question of the day: Will future generations understand ‘The Simpsons’?
Will we have future scholars footnoting The Simpsons to explain why Kent Brockman and Rainier Wolfcastle are funny?
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watch it: “The Full McBain Movie Hidden Throughout Simpsons Epsiodes”
Doh! It’s not embeddable. But it’s worth clicking over to Gawker.tv to have a look at it. Then come back here and start planning the sequel…
Fox News has no sense of humor; where the heck is the original ‘Tron’?; entire ‘Walking Dead’ writing staff fired; more: leftover links
Plus: political activism lands Mark Ruffalo on terror watchlist; jail time for modifying Xbox 360s; BP will make a movie about Gulf oil spill; more…
Fox doesn’t understand the Internet, or its audience, or the state of TV today
Back in March, I bitched about how ABC had pulled its broadcast feeds from Cablevision, my cable provider, over fee disputes. And now the same thing is happening again, with Fox…
question of the day: Is Banksy’s ‘Simpsons’ couch gag a load of pretend outrage, or is it eye-opening commentary?
Enigmatic British street artist Banksy struck again last night: on U.S. television. He supplied the ‘couch gag’ bit during the opening credits of a new episode of The Simpsons entitled ‘MoneyBart,’ and it’s a doozy…
omg: somewhere in an alternate universe, Lisa Simpson is getting married today
Reader Martin reminds me that in a Simpsons-flavored parallel future-now, today — August 1, 2010 — was to have been the day that Lisa would have been marrying Hugh Parkfield…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: What if the Doctor visited Springfield?
Springfield Punx is the blog of artist Dean T. Fraser, where he parodies stuff he loves in the style of The Simpsons. He recently celebrated Doctor Who Week: There’s lots more — Daleks, the TARDIS, Rory, even an animated Weeping Angel — at Springfield Punx. (Thanks to reader JJoseph for the heads-up. If you stumble … more…
more adventures in corporate Hollywood totally misunderstanding the Internet
I wrote recently about how the people behind Kick-Ass missed a golden opportunity to engage with fans of the film when they failed to do anything with the domain redmist.org, which features prominently in the film. Two more examples of the same mystifying failure cropped up over the past few days. Last Thursday’s installment of … more…
question of the weekend: Fortune cookies: what the hell?
Last night I was the recipient of the downright weirdest fortune out of a faux Chinese cookie ever: “Maybe you can go to the moon in the next century.” Or it might have been “Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century.” I thought I’d saved it, but now I can’t find … more…
I be Simpsonized
I don’t know how I only just discovered this, when it’s a tie-in from the 2007 Simpsons Movie, but this only just crossed my radar. There’s a site where you can upload a photo of yourself, and it will make you a character on The Simpsons. So I uploaded the photo of me you see … more…
