I’d put the comma after the fifth note- which is the only long note and should thus should be the only “doo.” Shh! Do-do do do doo, do do do do.
Ok, you have proven yourself a worthy keyboard to text transcriber. When a SDMB board is started, you can do keyboards.
I’ll be on electric guitar: daa daa daaa da da da daa, da da daa da da daaaa!
I just saw it last night and I enjoyed it. It wasn’t an awesome movie but it was a very good Simpsons episode. It felt like a regular Simpsons episode just a little bigger and longer.
In the very begininning I was worried about how they could stretch it out to 90 minutes and then when it was over I was thinking, “Wow, it’s over already?” Which is a good thing.
I loved the bit with Bart’s doodle. I knew I would be seeing it and when he was skateboarding down the street and they were doing the gag of it always being coincidentally consealed I got a little bummed because I thought they were not going to show it and then BAM! A good 5 seconds of Willy-Time and only Willy-Time. I laughed good and hard at the flip-flop of seeing all of Bart except his doodle to seeing none of Bart except his doodle.
I liked the movie. Not the best but still enjoyable.
This reminded me of another gag I enjoyed: Green Day requiring lyrics for the Simpsons theme. Also, the NSA listening in on conversations: “About your Meat Lovers’ Pizza? I like meat, but I don’t know if I’m ready to love.”
Jerry Beck pointed out another person who’s making a lot of d’oh off of this: Oscar-winning lyricist Paul Francis Webster. Pretty good for a dead guy.
Nine thumbs up.
Yes, it was just a long episode, but that’s not a bad thing. Lots of good lines. “Yes we advertise during movies now.”
Enough with the funny bits. Anybody else think Homer’s explanation to Marge that he doesn’t think, he just (paraphrasing here) waits for the pain of the day to end so he can cuddle next to her touching, but kind of pathetic? Poor Homer; the only thing that really makes him happy is knowing Marge loves him, but he’s such a selfish idiot he keeps messing it up.
Well, sure. That’s Homer in a nutshell. He’s a freakin’ idiot and keeps doing things that endanger his hold on the only thing that he really cares about - his family. What’s worse, he can’t help himself.
Homer’s like that guy- y’know, the windmill guy? No, not Don Quixote- the guy with the windmills: when he puts his mind to something, he is determined to see it through to its conclusion, no matter how stupid that thing may be. After he learns what he’s attempting to do is incredibly stupid or dangerous, he attempts to make things right- and usually does, albeit accidentially.
The Simpsons Movie opens in Thailand tomorrow (Thursday). It’s being heavily promoted as a children’s feature. The locals don’t understand the cultural references, and anyway irony is not much of a cultural trait in Thailand. As usual with this sort of film, they’ll be curious as to just why so many Western adults who don’t have children will want to see it. They don’t see much if any difference between The Simpsons and, say, Barney the Dinosaur.
I was the only person in my theatre laughing at Itchy’s Kennedy-esque photo montage.
Same here. It is a function of being older.
[sub]I’m only 38…[/sub]
I liked the bad guy because he was so reminiscent of Hank Scorpio. (Hey, getting voiced by Albert Brooks will do that to you.)
I agree on these plots. Especially Lisa falling in love. For a girl who laments that Gore Vidal has kissed more boys than she ever will, she’s gotten around! Ralph Wiggum, Nelson, Milhouse, that guy on the ranch, the guy in the Linguo episode voiced by Frankie Muniz…
Way back when, he told Marge the one thing he could offer her that nobody else could was “complete and utter dependence.” (Which she knew isn’t a good thing.) That’s pathetic on its own, but he doesn’t usually show so much awareness that he’s a total screwup. That surprised me and I thought it made the exchange work.
Spiderpig…I still can’t get it out of my head. Plus, the crashed ambulance on the other side of the gorge was a nice touch.
Two thumbs up.
We took the kids last night (hubby and I saw it ahead of time). The 12.5 year old couldn’t breathe he was laughing so hard.
The 9.5 year old was mostly horrified 
at the language, rude hand gestures and oh, god, kissing! She had fun though!
Girls, Zoggie. Boys kiss girls.
I’m glad they didn’t use Scorpio as the bad guy. The essence of what made Scorpio funny was that, though he’s a super-baddie, the Simpsons never actually notice or care about this - to them, he’s the perfect employer. It would be really difficult to work that in to the current movie plot in any meaningful manner, and not doing so would do a disservice to the Scorpio character.
How many nooses were on the tree, 4 or 5? 
If it was only 4 then which Simpson was to be spared? It couldn’t have been Maggie since one had a pacifyer.