the simpsons

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Over the weekend I got to catch The Simpsons Movie. It came out at the end of July and people who know me best had assumed that I would see this on opening day but I wound up waiting about three weeks. At one point I thought I’d just wait to see it when it came out on DVD.

I’m glad that I didn’t! The Simpsons Movie was the funniest film that I’ve seen at the theater in quite a long time. I’m going to heartily recommend watching The Simpsons Movie during its cinematic run because the show’s producers seriously play up the fact that they have a full-length motion picture to run around in (i.e. Bart writing on the blackboard “I will not illegally download this movie” on the classic opening chalkboard shot). The movie tends to “slow down” somewhat during the final third of the movie, but ...

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Sports Illustrated has a feature on its website showing athletes who have been on The Simpsons and comparing their cartoon caricatures with their real-life photos. Among those from the world of sports who have made their way to Springfield at some point are Tony Hawk, LeBron James and Wade Boggs (pictured above from the legendary 1992 episode “Homer at the Bat”).

Thanks to Chad “Ironman” Austin for passing along the link!...

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About a month ago I showed what I would look like as a character from The Simpsons. That pic was courtesy of The Simpsons Movie website.

Then Darth Larry spotted another site, this one a promotional one run by Burger King called Simpsonize Me, also a tie-in with the new movie. But with this “you as a Simpsons character” thingy, you upload an actual photograph of yourself and the website does most of the work for you. Then all you have to do is fine-tune it with a variety of mouths, noses etc.

(Is it just me or is Burger King running some of the best movie promo sites lately? Their gimmick for Revenge of the Sith a few years ago was downright … spooky.)

So I uploaded the photo I used for the newspaper ad from my school board campaign and after “tweaking” it a ...

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A few months ago it was “Chris as a South Park character”. Now today, after all of these years of dreaming and courtesy of The Simpsons Movie website, I am finally a character from The Simpsons! Looks pretty much like me, right down to that weird bit of hair on the right-hand side of my forehead that does its own thing without going one way or the other on the part (it’s not so pronounced just after a haircut but after a few weeks you really see it). My Simpsons avatar is also wearing denim jeans (my usual style) and dark brown shoes which are meant to be my hiking boots. Lisa thinks that brown and green are my best colors, so I colored “my” shirt brown. And since I’m somewhat of a “fight the status quo” sort, I put the upraised fist/sign of defiance on my ...

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