Marge’s intro to this, about telling people not to write letters, is a really fantastic piece of satire. We’ve got three links about Season 2 this week, and not just “here’s a thing that happened in this episode”, but lots of love for the whole season. If you blinked you’d miss them when they were on the Tracey Ullman show. Barney is such a wonderful disaster of a person in this one. “Things like that always happen in this family.”  “I’ve noticed that too.”  Meta jokes before anyone knew what the word “meta” meant. They’re starting a flashback with a bus arriving at a stadium, and they turn it into Otto escaping from the cops and skid marks on the parking lot. Homer laughs it off. I love how the doctor is willing to sell him the Hair in a Drum even though he knows it doesn’t work. All wavs on this page were sampled at (8 bit mono 11Khz) and all mp3s on this page were sampled at (80kbs 44Khz). The scene was just Moe saying “I. “As a result, Bart is an underachiever, and yet he seems to be, how should I put this, proud of it?” – Less than ten minutes into Season 2, and they’re already making fun of “Bartmania”. Charlie Sweatpants: Real Moe’s been dead for a very long time. The first McBain clip: “I don’t want to hear it, McBain!”. Drunk Girls. The real Moe at least. In “Dancin’ Homer”, we hear that the family is there because it was “Nuclear Plant Employees, Spouses, and No More Than Three Children Night”. Mad Jon: When Bart was looking for the nanny cam in Pedobear? And now, it’s been Simpsons-Beer Marathon day for hours and I’m still not drunk yet, so let’s get going. Mad Jon: Nah, we would do Brad Goodman disservice by the mere discussion of what’s his name. Now! Times have changed and crank calling doesn’t really exist anymore, but that didn’t stop Zombie Simpsons from haphazardly trying to cram its bloated, rotting foot into the glass slipper. This episode is a useful reminder that it wasn’t that long ago that karaoke was considered weird and insane. Hopefully the Royals will have as much success with their new billboard as Springfield-area English Muffin advertisers. Mad Jon: But c’mon, the hair has never been mentioned, and all of the sudden it’s a 25 second throwaway joke. If they’d made a big show of him being such a jerk to his daughter it would’ve been creepy and bad, instead it’s just funny. After asking the kids not to make him a liar, “I want to go to Mount Splashmore. That is 1970s chic: Kavner does a really great job in this episode of making Marge’s voice sound younger even though it’s basically a rasp. Simpsons Video of the Week – Our friend Lenny found a Spanish version of the very end of “Summer of 4 Ft 2”. Charlie Sweatpants: Well Burns used to have flying monkeys, of course that whole joke took about four seconds. Good morning and welcome to the sixth Simpsons-Beer Marathon. And look at him: he's wearing a belt! damn, that’s funny. In both “Love Is a Many Strangled Thing” and “Dancin’ Homer”, the family Simpson takes a trip to a ball game courtesy of Charles Montgomery Burns. When the Isotopes start a winning streak, Homer becomes the mascot for the Capital City Capitals. More small notes of care: the massive pupils on Itchy and Scratchy for the opening of their “love and share” episode. Add to. None of them are the least bit human anymore, which makes the show’s clumsily heavy handed stabs at emotion, in this case Bart’s embarrassment, completely meaningless. “Beatles, eh? Basically, Matt Groening’s father made short nature documentaries, and one of them had his kids in it. The entire scene takes more than a minute, and to make it abundantly clear that these are not characters with whom the audience can identify but rather one dimensional caricatures, Marge does nothing. There are also a couple of lists, an upcoming screening of Harry Shearer’s New Orleans movie, some excellent usage, and even the thinnest of tie-ins to the Murdoch-phone hacking scandal. It’s a jigsaw, it’s a power drill, it’s a wood turning lathe, it’s an asphalt spreader. Mad Jon: I checked out when Bart and Lisa freaked out about the lack of hairlines. Worse, the tickling alone takes thirty seconds; the scoreboard operator seems to know, almost by magic, that Bart and Homer are important and he should leave them up there forever. “John Hancock’s writing his name in the snow!”  Yet another great example of how they snuck things past the censors. After the boys declare their draw, the way they cut to a reaction shot of the Lincoln robot while it makes that little noise is another deft touch of genius. 26 Jun 2007 1 649. When Homer was seven, Mona went into hiding followi… “That’s right, you heard me, pretending to cry!”. Hilarious! – The Simpsons, of course, especially good old Lisa. Mad Jon: Not the second time… I think he just smiled and nodded. Those three little sentences of father-son advice have definitely helped at times. The second line after the announcement of Bea’s death is a gag. 1980s He is holding a bottle of alcohol. 5 Dancin' Homer. Michael Jackson Never Sang On The Simpsons – Following up from last week, we can add RTT News (Global Financial Newswires) to the list of people too lazy to Google the Michael Jackson singing thing before writing it up. Since he’s in the previously established good mood, he takes the gentle ribbing in stride and everyone keeps having fun. 0:52. Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, “I’m sorry, young man, you’re just not ready. The shoe store has a section called “Street Crime”. Before long, Homer is offered a job with the Capital City Capitals. M. A. Wiener” as though he was reading from a cue card. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 8, 1990. All that while they’re making fun of everything in sight. I always thought it was kind of unfair for Marge to serve him the head, but it does make for a great visual. contentguru Subscribe Unsubscribe 3105. Fuck yeah. Today we’re doing Season 2. God I love old Flanders. It’s sixty-seven tools in one!”. The Simpsons’ Hank Azaria Lands Major Arc on Ray Donovan – It’s a Showtime show, so he’ll probably get to say “fuck”: The actor – who most notably lends his voice to several characters on The Simpsons – will play James Cochran, the ambitious head honcho of the Los Angeles FBI who becomes a thorn in Ray’s (Liev Schreiber) side. It’s more than just luck, it’s that they’re inherent losers who expect defeat and keep going anyway. It took them nearly a minute to turn Marge into the wicked witch. If a person is really drunk, there is always the risk to get really huge troubles, as alcohol reduces some of our instincts and intensify the standard reactions. No, The Simpsons Did Not Predict The Super Bowl Nine Years Ago – Headline says it all. Cheers! Charlie Sweatpants: Did you want to discuss the hairline thing? Soon, Homer is drunk. “I can’t think of a better place to spend a balmy summer’s night than the old ball yard. In fact, eminent Greek musician Mikis Theodorakis created the dance for the movie Zorba the Greek.By alternating slow and fast steps from the hasapiko and hasaposerviko dances, sirtaki was born. Although it did provide a second opportunity for us to see Supernintendo Chalmers. Charlie Sweatpants: I always liked that as a running joke, and for a show that loves naked nostalgia and fan service as much as Zombie Simpsons, I thought I could at least count on that. Yahoo fait partie de Verizon Media. Mad Jon: That must have been season 13 or 14, I don’t know, but I remember I watched like half of it and it was like coming out of a coma. Gotta love how the usual message of “sharing” is deliberately undercut by the ending here. Sounds fun, but tickets don’t go on sale until May. When the promo starts, it not only calls the show “the smash hit of the 90s”, but it contains this rather amazing slice of 1990, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney holding a Bart Simpson doll while Colin Powell stands behind him: I’ll hopefully have more a little later. Homer loves “When the Saints Go Marching In” but doesn’t even know the chorus. It’s great how Marge tells Homer to hire Karl without realizing that he’s much more of a sexual threat than any of those bubbly women who make kissy faces at her husband. Charlie Sweatpants: There were a lot of things that needed to be ignored for a long time in this one. “Yeah, nice guy, play poker with him once and a while.”. By contrast, when Bart gets put up on the video board in “Love Is a Many Strangled Thing” the jumbotron lingers on him long past the point of anything being funny. 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