion. In the end they are *saved* by guest stars "The Who". Great, another washed up band who is currently on tour gets a cross-promotional spot on the Simpsons (I wonder how much bands pay to get on the show?).

Sure, the first release of Newton kinda stunk,

But that's just the point I was making (or trying to make) - the Simpsons won't run out of material anytime in the forseeable future, but the format it is presented in may well get old. How much interesting variation on the theme can Groening continue to come up with? And notice I say "continue" - I think he's done an amazing job thus far.

> ...move ourselves out of the wasteland of ignorance and stupidity.

So, you're saying, once we start resembling Futurama more than the Simpsons? *g*

On a side note, try The Simpsons Archive for way more than you wanted to know about the Simpsons...

I seen this statement several times here and other places. I still like the Simpsons and didn't have any idea where the GoodEpisodes/BadEpisodes line was drawn. So I did a little investigating and it seems Conan wrote 4 episodes.

Conan Episodes

So these 4 are the only good ones?

For those interested, I highly recommend taking a look at the L.I.S.A.. It's a great, huge list of anything you've ever wondered about the Simpsons, and just what the hell happened in the last few years.

January, February, March, April, Smarch, May ...

blah

It's a site I know prolly too well. Really great Simpsons reference. Really really good and great.

It's a site I know prolly too well. Really great Simpsons reference. Really really good and great.

.the homer simpson way Favourite Qoute:"Hello, this is Homer Simpson, a.k.a. Happy Dude. The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam. I'm sorry. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. You have the power."

Hey, that Simpsons episode was just on TV last night!

[4F01] - Lisa's Date With Density.

"Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So, use it, and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay, eternal happiness is just a dollar away." -- Homer

I agree Would SOMEONE please think of the children.

In oher news. snpp.com has the April Fools bug pretty good too..
First I thought that the domain had not been renewed and some one else had registered it.

I agree Would SOMEONE please think of the children.

In oher news. snpp.com has the April Fools bug pretty good too..
First I thought that the domain had not been renewed and some one else had registered it.

Just reminded me of Kent Brockman:
Could this record-breaking heat wave be the result of the dreaded "greenhouse effect"?
Well, if 70-degree days in the middle of winter are the "price" of car pollution, you'll forgive me if I keep my old Pontiac. [chuckles]

ref

The two episodes you refer to are:

3F05 - King Size Homer
5F11 - Das Boot

Das Boot also includes a hilarious scene with Comic Book Guy:

Homer: Welcome to the Internet, my friend, how can I help you?
Comic Book Guy: I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?
Homer: [stares blankly for a few seconds] Can I have some money now?

The two episodes you refer to are:

3F05 - King Size Homer
5F11 - Das Boot

Das Boot also includes a hilarious scene with Comic Book Guy:

Homer: Welcome to the Internet, my friend, how can I help you?
Comic Book Guy: I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?
Homer: [stares blankly for a few seconds] Can I have some money now?

you're right, there are some great computer references on the simpsons....

"They have the Internet on computers now?!?

"To start press 'any' key'"

"All this computer hacking is making me thirsty, I better order a TAB"

those were just off the top of my head....but this website actually does list the computer references...

To check out more references than humanly possible, visit The Simpsons Archive .

We now know that P=NP. It said so right in the Tree House of Horror VI http://snpp.com/episodes/3F04.html. Now _that_s news. I mean, e^i*pi = -1, everyone knows that, but showing that P=NP revolutionizes the whole of computing!

Your answer is here: http://www.snpp.com/guides/lisa-3.html#3.1.4

Maybe he went to the Lionel Hutz school of law: "Cases won in 30 minutes or your pizza's free"

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At least give some context: Episode 1F13, Deep Space Homer

Itchy is tied to a stake, and he looks glum. Scratchy rubs his hands in delight, then reaches for a crate next to him. He puts sticks of dynamite under the mouse's eyelids and in his ears. He fashions a Lincolnian hat and beard out of plastic explosive and slaps them rudely on Itchy, attaching grenades to his ears as crude parodies of earrings. Itchy stares up in horror as a shadow looms over his face: Scratchy is turning a wheel, adjusting the angle of two atomic bombs so that their sharpened tips point directly at Itchy's eyes. Crates of TNT are stacked around the atomic bombs. Lighting the fuses on all the dynamite, he hails a taxi, and leaves.

Slowly, the fuse burns down. Itchy tries in vain to escape, his legs struggling. Bart and Lisa watch, transfixed. "My purpose in life is to witness this moment," says Bart, grasping Lisa's hand. We see a close- up of Itchy's sweaty face as the inevitable draws inexorably closer. The fuse burns all the way down, and --

Suddenly the TV screen goes blank. Bart and Lisa scream, horrified. One of the nerds rises from behind the TV, holding a plug in each hand. "We need the outlet for our rock tumbler," he explains. "Plug it in, Plug it in!" the two cry frantically. "What, the rock tumbler or the TV?" "The TV, the TV!" The nerd makes it so.

But it is too late. A mushroom cloud is all that's left on the TV, with "THE END" written in red superimposed on it. The children in Krusty's audience cheer wildly. "Wow!" exclaims Krusty, "They'll never let us show that again, not in a million years!" Bart and Lisa are aghast.

Find out who's alive and who's dead

Episode 4F11
John: Homer, what have you got against gays?
Homer: You know! It's not... usual. If there was a law, it'd be
against it!
Marge: Oh Homer, please! You're embarrassing yourself.
Homer: No I'm not, Marge! They're embarrasing me. They're embarrassing
America. They turned the Navy into a floating joke. They ruined
all our best names like Bruce, and Lance, and Julian. Those were
the toughest names we had! Now they're just, uh...
John: Queer?
Homer: Yeah, and that's another thing! I resent _you_ people using that
word. That's _our_ word for making fun of you! We need it!! Well
I'm taking back our word, and I'm taking back my son!

The following is an AC commentary: I would also include such names as Hemos, Cmdr Taco, Cowboy Neal , Timothy, and Jon Katz.

To quote Blanche in the Simpson retelling of A Streetcar Named Desire:

"A stranger's just a friend you haven't met."

Ha! But seriously...at least on IRC, the channels that form around shows like Futurama, Simpsons, Jackass, 24, Star Trek, Southpark, et cetera are all a pretty tight, close-knit bunch. The regulars all get to know each other. They all discuss the show and they trade items of interest back and form, like clips from unreleased pilots or deleted scenes. In theory it's possible for a total stranger to walk in and download an episode but in practicalty it doesn't happen very often because regulars get taken care of first. Begging leeches tend to get ignore or the boot.

Now with Kazaa and Morpheus...it's a little bit less clear. Whereas IRC is based on chat and file exchanges are secondary, P2P clients for the most part are the opposite. Napster and maybe Direct Connect are the only two that come to mind that have a topic based chat system to help people find other people interested in the same thing. Oh yeah, Filetopia too.

Still...in theory, there is nothing stopping you from talking with someone on Kazaa. I was once messaged by someone who had been searching for Tracy Ullman Simpson shorts and noticed I had the complete collection. Since he typically used Dalnet and I used EFNet, we would have never met if it wasn't for Kazaa and now we know each other pretty well (about as well as you get to know anyone on the Internet) and regularly trade clips and episodes with each other.

The bottom line? I don't think courts can decide what a friend is. I don't think Congress can legislate it. I don't think there could ever be a law passes that says I can only shared with the 20 people closest to me. I don't think the courts could say that just because you don't know someone's real name (just their handle) then it's not really a friend you can trade with.

- JoeShmoe

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Lisa and Bart sit atop a mountain.

Lisa: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Bart: Piece of cake. [claps with one hand]
Lisa: No, Bart, it's a 3000-year-old riddle with no anwer.
It's supposed to clear your mind of conscious thought.
Bart: No answer? Lisa, listen up! [claps with one hand]

-- Solving unsolved problems, ``Dead Putting Society''

Check out the Whacking Day episode... Barry White saves the city's snakes by singing "I Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby" (not sure if that's the right title).

So, if the snakes can respond to Barry, I don't see why other animals wouldnt... :)

Mark

From episode [3F20] Much Apu About Nothing

[in the late '70s]
[Frink stands in front of a huge mainframe]
Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive [to student] Don't
touch it! [back to class] But I predict that within 100 years
computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and
so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will
own them.
Apu: Could it be used for dating?
Frink: Well, technically, yes, but the computer matches would be so
perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest. Ha-ho-
ha-hey-hoo.

"Consider: someone is at the grocery store. The automatic door fails to open; they walk into a pane of glass. Do they attempt to open the door manually? NO. Stupid people."

You shouldn't be mean just because Bart sold his soul and couldn't open the door to the Kwik-E-Mart.

..scientists have found this to be an improvement over the escalator to nowhere.

..aaaahhh... ..aaaaahh... ... ..aaaahhh...

Slightly off-topic, but for a point of reference, a complete list of what got cut from The Simpsons on the trip from first-run to syndication is available here. I for one agree that this would be a great technology to integrate into Tivo -- I already watch 30-minute shows in 20 minutes, and a lot of shows could be shaved down by a couple more minutes without significant loss.

Don't make me have to come over there and kick your ass to prove it :-)

I'm sorry, but I couln't resist! Isn't he supposed to come to you for that!
;)

Thats because they're made by corporations, duh. Ask the hardcore players what is fun, and then you can start charging for your game.

Who works at the corporations? Robots? Do you remember the Simpsons where Homer was Poochie? There was a focus group segment that was so true:

Man: How many of you kids would like Itchy & Scratchy to deal with real-life problems, like the ones you face every day?
Kids: [clamoring] Oh, yeah! I would! Great idea! Yeah, that's it!
Man: And who would like to see them do just the opposite -- getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?
Kids: [clamoring] Me! Yeah! Oh, cool! Yeah, that's what I want!
Man: So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth show... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?
Kids: [all agreeing, quieter this time] That's right. Oh yeah, good.

Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?

Of course it isn't