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...vote with their remotes - for whatever happens to be on competing channels. It's no coincidence that these interactive gimmicks are most common on shows that have passed their prime (Drew Carey) or never had a prime to pass (Just Shoot Me). They're the new-media equivalent of Homer Simpson banging on the side of the TV, yelling, "Be funnier...
...would make the stereotypical balding, chaw-using, reticent baseball men we see in the movies spin in their graves. In baseball, after all, sitting quietly in the dugout in deep contemplation of the diamond and its secrets while chewing gum can be an appropriate reaction to a three-run homer. You stop actively cheering once you take off your little league jersey for the last time. Exuberance and professionalism aren't compatible...
Thank the gods that copyright law was not discovered in the Iron Age. If it had been, and if Homer had been succeeded by some litigious heirs, the vast trove of Western literature derived or extrapolated from the Iliad and Odyssey--including Vergil's Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Tennyson's Ulysses, Joyce's Ulysses--might not exist. And what damages would today's judges award Christopher Marlowe? He wrote a wildly popular poem called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love that was answered, in identical verse form, by Sir Walter...
...BROWSING" Homer Simpson may not have mastered those pesky dials and levers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but he's got your PC figured out. The animatronic Homer from Playmates Toys ($50) responds to whatever you're doing with the appropriate bons mots: "D'oh!" for spelling errors, "Whoo-hoo!" for new e-mail. He plugs into the USB port, and you can quiet him down if necessary--handy when Mr. Burns is lurking down the hall...
...sophisticated and slapstick comedy of “The Simpsons,” but it is more of a general(ly mediocre) survey of various philosophical concepts that can be projected onto the show. We get essays by random associate and assistant professors of philosophy entitled “Homer and Aristotle,” “Marge’s Moral Motivation,” “The Moral World of the Simpson Family” and discussions of how Nietzsche might justify Bart’s behavior, but the book somehow ends up being less informative...