Chris Higgins
Screen Grabs from The Simpsons
by Chris Higgins - April 16, 2009 - 1:27 PM

Okay, this is just the best kind of silly. Eye on Springfield is a blog with a single, unswerving mission: to provide “a retrospective of Simpsons hilarity spanning from seasons 1 to 9, when it was still funny.” And oh man, is it ever. (Funny.) The blog consists solely of screen grabs from the show, occasionally with snippets of explanatory dialog. Here are some of my favorites:

Your appearance is comical to me

“Your appearance is comical to me.”

1-600-DOCTORB

“Call 1-600-DOCTORB. The ‘B’ is for ‘bargain!’”

Smithers, I've designed a new plane. I call it the 'Spruce Moose,' and it will carry two hundred passengers from New York’s Idyllwild Airport to the Belgian Congo in seventeen minutes!

“Smithers, I’ve designed a new plane. I call it the ‘Spruce Moose,’ and it will carry two hundred passengers from New York’s Idyllwild Airport to the Belgian Congo in seventeen minutes!”

Frinkiac 7

Please, if you’re a Simpsons fan, just stop working and click on this all day.

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Comments (8)

  1. ‘Milpool’ — One of my favorite moments from the show.

    posted by EV on 4-16-2009 at 1:48 pm

  2. Wow, you weren’t kidding. I haven’t worked in a good three hours. Thanks, Mental Floss! The other day I couldn’t stop laughing whenever I thought of “SuperNintendo Chalmers.”

    posted by Che Che on 4-16-2009 at 3:09 pm

  3. Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don’t touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
    Apu: Could it be used for dating?
    Frink: Well, theoretically, yes. But the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest. Mw-hurgn-whey.

    posted by Steve on 4-16-2009 at 3:32 pm

  4. I’ll do anything Mental Floss asks me to! ;-)

    posted by beth on 4-16-2009 at 3:41 pm

  5. This website will be the cure whenever I need a good pick me up after reading stories and comments on news sites.

    The sad part is that I’m starting to forget which episodes contained these scenes. I need to start watching the DVDs more often since they no longer play seasons 1-9 in syndication any more. It’s a shame that they continue to dilute the quality of the series with new seasons.

    posted by Chris on 4-16-2009 at 5:40 pm

  6. In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

    posted by Ed VanEtten on 4-16-2009 at 7:44 pm

  7. “Remember Alf Bart? He’s back…in pog form.”

    posted by nihil on 4-17-2009 at 11:48 am

  8. LMFAO!!!!
    Che Che.. I’m glad to know I wasn’t the only cracking up .. all day.. On that Super Nintendo Chalmers comment. Like Im gigling as I type this.. At work. Looking like a fool.

    posted by Chrystani on 4-20-2009 at 4:49 pm

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