Description: Explore the "actual," off-stage lives of the Simpson family, from the money and drugs to celebrity and supermodels, including testimonial from Springfield citizens about how fame tore the family apart.
A personal favorite of mine and one of the better latter day Simpsons episodes.
Homer: Why did I take such punishment? Let's just say that fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
Marge: We'd use $50 bills as toilet paper... and toilet paper as DOG toilet paper.
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Narr.: They were the first family of American laughter...
[Magazine covers featuring the Simpsons] ...surfing a tidal wave of hilarity...
[A crowd of people in a street guffaws at a projected image of Marge vacuuming] ...onto the sands of superstar bay. But behind the chortles, this
funny fivesome was trapped in a private hell.
[A photo of the Simpsons driving on the Simpsons driving on the beach turns negative and black and white, then burns] Homer: [interviewed backstage] Everybody wanted a piece of us.
Marge: [interviewed on the lawn] They told us what to wear, how to dress,
which clothes we should put on.
Bart: [interviewed at the playground] The cops found me driving on the
sidewalk.
Lisa: [interviewed in her room] I had no business hosting the Oscars. After
the show, Meryl Streep spit on me!
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Marge: Nobody told us how tough it is to raise kids. They almost drove me to fortified wine.
Homer: Then we figured out we could park them in front of the TV. That's how I was raised, and I turned out TV.
Bart: TV families were always hugging and tackling issues.
Marge: Homer kept saying he could do a more realistic family show. Finally I said, "So do it. Either [bleep] or get off the pot."
Narr.: And [bleep] he did.
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Narr.: "The Simpsons" was a smash. Viewers couldn't get enough of the show's fractured take on the modern family.
Bart: The funniest stuff came right out of real life.
[Rehearsal footage: Homer and Bart sit on the front couch]
Homer: Son, let's go out for frosty chocolate milkshakes.
Bart: Cowabunga, dude!
Director: And, cut.
Bart: Dad, I've never said "cowabunga" in my life! Your script sucks!
Homer: Why, you little...! [chokes Bart]
Director: Hey, that's funny!
[Homer and Bart think for a moment, then continue the strangling as an act]
Homer: And that horrible act of child abuse became one of our most beloved running gags.
Moe: [interviewed in the bar] Oh, Homer was spending money like a teenage Arab -- heh. He bought me a Rolex and, uh, Cashmere jeans. I felt kinda guilty 'cause I was always trying to score with his wife. So, when do we start filming? [looks at camera] ...Oh.
Lenny: [interviewed on the curb outside Moe's alongside Carl] Even Bart was throwing dough around. He paid me and Carl a thousand bucks to kiss each other.
Carl: Hey, did we ever get that money?
Narr.: But reckless spending and interracial homoeroticism were just volume one of the Encyclopedia Self-Destructica.
Homer: I want to set the record straight -- [deliberately] I thought ... the cop ... was a prostitute. [nods]
^^^One of my all-time favs.
Narr.: Desperate to polish their tarnished image, the family agreed to a live appearance at the Iowa State Fair.
Lisa: Right from the start I had a bad feeling about that gig.
Narr.: It was an evening that none of them would ever forget ... or would they? No.
Narr.: The dream was over. Coming up: was the dream really over? Yes it was. Or was it?
^^^Another one of my favs.
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Ned: I'd see 'em sitting on that couch all day long, just staring at that Hollywood hogwash.
Homer: Our favorite show was "Hollywood Hogwash".
For some reason, that cracks me up.
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this is a newer episode am i right? anything after season 8 blows nuts
some stuff on season 9 is good but forget it after that
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As far as I'm concerned, this one is up there with The Principal and the Pauper in being the biggest waste of time. I just hated the gimmick. The best Simpsons episodes I believe are the ones that you can just sit back and think, wait, didn't that happen to me yesterday?
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I think this episode was great. The best part is the rediculous narration and over-the-top analogies:
"Everything was coming up roses for the Simpsons...but those roses contained ready-to-sting bees".
"Narrator: Would Willie's fence-mending eggs bear fruit? Or would his olive branch be torn apart by woodpeckers of mistrust? (Exterior of Springfield New Awareness Awards) That night, fate wore a cummerbund... of suspense."
Oh and these were great too:
Homer: "It was the best Thanksgiving ever. I mean, emotionally, it was terrible, but the turkey was so moist!"
Marge: "I learned something; when people reach for their diaphragms, they don't want to see my picture."
I think this episode was a nice way to end the highly criticized 11th season. Gimmicky episodes can be kind of annoying, but I think this one was done well.
Contrary to popular belief, this episode isn't meant to imply that The Simpsons characters on the show reside in northern Kentucky. The theory behind this is that the family of actors who play The Sipsons are originally from northern Kentucky and it is still unclear where the characters are meant to live. Kind of confusing.
I can't think of any quotes that haven't been said already.
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That was a great one too.