What TV Have You Seen?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

The Simpsons: Season 9

The Principal and the Pauper
Principal Seymour Skinner is thrown a party for his 20 year service in school and is discovered he is a fraud when the real Seymour Skinner turns up.
(Guest Voice: Martin Sheen)

It's another great season with so many smart jokes and references, some of which I only understood in the last decade.

Everyone knows the story of Principal Seymour Skinner; he's a bit of a push-over, he's a Vietnam vet, and he's a pretty lousy principal. As it turns out, Seymour Skinner is actually the Simpsons' equivalent of Jean Valjean from Les Miserables.

The seeds are planted in the episode 'Homer's Barbershop Quartet' when Skinner finds his old POW helmet and it is revealed that his prisoner number is 24601. As it so happens, Skinner's prisoner's number is the same as Jean Valjean's prisoner number but the payoff of the joke comes during a later episode, 'The Principal and the Pauper'.

Skinner's true identity is revealed in that episode: he was in fact a former lowlife who stole the real Seymour Skinner's identity before working his way up to a respectable position in society. Skinner's identity-stealing backstory is very similar to Jean Valjean's story; Valjean was a criminal who took on a new identity and became a wealthy person of considerable influence before eventually dying after reuniting with his long-lost daughter.

Okay, so Skinner isn't dead and he doesn't have a long-lost daughter. Maybe everyone's favourite whimsical principal still has some elements of his backstory that's yet to be told?

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

There was a brilliant GIf of Chelsea's managerial roundabout created from that Grandpa Simpson scene where he walks in and puts his hat down.

For whatever reason when i tried to post it just for fun it came up as dozens of lines of text.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

There was a brilliant GIf of Chelsea's managerial roundabout created from that Grandpa Simpson scene where he walks in and puts his hat down.

For whatever reason when i tried to post it just for fun it came up as dozens of lines of text.

Is it based on this video?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

There was a brilliant GIf of Chelsea's managerial roundabout created from that Grandpa Simpson scene where he walks in and puts his hat down.

For whatever reason when i tried to post it just for fun it came up as dozens of lines of text.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Yes, that's the one. Without knowledge of how frequent Chelsea and Roman Abramovich (sat where Bart was) used to chop and change their managers it's probably not that funny, but it always tickles me.

[trebor8273]

Season 4.

This season starts just after JR shooting, we eventually find out whom shot him but on the way many suspects with Cliff and Sue Ellen top on the list but it's Sue Ellens own sister who shot him, too get out of prison she says she is pregnant with his baby, but is she. We find out Jock has another son who just happens too be Ray Crabbes ! This leads to tension between Miss Ellie and Jock which nearly ends up in divorce. Bobby become head of Ewing oil but quits after he starts becoming more like JR. Lucy finds love and gets married , Pam finds her long lost mother, Ray gets married . Bobby runs for congress and wins and JR over throws a small country would could led too the end of Ewing oil but once again JR turns the tables , the man could fall in a river of shit and would come out smelling of roses! We end with Cliff find a body in the pool which could well be Pam and looks like it was JR that killed her!

Once again another piece of enjoyable OTT escapism.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Thought i only had the first four series, turns out it's the first five as i watched the series after Trebor's post last summer.

[Demoncrat]

Been revisiting the Australian series Danger 5, 2 series' worth of hi jinks and hilarity ensued.

Set in a very different time than here, our questing quintet have but one job .... Kill Hitler
How they go about this is where the gold is ....
Spoofing WWII flicks, 60s serials, Toho ETC, this is still a treat to behold.
Recommended.

[MrBarlow]

The Simpsons: Season 10


Lard Of The Dance
Lisa along with a popular new girl organise a school dance, Homer and Bart try to organise a new grease business.
(Guest Voice: Lisa Kudrow)

The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace
Homer suffers a mid life crisis and tries to become a inventor.
(Guest Voice: William Daniels)

Bart The Mother
Nelson wins a new air rifle and Bart tags along accidentally killing a mother bird, Bart decides to look after the eggs in the nest.

Treehouse Of Horror IX
Homer receives a hair transplant that belonged to the criminal Snake. Bart and Lisa get trapped in a Itchy and Scratchy cartoon. Maggie is revealed to be the daughter of Kang the alien.
(Guest Voices: Robert Englund, Jerry Springer, Ed McMahon)
(Guest Appearances: Kathie Lee Gifford, Regis Philbin)

When You Dish Upon A Star
Homer becomes friends with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin and leaks some of their private life to journalists.
(Guest Voices: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard)

D'Oh-In The Wind
After learning what the "J" stands for in his middle name on a picture his mother drawn, Homer decides he wants to become a hippie.
(Guest Voice: Martin Mull, George Carlin)

Lisa Gets An 'A'
Lisa cheats on a school exam and the school qualifies for grant money if she does not let it slip, Homer decides to adopt a pet lobster.

Homer Simpson In: Kidney Trouble
Grandpa needs a new kidney, Homer becomes his donor yet when the time comes for the operation Homer bails out.

Mayored To The Mob
Homer becomes Mayor Quimby's new bodyguard and uncovers corruption in the office.
(Guest Voice: Mark Hamill, Joe Montenga)

Viva Ned Flanders
Homer tries to get Ned to loosen up and takes him to Las Vegas where the pair get drunk and marry two cocktail waitresses.
(Guest Voices: The Moody Blues)

Wild Barts can't Be Broken
After Homer and his drunken friends cause damage, the kids are blamed and put on a curfew, the children end up releasing secrets of the adults.

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
Superbowl season is looming, Homer organises a bus party to the first game only to realise their tickets are fake and try to sneak in.
(Guest Voices: Troy Aikman, Roosevelt Grier, John Madden, Dan Marino, Dolly Parton, Fred Willard)

Homer To The Max
A new police show is aired and a character is called Homer Simpson and is a laughing stock so Homer changes his name and meets new people.
(Guest Voice: Ed Begley Jr.

I'm With Cupid
Apu spends every day leading to Valentines day outshining the other males of Springfield and they plot his downfall.
(Guest Voice: Elton John)

Marge Simpson in 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'
Marge gets a new SUV after homer buys it but realises it's the woman's model, when Marge drives it she becomes a bully on the road.
(Guest Voices: Hank Williams Jr, John Kassir)

Make Room For Lisa
The Simpsons have a new Mobile Phone transmitter placed in their Home which causes Lisa stress, Marge uses the airwaves through Maggie's baby com to listen in on Springfield's residents and manages to knock out Millhouse.

Maximum Homerdrive
Homer delivers a truck after the driver dies in a meat eating competition, Marge decides to buy a musical door bell.

Simpsons Bible Stories
In church the family fall asleep during the sermon: marge dreams she is Eve and Homer as Adam, Lisa is a Hebrew helping Millhouse free the slaves, and Bart faces off with Nelson in David and Goliath.

Mom And Pop Art
After failing to build a new BBQ a art critic sees it as potential and encourages Homer to submit it at a art community.
(Guest Voice: Isabella Rossellini)

The Old Man and the 'C' Student
Springfield is chosen to hold the Olympics but when Bart screws up the plans he has to do community service at the retirement home.
(Guest Voice: Jack LaLanne

Monty Can't Buy Me Love
Mr Burns finds out he is not the top of the list for billionaire's and for people to love him he goes in search of the Loch Ness Monster.
(Guest Voice: Micheal McKean)

They saved Lisa's Brain
Lisa is asked to join Mensa and end up running the town after Mayor Quimby flees and the group end up arguing amongst each other.
(Guest Voice: Stephen Hawkins)

Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
The family win a trip to Japan which Homer looses their money and appear on a game show to get back home.
(Guest Voice: George Takei)

This season had it's moments of laughter but not really side splitting in some episodes, My favourite is the one with The Curfew and the kids see a parody of Village of The Damned called The Bloodening and the kids put on the English accents. The Japanese game show I think is a parody of Takeshi's Castle and Fear Factor, and do a parody of Titanic and King Kong except it's done with Nessie, but going through my collection of The Simpsons I only have upto 14, thought I had More than that.

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[Demoncrat]

Finished the second series of Danger 5. One new cast member, but it's business as usual .... Kill Hitler!!
It gets a bit more loony this one what with the time travel cheese and that