GUEST surely you jest.

On this side western of the pond we watch all the best of Anglo television on our public broadcasting, but I've seen the regular stuff you guys watch and it isn't any better than our run of the mill stuff.

Simpsons isn't for everybody, most of my friends do not let young children watch it. I didn't watch it for the first few seasons, and was much bemused by the enthusiastic Simpsonites who would corner me in the Supermarket and go on and on about the plots of the Simpsons. It took a couple years of watching and i became one of those headcases myself.

"One more word out of you kids and Bart doesn't get dessert, and Lisa doesn't go to college!"

"Shoplifting is a victimless crime - like punchin' somebody in the dark!"

"Marge, I'd kill for you. Please ask me to kill for you!"

"When he said that Monster Island was only a name, he meant it was actually a peninsula!"

"You can train any dog with two magic words - 'choke chain'"