Ask Simpsons Questions Here (Jokes We Don't Get, Which Episode, etc.)

[Granto]

he did it on the way to parent/teacher interviews in "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie" when Marge agreed for him to see Lisa's teacher. but he's in a car that time and its not from a later season

[hughes]

he also says it when Moe is jamming the crayon back into his brain in Season 12's HOMR

[whisman]

i think he's flying, shooting lasers at the city or something

i dunno, it was a shitty episode

but goddammit what episode is it

[Rax]

The Sweetest Apu, season 13

Marge: Oh, Homer. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Homer: You bet I am
:Homer Thinks:
Hahahahaha! You can run, but you can't glide!
Homer: Hehehe! U S A! U S A!

[whisman]

SWEET JESUS THANK YOU

[MissMaggieSimpson]

Hi,
Could anyone please explain to me the "joke" in episode 22 of season 10: "They Saved Lisa's Brain" when Comic Book Guy shows a black t-shirt with
"C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN"
written on it !
Thanks,
MissMaggieSimpson

[Orange Harrison]

Hi,
Could anyone please explain to me the "joke" in episode 22 of season 10: "They Saved Lisa's Brain" when Comic Book Guy shows a black t-shirt with
"C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN"
written on it !
Thanks,
MissMaggieSimpson

It's a computer joke. DOS is basically a utility on Windows where you type commands for the computer to do, RUN being one of them. It's supposed to be a parody of a children's book, as in "See Dos, see dos run, run dos run"

[Bombadil]

Hi,
Could anyone please explain to me the "joke" in episode 22 of season 10: "They Saved Lisa's Brain" when Comic Book Guy shows a black t-shirt with
"C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN"
written on it !
Thanks,
MissMaggieSimpson

It's an old joke. Before the Windows operating system came along, there was a command line OS called DOS, or Disk Operating System. On it, you got a Command Prompt, often "C:/", on which you'd write commands like "del", "copy", etc.. Many of the commands were to "run" various programs.

Add to the joke the old Dick and Jane series of children's books, which included classic lines like "See Spot. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run." That particular line is made much fun of these days, but hey, I learned to read with those old books.

It's a joke that alludes to both the old computer operating system and the old series of books. (these are jokes meant for us old fuckers. They always shoot straight over your heads.)

Another great Simpsons DOS joke features Snake, (and none of you damn kids will understand this one either) http://www.clayloomis.com/Sounds/simp257b.wav

EDIT: Orange is a Mac Guy

[draven87]

Season 6, PTA disbands: when barts outside at nightime flying a kite and he turns to marge and says : "hello mother dear". Is that a reference to something I could never figure it out

[MissMaggieSimpson]

Thanks Orange Harrison and Bombadil!

[Bella Drape 'er]

Season 6, PTA disbands: when barts outside at nightime flying a kite and he turns to marge and says : "hello mother dear". Is that a reference to something I could never figure it out

you asked the exact same question a year ago

It's obviously just a loosely based Psycho/Norman Bates/creepy mother-son relationship reference.

[TriforceBun]

Which episode has (I believe) Reverend Lovejoy somewhat apathetically consoling a character? He pats them on the back while dryly saying "There, there. There, there."

[bartyboy]

that would be bart the murderer

[Comicshow MolemanBob]

I recently watched "The Simpsons Movie" and when Homer was dancing with the pig in his dream "Happy Together" was heard playing. I know it was also in "Trilogy of Error" My question is has it been in any other episodes because I'm pretty sure it has

[Uosdwis R. Jewoh]

I recently watched "The Simpsons Movie" and when Homer was dancing with the pig in his dream "Happy Together" was heard playing. I know it was also in "Trilogy of Error" My question is has it been in any other episodes because I'm pretty sure it has

I think it has been in a ton of episodes. Pretty sure it was in "The Way We Weren't"

[Someone2]

In which episode does homer "thought bubble" the equation (with images) "beer + car = grave" and then thinks something like "Wait a second, did I combine that correctly?" and then the equation becomes "beer + car = Homer as president"?

[Old painty-can Ned]

I think it may be Co-dependent's Day from season 15 but I'm not sure

[Someone2]

I think it may be Co-dependent's Day from season 15 but I'm not sure

Nope, although that is a quite drunken episode .

[arii]

It's from Don't Fear the Roofer, S16.

[Someone2]

It's from Don't Fear the Roofer, S16.

Right! Thx

[TriforceBun]

I think it has been in a ton of episodes. Pretty sure it was in "The Way We Weren't"

It was, and it was also in S14's "Special Edna."

[Lisa Is A Nut]

On the 'Bart After Dark' commentary, Josh Weinstein says they cut an pretty famous actor from that season as a guest star, and replaced it with one of the Simpsons regular voice actors. What actor was it and what episode is he talking about?

[Charlie]

It could possibly have been William H Macy as Frank Grimes in Homer's Enemy, they ended up going with Hank for the voice.

What episode was it where Homer is trying to get away from the police and then happens to crash his car into the police station? I'm thinking it's My Mother the Carjacker but not entirely sure.

[Comicshow MolemanBob]

Yeah that is the episode

[Ray Jay Jonah]

Has William H Macy ever been on the show?

[cinco]

Has William H Macy ever been on the show?

Homer's Paternity Coot

He played himself.

[Comicshow MolemanBob]

I remember this quote from an episode could someone please tell me

Marge: (To Hobo) Here buy yourself a suit

Hobo: I'll buy a suit.... OF DRUGS

hilarious

[Squeaky Voiced Teen]

Barting Over

[Comicshow MolemanBob]

Barting Over

Thanks

[Jesse Pinkman]

i thought of two random moments but the episodes' their in are lost on me:

one was bart, lisa, maggie and marge sitting in what I believe was a hospital room, Bart finds a book and plays with it, saying "Daddy's burning(?) daddy's not burning (or something) and marge takes the book away, making maggie upset. she then plays along. what episode was this, and what was the actual line?

and i remembered a scene where Homer puts up a mas of various places around springfield for the viewer to see, and IRCC he breaks the fourth wall and says something like "Have you read them all? Good." What episode was this?

thanks in advance