Thing(s) you just noticed in an episode that you never noticed before.

[KMDSimpson]

I was watching When Flanders Failed today, and when the kids are playing tag, Homer covers up his plate of hamburgers with his arm so they can't get any.

It was the first time I noticed that.

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

in "e-i-e-i-(annoyed grunt)", when homer's crops won't grow marge suggests he use more fertilizer and and homer says "i'm only ONE MAN marge". this implies homer was urinating and increeting in the field. i kind of liked it better when i didn't get it.

[SideshowTim]

in "e-i-e-i-(annoyed grunt)", when homer's crops won't grow marge suggests he use more fertilizer and and homer says "i'm only ONE MAN marge". this implies homer was urinating and increeting in the field. i kind of liked it better when i didn't get it.
wow, i had never got that one before. sorta wish i didn't as well.

[Haoie]

In CABF10, when Mr Genie/Teeny does his strip, his underwear is glittery.

[SeizureRobot]

In Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th commandment when Homer sees the fight promo on t.v. he throws Lisa on the floor when jumping in excitment.

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

oh, tibor pointed this one out to me the other day. in "bart's inner child", the soiled mattresses that comprise "fort adventure" in the homerland sequence are a callback to earlier in the episode (the ones the men shelter were giving away).

*the more you know

[Veryjammy]

in "e-i-e-i-(annoyed grunt)", when homer's crops won't grow marge suggests he use more fertilizer and and homer says "i'm only ONE MAN marge". this implies homer was urinating and increeting in the field. i kind of liked it better when i didn't get it.

Are you sure thats what that implies? Is it not just a laziness joke?

[HUGHJASS72]

In Miracle of Evergreen Terrace, Sideshow Mel says, "You only live once." Apu then says, "Speak for yourself." I never really took attention to the meaning of that line until about a year ago.

[Haoie]

In Miracle of Evergreen Terrace, Sideshow Mel says, "You only live once." Apu then says, "Speak for yourself." I never really took attention to the meaning of that line until about a year ago.

Of course Apu meant reincarnation. I didn't think it was a Hindu thing though. But then again, there are a lot of branches of Hinduisum, if I recall.

[H Thompson]

It took a few repeated viewings for me to get
Lisa: "My nose is so stuffed up, I can't even taste mom's delicious boiled celery"

[Dorkus Malorkus]

there are loads, and i love it when i realise what a joke means, or see something funny that i missed before...

because my memory works in strange ways, i can only think of one. until about a year ago, in 'Bart's Inner Child' when Homer imagines the mattress thing 'fort adventure' (already mentioned by sloppy jimbo,) i always used to think it read 'for + adventure,' meaning 'for a positive, good adventure.' it always confused me though, because i didn't understand why it said that.

i know, i'm a dumbass,

[moeistheirleader]

I just noticed a sign in Homer vs the 18th ammendment. In moe's bar, for a split second you can see a sign that says "Help wanted: Irish need not apply" never noticed it before.

[Lord Daftwager]

in "e-i-e-i-(annoyed grunt)", when homer's crops won't grow marge suggests he use more fertilizer and and homer says "i'm only ONE MAN marge". this implies homer was urinating and increeting in the field. i kind of liked it better when i didn't get it.

Same Episode: The sign above the store Homer goes to for seeds says "Sneed's Seed and Feed. Formerly Chuck's". Much more subtle than any other sign gag from the era.

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

I'm an idiot for not noticing right away, but it never dawned on me that the front gate of the prison Sideshow Bob stayed at was unlocked....

[Dorkus Malorkus]

what, the 'minimum security prison,' that he gets put in? hold on, which episode was that at the end of again?

[samsa]

In Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th commandment when Homer sees the fight promo on t.v. he throws Lisa on the floor when jumping in excitment.

haha, you can actually listen to her face hit the floor. :D

Charlie Brown and his gang in a THOH.

In Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th commandment when Homer sees the fight promo on t.v. he throws Lisa on the floor when jumping in excitment.

haha, you can actually listen to her face hit the floor. :D

Charlie Brown and his gang in a THOH.

The prison thing was at the end of "Sideshow Bob Roberts", when he is the mayor.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Homer: "All week long it's been my lifelong dream to be an inventor" (Wizard of Evergreen Terrace). Never noticed that on the first dozen or so viewings...

There was also one in a recent episode (Season 14 or 15 I think) but I don't remember what it is.

[Butters]

I just noticed that Homer was Bart's father.

[Dorkus Malorkus]

I just noticed that Homer was Bart's father.

you may also be interested to know that Homer is also Lisa's father

[Butters]

No way. Get out.

[bobservo]

I just watched the Homer Kong segment of THoHIII, and I noticed that the "Dick Cavett Born" spinning newpaper joke actually says "Woody Allen Born," and it even has a drawing of Woody. At the last second, it changes into the Cavett joke. This is the THoH that is notorious for having rewrites, but that replacement seems kind of pointless.

[Mike Scully]

Are you sure thats what that implies? Is it not just a laziness joke?

I think Sloppy Jimbo is correct. My mind immediately registered this as a poop/pee joke on my first viewing.

Anyway,

It took me several years to get the title of Twisted World of Marge Simpson. Also, when Frank Ormond calls pretzels "knot bread", I initially thought he said "not bread", implying he thought pretzels were not considered bread. Or maybe that's what he actually was saying.

[Veryjammy]

I think Sloppy Jimbo is correct. My mind immediately registered this as a poop/pee joke on my first viewing.

Anyway,

It took me several years to get the title of Twisted World of Marge Simpson. Also, when Frank Ormond calls pretzels "knot bread", I initially thought he said "not bread", implying he thought pretzels were not considered bread. Or maybe that's what he actually was saying.

I never even thought of 'knot bread' *slaps forehead* I'm guessing the joke is that it works both ways.

[DotheBartman]

^Oh shit! It's all so obvious now!

Anyway, just today I noticed the reference to Bush 41's famous puking incident in "Two Bad Neighbors" ("I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet"). I do often notice little visual details (past characters in the background, etc) that I hadn't noticed before, as well as occasionally becoming clearer on little lines that I'd misheard or misunderstood somehow. There's also little jokes like Marge's "LSD" line in "Home Sweet Home...." that took me a while (I originally didn't get why she would refer to LSD, but eventually got that it was an acronym for "Love for son and daughters") It also took me a long, long time to get the gag with the cancelled animated shows' tombstones in THOH III, even after reading numerous articles with those shows' titles in them; for a long time I just thought they were wierd pet names. One of my favorite jokes now.

[Veryjammy]

This should probably go in the Q&A thread but what the hell. I never got the joke in The Last Temptation of Homer where Colonel Klink is showing Homer his alternate lives and you see that Marge lives in the White House. We hear someone say 'Madame President your approval rating is soaring', then Kilink says 'This dream is over!'. I remember when I watched it as a kid and my dad laughed his ass off at that and I thought I would understand it when I was older. But I don't. :uhh:

There are many lines from the earlier seasons I only start to appreciate now, such as Mr Burns in Brush with Greatness 'Another day in this surburban nightmare, I would have needed half a white valium', something like that was so over my head when I was younger.

[DotheBartman]

^Surprised you don't get that one. It's fairly simple....Col. Klink set out to show Homer that things would be worse if he hadn't married Marge. Yet, not only would the alternate Homer and Mindy apparently be better off, but Klink's last hope for proof, Marge's alternate life, also goes wrong.....she's president AND with a soaring approval record! He says "This dream is over!" because he realizes he's failed and is bailing out of it.

[Veryjammy]

^Surprised you don't get that one. It's fairly simple....Col. Klink set out to show Homer that things would be worse if he hadn't married Marge. Yet, not only would the alternate Homer and Mindy apparently be better off, but Klink's last hope for proof, Marge's alternate life, also goes wrong.....she's president AND with a soaring approval record! He says "This dream is over!" because he realizes he's failed and is bailing out of it.

God I'm so stupid, how did I not get that? I thought Klink was saying that, metaphorically, Mindy was like living in a mansion, but Marge was like living in the white house. I feel exceedingly stupid now........ :(

[Terrier Williger]

Edit - Sorry, my original post was put in the wrong thread :ashamed:

[mad_hair60]

Homer's Phobia

"Bart! Where did you get that shirt?"

"I 'unno. Came outta the closet."

"Uh..... huh.

Same Episode: The sign above the store Homer goes to for seeds says "Sneed's Seed and Feed. Formerly Chuck's". Much more subtle than any other sign gag from the era.

I don't get it.

[Leopold]

"Chuck's Seed and Feed". Chuck can be used as a slang term for vomiting, implying that they were selling regurgitated seed and food.

If that's not it, I missed the point as well.

[Dorkus Malorkus]

this thread truly has made me realise how many jokes in the show i have missed over the years. most of the ones you have mentioned i never even noticed!

One that i didn't get until someone mentioned it was otto leaving 'Stoner's pot palace' saying it was 'flagrant false advertising.' i think that may have been a matter of age though

[Butters]

One that i didn't get until someone mentioned it was otto leaving 'Stoner's pot palace' saying it was 'flagrant false advertising.' i think that may have been a matter of age though
I thought he said "flavoured", not "flagrant"...

Anyway, I just rewatched Dog Of Death and during the scene where Homer is putting up "Missing" posters with SLH on, he puts one over a "Missing" poster for Skinner (cf. Bart The Murderer). I'd never noticed that before...

[Dorkus Malorkus]

I thought he said "flavoured", not "flagrant"...


no i'm pretty sure it's 'flagrant.' flavoured wouldn't make sense... :-)...

[Terrier Williger]

Only just realised that the episode title for DABF07 should be;

"The Lastest Gun in the West" instead of "The Latest Gun in the West. :ashamed:

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

A nice little animation thing I noticed in Deep Space Homer: after Brockman reports on the 'giant space ants' (I think it's that part anyway) Marge says "I'm sure your father's alright". As she says this, she turns Maggie's head towards her, i.e. away from the television. Very subtle animation IMO.

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

Well, I noticed a lot of references to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest after I saw it. (The Simpsons gave away the ending so I kind of pissed but what are you going to do?)

I usually see something new almost everytime I watch a season 6, 7 or 8 episode, they're so packed with things.I can't remember anything specific though.

[Handsome Peter]

I watched "I Love Lisa" on the Season 4 DVD, and what I noticed was something that was probably VERY obvious - when Chief Wiggum shoots his gun to try to open the nuts, he shoots a hole through the table.

I have no idea why, but for some reason I had always thought this hole was a blackened nut after it had been shot at.

[Nameless]

"Chuck's Seed and Feed". Chuck can be used as a slang term for vomiting, implying that they were selling regurgitated seed and food.

If that's not it, I missed the point as well.

Put "uck" (from Chuck) as the last three letters in the words "Seed and Feed" (from Sneed) and it should all become clear.

I just noticed in And Maggie Makes Three Ruth Powers is present at Marge's baby-shower, despite the fact she hadn't moved in next door to the Simpsons at that time.

[Veryjammy]

Put "uck" (from Chuck) as the last three letters in the words "Seed and Feed" (from Sneed) and it should all become clear.

God, I would never have gotten that. That's probably the cleverest thing from the Scully era right there

[=-Robby-=]

i dont get it :uhh:

[Dorkus Malorkus]

Only just realised that the episode title for DABF07 should be;

"The Lastest Gun in the West" instead of "The Latest Gun in the West. :ashamed:
i did the same thing with 'realty bites' thinking it to be 'reality bites'

[Veryjammy]

i dont get it :uhh:

Sneed's Seed and Feed, formerly Chuck's

I'm probably going to kill this joke with overexplanation, but notice how seed and feed both have -eed on the end, like the name Sneed?

So if you do that with Chuck, and add the last three letters of that to the S and F, you get Suck and Fuck.

So the joke is, Sneed's Seed and Feed, formerly Chuck's Suck and Fuck

Very subtle, I could have watched that a million times and not gotten it.

[=-Robby-=]

Well they would have to keep it hard to find , with fuck in it.

[Leopold]

Put "uck" (from Chuck) as the last three letters in the words "Seed and Feed" (from Sneed) and it should all become clear.

Oh, I see.

[Terrier Williger]

i did the same thing with 'realty bites' thinking it to be 'reality bites'
Shite - thats another one I've made a mistake on :ashamed:

Anyway, I've just noticed that a light from the smoke alarm(?) flashes, when you are looking through Homers eyes at the living room ceiling, in Homers Odyssey - probably the best bit of animation in the episode ;) .

[KMDSimpson]

I noticed a couple more in the past couple of days:

- in Radio Bart, when Homer is shown holding the fish tank by the well, he also has a plastic bag with goldfish in it

- in Homer the Heretic, when the fire spreads to the basement, there is a box marked Blasting Caps next to the box of oily rags.

[Butters]

The other day, when I watched Bart Gets An Elephant on C4, I noticed that during the scene at KBBL, where Bill and Marty want to transform Skinner into some sort of lobster creature, in the background Homer is in a recording booth singing. I'd never actually noticed that before...

[Dorkus Malorkus]

ok, i just realised something in 'Trash of the titans' - when homer says 'I never apologise, sorry that's just the way i am.'

I only just realised that homer is apologising when he says that. i'm so damn stupid...

[Maxime]

I rewatched "Lisa The Simpson" recently, and I just realised that, on the video Lisa is watching to understand the principles of DNA, Troy McClure is wearing a cap with "GOD" written on it, as if he was the "master" of DNA. Very funny, I didn't noticed that until those last days!

[Galalimit]

Just recently noticed Lionel Hutz in "A Tale Of Two Springfields".

[Maxime]

I've just rewatched "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" and I had never noticed that the little characters who appear on the docks when Marge starts to tell her story, were actually Willie, Lenny, Carl and Captain McAllister.

[Miss X]

in "e-i-e-i-(annoyed grunt)", when homer's crops won't grow marge suggests he use more fertilizer and and homer says "i'm only ONE MAN marge". this implies homer was urinating and increeting in the field. i kind of liked it better when i didn't get it.
This might make the joke even worse for you, but I'm pretty sure what was actually implyed by that joke was homer was going to fertalize the field with something else....think about it.....That's what he ment by "Im only one man."

[dyln]

In "Black Widower", Bob tells Bart he could have choked him like a chicken. Never noticed that till now.

[KMDSimpson]

In The Last Temptation of Homer, I noticed two:

- when Homer throws the box of stolen pens onto the backseat, the seat has ink stains from all the other stolen pens

- when Homer and Mindy are at the Energy Convention, there are copies of Will There Ever Be a Rainbow? stacked on their booth's desktop

[timstapels]

ok, i just realised something in 'Trash of the titans' - when homer says 'I never apologise, sorry that's just the way i am.'

I only just realised that homer is apologising when he says that. i'm so damn stupid...
Oh... my... god... I only just realised that as you said it, man, I'm an idiot :yummy:

[Leon Kompowsky]

This happened a while back but its the same principle. in 'Krusty gets kancelled' when krustys talking about bette midler to the kids, he says 'we owned a race horse together...krudler!' I just thought it was a stupid name at first until I realised they put the 2 names together and it would have sounded a lot better if they went the other way and called it misty

[Dorkus Malorkus]

Oh... my... god... I only just realised that as you said it, man, I'm an idiot :yummy:
heh, i dont feel so stupid now...

I just thought it was a stupid name at first until I realised they put the 2 names together and it would have sounded a lot better if they went the other way and called it misty
yes, but would you have realised it was a joke and that they had just put their names together if it were called 'Misty'?

[Leon Kompowsky]

yes, but would you have realised it was a joke and that they had just put their names together if it were called 'Misty'?

Nope, and theres the cleverness of classic simpsons. the joke is simple but a little complex in its own way

[elvis_jagger_abdul_jabar]

i was watching the stonecutters episode 3 days ago, and I just noticed when Homer goes to Lisa's class, and tanzarian kneels, he also backs out of the romm kneeling. I am a f****** moran.

[TerrorK]

One thing I only picked up the other day when seeing a repeat of "Brake My Wife, Please" was that the marriage counsellor that Hank voiced was a homage to Hank's own psychiatrist. Hank used the exact same voice when imitating this psychiatrist in an interview with Letterman a couple of months ago, but I didn't realise that he used the voice in the show as well until I saw the recent rerun of the above episode.

[KMDSimpson]

In Bart's Inner Child when Homer notices the ad for the free trampoline, underneath it is a much smaller ad that reads:

Free Good News Bible! Ask for Ned. KL5-3444.

[Dorkus Malorkus]

Nope, and theres the cleverness of classic simpsons. the joke is simple but a little complex in its own way
yes, but the average viewer would not have got it...

[Leon Kompowsky]

yes, but the average viewer would not have got it...
Yup, one for the fans

[the simpsons brainiac]

In Kamp Krusty Bart's locker combination is 36-24-36. I never heard this before

[Dorkus Malorkus]

yeh i didn't notice that until a few months ago either. although i hear it flung around as a trivia question all too often

[BartLisa35]

In "A star is Born-again" I just realized that Sara & Flanders made a Cher-crow, I never saw that before.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

This happened a while back but its the same principle. in 'Krusty gets kancelled' when krustys talking about bette midler to the kids, he says 'we owned a race horse together...krudler!' I just thought it was a stupid name at first until I realised they put the 2 names together and it would have sounded a lot better if they went the other way and called it misty
I always thought the point of the joke was exactly this - that they chose the wrong combination of names. Krudler is a pretty bad name for a horse, whereas Misty would be considered a better name.

In Kamp Krusty Bart's locker combination is 36-24-36. I never heard this before
My question should probably be in another thread but is this a reference to something? I've always wondered why this is such a popular trivia question.

[Miss X]

In "A Tale of Two Springfields" when New Springfield cuts off the water to Old Springfield, and they find gold where the river was, Kent Brockman says "Looks like we'll all be taking golden showers!"...I just caught onto that joke the last time I saw that one.

[Binky]

I just noticed that in Lisa the Greek, in that quick shot of Cesar and Huguolin (the French guys), there's a large container of antifreeze sitting behind them in their apartment.

[gangman5]

in 'homers barbershop quartet' when bart millhouse and nelson are looking at flanders trading card post i never noticed that it said 'free' trading cards. good god im a dumb ass!!!!!!!!!! :ashamed:

In Bart's Inner Child when Homer notices the ad for the free trampoline, underneath it is a much smaller ad that reads:

Free Good News Bible! Ask for Ned. KL5-3444.

and above it said free flame thrower!

[Andy]

My question should probably be in another thread but is this a reference to something? I've always wondered why this is such a popular trivia question. It refers to a woman's bust-waist-hips measurements (in inches).

[Gumbercules]

I only just recently noticed that in Lisa The Simpson, when Marge gives Abe a haircut, they use the kitchen table cloth to catch the hair. Not only that, they put it back on the table when they're finished, without cleaning it off at all.

And for a long time, I didn't get a lot of the jokes in Rosebud . Mostly because I saw that episode several times before I ever saw Citizen Kane (or even heard of it, actually).

[Mario]

In "A Tale of Two Springfields" when New Springfield cuts off the water to Old Springfield, and they find gold where the river was, Kent Brockman says "Looks like we'll all be taking golden showers!"...I just caught onto that joke the last time I saw that one.

I don't get it. Also, why do some channels edit that "showers" line out?

[KMDSimpson]

I don't get it. Also, why do some channels edit that "showers" line out?

A 'golden shower' is a sexual act that involves urinating on people.

[Butters]

I've just noticed that in Brush With Greatness, there's a "BURNS FOR GOVERNER" sticker on a box in the attic.

[Paul]

I only just realised that Lenny is white and Carl is black. I always thought it was the other way round.

[do what donny dont does]

You people arent very observant.
I haven't seen one thing on here that I didnt already know.

[Dorkus Malorkus]

I only just realised that Lenny is white and Carl is black. I always thought it was the other way round.
are you being serious?
You people arent very observant.
I haven't seen one thing on here that I didnt't already know.
being 28 years old, i'm sure you've had much more time than a lot of us to be observing simpsons episodes...

[RembrandtQEinstein]

In "C.E.D'oh," there's a chart on the wall of Mr. Burns's office showing the power plant's hierarchy (with the canary at the top). If you look on the bottom line, there's a picture of Frank Grimes that's been crossed out.

[Dorkus Malorkus]

I just realised that kent brockman mentions whacking day is on may 10th. i never noticed that. isn't may 10th homer's birthday?

[Raging Abe Simpson]

That Sneed's Seed and Feed/ Chuck's Suck and Fuck thing is hilarious...

...yep...I also didn't notice many other things mentioned in this thread until I read...this thread.

[Dorkus Malorkus]

sorry to bump this up, but i just re-watched Cape Feare and noticed two things that i thought were really funny, but that i never noticed before.

When Homer opens a letter and thinks someone is trying to kill him, he yells 'Oh My God! Oh My God! Someone's trying to kill me! Oh wait...it's just for Bart!' - the whole family rushes around him, eager to see what the commotion is. I didn't notice that as well as Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Marge rushing in, SLH and Snowball II also do - as does a mouse, which jumps out from a mouse hole in the stairs!

Also, when Sideshow Bob is appealing for parole, and the lawyer asks how many people are considering killing Selma right now, I never noticed that one of the people with their hands up is actually a vicar...

[Nameless]

I was watching "Simpson Safari" on a DVD just now and realised that among the stuff in the shopping carts at the start are some cans of Pringles.

Also, in "Principal Charming", I just noticed that we cut from Homer asking Apu for a seafood burrito to him taking a bite - we don't see Apu handing over the burrito. Kinda weird.

[samsa]

I dont know why but in Homer vs. New York I never noticed that in the Broadway musical the woman behind Marge was not able to see because of Marge's hair.

[brody]

In Homer Vs. Dignity, when Comic Book Guy is getting out the first issue of Spiderman for Homer, his code is 007. Also, on the cover of the comic book, you can see the Fantastic Four.

[joey jo-jo]

In THOH 4 I noticed that Lou tosses THE Mona Lisa into the fire pile when they destroy the Egyptian wing of the museum also in Who Shot mr Burns Part 2, Burnsies room number is 2F20, the same as the episdoes.

[amir05]

In C.E D'oh! at the end theres a sign saying homers 305th everything is back to normal BBQ.I never got that before but now i know it means thats C.E D'oh! was the 305th episode.

[Homer J Brannigan]

I recently noticed that Troy McClure is in the crowd in Moe Baby Blues.

[Paul]

In C.E D'oh! at the end theres a sign saying homers 305th everything is back to normal BBQ.I never got that before but now i know it means thats C.E D'oh! was the 305th episode.
Actually, "C.E. D'oh!" was the 306th episode. Everything was not back to normal by the end of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (Part One).

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

leon kompowski at the grammy's afterparty in "homer's barbershop quartet".

[reyontoyeny]

In Smart and Smarter, despite having one really obvious Lisa's Substitute reference, there were actually two more subtle ones. The obvious one would be the "You are Lisa Simpson" joke. Also in the episode, Simon Cowell calls Homer a baboon, just like Lisa did in the Season 2 episode. I forgot what the last reference was...

[Jamie]

In "Cape Feare" when Homer thinks he got a threatening letter ("Oh, it's for Bart") and all the family comes rushing, a mouse comes out of a mousehole and it looks a little bit like Itchy.

Edit: Dammit, somebody already posted this.

[HUGHJASS72]

I feel stupid that I never really noticed this. In I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can the barbecue sauce frog says, "It's so good you'll croak." I never really paid attention to the fact that he said it because he was a frog but I never considered the idea of croak as in die from the food.

[Butters]

I just noticed that the kid who streaks on the bus in Kamp Krusty is the same child who streaked through the chocolate factory in Bart The Murderer.

[EspanolBot]

What a sad, strange little boy. He has my pity.

[ScottNak]

Well... I never would've noticed this w/o the commentary, but apparently on "Bart's Comet" Waldo is in the 1st shot of the group of people when OFF + members of the Springfield. NEver noticed that. Pretty cool I must say. :P

[KMDSimpson]

I just noticed two from Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington:

- when they are doing the news report on the dead Congressman, the words "Titanic Survivor" are printed under his photo

- when Krusty is being sworn in, one of the people in the crowd is the biker voiced by John Goodman

[Butters]

Oh, I also just noticed that the monkey's paw from Treehouse of Horror II is on the counter at the House of Evil in Treehouse of Horror III.

[EspanolBot]

The automatic hammer Homer invented is among the instruments used by the evil Pierce Brosnan computer thingy in 'House of Whacks.'

[Dances In Underwear]

While I didn't just notice it, it took me a long, long time to notice the connection in "Bart Sells his Soul" where Milhouse says "Why would they lie, Bart? What would they have to gain", it cuts straight to a shot of Reverend Lovejoy sorting the money from the collection baskets.

[Greased Scotsman]

I just noticed, in Home Away From Homer, in the wide shot of the crowd outside Ned's house, Just Stamp The Ticket Guy is visible on Ned's left.

And in Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire, the photo of Bart yanking Homer's beard off says "Merrie Christmas from Santa".

[EspanolBot]

Also, on the Backstage Pass UK DVD, the golden shower line is missing from A Tale of Two Springfields.


Weird, It's on mine.

[Greased Scotsman]

>.< It's on mine too. I'm an idiot. *edits post*

[Butters]

In Marge Gets A Job Smithers has the photo of Mr. Burns and Elvis in his office.

[Jerry P.]

Just noticed in Bart Carny, after Cooder stops imagining Homer as a pigeon, Homer continues bobbing his head like a pigeon. (Although Homer was standing still, and pigeons usually only do that while walking.)

[That Jerk]

I&S Land "We've got another jumper on the roof of (*name of the New Years building*)"

Lisa on Ice - a lot! But most of all Grandpa beating on a man's head while they riot at the end.

[KMDSimpson]

From Lisa's Rival:

- when Marge comes outside to comfort Homer after the sugar melted, she's wearing bunny slippers

From Itchy & Scratchy Land:

- at the entrance to the park, Homer buys tickets for 'One adult and four children.'

- the banjo music that plays at the start of the log ride is the I&S theme song

[lindsay]

I never the clues to figure out who shot Mr. Burns until I watched the commentary. The only one I really knew about was the hands on the sun dial.

[4 Alarm Chilli]

In "Treehouse of Horror XII, Nelson turns Milhouse into Mr.T

[KMDSimpson]

Actually, I'm not sure if this would fit here or not, but the music that plays in the 'Check Your Scalp For Ringworm' ad from The Last Temptation of Homer is almost identical to the start of the remixed version of Grease Paint and Monkey Brains by White Zombie.

Hmmm, I wonder if Rob Zombie is a Simpsons fan? ;)

[TriforceBun]

From Itchy & Scratchy Land:

- at the entrance to the park, Homer buys tickets for 'One adult and four children.'

This joke may also be referenced later in the episode--"We've also arrested your older, balder, fatter son." Or maybe I'm just looking into it too much.

And the other Lisa's Substitute reference in Smart and Smarter was the "Free beer! Now that I've got your attention..." bit.

[DotheBartman]

While the appearance of Waldo in "Bart's Comet" was something I'd always caught (and was surprised when they said on the commentary that no one on the internet seemed to have caught it) and loved, I'd NEVER noticed the "Bridge Out" thing until it was mentioned on the commentary. I always have loved the initial gag (that there's actually a sign that says "only bridge out of town", and said bridge gets destroyed) but I didn't notice that subtle touch. Excellent.

I also noticed today, for the first time I think, that in "Lisa's Wedding" there's a sign at the rennasaince festival advertising leeches that says "bleed while you wait". I'd poured over that episode before (since it's one of my absolute favorites), and had already noticed things like the theater marque advertising Julie Kavner in "I'll do anything", but somehow that little sign just slipped me by.

I'm pretty sure there's been some other S6 things that just aren't occuring to me at the moment.

[ScottNak]

Ah. I must agree about the sign thing Dothebartman. I was very impressed when they pointed that out on the commentary. No way I would've noticed that... very clever. I'm sure I mussed a heck of a lot of things... must... watch... another time... o.o

[Butters]

I'm so lame, but last night I watched Cape Feare and actually realised that Homer wears a Witness Relocation Program hat and shirt for the scene where he and the family enter Terror Lake. God, I actually noticed the shirt/cap before, but I only caught on to the joke last night. :uhh:

[EspanolBot]

One of the things that I found funny about 'A Streetcar Named Marge' was when the cast of 'Oh, Streetcar!' are taking their final bow, the cast includes some people in spandex and a guy in a gorilla costume. And before the show starts, you can see a dishevelled Luellen St. Claire (the owner of the Ayn Rand Day Care Centre) sitting down in front of the Simpsons.

[HOMR]

That the title is 'The Bart Wants What It Wants', I thougt it was 'The Bart wants what I wants'.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

I'd NEVER noticed the "Bridge Out" thing until it was mentioned on the commentary. I always have loved the initial gag (that there's actually a sign that says "only bridge out of town", and said bridge gets destroyed) but I didn't notice that subtle touch. Excellent.

That's a good one - it took me several watches before I spotted it (though I did spot it myself :) ).

[KMDSimpson]

When Grampa appears at the door with the floral display in Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy, the flowers have a banner on them that reads "In Deepest Sympathy".

[Radioactive Man]

The kids pull up a plastic tarp to protect themselves from the wrath in "Lisa's Rival."

[HUGHJASS72]

I just watched Time and Punishment and I realized that Homer pulls a piece of toast right out of his shirt pocket in order to test the toaster.

[remember alf?]

this is kind of a cheat & im bad w/ episode names so bare w/ me.
in the clip show in season 6 (another simpsons clip show?)when lisa is telling the story of her lost love (ralph wiggum)we see the kids leaving school w/ lisa's voice over:"it was an unusualy warm feb. 14 so all the kids walked home from school w/ no jackets."
i never noticed that line b4 & for some reason it cracked me up.a lot!!
also at the end of itchy& scratchy land when they talk about euro disney & cut to what is obviosly a parody of the frenchmen from Monty Python & the holy grail.not that i diddnt get this joke but i probably only saw this episode when it first aired & must have missed it whilst gettin popcorn or something .
anyhoo ...........thats gotta be the best part of these dvds being able to go back & look closely at all the shit you missed the first time around.

oh yeah all the freeze frame & zoom in stuff is pretty awesome too(like there's actualy 26 dogs in the shot where you can read all the names on the bowls in"2 dozen & 1 greyhounds")

MUST.....END.....POST.....RAMBLING....ON...&....ON.................................. :uhh: :uhh:

[KMDSimpson]

The joy of DVDs...

Homie the Clown

- at the clown college, there's a hanging sign under the main one that reads "Formerly Willie Nelson's House."

- after the dowager is hit with the pie, Homer has bits of pie on his face

Lisa's Wedding

- when Skinner enter Hoover's class, the door slides open with the door opening sound from Star Trek

- the flagpole in the Simpson's yard has a baseball on top of it

Two Dozen and One Greyhounds

- Santa's Little Helper has a butcher knife in his teeth when he's chasing Snowball II

[That Jerk]

Moe calls Marge "Blanche" in Lisa On Ice.
Marge played Blanche in the town's "Streetcar..." musical.
I found that to be the funniest of all of Moe's misinterpretations of Marge's name

[JHutch]

i like the freeze frame things that run down the simpsons tv. like about the one with homers sexual assault and they run apologies down the screen. reading through those are very funny. one even said that if your reading this that you are a nerd.

[buh]

I never actually noticed in "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part One)" that Sideshow Mel pulls out a knife then opens it. He does this when saying "I'll see to it that Mr. Burns suffers the infernal machinations of hell's grim tyrant.” I know this is stupid but I have never actually noticed this before.

i like the freeze frame things that run down the simpsons tv. like about the one with homers sexual assault and they run apologies down the screen. reading through those are very funny. one even said that if your reading this that you are a nerd.
Oh, I am assuming that you are talking about the one in "Homer Bad Man", if so, this is what it says:

Peoples' Choice Award" is America's greatest honour
Styrofoam is not made from kittens
The U.F.O. was a paper plate
The nerds on the internet are not geeks
The word "cheese" is not funny in and of itself
The older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod
Lyndon Johnson did not provide the voice of Yosemite Sam
If you are reading this you have no life
Roy Rogers was not buried inside his horse
The other U.F.O. was an upside down salad spinner
Our universities are not "hotbeds" of anything
Mr. Dershowitz did not literally have four eyes
Our viewers are not pathetic, sexless food tubes
Audrey Hepburn never weighed 400 pounds
The "Cheers" gang is not a real gang
Salt water does not chase the "thirsties" away
Licking an electrical outlet does not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger
Cats do not eventually turn into dogs
Bullets do not bounce off of fat boys
Recycling does not deplete the ozone
Everything is 10% fruit juice
The flesh eating virus does not hide in ice cream
Janet Reno is evil
V8 juice is not 1/8 gasoline
Ted Koppel is a robot
Women aren't from Venus and men aren't from Mars
Fleiss does floss
Quayle is familiar with common bathroom procedures
Bart is bad to the bone
Godfry Jones' wife is cheating on him
The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick boxing competitions
The "Bug" on your TV screen can see into your home
Everyone on TV is better than you
The people who are writing this have no life

Thanks to: The Simpsons Archive (http://www.snpp.com)

[Greased Scotsman]

I've just noticed, Homer isn't mentioned anywhere in that list. So technically the Channel 6 chopper should still be hovering above his house.

[bobservo]

2 Dozen and 1 Greyhounds-

I hadn't seen the episode in a long time, and when I watched it on DVD I noticed that the doorknob at Mr. Burns' mansion turning far too long was actually a joke. I never picked up on it before. I feel kind of stupid now, and I wonder if this was cut out in syndication.

[KMDSimpson]

I've just noticed, Homer isn't mentioned anywhere in that list. So technically the Channel 6 chopper should still be hovering above his house.

They cut away from the list, but it's still running, because Lisa (I think) says "There's you, dad!"

[That Jerk]

Willie is a tower gaurd at the "Springfield Elementary School And Prison" in The PTA Disbands!

[remember alf?]

same episode when the guy who jumps out the window jumps back in the sound is him screaming in reverse.very subtle but funny :laugh:

[Greased Scotsman]

I've just noticed that the title of DABF03 is "Sweets and Sour Marge".

And according to the official site, there's no "A" at the beginning of "Hunka Hunka Burns In Love".

[simpsonsruleme]

have you noticed that in natural born killers, when they run into the barn, homer shuts the door, then the farmer sees the pig coming out, with the door open...? then when the farmer says, looks like there's some intruders, he kicks open the door, so its closed again.

also in the flying hellfish episode, when grandpa is on the boat he has 1 slipper, then after a few mintues he is somehow wearing 2 again

[Handsome Peter]

I've just noticed that the title of DABF03 is "Sweets and Sour Marge".

And according to the official site, there's no "A" at the beginning of "Hunka Hunka Burns In Love".

It took me a while to get the correct title names for "The Lastest Gun in the West" and "A Star is Born-Again" straight, too.

On the Season 6 DVD set, episode 2F19 has an exclamation point at the end of the title (The PTA Disbands!) - is that the only place?

[Handsome Peter]

Two more that I noticed while watching Simpsons episodes today.

In "Moaning Lisa", the door on the Noiseland Video Arcade reads "6" - it's numbered 6 on some street.

In "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment", the lemonade Marge made for Lisa's protest is orange.

[Homer J Brannigan]

The farmer in Natural Born Kissers is the same man who owned the cans Marge shot in Marge on the Lam.

[KMDSimpson]

In Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore, one of the 'Starving Teacher Movers' is Mister Largo.

In Diatribe of a Mad Housewife, Marge's shouting of "Please Homey Don't Hurt Him!" is a MC Hammer reference (Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em!).

In Simple Simpson, Ralph can be briefly seen riding a conveyor belt during the bacon factory TV commercial.

I D'oh-Bot: When Homer is being beaten up by the caterpillar robot, Maggie can be seen bouncing around inside the Knock-A-Homer costume.

Trivia Note: 'Knock-A-Homer' is a play on the name of the former Atlanta Braves Mascot, Chief Knock-A-Homa.

Bart's Comet: when everyone inside the bomb shelter are arguing and yelling, you can barely hear Homer say "Doesn't anyone care how hungry I am?!"

Going way back: in Bart the Mobster, when the Indian smiles in the chocolate factory movie, he looks just like the Indian from the Cleveland Indians logo (they also used this reference in Bart to the Future at the casino).

[User 1.0]

It's Bart the Murderer, not Bart the Mobster. :D

[Greased Scotsman]

In Mommie Beerest, when Lenny & Carl take Homer to the log flume in Itchy and Scratchy Land, Ralph can be seen hanging from his underpants on the scenery in the background.

[KMDSimpson]

It's Bart the Murderer, not Bart the Mobster. :D

Right. My mistake. ;)

Anyhow, this one wouldn't qualify as never noticing it before, but it 'clicked' today: in Catch 'Em If You Can, when Homer and Marge are in the first class on the plane, Marge says "I feel like Princess Di and Princess Grace smashed together." I cracked up when the lightbulb went on over my head at finally getting the joke.

In The President Wore Pearls, someone runs across the screen holding a giant flaming Ace of Spades during the casino riot, like the flaming card from Wiggum's dream from Who Shot Mister Burns? Part II.

[Random Viewer Guy]

Something I noticed while watching "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"...Willy is reading "My Weekly Reader", a takeoff of the real publication "Weekly Reader". Why is he reading it, and why did they add the "My?" Well, the magazine title is arranged like this:

My
Weekly reader.

The M is right on top of the W. Perhaps a subtle way to remind the viewer that M and W look the same upside down? I don't think it's that much of a stretch, especially after hearing the commentary for the episode and seeing the clues they set up.

[KMDSimpson]

Another one from Diatribe of a Mad Housewife: the seascape painting in the Barrows' house is the exact same as the 're-imagined' painting Marge sees in the Simpson's living room.

[CreamedCrap]

I never noticed until last time, that in "Who Shot Mr. Burns (part one)", after Burns asks "Who has the Guts to stop me?", the only person in the room to keep eye contact with Burns is Maggie

[Dramaturgical Dyad]

In Who Shot Mr Burns Part 2, after the outhouse/toolshed joke, a couple of scenes later, Homer is hosing down his toolshed with an annoyed expression on his face.

[Green_Peaness]

"I hardly endorse this event or product" is actually "I heartily endorse this event or product"

[Andy]

Speaking of WSMB? Pt. 1 and the initials thing, it took me the DVD commentary to get this:

The only real reason Sideshow Mel is addressed the way he was by Ned ("I'd like to hear from Sideshow Mel!") was because of his initials.

[Simpsons Forever!]

In Half-Decent Proposal, when Marge accidently gives Bart a plant in a pot for breakfast, he takes a bite out of it at the end of the scene.

[Dances In Underwear]

Something I just picked up from "Raging Abe Simpson..." is that Grampa says he was forcing Germans out of an 'abandoned' castle.

[Butters]

... i don't get it...

i just noticed that a large ammount of "dark side of the moon" posters crop up through-out the early seasons. i've noticed them in the way we was, homer goes to college and homerpalooza. awesome.

[Leon Kompowsky]

Something I just picked up from "Raging Abe Simpson..." is that Grampa says he was forcing Germans out of an 'abandoned' castle.

:D Never noticed that before LOL

[Greased Scotsman]

Speaking of WSMB? Pt. 1 and the initials thing, it took me the DVD commentary to get this:

The only real reason Sideshow Mel is addressed the way he was by Ned ("I'd like to hear from Sideshow Mel!") was because of his initials.

Oh my god. I never knew how many clues and hints there were. You'd need to be super-intelligent to catch them all on the first airing. Same with the MW thing.

EDIT: Actually, in WSMB 2 we find out that Sideshow Mel's real name is Melvin Van Horn (or something like that), but I suppose Burns would only know him as Sideshow.

[Butters]

them revealing his name was to eliminate him from the "suspects" to those who spotted Burns pointing to "M" and "S".

[schwnj]

I never noticed until last time, that in "Who Shot Mr. Burns (part one)", after Burns asks "Who has the Guts to stop me?", the only person in the room to keep eye contact with Burns is Maggie

Good catch--I just noticed that too.

[Greased Scotsman]

In "In Marge We Trust", one of the signs at the zoo says "Aardvark Paark".

[KMDSimpson]

- in 'Round Springfield, Scott Christian is one of the reporters at Krusty's news conference.

- in Lemon of Troy, the convenience store in Shelbyville is selling Fudd beer.

- in Who Shot Mr. Burns Part I, there are a bunch of tents outside the old age home after the earthquake.

[Greased Scotsman]

- in Lemon of Troy, the convenience store in Shelbyville is selling Fudd beer.

I actually saw LOT before Colonel Homer, so I thought that Fudd was just to continue the "everything is slightly different in Shelbyville" theme.

[HUGHJASS72]

In the afterparty at Moe's in Krusty Gets Kancelled, Elizabeth Taylor is peering through the window.

[Semaj]

Homer's "roe vs. wade" reference in "The Way We Weren't".

[JSGI]

In Springfield Connection, Marge who is a cop, eat donuts at breakfast.

[DotheBartman]

- in Lemon of Troy, the convenience store in Shelbyville is selling Fudd beer.



Also, watch for Fudd when the Springfield parents drive up to the gas station. The Shelbyvillians that taunt them ("maybe that's why we beat them at football nearly half the time, huh?") are drinking it.

[Dances In Underwear]

Also, watch for Fudd when the Springfield parents drive up to the gas station. The Shelbyvillians that taunt them ("maybe that's why we beat them at football nearly half the time, huh?") are drinking it.

Speaking of which, it took me a pretty long time to pick up on the "nearly half the time" line.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

There are many lines in Mountain of Madness that I didn't notice the first few times I watched it. Now it's one of my favourite episodes. Here's one such example:

Homer: You know, Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny.
Burns: Oh yes. But I'd trade it all for a little more.

[Gibbles]

This isn't from an episode but I was playing The Simpsons arcade game for the first time in ages and when Marge gets shocked she has bunny ears.

Guess Matt worked on the game back in the day.

[KMDSimpson]

One joke I didn't pick up on right away from The Springfield Connnection: when Marge puts the handcuffs on Homer when she's arresting him, he says "Not here Marge", indicating this isn't first time Marge has cuffed him. ;)

[Snake_aka_Jailbird]

I watched Gone with the wind again (I won't be doing that for a while) and I suspect the shot in Marge On The Lam with all the injured kids is a parody of the shot with the wounded soldiers.

I also noticed that the movie is quite anti-freeing-the-slaves. I didn't the first time I watched the movie because I was like 10 years old.

[KMDSimpson]

In The Old Man and the Lisa, after Burns can't find the word 'recycling' in the dictionary, he calls Lisa a 'ragamuffin,' which was the first word listed on the dictionary page he was looking at.

[do what donny dont does]

There are many lines in Mountain of Madness that I didn't notice the first few times I watched it. Now it's one of my favourite episodes.

I love that episode also. Its overloaded with subtle jokes.

[CreamedCrap]

This is just Simpson's in general, not one single episode, but I just found out that Harry Shearer does the voice for Otto. All this time I thought Hank did the voice.

Man, you really do learn something new everyday.

[H Thompson]

I saw Lisa's Wedding after Lisa the Vegetarian so even though I've know for ages now that it was produced before, I'd always though of the refrences to her vegetarianism as being a product of Lisa the Vegetarian but of course it was written before that and it was just Mirkin forcing it in.

[CreamedCrap]

In 'Deep Space Homer', after Itchy & Scratchy while Bart and Lisa are laughing, I never noticed that Homer was whimpering.

[Greased Scotsman]

In the THOH IV couch gag, the boat painting behind the couch shows the boat sinking and full of holes.

[KMDSimpson]

In The Mansion Family, when the doctor is trying to draw blood from Burns, the needle goes right through his arm a few times.

[Jamie]

I never really realized that Present Lisa hadn't yet become vegetarian until after Lisa's Wedding, where Future Lisa is vegetarian, aired

[DotheBartman]

^It was also before Lisa's Date With Density, which established Milhouse's crush on/obsession with Lisa.

[Butters]

Summer of 4ft 2, actually. ;)

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

i noticed this a while ago, and i may have even posted it too, but in "summer of 4ft 2", there's a scene where marge is very happily washing the smashed plates from the dishwasher explosion. but why is she so happy about this? it's a very funny and subtle callback joke, implying that she and homer had kinky sex earlier that morning, utilizing the products homer bought the day before (enema kit, pornography, etc etc).

at least that's what i think

[Veryjammy]

i noticed this a while ago, and i may have even posted it too, but in "summer of 4ft 2", there's a scene where marge is very happily washing the smashed plates from the dishwasher explosion. but why is she so happy about this? it's a very funny and subtle callback joke, implying that she and homer had kinky sex earlier that morning, utilizing the products homer bought the day before (enema kit, pornography, etc etc).

at least that's what i think

Yeah that's how I interpreted it. Although it never made sense until I saw it on the BBC because Sky used to cut out the scene where Homer asks for the pornography etc, thus rendering some of the later lines, and the aforementioned scene, meaningless.

[DotheBartman]

Summer of 4ft 2, actually. ;)

Well, sort of, but I usually count "Density" instead since his behavior in "Summer" could just be classified as weird and nothing else. "Density" is where it's explicitely said.

[Greased Scotsman]

I only just noticed the Pardon My Zinger ad and W. Seymour Skinner's certificate in WSMB I.

[gangman]

the no kids sign outside when lisa is protesting in 'lisa VS the 8th commandment'

[Shiny McShine]

i noticed this a while ago, and i may have even posted it too, but in "summer of 4ft 2", there's a scene where marge is very happily washing the smashed plates from the dishwasher explosion. but why is she so happy about this? it's a very funny and subtle callback joke, implying that she and homer had kinky sex earlier that morning, utilizing the products homer bought the day before (enema kit, pornography, etc etc).

at least that's what i think

I always thought she was unhappily washing the floor. I'll have to go back and watch that.

[Gatorgod]

i was re-watching my tape of (Dude, where's my ranch?) when i noticed a mistake.
when Bart saves Clara from the rising waters and she walks the fallen tree to dry land. Lisa's clothes change from one shot to the next! it goes from her horse riding clothes to her barn dance dress on every other shot.

Also, the Episode where Burns needs a smiling child photo. When Lisa pets the Mountain Ram in Burns attic, She loses her jacket and regains it after petting the animal. :boggled:

[Rest your giant head]

I just watched "Worst episode ever". There's a scene with the restoraunts -"The London Broil" etc. There was also a restoraunt called "A taste of Serbia". I just noticed that. And it's funny,because I live in Serbia.

[Homer4President]

God I'm so stupid, how did I not get that? I thought Klink was saying that, metaphorically, Mindy was like living in a mansion, but Marge was like living in the white house. I feel exceedingly stupid now........ :(
Gee this one seems to elude alot of people like me! I thought that the colonel was saying that Marge was better off without Homer! FINALLY I understand the whole thing!

[Thats A Paddlin]

In "Homer The Clown".

When Luigi says to his restaurant customers "I only consider you scum compared to Krusty" and every is jibber-jabbering you can hear some guy say "I'll have the cannoli".

This was apparantly a DC ad-lib.

[Greased Scotsman]

Hey, welcome back That's a Paddlin!

[Mazzi_rules]

i missed loads of stuff.... i now only see it on my DVDs. i cant belive so of the stuff I missed. Like ummm well on the side of a bus is a really funny joke bout a rival program that was on at the same time as the simpsons..(sorry cant recall the episode)

[Dr. Spirograph]

I always thought she was unhappily washing the floor. I'll have to go back and watch that. She does both. http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4494/marge21eu.jpg

...and she's humming a happy tune, too. Although I never thought it meant anything more than that.

By the way, Sneed's Seed and Feed? Brilliant. And I didn't catch the "That's why we beat them at football nearly half the time" bit, too.

[Nameless]

I just noticed in Two Cars In Every Garage... that Marge means to cook Blinky when she says "that's how i'll express myself, through cooking".

[LionelBrockman13]

In "Grift of the Magi", when Hibbert opens the "viewing window" on Bart's ass-cast, the observing doctors murmur; one of them says: "He should exercise more".

[Ivan]

Can this count mistakes too? I found these recently:

Homer's "third hand" on Bart's shoulder (beyond blunderdome)
http://www.homerize.com/framegrabs/AABF23/fg_178.jpg
Look how big Bart is (sunday, cruddy sunday)
http://www.homerize.com/framegrabs/AABF08/fg_159.jpg

[garret]

Bart is standing on the seat ;) The Homer hand is weird though.

[Ivan]

Yeah I know Bart's on the seat :P

[Nameless]

so how is the sunday, cruddy sunday one actually a goof? he looks the same size as always to me.

[Ivan]

the grab i found was the only one from that sequence, but actually watching the episode where you can see Bart there jumping around for about five seconds, there are a few shots where he looks truthfully too big and even in that one in proportion to the other characters he has actually been made too big but meh it doesnt matter. if you look, moe's shoe should be just out of the framegrab there and if you look at Bart and basically have him placed next to moe, the top of his head will come up to just under Moe's arm pit when he should really only be just above his waist. its ok it doesnt actually matter.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

The Homer hand is weird though.
I'm sure that's an intentional goof. At that moment, Homer is whispering to Bart, "Mel's movie really sucks". So it appears to be a meta reference.

[Ivan]

I just noticed these things in Tales From The Public Domain (i know it isnt just list mistakes in episodes but its still something i noticed)

Professor Frink is on Odysseus's (Homer's) boat, but he isn't turned into a pig.
Odysseus is apparantly gone from Ithaca for 20 years, but he has a ten year old son (Bart)

Also, i just saw (still about episodes) in Simpsons Comics #59:

Homer comments at the kwik e mart that the show hasn't been funny for the last few seasons...then he says...i mean years. It was released during season 12...could it be an indirrect reference that author Eric Rogers (writer of that story) didnt like the Scully era? then again...hardly anyone did.

[TheForbiddenDonut]

Busman from Three Men and a Comic Book is a parody of Conan the Barbarian. I just noticed that.

[garret]

I just noticed the "Vitti J." on the tennants buzzer thing in on Mr. Bergstrom's apartment in "Lisa's Substitute".

[bluemoose]

Odysseus is apparantly gone from Ithaca for 20 years, but he has a ten year old son (Bart)
He came across the sea! get it? get it? hahaha.


Oh, and Gorak, it took me about 4 viewings to notice that Vitti J. thing.

[CrazyAl]

This should probably go in the Q&A thread but what the hell. I never got the joke in The Last Temptation of Homer where Colonel Klink is showing Homer his alternate lives and you see that Marge lives in the White House. We hear someone say 'Madame President your approval rating is soaring', then Kilink says 'This dream is over!'. I remember when I watched it as a kid and my dad laughed his ass off at that and I thought I would understand it when I was older. But I don't. :uhh:

There are many lines from the earlier seasons I only start to appreciate now, such as Mr Burns in Brush with Greatness 'Another day in this surburban nightmare, I would have needed half a white valium', something like that was so over my head when I was younger.

What do you expect from Burns, the man drinks beer by the teaspoon, 1mg of valium would be a childs dose. Always one of my favorite overlooked lines.

[42 Is The Answer]

Among the crazy crap on the walls of Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag, you can see Charlie Kane's sled, "Rosebud," and the wooden Indian from "Cheers."
Also, in "Lisa's Wedding," after the battle between Flanders and Smithers, Maggie is giving the thumbs down. (The traditional gesture for "Kill Him!")

[panterafan06]

In "Take My Wife, Sleaze" when Marge says "look at all that sweet and low" when seeing an x-ray of a model's stomach, i never got that joke. Now i am pretty sure she thinks it is sweet n low when it is really cocaine.

[j0urn3ym4n]

I just noticed while watching last episode of 18th season yesterday, that the scene in the beginning where the whole family sits down on the couch...changes with every new episode. That´s funny! *lol*

[Mr_Scorpion]

A friend of mine pointed this out a while ago: during the infomercial in Bart's Inner Child, Troy McClure says "Sweet liquor... eases the pain." Then at the end of the episode, Homer says "Ah, McGarnagle... eases the pain," in the exact same tone of voice.

[jbauer]

I just discovered that Lisa's foot only had 3 toes during the shoe store opening in The Last Temptation of Krust.

[Itchy]

A man in the crowd near the end of "Citizen Kang" that looks just like Skinner except with different colours.

[NumberZone]

I noticed these things recently in Bart After Dark:
- The mailbox remains lying on the ground ouside the burlesque house for the remainder of the episode.
- Herman is in the mob wielding a board with a nail in it as a weapon.

[Xt'Tapalatakettle]

The Cartridge Family:

Homer shoots on the TV and the picture on the screen is a guy falling off the roof of a house. I never made the connection it was as if Homer shot him.

Something about getting it now makes it seem brilliant.

[iceiwynd]

Huh, just noticed a design reuse: One of the protestors crowding Homer in Homer Badman is Marge's friend from high school back in The Way We Was encouraging her to start a protest.

[iPod]

In Wild Barts Can't Be Broken, the pitcher who throws one pitch gets injured is very obviously based on Dennis Eckersley, in physical appearance and the way his windup looks. I'm a huge baseball fan, so I was surprised I hadn't caught that until recently.

[Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabado]

In the New York episode from season 9, I've just noticed a lady sitting behind Marge during the Betty Ford Clinic song who seems to be irritated of her tall hair.

[Headhunter]

A sign in Homer bad man that reads

"Gummy Bears-They hibernate in your colon"

[The J Man]

I recently noticed, in Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy, that the boxes stacked in the living room already say Lisa Lionheart just before Stacy comes up with the name. It's more of a goof than a joke one might miss, but I feel it's worth mentioning. :silly:

[TheForbiddenDonut]

I just noticed that in 'Bart the Murderer', when Homer tells Marge that all that was going on was a lot of male bonding, that entire sequence was recycled animation from the closing scene in 'Lisa's Substitute'. I'm just about positive.

[The J Man]

^Yep, that's right.

[KoenSoontjens]

i don't know why but for some reason when marge was saying : "i wanna C-U-P" in "bart star" i never noticed until now that when she spells it it becomes : i wanna see you pee.

[Lisa Is A Nut]

I noticed during "Lisa the iconclast", during the Jebidiah Video, two guys are pshing Troy in on the horse.

[Ivan]

In "Simple Simpson", during an advertisement for the silver tickets or whatever, we see Ralph Wiggum on the conveyer belt at the slaughterhouse.

[Chou]

In Bart on the Road, when the boys are driving in Las Vegas, there's a neon sign that says Lurleen Lumpkin.

[iPod]

I didn't JUST notice this, but I went a long time before I realized it. The Vulgate Bible is written in Latin, so when Rod (or Todd) screams out to use "the Vulgate of St. Jerome" apparently this means the Flanders boys are fluent in Latin.

[Starman]

what, the 'minimum security prison,' that he gets put in? hold on, which episode was that at the end of again?

Someone else has probably already answered this, but I think it's Season 6's "Sideshow Bob Roberts".

[BartLisa35]

In "Homer Vs. Lisa & The 8th Commandment", when Lisa grills Marge for eating two grapes. You can see Jimbo stuffing food into his jacket in the background.

[lionelhutz123]

I noticed today when I watched "Papas got a brand new badge" that when Bart begs to do some looting and Homer says no, and then Bart asks if he can drink a beer and Homer says yes. Then Marge is like "Homer!!!" and Homer says "You gotta set your limits Marge..."

I never really payed attention to that quote, but then realized that Homer thought that when Marge yelled "Homer!!!," that she was upset that he wasnt allowing Bart to loot. Homer's idea of setting limits was not letting him loot, but at least let him drink a beer. I dont know, I just thought that was very clever scene for a season 13 episode.

[Little Miss Simpson]

I was watching the deleted scenes from Lisa The Skeptic and noticed the book Lisa is reading trying to identify the fossil is written by David Cohen.

[MikeAaronB]

In large Marge, a before and after picture of Moe can be seen in the clinic (from Pygmoelian).

[Santos L. Halper]

In the Mayored To The Mob episode, I recently noticed Bill or Marty call the Star Wars robots "gay."

"The mighty robots from Battlestar Galactica versus the gay robots from Star Wars."

[eamjr]

In "Barber Shop Quartet" at the end when they meet at the top of Moe's, if you look at the brick wall where the door is someone wrote "For a good time call Edna K." or something along those lines its been a while since Ive seen it..see for yourself

[Lisa Is A Nut]

Noticed this a while ago, but couldn't find the thread.

In the Canine Mutiny, when Bart and Milhouse are talking at the park, Laddie catches a frisbie in the background.
Also, I think it was "Lisa the Simpson," the dog is asleep on the floor, when Lisa comes in to watch the TV with Homer & Bart.

[Tinted]

I might be completely wrong here but isn't Lassie in one of the cages in the 'retired zoo' in Bart has Two Mummies?