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9 Trippy Cartoons That Make You Feel Like You're On Drugs

January 15th, 2013 By Tony McMillen

Anyone who has watched thirty seconds of the Cartoon Network?s phenomenal animated program Adventure Time will tell you that the show is whackadoo insane and that watching it for even a slight amount a time will make you feel like you're on serious brain-splitting drugs.

They will then, if they have any amount of taste, tell you that they absolutely love it. This will also probably turn them into a proper fiend for the show and they?ll never miss another episode. Why is this? Because we love our cartoons, and we love them best when they're trippy, weird and when they make us feel like we're on drugs. Because we love the way drugs make us feel.

5 Insane Versions Of Popular Movies That Almost Got Made

September 20th, 2012 By Tony McMillen

Imagine a world where George Lucas never made his Star Wars prequels. Someone actually blew the childhood rape whistle on him and his wretched schemes were thusly nixed. A place where Alan Moore?s comic book masterpiece Watchmen was never transformed into Zach Snyder?s shitty slow motion action porno. Instead it was an excellent HBO miniseries produced by Terry Gilliam. Whedon?s Firefly was never canceled and is still on air today. Michael Bay? Michael Bay is dead.

But while it's comforting to think about such a perfect world where all of nerdom?s proverbial boogeymen have been fittingly dispatched and all its most beloved treasures remain untarnished, I think it's even more fun to think about a world where the movies that actually almost happened here were made.

The Simpsons Supposedly Offer A 500th Anniversary Episode That Isn't Terrible

February 21st, 2012 By Matthew Laidlow

Visit a branch of Weatherspooons on a weekend and you\’ll no doubt bump into a decaying mess on the dance floor that's tried to cover their appearance by plastering on the makeup. Everybody loves to witness a female attempt to look young as they prance around in their daughter's top that shows off every ravage of age.

Basically, some people in life should accept that their sell by date has arrived and just stop. Sadly, this doesn't happen and the same can be said about long running animation, The Simpsons. Reaching its peak in the mid nineties, the show has continued to lag in quality and started to become awkward and confusing.

But The Simpsons broadcaster has faith and continues to recommission the programme. Americans either have an alternative view take on humour, or Fox like the money from the merchandise. Either way, The Simpsons has reached a landmark 500th episode.

Julian Assange To Appear In The Simpsons, Despite All That Sex Crime Business

January 31st, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Hey! You know Julian Assange? What do you mean you don’t know who he is? He’s the man who leaks things. Allegedly, he leaks things all over people against their will (which he denies, natch). He also likes leaking documents which really gets up the nose of the world’s governments.

Sounds like a thrilling bloke, doesn’t he?

Well, the activist, currently under house arrest in the UK, is going to play himself in the 500th episode of The Simpsons. Yes really. We suspect he’s going to be very, very funny indeed. ‘He’ being Homer Simpson, not Julian Assange.

Banksy Does The Credits For The Simpsons And He’s Oh-So Bloody Political

October 11th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Banksy is, let’s be honest here, vaguely amusing but ultimately, irritating as piles. He’s the art-world’s Bono, constantly asking us to look at ourselves like we’re brain-dead scum. Of course, fans of his will claim a moral victory because he’s managed to put into his work what they couldn’t say in words. Or, more realistically, they like to be seen to care about… y’know… stuff.

And with his fame, Banksy has managed to make a decent living out of being unknown. He’s done pieces in war-torn areas, New Orleans and various famous landmarks, all the while, telling us how we’re hopeless consumers, willing to lap-up anything we’re told… then selling a shed-load of books.

And now, he’s managed to land the gig of creating the title sequence of The Simpsons. And it’s oh-so bloody controversial.

HecklerPlay: Spotify Playlists ? The Simpsons Greatest Hits

August 7th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

The Simpsons has been on television for roughly 2000 years. Of course, with a show so insanely old and long-running, there’s a lot of ground covered. The sheer volume of pop-culture references in the show is enough to fill a thousand books.

Naturally, we’re not going to try and make a playlist of every single tune used or referred to in the show, but we can certainly cream a few classics into one list.

So keep an eye out for the one where you feel the need to shout “Get to the workin’ overtime part!”, the one where you’re amazed at Peter Frampton being able to make his guitar talk, or indeed, the hymn by I. Ron Butterfly. Anyway, continue reading for The Simpsons playlist.

Katy Perry Gets Her Breasts Out On SNL And Somehow Gets Simpsons Gig

August 4th, 2012 By Mof Gimmers

Katy Perry can’t dodge controversy at the moment can she? When she’s not watching her spindly husband half-heartedly attacking photographers, she’s trying to give Elmo from Sesame Street and erection.

Yes indeed, Perry has caused a bit of fuss after showing the top bit of her boobs on a children’s show, prompting most people in the world to wonder why the top half of someone’s breasts are more problematic than say, having Piers Morgan’s face on-screen at any given point or allowing children to walk around a world that willingly has Sarah Silverman in it.

Perry has responded to the whole incident by getting them out on Saturday Night Live, which somehow, has got her a cameo spot on The Simpsons (that’s when you know you’ve made it).

The Simpsons: Season 12 – DVD Review

August 5th, 2012 By David Scarborough

When America’s favourite yellow family The Simpsons (sorry liver-diseased The Johnsons of Massachusets) first appeared on our screens back in the 90s, who could have predicted that they would sustain twelve long seasons (and beyond…)?

Yet while this series packs in the laughs, the guest stars and the characters we all know and love, there is something that is starting to smell a bit off? in Springfield.

Bart Simpson Now Pimping Out Scientology

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

For those of you who worry that it’s not as funny as it used to be, relax – The Simpsons has just got hilarious.

Bart Simpson has started actively promoting Scientology! Genius! If that’s not up there with Cape Feare and “If it isn’t my old friend Mr McGregg, with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg” then we’ll be buggered. Bart Simpson? Urging people by phone to attend Scientology events? LOL!!

Hang on, that isn’t Bart Simpson? That’s Nancy Cartwright using Bart Simpson’s voice as a geniune, real-life Scientology promotional tool? Why, that’s considerably less funny.

Venezuela Thinks Baywatch Is Better For Kids Than The Simpsons

April 9th, 2008 By hecklerspray staff

Venezuela sucks.

Hey, don’t get mad at us! We’re just saying what everyone is thinking. Venezuela is totally lagging behind its South American counterparts. They don’t even have a body hair wax treatment named after them. Losers. Their children are corrupt, too. It must be because they have The Simpsons on during daytime television programming. Well, no more! Venezuela has pulled The Simpsons because it is unsuitable for children, and replaced it with Baywatch Hawaii.

Good. The sooner the children stop being corrupted and start learning unrealistic beauty standards and uncreative, predictable plot-lines, the better.