Prior to this project I could not have told you the high school principal's name, BUT I could have least told you that he had one, and was consistent in his limited appearances. If Homer is an A-li...
2024-09-19 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a lot of potential for weird background characters in this episode, the character designers really took the 70s aesthetic as far as they could, but this guy stood out to me more than any ot...
2024-09-17 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Full disclosure on this one: I cannot find where Kim's name comes from. Both Simpsons Wiki and the 2024-09-16 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that the McBain review section of the episode is out of the way, every other character in this episode - numbered and bonus - is introduced in flashback. And of those, Hibbert is the only one n...
2024-09-13 08:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Similar to Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert had no direct crossover with The Simpsons after being parodied in this episode, despite living until 2013. The only additional mentions of him are this somewhat ...
2024-09-12 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month, another winner! This month the Patron print will be "He's Out There Somewhere...And He'll Find Him!", one of the more specific designs I've done! It was fun trying to ape an old nor ...
2024-09-10 09:24:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Rainier appears in the McBain clip, although his real name is not revealed here. Also, he looks...like this.
2024-09-09 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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It's time to vote for this month's A5 print! The winner of this poll will be sent out to £10 and higher members at the start of October! Oh me, oh my!
Some of these designs were contenders l...
2024-09-03 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"The Way We Was" is an important episode in defining early Simpsons canon. A majority of the episode is dedicated to a flashback story that will help cement some of the details of young Homer/Marge...
2024-09-02 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This was an oddly paced episode for the purposes of this project! Homer's story has such a strong emotional arc, packed with some great jokes, and our focus was almost entirely on the obscure resta...
2024-08-30 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The FINAL character of "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" is the man that Homer kisses between Moe and Barney, who comments "you'd better be dying", because it's 1991 and this man is not com...
2024-08-29 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Eagle-eyed readers will notice we have yet to encounter any bonus characters in this episode so far. Well, here they are!
The intense back-to-back onslaught of Happy Sumo staff meant there wa...
2024-08-28 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode is extremely front loaded, with most of the new characters appearing at The Happy Sumo. Once we leave there, it's slim pickings, as the story focuses more intimately on Homer's predica...
2024-08-27 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We covered Richie Sakai a few months ago - more recently than I had realised, actually - but here he makes his sp...
2024-08-26 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our final speaking character from The Happy Sump, it only took us three weeks to get through this one restaurant. Most of the episode doesn't even take place here, but because the actual story of H...
2024-08-22 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first character this week is this guy - who I think goes unnamed.
He's fairly prominent in t...
2024-08-19 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Moat people would be surprised by the fact that this guy is recurring, but here in our dedicated little corner of the internet we're surprised that he doesn't appear to have a last name.
I told you I'd be back!
SO I now have two exciting additions to the Patreon:
If you are curious about what's locked behind the mystic ...
2024-08-14 09:25:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi various assorted Patrons! Or anyone else who is reading this expecting salacious drama (there won't be any salacious drama.)
The votes are in! If your favourite design didn't win this month, it might have a chance next month, so we'll give it a go again then!
This was a fun one, and a nice opportunity to reference ...
2024-08-13 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A small role at the start of the episode, but she gets more lines than most.
She's not an especi...
2024-08-12 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I provided a screenshot of this guy on Monday, but I'm not a cruel man, I don't expect you to have to click back one entire post just to see him, so here he is again:
2024-08-08 08:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Bluefish", one of those titles I am going to get very sick of typing out every single time.
This is a strange episode for the purposes of our little ...
2024-08-05 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe're gonna try something slightly different for the Patreon print vote for the next couple of months!
Instead of picking the next two or three month's worth of prints, you are only voting fo...
2024-08-03 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the more fruitful episodes we've had in a while! Three of these characters are very important, one is literally a Simpson, and another is the embodiment of all evil as depicted in Christian ...
2024-08-02 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Cut the small talk! This is one of those days where we have a LOT to cover to wrap this episode up ONCE AND FOR ALL. LET'S GET TO IT:
2024-08-01 08:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Poor Blue-Haired Lawyer. In most other episodes he would absolutely be the most prominent character to debut, but "Bart Gets Hit By A Car" we've already met Lionel Hutz and Dr Nick - two all time c...
2024-07-31 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This guy appears in this episode and immediately gets Judge Snyder's name wrong (he calls him "Moulton").
2024-07-29 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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TWO huge characters in the same episode? And we're not even done? Truly "Bart Gets Hit By A Car" is the gift that keeps on giving.
2024-07-25 08:00:02 +0000 UTC
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