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cote finally sent us a candidate worth voting for: Joseph Fitzpatrick Fitzgerald Fitzhenry Quimby! He's anti gun control (but pro bullet control) and his tax plan is perfect! (With our first week of election coverage finally wrapped up, I needed the laugh).
The cause? Ian Maxtone-Graham.
Ian Maxy-Pad and the other amateur's who've been brought in to write for the Simpsons will gladly destroy characterizations built up over years in pursuit of a few laughs for poor jokes. In a 1998 interview, Graham admitted he didn't even watch the Simpson's before he was brought in to write for it. Perhaps it's worth noting that Graham also wrote for SNL, and left that program in shambles when he left.
I suggest everyone write to Fox, and demand the ouster of Fagboy-Graham and the current crop of shitty writers. Bring back Conan. Bring back the other decent writers. Even new writers who have at least seen the first four seasons are better than the assholes who are now writing the Simpsons.
Quimby: Demand? Who are you to demand anything? I run this town. You're just a bunch of low-income nobodies!
Assistant: Uh, election in November. Election in November...
Quimby: What? Again!? This stupid country.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Monty Python is a really bad example for your point. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" depends completely on references to the King Arthur legend, as "Life of Brian" depends on the Gospel. Come to think about it, all humor is a reference to something else.
My idea of gun control is hitting what I intended to.
You can have Gore's "Fuzzy Math", Bush's "Lock Box" or Quimby's "CHOWDA!"
If you want a good candidate, Vote Quimby!
It's not for everybody
I posted this in the "Simpsons Rant" thread, but I thought I'd put it in the main discussion thread too.
The real reason for the success of the Simpsons is not Matt Groening, but a writer from the Lampoon, Harvard's in-house humor magazine. Sam Simon, a producer, liked George Meyer's Army Man enough that he tracked Meyer down and hired the whole staff onto the Simpsons.
The rest is history.
You can read a nice long story about it here:
http://www.snpp.com/other/inte rvi ews/meyer00.html
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Vidi, Vici, Veni
Quimby's reckless disregard for the Canadians, and the fact that he wants to come up and steal our lunch money is a horrible idea. We Canadian's won't sit idly and let you American thugs steal our poutine money. We have a formidable offense, including Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. We do not like to think that we would have to unleash such a terrible force, but if forced to, we will use such drastic measures.
Oh, yeah, and I don't your Mecha Striesand can stand up to such an aural offense.
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and then...
1978 - Joe Quimby reluctantly graduates from college, after his father threatens to take away his girlfriend.
I guess that Joe Quimby Sr. was a very influential man.
It makes no difference who you vote for. Either way, this planet is doomed.... DOOMED!
That said, I'm voting for Kodos.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Sounds a lot like Duke, the character from Doonesbury. And I quote, regarding the surplus, "The Republicans worry that it'll all disappear in some pork barrel social program; I worry that it will literally disappear. Vanish. If you put it in the stock market or in some bank, it's just a few bytes of memory on a computer, vulnerable to hacker-terrorists, or worse, daytraders, who can take down our economy in ten seconds of panic...I think we'd better take a good hunk of it, and put it somewhere safe. Change it into small bills, drop it in a bunch of titanium cases, and bury it in strategic sites throughout the 50 states. The feeling of security we'll have knowing that we've got real cash if we need it, will more than compensate for the lost interest."
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison