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longest running animated prime time series ever. possibly the most consistently subversive thing to appear on television - plenty of drug and pop culture references to infect the masses subconsciously....

Groening, Matt

Groening, Matt (1954- ), American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip "Life in Hell" and the cartoon family the Simpsons. Born in Portland, Oregon, Groening moved to Los Angeles in 1977, where he recorded his reactions to the city and to life in the comic strip "Life in Hell." In 1981 the comic went into syndication, after which several collections of his cartoon strips were published. In 1987 Groening created the Simpsons, a cartoon family featuring an outspoken son, Bart, to appear as part of a comedy show. The separate television show entitled "The Simpsons" premiered in 1990.

"How am I suppose to hallucinate with all these colors... ohhhh" - Lisa in the isolation tank
synaesthesia - Lisa trips and says "I can seeee the muuusic" with computer generated trails tracing her hands, "I am the Lizard Queen!!!!" - referencing Jim Morrison of The Doors
The Carlos Castaneda spoof, one episode was based on a DMT trip, when homer falls through the deep hole into a place filled with mischevous elves standing on mushrooms and teach him a weird lesson very reminisient of the DMT elves. When Homer eats chili made from peppers grown by inmates in a Guatemalan insane asylum...he trips and goes on a journey where he finds a spirit-guide (voiced by Johnny Cash).
Lisa took Nitrous Oxide once and a had a trip on the yellow submarine.
"Eat my shorts" was first heard in _The Breakfast Club_ (vhs/ntsc), and was one of Bender’s smart-mouthed lines in the movie. In later years, a little yellow cartoon character called Bart Simpson would make the phrase famous.
"Prayer, the last resort of a scoundrel." - Lisa Simpson
604 track _West Into The Sun_ MP3 (192k) by Benza off of _Not My Cup Of Tea_ compilation on DeMon Tea DMTCD07 (2001)

sample: "i am invicible!" - Homer Simpson

604 track _Slow Motion_ by Growling Mad Scientists

sample: "we got a report that Lisa Simpson spotted a UFO..."

Winona Ryder playing "Alison Taylor"(voice) in episode: _Lisa's Rival_ (episode # 6.2) 9/11/1994
Susan Sarandon playing "Bart's ballet teacher"(voice) in episode: "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" (episode # 6.17) 2/26/1995
Jeff Goldblum playing "MacArthur Parker"(voice) in episode: "Fish Called Selma, A" (episode # 7.19) 3/24/1996
Apu is vegan
Bart is left handed
cartoons
Anomalog:

originally started off as a short segment on the Tracy Ullman Show on the fledgling Fox Network in the late eighties. the cast eventually went on to do the voices of the Simpsons characters full time after the Tracy Ullman Show was cancelled. before it made it to television, it was a long running comic strip in a more abstract form called _Life In Hell_

_Simpsons Theme_ MP3
_Children Must Go To School_ (quicktime)
_Curfew_ (avi)(54.3megs)

references to _Twilight Zone_ episode _Kick The Can_ (vhs/ntsc); references to _Village Of The Damned_ (vhs/ntsc)

_Krusty's Death_ (avi)(19.7megs)
_Land Of Chocolate sequence_ (quicktime)(5.2megs)
_Mom & Pop Art_ (asf)(78.8megs)
_Homerpalooza_ (avi)(24.1megs)
_Trillion Dollar Bill (mpg)(41.7megs)
_Two Bad Neighbors_ (avi)(18.3megs)
_Fishing_ (mpg)(52.4megs)
_Lisa On Ice_ (avi)(25.6megs)

references Godzilla
Dolph's Apple Newton has a green apple with a worm as its logo, instead of the Apple "rainbow apple"?

_Homer Gets Committed_ (mpg)(42.5megs)
_Homer's Perfect Game_ (asf)(44megs)
_Stupid Gene_ (mpg)(50megs)
_Reality Bites_ (avi)(29.8megs)
_Homer's Odyssey_ (avi)(21megs) (Season1/Episode 3/1990)

Homer gets fired for causing another accident at the nuclear plant, and almost commits suicide. He sees the light, and becomes a safety activist, and soon goes after the plant he was fired from. [Aired January 21, 1990] NOTES: Montgomery Burns and Smithers are introduced.

_Bart's Blood_ (mpg)(44.4megs)
_Bart The Genius_ (avi)(19megs)
_Lisa Gets Lost_ (mpg)(44.3megs)
_King Size Homer_ (avi)(30.7megs)
_60's Homer_ (mpg)(66.4megs)
_Marge Vs. The Monorail_ (avi)(26.6megs)
_Poochie The Dog_ (avi)(25.5megs)
THX Parody (divx mpg)(5.4megs)
_Fat Disability Homer_ (avi)(30.7megs)
_Grade School Confidential_ (avi)(23.5megs)
_Blood Feud_ (mpg)(44.4megs)
_Trip To Tokyo_ (mpg)(30.1megs)
The Shining parody excerpts (quicktime)(6.7megs)
Flintstones parody intro (avi)(2.4megs)
Marge & Homer having sex
_Homer Goes To College_ (mpg)(47.3megs)
_Homer Goes Retro_ (mpg)(66.4megs)
_Pokeymom_ (avi/divx)(65megs)
_New Kids On the Blecch_ (avi)(64.4megs)
_Bart Sells His Soul_ (asf)(64megs)
_Tomacco_ (mpg)(26.5megs)
_Marriage Trouble_ (mpg)(52.4megs)
_Homer Is A Missionary_ (mpg)(53.4megs)
Y2K excerpts (mpg)(76.6megs)
_Mom & Pop Art_ (asf)(78.8megs)
- Isabella Rossellini (Astrid)
- _Dr. Strangelove_ directed by Stanley Kubrick (movie) - family rides an atom bomb to its target, like the Slim Pickens character in the movie
- _Godfather_ (vhs/pal)(movie) - Homer pulls gun from behind water tank of toilet
- _A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte_ (painting) - Barney's napkin drawing is a copy of Seruat's famous painting of a French riverbank scene
- Homer's "Odyssey" (epic poem) - Greek epic poem (and poet) lend name to Homer's solo art show
- _Life In Hell_ (comic strip) - Homer disses an Akbar and Jeff painting from this strip - "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening also draws "Life in Hell"
- _The Sleeping Gypsy_ (painting) - the first image in Homer's nightmare comes from this Henri Rousseau painting
- Andy Warhol (artist) - his famous picture of Campbell soup appears in museum and Homer's dream - artist himself fights Homer in the dream sequence
- Astrid: Your husband's work is what we call "outsider art". It could be by a mental patient, or a hillbilly, or a chimpanzee.
  Homer: [gasps] In high school I was voted most likely to *be* a mental patient, hillbilly, or chimpanzee!
  Astrid: Well, you should be very excited because outsider art couldn't be hotter.
  Homer: So you'd better catch the fever! [shakes fist at Bart] Catch it!
_Two Cars In Every Garage And Three Eyes On Every Fish_ (avi)(52.8megs) [Aired November 1, 1990] Season 2/Episode 1

In order to keep his nuclear plant from being closed down due to numerous violations, Montgomery Burns decides to run for governor.
opening sequence Blackboard : {I will not Xerox my butt.}
For the 25-Jun-1992 airing, Bart's blackboard punishment was hastily changed to read {Potato, not potatoe.} This change was prompted by a news story involving then-Vice President Dan Quayle (R--Indiana), in which, on a visit to a school, he corrected a student's spelling of the word "potato" to include a nonexistent silent 'e' at the end.

_Burn, Baby Burns_ (avi)(19.3megs)
_The Simpsons Halloween Special (AKA: Treehouse of Horror)_ [Aired October 25, 1990] Season 2/Episode 4

Bart and Lisa swap three horror stories in their tree house:

Bad Dream House - The Simpsons move into a haunted house, complete with a dimensional vortex, bleeding walls, and an Indian burial ground.

Hungry Are The Damned -

Aliens kidnap the Simpsons, and invite them to a 'great feast' on Rigel 4.

The Raven - James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader in _Star Wars_) narrates Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale starring the Simpsons. This version stays very close to the original poem.

_Episode 23: Bart Gets Hit By A Car_ [Aired January 10, 1991] Season 2/Episode 10

When Mr. Burns hits Bart in a auto accident, and is willing to pay only one-hundred dollars, Homer sues Mr. Burns for a million.
The Devil and Lionel Hutz are introduced.
references Rolling Stones - _Sympathy for the Devil_ MP3 - Satan says, "Please allow me to introduce myself."
references _Wizard of Oz_ - Bart waking up from his dream saying "And you were there, and you and you..."
as Bart returns to the world of the living: Bart passes through earth with dinosaur fossils embedded in it.
when Homer is called into Mr. Burns' office (the first time), there is a line of attorneys standing next to Burns' desk, and at the end of the line is a stuffed mounted polar bear

_Bart's Dog Gets An F_ [Aired March 7, 1991] Season 2/Episode 14

After chewing up Homer's new $125 sneakers and the Bouvier family quilt, Santa's Little Helper is enrolled in an obedience school. Tracey Ullman guest voices.
Marge's quilt has a hemp plant on it.

_The Simpsons Halloween Special II (aka Treehouse of Horror II)_ [Aired October 31, 1991] Season 3/Episode 2

In the sequel to the original Treehouse of Horror, three more tales of horror. Lisa, Bart, and Homer eat too much candy, and end up having nightmares...:

The Monkey's Paw - The Simpsons, on a foreign trip, pick up a monkey's paw that gives the holder four wishes . . . with bad side effects.
Bart The Monster - In a parody of a classic _Twilight Zone_ episode _It's A Good Life..._, everyone in Springfield must be happy or else something will happen to them by a monster. The monster is known as . . . Bart Simpson, the kid with the mental powers.

sitting behind Bart is a student that has been turned into some animal, with a long (6 feet?) tail standing up, and looking something like a cross between a lion and a monkey. "Thou shalt not piss off Bart.''
in Moe's tavern, Barney and the guys are drunkenly mumbling, "Happy thoughts... Happy thoughts...''

Homer's Brain - Homer gets randomly fired from the nuclear power plant, and gets hired as a gravedigger. He falls asleep in the grave, and gets picked up by Mr. Burns for a cyborg experiment.

references _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ (vhs/ntsc)- Jasper the dog.
references _Wizard Of Oz_ - Burns hums, "If I Only Had a Brain" when removing Homer's brain.
opening sequence: The trick or treaters in front of the house in the opening sequence are... the gang from _t's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown_ You can make out Pigpen (dirty sheet) and Charlie Brown (sheet full of eye holes).

_Home Sweet Home-Diddily-Dum-Doodily_ [Aired October 1, 1995] Season 7/Episode 1

Bart, Lisa and Maggie are placed in the care of the Flanders family when Homer and Marge are found to be unfit parents. Now, Homer and Marge must prove to the authorities that they are fit parents before the kids become too Flanders like. Joan Kenley guest stars.
Homer sings Beethoven's Fifth into Lisa's saxophone
references _1984_ written by George Orwell - "All is well" is said repeatedly in the background
references _The Exorcist_ (vhs/ntsc) - Maggie's head turnin 180 degrees, just like Linda Blair's
Marge: "The only thing I'm high on is love...love for my son and daughters. Yes, a little LSD is all I need."

_El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer (aka The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)_ [Aired January 5, 1997] Season 8/Episode 24

Consuming too may hot peppers gives Homer visions, which tell him to seek out his "soulmate". Johnny Cash guest stars as the Coyote spirit guide
Homer and Marge still use vinyl records
references The Beatles track _I Am The Walrus_ MP3 - Homer hears Jasper say, "Goo goo ga joob"
references _Altered States_ (vhs/ntsc)) (1980) - a South American plant (mushroom) causes hallucinations; the hero's wife appears in his vision, then blows away like sand
"The Teachings of Don Juan", "Journey to Ixtlan", books by Carlos Castaneda - a coyote speaking of inner wisdom
chili vendors: Apu's Vegetarian Chili
references The Ramones - _Pinhead_ : Flanders starts cheerfully babbling nonsense, as little copies of his moustache fly around, ending with "gabba gabba hey"
W E L C O M E This Lighthouse Operated By E A R L; E.A.R.L. Electronic Automatic Robotic Lighthouse
This is the second Simpsons episode with a title in a foreign language (the first being, of course, "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"

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