But on the plus side, they knocked over the Sunsphere.

But it did provide me with one of my all-time favorite Simpsons jokes:

Good call, Carrie Raisler, on the Tara French books. It could be done "Homicide"-style, where you have self-contained episodes but also long arcs/stories involving the individual characters.

Lucasfilm LOVES the R2-D2 Builder's Club. They get their own exhibit room at the official Star Wars conventions.

I was always partial to his reaction to Homer in "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":

That whole gag with the phones has long been my favorite thing about this episode. "The switchboards are lighting up! Two calls!"

His name is Mankini Paulson.

Just for that, I'm telling Dr. Necessitor not to transplant your girlfriend's brain into that gorilla.

. . . and the bartender turns around and replies, "No, no! I was making fun of him!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO INCEST FOR YOU!" - Johnny Rotten

That song has one of their better guitar solos, though.

It was Strawberry Shortcake, y'all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Apparently a more recent THOH — which I haven't seen — has Krusty going through a woodchipper feet first.

Rats? You promised me dog or higher!

Love the specificity of the note on that drawing: "*Completely* made out of squirrels holding hands."

That's one of the weirdest Simpsons lines that's ever made it into my everyday life, but it often gets rolled out when my wife and I are in the pasta aisle at the grocery store.

Listening to the studio audience for that clip is great. Python had really found their audience by that point so they were grooving with the humor in a way the early audiences didn't. There's one particular woman you can hear who keeps letting out this delightfully English yelp of high-pitched laughter.

IIRC from reading the recent "Complete and Annotated . . . All the Bits" book, that last line was an ad lib.

Which led to one of my favorite absurd jokes as a child: "I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head!" "Ah, ah, ah — a 'war between the states tongue!'"

SERRANO'S GOT THE DISCS! SERRANO'S GOT THE DISCS!