Monday, January 9, 2012

January 5, 2012 - Brooklyn

Location: Berry Park
Episodes: Mr. Plow, Mountain of Madness, El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
Categories: Grampa Simpson, Politics
Winner: The Mediocre Presidents
Press Clippings:

NY Daily News
Cowabunga! It’s “Woo Hoo! Classic Simpsons Trivia Night” at Berry Park. Categories will include “Edna Krabappel,” and the evening’s emcee, Andrew Ennals, will screen episodes in between rounds to jog everyone’s memories. Winners are given a bottle of champagne. 




Final Standings:
1. The Mediocre Presidents, 44.5 pts
2. Just Say Slavery, 44 pts
2. McGarnagle.com, 44 pts
4. Fourth Form Chums, 43 pts
5. Prune Tracy, 41 pts
6. We The Purple, 40.5 pts
7. Bang Bang Bart & The More To Love, 40 pts
8. Stupid Babies Need The Most Attention, 39.5 pts
9. Hyeeeessss? Hyeeeesss!, 39 pts
10. Arsonists and Kids With Mittens Pinned To Their Jackets Year 'Round, 38.5 pts
11. Krudler, 37.5 pts
12. Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaraguchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern, 36 pts
13. Sex Cauldron, 35 pts
13. Thrillhau, 35 pts
15. Act 2: Death Drives A Stick, 33.5
16. Sandal-Wearing Goldfish Tenders, 32.5 pts
17. Flintstones Chewable Morphine, 32 pts
18. You Don't Make Friends With Salad, 31 pts
19. The Soul Mass Transit System, 30 pts
20. Dog Kills Cat, Self, 28.5 pts
21. A Perfectly Cromulent Team Name, 26.5 pts
22. No Bathroom, Only Klaukalash, 25.5 pts
23. Freshen Yer Drink Guv'na?, 24.5 pts
24. Avert Your Gaze, 23 pts
24. Oh, I'm Not A Doctor, 23 pts
26. The I Didn't Do It Dancers, 22.5 pts
27. Those Who Dwell Within The Rocket House, 19 pts
28. The Black Laser and Company, 17.5 pts
29. Slaughter In The Water, 12.5 pts
30. You'll Practice Me? What Does That Even Mean?, pi pts. (That's what the scoresheet says...)

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

December 12, 2011 - Toronto

Location: Cadillac Lounge
Episodes: Homer The Heretic, 22 Short Films About Springfield, Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
Categories: Waylon Smithers, Politics
Winner: The Starting Line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers

Final Standings:
1. The Starting Line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, 48.5 pts
2. Conformco Brain Deprogrammers, a Subsidiary of Mrs. Fields Cookies, 46 pts
3. Fiddle-dee-dee, That Will Require A Tetanus Shot, 44.5 pts
4. The Blunchblacks of Blotre Blame, 43 pts
5. The Popes of Chillitown, 42.5 pts
6. Tethered Swimming, 41.5 pts
7. Christmas Ape Goes To Summer Camp, 40 pts
8. The Weiner Patrol, 39.5 pts
9. Sex Cauldron, 39 pts
10. A Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwazy Kwanzah, Tip Top Tet, And A Solemn Dignified Ramadan, 38.5 pts
11. Flancrest Enterprises, 37.5 pts
12. Acme Grease and Shovel, 37 pts
12. The Magical Men From Happy Land In Gumdrop Houses On Lollipop Lane, 37 pts
12. We're The Stupid Morons With Ugly Faces And Big Butts And Our Butts Smell And We Like To Kiss Our Own Butts, 37 pts
12. Worker & Parasite, Eastern Europe's Favourite Cat and Mouse Team, 37 pts
16. The Aurora Borealis? At This Time Of Year? At This Time Of Day? In This Part Of The Country? Localized Entirely Within Your Kitchen?, 36.5 pts
17. Hail Ants, 36 pts
18. Down With Homework, 35.5 pts
19. Jump The Shark, 35 pts
20. Only A-Scum Compared-A To Krusty, 34.5 pts
20. Shake It Madam! Capital Knockers, 34.5 pts
20. The Best Damn Pet Shop In Town, 34.5 pts
23. Two Perfectly Good Jackets, 34 pts
24. Two Guys From Kabul, 32.5 pts
25. Discovery Channel, 31.5 pts
26. Capital Knockers, 31 pts
27. Never Try, 30 pts
27. You Have 30 Minutes To Move Your Car, You Have 10 Minutes To Move Your Car, Your Car Has Been Impounded, Your Car Has Been Crushed Into A Cube, You Have 30 Minutes To Move Your Cube, 30 pts
29. Cashmere Princesses, 29 pts
29. Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge, 29 pts
31. Abortions For All, 27 pts
32. The Denver Bronco-ohs, 26.5 pts
33. Baron Von Herzenberger And The Fun Boys Getting Rooms, 26 pts
34. Your Trivia Has Been Crushed Into A Cube. You Have 30 Minutes To Move Your Cube, 25.5 pts
35. The NY Mets, 25 pts
35. Jeremy's Iron, 25 pts
37. BMF, 24.5 pts
37. The Annual Gift Men, 24.5 pts
39. The Secretaries Of Partying Down, 21.5 pts
40. The Thompsons, 15 pts
41. Trab Pu Kcip, 14.5 pts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

December 1, 2011 - Brooklyn

Location: Berry Park
Episodes: Last Exit To Springfield, 22 Short Films About Springfield, Marge Be Not Proud
Categories: Chief Wiggum, Sports
Winner: The Mediocre Presidents

Final Standings*:
1. The Mediocre Presidents, 49 pts
2. Antoine Bugle Boy & The Counterfeit Jeans Ring, 44.5 pts
3. Damn Hell Ass Kings, 43.5 pts
4. Hot Stuff Coming Through, 42 pts
4. The Answer Is Fries, 42 pts
6. BYOBB - What's That B For? That's A Typo, 40.5 pts
7. Daddy's Chubby Little Secret, 37.5 pts
8. Emu Farm, 37 pts
8. Goodtime Slim, Uncle Doobie and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out, 37 pts
10. The Popes of Chilitown, 36 pts
10. Sector 7 G 4 1, 36 pts
12. Larry White, 34.5 pts
13. Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaraguchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern, 33.5 pts
14. Speedway Squad In Color, 32.5 pts
15. Up And At Them, 31.5 pts
16. Big Fat Man Has Big Fat Heart, 31 pts
17. Flim Springfield, 30.5 pts
18. The Bartman, 29.5 pts
19. Thrillho, 27 pts
20. The Soul Mass Transit System, 26.5 pts
21. The I Didn't Do It Dancers, 25 pts
22. Milpool, 21.5 pts
23. Cesspool On The Potomac, 19 pts
24. Onion Belt, 13.5 pts
25. Dig Up, Stupid, 11 pts
26. Fooforaw or Argle Bargle, 5 pts
27. Oddball Canadian Rules, 4.5 pts

*scores are unofficial; some cross-checking still needed

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

November 8, 2011 - Toronto

Location: The Gladstone Hotel - Ballroom, Melody Bar and Art Bar
Episodes: Lisa The Vegetarian, A Streetcar Named Marge, Krusty Gets Kancelled
Categories: Prof. Frink, Military
Winner: The Starting Line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers

Final Standings:
1. The Starting Line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, 46.5 pts
2. The Always Lovely And Vivacious Head of Kitty Carlisle, 45.5 pts
3. A Name That's Witty At First, But Seems Less Funny Every Time You Hear It, 45 pts
4. La Penetrada: The Team That Makes Sex Look Like A Church, 44.5 pts
5. Nuts & Gum: Together At Last!, 43.5 pts
6. Sex Cauldron, 43 pts
7. Oh No! Beta!, 42 pts
8. The Beer Barons, 41.5 pts
9. Five Bees For A Quarter, 41 pts
10. Gummi Artisans Who Work Exclusively In The Medium of Gummi, 40 pts
11. We're The Stupid Morons With Ugly Faces And Big Butts And Our Butts Smell And We Like To Kiss Our Own Butts, 39.5 pts
12. Non-Threatening Boys, 38 pts
12. The Dogs With Bees In Their Mouths And When They Bark They Shoot Bees At You, 38 pts
14. Endut! Hock Hech!, 37 pts
15. Robo-Trumble, 36.5 pts
15. The Erotic Adventures of Hercules, 36.5 pts
17. The Wee Turtles, 36 pts
18. Dental Coverage: Lisa Requires Braces, 35.5 pts
18. Good Time Slim, Uncle Doobie And The Great 'Frisco Freak-Out, 35.5 pts
18. Hired Goons?, 35.5 pts
21. The Ninth Bearded Infantry, 35 pts
21. Worker And Parasite, 35 pts
23. The Big Ear Family, 34.5 pts
24. Rag On A Stick, 34 pts
25. Globex Corporation, 33 pts
25. My Teammates Are Not Communists. We May Be Liars, Pigs, Idiots, Communists, but We Are NOT Porn Stars, 33 pts
27. The Suckiest Bunch of Sucks That Ever Sucked, 32.5 pts
28. Damn Weiner Kids, 30 pts
29. Never Try, 29 pts
30. Melvin & The Squirrels, 28.5 pts
31. An Evening With Jimbo, 27.5 pts
32. Duffman! Can't Breathe!, 27 pts
33. Canyonero, 24.5 pts
34. Bonerland, 23 pts
35. Don't Eat Pork, Not Even With A Fork (Can't Touch This!), 20 pts
36. The Bent Wookies, 19 pts
37. Denver Broncooos, 18.5 pts
38. Mothballing Your Battleship, 18 pts
39. Steamed Hams, 13.5 pts
40. Pray For Mojo, 11.5 pts
41. Ow! My Eyeball, 9 pts
42. Spider Legs, 8.5 pts
43. Two Guys From Quantico, 8 pts
44. The Plow Kings, 4 pts
45. The Simpsons, 1 pt

Friday, November 4, 2011

November 3, 2011 - Brooklyn

Location: Berry Park
Episodes: The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Lisa On Ice, Lemon of Troy
Categories: Krusty, Springfield Places
Winners: The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel, and The Candy-Shaped Rat Poison Convention (tie)

Final Standings:
1. The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel, 44.5 pts
1. Candy Shaped Rat Poison Convention, 44.5 pts
3. The Jerks From Tower One, 42 pts
4. Flim Springfield, 40.5 pts
5. Matsumura Fishworks & Tamaraguchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern, 39.5 pts
6. BYOBB, 39 pts
7. Former President James Taylor, 38 pts
8. Your Older, Balder, Fatter Son, 36 pts
9. The Soul Mass Transit System, 35.5 pts
10. Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover, 33.5 pts
10. I Hope That's Shepherd's Pie In My Knickers, 33.5 pts
12. Guff-Speaking Work Slackers, 33 pts
12. The Brotherhood of Jewish Clowns, 33 pts
14. Sing Monkey Sing, 31.5 pts
15. The Suckiest Bunch of Sucks That Ever Sucked, 30 pts
16. Jeremy's Iron, 29.5 pts
17. The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Acheivement in the Field
of Excellence, 29 pts
18. Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, 28.5 pts
19. Juggler's Despair, 27 pts

20. Inanimate Carbon Rod, 26 pts
21. Locker Room Towel Fight: The Blinding of Larry Driscoll, 25.5 pts
22. Bent Wookies, 23.5 pts
23.The President’s Neck is Missing, 20.5 pts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

October 25, 2011 - Toronto


Location: The Gladstone Hotel - Melody Bar
Episodes: Treehouse of Horror IV, Treehouse of Horror VII, Treehouse of Horror VIII
Categories: Dr. Nick Riviera, Tricks And Treats
Winner: The Starting Line Of The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers
Press Clippings:

The Onion AV Club - Toronto
Do you long for the days where The Simpsons were considered dangerous?  When political debates would use the show as a representative of all that was wrong in the world?  Us too.  Woo Hoo!  Classic Simpsons Trivia is entering its second year of fun, frivolity and Flanders at The Gladstone with an ever-growing crowd of Simpsons enthusiasts. Think you know your Simpsons? Well, the guys and girls who run and partake in this trivia night each month are here to show how just how wrong you really are. So, grab a pint of Duff, park your ass in a Spinemelter 2000 and join your like-minded friends for a night of laughs, songs, alcohol and the single greatest cartoon of all-time. 

Final Standings:
1. The Starting Line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, 49 pts
2. Chugalug House, 48 pts
2. The Springfield Baggy Pants Players, 48 pts
4. Square Pancakes, 46.5 pts
5. Ach, I'm Bad At This, 45.5 pts
5. Sex Cauldron, 45.5 pts
7. The Popes of Chili Town, 45 pts
8. Oh No, BETA!, 44 pts
8. The Beer Barons, 44 pts
10. Gummi Artisans Working Exclusively In The Medium of Gummi, 43.5 pts
11. The Team Who Travelled The Least Distance To Be Here, 42 pts
11. Yes, I Am A Vampire by Monty Burns, with a Foreward by Steve Allen, 42 pts
13. Hired Goons?, 39.5 pts
13. The Mur-diddley-urdlers, 39.5 pts
15. Flancrest Enterprises, 39 pts
16. Abortions For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others, 38.5 pts
16. Hey Everybody! We're Two Stupid Morons With Ugly Faces And Big Butts And Our Butts Smell And We Like To Kiss Our Own Butts, 38.5 pts
18. The Free Range Children, 38 pts
19. Sloppy Jimbos, 37.5 pts
20. A Cement Mixer Filled With Hope And Some Cement, 36 pts
20. Trab Pu Kcip, 36 pts
22. Thrillho, 35.5 pts
23. Abortions For All, 35 pts
24. Linguo IS Dead, 34.5 pts
24. Mit Iodine, 34.5 pts
24. Mr. Snrub From Some Place Far Away, 34.5 pts
24. The Live-4-Ever, 34.5 pts
24. Wang Computers, 34.5 pts
29. There's No Such Thing As Scotchtoberfest, 34 pts
30. Damn Weiner Kids, 32.5 pts
31. Love Is Nice, starring Julia Roberts, 31.5 pts
31. The Thompsons, 31.5 pts
33. Give My Remains To Broadway, 30.5 pts
34. Fine And Dandy like Sour Candy, 29.5 pts
35. The Paddling Of The Swollen Ass...With Paddles, 29 pts
36. Bart Simpson Eminem, 28 pts
37. Team Fishbulb, 27 pts
38. Diagnosis: Delicious, 26.5 pts
38. The Forty Humans, 26.5 pts
40. Starland Vocal Band? They Suck!, 26 pts
40. The Doll Is Trying To Kill Me And The Toaster's Been Laughing At Me, 26 pts
42. How To Cook For Forty Humans, 25.5 pts
42. Lester and Eliza, 25.5 pts
44. Edgy, Remorseful, Dizzy, Tipsy, Surly, Queasy and Sleazy, 25 pts
44. Nuke The Whales, 25 pts
46. Gigantic Asses, 24 pts
46. (Do Not Write In This Space) O.K., 24 pts
48. Allied Biscuit, 20 pts
49. Pobody's Nerfect, 12 pts
50. Dondelinger's Honda, 5 pts

Monday, October 10, 2011

October 6, 2011 - Brooklyn

Location: Berry Park
Episodes: Bart Star, Deep Space Homer, Treehouse of Horror V
Categories: Sideshow Bob, Clothing
Winner: Love In The Time of Scurvy

Final Standings:
1. Love In The Time of Scurvy, 44.5 pts
2. Don't Look Up My Dress Unless You Mean It, 42.5 pts
3. Billy & The Cloneasaurus, 41 pts
4. I Was Saying Boo-Urns, 39.5 pts
5. Walking Clock, 39 pts
6. Flim Springfield, 37.5 pts
7. Mysterious Liquor Clouds Over Evergreen Terrace, 36.5 pts
8. The Pigeon Rats, 35 pts
9. Local Man Loses Pants, Life, 34 pts
10. The Slack-Jawed Troglydytes, 33.5 pts
11. The Wildcats, 32.5 pts
11. The Brotherhood of Jewish Clowns, 32.5 pts
13. Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaraguchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern, 32 pts
14. The Wod Fir, 31 pts
14. Wang Computers, 31 pts
16. Pinchy & The I'm Sorries, 29 pts
17. Futurama Reference, 27.5 pts
18. Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, 23.5 pts
19. The Soul Mass Transit System, 23 pts
20. The Competent Drum Work of Don Brewer?, 22.5 pts
20. The Disobedient Whales, 22.5 pts
22. ALF In Pog Form, 21.5 pts
23. The Goggles Do Nothing, 21 pts
24. Load-Bearing Posters, 20 pts
24. Stupid Sexy Flanders, 20 pts
24. Nuts & Gum, 20 pts
27. Allied Biscuit, 19.5 pts
27. Two Bad Neighbors, 19.5 pts
29. Mr. Black, 19 pts
29. Up And At Them, 19 pts
31. Erik B & Sideshow Raheem, 14 pts
32. Five Bees For A Quarter, 9 pts
33. I'll Bet Even The Virgin Mary..., 4 pts