{"id":37,"date":"2005-09-26T17:33:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-09-26T17:33:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T22:33:55","slug":"its-homer-and-the-riffics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/its-homer-and-the-riffics\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Homer and the Riffics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s season premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/thesimpsons.com\/\">The Simpsons<\/a> didn&#8217;t leave me wanting for a good, quotable bit of dialog.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>Background: A cemetery has been moved next door to the Simpsons. Lisa, being an 8 year old girl, is more than a little freaked out that her bedroom window faces the cemetery. In fact, hers is the only room that does. After a scary incident in which Homer and Marge are convinced that Lisa&#8217;s not making things up&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Homer: Back to the only safe bedroom in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa: What about Bart&#8217;s bedroom?<\/p>\n<p>Homer: You know that race car bed I made him? The brakes are shot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cut to Bart&#8217;s room, where the race car bed is bumping into walls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bart: [bump] Ow. [bump] Ow. [bump] Ow.<\/p>\n<p>A big Thank You to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004981\/\">Matt<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Groening\">Groening<\/a>, for making my life complete for at least one more television season. (Yes, that&#8217;s two distinct links, there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s season premiere of The Simpsons didn&#8217;t leave me wanting for a good, quotable bit of dialog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}