Simpsons Q&A (Jokes We Don't Get, Which Episode, etc.)

[Andy]

This is now the thread for all Simpsons-related questions on the board.

- If you don't understand a joke in an episode, ask here.
- If you're unsure which episode a certain event happened in, ask here.
- If you don't remember who said a specific quote, ask here.
- If you have any question related to the Simpsons series similar to these, ask here.

Remember to check the FAQ (http://www.nohomers.net/faq.php?) before posting here to make sure your question hasn't already been answered. Also, continuing with the rules of the old Jokes We Don't Get thread: please post questions and answers only, and don't insult anyone for not understanding or knowing certain things.

Ask away!

[mr. broom]

And just to clarify: because this thread will become very, very large, it will be heavily moderated as well. Any extraneous post is subject to deletion, so please don't post unless it's to ask or answer a question.

[Urath28]

Here is a question: Which episode features the Simpsons Soap Opera Ending Music?

[Rnymd]

'The Springfield Connection' has Soap Opera-ish end music, although there might be another one.

Does anyone know what movie (if any) was parodied in that black and white scene in 'Smart and Smarter' when Lisa is older with heavy make up on and Maggie in a wheel chair?

[Larson Something]

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? a campy early-60s film starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.

[Butters]

I was browsing a directory of Simpsons quotes and came across the following :

Lionel Hutz (to Zombie) : You need an attorney! [Zombie takes a swipe at him] And a breath-mint!

At first, I thought it was from a comic, but there was a link to an audio clip of it. I checked Treehouse Of Horror III, Hutz wasn't in it (nor was any Phil Hartman character for that matter), I couldn't find the quote on SNPP. So can someone shed some light on this and tell me where, if anywhere, the quote is located?

[Hydro]

There was a DVD commentary where the closing credits have just begun to appear, and someone says something like, "Most of these people are dead now" and everyone laughs, and a second later Phil Hartman's name comes up and everyone goes silent. Does anyone remember which episode this was?

[Hydro]

Oh, another thing I forgot: Which episode is it where Homer is trying to think of the word "conscience" and he calls it (paraphrased) "that voice in your head that sounds a lot like Lisa"?

[Butters]

Oh, another thing I forgot: Which episode is it where Homer is trying to think of the word "conscience" and he calls it (paraphrased) "that voice in your head that sounds a lot like Lisa"?
Viva Ned Flanders.

[Kamp Krusty Kamper]

I have a question:
In Homer and Apu, when James Woods is cleaning the microwave and he gets bleeped, did he really say those curse words and FOX bleeped it out or was it just a joke?

[kevin]

it was just a joke. they would never be able to say that on television.

[Galalimit]

There was a DVD commentary where the closing credits have just begun to appear, and someone says something like, "Most of these people are dead now" and everyone laughs, and a second later Phil Hartman's name comes up and everyone goes silent. Does anyone remember which episode this was?


Can someone please answer Hydro's question because I'd like to know this too.

[Miss Springfield]

In Summer of 4ft2, the holiday house Flanders has is referred to in the town known as America's crudbucket and then Springfield is referred to as America's scraudbasket (Or the other way around). Does this refer to the people or the state of the town. What is scraud?

Also I looked in snpp.com but they didn't have it, its a quote from I think Poppa's got a brand new badge. The one where Homer goes, "Yanno Marge, I have had a lot of jobs over the years..." and then he lists them all when you don't expect him to. :laugh: Can someone give me that?

[Hydro]

In Summer of 4ft2, the holiday house Flanders has is referred to in the town known as America's crudbucket and then Springfield is referred to as America's scraudbasket (Or the other way around). Does this refer to the people or the state of the town. What is scraud?

The fictional town of Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport is called "America's scrod basket." My dictionary gives "scrod" as meaning "A young cod or haddock, especially one split and boned for cooking as the catch of the day." Which fits, given that it seems to be a fishing town. (As for the state it's in, the town, including its name, is fairly representative of homey resort towns along the northeastern U.S. coast, especially in Maine and Massachusetts.)

Homer lists his jobs as: boxer, mascot, astronaut, imitation Krusty, baby-proofer, trucker, hippie, plow-driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carny, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country-western manager, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, homophobe, and missionary.

[Miss Springfield]

Can you get me a copy of "The Food Chain" screengrab from Lisa the Vegetarian?

[Andy]

http://users.rowan.edu/~kozdro43//Simpsons.JPG

looks like it was modified in some way but it's essentially what was shown on that episode

[HoyvinGlavin64]

What episode contains that famous joke with The Simpsons watching Bush Sr.'s speech?

[Mario]

Stark Raving Dad, HoyvinGlayvin 64's Ghost (long name!).

[HoyvinGlavin64]

Stark Raving Dad, HoyvinGlayvin 64's Ghost (long name!).

No, I don't remember anything concerning GB Sr. at all in the middle of Lisa's birthday, Homer's pink shirt, and Michael Jackson.

[strangethingsamhux]

it was subsequently omitted from re runs and season 3 dvd. it was at the beginning of the episode, then faded out and stark raving dad started.

[Hydro]

The clip is on the Season 4 DVD as part of the "Bush vs. Simpsons" featurette.

[Jeremy]

I believe that the James Woods cussing was in the original audio track, and just bleeped out by Fox. There was a similar thing with Drederick Tatum cussing in season 3 that was censored, and a few other instances throughout the series.

[jamesisel]

I'm trying to find out in what episode homer and skinner have some sort of secret plan and the keep looking at each other and nodding their heads?

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

1F09 "Homer the Vigilante"

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F09.html

[reyontoyeny]

I was browsing a directory of Simpsons quotes and came across the following :

Lionel Hutz (to Zombie) : You need an attorney! [Zombie takes a swipe at him] And a breath-mint!

At first, I thought it was from a comic, but there was a link to an audio clip of it. I checked Treehouse Of Horror III, Hutz wasn't in it (nor was any Phil Hartman character for that matter), I couldn't find the quote on SNPP. So can someone shed some light on this and tell me where, if anywhere, the quote is located?

Virtual Springfield CD-ROM, in Springfield Cementary

[Run CMB]

Which ep is "Now look sad and say d'oh," on?

I thought it was the Cartridge Family, but apparently not...

[Hydro]

Which ep is "Now look sad and say d'oh," on?

Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie.

[Colburn]

There was a DVD commentary where the closing credits have just begun to appear, and someone says something like, "Most of these people are dead now" and everyone laughs, and a second later Phil Hartman's name comes up and everyone goes silent. Does anyone remember which episode this was?

Marge vs. the Monorail. The 5th audio choice. I just listened to it a week ago for the first time. I would also like to add that it was Conan O' Brien who said that.

[Crotis Jivefunk]

Which episode does Marge say "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night?"

[Larson Something]

'Scuse Me While I Miss The Sky.

[shrtcake36]

which episode do bart and milhouse get dressed in womens clothing? THey jump on the bed and sing "doin it for the sisters" I believe this is also the episode that bart breaks his butt.

[Hydro]

"Grift of the Magi." The song is called "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves."

[BarnyMiler]

Early on in the episode when Bart is on the elevator, on his way up to heaven, he calls out the names of <someone/something>, Great Grampa Simpson and Snowball.

Who was the <someone/something>?

[Run CMB]

And which episode does Krusty give a loud "NOBODY CARES!"

[msbotz]

Stoners pot palace whats a stoner i know otto thinks the place sells pot though waht is a stoner?

[George Cauldron]

Someone who is stoned is on a high after taking the drug.

I remember a loud "NOBODY CARES" in The Last Temptation of Krust, following the line "I got a headline for ya!" There may be other examples of the line, but this one springs to mind immediately.

[Simpsons Forever!]

Early on in the episode when Bart is on the elevator, on his way up to heaven, he calls out the names of <someone/something>, Great Grampa Simpson and Snowball.

Who was the <someone/something>?

Aunt Hortense.

[msbotz]

Someone who is stoned is on a high after taking the drug.

I remember a loud "NOBODY CARES" in The Last Temptation of Krust, following the line "I got a headline for ya!" There may be other examples of the line, but this one springs to mind immediately.


no i mean a stoner i know waht stoned is, does it mean the same thing?

[Necromancer]

A stoner is someone who gets stoned.

[Butters]

Aunt Hortense.
Didn't she die in Bart The Fink? (so, either, you're wrong or the Simpsons were attending a really late will reading)

[H Thompson]

A question about "Dude Where's My ranch" Moe says to David Byrne You ever see the movie "Misery" (I think) Well I'm asking What happens in that movie because I haven't seen it either.

[Andy]

Misery: a famous novelist, after suffering a car crash, is taken into care by a crazed fan (played by Kathy Bates)... and by 'into care,' I mean 'hostage.' The Critic did a parody of it, with Jay and the projectionist in those roles.

[Simpsons Forever!]

Didn't she die in Bart The Fink? (so, either, you're wrong or the Simpsons were attending a really late will reading)

Wasn't that Aunt Gladys?

[Andy]

Aunt Gladys died in Selma's Choice.

Hortense did die in Bart the Fink as well. But I'm pretty sure it was a different aunt that appeared in Bart Gets Hit by a Car... the name Mildred comes to mind, but I'm not sure. Anybody know it?

[Simpsons Forever!]

It says Hortense in the The Simpsons (A Guide to OFF.)
Just watched the scene with subtitles on S2 DVD and it was Aunt Hortense.

[Larson Something]

I was thinking maybe the one in BTF was "Great Aunt Hortense", but upon further review, I don't think that's right.

[Miss Springfield]

can someone tell me about some of the episodes where they end with music like from some cheesy movie like the one where Homer gets a gun but there was a more recent one.... what one was it from and whats it a parody of?

[Hydro]

can someone tell me about some of the episodes where they end with music like from some cheesy movie like the one where Homer gets a gun

It's the theme from The Avengers ('60s British TV series).

but there was a more recent one.... what one was it from and whats it a parody of?

Could you provide more detail?

[Miss Springfield]

I think it was a more recent episode but I don't remember which....

[M Prower]

Which episode was it where Homer was shaving his shoulders, and singing "Shaving my shoulders, I'm gettin' it all shaved off..."?

[Simpsons Forever!]

Which episode was it where Homer was shaving his shoulders, and singing "Shaving my shoulders, I'm gettin' it all shaved off..."?

Mum And Pop Art

[Roger Myers III]

I believe that the James Woods cussing was in the original audio track, and just bleeped out by Fox. There was a similar thing with Drederick Tatum cussing in season 3 that was censored, and a few other instances throughout the series.

To be clear, Woods very likely did actual cursing when he recorded his lines, per the producers' intent, but the producers then bleeped out the offensive words themselves, which is the joke. (As opposed to "Fox" doing the bleeping, for censorship reasons.)

Gladys died in "Selma's Choice", Hortense was cited in both "Bart the Fink" and "Hit By a Car".

A "stoner" is someone who gets stoned on a regular basis, a la Otto.

An additional important angle to the "Misery" reference is that the Reiner movie was an adaptation to the huge hit novel by Stephen King... but Homer isn't exactly a "reader", so he refers to the movie.

[msbotz]

A stoner is someone who gets stoned.
thanks for that



i dont get it when jay sherman(the critic) on "Hurricane Neddy" he is going "it stinks, it stinks, then a doctor says "yes mr sherman everything stinks"


what is the point of that is it a joke if it is a joke please explain to me

[Larson Something]

He is in a mental hospital, so the joke seems to be that somewhere along the line, all the bad movies he had to watch for his job drove him insane to the point where all he can say is "It stinks!" (this was his catchphrase on The Critic, in case you don't know) over and over.

[Jerry P.]

And the definition of "stoner" that the store most likely intended is (paraphrased from dictionary.com):

One who furnishes, fits, paves, or lines with stones; or one who rubs on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.

[mr. broom]

That or, more likely, the last name of the owner.

[msbotz]

how about when homer is working at the bowlarama and the guy who works there tells him to bring an extra pair of pants and homer asks why and he says "when it happens you'l know


i really dont get this ???joke????!!!

[Miss Springfield]

Its a joke that he will get squirted with some kind of filthy liquid or something will spill on him so he will need fresh clothes. Maybe because the bowling alley is full of yucky people and their sweat on the balls and shoes and did you notice uncle Al was covered with some crap and he sounded sick from working there.

[huh?]

how about when homer is working at the bowlarama and the guy who works there tells him to bring an extra pair of pants and homer asks why and he says "when it happens you'l know


i really dont get this ???joke????!!!
Bowling lanes are covered with a lot of oil. I'm assuming what's meant here is that Homer would make a lot of contact with the lane floors, and thus his pants would be dirtied up greatly.

[chiefdan]

An additional important angle to the "Misery" reference is that the Reiner movie was an adaptation to the huge hit novel by Stephen King... but Homer isn't exactly a "reader", so he refers to the movie.

I think you mean Moe refers to the movie.

[Mario]

I don't understand something in Mr Spritz goes to Washington. After watching the 3 stooges, Homer says "Droll.", then JOE MILLIONAIRE- FOX appears. Is it a joke? If yes, I don't get it.

[Hydro]

In the United States, many episodes (of all FOX's shows) have annoying digitally-added promos for shows like Joe Millionaire which streak across the screen like that. They usually come at the start of the show. The joke is that Homer actually sees the promo, and eats it. Not exactly hilarious, but there you go.

[Miss Springfield]

Why does joining the naval reserve remind someone of The Deer Hunter?

[Roger Myers III]

My bad. Thanks ChiefDan! Same reasoning, but with Moe. (Yes, I know Moe 'reads' to kids at the soup kitchen - but it was a one-ep 'against-character' joke.)

The "You'll know" line leaves the anticipated mess entirely up to the viewers' imagination. (Since when are bowling lanes 'covered with a lot of oil'?)

[M Prower]

I'm sorry if this joke is really obvious, but...in Bart Gets an Elephant, Homer runs over a deer (or was it just a statue of a deer? I don't remember) and then it goes like this;
Homer: D'oh!
Lisa: A deer!
Marge: A female deer!

Anyone care to explain that one to me?

[Andy]

It's a takeoff of 'Doe, a deer, a female deer...', which is a line in the Do Re Mi song in The Sound of Music.

Entire song: http://www.esl-lounge.com/songs/song-do-re-mi.shtml

[huh?]

The "You'll know" line leaves the anticipated mess entirely up to the viewers' imagination. (Since when are bowling lanes 'covered with a lot of oil'?)
Personal experience.

[Roger Myers III]

Really? Cool - I had absolutely no idea. How is it used? (To 'treat' wood lanes? To make a really slick surface?)

[hapajin25]

I'm looking for anyone who can give me the exact quote from "C.E.D'oh" (EABF10) where he tells Homer how long he's been running the plant in both old english and the "new vernacular".

[huh?]

Really? Cool - I had absolutely no idea. How is it used? (To 'treat' wood lanes? To make a really slick surface?)
Slicken the surface I believe, whatever they put on the lane surface is used to make the ball go downlane faster.
Probably should have been more clearer in my previous post, but in the several times I've gone bowling, once I accidentally fell forward on my hands in the lane, and the end result was that it ended up somewhat messed up. So yeah, I'm answering this mainly on a personal experience.

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does any1 remember Homer's email from the episode where Lisa thinks he's a bad father and Homer hires that agent guy to find info about her??

[pat]

chunkylover53@aol.com

[George Cauldron]

In Treehouse of Horror XIV, why is Ned Flanders so surprised to have seen Confucius and Milton Berle in heaven?

[Roger Myers III]

Neither Berle nor Confucius were Christian.

In the film "The Deer Hunter," three childhood friends from the same town enlisted and were sent to Vietnam.

...once I accidentally fell forward on my hands in the lane, and the end result was that it ended up somewhat messed up. So yeah, I'm answering this mainly on a personal experience.

That's pretty funny - by "personal experience" I assumed you meant that you had once achieved Homer's dream of being a pin jockey, not that you had once fallen down in the lane!

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does any1 know what the title of the episode is when the guy sings "They'll never stop The Simpsons"?? And does any1 know the lyrics???

[Andy]

Gump Roast was the episode name. And these are the lyrics:

Ullman shorts
Christmas show
Marge's fling
Homer's bro

Bart in well
Flanders fails
Whacking snakes
Monorail

Mr. Plow
Homer's face
Sideshow Bob
Steps on rakes

Lisa's future
Selma's hubby
Marge not proud
Homer chubby

Homer worries Bart is gay
Poochie, U2, NRA
Hippies, Vegas, and Japan
Octupulets and Bart's boy band

Marge murmurs
Maude croaks
Lisa Buddhist
Homer tokes

Maggie blows Burns away
What else do I have to say?!

They'll never stop 'The Simpsons'
Have no fears
We got stories for years
Like...

Marge becomes a robot
Maybe Moe gets a cell phone
Has Bart ever owned a bear
Or...

How 'bout a crazy wedding
Where something happens and do-do-do-do-do
Sorry for the clip show

Have no fears
We got stories for years...

[Crotis Jivefunk]

Which episode does Marge do a head count by saying spikey, twinky, twinky, baldy?

[bupkis]

"Old Yeller Belly." And I think she said "Where's Baldy?" b/c Homer was trapped in the burning treehouse. Also, she counts herself and says "Stylish."

[vox]

It went: "Spikey, Pointy, Pointy, Stylish...where's Baldy?"

[cameron]

What was the sax song Lissa played when bleeding gums murphy died?

[Roger Myers III]

"Jazzman", by Carole King.
The lyrics are here: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Carole-King/Jazzman.html

[Andy]

If you're referring to the song she played at the end of the episode... it's Jazzman, originally performed by Carole King.

edit: heh

[I'M A BRICK]

I was just watching the promo extra on the season four DVD and saw a clip of bart in class showing a film of Snowball's birth.
Which episode is this from?

[Robertuybrush]

"Lisa's Substitute", season 2.

[Miss Springfield]

What is twinky (I am assuming she is talking about Lisa and Maggie but how do they resemble twinkies?)

[Hydro]

She doesn't say Twinky, she says pointy.

[cameron]

If you're referring to the song she played at the end of the episode... it's Jazzman, originally performed by Carole King.

edit: heh

I don't think it was Jazzman cause Jazzman was teh fast song I'm talking about the slow sad one that she played unless jazzman has a slow part I haven't heard yet

[Crotis Jivefunk]

She doesn't say Twinky, she says pointy.

I've only seen the episode once. I got it confused with Homer's line about twinkies and ding dongs in "A Star is Born, Again," another episode I've only seen once.

[Jerry P.]

I don't have the original airing of Alone Again, Natura-Diddly on tape, but I seem to remember Ian Maxtone-Graham's writing credit appearing twice, once as a normal credit, and again in the super big text for the joke. I watched the episode in syndication recently, and the credits were timed so that the big writing credit was the only one. Was this a change, or am I wrong about there being a double credit the first time?

[George Cauldron]

I think you may be mistaken about that one as I've only ever seen it with the writer's credit in the huge typeface.

[Hatter]

I've been wondering...

In "The Homer They Fall" what's the music playing during Homer's black-and-white boxing montage? I've heard it in other shows and commercials, but I don't know its origin...



PS. I was so elated when I figured out the Klaus von Bulow reference from "The Boy Who Knew Too Much". One I never got as a kid.

[Roger Myers III]

It's the same music cue from the montage in Scorsese's "Raging Bull" that the scene parodies - for the life of me, I can't remember if that would make it a clip from Cavelleria Rusticana: Intermezzo, Guglielmo Ratcliff: Intermezzo, or Silvano Bacarolle, or if I'm completely misremembering it. Any classical/opera fans out there?

Jer - there was just the one credit for Ian (and they had to get clearance from the WGA to make it so big - even though that size was crucial to the joke.)

[Miss Springfield]

WGA?

[George Cauldron]

The Writers Guild of America.

[Delete later if you like]

[Colburn]

He is in a mental hospital, so the joke seems to be that somewhere along the line, all the bad movies he had to watch for his job drove him insane to the point where all he can say is "It stinks!" (this was his catchphrase on The Critic, in case you don't know) over and over.

I always thought of it as an inside joke against Al Jean and Mike Reiss by other producers because their series didn't last.

[Larson Something]

Well, as a great man once said, "It works on so many levels!"

[Miss Springfield]

Lisa: Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?
Homer: Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.

[the simpsons brainiac]

Umm Does anyone know if there's an official map of springfield (the simpsons version) on the internet and if there is does anyone know a link to it or sumthin like that?
I've seen so many unofficial maps to springfield i was wondering if there was an official 1.

[M Prower]

That's a bit tricky really, I don't think there is a consistent/official map. All of the video games(Road Rage, Hit and Run etc) have all had completely different maps and layouts of Springfield

[Butters]

In Fraudcast News, at the end when Willie shows his newspaper, he says he reviews the new tractors. Afterwards he says "They're all --"? Sounds like 'shite'. The Simpsons have never said 'shit' before, so was the word 'shite' or something else?

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does anyone have or know a list of EVERYSimpsons character? Lots of the lists I've seen are missing people.

[Hydro]

Wikipedia's list is pretty exhaustive when it comes to recurring characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_from_The_Simpsons) (it also includes a lot of one-time characters)

[Larson Something]

In Fraudcast News, at the end when Willie shows his newspaper, he says he reviews the new tractors. Afterwards he says "They're all --"? Sounds like 'shite'. The Simpsons have never said 'shit' before, so was the word 'shite' or something else?

It sure sounded like "shite" to me. That word isn't used in North America much, so the Fox censors must have decided that it was too obscure to be as offensive as "shit" and allowed it.

[Andy]

This is considered to be the most effort put towards mapping Springfield: http://www.csupomona.edu/~jelerma/springfield/index.html

It's in no way official, but almost every Springfield place seen on the show has been mapped, and it's quite a sight.

[Roger Myers III]

I always thought of it as an inside joke against Al Jean and Mike Reiss by other producers because their series didn't last.

Not really. (Though I love Larson's quote.)

"Shite" - the 'origin' of 'shit' - isn't specificall on the FCC's list of banned words, so they got away with it. Though its not as if they overuse it.

I checked out Wikipedia's 'cast list', and there were already quite a few errors from a quick read. You might be better off with the SNPP's "Cast List" from its "guides & lists" page.

[Miss Springfield]

What about me the veal joke am I the only one who doesn't get it? Yep that is one extensive list whoo! :D Must have taken a long time to compile.

[Roger Myers III]

The veal comment was "mistaken Homer" - with a dose of irony. Lambs are "brutally slaughtered" just like other animals that are raised to become food. The crucial difference is that, to become good veal, lambs are - usually - kept isolated in individual pens, from the young time they can first stand up through the young age at which they're killed. The pens are just large enough for the lambs to stand and not turn around, and isolated from other lambs. The excercise that they get from allowing them to move around apparently makes their strengthened muscles more 'tough' and 'stringy' when they become the veal that is eaten. So, the lamb was, no doubt, 'lonely' when it was killed, but that is no less "brutal" a process for raising it or killing it. In fact, the process is usually viewed by animal cruelty activists as more cruel & brutal. Lisa would likely feel the same way.

Wikipedia entries are compiled by a huge number of on-line submissions by a wide range of participants, so it may or may not have taken 'a long time' - but its not really 'fact-checked' by any authoritative 'editor', so results may vary. In "veracity", too.

[Crotis Jivefunk]

What was the name of the Joe Millionaire parody in Simple Simpson?

[Larson Something]

Promiscuous Idiots' Island

[shoeman]

Registered just to be able to ask this, been bugging me all day, normally I consider myself quite competent when it comes to naming episodes, but this one I just don't remember... Oh well, enough with the selfflattering.

Which is the episode where there's a joke with Homer sitting in a class of some sort, and everybody is supposed to tell what their profession is, or something like that, but Homer yells out his own name instead.

Answer greatly appreciated.

[George Cauldron]

That would be Homie The Clown. Everyone has to name where they're from.

[Mason]

From some reason I thought of this the other day: Disco Stu's shoe with the fish below the heels. Which episode is this from?

[Larson Something]

The Twisted World Of Marge Simpson:

STU: Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year 1976? If these trends continue, Ayyyy! (Puts his feet up)

HOMER: Uh, your fish are dead.

STU: I know, I...can't get them out of there.

[jesle]

The veal comment was "mistaken Homer" - with a dose of irony. Lambs are "brutally slaughtered" just like other animals that are raised to become food. The crucial difference is that, to become good veal, lambs are - usually - kept isolated in individual pens, from the young time they can first stand up through the young age at which they're killed. The pens are just large enough for the lambs to stand and not turn around, and isolated from other lambs. The excercise that they get from allowing them to move around apparently makes their strengthened muscles more 'tough' and 'stringy' when they become the veal that is eaten. So, the lamb was, no doubt, 'lonely' when it was killed, but that is no less "brutal" a process for raising it or killing it. In fact, the process is usually viewed by animal cruelty activists as more cruel & brutal. Lisa would likely feel the same way.

Wikipedia entries are compiled by a huge number of on-line submissions by a wide range of participants, so it may or may not have taken 'a long time' - but its not really 'fact-checked' by any authoritative 'editor', so results may vary. In "veracity", too.

Only one mistake in this: Veal is a baby cow, or calf, not a lamb.

From eb.com:

"meat of calves slaughtered between 3 and 14 weeks."

[bobservo]

One of the few jokes I still don't get is in the S4 episode when Marge goes to jail. When the family is cleaning the house for her return, Bart starts walking across the carpet, which is packed with garbage. Out of nowhere, the wiseguy voice says, "Hey, watch it!" Is this a reference to something, or just out-of-place strangeness?

Also, I was just watching Duffless a few days ago, and the part of the episode where there are various items in the beer bottles seems like a reference to a scare around that time when people were claiming to find syringes in Pepsi cans. They didn't point this out in the commentary, so I'm not completely sure if this was their intent.

[Roger Myers III]

Only one mistake in this: Veal is a baby cow, or calf, not a lamb.

Dang - great call, Jesle. Like Lisa, I simply had visions of lambs in my head. (And I did that just before attacking Wikipedia's accuracy. Stupid poetic justice!)

BTW, veal is only derived from the male calves of dairy-cows. The female ones are raised to full-grown, to have another dairy-cow from which to get milk.

The voice from the garbage, unless I'm forgetting something else in the scene, is only to illustrate that the garbage is piled so thick that a full-grown man is hidden by it.

The syringe, rat, and human head in the bottles isn't a ref. to any specific can or bottle 'scare' - just to the general urban legend of such items getting through the process. (Which isn't saying that it never happens - just that the 'reports' far outweigh the incidents.)

[729]

This is considered to be the most effort put towards mapping Springfield

It's in no way official, but almost every Springfield place seen on the show has been mapped, and it's quite a sight.

According to Homer The Great SNPP parking lot is next to the Simpsons house.

Wikipedia's list is pretty exhaustive when it comes to recurring characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_from_The_Simpsons) (it also includes a lot of one-time characters)

In the teachers section which one is the hippy from Seperate Vocations (Did I ever tell you kids about the 60's?)

[Roger Myers III]

According to Homer The Great SNPP parking lot is next to the Simpsons house.

You must realize that Springfield is a fictional place. In individual episodes, there is plenty of variation - for individual jokes, like the one you cite, locations are changed for the sake of the joke. That is normal.

The "Map" that PEF pointed you to is the most excellent, comprehensive project of its kind. Its maker, "Jerry", iirc, knows about "Homer the Great", and many other contraindications in episodes. He has, correctly, imo, decided to use the overwhelming geographic indications from the show, and make up the most logical connections where none have been presented.

In the teachers section which one is the hippy from Seperate Vocations (Did I ever tell you kids about the 60's?)

That teacher has never been named. Nor has the elderly black teacher.

As I said before, Wikipedia's cast list is very misinformed. Use this one:
http://www.snpp.com/guides/castlist.html

[Hydro]

As I said before, Wikipedia's cast list is very misinformed. Use this one:
http://www.snpp.com/guides/castlist.html

Take heed, though, that SNPP's cast list (except for the inclusion of Edwina) is only up-to-date through season 11. That's four seasons of missed characters -- e.g. Constance Harm, who is now a regular on the show, isn't on SNPP's list.

[Miss Springfield]

There are some jokes off Family Guy (Is this for any jokes or just Simpsons? If not move it but can someone answer?) In one where they go to the jousting competition Peter says I've never been beaten before except once... then it turns into this computer game and they're in cars and someone he knows from somewhere he goes Hey so what have you been doing? Oh I am the red guy shut up how about you I am the blue guy, no kidding then he smashes into him and explodes.

Another one was the one where he says remember when we invited Margot Kidder to dinner, and then she screams and smashes plates....

[pat]

1. Reference to the 80s sci-fi film "Tron." The movie has a similar scene.

2. Margot Kidder is an actress, best known for her role as Lois Lane in the "Superman" movies and maybe just as well-known for her real-life looney behavior, which is where the reference comes from.

[Miss Springfield]

Lionel Hutz secretary in Bart gets hit by a car says the Supreme Court rang, something about a freedom thing, and he says Tell them to sit tight....

[George Cauldron]

It's all made up so that Hutz can impress his customers - ie: Homer, who just walked in.

[the simpsons brainiac]

What's Bart' club called in the episode where Bart's treehouse breaks because of Lisa and her friends having a tug-of-war thingy. And does anyone know the name of that episode?

O and does anyone know what Lisa's email is from when she says it in the episode where shes school president?

[pat]

O and does anyone know what Lisa's email is from when she says it in the episode where shes school president?
smartgirl63_\ (at) yahoo.com

[George Cauldron]

What's Bart' club called in the episode where Bart's treehouse breaks because of Lisa and her friends having a tug-of-war thingy. And does anyone know the name of that episode?

The episode was Season 14's Old Yeller Belly. I really can't remember the club, but I think it was the "something-in-the-something gang." Someone else fill in the "somethings."

[Butters]

It was "The Hole In The Underwear Gang".

[Mario]

Joke I don't get: In Sunday, cruddy Sunday,at Moes. The travel agent and Moe speak with their mouths behind beer glasses.
Eg: "President Clinton will be there with his wife, Barbara."

[Butters]

It was because at the time the writers didn't who'd be playing in the Superbowl. They did it so that fans couldn't lip-read who their original predictions would be. The Clinton and Hilary thing was just a "joke", that Clinton might not be president (though, they showed him later in the episode) and that he might not be married when the episode aired.

[729]

It was because at the time the writers didn't who'd be playing in the Superbowl. They did it so that fans couldn't lip-read who their original predictions would be. The Clinton and Hilary thing was just a "joke", that Clinton might not be president (though, they showed him later in the episode) and that he might not be married when the episode aired.

And so they could update it and re-run it at the time of the Superbowl (like they did with Lisa The Greek). Obviously they made it noticable on purpose and as you say it was mainly used for the Clinton gag.

[Butters]

...But they don't change it... They only ever changed the names in Lisa The Greek.

[lazee_bass_turd]

The couch gag in Simpsons Tide is a blatant reference to some other classic animated program, and it's so familiar to me, but I can't quite figure it out. Help?

If you dunno what it is, it's a 60s style animated sorta thing where the Simpsons are kinda silhouetted on a mountain and lightning's trying to strike them, at which point the mountain begins to crumble and they fall, upon which the storm clears and flowers and the Simpsons "sprout" from the ground.

[George Cauldron]

From what I hear, it's from Rocky and Bullwinkle. I haven't seen that show, but I'm told that's definitely what's being parodied.

[Hydro]

Yup, it's a shot-for-shot parody of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[HotMilhouse977]

In that THOH with the Shining parody, in the story with the teachers eating the students, what did that kid say who was trapped in the detention room. Then, Seymour said something like "You should have thought of that before you got detention"? It's kind of a strangely specific question but I've been wondering about it for a while. :boggled:

[Miss Springfield]

Bart Vs Lisa Vs Third Grade ..."Bart will be replaced by the something 10 class clown."

"The status quo... the status quo? Ay Curaumba" What is status quo and what is the number of 10 class clown and why does skinner say thats just sad,....

[shoeman]

In that THOH with the Shining parody, in the story with the teachers eating the students, what did that kid say who was trapped in the detention room. Then, Seymour said something like "You should have thought of that before you got detention"? It's kind of a strangely specific question but I've been wondering about it for a while. :boggled:

Kid: Oxygen running out
Skinner: Yes, you should have thought of that before you made that paper airplane.


"The status quo... the status quo? Ay Curaumba" What is status quo and what is the number of 10 class clown and why does skinner say thats just sad,....

Status Quo is latin, roughly translated:"things as they are". Everything is as it was in the beginning of the episode.
My memory might betray me, been a while since I last saw this episode, but when Skinner says "That's just sad" he refers to Milhouse who has taken Barts place as class clown.

[Jerry P.]

Bart Vs Lisa Vs Third Grade ..."Bart will be replaced by the something 10 class clown."
It's "pro temp" as in "pro tempore", which means "for the time being".

[the simpsons brainiac]

What's the episode name where Bart and Lisa are watching T.V and the announcer says something about Tupac Shakur. I think it was "Marge Be Not Proud" and the announcer says "coming up next... a telegram from Tupac Shakur". Somebody please tell me if thats right or if its wrong and give me the right episode name bcuz its been bugging me

[Hydro]

The line is "Now, stay tuned for a video Christmas card... from Tupac Shakur" (he was still alive at the time). And you have the episode right, it was "Marge Be Not Proud."

[Roger Myers III]

It was "The Hole In The Underwear Gang".

This was a cute twist on "The Hole In The Wall Gang", the name of the real group of cowboy outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker)and the Sundance Kid (Harry Longbaugh), in the early 1900s. (Paul Newman, who famously played Butch in the movie, now owns & operates a Connecticut camp, named "The Hole in the Wall Gang", dedicated to children with cancer and other debilitating diseases.)

It was because at the time the writers didn't who'd be playing in the Superbowl. They did it so that fans couldn't lip-read who their original predictions would be. The Clinton and Hilary thing was just a "joke", that Clinton might not be president (though, they showed him later in the episode) and that he might not be married when the episode aired.

This misses the point entirely. Its a meta-reference that pokes fun at the procedure itself in animation of having to 'dub in' the 'correct names' late in the process to be 'correct', or to keep them current. Its practically a meta-meta-reference, since the previous Super Bowl episode (Lisa the Greek) was updated for airings and syndication for a while with the then-current football combatants' names.

It's "pro temp" as in "pro tempore", which means "for the time being".

Actually, the phrase is "pro tem", meaning "temporarily, while another deciding process takes place" - and it's usually used in politics and the legal system. This reference treats Bart's 'position' as class-clown as if its a formal, elected office - with a procedure in place to have an understudy temporarily take the role should Bart not be available.

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does anyone know the lyrics to the song that krusty sings during his last performance and thats the episode where sideshow bob hypnotized bart to try to kill krusty.

It starts like this....
"Oh Bob"

And does any1 have lyrics to the song that homer sings when aerosmith(i think) is playing in his garage when homer opens up his own bar?

[kane]

Krusty: Oh Bob, you repayed my abuse with raw hatred,
But I need you today.
Oh Bob, well you went to Apu's and you framed me,
So they locked me away...

[Larson Something]

And the band playing Homer's "hunting club" in Homer the Moe is actually R.E.M., and the (incorrect) lyrics Homer sings to "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" are, as I recall:

"Leonardo What's-his-name, Herman Munster motorcade, birthday party, Cheetos, pogo sticks and lemonade, you symbiotic stupid jerk, that's right Flanders I am talkin' 'bout you!"

[Miss Springfield]

:LOL: what are the real lyrics?

[Roger Myers III]

Its a parody of Barry Manilow's "Mandy" (the same song Homer mangled as "Mindy" in "Last Temptation of Homer")

Oh Mandy
You came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away
Oh Mandy
You came here and stopped me from faking
And I need you today

[Robertuybrush]

:LOL: what are the real lyrics?

"Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right"

[Jeffster]

Who does the voice of the "Old Gray Mare" guy from Krusty Gets Kancelled?

[Hydro]

Who does the voice of the "Old Gray Mare" guy from Krusty Gets Kancelled?

Dan Castellaneta.

[Butters]

Dan Castellaneta.
No, it's Hank Azaria.

[Hydro]

No, it's Hank Azaria.

You're right. Someone has to fix the snpp capsule for "Bart Star," which was what I checked.

[Miss Springfield]

Who does the voice of Meg in Family Guy I recognise them. And didn't the actor change?

[the simpsons brainiac]

Who does the voice of Meg in Family Guy I recognise them. And didn't the actor change?

Lisa Chabert was voicing her from 1999 - 2000 and Mila Kunis from 2000 - 2002

[Miss Springfield]

Lisa not Lacy?

[the simpsons brainiac]

Lisa not Lacy?

Oops sorry it is Lacey.
Sorry about that

[the simpsons brainiac]

What is the rest of the quote that CBG says when he says "we are not nerds...."

[Necromancer]

"We are hardly nerds. Would a nerd wear such an irreverent sweatshirt?"
C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN

[samsa]

Can someone explain the DOS/RUN joke? not the "its funny because it's a nerd joke" explication... but why is it funny?

[pat]

It's like the line from "See Spot Run" (the children's book), but with DOS in place of Spot.

[Hydro]

Its reads almost like a series of command lines in DOS (Disk Operating System). That's the joke.

[Miss Springfield]

What is that Futurama ad where at the end Bender says im Bender baby ______? before that it is a James Bond spoof... Who is Dennis Miller we call that the Dennis Miller ratio - Frink

[Hydro]

Who is Dennis Miller

An American comedian known for long, discursive rants which typically include a number of obscure references.

[samsa]

Dennis Miller ratio can be explained (I think) by this:
Eh heh...all Dennis Miller jokes are unexplainable. That was the point. He used a lot of obscure references when telling jokes. Hardly anyone gets them, and only one in a million people would find them funny.

Dennis Miller was a comedian in Saturday Night Live, he was th host of Weekend Update... I actually had a good laugh with him.

I cant explain the Futurama ad since I have never seen it.

[lazee_bass_turd]

In Homer the Vigilante, in the third act where they're all lookin for a big T, what is that a parody of?

Specifically, that part where Bart is waving at the dude that says "You said this water was shallow!"?

And in The Last Temptation of Homer, after Bart paints those parking spaces, he says "And therein lies the game", to which Milhouse replies "I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away!"...what is that from? It's extremely familiar, like outta Shakespeare or something.

[Mario]

The search for a big T parodied It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world, including when Bart tricks that person into driving in the stream.

[kunker]

I'm new here, and I have a question that's been bothering me for the longest time. At the beginning of a Simpsons episode, the entire school is having a spelling bee. When it's Milhouse's turn to go up, he gets an easy word and says "Oh, that's an easy one" but goes on to mispell it. What was the word, and how did he mispell it? And furthermore, what episode was it???? Sorry for making this so long, but thanks for taking the time to read it.

[Larson Something]

The episode is I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can from Season 14. Milhouse is asked to spell the word "choke," and he proceeds to do just that by starting with, as I recall, an "F."

[the simpsons brainiac]

Who did the voice of Gabbo???

[Robertuybrush]

Hank Azaria

[Hydro]

Does anybody happen to know the name of the live-action Western clip used in the intro to "Treehouse of Horror V" (which is supposedly from the fictional "1947 Glen Ford classic 200 Miles to Oregon")? My guess is they picked out some stock footage that had fallen into the public domain. But I don't know the actual source film, and there's no mention in the credits, the SNPP capsule, or the TV Tome page.

Perhaps Roger Myers III can help on this one?

[jesle]

In Homer the Vigilante, in the third act where they're all lookin for a big T, what is that a parody of?

Specifically, that part where Bart is waving at the dude that says "You said this water was shallow!"?

And in The Last Temptation of Homer, after Bart paints those parking spaces, he says "And therein lies the game", to which Milhouse replies "I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away!"...what is that from? It's extremely familiar, like outta Shakespeare or something.

In response to your second question, the character is Otto Meyer in the movie. He was played by Phil Silvers and the scene is identical to one found in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. There are other characters represented in the episode that are from the movie, but I cannot identify all of them.

[Dr Nick]

In the episode Weekend At Burnsies, what is the name of the music being played in the background when Homer is stoned; specifically the part where he is shaving and raindows pour out of his face instead of blood. I really like this tune, just wondered if anyone knew it's name?

[kevin]

the two used:

Incense and Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock, 1967
Wear Your Love Like Heaven, Donovan, 1967

[Roger Myers III]

In response to your second question, the character is Otto Meyer in the movie. He was played by Phil Silvers and the scene is identical to one found in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. There are other characters represented in the episode that are from the movie, but I cannot identify all of them.

The others portrayed are Buddy Hackett and Sid Caesar's characters. Plus, quite a few OFF characters were 'in place of' characters in the film - i.e. Patty & Barney in the biplane were 'imitating' Ethel Merman and Jim Backus (fittingly, as a drunk pilot).

Great instincts, Hydro - the "western" footage was just stock footage from Fox's archives.

[Dr Nick]

Anyone is a fan of that episode should definately go and watch Its a Mad Mad.. World if they have not already seen it, Like Roger Myers III said, there are many scenes that have copied (lovingly, of course). Also, the scene where the hole is being dug, along side the many simpson characters is a few of the MMMM-World characters, including (my favourite) the big fat guy holding a shovel (I think), he's wearing a white fat man hat. That character was awesome in the movie, dim witted and talked funny.

By the way, the man who drowns in the car, the "You told me the stream was shallow" guy, someone said the actor was called Phil Silvers, wasn't he the actor who played Sgt Bilco? I'm pretty sure it's the same bloke.

I like how in the episode, behind the big T is the big W! Awesome, they should'a dug that up!

PS Thanks mcstink, for naming the song for me! I'd never of found that out otherwise.

[M Prower]

In The Way We Weren't, Marge says "Now I should warn you kids, this part of the story is a little 'WB'"
What does she mean by that? What does WB stand for??

[Roger Myers III]

In The Way We Weren't, Marge says "Now I should warn you kids, this part of the story is a little 'WB'"
What does she mean by that? What does WB stand for??

The entertainment/media company Time-Warner started their own network in the U.S. a few years ago, the Warner Brothers Network - which is called the "WB" for short (a la ABC, CBS, NBC, and another smaller start-up, UPN). The WB is best-known these days for the type of young-persons' soap operas which have been its biggest ratings' successes - like "Dawson's Creek". They're shows that prominently feature young kids & teens gettin' down - so Marge is warning her kids that there's gonna be some romance and kissing in her story.

[Miss Springfield]

Theres another joke where in Old Yeller Belly, Marge says SLH's previous racetrack guy owner exploits his pets more than ____? :uhh:

And anyone in Australia who watches Fox8 about that Bender quote. It is a James Bond spoof and then at the end right after he holds up the applause sign he says I'm Bender baby please ______?

Is there another reference to MMMM world, which I think is on Foxtel today but I don't have that channel, where you mentioned some fat guy wearing a hat the one where Homer gets really obese and Lisa yells down to him what are you doing in the laundry he says washing my fat guy hat honey.

[Radioactive Man]

Does anyone know specifically were the Hellfish bonanza was? Was that Springfield Harbor or some other place?

[buh]

Does anyone know specifically were the Hellfish bonanza was? Was that Springfield Harbor or some other place?

i am assuming it is Springfield Harbour, i will watch it soon

[Hydro]

Theres another joke where in Old Yeller Belly, Marge says SLH's previous racetrack guy owner exploits his pets more than ____?

Bob Guccione.

Is there another reference to MMMM world, which I think is on Foxtel today but I don't have that channel, where you mentioned some fat guy wearing a hat the one where Homer gets really obese and Lisa yells down to him what are you doing in the laundry he says washing my fat guy hat honey.

No.

[the simpsons brainiac]

What is the name of the episode where Homer tried sending Burn's chocolates with his picture on it for a reason that i forget and then they eat every one of the chocolates exceot the one on Homer's face so they send a thank-you card to Marge, Lisa,Maggie and Bart. I dont think thats the idea of the episode

:D Yay :D 50 posts!!!

[Leopold]

What is the name of the episode where Homer tried sending Burn's chocolates with his picture on it for a reason that i forget and then they eat every one of the chocolates exceot the one on Homer's face so they send a thank-you card to Marge, Lisa,Maggie and Bart. I dont think thats the idea of the episode

Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One

[Miss Springfield]

What is the joke in Homer the genious or the one where he averts the meltdown by luck and the old folks change to wheel of fortune and the person on tv solves the puzzle as loins in the fountain then they all laugh when its wrong? Who is the Bob Guy?

[the simpsons brainiac]

What is the name of the 3 segments in THOH XI?

[BroadStreetBully]

What is the name of the episode where Homer tried sending Burn's chocolates with his picture on it for a reason that i forget

As was previously noted, that was in "Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Part 1." The reason was that he was trying to get Mr. Burns to remember his name. They were setting up several characters havinga reason to kill Mr. Burns. Homer's was how angry he was the Mr. Burns could never remeber his name.

[Andy]

the simpsons brainiac:

G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad
Scary Tales Can Come True
Night of the Dolphin

[George Cauldron]

What is the joke in Homer the genious or the one where he averts the meltdown by luck and the old folks change to wheel of fortune and the person on tv solves the puzzle as loins in the fountain then they all laugh when its wrong? Who is the Bob Guy?

The correct answer should've been Three Coins in the Fountain, which is a movie from the 1950s. The loins are another word for the reproductive organs, so that's why the elderly viewers are amused.

[buh]

in alone again natura diddly i dont get the joke with cletus, does it mean he is brandin's sister?

[Miss Springfield]

it means he is brandine's brother so yes you almost got it lol

[Mario]

In "Way we Weren't", who said "Someday I'll right back, Osama?"

And where and which episode did Otto say "Sit down, you're ruining it for everyone!"

[Butters]

In "Way we Weren't", who said "Someday I'll right back, Osama?"

And where and which episode did Otto say "Sit down, you're ruining it for everyone!"
Homer, while looking through his memory box and coming across a letter from his penpal.

Trash Of The Titans, at the U2 concert.

[Dr Nick]

I never got the joke at the beginning of moe baby blues, where only lisa laughs & asks everyone "d'you wanna know why that sign is so funny?"

(I'm guessing I ain't gonna find the joke too hilarious)

[buh]

I never got the joke at the beginning of moe baby blues, where only lisa laughs & asks everyone "d'you wanna know why that sign is so funny?"

(I'm guessing I ain't gonna find the joke too hilarious)

i didn't quite understand that joke either? it might not even be a joke

[Butters]

This is seriously bugging me. In Take My Wife, Sleaze while Homer and Marge are dancing, Homer throws Marge up into the sky. She re-enters the building several seconds later and says "Wow, a 50's Style Caf'e!". I don't get that Marge line. At all.

[George Cauldron]

This is a guess....I think that Marge being thrown so high up into the air caused her to think she'd gone back in time to the 1950s.

[Miss Springfield]

No its just because the whole thing was zany. She got thrown up so far that she went through the ceiling but how did she get back down again and why would she say oh a 50s nostalgia cafe when she got back. Like the rabbits in Homer the Moe. I don't get the sign thing either in Moe baby Blues.

[Roger Myers III]

Miss Springfield:

- Bob Guccione is the creator/publisher of the men's porn magazine "Penthouse", a more explicit type of mag than "Playboy". His monthly centerfold girls and regular models are called "Penthouse Pets".

- "Dr. Nick" was using Homer's term "fat guy hat" from "King-Size Homer" to indicate the type of white hat that the character in "Homer the Vigilante" was wearing. was[/i] Buddy Hackett, which I mentioned.] The term "fat guy hat", itself, is not a reference from "Mad, Mad, Mad, World".

- "Our Stamens are a Pistil" is a joke on an old-fashioned type of store-window sign: "Our [whatever they sell] are a pistol!". "Pistol", as in "gun", was a term that also means "huge success". The twist is that pistils and stamens are the sexual reproductive organs of flowers, and the sign is at a botanical gardens. Yes, the joke is oblique, obscure, and not really 'funny' (subject to 'the Dennis Miller ratio',) - but that's entirely the point: Lisa finds it humourous, and no one else is remotely interested.

- The dance move is entirely a "cartoony" cartoon joke: Marge has gone through the ceiling (with no 'crash' or falling damage,) and has been thrown so strongly that she comes back in with no memory of what has just happened. No complicated explanation is necessary.

it means he is brandine's [B]brother so yes you almost got it lol

Are you actually "lol" at someone else using an English word incorrectly?!? That in and of itself is far funnier that any of the jokes explained in this thread. ;)

[Mario]

Hi, again! Just saw this on TV, in the "Canine mutiny", at the end, the police go into the blind man-with-drugs' house and start having a party. Joke?

[Butters]

They were smoking Mr. Mitchell (the blind man)'s drugs. It's a pretty simple joke. I don't think I can explain it any clearer. (well, I could, but I'm only one man.)

[Mario]

I feel like a fool for not getting that!

[mr. broom]

More crooked-cop behavior from Wiggum and the boys--rather than bust the man for having marijuana, it's implied that they're making him share it with them.

[samsa]

When they interview the characters (Marge in Maxim, Homer in that presidential poll), who makes the jokes? or who writes it? The writers or the people who voice the characters?

[the simpsons brainiac]

When they interview the characters (Marge in Maxim, Homer in that presidential poll), who makes the jokes? or who writes it? The writers or the people who voice the characters?

I've been wondering that to i think that they interview the people who voice the characters and just say that they interveiwed Homer or Marge. But Im not sure

Does anyone know the episode name where a meteor shower comes and 1 lands near Prof. Frink and he's like I may be able to prove life on other planets and then an alien pops up and says Shut up and takes the meteor away???

[samsa]

Scuse me while I miss the sky
from Season 14...15. Dont know the season.

[Roger Myers III]

When they interview the characters (Marge in Maxim, Homer in that presidential poll), who makes the jokes? or who writes it? The writers or the people who voice the characters?

These types of 'print' promotional pieces, as well as the 'scripts' for videogames and video promotional appearances and commercials, are written by the lower-level writing staffers - typically the ones with the "story editor" and "story consultant" credits in the end-credits (in their 1st & 2nd seasons on the staff). They're reviewed and/or revised by other writers that wish to, and approved by Fox publicity, the showrunner and Matt. (The artwork for printed pieces is created by the Bongo art staff.)

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does anyone know who wrote the THOH VI??

[samsa]

^ According to snpp.com:

Scary John Swartzwelder, Steve Tombkins and the root of David S. Cohen

[Miss Springfield]

What about the Bender ad? The futurama ad? And also you know the Target jingle. Just be happy ready for the show? What show what is that?

[Dances In Underwear]

What the hell has the target ad got to do with Simpsons?

[Miss Springfield]

In Special Edna (Skinner proposes did I get the title right?) What is the joke with that teacher when the Teacher Of The Year Award judges say Dead Poets Society ruined a generation of educators and I know its a movie could you go into more detail about what the teacher himself said and why the other judges made the comment? :mexican:

[Colburn]

I already feel stupid for asking this question, but in "The Ziff Who Came To Dinner" the prison's sign reads: 'If you commited murder, you'd be home by now'. I'm not sure what it means.

[Crotis Jivefunk]

It's saying that murderers would be in prison, their home.

[mr. broom]

It's a play on a fairly well-known sign people sometimes put up that says, "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Right Now."

[Jeremy]

That sign has been referenced before on the show, as well.

[chiefdan]

IF YOU WERE A PASTOR, YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW

[Miss Springfield]

Could someone please pay attention to the above post about the teacher. PS I realise this is annoying but its because its not down the bottom near newer posts and this Target ad crap needed editing. :uhh: :D :laugh:

[Butters]

Tell me the meaning of that Target ad? :uhh: I don't get it.
Can't you see no one will tell you because it's off-topic? http://www.notargets.net is the board you want.

[The "Urban" Lenny]

I gotta question, why do the simpsons always make fun of the Unitarians? For example the episode when Maude died, Rod was telling Bart when he was Billy Grahm's Bible Blaster that Bart "just winged him, and made him a unitarian" and their was another episodew where Homer said something like if the Unitarians are the one true religion, then I'll eat my hat!" I guess what I'm really trying to ask is what are Unitarians? and why are they worth making fun of?

[Colburn]

I think laika(news) posted something in his original 8-page opening post for a thread, but he eventually edited it out. It's probably a religion of one of the writers (if you listen to commentary on "Whacking Day", Al Jean says, "...we can make fun of the Irish, because most of us are Irish) This really doesn't help, but in the episode with Maryl Streep as Jessica Lovejoy, Grandpa is in the pew, and references Unitarians in the same way (I can't remember the line right now)

[Roger Myers III]

Grampa turned around in his seat and said "What is it - a Unitarian?"

It's not that their "worth making fun of" - its that their used to show the absurdity of religious bigotry, especially that which goes on within sects of Christianity.

Unitarianism as a system of Christian thought and religious observance that has as its basis the belief in the single-unity of the "Christian Godhead", i.e. in the idea that the Godhead exists in the person of "the Father/God" alone, rather than the Trinity of Father, Son & Holy Ghost. Unitarians trace their historical roots back to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, which saw so many other Christian denominations split off from Catholicism. Its been around in Europe since then, though far less prevalent than other denominations, and there have been Unitarian churches and believers in America as long as the U.S. has been established. (Members number in the millions today in the US).

It's not that their religious beliefs are "wacky" or that far off other Christian beliefs - it's a good illustration of how more populous, "mainstream" branches of Christianity 'look down' on other brances, as well as other religions. (Think of Rev. Lovejoy's wonderful phrase from "Homer the Heretic": "... whether Christian, Jew, or miscellaneous." ("Laika" is a spammer whose screeds are far too bigoted to understand the humor in this)

[Jean was joking when he said "most of us are Irish".]

BTW, the "If you lived here, you would be home by now" signs originated in the US post-WWII era, during the widespread build-ups of suburban planned communities, as a cute advertisment for these communities. You can still mostly see them on highways today, still used as advertisements for newly-built small towns and suburbs (or as cute, folksy advertisements for older ones.)

[Miss Springfield]

Can't you see no one will tell you because it's off-topic? http://www.notargets.net is the board you want.

Suuuree it is! I'm on to you....

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

I wonder what the satirical thing Dr Hibbert mentions is in The Springfield Connection...

[Larson Something]

While playing the score from Star Wars, the orchestra slips in a little bit of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

While playing the score from Star Wars, the orchestra slips in a little bit of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

I know that, but what's so satirical about it?

[Larson Something]

Uh...I don't know. Perhaps Hibbert considers throwing in a children's song about stars in the middle of the Star Wars music some kind of statement about the childishness of science fiction. Or maybe he's using the Ralph Wiggum "It says 'bee,' and there's a picture of a bee on it!" definition of "satire."

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does anyone know what side Bart's scar was on in the THOH with Hugo in it??

[Miss Springfield]

right, What is with the music and the parody when Bart and Lisa turn different in Catch em if you can? There is some kind of thing when they are going around the world after Homer and Marge.

[BroadStreetBully]

Does anyone know what side Bart's scar was on in the THOH with Hugo in it??

I don't know if Miss Springfield's "right" was meant to answer your question, but that is the answer. Bart was revealed to be the sinister/evil/left twin, so his scar would be on the right.

[Roger Myers III]

Miss S: That was the title music from the film "Catch Me If You Can", and the abstract animation style was the same as the animated opening credits of that film.

BTW, thank you for finally asking a question on the topic of "The Simpsons" in the "Simpsons Q&A".

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

I just wanted to say that on the swedish 4th season DVD there's also a norweigan and danish warnig text and, this has got nothing to do with the Simpsons, but it says that you're not allowed to play the DVD in prisons or on oil platforms... I think this might include the english DVD...

[the simpsons brainiac]

Does anyone know what episode my avatar is from?

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

I think it's She of little faith...yeah, that's right...

[George Cauldron]

There's a line from Large Marge's song that confuses me. It's Snake's line in "You're A Bunch of Stuff" that goes somewhere along the lines of "You're like brand new muscle car and all the wheels are mag(?)" The last word was particularly confusing.

[Dances In Underwear]

Not being a car loving guy, but I'm pretty sure mag wheels are, um, good wheels. I'm not sure how they differ from regular wheels, but they are one of the things that most petrol-heads like to have on their cars. And obviously Snake is a car lover.

[the simpsons brainiac]

This doesn't have to do with The Simpsons but wat does IMO mean?

[George Cauldron]

In my opinion, I think it means "In my opinion."

[Mario]

I asked that IMO question in my first thread! It got closed.

Back on topic, in Day of Jackanapes, Bob says: "Attention! The French club picnic has been cancelled. Quel domage" What does "Quel domage" mean?

[mr. broom]

Quel dommage means "what a pity!" It's a commonly-taught French phrase, the sort you'd expect American students to use frequently.

[Homercide]

Four Beheadings and a Funeral

At the end of the skit Wiggum & Ralph were smoking opium and Wiggum had said somthing to Ralph but it was cut out in my area... Does anyone know what he said?

[Colburn]

Ralph had told Wiggum that he had the craziest dream, and Wiggum said "Ralphie, you're still in it."

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

Anyone got Hank Aziria's email? or Dan's? I got Harry's and Nancy's(although she won't answer) and Harry always (almost) replies...

[Miss Springfield]

Take 3 Funny - not funny teacher :uhh:

In Special Edna (Skinner proposes did I get the title right?) What is the joke with that teacher when the Teacher Of The Year Award judges say Dead Poets Society ruined a generation of educators and I know its a movie could you go into more detail about what the teacher himself said and why the other judges made the comment? :mexican:

[Colburn]

The movie starred Robin Wiliams and the teacher on the showed the charismatic behavior of Robin Williams, to the judges' dismay. The judges were basically old-fashioned and would rather education by tedious than fun (it's a low-level everyday satire, in a sense). I hope this clears things up, because I've tried posting this reply 2 times...

[Miss Springfield]

I do know the movie, I wanna know what the funny teacher said? The joke! I don't know what he said because it was in an odd voice. Do you know what I mean now?

[the simpsons brainiac]

What episode is it with the cowboy Buck Mcoy as Barts hero when he climbs his fence wen the mean dog is chasing him i just saw it yesterday and i feel like i never seen it before so i wanna know the episode name to see if i have. thanks

[Roger Myers III]

"Lastest Gun in the West"

[That Jerk]

Sideshow Bob's "I've become accustomed to his face" song routine... After seeing Family Guy doing the same thing i know it has to be a parody, but of what?

[Hydro]

It's a parody of a song from the musical "My Fair Lady." ("I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face")

[Peter Sector 8]

I AM MISSING 2 EPISODES FOR MY DVD COLLECTION AND ONE IS "MY MOTHER THE CARJACKER" I AM STILL MAD @ MY WIFE THE SECOND ONE IS A EPISODE WHERE THERE ARE SOCCER RIOTS I DON'T REMEMBER THIS EPISODE WHAT IS THE TITLE I LOOKED @ SNPP.COM COULDN'T FIND IT PLEASE HELP