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Here’s what we can look forward to in this year’s annual “Treehouse of Horror” installment of the Simpsons: DIEBOLD!! [YouTube via Oliver Willis]
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When Homer “dohs” he’s really expressing patriotic gratitude to the DHS
Don’t blame me, *I* voted for Kodos!
That same thing happened to me once at a Sonic when I tried to order a B.L.T. I survived, barely, but I got the fucking Frito-Burrito like it or not
Hey, don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.
Aww. Isn’t it nice that they had voting booths for the teeny-booth challenged?
Godot:
Damn you. Jinx
It’s funny AND true.
now, let that be a warnin to ya… if you doan vote rat, you see what’ll happen… you got no one t’blame but yerselves… no whinin, now, you jess git yerself back on that straight talkin bus… you know whar t’sit, an it ain’t up front…
“Well I might vote for a third-party candidate” Kodos: “what, and throw your vote away?!”
It’s not the shitty tool, but the shitty voter.
why arent you liveblogging obama on tv in the senate?
Springfield must be in Florida!!!
DOH! That both sucks AND blows! (Cuz it’s true)..
Meh. Voting for McCain would kill him in the long run anyways.
Video no longer available? Sadness!
Palin on the skin flute:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_130901.html
Well I don’t agree with his Bart-killing policy, but I’m all for his Selma-killing policy!
He did try to frame me for armed robbery, but man am I achin’ for that upper-class tax cut!
Damnit, I clicked through to submit my brilliant “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” reference, and I find that numerous other nerds have beaten me to it!
HuskyMescan: ewww, that blows! I’m sorry I couldn’t help it.
btw, is she wearing a capelet? I might have suggested a cape or capelet with the swimsuit, then at least she might have looked a little bit more like a superhero than a useless tawdry bimbo.
ACLU! ACLU! Where are you in cartoon world when we need you?
HuskyMescan: She’d been playing for 10 years??? More like 5 1/2!
Homer’s politics sure have changed in the past 19 years the show’s been on the air. Whatever happened to “Lousy Democrats!”
Oh, lame. I was hoping for an election-themed segment like 1996’s “Citizen Kang”, but it turns out that this is just the opening. So we probably won’t see a Simpsonized Hopey or Walnuts. Boo.
Still, other than “Citizen Kang”, this is the only time Treehouse of Horror has mentioned the elections. 1992, 2000, and 2004 were all ignored, and hard as it may be to believe, The Simpsons were not on the air in 1988 or earlier.
Godot: Obama and McCain are already regulars on the show, they just call them Carl and Abe Simpson.
~ VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE ~
Me has a sad. Prof Jukes slower than hip kids at Wonkette.
Must…tell…President…McCain…
OK, Now it’s back!!
It’s OK. “Maybe Ohio, but not in America” is pretty damn funny.
But I’d like to see Grandpa play McCain… going on a crazy rant.
I feel almost obligated to make a comment here.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, democracy simply doesn’t work.” - Kent Brockman
Man, living in Ohio sucks like clockwork, every four years. Ok, it sucks all the time, but it flares up more during elections.
I remember when satire in the Simpsons was genuinely brilliant, rather than lazy and leaden like this. It was, like, ten years ago at least. How the hell is this shambling corpse still going?
twoseventwo: They feed off of pompous ass critics with snooty avatars last i checked
Special Agent Jack Mehoff: Twoseventouche, amigo.
Studge: Ditto. And nice screen name S.A. Jack.
Stupid Ohio!
“What, America lost the Vietnam war? That’s not America. That’s not even Mexico!” -Homer
This is so clearly fictional. A Diebold machine doesn’t leave a paper trail.
twoseventwo: The weakness of this particular piece is its topicality. The gravity of the real situation sucks the levity out of the animated one, the jokes are harder to make brilliant because the horror occludes the humor. The series that coined the now ubiquitous campaign trail phrase “Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others,” still has some hop in its shambling step. Try watching at least 4 or 5 episodes from these last two seasons. It might not match the freshness or acerbic brilliant of seasons 3-6, but its doing as well as it can with half of its voice talent Scientologists.