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January 17, 2008
You're Living in F*ck City!
There are some among us -- maybe even your friends or colleagues or people you only marginally like -- who have claimed the first Poochie reference in Shrubville's storied 8-year history. To those people I say: You are wrong.
Those out there who are both close readers of Shrubville and students of The Simpsons -- and you know who you are -- will recall a little post back on August 10, 2007, in which yours truly wrote:
I don't want to turn this into a rant about how when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. (I mean, what are we to believe, that it was some sort of a magic xylophone or something?). I know this is only a comic strip (and a horrible one at that), and, as such, we should be able to suspend disbelief every now and then. We should allow the strip's creator some leeway in his story development and some wiggle room in his characters. But this last week or so has been so tremendously off-the-charts-ishly suckfuckingly stoopid that it's painful and embarrassing to witness.
Yes, the Magic skeleton line was lifted directly from episode 4F12 entitled "The Itchy & Scrathy & Poochie Show."
(Also featured in the 8/10/07 post: A Replacements AND a Bangles reference.)
Take THAT, Mr. Genius at Work.
Comments
Your reference is tangential. Tangential!
And for posterity, Fuck City was referenced in a Shrubville title post in February, 2005.
Posted by: Sacki at January 17, 2008 02:23 PM
While CJo and Sacki were fighting over who made the first Poochie reference and writing fake production notes, I went and got an exclusive interview with Winslow the Coyote. Yes, that Winslow the Coyote. Check it out:
http://tumbleweedtown.blogspot.com/2008/01/rama-llama-ding-dong.html
Posted by: Chris at January 17, 2008 07:05 PM
Speaking of candidates and vacations, one of the saddest stories I heard about the Obama campaign is that his daughters were really upset that they weren't going to Hawaii for Christmas, like they had done every other year of their young lives. Des Moines wasn't doing it for them.
I think we should elect Obama because his little girls would be so cute in the White House. That, and the whole inspiring leader/opposed the war/able to get things done/made Chicago cops videotape their interrogations thing. Has anyone running taken bigger steps to prevent torture?
Posted by: Annie at January 18, 2008 08:40 AM
