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SkulkCU writes "The Simpsons turn 10 today. I still laugh throughout every show. " I still say that the Simpsons is the best show on television last decade. This season has been stronger than the last couple too.
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SNPP.Com is a Simpsons catalogueing and news site. They have episode guides and "capsules" for every episode they have been able to get their hands on.
The capsules are entire scripts along with viewer comments and "Did you Notice?" sections and more.
However, with the deluge of information required to create a capsule, the project is sorely "behind schedule". If you've got any Simpsons episodes from the past few seasons on tape, please read the site's capsule submission guideline and help out!
You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
No no no.... Bill Gates shows up and says he has an interest in buying the company (although he has no idea what it does).
Homer becomes elated at the chance of big money.
Bill Gates: "All right fellas, buy 'em out!".
Homer: "What are you doing!?"
Bill Gates: "I didn't become rich by writing a lot of checks, Mr. Simpson."
You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
I believe the perfect candidate for an upcoming IPO would be Homer's former company: CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
Awww, 20 dollars.. I wanted a peanut!
(Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.)
Explain how!
(Money can be exchanged for goods and services.)
Woo hoo!
And Lake Springfield. And Shelbyville (IL) isn't far away either.
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It would be hillarious if he did an episode and eliminated all 10-12 of them at once. :)
Think: A key chain sound effect thingy with this sound.
Best Simpsons-Cape Fear parody
I love so many that it's hard to choose. I like when Bart gets a fake driver's license and goes on a road trip, and the whole Krusty Gets Kancelled episode is great, but the best is Homer The Heritic, where Homer stays home while the rest go to church. He makes himself his patented, space age, out-of-this-world Moon Waffles, dances in his underwear, wins a radio contest, and watches football.
Bart: Hey where's Homer? Marge: Your father is...resting. Bart: "Resting" hung over? "Resting" got fired? Help me out here.
Homer: No offense Apu, but when they were handing out religions, you musta been out taking a whizz.
Homer: Hey Ganesha, want a peanut? Apu: Please do not offer my god a peanut.
I believe that phrases like 'Eat my shorts' and 'Don't have a cow' are slang from many years ago, the 1950s perhaps, which were deliberately revived by some old person who was writing for the Simpsons. Sorry I can't find a reference...
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And the episode where Bart had an evil power that made everything he thought of real. Sitting at the breakfast table he observes "Same old boring cat..." and turns it into an umbrella-tailed-fire breathing hybrid cat-thing. :)
That episode (well, part of it) was actually a Simpsonization of an old episode of The Twilight Zone where there was this 6-year old kid that had pretty much the same powers Bart did. However, the freak-o-cat was pure simpson. I loved it.
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
Nope. Maggie Roswell, the voice of Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy and Miss Hoover left the show sometime in the fall. It is rumored that the characters voiced by her will die sometime this season.
8)Antifreeze
9)"Fishbulb"? at least that's what Bart called him...
"CCCCRRRRAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP......."
Thats; "Hey sexy mama, wanna kill ahll the humans"
The wierd thing about this, is that deaths seem to be the only form of continuity in The Simpsons.
For example, when Bleeding Gums Murphy Died, he stayed dead. Also, when the Marvin Monroe Memorial wing appeared at the hospital, we saw no more Marvin Monroe.
Other than that, The Simpsons seems to have no sense of continuity (other than the characters changing somewhat). The Simpsons even make fun of this aspect, like at the end of The Principal and The Pauper (where Skinner turns out to be an imposter) and they say "No one shall ever speak of this again," or something to that effect.
Also, keep in mind that the numbers are used for the season in which the episode is produced, rather than when it is aired. The first few episodes every fall were actually produced in the previous season, so they will have the lower numbers.
...is that they regularly rank on Fox (Fox turned into a soft core porn channel so slowly..., killing the Fox censor for Treehouse X, the scene with Rupert Murdoch at the superbowl special, etc. etc.) regularly and are still touted by the network as a premiere show, and used to bouy up new shows like (yecch) Malcom in the Middle.
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Yeah, but Homer is an idiot, and while some right-wingers are probably idiots, most are reasonably intelligent. I think Homer is just a crowd-follower
Logic ... merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -- Doctor Who
Some others that you missed:
Yoink!: When you take/steal something from someone. I taught my 2-year old cousin this one.
Meh..: When you don't care about something you say "meh".
The interview is on the show As it Happens which happens at 6:30 EST here. Supposedly, archived shows go here, but obviously this link will not exist until after the live version.
... I can't help but think that this ranting about The Simpsons degrading in quality is because our standards have been pushed so high. I'm mean who can top:
-car crash-
Homer: D'oh!
Marge: A dear!
Lisa: A female dear!
From what I've seen of this current series
It's been a bit sucky
Although in the UK we might be a season behind
but I don't think so cos Treehouse of Horrors X is on on Saturday (Nothing like putting a halloween ep on Mid-January)
Don't forget the numerous simpson cameo appearances in Futurama, as well as other works by Matt Groening (that little comic he draws weekly pops up now and again) that do show up.
Was when Homer opens the fridge and pulls out a can of Duff (great name, BTW) which was pre-shaken in a paint-shaker by Bart. A thermonuclear explosion, complete with mushroom-shaped cloud, results. Homer had asked for it, Gary Hart style, and had done something beforehand to Bart (which escapes me at the moment, too much Duff while watching, I guess).
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2) What did homer give up his soul for?
3) Who shot Mr. Burns (come on now, everybody knows that!)
4) What household appliance turned out to be a time machine, transporting Homer back millions of years?
5) Why did the babysitter accuse Homer of sexual harrasment?
6) Bart decimated the ecosystem of Australia. How?
7) Who appeared as the guest voice of Rupert Murdoch (Fox "network" owner)?
8) Bart discovered his French host family adding a foreign substance to wine they were making. What was it?
9) What's the name of the character resembling Homer that was used to plug soap on Japanese television?
10)What induced Homer's Castaneda-esque hallucination at the annual Springfield Chili Cook-Off?
here's a personal bonus question: What state is Springfield in?
"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
stereotypes!?
Oh yeah, that - there was that one episode...
Lisa (rant about how everyone is just a stereotype with one-line, and how it sucks)
Homer: Doh!
Marge: Mmmmmm. (grumbled)
Maggie: (suck, suck)
Bart: Eat My Shorts!
Barney: (belch)
Sea Captain: Arrrrr!
Doctor: He he he!
Ned: Doodley-doo!
at which point they all look at Lisa...
Lisa: I'm going to my room!
they always make fun of themselves (and Fox, of course), and that makes for some pretty healthly humor. I think that the type of show they have needs to change a little now and then, but I end up laughing so hard each time, it doesn't matter much what they do...
"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
The local common filth reporter in Rochester, MN even had an article, "Test Your Simpsons IQ"
ex: According to the scanner, how much is Maggie worth?
etc... helped me recall some excellent moments...
"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
well, it was...
"mmmmmm..... chocolate" (open) "DOH!"
(repeat)
(sorry, I'm in the mood to nit)
"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
I really laughed at the Simpsons when it first started, and man do those early episodes seems slow and kinda dumb now. I watched it consistently for years. Good stuff. I have to admit, though, that I started getting tired of the humor being based almost entirely on pop-culture references. One wonders if the Simpsons will make any sense at all a hundred years from now.
The time Bart put the cat and dog through the transporter and it came out with a head on each end. "Hey! Twice the pet, none of the mess!"
And the episode where Bart had an evil power that made everything he thought of real. Sitting at the breakfast table he observes "Same old boring cat..." and turns it into an umbrella-tailed-fire breathing hybrid cat-thing. Later the dog and cat-thing are sleeping on the floor and the dogs fur catches fire when the cat-thing snores.
And the signs! If you don't read EVERYTHING you are missing a lot! And the puns! "You can't believe everything you see on TV, boy" as Homie simultaneously sits on the couch and walks by on the sidewalk outside.
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Sacred cows make the best burgers.
I'm somewhat surprised that you couldn't tell just by listening to him that the original poster had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek. I mean, come on. Simpsons and Christian values? You only ever hear those words together in sentences containing the words "destroying" or with references to Ned Flanders (who I'm sure we can all agree would make most real-life annoyingly pleasant Christians suddenly remember urgent dental appointments).
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Someone you trust is one of us.
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I wear pants.
another:
Homer (singing to the tune of Flintstone's, while acting it out i.e., getting off work, driving car home, etc.)
Simpson, Homer Simpson,
He's the greatest guy in history.
From the town of Springfield,
He's about to hit a chestnut tree.
Ahhh.... crash.
That's priceless. Anyone point me to a sound clip?
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I can die a happy man. I used to have this and lost it.
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Since lots will weigh in, here's some of mine:
When Burns runs for Governor and comes to dinner
Bart: "Cool, a media circus!"
Bart saying grace: "Dear God, we bought all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing!"
Bart and Milhouse finding $20, getting Slurpees from Apu that are pure syrup and doing a sugar-crazed rendition of "Springfield, Springfield" (the musical) around town.
From the classic "Flaming Moe's" episode:
Marge: Well, Homer, maybe you can take some consolation in the fact that something you created is making so many people happy.
Homer: [sarcastic] Ooh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the magical man from Happyland, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!
[walks out, slams door]
[sticks head back in] Oh, by the way: I was being sarcastic[slams door]
Marge: Well, _duh_.
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... as was the style in those days. :)
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Fox stuck with the show, because it was good, even in its lesser seasons. The most important change was changing the focus from Bart "Underachiever and proud of it" to Homer "doh!" -- we all know Homer is much funnier...
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You are bootlegged. Check out any of the ASF/VIV channels on IRC and you will know doubt find a few bootlegged Simpsons episodes...right next to SouthPark and the ever-present "Jerry Springer: Too Hot for TV".
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Speaking of which...what exactly is the pattern to the show labels they use (e.g. - 4f15). Is the first number the season? How come the recent episodes I have seen are only 6 or something? Is it a hexadecimal number? What? Maybe I'm just not paying close enough attention...
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That webcast actually starts at 6:00 PM EST, not 5.
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I've always liked Seinfeld better than the Simpson's. The Simpson's is very clever and very funny but I think it moves too slowly, not enough jokes per minute and a little too predictable. I find myself channel surfing even when I want to watch it.
But, I do like Marge's sisters a lot, and that hottie who appeared once, Lurleen: "Noone understands you but I do!"
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."
she dies in an episode names "Faith Off". my friend told me this but i dont know where he got his info. I think its true though, because I've noticed her voice has changed this season.
::shrug::
its still the best show on the telly.
-nick
"by doing just a little each day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me."
Homer opens the freezer, and pulls out a neapolitan ice cream container, opens it, and it has everything but the chocolate
*doh*
Homer discards the carton, and opens another, same thing...
*doh*
"Marge, we need more vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream!"
"OK, dear"
hehehe...
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I have previously put some thought into which state the Simpsons live in, and my best guess is Southern California. 1.This is because their radio station's callsign starts with a "K", so the state must be west of the Mississippi. 2.They have a seashore and a lighthouse, so they are near the ocean. 3.Just out of town there is a desert. The only problem with my theory (so far as I can tell) is the "Mr. Plow" episode. Because in that episode it snows (not very southern California weather.) But, the lack of snow plow equiptment they had showed that they were unprepared, and it could have been a freak accident. The only other time I can recall it snowing is when Bart prays for a blizzard, so he can study for his test. If there are any flaws to my logic, please reply. -----"Professor, would you say it's time to start cracking eachothers heads open and eating the goo inside?" -----"Yes I would, Kent"
Smithers, massage my brain...
"If I ever have a hit show, I'm gonna run that sucker into the ground..."
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Excellent (with appropriate finger tapping): Used as a response to anything impressive or well-planned (such as a Ferrari or plot to take over the world).
"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
I love that Apu scene where we learn he has a Computer Science Ph.D. He pulls out his stack of punch cards for a Solitaire program or something. Dr. Finkelman: "Computers will get bigger and bigger until only the richest kings of Europe will be able to afford them."
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"According to a reliable source, Mrs. Roswell's characters are actually set to disappear from the show; Mrs. Mitzman Gaven would provide Maude Flanders' voice for Faith Off [BABF06], in which the character would die."
Found it at:
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/season11.html
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We as the viewing public of The Simpsons have not gotten much respect from the lawyers of the FOX network.
During the past 6 months, many Simpsons sites have received cease and desist letters from their attorneys because the sites contain archived multimedia of The Simpsons.
I don't understand why FOX doesn't see the coverage of The Simpsons on the web as a GOOD thing - it's almost free advertising. Also, I believe I read an interview with Matt Groening in which he stated that he himself loves the coverage of his show on the web.
You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
A regular character will die during the February sweeps. They don't say who. My guess would be Grandpa as they don't do much with him anymore.
Upcoming guests include Betty White, Stephen King, Britney Spears, and Kid Rock & Joe C.
I read it this morning in the dead-tree version of the Houston Chronicle. I found the online article so you can read it if you like.
They completely revampaed the official site today. It has a new splash page, a new free ISP (paid by adverts), and a webcast of the Simpsons receiving their star on the Hollywood walk of fame. The webcast is today at 5:00pm EST, half an hour from now, D'oh.
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama
The most elegant and widespread, of course is simply,
D'oh!
I mean... sure it was said B.H. (Before Homer), but almost anyone who says it now, including in other TV shows or movies, is referring to the king himself.
Then there's some others
All of this of course is separate from the revolution in prime-time animated television that the Simpsons spawned.
Point? Merely this: a hearty huzzah for the Simpsons, and ten more years of success.
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