"E-I-E-I-D'oh!" March 26th, 8:00 PM. Synopsis: Homer and the family move to an old farm where he and Bart conjure up "Tomacco," an incredibly addictive cross between tobacco and tomatoes. What do you think Bart's future job will be? Building demolisher Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Male stripper Musician Nuclear technician Click on the above photo to learn how you can order this and other great Simpsons merchandise! Enter a keyword and click below to search this site. Bob: Just the thought of all that raw surging power makes me wonder why the hell I should care. Cecil: Because you'll be supervising the construction crew! Bob: Oh great. Whenever a woman passes by I suppose it'll be my job to lead the hooting; "Oh yeah! Shake it, Madam. Capital Knockers." - "Brother from Another Series" knockers.wav

Sunday, March 19, 2000 - 9:58 PM EST
Legalize What? Ohhh... Consider It Done.
Final reviews are up for 'Beyond Blunderdome'. I noticed with that episode, you either loved it or hated it completely. Anyhoo, you can now submit your review for Bart to the Future. --- Jason

Sunday, March 19, 2000 - 3:05 PM EST
The Webby Awards
Simpsons creator Matt Groening will be a judge in this year's Webby Awards competition. The winners will be announced on May 11th, and feel free to cast your own votes on the site. Thanks to Nate for the heads up. --- Eric

Sunday, March 19, 2000 - 2:23 PM EST
New Episode To Air Tonight!
A new Simpsons episode entitled "Bart to the Future" will air tonight on Fox. Similar to "Lisa's Wedding," an Indian fortune teller will tell Bart's future. Bart ends up as a freeloading musician, sister to United States President Lisa Simpson. It definitely sounds interesting, so make sure to watch it!

Also, feel free to join us in our chat room at 9 PM EST tonight. There were a few problems with the chat room last Sunday, but I doubt anything like that will happen again. See you there! --- Eric

Sunday, March 19, 2000 - 2:18 PM EST
"Homer, You're A Genius"
That's the name of an article which ran in yesterday's edition of The Irish Independent, praising The Simpsons. Click here to read the full version, or check out some of it below. Thanks to Kieran Murphy for transcribing it.

In a recent episode of The Simpsons, which is now celebrating it's 10th anniversary, the intellectually earnest and perpetually worried Lisa bewailed the fact that she had cooked the best meals of her generation, only for them to be destroyed by the crass eating habits of those around her.

Forty four years earlier, beat poet Allen Ginsberg began his epic verse manifesto, "Howl", with the declaration "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness".

You didn't have to recognise the allusion in order to enjoy Lisa's fretsome little diatribe, just as you don't have to recognise any of the referential gags - historical, political, religious, cultural - that are crammed into every episode of the Simpsons in order to get pleasure from this best of all television shows.

The show's genius, in fact, is that - unlike anything else on television - it really does have something for all ages and sensibilities. At seven years-old you'll love it for it's colour and clearly defined characterisations; at 17, you'll recognise it's gleeful anarchy and it's satirising of popular stereotypes; at 27 you'll observe that the characterisations are both more complex and more grounded in truths about family life than you once thought; at 37 you'll note that, at heart and despite all the surface anarchy, basic notions of decency and family values are being subtly espoused and that what outwardly seems subversive is, in fact, just healthily irreverent. This is no South Park, smugly content with it's own rudeness. --- Eric

Saturday, March 18, 2000 - 5:03 PM EST
More Trivia
Well, 2 more pages have been added to the trivia archive. One is The Old Man & Lisa (by me) and Maximum Homerdrive (by OshKoshBuhJosh). Enjoy! --- Jason

Saturday, March 18, 2000 - 2:22 PM EST
An Interview With George Meyer
We've finally got our hands on the interview with Simpsons executive producer George Meyer that recently ran in The New Yorker. It's a long but interesting read, so click here to check it out! --- Eric

Saturday, March 18, 2000 - 1:51 PM EST
Time Magazine Poll Fixed?
As many of you know, a few months ago Time Magazine named The Simpsons as the best TV show of the 20th century. But, should we actually be proud of this? Tomsothername@aol.com writes:

Time Magazine did name The Simpsons the best show of the century, or whatever it was, but the contest may have been unintentionally fixed. You probably don't have America Online, but if you did, you would know that a window pops up with recent headlines whenever someone signs on. One of the headlines was "Vote for The Simpsons" or something to that degree. It was accompanied by a picture of The Simpsons. People could click on the link and vote for Time Magazine's TV show of the century. Of course, the only people that would click on this link are Simpsons fans. It is no wonder they won. They deserve it, though. --- Eric

Friday, March 17, 2000 - 8:10 PM EST
Quit Throwing Garbage Into Our Dimension!
The third and final clue is now up at Whatizit?, making the contest pathetically easy. That's just about it for now. Expect the contest to be restarted come Sunday, and don't be surprised to see a good-sized update at your favorite character site, The Otto Show, over the weekend. I now end this update with a few words for FOX: Better luck next time, suckers! Heh heh heh... --- Bob

Friday, March 17, 2000 - 2:42 PM EST
Bad Fox, Bad Fox, Whatcha Gonna Do...
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? A Twentieth Century Fox attorney recently mailed my host regarding our "copyright infringing" content. Of course, I had recently removed the content from this site a few days ago, so my host didn't know any better. The end result was that this account was disabled for a few hours earlier today. Thanks to Fox for actually trying to shut us down. =( Oh well. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. --- Eric

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