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On 3/18/2020 at 9:05 PM, Gardner Barnes said:

Mountian Dew... or Crab Juice?

 

On 3/18/2020 at 9:05 PM, Gardner Barnes said:

Mountian Dew... or Crab Juice?

Ohhhhhhhh.... why'd I drink all of that Crab Juice....?

  • 1 year later...

Little Cuban Kid:  "Es carne de burro."

Homer:  "Nice to be meet you."

  • 5 months later...

New account bumping an old thread.  Who's sock is this?

  • 6 months later...
  • 3 months later...

Stop whatever you are doing right now, and click the damn link:


Thirty years later, Conan O’Brien reflects on the making and legacy of “Marge vs. the Monorail,” one of the best ‘Simpsons’—and sitcom—episodes of all time

 

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Driving home one day in the early ’90s, Conan O’Brien found himself in a familiar situation: alone in his car, laughing. He had spotted a billboard that he’d never seen before. He doesn’t remember the exact details of it, but one word stuck out: “It just said ‘monorail.’ I don’t even know why.”

This giant advertisement was completely inexplicable, yet O’Brien also saw it as a perfect joke on itself. “Monorails were always funny to me because they’re a phony promise of the future,” he says. “It really is just a trolley, right?”

 

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The young Simpsons writer pitched a story about the newfangled mode of travel, which soon turned into one of the best sitcom episodes of all time. “Marge vs. the Monorail,” which aired 30 years ago this month, warned the world about charismatic men selling foolishly grandiose solutions to problems that don’t need fixing. It tells the story of a charming man named Lyle Lanley who blows into town and convinces a cash-flush Springfield to build a train that “glides as softly as a cloud.” Naturally, though, he’s a scammer. And soon after his shiny but janky system opens, “it all goes to shit,” as O’Brien puts it.

 

What the hell are you waiting for?  Click the damn link!

 

 

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It would be a good movie. John C Reilly (my neighbor) as Barney is perfection

  • 3 months later...

Pamela Hayden is retiring. Voice of Milhouse, Jimbo, Dolph, Rod Flanders, etc. The show has sucked for a long while but is this officially the beginning of the end? Marge’s voice sounds so rough in the new episodes too.

 

  • 9 months later...

Bump.

 

Today (Sept 17)  is the 30th anniversary of Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part 2.    Here's a four part oral history of the creation of the two episodes, by the writers, animators, Matt Groening and others.

 

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Bill Oakley (Writer, The Simpsons, 1991-1997): [Matt] would come in once in a while and just shoot the shit for a couple minutes.

Josh Weinstein: I distinctly remember Matt standing at the screen door saying, “Hey, we should do something like “Who Shot J.R.?” That season, we were writing a lot of scripts. So, we were in our office a lot. And we were the first office [that] he would come to on his way out of his office. I feel like he just happened to see us in our office when he had the idea. He'd often have some really great idea then be like, “Hey, you should do this.”

Bill Oakley: We're like, “Hey, that's a good idea! Let's write it down and take credit for it.”2

 

Part 1

https://dailysimpsons.substack.com/p/from-pitch-to-premiere-who-shot-mr?r=56v3l1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

 

Part 2

https://dailysimpsons.substack.com/p/from-pitch-to-premiere-who-shot-mr-8ab?r=56v3l1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

 

Part 3

https://dailysimpsons.substack.com/p/from-pitch-to-premiere-the-simpsons

Part 4

https://dailysimpsons.substack.com/p/from-pitch-to-premiere-the-simpsons-e54?r=56v3l1

 

 

 

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