Mark Liberman, director of the Linguistic Data Consortium, remarked, "The Simpsons has apparently taken over from Shakespeare and the Bible as our culture's greatest source of idioms, catchphrases and sundry other textual allusions."
Mark Liberman, director do Linguistic Data Consortium, remarcou, "Aparentemente, The Simpsons substituíu a Shakespeare e á Biblia como a nosa mellor fonte cultural de linguas, frases comodín e diversas alusións textuais".