Simpsons quotations

Jr (Frank Grimes' son): He happened to like hookers, ok?

made me lol last night, from the 'krusty gets a bar mitzvah' episode:

bart: how do you know all this stuff?
lisa: i have an imaginary jewish friend. her name is rachel cohen and she just got accepted to brandeis.

When's the cut-off for the newest reference that can be made? Late 90s?

when was "shaving my shoulders.. i'm gettin it all shaved off" from? that's the most recent one i quote regularly

Hah, I saw that one the other day on my dvds actually. Forget which ep but it was an earlier one I think.

KF I dont understand your question.

Oh and what did people think of the Maggie voiced by Jodie Foster doing the Fountainhead thing? ^%$%$#$% This isnt the right thread for that but whatevs (the ep itself had some good bits, but that was just ridiculous)

I'm saying, off of how new an episode can you make a reference or a quote and fairly expect it to be understood?

shaving my shoulders is season 10 apparently, for some reason i thought it was more recent

"Attractive cousins"? What the hell?

I'm saying, off of how new an episode can you make a reference or a quote and fairly expect it to be understood?

Ahh right, yeah thats a good question. Its interesting how heavily a lot of the very old episodes/seasons catchphrases have sunk in but yes, I wonder if there's much from very recent ones? Anything past season... 12, say? Hard to know, it all blurs after a while.

You'll see all your favorite soccer stars. Like Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!

no-one's gay for moleman :(

I'm gonna be singing "I'm shaving mah shoulders" all night now.

Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

"The professor said not to let him get a boner"

I do not need this, I've got a master's degree in folklore mythology

"The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft."

Krusty on Judaism, from the bar mitzvah episode quoted above: "All these rules--I feel like I'm in a strip club!" It's funny because it's true.

The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.

^^ Delivered with pitch-perfect line reading by Willem Dafoe, no less.

line I can't exactly remember but something like

Homer: soooo ... what a twist - the cat-burglar was caught ... by the very person ... who was trying to CATCH him!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Vigilante

I love how this thread is from 2002 and even back then, everyone was like "oh god havent we DONE this?"

NO WE HAVEN'T BECAUSE THIS THREAD WAS ABOUT HAVING A CONVERSATION USING QUOTATIONS OH MY FAILURE STILL STINGS.

for some reason all day ive been thinking about the episode where homer tells marge (?) that if anything goes wrong at the plant to just blame it on the foreign guy, tibor. and the later hes upset that marge is getting a promotion and he says that '[hes] used to people getting promoted ahead of [him] at work: friends, co-workers, tibor...'

i think this joke is really funnie

thats all

That idiot Tibor lost the key, but you can jimmy it open with a credit card.

i had forgotten that joke!!

Grandpa: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

I think this everytime I look at the brostep thread.

"stealing, stealing, stealing a car for Moe, da da da da, da daaa da, insurance fraud today!"

You kids don't know Grand Funk? The wild shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drumwork of Don Brewer? Oh, man!

Followed immediately by a quote whose punchline has worked its way into my everyday vocab: "Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft."

Yup, Homerpalooza was the source of my Grandpa quote, too; just watched it the other day.

Marge: What's wrong, Homie?
Homer: (sighs) I went to the record store today and they were playing
all that music I've never heard of. It was like the store had
gone crazy.
Marge: Hmm. Record stores have always seemed crazy to me, but it
doesn't upset me. Music is none of my business.

Every line in that is quotable.
"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins."
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely."

My favorite, more for the delivery than the line itself, is Peter Frampton's exasperated, "Come on! Do you feel!"

My four-year-old's obsessed with the Simpsons at the moment, which is great because I'm rewatching old episodes for the first time in years, but it does mean she now uses phrases like "What the hell?" It's swearier than I remember.

Looking over the transcript for "Homerpalooza" it's just . . . credited writer Brent Forrester is listed as the writer of four episodes: This, "Homer vs. Patty & Selma," "22 Short Films About Springfield" and "Lemon of Troy," and they're all absolute gold. Regardless of who in the writer's room wrote what jokes, the episodes themselves are all GOAT territory.

Homer: I see these kids now with "Jive" printed on their shirts. Pftt... Now, I can teach you how you're supposed to say "jive".
Lisa: Dad... Please just drive the car, dad.
Homer: I'm watching the road, sweetie. You jive turkey. See? You got to sass it. Quit jivin' me, turkey. You got to sass it. A "turkey" is a bad person.

I mean can I just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tn9lSERpA

One of my favorite moments in the whole series:

Marge: I'm sorry: Homer doesn't mean to be rude, he's just a very complicated man.
[Homer appears at the bedroom window, breaks a plate over his head]
Homer: Wrong!

^^^^^^^^^ YES

"22 Short Films About Springfield" and "Lemon of Troy" are easily 2 of my top 10 alltime. Wonder what it would take to get Forrester to make a return. Quick look at wiki shows he wrote a number of episodes for "The Office," too.

Hmmm, he also wrote the screenplay for this (never heard of it, but it doesn't look promising...)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/The_Stupids.jpg

According to the commentaries, writing credit goes to whoever came up with the idea for the episode. Some/many/most of the jokes may have been written by others (e.g, John Vitti is credited with "Mr. Plow," but Conan O'Brien came up with the radio-dial gag).

Are you mad, Frink! Put down that science pole!

Speaking of Frink: "Ivan Reitman!"

Not sure what prompted the below exchange to pop into my head this morning but it made me happy:

Grimey: But it's a contest for children!
Lenny: Yeah! And Homer beat their brains out!

It's not the mayor's fault that the stadium collapsed

But what about daddy daughter day?

You've got a date with the Xerox machine

It's a regional dialect

Let's see if they wore underwear back then

I am sad to report that I have reached the age where classic-era Simpsons is way more fun to quote than to watch

That said...

no one who speaks German could be an evil man!