Burns: Oh, meltdown. It’s one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus.
Grandpa Simpson to old lady: Hello, beautiful!
Woman: In your dreams
Grandpa: We’ll see about that! [falls asleep and starts snoring]
Marge: Homer, it’s very easy to criticize…
Homer: and fun, too!
Another line that syndication removed, but…
Homer: I know! These wieners will give me the quick energy I need to escape!
(eats wieners, outruns the dogs and makes it back to the time-toaster).
That’s my favourite too, being a comic trifecta: It’s on a banner at a contest sponsored by Reader’s Digest, publishers of faux-leatherbound Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, and also ironic since the wit that was present in the original depended so much on Polonius’ verbosity. Genius!
You’re, people, YOU’RE! Contraction of “you” and “are”.
YOU’RE
ARRRGH!
Sorry, it’s just that a bunch of you have made that mistake repeatedly in this thread, and it’s getting to me.
Posted by Weirddave:
At this point it would be appropriate to say something about Lisa’s grammar robot, but unfortunately I can remember no particular zingers from that episode. Can anyone help?
Homer: Linguo… dead?
Linguo: Linguo IS dead.
gangster : shut up ya face
linguo: bad grammar overload
Moving along…
Speaking of signs, from the winter retreat episode, where Homer and Burns get stuck in the cabin together. A sign as they’re driving up the mountain : Mt. [whatever] Strategic Granite Reserve
Is that the same episode where Marge asks Homer, “Do you want Bart to grow up to be a Supreme Court Justice or a stripper?”
Homer: “Can’t he be both like the late Earl Warren?”
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There’s simply nothing funnier in the history of the Simpsons (IMO) than the Canyonero commercial.
The lyrics are unbelievably hilarious, but my favorite part is when Canyonero mows down the Boy Scout bus and they all stand up and salute. LMAO.
Dooku, THANK YOU!!! I’ve been trying for a while to get those lyrics (from reruns.)
“She’s a squirrel-squashin’, deer-smackin’ drivin’ machine” LOL!!!
Your welcome.
“Top of the line in utility sports. Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts.”
[sub]Yes, that was for you Weirddave :)[/sub]
Treehouse of Horror V (The Shining, Time and Punishment, and the Soylent Green take-off) which is on in my area has some great ones.
“That’s odd. The blood usually gets off on the second floor.”
Wolfian, SSHHHH, it’s shinning! Do ya wanna get sued? LOL!!!
“Trab pu kcip, trab pu kcip!” - Milhouse
“They don’t just call me Springfield Fats because I’m morbidly obese”
[Homer leans on the pool table and then it breaks under his weight]
“Now you got a lawsuit on your hands”
This isn’t a line as such, but in the episode where Marge takes a painting class (and later paints Mr.Burns) she enters an art contest. Her portrait of Homer (The Bald Adonis) is up against another painting: One of a unicorn on a cliff overlooking a burned, littered, clearcut landscape. There is a thought bubble above the unicorns head that says “Why?”.
Maybe it’s just my art school background, but that send up of bad ‘meaningful’ amature art is priceless. Makes me giggle whenever I think about it.
I also like the one where the whole family goes to the dude ranch:
Homer: Look at those city folk, in their fur coats and pointy hats!
Marge: Homer, those are elk!
“Yvan Eht Nioj” LOL!!!
Marge: Earl Warren wasn’t a stripper!
Homer: NOW who’s being naive, Marge?
Marge: Kids can be so cruel…
Bart: We can? Thanks Mom!