I liked the painted tears.
Made me think of violently colored clown-on-velvet paintings.
Twiddle, yeah but:
[spoiler]IIRC, in that episode Homer had to give up being shot with the cannon ball because if he did it again it’d kill him.
Perhaps he’s had enough time to recuperate…[/spoiler]
Eric
Ah, but Twiddle, at the end of that episode Homer was told that if he got hit by a cannon ball one more time he would die.
All said, I feel like things are looking better for the Simpsons.
Audiobottle
Yes, but human cannonballs have less power, so they might hurt less. Just a thought.
The glasses and thinking eyebrows with the pomade was hilarious. Aside from that, a good episode, I thought.
[Vet] “And Mr. Simpson, if you’re reclining in a hammock and drinking beer, please rest the can on your head or your genitals… NOT your stomach.”[/Vet]
My favorite line (of course):
“Who’s your favorite Traveling Wilbury? Is it Jeff Lynne?”
I thought the parody in PADZ was pretty dead-on, down to the camera angles and stuttering close-up in sync with the music. I also enjoyed the “Neon Signs” neon sign.
Any episode that has good Ralph quotes is good by me.
“Lisa Simpson is a girl in my school”
I had an incredibly weird experience watching this episode. We bought a new TV and for some reason, the Second Audio Program was one, which had a voiceover describing all the action (presumably for the seeing-impaired) in addition to the traditional dialogue. It was strange and more than a bit annoying; I even tried closing my eyes to see if the voiceover helped to “bridge” narrative gaps or provide additional information, but there was so much non-stop talking that I got a headache. Also, I learned that what might be a funny throw-away sight gag isn’t so funny when it’sdescribedveryrapidly in the brief seconds between characters talking.
Liked the episode, but not as much as I think I would’ve ordinarily.
Ok, now I get why that would be a continuity problem - thanks for explaining.
Hey Atreyu, any answer from chunkylover53?
Twiddle
This episode was to some degree a return to form: probably one of the best episodes so far this very uneven season, and definately near the top in the list of the last few years.
Bart’s attempt to take Marge’s mind off Lisa, and her reaction, were hilarious. The greasepaint glasses and eyebrows, the “how ironic” line, both of the mall videos (my hobbies include… ), “when do we want it!”, etc.- all great bits.
There were a few clunkers of course: the pre-commercial setups sort of fell flat (Do kids remember bad birthdays? Yeah… I’m not good?), the editing was oddly off where Wiggum throws down his and the laser hits Colt (probably deleted scenes there for time, and didn’t cover it well), and they could have had Ralph think of something else other than a nosepick line we’ve heard before.
Last night’s episode was the extremely funny.
Whoever says the Simpsons is going down hill is crazy.
Stupid Fox 5 DC!! Grumble!
I lost 7 minutes of prime Simpsons. Idiots. :mad:
First they showed the intro, then literally a tape rewinding, then the techical difficulties type screen, then the wrong episode for 7 minutes.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
That’s true…I realized that it would make more sense if someone created an AOL account just for that reason. Qu’est-ce que c’est un bounceback?
My brother and I were wondering about the cannonball and why it didn’t kill Homer, like the vet said. I did think the line about Lisa looking like a powerpuff girls was utterly adorable. 
Does this make Lisa the only Simpson to have had a birthday shown twice? (And does it make her the only girl in America to have celebrated her eighth birthday twice?) At least Bart learned from his mistake and got his sister a gift. This time it was Homer who screwed up. Will the poor kid ever get a good birthday?
i recall another time homer and bart ragging on Lisa and saying “at least it isn’t your birthday” and Lisa says “it IS my birthday!”
Yes ArchiveGuy, Descriptive Audio Programing from the seeing impaired. From the people who brought you closed captioning for the hearing impaired. SAP can be easily turned off.
And now, I’ll fill the rest of this out with random quotes from the episode:
“Help! Indians are stealing all the [McNuggets! Mmm…McNuggets…graaa…]”
“I’ll stop 'em, just as sure as my favorite book is [magazines! Zzzzz…[sub]Dad, wake up![/sub] What?]”
“Hey hey! I’m anatomically correct! Go ahead, take a look.”
“You’d better get that checked out. I had an uncle who died of crotch-dot.”
All email exchanges, even bounced ones, are recorded in server logs. I pay particular attention to the bounced messages on my server.
They have your email address. All your base belong to AOL.
Oh that’s right…when they blow up her room, and then take her to the book fair to make her feel better. Okay, so Lisa’s had three birthdays.