Running gags that just disappeared?

[MagicMeg]

Examples?

[Diversity Pumpkin]

I went on a Simpsons binge recently, so off the top of my head...

The ambiguity of Waylon Smithers' sexual preference
"Yoink!"
"____, eh?"
Homer's lifelong dreams
Prank calls to Moe
Barney's belches
Moe hiding stuff in the back of the bar
Lenny's eye
Crappy films from the past (Usually involving Troy McClure)
Three Stooges immitations
Bart doing funny voices (also ties in with the above)
Eyes only visible when in the dark
"Hi everybody!" "Hi Dr Nick!"
"Smithers, who is that ___?" "He's Homer Simpson, sir, one of your ____ from sector 7G."
Mr Burns owing Smithers a coke
"Let's get out of here!" and other variants, while someone is in peril
"It burns!"
"Hello, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from..."
Stuff between the Simpsons floorboards during a pan from floor to floor
"WHAAAA?!!!"
Krusty's illiteracy
Random explosions
"One last day until retirement."
Maggie falling down
"Eat my shorts", "Bitchin'!", "Cowabunga!" (Yes, he did say it)
Bart swearing and Marge scolding him for it
Homer talking to his brain
"I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?"
"Thank you, come again."
Someone running offscreen and a car engine starting
Marge hiding stuff in her hair
Mr Burns looking at the surveillance monitors
Homer mispronouncing words
Lisa writing in her diary
"Meh"
Skinner's war stories
Space mutants, happy little elves, mcbain, etc
Thoughts going through people's head ("Hello joe!" "Is there a chance the track could bend?")
Homer threatening and shaking his fist
Calling something and told to hold, while ironic music plays
"Won't somebody please think of the children?!"
Grampa's rants
Homer throwing books into the fireplace

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

Diversity Pumpkin

Why so few mate?

[Diversity Pumpkin]

I started and couldn't stop. There's probably many more though.

[Blobulle]

Hard to imagine all these gags in a HD episode, but it would be nice...

[Friz]

Homer's lifelong dreams
Inappropriate hold music

edit oh wow cool both are on that list huh

[Jesse Pinkman]

since diversity pumpkin listed all the ones i could think of, i'll just list my favorites that they don't do:

-prank calls to moe (really kinda disappointed they didn't bring this back in lost verizon)

-homer's lifelong dreams

-inappropriate hold music

-Troy McClure. You might remember me from (though it's obvious why they stopped this one)

some gags i miss more then others of course, but oh well. now they have new gags! it's just a shame not all of them are you know... good.

[Diversity Pumpkin]

Oh, that thing where a character hears the same line over and over in their head. "A part of us all, a part of us all, a part of us all".

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

Rainier Wolfcastle's latest scene from a movie.

[biffwestwood]

"Now lets go out for frosty chocolate milkshakes" which in addition to being used in early episodes was also used in the Tracey Ullman shorts.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Let's go out for some frosty swirls.

[The Love-Matic Grandpa!]

- Marge's slight perverted streak (which went a long way to explaining her marriage to Homer).

- Skinner's random mispronunciations.

- ORANGE DRINK.

- Chief Wiggum's "that's some good/fine work, boys" proclamation after the Springfield cops do something asinine or inappropriate.

- Grandpa's letters.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

- Marge's slight perverted streak (which went a long way to explaining her marriage to Homer).
- ORANGE DRINK.

What

[The Love-Matic Grandpa!]

What

There were always these little hints that Marge had a bit of a dirty side: her whispered comment to Homer about the Washington Monument, her comment to Lisa in "Lisa The Greek", the entire plotline of "Natural Born Kissers". etc. And let's not forget where Bart was conceived. It just added another dimension to her relationship with Homer.

And I think "orange drink" is self-explanatory.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

I'm drinking orange drink right now...

[Blobulle]

I don't understand for the orange drink, can you give an example ?

[Monty_Burns]

and I need an example of this one (inappropriate hold music)

[zartok-35]

and I need an example of this one (inappropriate hold music)

Homer phones a national fathers hotline in 'Saturdays of thunder', the hold song is "Cats in the cradle"
Homer phones a lost child hotline, and the hold song is "baby come back"
The Krusty doll attacks Homer in 'Clown without pitty', Marge phones the support hotline, the hold song is "Everybody loves a clown"

[The Love-Matic Grandpa!]

I don't understand for the orange drink, can you give an example ?

Basically, whenever there was a Springfield Elementary School pageant of some kind, Principal Skinner would also try and peddle some watered-down "orange drink" to the parents in order to make some extra money for the failing school. The gag didn't last long, but it always made me laugh.

[Blobulle]

EDIT : Ok.

[HMS pinafore]

Homer phones a national fathers hotline in 'Saturdays of thunder', the hold song is "Cats in the cradle"
Homer phones a lost child hotline, and the hold song is "baby come back"
The Krusty doll attacks Homer in 'Clown without pitty', Marge phones the support hotline, the hold song is "Everybody loves a clown"

also in stark raving dad when Marge calls the institution the song Crazy plays

[TriforceBun]

Basically, whenever there was a Springfield Elementary School pageant of some kind, Principal Skinner would also try and peddle some watered-down "orange drink" to the parents in order to make some extra money for the failing school. The gag didn't last long, but it always made me laugh.

This is a great bit in I Love Lisa, but did it actually appear in any other episode?

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

No. That's why I was confused.

[lolcats]

This is a great bit in I Love Lisa, but did it actually appear in any other episode?

New Kids on the Blecch mentions it...

Principal Skinner: No I didn't. I even came in early and made orange drink!
L. T. Smash: Orange drink? What, do you live with your mama?

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

I would barely call that a running gag.

[Wavy Gravy]

A better Skinner running gag is how he used to mispronounce words whenever he was giving a speech. ("And now, Sherbert's...eh, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...") I think the last time they used it was in "Lisa's Sax".

[Nauru-1]

All the funny ones.

[dapper dan]

Oh, that thing where a character hears the same line over and over in their head. "A part of us all, a part of us all, a part of us all".

Actually, they had one of these recently, in S22 Flaming Moe: Burns voice in Smithers' head, "True admiration, self-made man, kill the other two heads…"

[iambobdole1]

Lenny's eye
Lisa's diary
Grampa's rants

1. What about Lenny's eye, exactly?
2. How is this a gag?
3. YES. In fact, there should be more Grampa in general.

[iambobdole1]

A better Skinner running gag is how he used to mispronounce words whenever he was giving a speech. ("And now, Sherbert's...eh, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...") I think the last time they used it was in "Lisa's Sax".

"And now, a selection of holiday flavourites."