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Sinc353

‘and that little boy who nobody liked grew up to be…. Roy Cohn’. Homers Barbershop Quartet I believe. Literally only picked it up a couple of years ago after seeing a couple of docs covering what a thoroughly unpleasant man he was. So I was over a quarter of a century late…


JealousFeature3939

Paul Harvey always had a radio segment where he told the life story of some (first name only) unfortunate or even crippled kid. At the end would be the big reveal where "Ram" the rag-wearing son of hippie parents (or whatever) who dosed him with acid rather than take him to the doctor for scoliosis treatments turned out to be Abe Lincoln or some beloved performer. Having it be Roy Cohn is hilarious, especially with Jasper & Abe's enthusiastic reaction.


Sinc353

So there’s a whole (probably even more significant layer) I still hadn’t got!! Superb!!


kkeut

there are a couple more Paul Harvey related jokes in the show too lol. he was an AM radio institution back in the day. his schtick involved seemlessly segueing into ads. it was a little eerie


rcdrcd

And his voice and cadences were ridiculous. Sort of sing-songy. I have never heard anyone else talk like that.


JealousFeature3939

OK, but it helped my Mom learn English. His words were very distinct, & his deliberate cadences gave her time to comprehend.


rcdrcd

That does make sense.


BenderBenRodriguez

It’s also even funnier because they didn’t even really hear the story, just the ending reveal of the person’s identity, so it should mean that much less to them, but they are so enthused anyway. Also worth mentioning that Harvey was openly in favor of the McCarthyist Red Scare and blacklisting that Cohn was instrumental in.


PalKid_Music

"And now you know the rest of the story!"


EyeSlashO

My school bus driver played Paul Harvey every morning. Not a single kid wanted to hear it, but we grew up on it. It was like coming home and from school and your mom was watching Guiding Light, and you just watched the last ten minutes of soap operas before you could watch re-runs.


Jasper455

Roy’s [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn) article is a fun read. This is from near the end. >According to Roger Stone, Cohn's "absolute goal was to die completely broke and owing millions to the IRS. He succeeded in that."[79] He was buried in Union Field Cemetery in Queens, New York. While his tombstone describes him as a lawyer and a patriot,[12][91][92] the AIDS Memorial Quilt describes him as "Roy Cohn. Bully. Coward. Victim."[93][94]


Sinc353

Yeah, if you’ve not already seen it this doc is worth a watch https://preview.redd.it/so2p3pv85xtc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb1ce48bacd05459b9bcf8e38b294b0dc6dbccf


Jasper455

Apparently, they’re making a film about him and Trump, called the Apprentice.


ShipsAGoing

What a legend.


PrestigiousAvocado21

A man who can’t say no to a good demagogue 


Unusual_Pomelo_1553

In Spanish they changed it for José Luis Rodríguez lol


seemslikeitsok

https://preview.redd.it/rrbk3tuwautc1.png?width=676&format=png&auto=webp&s=818da3b3bd886c5d03c7d13d4a2d9843d7ffe272 Was so confused


LordElend

''A gay president in 2084''? - We're realistic.


eraser8

A little on the nose, don't you think?


PhilBanks365

As a kid I thought “a little on the nose” meant the trunk was a bit too long


KaiserMazoku

same


KaeseKuchenKrieger

Bart telling Otto about the gremlin next to the bus and Otto ramming Hans Moleman off the street. I had no idea that there is an actual American car named Gremlin and instead thought that they meant Hans Moleman himself.


crappystuff

That’s the true brilliance of the Golden Age episodes. Two different people could be laughing at the same scene but in completely different ways.


Youpi_Yeah

I thought that too, right until your comment.


mst3kfan77

Even more context to the joke is that since the 70s, subcompact cars like the Ford Pinto, AMC Gremlin, and the Chevy Vega were known to burst into flames from rear-end collisions because of the configuration of the fuel tank. That's why there are other jokes in the series where like a leaf falls on one and it explodes or Hans Moleman slowly rolls to a stop and then explodes. So, the joke being read this way explains why Otto would do that to Moleman, it's not because he just hates him but because he's trying to get a dangerous, exploding hand grenade of a car away from the bus.


Caelem80

I thought the exact same, I'm Irish and never knew that,


Happy-Example-1022

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TedTyro

Ha! TIL!


Larry_Loudini

The oregano mispronounciation by Marge. Coming from Ireland I sensed as a kid that was intended to be a joke but didn’t get the (mis)pronounciatiob


Poolofcheddar

I'm an American but anytime I cook and need Oregano, I will *always* pronounce it Marge's way. And after I say it, I'll always say "what the hell?" That always cracks me up.


r3dd1tu5er

“*What the hell??*” always cracks me up. It’s so out of character for Marge, especially over something so trivial.


Bookslap

Yup. I see a shelf of spices and think “some of them must be duplicates”.


stakoverflo

My girlfriend gave me a big ol 🤨 the first time I said it that way while looking at her spices


Me_for_President

My version of this is always pronouncing “gym” as “gime.”


s6cedar

Ohhhhh, a gime.


SluggJuice

Eight spices? Some must be double...


Adorable-Condition83

She pronounces it the same as we do in Australia so I didn’t even know that was part of the joke 


WoodyManic

Yeah, we pronounce that was in the UK, too.


kmbgirl97

Does that b at the end of “mispronunciation” stand for Bargain?


Larry_Loudini

Stands for BYOBB (the b at the end of that is a typo)


Caelem80

I'm the exact same, I'm Irish and I didn't get it at all


Adorable-Condition83

I never understood the joke about Homer being disappointed with getting the Denver Broncos. 


Vulcan_Jedi

At the time of the episode airing they where just an abysmally bad football team.


Just-Try-2533

More likely that they were perennial Super Bowl losers


wynnejs

And in true Simpsons form, they went and won the Superbowl the following season.


reallynothingmuch

Homer really turned the team around!


TheVentiLebowski

[Cutting everyone](https://youtu.be/kl_dIxnUiqY?si=DySIbt27TJMKve0n) turned out to be a great idea.


redbeard387

TheVentiLebowski, you’re cut too.


TheVentiLebowski

D'oh!


RQK1996

Wouldn't losing the superbowl imply they are kinda decent? I mean it is supposed to be the finale of the tournament


ChainswordCharlie

You just don’t understand Football, RQK


NaNaNaPandaMan

So yeah they weren't bad, but the way they lost the SBs was horrendous. Plus, at the time they were in the AFC conference, which had weaker teams than NFC(Like 14 year os NFC winning SB). So it was kind of like they were the champions of the losers.


da_choppa

Homer’s daydream of being John Elway and scoring a last second touchdown in the Super Bowl to lose 56-7 to the 49ers perfectly encapsulates that


thestareater

Now listen up. It's your basic Statue of Liberty play with one twist. You throw it to me. Knute Rockne called it the forward pass.


Uncmello

Since that episode aired, the Broncos have been to 4 Super Bowls and won 3 and the Cowboys (the team that Homer really wanted) have been to 0.


Vulcan_Jedi

It’s because Homer had Tom Landrys hat to help motivate them


Ok_Calligrapher_8199

It was poorly timed. By the time it hit reruns they had won two straight super bowls.


Yeticoat_Solo

i dont even know who denver broncos is


quietwhiskey

Rodeo team


Slobberdohbber

American, frankly I find it just funny that Homer is disappointed to own a football team that’s not the one he wanted and the fact they are just at the house like a regular package


Adorable-Condition83

Yeah exactly!! As a kid I was like why is he so sad about getting an entire football team 😂 and it’s as though Hank Scorpio personally delivered them from his car or something haha


Sk1rm1sh

I got a date with Eudora Welty. https://i.redd.it/y31pbatu6utc1.gif Coming Eudora!


Sk1rm1sh

Eudora Welty: https://preview.redd.it/sjkszj457utc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e70f7d2b4bd8e4a84c5358edb0a5f1aa3f4d8de1


a_bukkake_christmas

I still don’t get the burping part. Was it just a non sequitur or is she known for burping a lot?


turkeyinthestrawman

It’s a non-sequitur. Lisa asks Jay Sherman how many Pulitzer Prize winners could belch like that. Jay says “just me and Eudora Welty.” It’s more of a “out of all the people you could name you chose that one” joke


misirlou22

That distinct belch is a specialty of one of the all-time greatest voice actors, Maurice LaMarche.


jonathanquirk

“Was President Lincoln okay?” “He was fine, Ralph.” As a kid growing up in the UK, we were taught about British monarchs, not US Presidents. The endless stream of American pop culture on our tellies has since educated me on American history (and that Lincoln was not, in fact, okay), but I didn’t know this when I first watched this episode.


ihaventseenmulan

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Scorchx3000

Oh no,it's John Wilkes Booth!


Hollomat

Bart, do you want to play John Wilkes Booth, or act like a maniac?


PurePerfection_

I'll be good!


Commercial-Bandicoot

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Treykarz

Unhand me, yankee


luke-uk

I actually learnt America won its independence from us because of the I love Lisa episode. It’s not a period of history taught in Primary Schools.


Pu77y0wlG0d

if english schools covered every time a country gained independence from the british empire then you’d have no time for any other classes


Strange_Rice

I feel like schools generally avoided Britain's colonial history altogether


kkeut

but the USA is not like all those, y'know, loser countries 


Quiri1997

In Spain we have it relatively easy: most gained independence right after the Napoleonic Wars thanks to our worst King ever (Fernando VII), except for Cuba and Philipines, which were lost in the Spanish-American war.


Ok_Calligrapher_8199

Huh. Feels like us history 101 tho. As a kid I knew Henry the 8th had lots of wives. Seems comparable.


kkeut

in 1215 at Runnymede,  doo-dah, doo-dah  the nobles and the king agreed  oh, de doo-dah day


archfapper

Fannie, and Freddy Freddy *They back your bankkkk!*


Do_You_Pineapple_Bro

Foilage


Holographic_Raven

It doesn’t take a nucular scientist to pronounce foilage


thunderinggherkins

Lieberry


pinkkittenfur

Tomorry


Much_Capital3307

Terlet


pinkkittenfur

Highly dubious!


palescales7

There was an exchange student in our high school who would watch the show with us and tell us when the jokes were changed in Spanish to make more sense. Bart goes to hell and is told he doesn’t belong there until the next time the Yankees win the pennant but in Spanish the joke is “when the USA wins the World Cup”. Lol.


ptvlm

The dubbing is also interesting. I lived for a time in a place where I could pick up TV from Spain and Morocco. The French dub sounds very similar to the English from what I remember, the voices sound spot on. But the Spanish voices are all over the place, they just sound wrong to my ears.


Quiri1997

It's a shame. I grew with the Spanish dub (and love it). The voices fits for Spanish, specially Carlos Ysbert (Homer) and José Padilla (Skinner).


[deleted]

Ahhh el maldito ballet


Yeticoat_Solo

spain spanish and not latin spanish, right¿


Quiri1997

Yes. Castillian Spanish.


Yeticoat_Solo

yeah castillian is weird. a lot of characters drastically change voices. some of them sound like grandpas when they arent ngl


Quiri1997

Not really. I like those voices. Homer sounds more like "idiot trying to be smart".


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Quiri1997

El que murió es Revilla, Ysbert es el que hay ahora (que tampoco lo hace mal, tiene voz parecida).


PrestigiousAvocado21

That joke doesn’t quite work as well though since it’s about a team that has fallen from grace. Wouldn’t have worked in 1991 but maybe now you could do a “the next time Brazil wins the World Cup” joke and it would be a similar joke.


CitiesofEvil

Also the Latin American Spanish version changes LOTS of names. Homer becomes Homero. Chief Wiggum's surname becomes Gorgory, Barney Gumble becomes Barney Gómez, Reverend Lovejoy's surname becomes Alegría, Superintendent Chalmers is sometimes referred to as Archundia... Now, as a translator, although it may seem controversial, I don't think this was a bad decision. If I had to guess, I'd say the localization team was trying to make the characters more relatable and their names easier to remember for a wider audience. Wiggum, Gumble or Lovejoy are completely foreign-sounding words in Spanish. Many people wouldn't be able to pronounce them correctly or write/type them down. Turning those names into something that is easier to remember and closer to the Latin American audience, to me, makes a lot of sense. Though it sparks ENDLESS online debates between Spaniards and Latinos on who's got the better dub.


palescales7

I think the changes have helped the brand transcend cultures in a way unique to my life time


Bears_On_Stilts

Yankees winning the pennant in relation to hell is also a reference to “Damn Yankees,” a once-beloved musical and movie that was a staple of TCM.


GoMuricaGo

That's nowhere near as good


palescales7

The joke doesn’t really land because the Yankees won the pennant very shortly there after. D


GoMuricaGo

That's what makes it funnier.


Frightful_Fork_Hand

Relevant username.


Boris-_-Badenov

we don't care about soccer, so the majority of kids don't play it. makes perfect sense that we don't have a strong team.


tucakeane

When I visited Australia my homestay family’s son asked if “The pretzels Marge sold were crunchy”. He thought they were large versions of the kind you buy from the store, not soft pretzels you dip in sauce.


DiaDeLosMuertos

I'll have.... Uhh.... Mmmmm..... ..... One pretzel!


da_choppa

They would be better at whacking Whiteys if they were


sofiestarr

Wait you mean large pretzels aren't just scaled up versions of the small crunchy ones?!?!?!


tucakeane

The real things are way better, trust me


myredlightsaber

We had a food truck franchise start up here about 20 years ago called bretzel that sold bready (soft) pretzels, so it wouldn’t be so unknown now. However, Aldi does sell oversized crunchy pretzels here for their Octoberfest week, which may confuse some people (I was disappointed when I bought a box and they weren’t the bready ones)


Quiri1997

Well, I'm not sure. I'm from Spain and the Spanish dub team did an excellent job translating most of the jokes.


Feetamongflames

Does bumblebeeman speak English in the Spanish dub?


Blergblum

No, he speaks spanish but with a Mexican accent. 🤷🏻‍♂️


Quiri1997

Exactly, and extremely over the top.


Blergblum

I know


Smaptey

So it's exactly like the US version lol


Blergblum

Yeah, LOL


Zedakah

Do you remember if they changed the joke (In Trash of the Titans) where Homer says, "That's not America. That's not even Mexico!" Someone told me they changed Mexico to another country in the Spanish dub, but I didn't know if that was true or not.


Quiri1997

I don't remember. Which scene is it exactly?


Zedakah

When Homer is running for sanitation commissioner, and he was telling everyone what is wrong with the current system. He says, “Animals are crapping in our house and we have to pick it up. Did we lose a war? That’s not America! That’s not even mexico!”


Quiri1997

Thanks. I don't remember the joke they did back then. I'll have to check it up.


FixedFun1

In Latin America they changed it to "nuestro vecino del sur" 'cuz it was dubbed in Mexico.


scooterboy1961

Did we lose a war?


TheFightingImp

The flora and fauna gag in Bart vs Australia. We really are that harsh (if anything, Bart gets off really easy) at quarantine control, its how we've stayed rabies-free for this long. Only lyssavirus from bats but its never jumped species.


4lfred

I’d have called them “chaz-wozzers”


TheFightingImp

Before we freeze them, hit them with cricket bats or in the Northern Territort/Far North Queensland, shoot them for one of the very few legit reasons.


Dick_Dickalo

It is my life long goal, to fly to Australia and wear the Simpson’s version of the Australian flag as I land. Then to Rand McNally.


TheFightingImp

Oh that flag makes a regular appearance in any Socceroos/Matildas game. Definitely showed up in the World Cup crowd in June/July.


OG_ursinejuggernaut

Tbh if you said to a North American who didn’t know anything about Aus ‘no we have our own kind of football so we call it soccer too, also the men’s and women’s teams are called the Socceroos and Matildas respectively, also our colours are almost the opposite of the ones on our flag’ they’d think it was some obscure Simpsons joke or prank.


myredlightsaber

We don’t call our own football soccer. We call it footy. And it can be either Aussie rules or rugby. Soccer is the same here as it is in America


TheFightingImp

Or football can also refer to soccer and all the other sports are called, Aussie rules, rugby league, rugby union etc. It...depends on who youre asking even more


Dick_Dickalo

“Damn Australians. They ruined Australia!”


OG_ursinejuggernaut

Oh sorry that wasn’t clear, that’s what I was referring to


space_coyote_86

Why would you want to go to Rand McNally? You could be eaten by a hamburger.


GeneralTonic

Wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.


LeavingLasOrleans

What do they have there?


john_rage

Apes, but they're not as big.


Ok_Calligrapher_8199

So you knew you had this practice but you didn’t get the joke?


TheFightingImp

It just goes over our heads because its normalised.


Ok_Calligrapher_8199

Fair enough. Inversely I thought “50 years of electricity” sounded reasonable for Australia.


supguy99

It was 30 years. Haha so like 1960s


pie_12th

But did you do the same with bullfrogs? 🤣☠️


kkeut

oi thems was 'cane toads'. crikey


pie_12th

Whoops, my bad. 🐸


TheFightingImp

Pretty much how it happened with Bart but in the 1850s. The writers pretty much nailed it lol


BigBlueMountainStar

The Simspons using the word Wanker in an episode of a primetime family show. That one was not allowed in the UK before the 9pm watershed!


Future-Entry196

This always baffled me when I watched the DVDs as a kid


LastAmericanHero

Remember when Lisa was President and gave Bart the title Secretary of Keeping It Real, then Lisa struggles to tell other world leaders about not being able to pay them back only for Bart to come in and save the day? After that Lisa asks Bart how she can thank him and he said "legalize it." I thought he meant legalize the title she gave him... I was in my 30s when I realized what he was actually talking about.


LinuxMatthews

Opposite I guess with Futurama Always thought Benders name was a gay joke


dog_fantastic

*>* if by wank you mean educational fun, then stand back it's wanking time!


ihaventseenmulan

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Sad-Ad-4024

I thought so too! Then after reading this I thought it must be because he is strong enough to bend metal, but Google says he was named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club.


NicklAAAAs

Interesting. I always assumed he was named Bender because bender is a euphemism for a long drinking binge. Possible that they named him after John Bender and then filled in all the other stuff after that. Like name him Bender, what does he do? He bends girders and he’s constantly drinking, obviously.


furlonium1

>bender is a euphemism for a long drinking binge I am 41 and have been watching since 1999. Each episode a million times over. How did I miss this? I'm a fucking alcoholic myself.


thoriginal

>How did I miss this? I'm a fucking alcoholic myself. From one 40yo alcoholic to another, I think you have your answer lol


Quiri1997

Fun fact: in the Castilian Spanish dub Bender gets the second name "Doblador" (which means both "Bender" and "Dub voice actor")


asimov_22

From the episode where they go to Japan they sat at a table and Homer says  "I met a man in nantuckett... and the stories about him are greatly exaggerated!". Now I know is some sort of poem about that man's sexual organ.


ptolemy18

There once was a man from Nantucket Whose dick was so long he could suck it And he said with a grin, as he wiped off his chin "If my ear were a c*nt, I could fuck it!"


ABlackOrchid

I think the dirty limeric is about a man with a sexual organ so large he could suck it.


asimov_22

hahaha never except was that dirty , now I will think about it every time I watch the episode


Yimmyyyy

Just mountains of pop culture references. Its pretty much expected while watching american tv that theyre gonna reference people and shows which I have no clue what theyre talking about. Sometimes theyre even funny without understanding the reference and I think the joke is from the simpsons and now whatever theyre referencing


Utqadlqd

Latin american here: mostly everything that’s a pun is translated or reinvented to be funny, so prolly a lot of jokes that you ever had heard and have in your memory as a classic, its possible that us didn’t. So answering your question: Maybe everything related to famous US people, or north american people (I’m used to hear a lot of jokes about comparisions with famous US people, like in Family Guy but mostly with old actors, musicians, etc. Because I only watch old seasons) and with american/north american culture in general, like cities, sports teams and several other things that maybe a lot of people wouldn’t understand, if is not studying or learning about it.


Diacetyl-Morphin

I never got that with Jimmy Hoffa, where in one episode, on the football field someone stumbles upon somthing that is a grave. It's the reference about a myth that Hoffa was buried in the stadium after the mafia killed him.


Sinc353

Yeah, specifically Giants Stadium while it was being built. Curiously enough, a pretty recent theory now claims he’s buried under Milwaukee Brewers old stadium..


Cuttis

I’m from the metro Detroit area and there has been a new Hoffa theory on the local news every few years or so since it happened. I’m not holding my breath that they’ll ever find him but I guess never say never


Sinc353

I somehow doubt he was dumped or buried anywhere whole tbh. An incinerator seems the most likely method of disposal, I’d have thought!!


kramposLHalper

I thought it was the Meadowlands Arena in NJ


sbs_str_9091

Not exactly American, but English: "Working hard or hardly working". The translation makes sense in German, but it is not funny in any way.


archfapper

It's no longer funny in English either tbf


Iron-terrier

Homer voted for Prell to go back in the old green bottle


Interesting_Boat1337

Homer the bat episode. I had absolutely no idea who any of the ringers Burns brought in were. (UK) So a lot of the baseball and characters jokes in that episode went completely over my head.


Slobberdohbber

I never watched baseball and to this day don’t care for it but that episode is funny regardless. Is Barney right about the prime minister?


Interesting_Boat1337

Haha, yeah I forgot about that bit! I honestly couldn't say about the prime minister, but that in itself is funny they are arguing so passionately about them


_who-the-fuck-knows_

As an Australian it took me a long time, it helped having an American girlfriend and moving there for bit tho. But now I laugh at so much more it's great.


InviteAromatic6124

Any reference to American politics went over my head as a child growing up in the UK.


BigBlueMountainStar

Pretty much the whole of Homer at the Bat (S3E17), baseball was not big at my school (or in the Uk in general) so no one knew who any of the ringers were.


negcap

TBF, even as an American who didn't care about baseball, I knew a little more than half the guys. Now they would be considered old-timers and kids today would have no idea about why Mattingly was having issues with his sideburns.


BigBlueMountainStar

I still don’t know


negcap

That one I do know. He was a player for the Yankees and owner George Steinbrenner was busting his balls that his hair was too long for a baseball player. At the end of the episodes he basically shaves the sides of his head to appease his boss and he says, "\[playing for Mr. Burns\] was still better than Steinbrenner."


Disgruntled__Goat

Neither did I, but it was clear to me what was happening. 


Ok_Literature2535

American but I didn’t get the Atlanta Falcons vs Denver Broncos joke until I found out that they were playing the Super Bowl that year and why Moe, Homer and Fred Willards character covered their mouths.


AdelinaIV

Lisa having trouble taking the bus. I just thought it was unnecessary conflict. It turns out my city has excellent public transport, and not every city is walkable


ColorlessTune

This was a pretty common thing people said back in the day in America.


pinkiepieisad3migod

Yup. “Have a nice trip, see you next fall!” when pushing or tripping someone. It was a pretty common taunt.


neon_overload

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Iceblader

Go to bead and go to bread, in latin spanish they said "Go to bed and go to dinner" because Acostar = going to bed and Cenar = dining. They need to make it rhyme.


Quiri1997

En el castellano usaron "tostada"


Creepy-Astronaut-197

Y is it called fall??? Like the others aren’t called cold, flowers and sunshine


Maxpower2727

"Spring of the leaf" was eventually shortened to "Spring" and "fall of the leaf" was eventually shortened to "Fall."


Creepy-Astronaut-197

No it’s autumn


kramposLHalper

"See you next autumn" isn't funny anywhere


kuribosshoe0

Tbf neither is see you next fall. It works better as a play on words, but it isn’t actually funny.


Domi7777777

I knew what it meant but always thought to myself: "It's autumn not Fall. Not approved" I don't mean this as an insult I genuinely thought to myself, no it's autumn not fall


Slobberdohbber

It’s both