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By: frag

frag — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:57:12 +0000

The list Z cites is the Beloit College Mindset list, based on the age of the incoming freshman class. Witness, if you dare:

“15. Martha Stewart Living has always been setting the style.

…

22. Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.

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56. Michael Milken has always been a philanthropist promoting prostate cancer research.”

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php

By: Ilan

Ilan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:33:58 +0000

Samy, seasons three through six are the Canon, and seven through eight, the Apocrypha. Nine and after are sort of the “Left Behind” equivalent.

By: Rob Brown

Rob Brown — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:29:56 +0000

UHHHHHHHHHH………. way to forget the character of the week?

Dr. Strange is 83% Rex the Wonder Dog and cool enough for four weeks.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:32:35 +0000

“Lemme put it this way: M*A*S*H was on all the fucking time in reruns when I was a kid. I couldn’t have quoted five lines from it at any time because it was Old People TV.”

You missed a lot. M*A*S*H is great. And I’m someone who’s only seen it in reruns

By: Andrew W.

Andrew W. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:30:00 +0000

We used to have a rotary phone when I was a kid. I used to enjoy using it because it was weird and old.

“Lemme put it this way: M*A*S*H was on all the fucking time in reruns when I was a kid. I couldn’t have quoted five lines from it at any time because it was Old People TV.”

Seems like a bad analogy since old Simpsons is still the same show. It’s not like there’s a code word for old people television embedded in those old Simpsons episodes.

By: Z

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:10:43 +0000

There’s a list of references that gets released by an American University on a fairly regular basis. I can’t remember for the life of me any more details about it, but I know it exists. It’s a simple list that’s intended to help professors understand the worldview of the latest crop of undergrads. Simple, helpful things like “Stop refering to breadboxes. Nobody has seen or used a breadbox in 25 f***ing years.”

OK, it’s more polite than that, but you get the point. Things like “There’s no such thing as a rotary phone,” or, “There has always been an internet.”

This year, I do believe we get to add to that list “The Simpsons have always been on TV”. As long as these 18-year-olds have been alive, Homer & Co. have been doing their thing.

Think on that, ye mid-20′s, and despair.

By: Skemono

Skemono — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:45:09 +0000

Wait… wouldn’t this mean that these kids don’t recognize Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz??

Damn punk kids!

By: Will

Will — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:17:51 +0000

Ok, speaking as a young nerd, I grew up in a world that never didn’t have the simpsons. My parents loved it so I grew up watching the show. I quoted the show a lot (bonus: my friends weren’t allowed to watch the show, so I was the funny one without actually having to be witty)

Anyways, given all that, I’m not sure I could recognize a Simpsons Quote. Its been a long time since I regularly watched it, since the chances of seeing on of the newer mediocre ones in syndication are that much higher.

By: rwe1138

rwe1138 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:46:07 +0000

And now is the perfect time to get Nerdlinger to build that bra-bomb.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:10:43 +0000

So are you going to be Secretary of PARTYING DOWN?!

By: Bass

Bass — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:03:15 +0000

Kids today. They don’t know what good Simpsons are anymore!

By: danielle

danielle — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:02:50 +0000

I work with teenagers and made the mistake of referring to “Marky Mark” the other day. It never occurred to me that there would ever be be a generation of people who didn’t know that Mark Walberg started off as a rapper. Their jaws nearly hit the floor when I told them about the Funky Bunch.

By: zurn

zurn — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Seasons five and six should be mandatory viewing for all.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:16:21 +0000

People watch the second decade of The Simpsons? Like, at all?

I’m 21, and most of the people I know quote the Family Guy. Which is sad, for any number of reasons. Primarily that Family Guy is best watched on Youtube, because God Save You if anyone watched an entire twenty minutes of that tripe.

By: LurkerWithout

LurkerWithout — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:31:14 +0000

While knowing quotes from the first decade of The Simpsons marks me as an ancient nerd its better than being marked as someone who recognizes lines from the second decade of episodes…