On the Internet, The Simpsons are like photos from nude beaches and videos of skateboarders slipping off stair rails and crushing their nuts. People can't get enough of them.
I recently came across one of the best of the fan sites, Subtly Simpsons a collection of the wittiest lines from the show with context provided.
Fidel Castro: "They named a street after me in San Francisco. [Whispering] It's full of WHAT?"
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Lisa: Oedipus is the one who killed his father and married his mother.
Homer: "Argh! Who paid for that wedding?"
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Principal Skinner: "Do you kids want to be like the real UN, or do you want to squabble and waste time?"
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Homer: (On the smuggling of jeans into Springfield.) "Think about the real victims: Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Antoine Bugleboy — people who saw an overcrowded market and said, 'Me, too!'"
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TV commercial advertising the World Cup: "Come see the battle to determine what the greatest nation on this planet is: Portugal or Mexico."
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Grandpa: "I'm an old man, no one listens to me."
Lisa: "I'm a young girl, no one listens to me."
Homer: "I'm a white male aged 18 to 49, everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are."
He then goes to the cabinet and takes out a can of food titled, "Nuts and Gum: Together at Last."
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Sign on the school: Parent-Teacher Night: Let's share the blame.
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Homer: "You don't quit your job because you don't like it, you just go in and do it really half-assed."
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Marge: (To Lisa on why people don't hire 8-year-olds as babysitters.) "People want to hire someone mature, someone whom they can trust. That's why they hire teen-agers."
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Kent Brockman: (On the Olympics at Springfield.) "Springfield is expecting an economic boom from the Olympics like the one Sarajevo experienced after the '84 Olympics."
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Lisa: This is so cool, Bart. We're just like Woodward and Bernstein.
Bart: Yeah, except their dad wasn't waiting in the car reading Archie comics.
Other Web Finds:
• 30 Blogs of the Year — Some great ones make the list. Mine must've been No. 31.
• Who Invents This Crap? — Products available online that certify the insanity of the human race.
• Industrious Clock — A cool way to check the correct time. Of course, if you have a watch that works, you really only have to visit this clever site once.
• Fontifier — Install a font on your computer made from an example of your writing. Of course, script text online is incredibly unreadable and annoying.
• TruckNutz for Auction — Listed in eBay's "Weird" category: plastic, hairless testicles to hang from your jeep. (Sign that reads "White Trash" not included.)
http://www.as.ua.edu/amstud/homepage/scheduleofclasses.html
Link to course offered at University of Alabama.
AMS 100 Homer Simpson’s America
Posted by art at January 7, 2004 12:49 PMGTA Tony Daily (One Hour)
100-103: MWF 1:00-1:50 Course meets 1/07/04-2/11/04
100-203: MWF 1:00-1:50 Course meets 2/16/04-3/19/04
Without a doubt, The Simpsons are more than cartoon characters. They are the quintessential American family. They are a functional whole composed of dysfunctional individuals; each part represents some stereotype or niche that, like it or not, we all fall into. First and foremost The Simpsons is a satire. However, there is more to be attributed to the success of the show than its position as a source of entertainment. From the "D'oh" of Homer, to the "Hey-diddly-ho" of Flanders and the "Ehhh-xcellent" of Mr. Burns, The Simpsons has much to say about us individually and how we function in the larger whole of American society. This class is an examination of our Simpsonian lives. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll think of things that you probably didn't while you were watching the family at home on your soapbox. You'll learn about The Simpsons and maybe, hopefully, even a little something about yourself and the society you live in.