Simpsons Season 6...in a "Homer's Head"-shaped box...August 16, 2005

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

EPISODE SUMMARIES (courtesy of Amazon poster "Der Kommissar"):

Bart of Darkness - The Simpsons get a pool, but Bart breaks his leg before he can use it.
Lisa's Rival - A new student in Lisa's class threatens her unrivaled intelligence.
Another Simpson Clip Show - The family reminisces about lost loves. The second Simpsons clip show.
Itchy And Scratchy Land - The Simpsons take a vacation to Itchy And Scratchy Land, not expecting the violent surprise they end up getting.
Sideshow Bob Roberts - Sideshow Bob gets out of jail again, and runs against Quimby for mayor.
Tree House of Horror V - The family members become helpers at Mr. Burns' cabin, Homer gets a time-travel toaster, and the school begins killing students and serving them for lunch.
Bart's Girlfriend - Bart meets Reverend Lovejoy's daughter and discovers that she is as different from her father as is humanly possible.
Lisa on Ice - Bart and Lisa join an ice hockey league.
Homer Badman - Homer pulls off a gummy candy stuck to a woman's butt, and is accused of sexual harrassment
Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy - Grampa and Homer begin selling a homemade love potion.
Fear of Flying - Marge sees a therapist to overcome her fear of flying.
Homer the Great - Homer becomes the leader of a secret society.
And Maggie Takes Three - Homer and Marge recall the birth of Maggie.
Bart's Comet - While being forced to assist Principal Skinner with astronomical observations, Bart discovers a comet - one that will obliterate Springfield if not stopped.
Homie the Clown - A billboard encourages Homer to go to clown college, and become a Krusty stand-in.
Bart vs. Australia - The family takes an Australian vacation so that Bart can apologize for a prank phone call.
Homer vs. Patty and Selma - In a last-ditch effort to get some money to keep his house, Homer borrows from an unlikely source.
A Star is Burns - Springfield holds a film festival.
Lisa's Wedding - A fortune teller tells Lisa about her future.
Two Dozen and One Greyhounds - Santa's Little Helper impregnates a racing dog - who gives birth to twenty-five puppies.
The PTA Disbands - A school strike occurs.
Round Springfield - Bleeding Guns Murphy dies, and Lisa desperately tries to come up with a way to pay tribute to him.
Springfield Connection - Marge joins the Springfield Police, and arrests Homer when he parks illegally.
Lemon of Troy - Shelbyville kids steal Springfield's lemon tree, so Bart forms a gang to go in and retrieve it.
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1) - Mr. Burns blocks out Springfield's sunlight, which ultimately makes everyone in Springfield want to kill him - and one person tries to. This episode is concluded in the season six premiere.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009NZ2VU/ref=ase_dvdverdict3-20/002-5884908-4460840?v=glance&s=dvd

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

1. Awesome

The packaging for The Simpsons has improved and been interesting with each release and this is really neat. The episodes keep getting better and the neat packaging is a nice bonus.

[Lex]

2. Oh that's perfect!

We've gotten the first 5 so far so we'll be getting this one too!

Thanks for the heads up! (ha! a pun)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. sideshow bob roberts

hope this thing fits on my shelf

this season has one of the best ever 'sideshow bob roberts' in which a limbaugh-esque character gets sisdeshow bob to run for mayor on the republican ticket

[Lex]

4. I love this one:

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"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds - Santa's Little Helper impregnates a racing dog - who gives birth to twenty-five puppies."

Mr. Burns sings "See my vest, see my vest, made of real gorilla chest . . . " etc.

Spoof of the song "Be My Guest." Hilarious.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Sideshow Bob Roberts is a classic

A fine mahoke to you all.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. groening ripped the rw whiners again after the episode

"One poster on alt.tv.simpsons, Paul S. Galvanek, felt the entire episode
was an unnecessary attack on the Republican Party. His posts were
voluminous, scathing, and badly spelled; Matt Groening actually
quoted many of them directly in his 28-Oct-94 "Life in Hell" strip.
The strip is reproduced here. Thanks to Mike Worden for typing this
in.

Panel 1:
Groening bunny sits at his laptop. Thought balloon - "I feel
depressed and listless today. Think I'll check out the ol'
Internet."

Panel 2:
(tap tap tap)
Read my newsgroups.
Select alt.tv.simpsons
Read new messages.

Panel 3: (Reads message) In one of the most obscene efforts at mass
character assassination in television history, the entire thirty
minutes of last night's "Simpsons" episode were dedicated to
expressing every false and liberal-inspired misrepresentation of the
Republican Party ever created by a Democratic spin doctor.

Panel 4: (message continues) You have no clue how riled up I am, but
the companies that sponsored the pile of garbage last night might be
getting a hint this week. Dirty lying scumbags like Groening need
to be confronted by their hypocrisy and slanders.

Panel 5: (continues) There is nothing amusing, no satire, in
attempting to smear the Republican Party with the actual and very
serious crimes known to have been committed by the Democratic Party.

Panel 6: (continues) Despite the best efforts of the Groenings of
this world and the losers who support them, to slander their
opponents every chance the get, they're just five short weeks away
from finding out the hard way that people are wise to their crap.

Panel 7: (continues) Don't let the sleaziest least ethical elements
of the left wing in television get away with slandering the
Republican Party and its members. Attacks on you and the values you
represent should not go unanswered.

Panel 8: (continues) I would get such a kick right about now in
seeing Groening writhing in pain as he dangled by a section of his
intestine from a tree. At the very least I'm hoping for a sloooooow
painful death via some horrible illness of his nervous system, on
that allows him to remain fully aware until his very last breath.

Panel 9:
Groening bunny smiles. Thought balloon - "Why do I feel so suddenly
refreshed?"
from : http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F02.html

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Oh man, that's hilarious

Groening is great.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. and the willie horton parody in the episode is great

immediately]
Voice: Mayor Quimby supports revolving door prisons. Mayor Quimby even
released Sideshow Bob -- a man twice convicted of attempted
murder.

Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for
mayor.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I'm not familiar with Willie Horton

Do explain.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. a nasty racist ad poppy bush used gainst michael dukakis in 1988

William R. Horton Jr. (born August 12, 1951 in Chesterfield, South Carolina) is a convicted felon who was the subject of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that released him while serving a life sentence for murder, providing him the opportunity to commit a rape and armed robbery

<...>

Beginning on September 21, 1988, the Americans for Bush arm of the National Security Political Action Committee, began running an attack ad entitled "Weekend Passes," using the Horton case to attack Dukakis. The ad was produced by media consultant Larry McCarthy, who had previously worked for Ailes. After clearing the ad with television stations, McCarthy went back and added a menancing mug shot of Horton, who is African-American. He called the image "every suburban mother's greatest fear." The ad was run as an independent expenditure, separate from the Bush campaign, which claimed, as is legally required, not to have had any role in its production.

On October 5, a day after the "Weekend Passes" ad was taken off the airwaves, the Bush campaign ran its own ad, "Revolving Door," which also attacked Dukakis over the weekend furlough program. While the advertisement did not mention Horton or feature his photograph, it did depict a variety of intimidating-looking men walking in and out of prison through a revolving door. The commercial was filmed at an actual state prison in Draper, Utah, but the persons depicted - thirty in all, including three African-Americans and two Hispanics - were all paid actors. Attempting to counter-attack, Dukakis's campaign ran a similar ad about a Hispanic murderer named Angel Medrano who murdered a pregnant mother of two while on furlough from federal prison. Dukakis's ad stated Medrano's name and showed his photograph.

The controversy escalated when Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen and former Democratic candidate and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called the ad racist. In 1991, terminally ill with cancer, Atwater apologized to Dukakis for saying that he would "make Willie Horton his running mate...because it makes me sound racist, which I am not."

more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton

[Dukkha]

6. I don't like it

If you're collecting the whole series this box throws off the continuity of the collection and won't look good on the shelf next to the others.