In case you missed it…Richard Dawkins on the Simpsons

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   Gregory in Seattle

   12 March 2013 at 9:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   When what this episode, and how did I miss it?

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   michaeld

   12 March 2013 at 10:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It was this past weekend. Hard to believe but they`re still making new Simpson episodes.

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   Ing:Intellectual Terrorist "Starting Tonight, People will Whine"

   12 March 2013 at 10:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   both have jumped the shark

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   Lynna, OM

   12 March 2013 at 10:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I knew Richard possessed multiple skills, but spitting arrows is one I missed. That’s handy.

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   aiabx

   12 March 2013 at 10:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Has he apologized to Rebecca Watson yet?

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   Sastra

   12 March 2013 at 10:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   “I’m making Catholic Saint Stew!” — Richard Dawkins

   “And I’ve got the crackers to go with it!” — PZ Myers

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   edmundog

   12 March 2013 at 10:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Ing: They’re actually not that bad these days. Not up to their classic standards consistently, and with the occasional real stinker, but waaaaay better than the bottomless depths of, say, season 15. There was an episode last year with Neil Gaiman that I would absolutely rank right up there with Lemon of Troy or 22 Short Films About Springfield.

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   mathema

   12 March 2013 at 11:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Thats good. Then Flanders ran to the PZ chamber next, or maybe the Hitchens chamber. You’d get lost in the atheist section of hell, it’s big.

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   Larry

   12 March 2013 at 11:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   both have jumped the shark

   The Simpsons have been on TV now for, what, 24/25 years. That is pretty amazing in and of itself. The fact that they aren’t as fresh and funny as they were in the peak years doesn’t surprise me. They still have some pretty funny material and episodes even if they scatter them among lesser efforts.

   Its like having sex with the same woman for 25 years. Nothing is new, sometimes it’s routine, even boring, but there still are those occasions…

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    opieparks

    12 March 2013 at 11:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    ARRRRRGH! “Houston in the American League!” THE PAIN! THE AGONY!

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    Ing:Intellectual Terrorist "Starting Tonight, People will Whine"

    12 March 2013 at 12:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @Lary

    Except for the sake of this analogy you have a whole stadium of women patiently waiting for the chance to have sex with you and if they don’t get to they die never having been known or loved by anyone this makes the persistant presence of a previous once golden-now-tarnished star a bit jackassish.

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    Ing:Intellectual Terrorist "Starting Tonight, People will Whine"

    12 March 2013 at 12:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Ok so maybe I should have just abandoned the analogy.

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    opposablethumbs

    12 March 2013 at 1:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Larry, you really didn’t have to come off as a douche you know. You did that all by yourself.

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    microraptor

    12 March 2013 at 1:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Did Richard Dawkins actually provide the voice? Because that doesn’t sound much like him. And it doesn’t look like him, if DevilHomer hadn’t called him Richard Dawkins I’d never have made the association.

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    otranreg

    12 March 2013 at 3:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @14, apparently yes: he’s in the credits.

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    Francisco Bacopa

    12 March 2013 at 4:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Gotta agree with comment #10 and give my props to the Simpsons writers for revealing that the switch of ‘stros to the AL is a plot hatched in Hell. Houston has always been an NL city. I expect attendance will drop like a rock. I don’t follow baseball that much, but I know that the fans loved all the old rivalries dating back to the early 60′s.

    Of course, my parents still pine for the days when the Buffs played in Eastwood before they built the Gulf Freeway.

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    johnmarley

    12 March 2013 at 5:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @edmundog(#7)

    It was “The Book Job”, and I agree, it ranks among the best.

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    bachfiend

    12 March 2013 at 7:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    What sort of dietary advice is this episode giving? The Richard Dawkins demon spitting out the arrows from Saint Sebastian is encouraging avoidance of a very useful source of dietary fibre.