[kj] FW: Re: who hates the simpsons.....

[Brendan]

At the end of one episode as the credits were rolling you hear the
magazine store guy go "worst episode EVER" in the most hilarious
voice...my favourite.



> yeah gotta agree Oliver, so many killer lines in each  episode, i can't

> wait

> to see the film

>

>

> 3 that keep popping into my head for no reason

>

> "Millhouse got a tip from a  4 year old  about a dead alien"

>

> " you know that corpse?"," what jimbo killed him!" no but he poked him

> with

> a stick!"

>

> "since the dawn of civilisation, man has yearned to destroy the sun!

>

>

> On 26/07/07, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>>

>> The Simpsons is great social satire. It works on one level for kids, I

>> guess, but it skewers religion (Homer being told in a moment of crisis

>> that the Bible has all the answers he needs, flips through it, and

>> announces with disgust, 'Oh, this doesn't have any answers at all!'),

>> and so much of American culture so relentlessly that a lot of it

>> probably passes over most kids' heads -- but, hey, it's a cartoon, and

>> kids love cartoons by default, right? Just like adults dismiss them by

>> default, generally.

>>

>> Recent episodes dealt with offshoring jobs to India, another with the

>> Patriot Act, Burns buying up all the media operations in Springfield,

>> the bad US healthcare system (Homer, Apu, Grandpa running in drugs from

>> Canada, when Apu is arrested for being a suspected terrorist trying to

>> cross the border)  -- they deal with a lot of serious issues but it's

>> done in such an absurdist way. I like the show -- a lot.

>>

>> -Oliver

>>

>>

>>

>> melinda grant wrote:

>> >

>> > its tosh....does not appeal to me ok..

>> >

>> >> From: uncle benny's magical bra & liquorice factory

>> >> <fatpotanga at gmail.com>

>> >> Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the

>> >> band!)"<gathering at misera.net>

>> >> To: The Gathering <gathering at misera.net>

>> >> Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke vs Johnny Cash mash up

>> >> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:12:03 +0100

>> >>

>> >> On 26/7/07 17:07, "melinda grant" wrote:

>> >>

>> >> > any way for all those simpson fans on list(--its kinda for kids and

>> >> teenagers

>> >> isnt it,not adults--well mantally backward ones perhaps..lol..ive

>> >> never liked it!!!!

>> >

>> > fats wrote.....

>> >>

>> >> Looks at shoes, scuffs ground & whistles...

>> >

>> >

>> > bet you were at the premier,wernt you  ;-D))))))

>> >>

>> >>

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