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Watching too much of the Simpsons
Posted: 2003-06-07 11:50am
by Tsyroc
I think over the years that I've finally reached the point where I've watched too many Simpsons' episodes. I still like them but they are begining to have too much impact on my life.
I don't know what was first but "ay caramba" and "D'oh!" have been in my vocabulary for while. "D'oh!" definately gets lots of use.
Other things that have worked their way in are Marges' "mmmmmm", Homer's "Idunno" complete with shoulder shrug and vacant look. His nervous finger twiddle, and occasionally the accompanying whine, is also a regular.
Others that make ocassional appearances are "excellent" and "ha ha".
But the one that I've noticed lately and which kind of bothers me is that when I am chugging something, esepcially in a bottle I find myself power slamming it like Barney (and many of the other characters) when they just tilt their head back and nearly suck the bottle inside out.
I've just been watching the Simpsons for too long.
Posted: 2003-06-07 11:56am
by Ghost Rider
Can't do Barney's slam
But have done the Homer special...and use Idunno and d'oh a great deal.
And beside never too much Simpsons...need more Futurama.
Posted: 2003-06-07 12:09pm
by Montcalm
Well i still watch the Simpsons 14 times per week,Monday through Friday at 4.30 pm on TQS and 5 pm on CBC,Saturday 3 episodes from 4.30 to 6 pm and Sunday night at 8 on Global tv.
Posted: 2003-06-07 12:29pm
by Peregrin Toker
Well, I made "If The Simpsons Was Set In The Star Trek Universe" and "If The Simpsons Was Set In The Star Wars Universe".
I'm currently working on an updated version of SW universe Simpsons - and:
If H.P. Lovecraft Wrote "The Simpsons"....
Take care.... beware! Pull the strings!
Posted: 2003-06-07 12:30pm
by Col. Crackpot
too much simpsons? are you on crack? No.you'll know you have watched to much simpsons when you can wite a 10 page paper detailing the contributions made by Bart Simpson to US-Canadian relations. (you laugh. i have seen this done)
Posted: 2003-06-07 12:37pm
by Montcalm
If you enter a contest like this then you`re obsessed with the Simpsons
Ay caramba
Posted: 2003-06-07 01:07pm
by Tsyroc
It's unlikely that I'll ever give up on watching the Simpsons but you have to admit that you'd all be creeped out too if you caught yourself starting to resemble Barney Gumble, or even Homer?
Posted: 2003-06-07 01:31pm
by neoolong
Too much Simpsons? I understand the words but the sentence just doesn't make any sense.
Posted: 2003-06-07 01:36pm
by Tsyroc
neoolong wrote:Too much Simpsons? I understand the words but the sentence just doesn't make any sense.
I just find it sort of scary when I start having more and more traits incommon with Simpsons characters. Now if I were built like Ranier Wolfcastle and as rich as Mr. Burns I wouldn't be complaining but I seem to be going the Homer Simpson / Barney Gumble with a smidge of Bart route.
Posted: 2003-06-07 01:43pm
by Montcalm
Tsyroc wrote:I just find it sort of scary when I start having more and more traits incommon with Simpsons characters. Now if I were built like Ranier Wolfcastle and as rich as Mr. Burns I wouldn't be complaining but I seem to be going the Homer Simpson / Barney Gumble with a smidge of Bart route.
And nothing like Smithers
Posted: 2003-06-07 01:48pm
by Tsyroc
Montcalm wrote:
And nothing like Smithers
No, he goes on better vacations than I do.
Plus, he likes his job A LOT better than I like mine.
Posted: 2003-06-07 06:36pm
by Mark S
Too much Simpsons? The devil you say! I understand what you mean, I use all the same catch phrases in daily life. I don't have a problem with it. Now quit this twiterpatted baffoonery or I'll release the hounds.
Posted: 2003-06-07 11:16pm
by Gandalf
I use D'oh!, and "Idunno" (complete with shoulder movement and vacant look) a LOT. Plus my friends and I quote it incessantly. And to cap it off I've seen every ep screen in Australia.
Posted: 2003-06-08 12:05am
by Tsyroc
Mark S wrote:Too much Simpsons? The devil you say! I understand what you mean, I use all the same catch phrases in daily life. I don't have a problem with it. Now quit this twiterpatted baffoonery or I'll release the hounds.
Excellent.
D'oh!
Double D'oh!.....
Posted: 2003-06-08 12:13am
by Sea Skimmer
You speak the impossibul! BURN HIM!
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:00am
by Frank Hipper
Improvident lackwits! Too busy struttin' about your atom mills....
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:07am
by TrailerParkJawa
I make numerous references to the Simpsons during the week, but only with others who would understand.
I sometimes think of a certain scene when something happens in life. Eating something too spicy makes me think of Lisa Simpson "I can see through time!"
I was helping a friend shop for baby clothes, and I saw one of those one piece winter suits, and I was like "look its Maggie"
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:10am
by Gandalf
Frank Hipper wrote:Improvident lackwits! Too busy struttin' about your atom mills....
Stridin', not stuttin'. And mill, not mills.
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:10am
by Howedar
The new episodes suck, but the older ones are still classics that I watch whenever I can.
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:13am
by Gandalf
Howedar wrote:The new episodes suck, but the older ones are still classics that I watch whenever I can.
Amen. Though some of the newer one's have good quotes.
In Bronson, Missouri...(A town where everyone looks like Charles Bronson)
"Hey ma, how 'bout some cookies?"
"No dice."
"This ain't over."
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:30am
by Frank Hipper
Gandalf wrote:Frank Hipper wrote:Improvident lackwits! Too busy struttin' about your atom mills....
Stridin', not stuttin'. And mill, not mills.
It's been
years, and there is more than one of you I'm addressing.
Hence "lackwit
s".
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:33am
by Gandalf
Frank Hipper wrote:Gandalf wrote:Frank Hipper wrote:Improvident lackwits! Too busy struttin' about your atom mills....
Stridin', not stuttin'. And mill, not mills.
It's been
years, and there is more than one of you I'm addressing.
Hence "lackwit
s".
It's been years for me too. I feel like those guys from All Quiet on the Western Front, I'm old, but can still whomp the noobs.
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:53am
by Frank Hipper
Gandalf wrote:It's been years for me too. I feel like those guys from All Quiet on the Western Front, I'm old, but can still whomp the noobs.
N00B? I saw their first appearance on the Tracey Ullman show! On it's original broadcast!
Posted: 2003-06-08 02:57am
by Gandalf
Frank Hipper wrote:Gandalf wrote:It's been years for me too. I feel like those guys from All Quiet on the Western Front, I'm old, but can still whomp the noobs.
N00B? I saw their first appearance on the Tracey Ullman show! On it's original broadcast!
Sorry, I didn't mean to say you were a Noob. It was meant to read; "I feel like we're like those guys...".
Re: Watching too much of the Simpsons
Posted: 2003-06-08 05:11am
by aphexmonster
Tsyroc wrote:I think over the years that I've finally reached the point where I've watched too many Simpsons' episodes. I still like them but they are begining to have too much impact on my life.
If you like the simpsons ... i bet you hate the familly guy