Jokes We Don't Get

[Miss Springfield]

Whats the song that Krusty sings at the Doormat awards, I think Gil sings it too at one point he goes im just kiddin folks.. ima nice guyyy.

[Roger Myers III]

Which ep was that? If its the one I'm thinking, he's singing "I'm a Nice Guy," which is Don Rickles' long-time signature theme song

[MaxpowerAK79]

Viva Ned Flanders. That's when Burns' casino explodes, and they run over rickles. And he says "I'm okay, but the Puerto Rican guy stealing your hubcaps is hurt" or something to that effect.

[Charmy]

Homer: The elderly don't need companionship, they need to be confined and studied to see if they have any nutrients that could benifit us.
Marge: You've got to stop ready that Ross Perot pamplet.

Huzzah?

[Roger Myers III]

Completely fictional crack at a crackpot.

[eddie]

Oh, Roger...

In "Mountain of Madness", an educational film narrator says: "The story of our national parks begins in 1872. Perhaps we should let John Muir tell the tale." Then this Muir guy starts to slur as he talks. Who was John Muir?

[huh?]

John Muir was a noted conservationist and I believe he was responsible for starting the Sierra Club. The joke with the slurred audio is that Muir lived back around the turn of the century(I'm not sure of the exact date), and thus technology for audio was still pretty lousy compared to today, which is why it sounds so bad.

[NukeTheWhales]

Q: I know missing union rep Chuckie Fitzyou is a play on words or something.

I cannot figure this out. Help.

[NukeTheWhales]

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? [/B][/QUOTE]

i think it has something to do with debunking the idea of rock-star paradise, as well as poking fun again at what may be Teamsters.....so lazy and surly

[NukeTheWhales]

From "Beyond Blunderdome":

Homer: "Listen, Gibson. I'm tired of Hollywood pretty boys like you, and Jack Valenti, thinking you can have any woman you want!"

I know who Jack Valenti is, but I still don't get the joke. Is it just a cheap joke about Valenti's age, or what?





wasnt Valenti JFK's Press Secretary? anyway he was on the famous flight in 1963 when Johnson was sworn in as president, you can see him in the back in the famous pic. maybe this was a play on the idea that because he was with JFK he was big player too

[NukeTheWhales]

Originally posted by ComixFan
From "Hungry, Hungry Homer":

Lisa: "Dad, I'm so proud of you. If you need some inspiration, here's a book of Mike Farrell's core beliefs."
Homer: [reading from My Core Beliefs] "Man, he really hates Wayne Rogers."

Explain!

farrel replaced rogers in mash. farrel was bj rogers was trapper. i don't know about any personal strife between them, maybe just competition about who was the better sidekick to hawkeye

[NukeTheWhales]

Originally posted by mathias1979
I don't think it's a specific movie reference. He just does it because he's ashamed of what he is and never intended Marge to see him like that.

It's similar to when in "Like Father Like Clown" when the Rabbi walks in on the young krusty using seltzer in the bathroom, Krusty kind of turns away and shouts "shut the door!"

i think this may have something to do with a psychological theory called the 'primal scene' which usually is some traumatic childhood experience that scars one for life. obviously it would have to do with shame and humiliation....like marge's dad's emasculating steward job and krusty's secret seltzer practice which implies being caught by your parents masturbating in the bathroom.....both primal scenes that could scar someone for life

[Andy]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, NTW! Remember to use the EDIT button instead of making all those posts in a row next time.

I've got the answer to one question:

The pushups question: He's just spewing out a bunch of mixed buzz-phrases, like the ones used in the corporate world. But he mixes them up, him being Homer and all. For example, he says 'max the envelope,' a mix-up of 'to the max' and 'push the envelope.'

Also, I could have sworn Valenti was in Washington during the Nixon administration too, but I could be mistaken.

[SideshowTim]

In 'Bart to the Future' Flanders says something like 'Okay, But I'm just glad you're not outing Rod and Tod' what exactly does this mean?

[Friz]

Rod and Todd are homosexually gay. 'Outting' them is telling everybody else that they are homosexually gay, and obviously Flanders doesn't want other people to know, as he is very religious.

[Roger Myers III]

Nuke the Whales: "Chuckie Fitzhume" was not a play on words, so rest easy.

And every single one of your other questions (and 'answers') are all answered earlier in the thread (my pages are 2 & 5, if this helps. You should really just power through the whole thing.)

BTW, Valenti's first D.C. politics job was as LBJ's Press sec. - he followed LBJ from Texas politics.

SST: The joke is also tied to the shot that follows: of R & T with stereotypical gay men's denim short-short cut-offs & undershirts, w/ very short hair & burly mustaches, doing furniture restoration on the yard - Flanders, now blind, has no idea how flagrantly gay they look, and they apparently haven't painted him a picture.

[me_lost_brain]

I forgot what the episode is actually called but the one where Homer goes onto the internet as Mister X.

What was the deal with that whole episode? Especially at the end when they said creepily "See you at the island"
"Yes... the island"

Why?

and in the one where its snowing outside and all the kids are stuck at school and principal skinner says "I don't care if you're christiana yamaguchi" or something. who is he?

[NukeTheWhales]

Originally posted by me_lost_brain
I forgot what the episode is actually called but the one where Homer goes onto the internet as Mister X.

What was the deal with that whole episode? Especially at the end when they said creepily "See you at the island"
"Yes... the island"

Why?

and in the one where its snowing outside and all the kids are stuck at school and principal skinner says "I don't care if you're christiana yamaguchi" or something. who is he?

the first ep is based on an old show called the prisoner ( i hope im right here). never saw it so someone else has to give you details, sorry

christie yamaguchi was a gold-medal winning skater at the '92 (?) olympics. no clue why he would say it.no more than why south park asks what would brian boitano do? maybe it's a play on that ( what came first?) or it's some lame pop culture reference by lameoid skinner?

[Roger Myers III]

The entire third act is a riff on "The Prisoner", a British import from the mid-to-late-60's that became a bit of a cult hit when it aired in America. It was created and written by its titular star, Patrick McGoohan, who played the mysterious island leader who Homer encounters. (The "Are you the Leader?" "No!" exchange is a hilarious inside joke for fans of the show.) The premise was that a man was whisked away, under unexplainable circumstances, to a mysterious island, where he must figure out the rhyme & reason for his abduction, and what the entire situation is, and try to escape from it. (The shimmering "balloons" that prevent escape, first seen in "Joy of Sect", are directly from the show.)

The Yamaguchi references have nothing to do w/ Boitano. Its just an example of an adult authority figure 'dropping' a name that he or she believes will be "hip" to the kids in order to get through to or relate to them, (a nice effort considering they're about to be cooped up together for a while,) and failing miserably with an already-outdated reference. Which he then very un-cool-ly uses twice!

[BTW, the SPM Boitano song was a reference/tribute to the critical role Boitano played in the original SP "pilot" short, "Jesus vs. Santa."]

[Miguel Sanchez]

Originally posted by Roger Myers III
Flanders, now blind, hasn't caught on yet, and they apparently haven't told him.

If Flanders hadn't "caught on" yet, why would he be worried about Bart outting his sons? I'd have thought Flanders knew they were gay, and he also knew that Bart knew this.

[Roger Myers III]

You're right, Miguel - my point wasn't very well-made.

I've now edited it for clarity.

[Dances In Underwear]

Okay, heres one thats been bugging me. Its not really a joke as such, but I figured this is the best place for it.

In 22 Short Films, during the Moe / Barney scene, Moe tells Barney he owes him $14 000. Barney says he's only got $2000, and Moe tells him thats half way there. As Moe puts the money away, he grins slyly. Is this supposed to imply...
a) Barney didn't owe anything, but Moe made $2000 from him
b) Moe thinks that $2000 actually is half of $14 000
c) Moe thinks $14 000 is $1400, meaning he is making $600
d) Something else?

This one, like I said, has bugged me for a while.

[Roger Myers III]

All of the above. Its up to you whether Moe is more of an idiot than Barney, or is he's just attempting to collect as much of the tab as Barney has on him.

[George Cauldron]

I'm confused about the ending to My Sister, My Sitter, when Ned phones up Lisa.

Ned: Lisa, Ned Flanders. You available tonight?
Lisa: Didn't you hear I almost killed my brother?
Ned: You did? Just a minute...........What time can you come over?

So Ned wants Lisa to babysit despite the fact that Lisa admitted to nearly killing her brother?

[kuje]

That's about the size of it. NEd hadn't heard about what Lisa did, so when he did he discusses it briefly with Maude (presumably), and then decides that he still trusts her enough to babysit.

It is just about how trustiing Ned is, and to show that Lisa's reputation hasn't been ruined (thus the episode returning to some sort of equilibrium).

[Roger Myers III]

Not really -- it's a comment about just how hard it is to find a babysitter at all. Ask any new parent.

[I'm David Croket!]

I think it's a dark joke about parents not liking to stay very much with their kids. They accepted Lisa despite what she did because everything is better than to spend a lot of time with the childrens.
If this was about the difficult of find good sitters then the conversation of Ned with Maude it's useless because Ned talks with his wife AFTER Lisa reminds his "horrible" past actions.

I don't know if it's right but I like my idea.

[Roger Myers III]

Again, no.

One cannot possibly read into it that the Flanderses - of all parents portrayed on the Simpsons - "do not like to stay very much with their kids". Even the Flanderses occaisionally need a sitter to have time by themselves (or, as was the case with their first employment of Lisa, they are overextended into good deeds & charity).

Regardless whether you believe that Maude was only then, during that very phone call, relating the events to her husband that the entire town observed, or whether you believe that Ned was conferring with Maude one final time, (which is far more in-character,) the point is that their demand for a babysitter outweighs all other concerns they may have about her.

[I'm David Croket!]

Yes, it's more in-character for the Flanders family, however, even thinking it seems like a pretty dark joke because they know the monstruous things Lisa "did" but they still demand her!
If the Flanders are so carefull with their kids (as we saw in "Home-Sweet Home....") it's strange they trusted Lisa.
It could be difficult to find a good sitter but knowing Lisa injured, druged Bart and jailed Maggie we hardly believe the Flanderses doesn't mind it so much and ignore this strong facts.

PD: Sorry if my english it's not so good.

[Roger Myers III]

Sorry, Dave, but all of those "variations" on the situation still point to one answer: Their demand for a baby outweighs any possible concerns they may have about Lisa's responsibility.

This may just be a cultural difference you don't "get". However, my culture is the one that produces the show!