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Top 5 Simpsons Episodes

Marshall — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:55:29 +0000

Today marks the return of the ever popular Top 5 lists. Today also marks the second straight night that one of my Top 5 made its appearence on the late airing on the local UPN. Without further ado…

You Only Move Twice — The Hank Scorpio episode!! “Ohhh, the Denver Broncos?!?”
The Trilogy of Error — The episode where Marge cuts off Homers thumb while cutting brownies. As told through the eyes or Homer, Lisa and Bart. “Here it is boys, 123 Fake Street, home of Knify Wifey” (Wiggum), “Shut up your face” (Linguo)
Weekend at Burnsie’s — Homer gets his eyes maimed by his murder of crows. “They call ‘em fingers, but I’ve never see ‘em fing…Oh, there they go.” (Otto)
Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment — The Beer Baron episode. “Listen, rummy, I’m gonna say it plain and simple. Where’d you pinch the hooch? Is some blind tiger jerking suds on the side?” (Rex Banner)
The Old Man and the Key — Grandpa gets his license to impress some hoochy at the Retirement Castle. In a great reversal of roles, Homer treats Grandpa like his son and takes his license away for wrecking the car. “Your jacket! She burns!, Then I burn with her. For I would rather die, than have people not know what stores I have been to.”

Honorable Mentions:

The Frank “Grimey” Grimes episode

The Behind the Laughter episode

I also found that LardLad.com has a cornucopia of Simpsons quotes in MP3 format organized by season and episode.

Top 5 Movies of 2004 (so far)

Marshall — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:29:07 +0000

Garden State
I just got back from seeing this amazing movie. Garden State, directed, written, and starring Scrubs actor Zach Braff, is a story about an actor who returns to New Jersey to attend his mother’s funeral. During his short stay in town, he meets up with some old school buddies and an habitual liar, Samantha, who, along with the lack of his meds, changes his view on life. Braff is marvelous in his directorial, and motion picture debut in an effort worthy of an oscar. Maybe Garden State is too fresh in my mind, but having seen 4 other commendable movies this year, it gets the top honor on the Top 5 Movies of 2004 (so far):

Garden State
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Spiderman 2
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Napolean Dynamite

It is going to be hard to hold onto those last two positions with Hero out and Wes Anderson’s next film, The Life Aquatic still looming out there.

What’s up with Page Rankings

Marshall — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:11:51 +0000

After hearing about Google being down because of the latest variant of the MyDoom virus, I decided to test to see if they were still down. Out of all the random words that I could type in, i used search engine. To my surprise, Google was not the number one hit!

Here is the top 5 results for search engine as of 7/27/2004.

Number 5!!! How can the worlds best/most used search engine be the number 5 result in it’s own search for search engine???

I tried to search the term “search engine” on a few other sites and surprisingly very few actually list their search engine as the number 1. Out of all the ones I tested, I expected at least Microsoft would have their own search.msn.com listed at numero uno, but surprisingly, they were not in the top 15 (or the first page of results), in fact, they have themselves listed at number 40. MIDI Search Engine had a better ranging then Microsoft. I guess that shows you the quality of their search engine.

I found only one site which actually lists themselves at number 1 and that was Yahoo. I really didn’t find that as too much of a shock.

Top 5 Favorite Albums

Marshall — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 06:07:20 +0000

In the next installment of Marshall’s Top 5, I am going to go over my favorite albums of all time. Writing these things are pretty hard on the spot. I was thinking about the 5 albums that I can listen to at any time, from start to finish. Here is what I came up with, in no particular order…

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Sublime – Sublime

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Snoop Doggy Dog – Doggystyle

Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen

I am sure that I left something out, so this list may need to be amended. A few years ago I would have had No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom on this list, but that was before I really got into the Chili Peppers and Ben Folds. What are your Top 5? Post them here, or post a link to your weblog.

Top 5 Movie Directors

Marshall — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:31:39 +0000

Here is something that I have wanted to add to my blog for awhile. A top 5 list, ala High Fidelity. I was too lazy to code one and last night while I was trying to fall asleep it dawned on me that I could just add a new category fot Top 5 lists and create a new page which only displays that category. For now the Top 5 will just be listed on the main page. Without furthur ado I present to you my top 5 favorite movie directors.

1. Wes Anderson imdb
2. Akira Kurasawa imdb
3. Quentin Tarantino imdb
4. Joel and Ethan Coen imdb, imdb
5. Billy Wilder imdb

I choose Wes as #1 because I thoroughly enjoy every minute of his movies. What is weird about the Top 5 directors list is that it doesn’t directly coincide with my favorite movies. One of my all-time favorite movies is Signs by M. Night Shyamalan (imdb) and he didn’t even crack the top 5. I also decided that I had to put both the Coen brothers into the number 4 spot, seeing as they always do their movies together. I couldn’t leave one out or have them taking up two spots on the list.