The Comic Book Guy File

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    Table of Contents:

  1. Characteristics
  2. Major Appearances
  3. Minor Appearances
  4. Items For Sale by the Comic Book Guy
  5. What Is The Comic Book Guy's Name?
  6. Quotes






    6. Comic Book Guy Quotes

  • [7F21] Three Men and a Comic Book
    At the 12th Annual 'Close Encounters of a Comic Book Kind'
    Convention.
    CBG:  Tell you what. I'll show you something very special,
          if you promise to put your grubby little hands behind
          your back and keep them there.
    (CBG unlocks briefcase and opens it)
    CBG:  Behold.
    Bart: Wow! Radioactive Man number one.
    CBG:  None other.
    Bart: I bet it's worth a million bucks.
    CBG:  It is my lad, but I will let you have it for a hundred
          because you remind me of me.
    Bart: Aw, all I got is thirty.
    CBG:  Then you cannot have.
    Bart: But I must. Until this moment I never knew why God put
          me on this earth, but now I know, to buy that comicbook.
    CBG:  Your motion is out of place here, son.
    
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    Martin:   Can you let me have it for forty dollars?
    CBG:      Forty bucks?! Forget it! You made me get off my stool
              for that?
    Martin:   It's all I've got! I sold seeds, I visited my aunt in
              the nursery home, I fished a dime out of the sewer
              for God's sake.
    CBG:      No way. (Turns to Bart) What do you want?
    Bart:     Can I have it for thirty-five.
    CBG:      No! No, freakin' kids. I do not need this, I've got a
              masters degree in folklore mythology.
    Milhouse: Excuse me. Do you have the Carl Yazstremski baseball
              card from 1973, when he had big sideburns?  {hp}
    CBG:      Show me the thirty bucks, 'cos if you a'int got it,
              I a'int getting off the stool.
    (Milhouse waves thirty bucks in the air)
    CBG:      Okay.
    (CBG goes to retrieve the baseball card)
    Bart:     Wait a minute. Martin, if you, Milhouse, and I went
              in together, we could buy a copy of Radioactive Man
              number one right now.
    Martin and Milhouse: Wow!
    CBG:      Here you go, mutton-chop Yaz.
    Milhouse: I don't want it.
    CBG:      Freakin' kids.
    Bart:     Look pal, we've got a hundred bucks and we'd like to
              buy Radioactive Man number one, so why don't you just
              waddle over there and get it.
    CBG:      Yes sir.
    
    Outside the shop
    Bart:     Wow! Breathe it in boys.
    Martin:   Ah, this is the stuff dreams are made of.
    Milhouse: It smells like my Grampa.
    Bart:     Oh-oh, looks like rain. We'd better get this baby home.
    (All three boys take different directions with one hand on the
    comic)
    Bart:     Oh-oh.
    CBG:      Looks like you bought more than you bargained for boys.
    
  • [9F21] Homer's Barbershop Quartet
    At the Springfield Swap Meet
    Bart: What the hell's this?
    CBG:  Melvin and the Squirrels, part of the rodent invasion of the
          early sixties.
    
  • [1F21] Lady Bouvier's Lover {dl}
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    Bart: Is this cel worth anything?
    CBG:  Huh, let me show you something. This, this is a Snagglepuss
          drawn by Hic Hiesler, it is worth something. This, this is 
          an arm drawn by nobody, it is worth nothing.
    Bart: Can't you give me anything for it?
    CBG:  I can give you this telephone, it is shaped like Mary Worth.
    Bart: Awww.
    CBG:  No groaning in my store.
    
  • [2F32] 'Round Springfield
    Lisa looks for Bleeding Gums Murphy's album
    Lisa: Two hundred and fifty dollars? But I need that album to honour 
          the memory of Bleeding Gums Murphy.
    CBG:  He's dead? Well why didn't you say so.
    (CBG crosses out $250 on the price tag and writes $500)
    Lisa: Awww.
    
    Bart spends some money
    Bart: 'Scuse me, my good man, I have five hundred dollars to blow. 
          What've you got?
    CBG:  Behold, the ultimate Pog. (indicates the Steve Allen Pog)
    Bart: I'll take it. (Bart hesitates as he sees Lisa walk by the shop)
    Bart: Mmmm!
    
  • [2F17] Radioactive Man
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    CBG:      So you kids fancy youselves experts eh?
    Bart:     Well, between us we've read all eight hundred and 
              fourteen issues of Radioactive Man.
    Milhouse: Yeah, and we both have a special limited edition issue
              where he and Fallout Boy get killed on every page.
    CBG:      Well I suppose you know then that Hollywood is planning
              a feature-film about Radioactive Man.
    Bart and Milhouse: (hats fly upward) Gasp!
    CBG:      I have got to do something about that air conditioner
              suction.
    Bart:     Who's gonna play Radioactive Man?
    CBG:      I will tell you in exactly seven minutes.
    (He moves to his computer)
    CBG:      Okay, here we are, alt dot nerd dot obsessive. Need
              know star RM pic.
    
    CBG and Otto are racing slot-cars
    Bart: Have you seen Milhouse?
    CBG:  No. Now go away, we are racing for the title of Champion
          of the Universe.
    
  • [3F02] Bart Sells His Soul
    Bart waits for the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    to open
    CBG:  If you are waiting for the 'Hi and Lois' signing, you are
          too late. It has been moved to the Springfield Colosseum.
    Bart: Please, you have something of mine on a little piece of
          paper.
    CBG:  Oh, so you're Bart Simpson, eh. Well since my breakfast
          burrito is congealing rapidly I will be blunt. I sold your
          soul last night. I found a buyer right away for that item.
    Bart: Who?
    CBG:  I am not at liberty to divulge the party, but they were
          most interested in having possession of little boy's
          soul.
    (Bart bangs his head repeatedly on the counter)
    CBG:  Er, excuse me. No banging your head on the display case
          please, it contains a very rare Mary Worth in which she
          has advised a friend to commit suicide. Thank you.
    
  • [3F07] Marge Be Not Proud
    Bart sees a sign in the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card
    Shop window
    Bart: (Gasps) 99 cents.
    (Bart enters shop)
    Bart: I want to buy a copy of Bonestorm, here's 99 cents.
    CBG:  Huh. Allow me to summarise the proposed transaction. You
          wish to purchase Bonestorm for 99 cents, net profit to
          me, negative 59 dollars.
    (CBG opens the till)
    CBG:  Oh, oh, please take my 59 dollars, I don't want it, it's
          yours.
    (Bart reaches for the money)
    CBG:  Er, er, er. Seeing as we are unfamiliar with sarcasm, I
          shall close the register at this point, and state that
          99 cents is the rental price.
    Bart: Oh, then may I please rent it, please?
    CBG:  No you may not, I am all out, though I do have a surprising
          amount of Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge.
    Bart: Aww.
    
  • [3F10] Team Homer
    Bart & Milhouse look at magazines
    Bart:     My God! The Mad Magazine Special Edition. They only 
              put out seventeen of these a year.
    Milhouse: Boy! They're really sockin' it to that Spiro Agnew 
              guy again, he must work there or something.
    Bart:     Let's do the fold-in.
    Milhouse: Okay. What higher power do TV evangelists worship?
    Bart:     I'll say God.
    Milhouse: I'll say Jesus.
    (They fold the magazine to reveal...)
    Bart & Milhouse: The Almighty Dollar!
    CBG:      You fold it, you bought it.
    
  • [3F12] Bart The Fink
    Leaves restaurant with a wheelbarrow full of tacos
    CBG:  Yes, this should provide adequate sustainance for the
          Dr. Who marathon.
    
  • [3F13] Lisa The Iconoclast
    At 'The Copy Jalopy'
    CBG:   Question: Is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron?
    Homer: No, it's Homer.
    CBG:   Well then, I would thank you to stop peering at my
           screenplay, Homer. And if I see a movie where computers
           threaten our personal liberties, I will know that you
           stole my idea.
    Homer: I'm just waiting for my kid.
    Homer's Brain: Mental note: steal his idea.
    
  • [3F16] The Day The Violence Died
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    (After a screening of Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat)
    Bart: How come I've never seen that Itchy and Scratchy
          before?
    CBG:  Perhaps because you are a pre-pubescent ignoramus.
          This is a bootleg copy of Itchy and Scratchy meet
          Fritz the Cat. Because of it's frank depiction of
          sex and narcotic consumption, it is not for infantile
          intellect, such as yours, now toodle-oo.
    Bart: Aww.
    (Bart and Lisa turn to leave. Bart sees a framed drawing
    of Itchy)
    Bart: Cool! I'll give you ten bucks for that.
    CBG:  Are you the creator of Hi and Lois because you are
          making me laugh. That drawing is worth exactly 750
          dollars American.
    Bart: It's valuable, huh?!
    CBG:  Ooh, your powers of deduction are exceptional. I
          can't allow you to waste them here when there are
          so many crimes going unsolved at this very moment.
          Go, go, for the good of the city.
    Bart: Loser.
    
    Bart runs into Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    (Kerching of the cash register)
    CBG:  Thank you.
    
  • [3F18] 22 Short Films About Springfield
    CBG is talking on the telephone
    CBG:      Yes, and one with extra cheese, thank you.
    (CBG puts down the telephone as a distressed Milhouse enters
    the shop) 
    Milhouse: Can I use your bathroom?
    CBG:      No, you may not. The bathroom is for paying
              customers only, if you purchase an item you
              may use the bathroom.
    Milhouse: Aw, ok, how about that?
    (Milhouse points to a framed photo)
    CBG:      That is a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by
              Roger Moore, it is worth one hundred and fifty
              dollars.
    Milhouse: Aw, what can I get for 75 cents?
    CBG:      (sigh) You may purchase this charming Hamburglar
              adventure. A child has already solved the jumble
              using crayons. The answer is 'fries'.
    (Milhouse pays for the comic as his father enters the shop)
    Kirk:     Er, Milhouse, what's going on? You said you just
              needed to use the bathroom, now I find you buying
              comics.
    CBG:      Oh, our transaction is completed, you may take
              the boy.
    Milhouse: Wait!
    
  • [3F23] You Only Move Twice
    CBG waves goodbye to the Simpsons
    CBG:      Toodle-oo
    
  • [4F03] The Homer They Fall
    At 'Miscellaneous Etc.' gadget store
    CBG:         Yes, finally. I would like to return your quote
                 unquote, Ultimate Belt.
    Storekeeper: I see, do you have a receipt, quote unquote,
                 sir?
    CBG:         I do not have a receipt, I won it as a door
                 prize at the Star Trek convention, although
                 I find their choice of prize highly illogical
                 as the average Trekker has no use for a
                 medium-sized belt.
    Storekeeper: Whoa, whoa. A fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan. You
                 must be a devil with the ladies.
    CBG:         Hey, I... Huh... Tha... Oh...
    Storekeeper: Gee, I hate to let you down Casanova, but uh, no
                 receipt, no return.
    Bart:        I'll give you four bucks for it.
    CBG:         Very well. I must hurry back to my comic book
                 store, where I dispense the insults rather than
                 absorb them.
    
  • [4F12] The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    CBG:     Ahem, your attention please.
    I&S fan: Er, in the episode...
    CBG:     Er, your attention please. Mr. Simpson will now be
             autographing 8 by 10 glossies of Poochie. Please
             form a line, there will be no cutting. I'm talking
             to you Mr. Cutter.
    (CBG cuts to the front of the line)
    CBG:     Pardon me. Look out. Pardon me. Excuse me. Hot soup.
             Hi, can you make one out to me and three out to my
             friend of the same name.
    
    After the first episode of Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie
    CBG:  Last night's Itchy & Scratchy was, without a doubt, the
          worst episode ever. Rest assured I was on the internet
          within minutes registering my disgust throughout the
          world.
    Bart: Hey, I know it wasn't great, but what right do you
          have to complain?
    CBG:  As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
    Bart: What? They're giving you thousands of hours of
          entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe
          you? I mean, if anything, you owe them.
    CBG:  Worst episode ever.
    
  • [4F13] My Sister, My Sitter
    In the wheelbarrow line at Dr. Nick's clinic
    CBG: Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
    
  • [4F15] Homer Vs. The 18th Amendment
    CBG is accosted by Rex Banner
    Rex Banner: Are you the Beer Baron?
    CBG:        Yes, but only by night. By day, I am a mild-
                mannered reporter for a major metropolitan
                newspaper.
    Rex Banner: Don't crack wise with me tubby.
    CBG:        Tubby? Oh yes, tubby.
    
  • [4F16] The Canine Mutiny
    Bart shops for comics
    Bart: ...and Zebra Girl, and Zillionaire, and Zoidzilla.
    CBG:  And will there be any more spurging today?
    Bart: Oh my, yes. Mmmm. I'll take that hardbound Radioactive 
          Man collection.
    CBG:  Ah, a superb choice. In volume two Radioactive Man travels 
          through time to defeat Jesse Owen in the 1936 Olympic Games.
    Bart: Put it all on my credit card my good man.
    CBG:  Oh, pardon me Santos, if that is your real name, Bart 
          Simpson, but your phoney credit card is no good here. 
          Now make like my pants and split.
    Bart: Awww.
    
  • [5F02] Treehouse Of Horror VIII - The Homega Man
    CBG walks along the road reading a comic book
    CBG: But Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills, 
         you're from two different worlds.
    (CBG sees missile approaching)
    CBG: Oh, I've wasted my life.
    
  • [5F23] The Joy Of Sect
    CBG attends the Movementarians mass marriage ceremony
    CBG: (to new bride) So, do you enjoy comic books?
    
  • [5F11] Das Bus
    CBG sits at his computer
    CBG:   Oh, Captain Janeway. Lace: The Final Brassiere. 
           Oh hurry up, I'm a busy man. Ugh, this high-speed 
           modem is intolerably slow. (The download is interrupted 
           by a banner advertisement) Hey, what the? Huh, the 
           Internet King. I wonder if he can provide faster nudity.
    (scene changes to Homer's office)
    Homer: Welcome to the internet my friend, how can I help you?
    CBG:   I'm interested in upgrading my twenty eight point eight 
           kilobaud internet connection to a one point five megabit 
           fibre-optic T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP 
           router that's compatable with my token ring ethernet LAN 
           configuration?
    Homer: (after long pause) Can I have some money now?
    
  • [5F16] King Of The Hill
    CBG sits on a Portaloo reading "Zebra Girl"
    CBG: Oh, it appears I will have to find a new fortress of solitude.
    
  • [5F17] Lost Our Lisa {hl}
    CBG sits on a bus wearing a helmet
    Lisa: May I have that seat?
    CBG:  Yes. If you can answer me these questions three. Question
          the first...
    Lisa: Never mind.
    
  • [5F21] The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace - Couch Scene
    CBG sits in The Simpsons living room eating popcorn
    Homer: (Steals some popcorn from CBG) Mmmm.
    CBG:   Hey!
    
  • [5F19] When You Dish Upon A Star
    Outside the home of the celebrities
    CBG: Alec, Alec, regarding that so called "silent" propulsion 
         system in "The Hunt For Red October", I printed out a list
         of technical errors which I think you'd enjoy discussing.
    
  • [AABF05] Mayored To The Mob
    At the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con
    CBG:   Someone has mixed an "Amazing Spiderman" in with the 
           "Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spiderman" series. This
           will not stand.
    Woman: Pardon me, but I wish to tender a serious cash offer 
           for this stack of water damaged Little Lulus.
    CBG:   Huh, "A" that is not water, it is Diet Mr. Pib, and "B" 
           I... (CBG turns to look at the woman) Ohh... Err... Tell
           me, how do you feel about 45 year old virgins who still 
           live with their parents?
    Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on.
    CBG:   Don't try to change me baby.
    
  • [AABF06] Viva Ned Flanders
    At the car wash
    CBG: I insist you take special care with my collection of valuable
         and humorous bumper stickers, particularly this one (he 
         indicates a sticker which reads "My Other Car Is A Millennium
         Falcon") which was given to me by a Harrison Ford lookalike.
    
    Other bumper stickers
         The Truth Is In Here
         I Brake For Tribbles
         Kang Is My Co-Pilot
         My Child Is An Honor Student At Starfleet Academy
         Keep Honking, I'm Charging My Phaser
    
  • [AABF17] Monty Can't Buy Me Love
    Outside Fortune Megastore
    CBG: Ooh, once again my underwear has become tangled in a cow-catcher.
    
  • [AABF18] They Saved Lisa's Brain
    At the Mensa meeting
    Dr. Hibbert: Now, let's get down to business, any new palindromes?
    CBG:         Rise to vote, sir.
    
    At the Mensa meeting
    Lisa:        My family never talks about library standards and every
                 time I try to steer the conversation that way they make
                 me feel like a nerd.
    CBG:         We are hardly nerds, would a nerd wear such an irreverent
                 sweatshirt?
    Lisa:        (Reading sweatshirt)
                 C:/DOS
                 C:/DOS/RUN
                 RUN/DOS/RUN
                 Ha, only one person in a million would find that funny.
    Frink:       Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller ratio.
    
    Role-playing with Mensa
    Lisa:          This is so cool, I feel like I'm back in the
                   Renaissance.
    Frink:         Please stay in character, gentle wench.
    CBG:           Verily I declare that the Earth revolves around the
                   Sun and not t'other way round.
    Lyndsey Nagle: Stop looking down my blouse Copernicus.
    CBG:           Forsooth, mine eyes doth rove of their own accord.
    
    In Mayor Quimby's office
    Chief Wiggum:      So who's in charge?
    Dr. Hibbert:       Well, that's a good question, let's take a quick
                       look at the town charter.
    Lyndsey Nagle:     Done.
    CBG:               Done.
    Lisa:              Done.
    Dr. Hibbert:       Done.
    Principal Skinner: Done.
    Frink:             Finished.
    
    Being interviewed by Kent Brockman
    CBG: The world has already taken note of our accomplishments, Springfield
         has already moved up to 299 on the list of America's 300 most
         liveable cities. (To camera) Take that East St. Louis.
    
    At the Mensa society meeting
    Lisa:          Now next week is our "state of the city" address. Has
                   everyone finished their proposals.
    CBG:           Well first of all I've a plan to eliminate obesity in
                   women.
    Lyndsey Nagle: Oh please, for a nickel-a-person tax increase we could
                   build a theatre for shadow puppets.
    Dr. Hibbert:   Balinese or Thai?
    Lyndsey Nagle: Why not both, then everybody's happy.
    CBG:           Oh yeah, everyone's real happy then.
    Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
    Frink:         (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off
                   the charts mm-hai.
    CBG:           A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
    (Sarcasm detector explodes)
    
    At the State of the City Address
    CBG: Inspired by the most logical race in the galaxy, the Vulcans, breeding
         will be permitted once every seven years. For many of you this will
         mean much less breeding, for me, much much more.
    
    At the State of the City Address
    Dr. Hibbert: When are we going to get to my broccoli juice program?
    CBG:         Quit butting in please. Your I.Q. is a mere 155 while mine
                 is a muscular 170. (Sings) I am smart, much smarter than you,
                 Hibbert.
    Frink:       You should all do what I say. My I.Q. is 199 for crying out 
                 flayven. (Bangs head) 198, 197...
    

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