Jokes We Don't Get

**joe** · 08-12-2003, 05:47 AM

Another one:

In Kamp Krusty, Jimbo, and his gang are enjoying a nice dinner at the mansion with the evil camp leader...

"Mr. Black, another brandy..."
"Gentleman, to Weavel..."

who or what is Weavel?

**Miguel Sanchez** · 08-12-2003, 06:11 AM

I'm pretty sure he says "evil", not "Weavel".

**MrB** · 08-12-2003, 08:30 AM

Yep, you'll find he was proposing a toast to their evil shenanigans.

**Roger Myers III** · 08-12-2003, 08:35 AM

Lawnboy, I'm concerned about your audio system...

**joe** · 08-12-2003, 08:48 AM

hahaha... I know

all the jokes I don't get are b/c of eff'ed up hearing

thanks again

**Miss Springfield** · 08-13-2003, 02:34 AM

What does Luigi say to/about Skinner when Skinner and Bart go to the Italian Restaurant after Bart gets him fired and Flanders is principal (don't remember episode title) and then he says Bart's an ugly kid. He calls Skinner a specific name?

**George Cauldron** · 08-13-2003, 06:08 AM

The episode is Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song, and the quote goes, courtesy of SNPP.com: "Hey, Salvatore, guess who's here-ah? Mister Kookalamanza, and-ah some real ugly kid-ah."

**shawk00** · 08-13-2003, 12:52 PM

In 'Round Springfield Bleeding Gums Murphy makes an appearance on the Cosby show as the gramdpa, and the daughter says "but we already have three grandpas!" What's she talking about?

**George Cauldron** · 08-13-2003, 12:55 PM

She's probably stating the fact that The Cosby Show, and any other show for that matter always has long-lost relatives appearing in episodes from nowhere.

**Miss Springfield** · 08-13-2003, 04:26 PM

Whats kookalamanza?

**Generic** · 08-13-2003, 06:27 PM

Perhaps it's like "Rear Admiral". It sounds like it means something (insulting), but doesn't actually mean anything at all.

**SideshowTim** · 08-13-2003, 11:15 PM

It just sounds like some made up Italian word with no meaning.

**Roger Myers III** · 08-14-2003, 08:03 AM

1) It's a reference to the fact that, on the Cosby Show, though there were 2 Grandpas in the family, there were 4 different actors playing them over the long course of the show. It's so common for that to happen, on a lot of long-running shows, for a very good reason: the older actors who play the infrequent featured role tend to die, or get too ill to do the show when needed (its a rigorous process in live action tv.) The same thing happened to Mr. Costanza on "Seinfeld" after his first featuring (The Handicapped Spot), and they lucked out w/ Jerry Stiller, so its not always a terrible thing - except for continuity.

2) I always thought it was meant to sound like gibberish Italian, but that it was "Kook of La Mancha" (off of "Man of La MAncha")

**pat** · 08-14-2003, 09:51 PM

One from Maximum Homerdrive I don't get. The only 2 people to finish the big steak (before Homer) were Red Barclay and Tony Randall. I know who Tony Randall is; was him finishing the steak supposed to be some kind of joke or stab at something?

**Miss Springfield** · 08-15-2003, 01:47 AM

What does it mean in Homer Loves Flanders when he puts in the rapping Ronnie Reagan tape and says heehe he does say well a lot. I know its a former president but I dont get it.

**SideshowTim** · 08-15-2003, 02:33 AM

Glayvin - I think it was just used so It could be in the joke 'You're Tony Randall' But once again I am unsure.

Perhaps it was just Homer's stupidity, He was trying to bond the two families but really he was the only one who found it funny.

**Roger Myers III** · 08-15-2003, 01:02 PM

The Tony Randall joke was a completely random reference/joke.

Reagan used to commonly start his thoughts with a folksy "Well...". Every single Reagan impersonator then and since, though, has beaten this characteristic caricature into the ground. The "Rappin' Ronnie" song was a flash in the pan pop hit in 1987 or 8, and used a sampled clip of Reagan's "Well," over and over again throughout the song, "scratched" so it was like "W-www--w-ee-l--eelllll-we-we--eell." (That's a painful attempt at 'scratching', anyway,)

It was a stupid and painfully obvious, blatantly easy satire -- that of course Homer loves it - today. And Homer just "got" the "Well" reference as well.

**SideshowTim** · 08-15-2003, 04:27 PM

Quick question - What is the name of the song that plays over the end credits in Homer goes to College?

**CrashDummy** · 08-15-2003, 04:41 PM

At the end of one the whole cast talks about how good NBC is. Why? Wouldn't Fox want people to keep watching Fox and not switch to NBC?

**Andy** · 08-15-2003, 04:48 PM

The writers were taking another shot at Fox by making the characters endorse a completely different network (i.e. even though we're on it, we still think Fox sucks and would rather watch a different channel). Of course, during the end credits Homer is forced to revert to endorsing his own network.

**pat** · 08-15-2003, 05:34 PM

Originally posted by SideshowTim
Quick question - What is the name of the song that plays over the end credits in Homer goes to College?

Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen

**Qui-Gon Jane** · 08-16-2003, 03:28 AM

I have a couple that have been bugging me.

1. In "Homer Loves Flanders" when Ned is pulled up, people think he's hepped up on goof balls. What the heck are goof balls?

2. The episode with the greyhound puppies, Burns likes one that stands on it's hind legs cause it reminds him of Rory Calhoun. Who is that?

**Generic** · 08-16-2003, 04:59 AM

1. From the episode capsule at SNPP.com:

Aaron Weber says, "According to the glossary in William Burroughs's `Junkie', a goofball is a nembutal capsule. Nembutal is a barbituate used by junkies `to take the edge off' when they can't get junk (junk being morphine/opium/heroin)." Andrew Jorgensen says they're barbituates laced with benzedrine.

2. Again, from the episode capsule at SNPP.com:

John Chaneski writes, "Rory Calhoun is (was? He's either still alive or died in the past 6 or 7 years) a movie actor. He was in about 60 films in my Cinemania, including `How to Marry a Millionaire' (1953), `Night of the Lepus' (1972), `The Main Event' (1979), `Angel' (1984) and its sequel `Avenging Angel' (1985, natch), and the schlock horror classic `Motel Hell' (1980). I remember him as a tall, gangly galoot. Kind of an older Sam Elliot." Tony Hill adds that he started in "The Red Horse" (1947).

**Roger Myers III** · 08-16-2003, 07:14 AM

1)"Hepped up on goofballs", however, became familiarized in the '60s as a "square" term for being under the influence of drugs of ANY sort. That's the use tha Flanders, and then Wiggum, uses,

2) Rory Calhoun has indeed passed on.

**George Cauldron** · 08-18-2003, 01:11 PM

In Pray Anything, is there anything behind Rod and Todd having to talk in tongues, or is this just out-of-character stupidity?

**squishee lady** · 08-18-2003, 01:28 PM

Probobly just another joke about how overly riligous they are.

**Roger Myers III** · 08-18-2003, 01:34 PM

Its in-character humor, actually. "Speaking in tongues" is an ability that all "saved" people will have during the "rapture" & "end of days," evangelical Christians believe.

**eddie** · 08-20-2003, 09:23 AM

I still don't really understand the significance of Krusty's "Me so solly!" and flapping dickie stuff from "The Last Temptation of Krust". Can anyone help me out?

**Craptacular** · 08-20-2003, 11:12 AM

I didn't quite understand the humour in Bart's line in Cape Feare when they're in the WRP office :- "I'll be Gus, the loveable chimney sweep, clean as a whistle, sharp as a thistle, best in all Westminster, yeah" Is it a parody of something?

**MaxpowerAK79** · 08-20-2003, 11:13 AM

Yeah. That's an old stereotype of Asian people. Like the big buck teeth and the "me so solly" making a joke about how it is said that asian people cannot pronounce "r" sounds. I think the flapping dicky thing goes along with that old asian stereotype.

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