Why 'The Simpsons' has nothing to fear from 'The Family Guy'
Anyone remember the Simpsons episode when Lisa spends the night in the graveyard to conquer her fears? (It was on last night). Anyways, all and all a fairly mediocre episode I thought, except for one point, when Lisa says something like "If Scooby Doo has taught me anything it's that the only thing to fear is crooked real estate developers". About 5 seconds later there's a scene with an owl flying out of a hole in a tree and Lisa running through some bushes into a wall of bats. Took me a few seconds to remember, but that's directly out of the opening to Scooby Doo (of course replace Lisa with Shaggy and Scooby). There was some good pant urination taking place over that one.
posted by WorldWideWonder @ 12:23 PM
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the simpsons is brilliant. i was cleaning my apartment the other day and dug up some old forest hill yearbooks. in my grad comment, one thing i said was "the simpsons rule". that was in 1994. not that i can take credit for the writers subsequently churning out many more seasons of quality stuff. i wasn't tryint go predict anything. but the amazing part is not that the simpsons was awesome. but that it wa sawesome for so long.
some of you have already heard my pet theory. so, shakespeare, in its day, was just popular entertainment. with some clever witticisms, social commentary, etc. so i think 500 years from now, the simpsons will attain that level of prominence.
plus it's more fun quoting the simpsons than shakespeare.
"cartoons don't have any deep meaning. they're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh." -- homer simpson
Ah...so many memorable Simpsons moments. A lot of subtle ones too, like the one you mentioned, Damian. One awesome one was when the kids tied skinner up in the bag they keep the dodgeballs in and he finally manages to free the school hamster at tells him "Quick, nibbles, chew through my ballsack." Now that I think about it...that's not all that subtle. But still funny though.
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