Simpsons quotations

that ep is def. top ten all time. easily best of the season

A co-worker of mine was talking to his mother on the phone just now, and mentioned his wife and kids going to the county fair with some friends and said, "They're Albanians," and before I could stop myself I interjected, "You mean all white with pink eyes?"

I hope he got the reference.

He did!

stuck in my head since I came across it again last weekend.

"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio your karate outfit, and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV." "What's on?" "It doesn't matter."

and:

"I was a fool to help that horrible old man!" "I hope you learned your lesson Lisa. Never help anyone."

Someone at work was asking of a training aid designed by one of our other sites "What's inside the electrical cabinet?"

I couldn't help saying "a family of possums. The big one is called Bitey."

ONE OTHER PERSON got it.

Mission accomplished, man. Also get a job at a better company.

Has the show got better again? I remember several people saying it had gone seriously downhill a bit over a decade ago so I haven't really sat through new ones since. Noticed the drop in quality and move toward formula at the time. It involved things including the treatment of the characterisation of Homer where he just became mindlessly stupid.
It also moved away from the visual quotations of films which I liked from earlier seasons.
I noticed it went from sidesplittingly funny to just about humourous and largely formulaic.
So has it got good again?

Not that I've noticed. The recent flurry of posts here is for old episodes.

yup - if I ever see anything that I think is new I switch off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trn91xkJ0w

"What was her problem?"

https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screenshot-search-engine/

e.g. https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=i%27m+a+white+male&e=S04E09&t=614863

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=ever+been+to+a+dentist

https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=The+tar+fumes+are+making+me+dizzy&e=S04E15&t=641256

"Malibu Stacy: America's favorite eight-and-a-half incher..."

I can never resist saying, after completing almost any domestic task from washing the dishes to making the bed, "And that's the end of that chapter"

Skinner: "excuse me is there an orange Julius stand on this floor?"

Lionel Hutz: "I'll sell you this one, its almost full!"

Skinner: "well why don't I drink out of a toilet bowl?" *walks away*

Lionel Hutz: "he'll be back"

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-20aTBCmpzEw/VzjUbYCssBI/AAAAAAAAYMI/mBYLYxLOJHI4Jl4xv3UHKuTkl4M2ayoxQCLcB/s1600/allyoucaneat.jpg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/18/man-who-ate-plates-sushi-banned-all-you-can-eat-buffet/?utm_term=.20d48c9c9b30

[Aging congressman has heart attack]

Marge: Quick! Somebody perform CPR!

Homer: [Thinks for a moment, starts singing] I see a bad moon rising

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!