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...just look at Harvard students, or even college students. "The Simpsons" has a widespread age appeal. The cartoon side of the show attracts younger viewers. But unlike most cartoons, "The Simpsons" has a "high level" of comedy and parody that keeps old viewers tuned in. Watching Homer trip over the curb can be funny to a nine-year-old, watching him trip with Gerald Ford is funny to anyone who knows anything about Gerald Ford. Essentially, viewers are weaned on "The Simpsons." They are hooked at a very early age, and keep coming back. Every time I watch a rerun...
...truly watch "The Simpsons" as a world community, and the show reminds us of this fact as it continues to pull us together. We all learn a lesson--together--as Homer prepares Bart for a foreign exchange program: "Always remember that you're representing your country. I guess what I'm saying is, don't mess up France like you messed up your room...
Ever seen that Simpsons episode--the one where Homer goes to his class reunion and Grampa Simpson gets a job writing cartoons? Me neither. As far as I know, it's the only episode in the entire series I haven't seen, and it's driving me nuts. True, The Simpsons is on about every 15 minutes, but there's only so much TV one man can watch. Or is there? The digital video recorder is changing all that...
...years he was in foster care, his family disintegrated. He very rarely sees his birth mother or his brother Frankie. His father is dead. Homer, at 20, is a father himself, of an infant girl, and he says he's worried about keeping his own family together. He hopes to get his GED and maybe even graduate from a community college. But technically, he was a ward of the state until he turned 21 last week, when he was released. With so many bad things behind him, Homer says, there is only one good thing about his long trip through...
...MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR SEVERELY INJURED PLAYERS Imagine how much less enthralling Homer's Iliad would be if impaled Trojans were carted off the battlefield on comfy stretchers. Leave the bodies on the field--play over them. At least consider employing primitive on-field-treatment modalities. The home team's tight end is writhing in pain with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Lose the leg and get him back in that huddle. Imagine the excitement when the miked referee signals with a hacking, amputating motion, "It's comin...