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Hi, I’m Elfo!

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Nathan

I watched the first season of Disenchantment when it was still pretty new, then didn’t get around to watching any more until the fourth was about to come out. And we don’t yet know whether there’s going to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Futurama, Humor, Magic, Names, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged alva gunderson, bender bending rodriguez, demons, disenchantment, elfo, elves, john dimaggio, king zog of dreamland, luci, matt groening, mermaids, philip j. fry, princess tiabeanie, satan, steamland, trogs, turanga leela | Leave a comment

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift | Leave a comment

California Scheming

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Nathan

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – This was a quite ambitious movie for its time, bringing together many of the most famous comic actors of the time. Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Phil … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Celebrities, Humor, Muppets, Sesame Street, Stan Freberg, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged bart simpson, beetlejuice, bert and ernie, buddy hackett, curly joe derita, dick shawn, follow that bird, homer the vigilante, it's a mad mad mad mad world, jim backus, joe besser, jonathan winters, matt groening, mickey rooney, milton berle, phil silvers, sid caesar, spencer tracy, terry-thomas, the producers, the three stooges | 1 Comment

Groening Goes Medieval

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Nathan

Disenchantment – I took a while in watching this still relatively new Netflix series created by Matt Groening, but I’m caught up as of last night. It’s an animated comic medieval fantasy, and as such the jokes focus largely on … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Families, Futurama, History, Humor, Magic, Middle Ages, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged demons, disenchantment, elfo, elves, king zog of dreamland, luci, matt groening, princess tiabeanie | Leave a comment

Simpcestry

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Nathan

There was a Simpsons tie-in book released in 1991 called The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, credited to Matt Groening, although I don’t know how much of it he actually wrote. As with most of these tie-ins, the information is pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in American Civil War, Cartoons, Comics, Families, History, Humor, Prejudice, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged abraham simpson, charles montgomery burns, clancy bouvier, homer simpson, jacqueline bouvier, kirk van houten, luann van houten, marge simpson, matt groening, milhouse van houten, mona simpson, shelbyville, springfield, the simpsons uncensored family album | 2 Comments

Welcome to the Crossover of Tomorrow!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Nathan

When I did a post a few days ago on a Disney Afternoon crossover that involved characters who presumably don’t exist in the same continuity, I had forgotten that a Simpsons/Futurama crossover was being aired on Sunday. The Simpsons has … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Futurama, Humor, Technology, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged aliens, bart simpson, bender bending rodriguez, bender's big score, brain spawn, continuity, crossovers, homer simpson, kang and kodos, lrrr, matt groening, ndnd, professor hubert farnsworth, professor john frink, seymour asses, springfield | 1 Comment

Start Digging Some Nerd Holes

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Nathan

I came across this page that discusses how The Simpsons, at least in its earlier glory days, was such a successful mix of comedy everyone could appreciate and references that only nerds would get. One sentence that particularly stood out … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Futurama, Humor, Music, Television, The Simpsons, They Might Be Giants | Tagged comic book guy, doctor who, geeks, itchy and scratchy, matt groening, nerds, newsgroups, philip j. fry, science fiction, the big bang theory | Leave a comment

Bad News, Nobody

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Nathan

Throughout its run, Futurama has had several of what could be considered series finalés. “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” was the end of the original run on Fox. Into the Wild Green Yonder marked the last of the direct-to-video … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Futurama, Humor, Star Trek, Television, The Jetsons, The Simpsons | Tagged bender bending rodriguez, data, dr. john zoidberg, dr. leonard mccoy, hermes conrad, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, marvin the paranoid android, matt groening, nibbler, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, turanga leela | 2 Comments

Trash Planet

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Nathan

WALL-E – The first time I can recall hearing of this movie was on a Simpsons DVD commentary, when supervising director Jim Reardon mentioned he was working on a film of that name, and Matt Groening replied, “Wally Gator?” Apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Corporations, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged buy-n-large, eve, jim reardon, matt groening, robots, wall-e, wally gator | 1 Comment

Crisis in Infinite Springfields

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Nathan

The Simpsons has just recently ended its twenty-fourth season, and I feel like I’m one of the few people who still watches every new episode. Someone else must be watching it, though, or they wouldn’t keep renewing it. While it … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Futurama, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged aging, amy wong, captain america, charles montgomery burns, crisis on infinite earths, cubert farnsworth, dc comics, homer simpson, iron man, marge simpson, marvel comics, matt groening, philip j. fry, principal skinner, professor hubert farnsworth, tarzan, turanga leela, waylon smithers, wolverine, x-men | 3 Comments

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