He described the long sequence that begins with Homer eating potato chips in the space shuttle and ends with Kent Brockman's dramatic speech as being " simply among the finest comedic moments in the history of television ".

After a slow initial release, Lisa Lionheart suddenly gains popularity among the fans of the Stacy Malibu after being featured in Kent Brockman's news show.

Marge appears on Kent Brockman's show, Smartline where she confronts Roger Meyers over the violence and suggests that concerned parents send letters to Meyers.

On Kent Brockman's Channel Six " Oops Patrol " segment, he displays a humorous headline (" Mayor Displays Erection to Cheering Crowd "), noticed and submitted by Marge, for which she received a free T-shirt.

As a result of Brockman's report, everyone in Springfield shows their community spirit by giving them a new Christmas tree and $ 15, 000.

Regarding the long sequence that begins with Homer eating potato chips in the space shuttle and ends with Kent Brockman's dramatic speech, Turner claimed that it was " simply among the finest comedic moments in the history of television ".

" Deep Space Homer " is the source of the " Overlord meme ", which is lifted from Kent Brockman's line " And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords " and is commonly used on internet forums to express mock submission, usually for the purpose of humor or when a " participant vastly overstates the degree of oppression or social control expected to arise from the topic in question.

Brockman's penchant for using offensive language works against him in the 400th episode, " You Kent Always Say What You Want ", where, after Homer accidentally spills coffee on Brockman's crotch, he shouts, what Ned Flanders calls, a " super swear " that shocked everyone who watched it.

The stress of seeing Kent Brockman's TV reports on the revolt causes Homer to immediately lose the hair he grew and regain the lost weight.

The group of people running out of the zoo, before Homer, Bart, and Lisa, are caricatures of Mike Scully, his wife, and his children, who are also seen running behind Kent Brockman's news report.

When Homer is interviewed on news anchor Kent Brockman's Smartline, the cat burglar calls the show and informs Homer that he will steal the world's largest cubic zirconia from the Springfield museum.

The author of the book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner, said that " if the institution of the News has a single iconic face on The Simpsons, it's Brockman's " and that " in Brockman's journalism, we see some of the modern news media's ugliest biases ", of which he says are glibness, amplification, and sensationalism.

The residence hall is named in memory of Brockman's mother and grandmother, both of whom were named Pearl.

On an edition of Kent Brockman's talk show Smartline, Burns is allowed an opening tirade and he threatens dire events if the strike is not concluded.

Some people who have been named as members of the digerati, particularly in the first sense of the word, with their title in John Brockman's Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite ( 1996 ) in parentheses when they have one, include:

Brockman was demoted to weather man due to the station paying a fine to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and was soon fired when the network executives deliberately mistook a ring of Splenda in Brockman's coffee for cocaine.

Two other accounts are given in Norbert Brockman's ( 1997 ) Encyclopedia of Sacred Places.

From October through early November 2000, she did all the actual composing in Jane Brockman's Santa Monica studio with Brockman serving as recording engineer.

These contemporary life conditions ( Historic Times ; Geographic Place ; Existential Problems ; and Societal Circumstances ) are explored in books like Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark ( New York: Ballantine Books, 1996 ), John Brockman's The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ( New York: Touchstone Books, 1996 ), and Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudo-science, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time ( New York: W. H.

In that year, at Carrickfergus, he delivered, in opposition to Wesley, a ' pointless harangue about hirelings and false prophets '.

Given that the form mixes harangue with self-reflection, it is always clear where the argument tends and the context is brought along with the main thrust, whether the issue is cooking, Lawino's relatives being told they cannot drop in unannounced, or the pretensions and fashions of the urban second wife.

On the way to the holding cell the two young men were followed by a large crowd, whom Arthur lost no opportunity to harangue, even though they understood only German.

Most of the extant verses show him writing in the role of a political activist determined to assert personal authority and leadership and they have been described by the German classicist Wilamowitz as a " versified harangue " ( Eine Volksrede in Versen ).

She swore an oath by the Styx that the Harpies would no longer harangue Phineus, and the Boreads then turned back to return to the Argonauts ; it is for this reason, according to Apollonius, that the " Floating Islands " are now called the Strophades, the " Turning Islands ".

" Livy is unable to say, however, where this harangue took place, whether sitting " by his ailing comrade, or in the headquarters.

As Stockmann puts it in his excited harangue to his political enemies: " Truths are by no means the wiry Methuselahs some people think them.

His appointment was criticized by some alumni, who noted that Patton was not an American citizen, while some feared he would harangue students with John Knox-style sermons.

Overwhelmed with incredulous fury, Steve loses interest in reconciliation ; Diane's harangue is interrupted by Steve slapping her across the face in disbelief.

" That boy ," his master at King Edward's School had said, " could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one.

The upper level behind the stage could be used as a balcony, as in Romeo and Juliet or Antony and Cleopatra, or as a position from which an actor could harangue a crowd, as in Julius Caesar.

The most important work of his life was his co-operation in the production of the Satire Ménippée ( 1593 ), which did so much to damage the cause of the Catholic League ; the harangue of the Sieur d ' Aubray is usually attributed to Pithou.

Together with Twink's girlfriend Silva Darling, they performed what Farren would later describe as " less of a gig than a protracted harangue " at the University of Manchester in October 1969, which rapidly dissolved into chaos.

His principal claim to a place among memorable satirists is as one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée, the famous pasquinade in the interest of his old pupil, Henry IV, in which the harangue put into the mouth of cardinal de Pelve is usually attributed to him.

Socrates believes there are two types: "… one part of it would be flattery, I suppose, and shameful public harangue, while the other — that of getting the souls of the citizens to be as good as possible and of striving valiantly to say what is best, whether the audience will find it more pleasant or more unpleasant — is something admirable.

Then, it is not sufficient to have a moralizing cinema based on harangue and exhortation.

Passerat's exact share in the Satire Ménippée ( Tours, 1594 ), the great manifesto of the politique or Moderate Royalist party when it had declared itself for Henry of Navarre, is unknown ; but it is agreed that he wrote most of the verse, and the harangue of the guerrilla chief Rieux is sometimes attributed to him.

Summoning them on the spot he transformed the crowd into an authoritative legislative assembly and began to harangue them in one of the more noted and effective speeches of ancient Rome.

On at least one occasion he appeared at a State function, visibly worse from drink, and proceeded to harangue the various dignitaries, in particular the British Ambassador.

Hoxha and Shehu continued their harangue against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia at the APL's Fourth Party Congress in February 1961.

After several misadventures, and escaping from Pontius Pilate, the fugitive winds up in a lineup of would-be mystics and prophets who harangue the passing crowd in a plaza.

As Hitler I could harangue the crowds all I wished.

Jeremiah inspired the French noun jérémiade, and subsequently the English jeremiad, meaning " a lamentation ; mournful complaint ," or further, " a cautionary or angry harangue.

' Bradman's harangue confirmed my suspicions that the players were going to have a hard time extracting more money from the ACB.

After a long harangue to the people he was proclaimed king.

After subduing the robbers, Davis harangues a group of eyewitnesses for letting such crimes take place ; Harry witnesses Davis's harangue and sees in it his own approach to crime fighting, albeit far more severe.

In addition, a server may dote on generous tippers while ignoring other customers, and in rare cases harangue bad tippers.

Discord swept through the Swiss forces till Matthäus Schiner, cardinal of Sion and an arch-enemy of King Francis, inspired the Swiss with a fiery harangue on September 13, reminding them of what a smaller Swiss army had achieved against as powerful a French army at the Battle of Novara.

During the night, Castelli, Rodríguez, French and Beruti visited all the barracks to harangue the troops and prepare them for the following day.

During UnRush, the Lorde Mayor will prophesy to and harangue the attendant masses on some matter of topical interest.

... I was late in my arrival at the scene on the campus and in consequence heard only the conclusion of the speaker's harangue.