Jokes We Don't Get

[Andy]

Uh... I deleted the old thread by accident. :-0 My bad.

You know the drill. Post only questions and answers, and yes, useless posts get deleted... properly I hope.

[Wezzo]

Accident, eh? Hmm...
Q: Is the rake scene in Cape Feare a parody?

[Andy]

I shouldn't do any moderating stuff past midnight.

It's probably a parody of Warner Bros. toons if anything... simply taken to an extreme.

[StrideR]

The "stepping on a rake" gag has been around since... since... I don't know. Still, I don't think Sideshow Bob's rake sequence was supposed to be a specific parody, just a slapstick joke pointing out Bob's inability to get away from being on the unfortunate end of a comedy routine.

[mr. broom]

Just to refresh everyone's memories:
Since this sort of thread gets cluttered very fast, any post that is not either asking a question or responding to a question is deletion fodder. Sorry, but there's just no room for a hundred posts of nothing more than "Thanks" or "I don't know" in a thread like this.
Just to say. Also, don't ridicule anyone for not getting a joke. That'll get deleted immediately too.

[Bob Terwilliger]

Bob stepping on rakes wasn't a parody. It was put in because the episode wasn't long enough.

[Mayor Quimby]

In The Computer Wore ......... CBG before accesing Homer's page made some comment, what exactly was it and was it a joke?

[Miguel Sanchez]

"Mister X? Dare I cross the final frontier..?"

Can't go wrong with jokes about gay pr0n.

[prince jafar allah]

Are you absolutely sure that was the joke? If it was, I completely missed it. The "final frontier" comment certainly makes more sense that way. I don't remember too much emphasis on the word "Mister".....

[Tibor]

He was searching for pornography, and I noticed an emphasis on 'Mister.'

[Miguel Sanchez]

Yeah, he definitely stresses "Mister". It sounds like he's surprised to see it there (as I'm sure we all are when we, umm, accidentally, come across gay porn on the web)

[eddie]

Two "Homerpalooza" questions:

1. What's the significance of the Cypress Hill guy saying "...We have a lost child here. If she is not claimed within the next hour she will become property of Blockbuster Entertainment"?

2. Is there any real reason why there is an obvious close-up of that roadie snorting out a bunch of snot from his nose?

[prince jafar allah]

1. I think it's just another joke to be honest, just another slam on the commercialism of these supposedly "free" musical festivals. It certainly isn't a reference to any Cypress Hill song or anything, as far as I know.

[Tibor]

2) It had ironic relevance to a line Homer had just said ("I've been kicked out of paradise!")

[Dances In Underwear]

Just wondering....

What does the Chalkboard Gag for When Flanders Failed; Nobody Likes Sunburn Slappers, mean?

Is it just saying that nobody likes it if you hit someone who has a sunburn, or is there something I'm missing?

[Miguel Sanchez]

I don't think the sunburn slappers line has any other meaning.

From SNPP capsule for 8F22 ("Bart's Friend Falls In Love")

Casablanca
- the final scene and the final scene
- The Marsellaise plays
- Clouds hover (cf. fog)

It's been quite some time since I last watched this one, and I can't remember any of these references. Where's the reference to Casablanca's final scene? It's probably really obvious, but my mind's gone blank and it's starting to annoy me.

[Butters]

When Bart walks off with Milhouse at the end of the episode bares resembalence to it.

[Roger Myers III]

Its not a direct parody of the final scene, but it is visually evocative of it...
The last scene of Casablanca finds Rick (Bogart), having put Elsa (Bergman - thanks Miguel) on her plane to freedom, and therefore also abandoning any hope for a relationship w/ her. As he wistfully walks down the foggy airport tarmac w/ Louis, the local French garrison commandant, he puts on a brave, glib face (to mask any heartache)& says, "Louis,this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship," meaning that, effectively, "that chick is gone, and the challenges she brought in loyalty in wartime are over, so its all back to normal." The camera pulls back on them & up, jst like in BFFIL.

However, there's no lexicon flashed at the end of the film. And if it was more of a direct parody, Milhouse would've had the Rick line.

BTW:the Cape Feare script already had the rake scene in it -- it was "extended" because the show was short (a Meyer idea), not "added".

[Miguel Sanchez]

Originally posted by Roger Myers III
Its not a direct parody of the final scene, but it is visually evocative of it...

The camera pulls back on them & up, jst like in BFFIL.

Thanks, I'll look out for it next time.

Originally posted by Roger Myers III
However, there's no lexicon flashed at the end of the film. And if it was more of a direct parody, Milhouse would've had the Rick line.

I think this is what threw me a bit. My first thought was that MVH had a similar line to Rick's - glad it was something a bit less obvious that I missed.

Incidentally, Ingrid Bergman played Elsa

[Moose of Doom!]

I could never understand this. In Boy Scoutz 'N the Hood, during the little montage, Milhouse screams something like "Don't Bogart that squishee!"

Help please?

[Andy]

'Bogart' is a synonym for 'hog' popularized by drug addicts. Used in this case to give the Squishee situation a whole druglike vibe to it.

Also, in I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can, either Homer or one of the other Ribheads uses the line "Don't Borgnine that ribwich!" for the same reason, only subsituting a different actor for a weirder effect.

[Mayor Quimby]

After watching Homer the Moe, was the dancing on the bar a parody of Coyote Ugly or a really gay gag?

[Roger Myers III]

And the term "Bogart" comes from the singular way that Bogie would clench, concentrate on, intensely smoke, and gesture with his cigarettes. WHich gives you the funny image of Ernest Borgnine handling sandwiches in the same manner.

[Miss Springfield]

I&S land
I was a political prisoner, I kicked a giant mouse in the butt do I have to draw you a diagram?
huh?

[MaxpowerAK79]

This is hard to explain. People who are arrested for "political reasons" are generally seen as heroe-types...ex: Somebody arrested for protesting a war or something.

Homer is saying he was a political prisoner....But what did he do? He kicked one of the giant Itchy characters. Would that be somebody who was a political prisoner? Probably not...but it's funny he thinks so.

Is that clear? I don't know if I understood my own explanation

[Moose of Doom!]

This is hard to explain. People who are arrested for "political reasons" are generally seen as heroe-types...ex: Somebody arrested for protesting a war or something.

What about people captured during a war? This may be offensive, but unless they were captured fighting or saving lives or something like that, I don't understand why they're considered heroes.

[mr. broom]

That's neither here nor there. The joke was that Homer considered kicking a giant cartoon mouse in the butt to be somehow making a political statement, and somehow he also believed that if Marge had said, "yes, please draw me a picture" he could actually explain it in detail.

[Tibor]

Yeah, I always considered it to be the awry Homer-logic.

In Selma's Choice, one of the sperm donors is a Sweathog.

Er ah... What's a Sweathog? (I somehow associate the name with another name I don't understand "Welcome Back, Kotter")

[mr. broom]

The Sweathogs were the nickname of a group of guys in the show "Welcome Back, Kotter". Selma then asks if the Sweathog in question is [Arnold] Horshack. She's disappointed when Marge says no. One would assume she'd have been hoping for John Travolta, who was on the show. Horshack was the stereotypical nerd in the Sweathogs, whose nasally "Mistah Kaaaaahteeeeeer!" was his trademark line.

[eddie]

What the heck is a C.H.U.D.? from "HSvtCoNY"?