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

[Nameless]

Good Afternoon ! This is my first post and I have a question - - the long running mystrey of what state Springfield is in ? what do you guys think ?

They live in no state, as proven by the ending scene of Kill the Alligator & Run.

[Butters]

North Tacoma.

[729]

Speaking of strange pronunciation, in Homerpalooza why does Homer say "party ev ER y day"

[Nameless]

Speaking of strange pronunciation, in Homerpalooza why does Homer say "party ev ER y day"

Spacing it out for effect?

[Hydro]

Speaking of strange pronunciation, in Homerpalooza why does Homer say "party ev ER y day"

Because it's how KISS sing the line in "Rock and Roll All Night":

"I wanna rock and roll all night, and party EV-er-y day."

[Roger Myers III]

What was Roger Meyers' most recent appearance?

Yes, it is. I just cannot think of anymore appearances of him, I never actually realised that they had given Roger Myers Jr. the flick.

They haven’t. I never know when the phrase “most recent appearance” means “appearance” or really means “speaking role”. If “appearance”, he was at the Botanical Gardens in “Moe Baby”, and has probably been in crowd scenes since then too. Alex Rocco had had a long bout with illness that had been keeping his voice in check, but I understand that he’s been recovered for some time now.

Ok, what was the last appearance of Sanjay?

Again, in “appearance”, he was definitely at the Skinner/Edna nuptials, and likely in the background many times since then, too.

I don't get the Steve Allen book references ie the joy of cooking Steve Allen and Steve Allen pog jokes what is that about?

pop culture

Great answer, chief.
Allen was calling himself, and thought by many to be, the “king of all media,” long before Howard Stern started using the title. He created and hosted the Tonight show, starred in the critically-acclaimed NBC series The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, and created, wrote and hosted the Emmy award-winning PBS-TV series Meeting of Minds. He starred on Broadway, and starred in a number of motion pictures, and he wrote a couple stage dramas. He wrote over 4,600 songs, as well as the score for several musicals, and produced some 40 record albums, and authored 48 published books. The guy was extremely prolific – though many people came to realize, later on, that the bulk of his “books” were really just very-thin repackagings of his comedy material, spit out on a regular basis, and most of which had “Steve Allen” worked into their titles; and his “songs” consisted of a few bars of music and a couple lyrics – (think of the pianist in “Lisa Goes to Washington”).
So: the joke on his books was that he was just churning out a number of books with silly themes and his name in the title, as in real life, and the pog joke was that he was attempting to conquer yet another form of “media” – one that he was clearly too old and not suited for. (What pog-collecting kid would even know who the old dude on his pog was?)

A real doubt I have, in the episode "Burns' Heir", what does this mean:
Deprogrammer: Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, your son has clearly been brainwashed by the evil and charismatic Mr. Burns.
Marge: Are you sure you can get him back for us?
Deprogrammer: Absolutely. I'm the one who successfully deprogrammed Jane Fonda, you know.
Marge: What about Peter Fonda?
Deprogrammer: Oh, that was a heartbreaker.
The Peter Fonda thing, I did not understand.

It’s a tough one to explain, but here goes: Jane & Peter Fonda have sort of oddball reputations. Jane went from being a young, sex symbol actress, to a period of being a leftist antiwar activist in the Viet Nam War era (“Hanoi Jane”) to being a yuppie physical-fitness mogul in the 80s, to being the newly-conservative stay-at-home wife of broadcasting mogul Ted Turner (at the time of the episode). So the implication was that she could have been “brainwashed” and then “deprogrammed” for any of these previous “fanatical phases” – but most likely it was the war-protest phase. Nixon supporters claimed she had ‘obviously’ been brainwashed by the Viet Cong somehow. Peter, on the other hand, was considered an up-and-coming film director and actor in the early ‘70s, after “Easy Rider” and “The Hired Hand”. But instead he drifted into general irrelevance and drug abuse (though he had sort of a ‘comeback’ since, but it was after this episode.)

Please help me with this...if you can. In the episode 'The Regina Monologues' there's some music from a movie...I don't know which movie it is and its driving me INSANE trying to think of it. You ever get that? Anyways...its from one of Grampa's flashbacks...he's telling about how he was stationed in Britain in 1944 picking up a girl and the next day he had to go to war...and never saw her again. The music hits when it shows him on a boat going out to sea to fight the Germans. If you know what music it is...or where its from, I'll be eternally grateful. (Something tells me its from a war movie as well...but with....WAIT...is it from Gladiator? Which part?)

Its simply a 3-note “music sting” that is typical for a “war” or “suspense” film from the ‘50s, but nothing specific. But not “Gladiator”.

Why would Marge say that when she always complains how insensitive he is?

Not only did Marge not “say” it, as noted above, its quite reasonable to believe that she would appreciate that he remembered and thought to buy a gift for her, and also be expecting that he had wasted far too much money on an inappropriate, unnecessary whim.

Why is Mr. Burns know by his middle name (Monty) rather than his first name (Charles)?

Its sort of an upper-class tradition (since so many first-names are commonly repeated within “royalty”-type names) to informally go by a more-unique middle name and/or nickname when addressed by friends and family.

Yeah, sounds like I dog. I just found that hilarious.

The “grunts” Tim made on “Home Improvement” were carried over from his stand-up act, in which he (repeatedly) would make jokes about how men are just simple-minded animals – like dogs and pigs – and follow with some grunts.
Great act, I know.

[Miss Springfield]

Don't they say that they are in Northern Kentucky?

[Nameless]

Don't they say that they are in Northern Kentucky?

The joke in BTL was just that - a joke, particularly obvious when it was changed in repeat airings

[729]

Was Jubb-Jubb in Goo Goo Gai Pan?

[Butters]

Yes.

[Jaffas85]

What's the episode *and season of that episode* where Homer steals a great heap of sugar and tries to protect it but it ends up melting...

What episode is that and from what season?

Thanks.

[Nameless]

What's the episode *and season of that episode* where Homer steals a great heap of sugar and tries to protect it but it ends up melting...

What episode is that and from what season?

Thanks.

Season 6, 1F17, Lisa's Rival.

[Simpsons Forever!]

What has happened to the board?

And what's up with www.snpp.com

Is this to do with April Fool's Day?

[Nameless]

What has happened to the board?

And what's up with www.snpp.com

Is this to do with April Fool's Day?

Yes, pretty obvious when you look at the URL for the new board's banner

[Dances In Underwear]

I'm pretty sure most people worked it out without checking the banner's properties, surely.

[Miss Springfield]

what about we put the dolt in a-dolt education in the one where homer teaches secrets of a successful marriage?

[Nameless]

what about we put the dolt in a-dolt education in the one where homer teaches secrets of a successful marriage?

What about it?

[BlueHairedLawyer]

What episode and season does Homer, Lenny, and Carl sing "Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, Toxic Barrel Rolling," while rolling on barrels?

[Butters]

Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Season 15.

[BlueHairedLawyer]

Here's another one: What episode and season are some of Springfield's African American's seen driving together in a car. I can remember Carl, Dr. Hibbert, and Lou as being in the car if memory serves correctly. Thank You

[Butters]

Brake My Wife, Please. Season 14.

[jim]

Just a quick one, how many episodes has Jon Lovitz been in? The IMDB lists him as being in 9. I didnt realise it was that many. I cant remember that many.

[neoballmon]

1.The Way We Was - Artie Ziff
2.Brush With Greatness - Painting Instructor
3.Homer Defined -
4.A Streetcar Named Marge - Luellen (play operator), female daycare owner!
5.Another Simpsons Clip Show - Artie Ziff in clip
6.A Star is Burns - Jay Sherman
7.Hurricane Neddy - Jay Sherman
8.Half Decent Proposal - Artie Ziff
9.The Ziff who came to dinner - Artie Ziff + Jay Sherman, Painting Instructor, Luellen, Aristole Amadoppolis as a joke in Moes

That is all 9 episodes

[Dances In Underwear]

Lets see... according to SNPP (only have listing up to Season 11 - remembered 2 after that)

3 as Artie Ziff
- Way we Was (also played Homer's shop teacher, Mr. Seckofsky)
- Half-Decent Proposal
- Ziff who came to Dinner (also played all his other characters in that bar scene)
1 as Llewellyn Sinclair
- Streetcar named Marge
2 as Jay Sherman
- Star is Burns
- Hurricane Neddy
2 as Aristotle Amadopolis (Shelbyville Power Plant Owner)
- Homer Defined
- Homer at the Bat
1 as Professor Lombardo
- Brush With Greatness

Also Artie Ziff in Another Simpsons Clip Show, though I don't know if that would be counted. Without it, anyway, the list equals 9.

EDIT: Bah, beaten to it.
EDIT 2: Other list doesn't have Homer at the Bat

[neoballmon]

I think he was imitated by Dan Castellanetta in that episode. Artie Ziff was in The Front as well (not saying you had that on your list)

EDIT: Homer at the bat guest list:
Wade Boggs
Jose Canseco
Roger Clemmins
Ken Griffy Jr
Don Mattingly
Steve Sax
Mike Scioscia
Ozzie Smith
Darryl Strawberry
Terry Cashman

and Maggie Roswell and Marcia Wallace

[Dances In Underwear]

Then SNPP is wrong.

[Roger Myers III]

Here's another one: What episode and season are some of Springfield's African American's seen driving together in a car. I can remember Carl, Dr. Hibbert, and Lou as being in the car if memory serves correctly. Thank You

Drederick Tatum, too. (BTW, they're spelled "nasAl" and "competEnt")

[jim]

Ah, I forgot Lovitz played Aristotle Amadopolis. Makes more sense now.

[Miss Springfield]

What about it?

What does it mean! This is the jokes we don't get forum?! I mean what does we put the dolt in a-dolt education mean on the sign at the community centre? Secrets of a successful marriage...


What else would I mean by that nameless?

[mr. broom]

A dolt is a stupid person. The pun is on "adult." It's suggesting that they've dumbed down their adult education so that anyone can learn what they're teaching--mostly because the people who are teaching it aren't necessarily qualified. Also, it's a joke on how bad they are at making up slogans, because it's both unattractive and fails to match up its pun properly.