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[ElTopo]

Best Simpsons episode in a long ass time.

 

[strafer]

omg, that dog

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Having seen An Officer And A Gentleman, I now get the reference at the end of Life in the Fast Lane.

 

[jackrubyn]

"Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain?"

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Lisa: I don't think anyone in this family could be capable of murder.

Grampa: You never know what people are capable of. I never thought I could shoot down a German plane. But last year, I proved myself wrong.

 

[Henchmen21]

Jimbo, Hack the bone! HACK THE BONE!

 

[Aaron Strife]

"Hey Alison, what's the answer to number nine?"
"I can't tell you, Ralph"
"I can't tell you either, Ralph"
"Leave me alone"

 

[ElTopo]

Me fail English? But that's unpossible!

 

[Duress]

I CALL HIM GAMBLORE, AND I'M GOING TO SNATCH HER FROM HIS NEON CLAWS!

 

[Nerdkiller]

I CALL HIM GAMBLORE, AND I'M GOING TO SNATCH HER FROM HIS NEON CLAWS!

"J'yer gedda ferda redderarrar."

 

[Nerdkiller]

"Ahhh, the ballet."

 

[Guzim]

"Ahhh, the ballet."

I am definitely not the first person to mention this, but I will always love that Homer thinks that the ballet would have 6 other people in the crowd, and he's the only thing cheering.

 

[inm8num2]

Real ballet is still pretty cool, though (can't find a gif or image of the slam dunk at the end of that scene).

 

[the chris]

Real ballet is still pretty cool, though (can't find a gif or image of the slam dunk at the end of that scene).

Too much dancing and not enough prancing for my taste.

 

[Guzim]

Too much dancing and not enough prancing for my taste.

A little mincing would be nice.

 

[RoryDropkick]

"J'yer gedda ferda redderarrar."

That part gets me every time. I've been trying to memorize that to use on my wife

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Real ballet is still pretty cool, though (can't find a gif or image of the slam dunk at the end of that scene).

Doesn't the dancer even rip of the ring?

 

[Rhomega Beta]

He made light of my weight problem, then suggested my motto should be "Semper Fudge". At that point he told me to "relax".

 

[Nerdkiller]

He made light of my weight problem, then suggested my motto should be "Semper Fudge". At that point he told me to "relax".

"Hey, you're alright."

 

[inm8num2]

Doesn't the dancer even rip of the ring?

LOL yup, breaks the backboard too.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Just browsing some of the old animated cels that the show was once painted on.

 

[Professor Beef]

 

[AniHawk]

I am definitely not the first person to mention this, but I will always love that Homer thinks that the ballet would have 6 other people in the crowd, and he's the only thing cheering.

in the older seasons, there's a constant theme of most of the family imagining very disappointing things to most people and sort of acknowledging it, but to their own happiness.

another would be homer getting a touchdown in the superbowl and losing an incredible amount. or bart always having terrible outlooks on his future and thinking they're cool.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

I'm going into the dining room to have a conversation.
Anyone who wants to join me is welcome.

Hello, Marge. How's the family?
I don't want to talk about it- Mind your own business!

 

[Professor Beef]

I'm going into the dining room to have a conversation.
Anyone who wants to join me is welcome.

Hello, Marge. How's the family?
I don't want to talk about it- Mind your own business!

Keep it down in there, everybody!

 

[lunchtoast]

Good job to whoever made that Homer thread. Sneaking our way back into the OT.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Good job to whoever made that Homer thread. Sneaking our way back into the OT.

I never bothered to try and check that out, to be honest.

 

[inm8num2]

I never bothered to try and check that out, to be honest.

You're missing quite the party. Join us.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Loud? That's our secret word for the day!

 

[Aaron Strife]

in the older seasons, there's a constant theme of most of the family imagining very disappointing things to most people and sort of acknowledging it, but to their own happiness.

another would be homer getting a touchdown in the superbowl and losing an incredible amount. or bart always having terrible outlooks on his future and thinking they're cool.

I hear digging but I don't hear chopping!

 

[vicissitudes]

So I was reading this article on whether Michael Jackson did the guest voice on S3E1, Lisa's Birthday: http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/16/tv-legends-revealed-did-michael-jackson-actually-sing-on-the-simpsons/

Guest-starring on The Simpsons has become almost a rite of passage for celebrities. However, in the early days, producers allowed their guest stars to use pseudonyms; the first to do so, Dustin Hoffman was credited as “Sam Atic” (get it?) in Season 2’s “Lisa’s Substitute.”

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In the Season 3 premiere, “Stark Raving Dad,” Michael Jackson appeared as “John Jay Smith,” playing Leon Kompowsky, whom Homer Simpson meets after being accidentally committed to an asylum.

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The producers agreed, although as it turned out, they were so annoyed by having to evade questions about whether it was actually Jackson doing the voice they made a rule that, from that point on, all guest voices on The Simpsons would have to be willing to be credited under their actual name.

What blew me away is, I was watching S4E6 today, the "Itchy and Scratch Movie", where Lisa was telling Bart about the movie after watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnO0bJIo5Ps

I can't believe I'm still catching jokes for the first time this many years later.

 

[Dascu]

What blew me away is, I was watching S4E6 today, the "Itchy and Scratch Movie", where Lisa was telling Bart about the movie after watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnO0bJIo5Ps

Wow.

 

[The Real Abed]

You're only catching that now? I caught it a long time ago.... a few years ago I guess.

Great joke. Dustin Hoffman didn't use his name either? Wow. How different things are now where they can't wait to shove shitty celebrities in our faces.

At least the Justin Bieber joke last season was funny.

 

[inm8num2]

Sam Etic
John Jay Smith

 

[Guzim]

I'm afraid sorry doesn't cut it with this Pope.

 

[BigAT]

I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?

 

[AniHawk]

You're only catching that now? I caught it a long time ago.... a few years ago I guess.

Great joke. Dustin Hoffman didn't use his name either? Wow. How different things are now where they can't wait to shove shitty celebrities in our faces.

At least the Justin Bieber joke last season was funny.

he was 'sam etic.'

 

[AniHawk]

regarding lisa's substitute

Vitti mentioned on Twitter that the note Lisa receives at the end of the episode should've had an exclamation point at the end. He didn't catch it in the animatic and it still "haunts [him] to this day."

i think it works so much better without the exclamation point.

 

[BigAT]

regarding lisa's substitute



i think it works so much better without the exclamation point.

Agreed. Thank god for the questionable animation results of the first season.

 

[trab pu kcip]

The one you call Milhouse is gone.

 

[Nerdkiller]

OH MY GOD, the Christmas avatar on this one!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/member.php?u=31947

 

[Curufinwe]

regarding lisa's substitute



i think it works so much better without the exclamation point.

.

 

[Guzim]

OH MY GOD, the Christmas avatar on this one!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/member.php?u=31947

Hahaha, that's good.

 

[RedShift]

I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?

Unlikely sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.

 

[worldrunover]

Have you guys been watching the Simpsons World FXX app? It's fantastic. I can't handle all of it's awesomeness. Every episode right at my fingertips with minimal commercials...

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I'd love to if I had a Cox email address.

 

[lunchtoast]

Have you guys been watching the Simpsons World FXX app? It's fantastic. I can't handle all of it's awesomeness. Every episode right at my fingertips with minimal commercials...

Yeah I random that shit every night before I go to bed.

I'd love to if I had a Cox email address.

I use my parents.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

 

[Henchmen21]

Groundskeeper Willie: Shary Bobbins and I were engaged to be wed back in the old country. Then she got her eyesight back. Suddenly the ugliest man in Glasgow wasn't good enough for her.
Shary Bobbins: It's good to see you, Willie.
Groundskeeper Willie: That's not what you said the first time you saw me!

 

[TheOddOne]

The Simpsons. In 2014.