College Humor put together an eight-minute montage of newspaper headline gags that “The Simpsons” has used over the years. Most of them come from the famous Springfield Shopper, but if you stick with it you’ll also see some editions from The Flanders Press (EXTRA EXTRA! TODD SMELLS).
Anyway, as with anything Simpsons-related, it’s worth watching just to remember all the different headlines in context. And it’s set to classical music, which doesn’t really fit, but it’s very pleasant. And if your boss hears you listening to classical music, he’ll think you’re working and not reading blogs. Or she. Your boss might be a woman. If you’re a fictional character on a TV show.


There was a headline from a couple seasons ago when grandpa Simpson was a matador, and the headline said “Old man beats meat.”
I am distressed with the fluctuating price for the Springfield Shopper. $0.50, $0.35, free….which is it? I demand a lot more cost-certainty in my fake newspapers.
Also, there seems to be a large and questionable amount of coverage aimed at one specific family in Evergreen Terrace. Shoddy editorial discretion such as this will lead me to subscribe to a rival publication. Fer chrissakes, the Springfield Shopper makes the Shelbyville Post-Dispatch look like the North Haverbrook Sentinel-Examiner!
Pause on some of the more detailed ones, you can see such jems as “used bible for sale ask for Ned”
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Totally unrelated, did anyone else think the second half of American Dad unexpectedly awesome
It begins and ends with FLIM SPRINGFIELD…or anything written by “Bill Simpson”.
Damn, I have like THREE female bosses. What TV show am I on? Whatever it is, it’s kinda boring. I don’t see us getting picked up for another season.
Tramapoline! Trampopoline!
Sad thing is I’ve probably read the Springfield Shopper more than my actual local rag.
Why can’t dead pets vote?