Whitney Willis Hebert is working to expand the professional dance community in Lafayette by offering Ten Tiny Dances. This show will put dances on a four-by-four foot stage and let them get creative.
The Simpsons’ thick stew of historical references, literary allusion, pop culture trivia, neologism, and comedic invention has long invited viewers to break one of the golden rules of comedy: That there’s nothing to be gained from dissecting a joke. From early message boards to DVD commentaries to the personal Twitter feeds of its writers and producers, the more the show’s dead frogs get poked, the more fascinating layers they reveal.
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Josh Weinstein, who joined the
Simpsons staff in 1992 and ran seasons seven and eight with his writing partner Bill Oakley, has been oneofthe most reliable sources for these behind-the-scenes tidbits of late, commemorating the anniversaries of “Marge Be Not Proud” and “A Milhouse Divided” by sharing tales from from his (terrifying) time with guest star Lawrence Tierney and deleted scenes from the Albee-esque deterioration of Kirk Van Houten’s dignity. Yesterday, Weinstein opened himself and his former colleagues up to burning questions about “jokes/lines people misunderstood or misheard,” and while the Twitter prompt yielded its fair share of inquiries about magic xylophones, CD-ROM dungeons, and wizard’s keys, it also definitively put to rest debates that have raged among fans for decades. No, Hank Scorpio is not the first person Homer ever saw saying goodbye to a shoe. “So I says to Mabel, I says” isn’t from anything else—and there’s no dialogue that comes before or after it. Has the “Sneed’s Feed And Seed—Formerly Chuck’s” sign gag from “E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)” always sailed over your head? Just take a moment and think about why nobody ever plays “The Name Game” with someone named Chuck. There’s a rich, mild, surprisingly addictive core to every ToMacco of a thread like this one—even for the people who were there when the jokes were harvested.