Barry: you don't get the Nobel Peace Prize for BEING president, 2 weeks, 9 months, or anything else. Your ignorance is confirmed! Consider, perhaps, that the Nobel committee is not staffed entirely with retards, but instead is staffed by people who understand what the prize is for, and have awarded it according to their guidelines. You don't have to like it, but that doesn't make you any more correct about whether Obama deserves it.
Marge on the cover of PlayBoy huh? What's next, Lois Griffin? They are desperate for attention I suppose. If they keep this trend up, Meg Griffin will be next, and I sure wouldn't wanna see that... *shivers*
@Purple Dave: He's donating the money to multiple charities. Declining it would be a big FU to our European allies, so that's the next best thing. Hopefully it gives him some international political capital to use to accomplish some good as well (which I believe was the stated aim from the committee which selected him).
@Accelerata:
Wait...so they awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in the hopes that doing so will enable him to accomplish that which he was awarded the prize for supposedly having already accomplished? Were they drunk _and_ stoned when they came up with that idea?
The Simpsons is a different show now, but it's much funnier than it was for the past few years. I never stopped watching because it is entertaining, even when it's bad. It's not what it used to be, but these latest writers are trying to aim for the satire the show originally had, albeit they're much more juvenile. Sadly, they have to be.
Futurama was love at first sight, and continues (even if I find the latest movies boring). Without The Simpsons' money and influence, I wouldn't have a Bender action figure on my desk, daring me to kiss his shiny metal daffodil.
@nowayman: I have to agree. I've been watching it since episode 1 and for several years in the 00's it really sucked. Lately, though, it's been improving again.
Maybe it's my low expectations???
@lazy lazy bloke: Yes, it evolved into a different show, and this show is generally considered to be less funny than the first one. If The Simpsons premiered in 2004 with the episodes that aired in 2004, it would have been cancelled in... 2004. Fox just keeps it around because it's The Simpsons, which, as we all know, used to be awesome.
And the fact that you see the opinion that "The Simpsons isn't good anymore" as a cliche doesn't mean anything about Wilson Rothman here, it means that a lot of people are thinking that, which should look bad on The Simpsons.
So Groening finally found the massive pool of Simpsons hentai and thought "Holy shit, people will pay me for this!"
Next, hardcore action between Fry and Amy, with the tow guy going "Yo-ho-ho-ho!"
Twitter...Nobel Peace Prize....
Twitter? Nobel Peace Prize?
So it WILL eventually become a 25 cent prize at the gumball machine in front of a supermarket one day, or maybe as JrsyDevil proposed, foil-covered chocolate.
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Worst. Cover. Ever.
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Chuck Lorre was right: Misinformed is the new patriotic. You clearly don't understand how the Nobel Peace Prize works. Way to be an ignoramus.
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Maybe he'll do the right thing and decline to receive it.
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Wait...so they awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in the hopes that doing so will enable him to accomplish that which he was awarded the prize for supposedly having already accomplished? Were they drunk _and_ stoned when they came up with that idea?
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Futurama was love at first sight, and continues (even if I find the latest movies boring). Without The Simpsons' money and influence, I wouldn't have a Bender action figure on my desk, daring me to kiss his shiny metal daffodil.
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Maybe it's my low expectations???
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@makk: How about the striptease girl from Peter's marital help tape?
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Simpsons evolved into a different show. You're just a dodo with a yearning for nostalgia.
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And the fact that you see the opinion that "The Simpsons isn't good anymore" as a cliche doesn't mean anything about Wilson Rothman here, it means that a lot of people are thinking that, which should look bad on The Simpsons.
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Next, hardcore action between Fry and Amy, with the tow guy going "Yo-ho-ho-ho!"
Twitter...Nobel Peace Prize....
Twitter? Nobel Peace Prize?
So it WILL eventually become a 25 cent prize at the gumball machine in front of a supermarket one day, or maybe as JrsyDevil proposed, foil-covered chocolate.
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Is that a major scoop or poor fact checking. Sony didn't drop any bombshells like that at their E3 conference today.
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