Slashdot Mirror

I saw it happen in the Simpson's Satudays of Thunder episode.

BABF08 - The Mansion Family

Just use flash photography!

smashy, smashy

case in point.. see this episode snip..
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F03.html

You don't win friends with
              salad.
-- Homer coins a catch phrase., "Lisa the Vegetarian"

Bart dances in.

  Bart: [Musically.] You don't win friends with salad!
              You don't win friends with salad!
              You don't win friends with salad!
                [Homer, {and then Marge, join in.}]
  Lisa: {Mom!}
Marge: {I don't mean to take sides, I just got caught up in the rhythm.}
-- The island rhythm, "Lisa the Vegetarian"


I saw the original aired episode, as it is above..

never since *including the dvd's* have I seen marge as part of the 'don't make friends with salad' conga line... the scene on every viewing since cuts before marge joins in. it's gone forever

Homer: e2 node & Simpsons Archive.

Marge: I think Bart and Lisa are feeling a little upset right now. Isn't there something you'd like to say?

Homer: There sure is. Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

-- "Burns' Heir"

That would be unconstitutional.

The Constitution can be changed, you know. The methods of electing the President and Senators have been changed by amending the constitution, it's possible the method of selecting the Supreme Court will also be changed. (It's gotta happen - how else is Bart Simpson going to end up Chief Justice in the future?)

"Well...maybe it was for the best. Now I...I finally have time to do what I've always wanted: write the great American novel. Mine is about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus." -- Principal Skinner, Episode 1F18

I've heard that there's gold in their bellies. Yarrr

Most blogs are created by someone you don't know, often about something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'blogging' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon.

You know the kind of letters people write. "Dear somebody you've never heard of, How is so-and-so? Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. Yours truly, some bozo."

If you know of any other way for the police to know who has the evil gene, I'd like to hear it.

"Why would a company like Microsoft do this?" asked Richard Lang, who is Burst's CEO and half the company workforce. "We were a little company. Microsoft could have had our technology for almost nothing, but instead they stole it. We called them on it, and they could have settled at any time, but they didn't. They stuck their heels in and won't give an inch even now. The only way I can make sense of this behavior is that they need to win no matter what the cost." -- Stupid Microsoft Tricks: Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat

This is all well known enough for there to be this bit on The Simpsons

Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!

Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]

Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!

Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks!
[insane laughter] -- SNPP:5F11

Insert "[1F13] Deep Space Homer" refrence... HERE!

"Mr. Sparkle. A joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks [a smiling fish appears on the left half of the screen] and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern [a light bulb appears on the right half of the screen. The two logos meld to form -- Mr. Sparkle!]"

"It's like kids with over-protective parents will likely to get hurt/scammed/killed more easily when they're alone."

Homer: Guys, believe me, I didn't mean to get you expelled.
Nerd 3: Oh, don't worry, Mr. Simpson, we can take care of ourselves.
Snake appears, holding out his hand]
Snake: Uh, wallet inspector.
Nerd 1: Oh, here ya go. [All three give him their wallets] I believe
that's all in order.
Snake: Huh ho! I can't _believe_ that worked.
Homer: [realization dawning] Heyy...that's not the wallet inspector!

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F02.html

If ants can be trained to sort small screws in space...

Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.
Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: [worried] That's bad.
Owner: But you get your choice of topping!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate.
Homer: [stares]
Owner: That's bad.

Copied from snpp.com

Good to see that Seymour Butz is going, along with all of Bart's other calls to Moe's.

The frogurt is also cursed.

Look here, search for 'overlords'.

The goggles, they do nothing!

GOOFUS has a part time job selling microscopes. GALLANT has a part time job selling Monorails http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F10.html/ !

We made it son. International waters -- the land that law forgot! -- Homer Simpson

Hehe, Sea Launch. Any day now I expect them to pull some Blofeld style stunt holding the world hostage.

Bart: Oh no, not another boring space launch. Change the channel. Change the channel! Homer: I can't! I can't! [Bart dives for the plug and tears it from the wall] [He and Homer both sigh]

Here it is again, sans the pesky trailing slash:

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F13.html

Ah, my friend, you have much cultural knowledge to glean...

funny huh? a race with a speed limit.

Maybe it's being sponsored by C. Montgomery Burns? :o)

Homer: [voice-over] I'd like to read the following statement, but I do so under ... [sound of gun cocking] ... my own free will.

It has come to my attention that NBC sucks.

I apologize for misleading you and urge you to watch as many Fox shows as possible.

So in summary, NBC -- bad.
Fox -- good.
CBS great.

[sound of gunshot, followed by a thud.]

I'll allow the following snippet from The Simpsons to answer this question...

Marge answers the door early in the morning. It's Maude and Helen, recruiting Marge to protest with them against David.

Helen: You've got to lead our protest against this abomination! [shows newspaper article]

Marge: Mm, but that's Michelangelo's David. It's a masterpiece.

Helen: [gasp] It's filth! It graphically portrays parts of the human body, which, practical as they may be, are evil.

Marge: But I like that statue.

Helen: [gasp] I told you she was soft on full frontal nudity! Come on, girls...

-- Itchy and Scratchy and Marge

Yes, SCO has found cases where their copyrighted code was stolen and then cleverly obfuscated by completely changing the variable names, comments, data structures and algorithms! But clearly it must have been stolen since it performs a similar function.

Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?

Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators
from sector 7-G.

Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've
finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns,
eh?

Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you
lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let
Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.

Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his [imitating
Nixon] "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty. They'll eat me
alive!"

[Smithers laughs]

I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?

Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names
differently.

Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.

Bart: Whaddya got?... "Billy Graham's Bible Blaster?"
Rod: Keep firing; convert the heathens!
Bart: Got him!
Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian.
Todd: Look out, Bart! A gentle Baha'i!
Bart: All right! Full conversion! Thanks guys, this really cheered me up.
Video: Second Coming! Reload, reload!

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF10

That's amazing. Just a few years ago palladium cost twice as much as platinum. (There's a lot of volatility - Ford Motor ate a billion dollar loss on its palladium stockpile not too long ago!)

Why anyone would make speaker wires out of that is beyond me. They must have a solid gold house and a rocket car, too.

Heh. Just for that, I'd write all my code using variable and function names like go2, go_to, gotwo, gotoo... etc.

Ahh, endless juvenile humour. Anyway, sounds like that professor shouldn't have been teaching C. I bet he was happy when Java starting getting popular. "Ahh... sweet Java eases the pain..." :-)

"Block the sun"?
Sounds more like, "Mr. Burns fans rejoice."

Don't forget that episode of the Simpsons where Ralph wants to go to Bovine University!

Robotic machinery will handle routine skills like cooking fast food, housework, framing homes, etc., but somebody will have to build and design those machines

"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."

- Military school Commandant (Simpsons Episode #4F21)

Isn't that just the wrong way?

Don't know if you'll still check this, but it's in the episode explained in great detail here

Why is everyone saying Kentucky?

It's from the Behind The Laughter episode, where they mention that the Simpsons are a "northern Kentucky family".

Director James L. Brooks said the nine original members of the animated show's creative team, including himself and creator Matt Groening, will reunite for the film version.

"The idea of the movie is that all of us who ran the show at one point and who have been there from the beginning come together as the writing team for this movie,"

Director James L. Brooks said the nine original members of the animated show's creative team, including himself and creator Matt Groening, will reunite for the film version.

"The idea of the movie is that all of us who ran the show at one point and who have been there from the beginning come together as the writing team for this movie,"

Then you would think that you would know which show which quotes are from. Which you clearly do not.

It's Kent Brockman from Deep Space Homer, poser.

Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

"That's like asking the square root of a million. No one will ever know." -- Nelson (in CABF11)

A good rule of thumb is two years' salary, sir.

Homer: [to staff] Are you guys working? Man 1: Yes, sir, Mr. Simpson. Homer: Could you, um... work any harder than this? Man 2: Sure thing, boss. [staff immediately start typing faster] Homer: Hey, call me Homer.

I have been tasked with defining a high-end, fully connected and extremely easy to use conference room, for our CEO, who is your classic non-computer-using person [...] without the knowledge of the underlying software used to create them (e.g. CAD drawings where he could make annotations, etc). Do any of you have recommendations for building the 'meeting room of the 21st century'?"

From snpp.com

Homer: Here are your messages:
"You have 30 minutes to move your car",
"You have 10 minutes",
"Your car has been impounded",
"Your car has been crushed into a cube",
"You have 30 minutes to move your cube".
[phone ringing]
Homer: [answers] Yello, Mr. Burns' office.
Burns: Is it about my cube?

Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?

Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai.

CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a _real_ useful invention.

(Sarcasm detector explodes)

http://www.snpp.com/guides/cbg.file.html#6

Well, Purple is a fruit

Hank: Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you?
Homer: Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Hank: Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Hank: There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There?
Homer: Mm-Hmm.
Hank: That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
Homer: Oh, the hammock district.
Hank: That's right.

Shamelessly copied from here.