58 thoughts on “On The Simpsons”

1. My thanks to the image selector.

   Is it wrong that I just assumed someone handsome devil would improve upon my placeholder image?

   [FTFY]

2. I am almost as far as you can be from being a Simpson's expert, since I doubt I have seen any episode more than once, and maybe only 75 total. But I saw Lisa's Wedding the other night and laughed almost continuously.

   1. "Lisa's Wedding" might be my favorite, if it isn't "You Only Move Twice."

      Otherwise, Phyllo's list is pretty strong, though I'd swap in a couple like the Hellfish episode.

      I'm as close to a Simpsons expert as you'll find. I've probably seen every episode of the first nine or ten seasons at least fifteen times. I've taken about a year and half or two off from my DVDs in a desperate attempt to make them feel fresh again. It still doesn't feel like it's time to go back yet, but I'm starting to get the itch anyway.

      1. I was surprised how fresh some of the episodes seemed, given that I also meet that "15 times per episode for the first 10 seasons" category. Of course, seeing them that much also makes the duds extremely painful.

3. I only got to watch a little of the marathon, but I'm strongly considering buying seasons 1-10 on DVD soon. My favorite episode is "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show." "22 Short Films About Springfield" is a close second.

   1. Well, there is plenty of marathon left to go. It runs until labor day.

      I caught "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" when it was on the other day. So many meta jokes.

4. And then there's the StoneCutters. Who holds back the electric car? We Do.

5. One thing I've noticed throughout the marathon (which I've watched way too much of), is that Krusty was even more ubiquitous than I remembered. I've never particularly found Krusty funny (although I get that he's there to send-up show business), and that's been reinforced throughout.

   Kent Brockman, on the other hand, is just as great a character as Perd Hapley.

   1. Dido to everything you said.

6. Also, what Simpsons lines do you find yourself using in daily conversation?

   I know I frequently will say something (to friends) along the lines of "No need to apologize, as much my fault as yours" whenever I can tell I'm pissing them off just to fuel the flames.

   1. I definitely use "Click to embiggen" when I link to a thumbnail to a larger image. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

      1. "Avoision"

   2. Far too many. "It tastes like burning" and "I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's" from "Das Bus" happen a lot. I frequently sing the Hey Song like Homer, and "I am so smart, I am so smart, S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T..." also gets a lot of play. But ever since I had children, the one I use the most is "damn wiener kids."

      "I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked."
      "Homer! Not in front of the children."
      "Sorry Moe, I gotta go. My damn wiener kids are listening."

      1. Oh... and I sing the "Max Power" song far too often.

   3. I say "The goggles, they do nothing!" more than a normal person should.

   4. My wife always gives me grief when I sing:
      Dough, the stuff, that buys me beer.
      Ray, the guy who sells me beer.
      Me, the one, who drinks the beer.
      Far, a long-way-to-go-for beer.
      So, I think I'll have a beer.
      La, la-la-la-la!
      Tea, no thanks I'll have a beer.

   5. I say "Well, I have been eating more." quite a lot.

   6. "To alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." This one comes up a lot with the gang from college.

   7. Just a few days ago I was folding clothes and there was a new towel in there, from a hotel. I knew the reason, but I still accused the Milkmaid of shenanigans and asked, "Cathy, are you hiding men in this house? ...Radioactive men?"

      As for what else I quote, I wouldn't know where to start. "Or to put it another way...there is." "The most rewarding part was when he gave me my money." "You steam a good ham." When I talk about video games gone by, I almost always end up saying "Super Nintendo Chalmers" at some point.

      1. Chalmers: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
         Skinner: Yes.
         Chalmers: May I see it?
         Skinner: Er, no.

         1. Any time those two are together, it's magic.

            "I've had a cold lately."
            "So you would hear Rs as Bs?"

   8. "Lousy Smarch weather."

      Which inevitably leads to "It all started on the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. We were there to discuss the misprinted calendars."

   9. "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel."

      "And now we play the waiting game... Aww, the waiting game sucks, let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos."

      Not that I get to say it, but this frequently pops into my head: "I wanna shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I wanna explore the world. I wanna watch TV in a different time zone. I wanna visit strange, exotic malls. I'm sick of eating hoagies. I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero. I want to LIVE, Marge. Won't you let me live? Won't you, please?"

      Also, when I quit, I desperately want to stand up and yell, "That's it! You people have held me back long enough. I'm going to Clown College!"

      Besides all the regular full quotes, tons of weird little sayings, like "queer the deal" and hundreds of others that aren't immediately coming to mind. Plus, I say "Meh" faaar too often.

      1. Oh yeah, and:

         "Huh?
         ...
         Wha?
         ...
         Juh?"

      2. "Meh" is very common for me. As is "yoink!"

         1. "yoink!"

            Oh yeah, at least 3 times a day. I'm waiting for the boy to pick up on that one.

            1. "Meh" and "yoink!" here too, but my vernacular was so saturated by The Simpsons between the ages of 9-14 that I didn't even realize - until now - that that's where they originated.

      3. whenever forced to wait even a small amount of time i'll usually say "oh, but i want it now!"

      4. Now you're on the trolley.

   10. "Smell you later!"
       Only amongst friends tho'

       1. Boo-Urns.
          And "I was saying Boo-Urns"
          And many things in Moleman's voice.

          And I wish I could do a half-bakef Gil.

   11. Nelson's "Ha ha!" gets a workout as well.

       1. Man, how could I forget that one - ubiquitous in my household...then and now.

   12. "The electric yellow's got me by the brain banana!"

   13. I never quote the Simpsons.

       httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khSIYmTzt6U

7. Ralph has always been my favorite source of lines from the Simpsons, and the most oft quoted is, "me fail English?! That's unpossible!" Dr. Chop uses that one quite frequently in her classes. The other one I say with far too much regularity is, "sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!"

   1. I also say "Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem " really, really often.

      1. Yes !

      2. I couldn't breathe the first time I saw that scene.

         1. I should add that I use the pimple faced teenager's voice all the time. all. the. time.

            1. I was doing that voice for fun even before I was exposed to the show, but yeah, I've done it with him in mind in all the years since.

               There's not a line here that I don't quote at least on occasion.

               Also, in an all-store meeting recently, I said "I'd like to hear from Sideshow Mel." The three people who got it were dying.

   2. Once in a while I'll pull out the Ralph Wiggum voice and let loose a, "My cat's breath smells like cat food.'

8. I think the exchange that made me laugh the most over the years was from one of the Treehouse of Horror episodes:

   Grandpa: "Quick, we have to kill the boy!"
   Marge: "How did you know he was a vampire?"
   Grandpa: "He's a vampire?! AHHHHH!" *runs from the room*

9. My favorites are all before Season 10

   "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
   "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
   "Radioactive Man"
   "Homer at the Bat"
   "Bart Gets an Elephant"

   "Lisa the Greek"
   "Homer the Heretic"
   "You Only Move Twice"
   "Radio Bart"
   "Das Bus"

10. And these could be cross-posted to the WGOM Lingo thread

    

    

    1. Strange, I watched "Bart After Dark" during the marathon, and that top one is flipped. Bart was on the left, door on the right.

       1. A lot of people will mirror videos to try to get around DMCA claims on things like YouTube. I'm guessing that the gif was created from a video like that?

    2. I believe that bottom one is the first animated gif I ever made.

       1. well done. not as well done as corn flour bacon cookies, but good effort.

11. Since we're on the subject, I have to admit that Deep, Deep Trouble was the first rap song I could recite all the lyrics to. Even before Ice, Ice Baby or Girls.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVusSqEzVHY

    1. "the purple and yellow"

12. I love the fact that there really is an Isotopes minor league baseball team.

    1. I also played on a softball team many years ago that we called the Isotopes and had jerseys made, of which I still have.

       1. Our intramural team for four years of college was The Isotopes. One of our guy's little brother then carried the tradition on for a year or two before it finally died.

13. "----- ------? Yechh!! I'll have the crab juice!"
    "Khlav Kalash" (primarily used as en expectorant)
    Also big on the "------ -------: that's where I'm a Viking!"

    1. "I just tripled* my productivity!"
       *or quadrupled/doubled, whatever.
       example: <strong> vs <b>

       1. 

14. Last night I watched a few episodes I had never seen before, from maybe 2006, or somewhere around there. I even laughed out loud a couple times.

    The humor was definitely a little different than the earlier seasons, and the plot lines weren't organic. There was a fair amount of bringing in outside characters who have never been seen before and will never be seen again in order to tell a very specific story. I suppose that happened plenty in earlier seasons too (Burns' kid Larry, Homer's brother, Reverand Lovejoy's daughter), but for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, it feels different in these later seasons.

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