Good News Everyone!

After a few weeks of very nervous nerds, it was announced this week that the original cast of Futurama is set to return when it's revived on Comedy Central in 2010:

The "Futurama" reboot is now on track.

The recent 20th Century Fox TV-"Futurama" voice actor standoff won't have an effect on the show's timetable, insiders said over the weekend. The show's new round of episodes is still set to bow on Comedy Central in 2010.

Here's what won't be happening this week, however: auditions to replace the five "Futurama" cast members.

Casting execs were set to begin meeting with replacement thesps this week. But the five stars -- John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille -- finally sealed pacts late Friday with 20th Century Fox TV to return to the show.

Both the actors and 20th are believed to have found a compromise. Move comes after 20th put out a casting call in July to find replacement voice actors for the show.

Check out the full story at Variety:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006797.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&ref=bd_tv

The 20 Best Alcohol-Related Simpsons Quotes of All Time.

20.

[1F15] Bart Gets an Elephant

Homer: "Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get."


19.


[5F03] Bart Star


Homer: Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?

18.


[7G03] Homer's Odyssey

Homer: “Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy's piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer. Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure... not even close.”

17.

[4F22] The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson

Barney: “Ah that's just drunk talk, sweet beautiful drunk talk.”

http://www.hulu.com/watch/31924/the-simpsons-beautiful-drunk-talk#x-4,vclip,26

16.

[CABF04] Homer vs. Dignity

Lenny: “Wow, I never seen you have so many lunch beers before, Homer.”

15.

[KABF09] Papa Don't Leech

Royce Lumpkin: “I better whisky up these corn flakes.“

14.

[CABF17] Simpsons Tall Tales

Hobo: “And thanks to that little girl, today you can find applesin everything that's good: Apple wine, apple whiskey, apple schnapps, apple martinis, uh, Snapple with vodka in it, apple nail polish remover ...”

Lisa: “Don't forget apple sauce.”

Hobo: “Yeah ... I suppose you could grind some pills into it.”

13.

[CABF03] The Great Money Caper

Marge: “I'd like to visit that Long Island place ... if only it were real.”

12.

[5F18] Natural Born Kissers

Homer: “Well, this time I'm drunk on love... and beer. “

11.

[2F03] Treehouse of Horror V

Homer: “No TV and no beer make Homer something something”
Marge: “Go crazy?”
Homer: “Don't mind if I do.”

http://www.hulu.com/watch/20655/the-simpsons-no-tv-no-beer#x-4,vclip,37

10.

[8F13] Homer at the Bat

Umpire: “You can't leave first until you chug a beer, any man scoring has to chug a beer, you have to chug a beer at the top of all odd numbered innings. Oh and the fourth inning is the beer inning.”

Cheif Wiggum: “Hey, we know how to play softball.”
http://www.hulu.com/watch/34984/the-simpsons-softball-league-opening-day#x-4,vclip,74

9.

[BABF21] Treehouse of Horror XI

Lenny: Mmmm. Alcohol and night swimming. It's a winning combination!

8.

[4F19] Homer's Enemy

Lenny: He had three beers at lunch. That would make anybody sleepy

7.

[9F14] Duffless

Homer: Marge, I'm going to Moe's. Send the kids to the neighbors, I'm coming back loaded.

6.

[1F20] Secrets of a Successful Marriage

Homer: ”Remember when I took that home wine making course and I forgot how to drive? Marge: “That's because you were drunk!”

Homer: “And how.”

5.

[9F14] Duffless

Homer : When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer, I drank some very good beer that I purchased with a fake ID, my name was Brian McGee, I stayed up listening to Queen. When I was seventeen.

4.

[8F16] Bart the Lover

Homer: "Maybe it's the beer talking Marge but you've got a butt that won't quit. They got these big chewy pretzels here . . . .^%&$`#^&*)$=(#beer&@~&. . . . .five dollars, get outta here."

3.

[5F23] The Joy of Sect

Homer: “Homer no function beer well without.”

2.


[9F14] Duffless


Homer: “Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator. They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and... um.. Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman”

1.

[4F15] Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment

Homer: “To alcohol, the cause of and solution to all life's problems. “

Youtube Sunshine

Youtube Sunshine is " A social commentary on the problems with anonymity online. All comments are live and are updated via the Youtube API." It's a fairly ironical statement, sort of like doing a television show about how bad watching television is... still awesome though. All swear words are replaced with the word sunshine, plus it includes a link to the original video that inspired the brilliant comment that pops up. Here's one of the randomly generated quotes, pre-censored for maximum hillarity:

"danthepan10 says: thatis funny as (sunshine)! (3 hours ago)"

Guess the Dictator/Sitcom Character

I was going through my old bookmarks and found this awesome site I hadn't been at in like 3 years. It's kinda like 20 questions with evil dictators and sitcom characters, it guessed Hitler right in just under a minute, although it couldn't get Handsome Pete. It's great for killing time at work or as filler on your blog...don't have a blog you say? Start one and link to this, go on... do it... you know you want to: http://www.smalltime.com/Dictator

Custom Search Results

So I got my first taste of notoriety in the world of search engine optimization. Albeit anonymous, and on a site only my fellow SEOers read... now that I think about it I wouldn't consider it notoriety. Anyways, I check out Webmasterworld.com on a daily basis and signed up for an account because it wouldn't let me read as many posts as I was without signing up. I posted something for the first time the other day about how Google was letting people know right in the search results pages when a particular search was customized. Pretty much everyone had known that being logged into your Google account would skew results based on what pages you had viewed in the past... but for a while now I've noticed that certain things would come up in different positions depending on who's computer I was using (while not logged in). Customized results are a pain in the ass when your job is to know exactly where your site ranks for certain keywords and how to improve them. If it looks to you like you're number one for every keyword you care about customized results can suck. Long story short one of my favorite SEO blogs SeoRoundTable.com noticed my post and did an entire article about it that wound up on their homepage. Nerdgasm.

Here's the article: Google Provides More Information about Personalized Results

Create your own magnigraphs

Magnigraph.com lets you upload any picture and create a magnigraph of it. It's like an online Photoshop tool. Does a pretty good job unless there isn't alot of contrast in the picture you're using. Did a great job on the Simpsonized version of me though!

Big-time Number One Garfield Comics!

First came Garfield Minus Garfield, a chilling look inside the world of a madman (Actually just old Garfield cartoons with Garfield taken out to make Jon look insane.). Now comes Garfield Lost in Translation, Garfield cartoons translated into Chinese and then back into English.

The Nietzsche Family Circus

Just came across this great new webcomic that takes old Family Circus cartoons and uses randomized quotes from Nietzsche instead of the original captions. Hilarious.