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Octopus Grabus
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"The fact is, you don't have to be able to read to enjoy the Springfield Review of Books. Just look at these amusing caricatures of Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag."

Ned's season pass to cider mill is #00001.

Put your garbage in a garbage can, people…

I neglected to include:

Mister President?!

That is one weird, wonderful episode.

"I'm not a state…I'm a monster!"

Great plan, Bart.

Of all the chores Homer can dump on Ralph, he picks tarring the roof.

Yes! And that "Fort Adventure"—again, in his imagination—is constructed from soiled mattresses.

Nothin' wrong with a little hey-hey!

And you got the stink lines and everything…

Dial M for Murderousness.

Argh, I can't stop:

My wife and I have a set of stock responses from Simpsons (You shot who in the what now? Internet, eh?…) but probably our favorite, used to casually disregard the other's concern about something:

And Meaney's voice is so perfectly boring.

Lord Thistlewick Flanders: "Charmed. Eh, a-googly, doogly."

Helen Lovejoy, handing phone over: "It's Ned Flanders."
Rev. Lovejoy: "Probably swallowed a bug…"

"Moe is a jerk."

Among countless others…Robert Frost to Krusty after having snow dumped on him: "We discussed this, and I said 'no.'"