The Simpsons

[epilogue]

RIP

Great talent. Tremendously funny.

[bart]

Word round the campfire is that The Simpsons are going to kill off a major character this season, who do you think it will be? Will Barney finally die from drinking? Will Abe Simpson just die from old age? Will Chief Wiggum finally have one too many doughnuts?

Place your bets!

RIP Marcia Wallace.

[Chris_H_2]

Word round the campfire is that The Simpsons are going to kill off a major character this season, who do you think it will be? Will Barney finally die from drinking? Will Abe Simpson just die from old age? Will Chief Wiggum finally have one too many doughnuts?

Place your bets!

Edna Krabappel

[gardenparty]

RIP...Edna will be missed

Homer, I don't think you should wear a short sleeve shirt with a tie

Ohh, but Sipowicz does it

[RussellManiac12]

RIP Marcia Wallace.

Poor old Edna. The kids done her in

You could see it coming from a mile away, but when I watched the local news report on this they said she provided the voice for "Mrs. Crab Apple", which is especially sad because they are a FOX affiliate.

Of course this was KTVU, famous for the Sum Ting Wong, etc. pilot names.

[stip]

Does anyone here play that Simpsons:tapped out iOS game?

[MattA75]

Does anyone here play that Simpsons:tapped out iOS game?

I tried it out and hated it...just seemed very boring and repetitive to me

[Chloe]

[super nintendo chalmers]

Does anyone here play that Simpsons:tapped out iOS game?

Hooked.

add me: ppavice

[stip]

i finally got around to adding you. look for stipelmb

[Green Habit]

This article is 100% correct.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... abase.html

More importantly, I remain firm in my belief that the most valuable resource to Simpsons fans is not the ability to watch the show whenever they want, but rather the ability to reference the show at a moment’s notice. Within this deal,The Simpsons is being used as a leverage point to build a channel brand, generate revenue, and maximize potential revenue for a new channel; within popular culture, however, The Simpsons is used as a generator of meaning, a way to communicate that is best served with a different non-linear application that this deal would seem to render impossible (or at least highly unlikely).

The Simpsons Clip Database is an idea I’ve been tweeting about for a few years now. Every time I want to make a Simpsons joke on Twitter or Facebook, I search YouTube hoping that someone has managed to post the exact 10-second clip I’m looking for. For some people, this sounds crazy; for me, and others like me, this is common sense. The most common instance for me is any time I am attending or discussing a BBQ: When I wanted to make this joke earlier this year, I searched YouTube and was excited to find a copy of the exact clip that every Simpsons fan knows I’m talking about because that’s how this works. It was filmed off a television screen, and could be deleted at any moment. However, it allowed me to both contextualize the reference for those who weren’t familiar, while simultaneously inviting those who get the reference to revisit the joke within the context of the episode, but through the logic of viral video rather than taking thirty minutes to stream an episode.

We don’t think about The Simpsons in terms of episodes, not in our contemporary moment. While I will be happy to revisit various Simpsons episodes in their entirety on FXX or FXNow, and I will on occasion pull out my DVDs and watch a few episodes back-to-back, how we think of and use The Simpsons on a daily basis comes in the form of jokes, bits, and memorable sequences. The Simpsons travels in these bite-sized chunks, and the value of The Simpsons in the age of online streaming should ideally reflect this. What I’ve long proposed is an online app that allows you to create your own clips based on classic Simpsons episodes: Users can select a brief section of an episode to isolate, create metadata to make it searchable within a database, and then share that clip through social media.

[Chris_H_2]

http://www.threadless.com/thesimpsons/

I have my credit card on standby.

You can use it now:

http://www.threadless.com/simpsons-t-sh ... 513_am_103

[Chris_H_2]

Just got the Milhouse, Monorail, and Lard Lad t-shirts. I'm thinking of buying the print for the Simpson's ball.

[Norah]

Final selections are pretty weak.

[Chris_H_2]

Final selections are pretty weak.

Yeah, I agree. Some of the ones during voting were pretty stellar.

[stip]

i didn't see the voting. I like the homer coming through the hedge shirt

[Norah]

I wanted the Kirk van Hauten tour shirt. Or the demo tape one.

[EJ]

I appreciate that someone made a simple one, as is, from a classic episode.

[Leatherhead]

Tomacco

Great episode. I just learned a week ago that tomatoes and tobacco were the first genetically modified crops in the U.S.

[MattA75]

I put this in the Star Wars thread as well, but it should be shared here too