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Bush starts swinging his arm like a windmill and yells "If you get hit, it's your own fault".
Saddam promptly gets hit and you're blaming Saddam for not getting out of the way!

Lots of countries have a string of broken UN resolutions. It was undoubtedly a new war. Ask Bush even. Every indication before the war and subsequent evidence since the war is that Bush wanted to invade Iraq since before Sep-11-2001. The UN process was just a stopgap measure to buy time. Previous behavior in 1998 has already shown that US intelligence are willing to subvert the UN process to spy on Iraq. In hindsight, there was nothing Saddam could have done to avoid a war short of handing the keys of Iraq over to Bush.

Not quite on topic, but fun! Here is a site that has compiled a list of video games seen in various Simpson episodes... Some of my favorites are:

Robert Goulet Destroyer (Noiseland)
Angus Pogordny's Caber Toss (Try-N-Save)
Kick the Can (80's arcade)

Simpson Video Games\

That's from "Barting Over" (#EABF05 / SI-1405)

Oh no, please ! This question has been asked over and over again. This is treated in details in the FAQs at SNPP, but looks like a lot of people aren't satisfied with that. Quite frankly, this is beyond me.
I mean, come on, isn't it clear the authors never intended to locate Sprinfield somewhere in particular ? But as the fans were asking endlessly about the location, they started to sprinkle the episodes with contradictory hints.
Keep on guessing, people...

He's like Max Power ... the man who's name you'd love to touch! But you mustn't touch! His name sounds good in your ear, but when you say it, you mustn't fear! 'Cause his name can be said by anyone!

SNPP

The episode where they visit the "Five Corners" also implies that their USA is different from ours. Though I don't know if a single gag like that counts much, like the occasional inconsistencies in the layout of Springfield and the Simpsons' house.

Springfield, as proven in the Best Episode Ever, 3F24, the Chili Cookoff Episode (and no, I didn't know the number offhand, I had to look it up), slopes down westward, toward the lighthouse.

In this map, the lighthouse is at the south end of town.

I like to maintain that they're from Kentucky, because that's what the Behind the Laughter episode states.

Attached to that document is a multi-page treatise on how that episode was a big joke anyway, and just because the actors who portray The Simpsons are from Kentucky doesn't mean that the show is set in Kentucky.

I, however, stand by my convictions, much like how it's obvious that The Common Man is the Man For All Seasons in the play of the same name.

If you ask Jeeves, this is his answer. I would have checked it out first, but my company uses WebSense to keep us from visiting cool sites at work. (So I settle for /. ;)

The other day? That contest was in 1997.

Wiggum: "Hey Kent, are you guys still having that contest where we guess what city the weather girl's in?

Kent: "That was eight years ago."

Wiggum: "Is it Pittsburgh?"

The Crystal Cathedral was in Natural Born Kissers, the episode where Marge and Homer have lots of public sex.

Gil: Ah, they stole the balloon! I've been living in there! Well, just, you know, just 'till things pick up. [A hot plate falls from the sky and is smashed on the ground.] Oh, Lord, my hot plate. I only had two payments left!

Some more historic information on the formation of Springfield.

While this is fun, if they did watch all the episodes multiple times they had to have noticed that something as common as the simpon's home address has had 6 different values, although they have mostly been on Evergreen Terrace.

Still a fun diversion on a rainy thursday

Hasn't this already been done?

Ralph: This is my swing set. This is my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. [points to large rock] That's where I saw the leprechaun!

Bart: [sarcastically] Right, a leprechaun.

Ralph: He told me to burn things.

From here

Hrmm...not sure if you didn't get the reference, but that was a Simpsons reference.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F03

And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.

Wow you mods totally dropped the ball on this nice Simpsons quote. The episode is at http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F07.html. The quote is right near the end.

Seriously though, even relatively small user populations are vulnerable to trojans and worms. The Witty Worm (see this analysis) indicates that non-Windows users are just as vulnerable a target - Witty infected almost 100% of the vulnerable worldwide population of 12,000 or so machines in about an hour. In other words, Mac (and Linux) users need to take the same precautions as those of us who are saddled with bloody Windows do.

[2F12] Homer the Clown


Tony: OK, wherever Krusty's gone, we'll find him. Legs, you check
out the East Side. Louie, Rome and Budapest. Tell the boys
I want a total world search.
Legs+Louie: Right, boss.
Homer: [at a car dealer] I want a free car because I'm Krusty.
Krusty the Klown? Get it? Krus -- [honks horn] -- ty!
[honk]
[Tony's car skids to a halt]
Tony: Cancel the world search.
Homer: I want everything that's coming to Krusty the Klown. Which
is me, Krusty!
Louie: [behind a fence with a rifle] Hey! It's Krusty, all right.
Should I shoot him gangland-style or execution-style?
Tony: Listen to your heart.
Salesman: Well I can't _give_ you the car, Krusty, but I _can_ let you
have this little number for practically nothing: only
$38,000.
[bullets hit the car]
Homer: [suspicious] Hey, what are all these holes?
Salesman: [quickly] These are speed holes. They make the car go
faster.
Homer: Oh, yeah. Speed holes!
[bullets riddle the car and smash the windshield]
Salesman: You want my advice? I think you should buy this car.
-- Instant depreciation, "Homer the Clown"

"My god, you're greasy." -- Homer Simpson

That said I'm not volunteering to sign up for a live test of this thing with a real bear. Bears are pretty smart and persistant when it comes to getting into food containers. Little black bears that live in Yosemite break into cars all the time...the mere fact that it is constructed from metal is not enough by itself when it comes to a big species like a grizzly or a polar bear. One might be quite literally bent-out-of-shape before it gives up on dinner even if it never digs a claw or fang into flesh. This quote from the ebay listing is not a selling point to me: "The suits are unique because they were built totally out of Hurtubise's mind, with no blueprints, drawings or schematics."

...the competition is now known as "Pepsi Presents the Ansari X Prize Competition"

(Why, yes, this was an obligatory Simpsons reference, thank you for noticing!)

~Philly

Lisa: Shouldn't you be working?
Homer: I've got someone to cover for me.
[Camera shows drinking bird repeatedly pressing 'Y' on the keyboard.]

From Marge vs. the Monorail

All this shows for this season are long done. Some of the finished ones will not show until next season. There is usually a 8-11 month lead time on the show's production. Audio is usually recorded 8-11 months before the show is completely animated unless they need to loop new dialog in. That is why they covered their mouths on the superbowl episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" and no so that they could reuse it the next year.

It seems to me that it's highly improbable that the Simpsons will continue 5 more years. Many of the series fans indicate that the newest seasons' writing tends to be watered down. I'll admit that I liked the writing better around seasons 3-7. I think Fox wants to hold onto the franchise until it is no longer profitable or until they make the movie.

just for your interest as to where the quote actually comes from ;-)

The original Shinning force is my favorite game of all time.

Don't worry. You can say Shining. You won't get sued.

And I agree. Shining Force is one of my favorite series. If only Sega would release the new one on the Xbox... (with the original as an unlockable!)

Hey, that thing looks almost exactly like the Truck-o-Saurus in the Simpson's episode Bart the daredevil. I wonder which one came first, or if it's the same one (with a different name).

Homer: "Heyyy thereeee, blimpy boy! Flying through the sky so fancy free!"

Simpsons episode 9F08. Homer made Bart a "clown bed" that was hideous looking. Bart was scared of it. Hence, the phrase.

Seriously, a good farking embiggens a webserver's ego. It is a perfectly cromulent word.

3F13

Simpsons #AABF06 Homer: Let's see, what's Marge's birthday? Barney is April twentieth, same as Hitler's, so Marge must be fifty ...oh, forget it. Flanders, what's your birthday? (source)

It's like the old 'telephone' game everybody used to play in kindergarten-- pass the message along and see how it changes four or five kids down the line.

Purple monkey dishwasher.

that theory has stephen hawking's vote...

Hawking: Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it.
Homer: Wow, I can't believe someone I never heard of is hanging out with a guy like me.
Moe: All right, it's closing time. Who's paying the tab?
Homer: [imitating Hawking's voice box] I am.
Hawking: I didn't say that.
Homer: [still imitating] Yes I did. [the glove comes out again, bopping Homer in the face]
Homer: [still imitating] D'oh.

(courtesy snpp.com)

J

The city of Brockton, 20 miles south of Boston,

I hear that Ogdenville and North Haverbrook have also installed desalinazation plants and look....it put them on the map!

(Obligatory Simpson's Quote)

That's from Episode [3F03] Lisa the Vegetarian.

You'll have to search for the quote. I think you'll get there pretty fast if you use 'he'd eat' as your string.

fs

Making a soundalike name is like what cheap Taiwanese knock-off companies do... There's a relevent Simpsons quote here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to dig it up.

Homer: [gasps] Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics!

Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.

Homer: Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.

Hank Scorpio did OK for himself.

Ha! The Simpsons went downhill somewhere around season 8 or 9 (the Frank Grimes episode is when it jumped the shark, if you ask me). The show turned into the "annoying oaf Homer and random guest celebrity hour" after that.

In recent years, the show doesn't stick together, the characters are mere shadows of their former selves, and you can see the writers straining to come up with new ideas. And it usually involves random celebrities coming on for 30 seconds. The show is awful.

As for all the "bad ones" in the early years, there pretty much werent any. From season 3 to maybe 7, every episode was solid gold. Seriously, tell me what episodes were bad here. There aren't any. You watch them now and you can see the quality that the new ones lack, and have lacked for years. It's plainly evident.

What I find interesting, is that this episode ever aired, as it seems to poke fun (in that subtle, Simpsonesque way) at sham cults like Scientology (if you look at the link, Scientology is listed in the references). If Nancy Cartwright is a Scientologist, how on earth did she ever agree to do the voice acting for that episode? It's like a Christian voice actor willingly working on an episode that, through humour, implys God doesn't exist and those that believe in Him are idiots.

Anyone ever thought about this?

Homer: Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

SNPP

Sigh. I'll take the bait:

I'm Henry the Eighth, I am!

Now let's get back to the tech.

One squirt and you're south of the border! Mmm, incapacitating...

Your sig: "Me fail English?" is actually a partial Ralph Wiggum quote: "Me fail English? That's unpossible" from episode 2F05 - Lisa on Ice.
Credit where credit is due.

wealth == choice == freedom == responsibility

No.

Choice is not wealth, especially not when 99% of the choices are crap. Having hundreds of different phone plans to choose from does not make me wealthy. Having good companions, good food, nice toys and tools, and a warm dry place to sleep and keep my toys and tools, makes me wealthy. Wealth is satisfaction of needs and wants, which can either come from being satisfied with less, or from having more.

While freedom implies choice, choice does not imply freedom. The condemned man can be offered his choice of methods of execution; the voters may be offered a choice between Democrat and Republican. In either case the system has removed most of the meaning from the choice. ("Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.")

Freedom is clearly not responsibility, as one is often sighted without the other. People have been known to behave responsibly under horrible, unfree conditions, and people with great freedom often have irresponsibly. In fact, what people who claim "freedom == responsibility" mean is that they want to limit the freedom of people whose actions they consider irresponsible. (Though they often have odd definitions of "irresponsible".)

And certainly wealth has nothing to do with responsibility. I've known too many wealthy irresponsible people, and responsible working poor, to ever believe that.

From 3F05:

Burns: Homer, your bravery and quick thinking have turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island. Bravo!

I can't be the first person to draw a parallel between this situation and when Bart got in trouble with the Australian government: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html

Give 'im the boot!

According to The Sea Captain, "Fairly warned be thee, says I."

Arrr.