User:Xjonx

2010-08-03T02:05:21Z

Xjonx:

==About me==

Hello, I enjoy The Simpsons and quote them often.

==My contributions==

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Scammer & Z-Dog

2010-07-07T01:13:10Z

Xjonx: correct for spelling and clearity

'''Scammer and Z-Dog''' is a snack machine that [[Principal Skinner]] had put in [[Springfield Elementary School]] only to cause [[Bart]] to become overweight. The snack machine sold only high sugar items ( i.e. soda, chips, and candy ). Since Brat began to get chubby, Marge starts him on a diet.The diet included vegetables and cottage cheese ( he pronounced it cotta-hey cheese ). Bart tries the diet but gives up and instead of telling his mother, he just faked eating healthy and hid junk food the bushes outside his house. Marge noticing the diets hasn't work, send Bart to fat camp. The camp was so expensive,the rest of the family has to go without basic household items. For extra money they turn they're home into a hostel for traveling Europeans. Bart finally realizes what he has done and goes to Springfield Elementary and destroys the machines with an axe he took form the fire extinguisher.{{stub}}
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The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed/References

2010-07-07T00:50:29Z

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==References==
*The title is a reference to the movie ''The Greatest Story Ever Told''.
**This episode has the second title that makes a reference to this movie; the other episode is "[[The Wettest Stories Ever Told]]".
*Among the sites the cast visits are:
**The ''Cenacle'', the traditional site of the Last Supper
**The Wailing Wall, the last remaining portion of the Second Temple (and the closest that Jews today can actually get to the Temple Mount, due to Jewish religious restrictions -- fear of accidentally treading on the site of the Holy of Holies)
**The Church of the Holy Sepluchre, the site of Jesus' crucifixion and burial
**The Dome of the Rock, the third-holiest site in Islam (in reality, Homer and any other non-Muslim would be forbidden entrance)
**The Dead Sea
*The ''Reformers ''parody film parodies both the ''Transformers ''franchise and the different movements in modern Judaism (particularly the more liberal Reform branch and the conservative Orthodox branch)
*In Homer's vision in the desert he sees a tomato, a carrot, cucumber. Parodies of Larry the cucumber, Bob the tomato and Laura the carrot from Veggie Tales.
*The scene in Jerusalem where the man plays the violin on the roof is an illusion to the famous musical ''Fiddler on the Roof''' about the Jewish milkman Tevye and his family.
== Trivia ==
*The set air date is Palm Sunday. Executive Producer [[Al Jean]] said "so it’ll be a show that all faiths can come together and be offended by".
*As Homer sings "I am so thirsty" in the desert, he does it to the tune of the theme song to ''Lawrence of Arabia''.
*Homer mentions stupidflanders.org. A domain lookup shows that is owned by FOX. (as of July 6, 2010, this domain name not in use.)
*During the Wailing Wall tour, Bart said "Give my dad another heart attack", is when Homer got a heart attack at "Homer's Triple Bypass".

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Comic Book Guy

2009-06-08T22:51:23Z

Xjonx: /* Creation */

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"''Worst (insert random word) ever!''" - Comic Book Guy's catch phrase
{{Character|
image= [[Image:Comic_Book_Guy.png]]|
name= Jeff Albertson |
gender=Male|
hair= Long Brown hair (Balding)|
age= 45|
job= Owner of the [[Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop]]|
relatives= ?|
appearance= [[Three Men and a Comic Book]]<br>'''Duration:''' 1991-|
voiced by= [[Hank Azaria]]|
}}

'''Jeff Albertson''', better known as '''Comic Book Guy''', is a fictional character in the animated series ''[[The Simpsons]]'', voiced by [[Hank Azaria]]. He is the proprietor of the comic book store, The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.

==Profile==
Comic Book Guy is obese, socialy incompetent, unshaven, and perhaps best known for his sarcastic quips. He holds a master's degree in folklore and mythology (he translated ''The Lord of the Rings'' into Klingon as part of his thesis). <ref>This is a reference to an organization called the Klingon Language Institute who took the time to translate ''Hamlet'' into Klingon after hearing the line "You haven't experienced Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon" in ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''.</ref> Like many characters, he represents a stereotype, in this case that of the "[[Wikipedia:Nerd|nerd]]" or "[[Wikipedia:Geek|geek]]". He exhibits geeky behaviour to an extrordinary and deliberately unrealistic degree, and often also makes references to obscure subjects or internet culture. His catchphrase is the declaration "Worst... (Noun)... ever". Comic Book Guy is said to be mocking certain ''Simpsons'' fans who will race to the Internet to criticize the producers and writers of an episode they have just finished viewing and declare such episode to be the "Worst Episode Ever". (''Simpsons'' fans started to do just that sometime in 1992 on the alt.tv.simpsons USENET newsgroup, and later on the Web, leading to an on-air reference to "alt.nerd.obsessive".) In the episode "Mayored to the Mob", he states that he is a 45 year-old virgin who lives with his mother. His characteristics may appear somewhat similar to Ignatius M. Reilly from J.K.Toole's novel ''Confederacy of Dunces''.

Appropriate to his name, Comic Book Guy is obsessed with comic books. A science fiction buff, Comic Book Guy has a bumper sticker that reads "My Other Car Is The Millennium Falcon," given to him by a Harrison Ford lookalike. The license plate on his AMC Gremlin is NCC-1701, the registry number of ''Star Trek's'' ''USS Enterprise''. The contents of his display case include, among other oddities, a photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore and a very rare ''Mary Worth'' in which she advised a friend to commit suicide. He also owns a T-shirt that says "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN" (Notice the incorrect usage of the forward slash. DOS directories are listed with a backslash). He is a member of the Springfield branch of [[Mensa International|Mensa]], along with [[Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]], [[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]], [[Lisa Simpson]], [[Professor Frink]], and [[Lindsey Naegle]].

In the episode "[[Saddlesore Galactica]]", he wears a T-shirt saying "Worst Episode Ever" while criticising the ideals behind the Simpson family keeping a horse since it had already been done. Later on he even popped into the frame when it was mentioned that [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] [[$pringfield|might be developing a gambling problem]] saying "Hey, I'm watching you". After the credits of the same episode, his voice is heard declaring it "the worst episode ever".

In the Simpsons city of North Haverbrook there is a comic book shop named "Mylar Baggins" and the proprietor looks very similar to Comic Book Guy with the exception that his skin and hair are slightly darker. He also has a deep-rooted rivalry with a store similar to his: "Frodo's of Shelbyville". These shops could have had the same owner, as both rival store names refer to The Lord of the Rings character Frodo Baggins. In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Comic Book Guy says that his obsessive comic book collecting is a "life well spent". [By contrast, in an episode of "[[Treehouse of Horror VIII]]" (airdate October 26, 1997), in a sequence entitled "The Homega Man," the Comic Book Guy, shown reading an Aquaman comic, looks up to see the neutron bomb--fired at Springfield by France--seconds before it detonates, and mourns aloud, "Oh, I've wasted my life." It should be noted that 'Treehouse' episodes occur outside of continuity.]

== The Android's Dungeon ==
Comic Book Guy is the owner of The [[Android's Dungeon]], a local comic book store. Many of the comics and toys he sells are of poor-quality, and often for very high prices. His store is his sanctuary, where he holds some level of self-esteem, imperiously lording over pre-teen kids, like [[Bart Simpson]] and [[Milhouse Van Houten]], using a heavily sarcastic tone. When he was the target of mockery while trying to return the Ultimate Belt, he sighed, "I must get back to my comic book store, where I ''dispense'' the insults rather than ''absorb'' them". His store contains a section full of illegal videos (which include Mr. Rogers drunk, ''Alien Autopsy'', ''Illegal Alien Autopsy'', a top secret American nuclear war strategy session, a "good version" of ''The Godfather Part III'', [[Kent Brockman]] picking his nose, and [[Ned Flanders]] in a police informant video, wherein he claims that [[Homer Jay Simpson|Homer]] released a radioactive ape in his house). He once had to give up the Ultimate Belt (which he won as a door prize at a Star Trek Convention) because, as he pointed out, "the average Trekker has no use for a medium-sized belt".

==Romance==
Comic Book Guy was once married—in an online role-playing game. He and his Internet wife contemplated having children, but that would have severely drained his power crystals. He was shown paired with a blonde woman (asking if she enjoyed comic books) during a mass-marriage that occurred when a cult took over Springfield, and presumably the two were wed in the mass ceremony. While part of an intellectual [[wiktionary:junta|junta]] that [[They Saved Lisa's Brain|briefly ran Springfield]], he proposed plans to limit breeding to once every seven years (a reference to the Vulcan blood fever of mating, called Pon Farr), commenting that this would mean much less breeding for most, but for him, "much, much more". He was a virgin well into his forties when he became romantically involved with [[Principal Skinner]]'s mother [[Agnes Skinner|Agnes]]. ([[Clancy Wiggum|Chief Wiggum]] was notably repulsed when he and his officers stumbled upon the couple "in the act".) He later dated [[Edna Krabappel]] and was shown with the superman logo tattooed on his upper right buttock.

==History==
According to [[The Simpsons Library of Wisdom|Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture]], he lived in his parents basement in the 1980s. He had a dog named Chewbacca (currently deceased).

== Favorite places to be ==
*Gaming Tournament
*Parent's Basement- The 80s
*Baseball Card Convention
*Indy Pro Wrestling Event
*Yard Sale
*Sci-Fi Comic Book Convention

== Favorite comics ==
*The Green Hornet: Will The Green Hornet Survive...Kato's Day Off
*The Bold And The Relevant: Starring [[Radioactive Man]] & President Nixon
*Frakensteinella
*Pong
*[[Duffman]]'s Bible Stories
*Unknown comic in slab of pewter
*Barbara Walters Comics
*Aquaman Undersea Christmas

==Creation==
Comic Book Guy was partly inspired by a clerk at the Los Angeles Amok book shop who often "[sat] on the high stool, kind of lording over the store with that supercilious attitude and eating behind the counter a big Styrofoam containerful of fried clams with a lot of tartare sauce." [[Matt Groening]] noted that: "I can't tell you how many times people have come up to me and said, 'I know who you based that comic book guy on. It's that comic-book guy right down the block.' And I have to tell them, "No, it's ''every'' comic-bookstore guy in America."
Hank Azaria based Comic Book Guy's voice on a student who went by the name "F", and lived in the room next door at his college. Azaria also "loves that the character is an adult who argues with kids as if they're his peers."

A long-running gag on the show was never to reveal the character's name, with other characters referring to him as "Comic Book Guy". Finally, in the February 6, 2005 episode, "[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]," Comic Book Guy nonchalantly told [[Ned Flanders]], "My name is Jeff Albertson, but everyone calls me 'Comic Book Guy'." [[Showrunner]] [[Al Jean]] remarked, "That was specifically done to make people really mad. We just tried to pick a generic name. It was also the Super Bowl show, so we did it so the most people possible would see it." Groening stated that he had originally intended him to be called Louis Lane and be "obsessed and tormented by" Lois Lane, but was out of the room when the writers named him.

The comic book guy has also been seen in quite a few episodes but he has had very few episodes where he is a major character. He is seen rarely seen outside The Android's Dungeon store and most of his interactions are with [[Bart Simpson]]. The comic book guy wasn't seen very often early in the series of the show and has not been seen very much in the 19th season.

==Merchandising==
Even though Comic Book Guy is a very minor character, he still has some merchandise such as, Comic Books Guy's Book of Pop Culture. He also appears on the cover of the twelfth season DVD.

==Appearances==
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* {{ep|Three Men and a Comic Book}}
* {{ep|Homer Defined}}
* {{ep|Radio Bart }}
* {{ep|The Otto Show }}
* {{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
* {{ep|Lady Bouvier's Lover}}
* {{ep|Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy}}
* {{ep|Round Springfield}}
* {{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
* {{ep|Radioactive Man (episode)|Radioactive Man}}
* {{ep|Bart Sells His Soul}}
* {{ep|Marge Be Not Proud}}
* {{ep|Team Homer}}
* {{ep|Bart the Fink}}
* {{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
* {{ep|The Day the Violence Died }}
* {{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield }}
* {{ep|Much Apu About Nothing }}
* {{ep|You Only Move Twice }}
* {{ep|The Homer They Fall }}
* {{ep|Bart After Dark }}
* {{ep|Hurricane Neddy }}
* {{ep|The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show }}
* {{ep|My Sister, My Sitter }}
* {{ep|Homer vs. the 18th Amendmant }}
* {{ep|The Canine Mutiny }}
* {{ep|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
* {{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons }}
* {{ep|Lisa the Skeptic }}
* {{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace }}
* {{ep|All Singing, All Dancing }}
* {{ep|Bart Carny}}
* {{ep|The Joy of Sect }}
* {{ep|Das Bus }}
* {{ep|The Last Temptation of Homer }}
* {{ep|The Trouble with Trillions }}
* {{ep|King of the Hill }}
* {{ep|Lost Our Lisa }}
* {{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star }}
* {{ep|Mayored to the Mob }}
* {{ep|Viva Ned Flanders }}
* {{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
* {{ep|Homer to the Max }}
* {{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me }}
* {{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain }}
* {{ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo }}
* {{ep|Beyond Blunderdome }}
* {{ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
* {{ep|Treehouse of Horror X}}
* {{ep|Faith Off }}
* {{ep|Saddlesore Galactica}}
* {{ep|Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
* {{ep|It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Marge}}
* {{ep|Behind the Laughter }}
* {{ep|Treehouse of Horror XI}}
* {{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
* {{ep|Insane Clown Poppy }}
* {{ep|Lisa the Tree Hugger}}
* {{ep|Homer vs. Dignity }}
* {{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes }}
* {{ep|HOMR }}
* {{ep|Worst Episode Ever }}
* {{ep|Day of the Jackanapes}}
* {{ep|New Kids on the Blecch}}
* {{ep|I'm Going to Praiseland }}
* {{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod }}
* {{ep|Simpsons Tall Tales }}
* {{ep|Treehouse of Horror XII}}
* {{ep|The Parent Rap }}
* {{ep|She of Little Faith }}
* {{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge }}
* {{ep|Half-Decent Proposal }}
* {{ep|Weekend at Burnsie's }}
* {{ep|I Am Furious Yellow }}
* {{ep|The Sweetest Apu }}
* {{ep|The Frying Game }}
* {{ep|Papa's Got a Brand New Badge }}
* {{ep|Treehouse of Horror XII }} * {{ep|how i spent my strummer vacation }} * {{ep|large marge }} * {{ep|helter shelter }} * {{ep|special edna }} * {{ep|strong arms of the ma }} * {{ep|pray anything }} * {{ep|barting over }} * {{ep|a star is born again }} * {{ep|c.e,doh }} * {{ep|three gays of the condo }} * {{ep|dude where's my ranch }} * {{ep|old yeller belly }} * {{ep|the bart of war }} * {{ep|moe baby blues }} * {{ep|treehouse of horror xiv }} * {{ep|the presidant wore pearls }} * {{ep|the regina monologues }} * {{ep|Today, I Am a Clown}} * {{ep|tis the fifteenth season}} * {{ep|marge vs singles seniors childless couples and teens and gays}} * {{ep|i [annoyed grunt ] - bot}} * {{ep|diatrube of a mad housewife }} * {{ep|smart and smarter }} * {{ep|the ziff who came to dinner}} * {{ep|co - dependant's day }} * {{ep|my big fat geek wedding }} * {{ep|simple simpson }} * {{ep|the way we weren't }} * {{ep|bart mangled banner }} * {{ep|treehouse of horror xv }} * {{ep|she used to be my girl }} * {{ep|fat man and a little boy }} * {{ep|midnight rx }} * {{ep|homer and ned's hail mary pass }} * {{ep|There's Something About Marrying}} * {{ep|Goo Goo Gai Pan}} * {{ep|The Seven-Beer Snitch}} * {{ep|Future-Drama}} * {{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}} * {{ep|A Star is Torn}} * {{ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}} * {{ep|Home Away From Homer}} * {{ep|trehouse of horror xvi }} * {{ep|see homer run }} * {{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}} * {{ep|We're on the Road to D'oh-where}} * {{ep|bart has two mommies}} * {{ep|million dollar abie}} * {{ep|kiss kiss bang bangalore}} * {{ep|girls just want to have sums}} * {{ep|the monkey suit}} * {{ep|jazzy and the pussycats}} * {{ep|please homer don't hammer em}} * {{ep|treehouse of horror xvii}} * {{ep|GI annoyed grunt}} * {{ep|ice cream of margie}} * {{ep|the wife aquatic}} * {{ep|springfield up}} * {{ep|yokel chords}} * {{ep|marge gamer}} * {{ep|the boys of bummer}} * {{ep|you kent always say what you want }} * {{ep|the simpsons movie}} * {{ep|midnight towboy}} * {{ep|husband and knives}} * {{ep|e pluribus wiggum}} * {{ep|that 90s show}} * {{ep|love springfieldian style}} * {{ep|smoke on the daughter}} * {{ep|all about lisa}} * {{ep|sex pies an idiot scrapes}} * {{ep|lost verizon}} * {{ep|double double boy in trouble}} * {{ep|treehouse of horror xix}} * {{ep|homer and lisa exchange crosswords}} * {{ep|mypods and broomsticks}} * {{ep|The burns and the bees}} * {{ep|Lisa the drama queen}} * {{ep|Take my life please}} * {{ep|No loan again naturally}} * {{ep|Gone maggie gone}} * {{ep|Wedding for disaster}}

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