Simpsons Mania

"Seems to be a new store in town..."
I met this nice lady while stopping for a donut. Wonder where she gets her hair done?

Apu gets some extra help, leaving him time to wave at customers.

With no Duff beer, Ross has to settle for this...

I wonder how many Weight-Watchers points in these?

They have some pretty strict parking rules around here.

"Hey Millhouse, wasn't it great of the publicity crew to fix the weather too.

Great Simpson clouds..."

Anyone can celebrate 4th July by going to a party, but as you may have gathered, we like to do things a little differently. So we took advantage of Ross's day off by driving eight miles out of our way to a disused Seven Eleven store. The reason? Because our son Robin (it's not a girl's name in England, honest) is a top Simpsons fan.

This in itself would be cute if he were ten or 11. He is actually 23. He must have seen every episode and even had us queue up for hours once on a visit to Hollywood, Cal. so he could meet Bart's voice, Nancy Cartwright.

I think the reason he was so pleased we were coming to live in Ilinois is because he had heard Springfield was the state capitol.

Last week he e mailed to insist we went along to the Cicero store. As a publicity stunt for the new Simpsons' movie, the makers were turning a few old Seven Elevens into Kwik E Marts until the end of the month.

It goes without saying we were the only couple without young children present. We had to queue up for 15 minutes before being allowed in. Disappointingly the cast appeared only as decals and most of the goods were, in fact, what you would find inside any Seven Eleven, although to be fair I imagine that's what the Kwik E Mart sells too.

We bought cans of Buzz cola, a bubble gum flavoured Squishee and two pink sprinkled donuts just to get these photos. Cowabunga!