Honest_Man#1 Posted November 22, 2015 Author Share Posted November 22, 2015 When there are quote where the name is in light blue can folk see what is written after it without having to click on the page? Or is it just my app Not a criticism HonestMan, just a query I never use the app so not really sure what you mean. It looks fine without having to click to any page on the laptop and mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munro7 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 I use the app & I only see the names too, was the same in some of the film quiz threads, couldn't see some of the questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Afraid I'm not sure how to fix that (other than typing out the quotes rather than copying and pasting, but I'm not going to do that), sorry! I'll try and stick up the next couple today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 #14 - $pringfield (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) - (22 points) IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 Number 14 on the list is another Monty Burns based classic. Although this one is an unusual one for the list as it's heavily focused on Marge, as she becomes addicted to gambling after Burns opens his own casino in the town to try and revitalise the economy. Homer takes a job as a blackjack dealer and when Marge goes to visit him at the casino, this is where she first tastes the sweet, sweet joy of gambling on slot machines and instantly becomes hooked. Whilst Marge basically lives in the casino, the Simpson household crumbles and this provides one of the funniest and saddest moments of the episode when the job of helping Lisa to create a Florida costume for a school project - and he sticks her in a mattress type thing, with an orange glued to it and Florida spelt wrong. A lot of the comedy comes from Burns (as usual in his episodes where he inevitably steals the show) as he begins to get more and more worried about germs. He watches the casino on the security cameras whilst laying in bed, becoming increasingly paranoid. Highlights: GAMBLOR!!! When Burns designs and builds his own areoplane, and wants Smithers to hop in. When Homer fucks over James Bind by dealing him out a Joker card. Quotes: Lisa: [about her state costume] I'm a monster! Homer: No, lisa, you're not a monster. The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! We must save your mother from his neon claws! [Lisa has had a nightmare] Lisa: Well, I know it's absurd, but I dreamed the boogeyman was after me, and he was hiding under... Homer: Ahhhhhhhhhh! Boogeyman! You nail the windows shut, I'll get the gun! [Homer bursts into Bart's room] Homer: Bart, I don't want to alarm you, but there may be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house! Bart: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Mr. Burns: Smithers, I've designed a new plane! I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild Airport to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes! Smithers: That's quite a nice model, sir. Mr. Burns: Model? Mr. Burns: [holding a model airplane] We'll take the spruce moose! Hop in! Smithers: But sir, it's just a mod... Mr. Burns: [takes out a pistol] I said, "Hop in." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 The Spruce Moose bit always has me laughing. Brilliant episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabGaz Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I love that episode. The James Bond bit gets me all the time: "But it was Homer's fault. I can't lose. I never lose" as Bond is getting dragged off by Blofeld's henchmen is priceless. I also like the bit where the performing tiger has a flashback to his pre-captive days then mauls Gunter & Ernst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Wasn't the James Bond bit part of the unseen footage in the Troy McClure clip show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Henry Kissinger is the best bit about that episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Wasn't the James Bond bit part of the unseen footage in the Troy McClure clip show. That's what I thought. I remember watching that episode a couple of months back for the first time in years and when it cut to the picture of Lisa and Ralph I was laughing for a solid 5 minutes Excellent episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 #13 - Colonel Homer (23 points) IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 Number 13 on the list is another episode centred around Homer. In this episode, after Homer fights with Marge and goes to a redneck bar to have a few beers. he discovers the beautiful voice of Lurleen Lumpkin. In an attempt to share her voice with the world, Homer becomes her manager and invests the family's life savings into her career. He spends more and more time with Lurleen and less and less with Marge and the family, and Marge begins to worry that she might lose Homer to another woman. However, when Lurleen makes a move on Homer in her trailer, he runs back to Marge in one of the most heart-warming moments to appear on the list. Our Homer always comes good when the chips are down! I'll be honest, it's been too long since I've seen this classic so for the highlights and quotes you'll need to add your own! Highlights: Homer repeatedly struggling to understand the lyrics of Lurleen's song 'Bunk with me tonight'. The real highlight of this episode isn't a comical one, but the moment where Homer explains to Lurleen that all he wanted was to share her voice with the world and that he loves his wife and kids, before strolling back into his bedroom in full cowboy attire. Quotes: Homer: Marge, you're standing in the way of my boyhood dream of managing a beautiful country singer. Marge: Your boyhood dream was to eat the world's biggest hoagie, and you did it at the county fair last year, remember? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Terrific episode. Watched it last night. No huge laughs but funny from beginning to end. Is this the only episode where the writing us credited solely to Matt Groening? I love how the episode ends with the cowboy hat being thrown towards the POV. Classy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I'm a big fan of that episode actually although I seldom get to see it as it's never on TV and my DVD is scratched and it only seems to affect that episode on the disc so I often have to skip about 10 minutes in before it plays normally. Some cracking episodes so far. I just want to take a few days off work now and go through the first 9 or 10 seasons back to back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Colonel Homer is a good episode, but I prefer The Last Temptation of Homer when it comes to the Homer playing away episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Robert Goulet is the best part about $pringfield. Are you from the casino? I'm from a casino. Good enough, let's go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Robert Goulet is the best part about $pringfield. Are you from the casino? I'm from a casino. Good enough, let's go. Your manger told you to shut up! Vera said that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Robert Goulet is the best part about $pringfield. Are you from the casino? I'm from a casino. Good enough, let's go. "Oh! I'm sorry, kid." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted November 27, 2015 Author Share Posted November 27, 2015 Joint #11 - Bart vs Australia (25 points) IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 Coming in at joint 11th place is Bart vs Australia. The episode obviously revolves around Bart after he makes a collect call to a house in the Australian outback to find out if water really does drain the opposite way in the southern hemisphere. The boy answering the call leaves him on the line for hours and racks up a huge bill of nine hundred dollary-doos which his father is incensed about. This sparks an international incident and after Bart is charged with fraud, the Aussies say that all they want is a public apology, which leads to the Simpson family having to go to Australia to see if they can help repair relations with the US. When Bart makes his apology however, the Aussies also want to finish proceedings by booting Bart with a huge shoe. Homer and the family run to the US embassy to hide, but eventually Bart accepts that he mus be booted and agrees to have the Australian Prime Minister administer the kick. However, when the PM goes to do it, Bart drops his shorts and mocks the PM and the country before the Simpsons jump into a helicopter, leaving Australia to deal with their growing bullfrog problem (also introduced by Bart). Highlights: A classic game of knifey-spoony. Bart trying to escape by jumping into a kangaroo's pouch before realising it's filled with mucus. The mistranslation between Bart and a southern american general leading to him believing that the rebels are about to storm the capital. Quotes: U.S. Ambassador: Good news, we've worked out a compromise that will allow both nations to save face. Conover: We've argued them down to... a booting. Marge: We have those in America. They're called bull frogs. Australian Squeaky-Voiced Teen: That's weird! I'd have called them chuzzwazzers! Homer: When will you people learn? In America we stopped using corporal punishment and things have never been better. The streets are safe, old people strut confidently through the darkest alleys and the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer programming abilities. So, like us, let your children run wild and free, for as the old saying goes, "Let your children run wild and free." Australian with Spoon: You call that a knife? [the man pulls out a spoon] Australian with Spoon: *This* is a knife. Bart: [confused] That's not a knife, that's a spoon. Australian with Spoon: Alright, alright you win. I see you've played knifey-spoony before. Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee. Bartender: Beer it is. Marge: No, no. Coffee. Bartender: Beer. Marge: Coff-fee. Bartender: Be-ear. Marge: C-O... Bartender: B-E... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted November 27, 2015 Author Share Posted November 27, 2015 Joint #11 - A Fish Called Selma (25 points) IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 Hi, I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from such write-ups as #13 Colonel Homer and #18 Homie the Clown. The other joint 11th place finisher is one of the few Simpsons classics that doesn't centre around one of the main characters, but instead follows Selma in her quest for love with Troy McClure. After Troy has to go to the DMV where Selma works, they enter into a relationship but all is not as it seems. Troy is using the sham relationship to further his career after rumours circulate about him having a strange sexual fish fetish. At first Selma is happy with the arrangement, but when she decides that she wants a baby and Troy is willing to have one to keep up his happy family appearance, she decides that she needs a real relationship instead. Again I haven't seen this one in a good while so I encourage you to add in your own highlights. Highlights: Homer describing what a muppet is Quotes: Selma: [firmly] Troy is this a sham marriage? Troy: [causally] Sure, baby, is that a problem-o? Lisa: Dad, what's a Muppet? Homer: Well, it's not quite a mop, it's not quite a puppet, but man... [laughs hysterically] Homer: So to answer your question, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 'Hey I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?' 'No what I said was that he sleeps with the fishes.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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