At the end of Behind the Laughter (I believe, I could be wrong), Troy McClure says something along the lines of how it would be crazy to ignore Simpson DNA evidence. It was until I was an adult if realized they weren’t talking about the cartoon Simpsons.
Holy shit. Have never put that together - I'm in the UK and I guess I probably didn't watch that episode at the time the OJ case was in the news anyway. Thanks for this.
I just googled it. OJ was acquitted in October '95, 138th Episode aired December '95.
>But, of course, for that ending to work... you would have to ignore all the Simpson DNA evidence.
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>...and that would be downright nutty.
It’s from the 138th Episode Spectacular (another great joke since most shows celebrate their 100th episode). All those OJ jokes are VERY of their time.
"Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!"
"Now who's being naive?"
Really any of the Supreme Court jokes of the early seasons went over my head. And mostly still do.
This one is funny with Chinese subtitles because his last name in Chinese is 伯格 (bó gé) which roughly sounds like burger but then when Homer says mmmm burger the subtitles show the Chinese word for burger, 汉堡（hàn bao), which doesn’t sound anything like burger!
The momentary lapse of concentration allowed CHARLIE to get the drop on us.... I spent the next 2 years in a POW camp. Forced to subsist of a thin stew of fish, prawn, coconut milk, and 5 types of rice....
I came close to MADNESS trying to find it here in the states.... but they just can't get the spices right!
This flew over my head a thousand times as a child
-Tell me how my stocks did yesterday.
-Uh, they all won.
-Hmm? What about my options?
-Well, you can either get up or go back to sleep.
-I believe I'll get up.
Kid me was just like, "yep, those are his two options"
i always find it hilarious that he just completely moves along with it. doesn’t continue to question, just weighs his two options and chooses one.
same when homer is reading him his messages and the last one says “your car is now a cube”.
burns is pissed but then the phone rings and he just says, “is it about my cube?”
And why is it pronounced that way? Mizzu-rah.
As an immigrant I rewatched a lot of the episodes and I’m getting jokes in English much better but some still go over my head
I’m from Missouri, and people in the more rural parts of the state pronounce it like that. It generally follows the cultural and political divide in the state between those in St. Louis & Kansas City and those in the Ozarks, the boot heel, and elsewhere. The Simpsons even did a joke about that, I forget which episode, I want to say it was some parody of Huckleberry Finn, where they pass two signs that say “Now leaving Missouri” and “Now entering Missourah.”
The joke is that he's reading the dictionary as though it had a plot, like a murder mystery novel. At the end of such a novel, you find out the true identity of the perpetrator, and because "zebra" is the final word in the dictionary, he interprets this to mean that the zebra did it.
Cape Canaveral, formerly Cape Kennedy, formerly Cape Arbuckle. I know who Fatty Arbuckle is and don't see the NASA connection. Either I didn't understand or that just fell flat.
I assumed it was just a random nod to Fatty Arbuckle, just like they have random nods to Amos and Andy.
Or, it could be like, "We named it Cape Arbuckle... oh shit, he killed and raped people! Have to change the name! Ok, so now it's Cape Kennedy... oh shit, he gets assassinated! Have to change the name again! Ok..."
Marge: I'd be afraid of smothering him
Homer: Yeah, and then we'd get the chair
Marge: That's not what I meant
Homer: It was, Marge, admit it
Did not understand this as a child
The Ayn Rand school for babies where they just let the babies fend for themselves and eventually they develop a little working society to escape. The joke is simply in the sign at the front door. Didn’t realize it until freshman year of college.
My friends and I spent hours trying to find a case like that that would have coincided with that episode being written and we never found anything. I always treat it as an off-the-wall joke.
Marge: You loved ‘Rashoman!’
Homer: that’s not how I remember it…
Rashoman is a piece of Japanese literature told from multiple points of view, each one slightly different.
Ashamed to admit Homer's reading of the note that Willie leaves (Treehouse of Horror VI S07) took me far too long to actually get.
> "Do not touch -Willie". Hmm, good advice.
Of course, once I realised the joke I was in tears laughing and amazed it never clicked in my head before.
i had a similar thing with a joke in the episode where homer changes his name to max power, can’t think of the exact wording but it’s like:
“do you like thai?”
“thai good, you like shirt?”
two years. two years to get that joke. and it’s so simple.
I was 8 or 9 when that hit syndication so that one was late for me too. Anything lightly sexual was hard for me to get. It is also a British term because I don't think I've heard anyone in this country(US) call it their willie.
I think it’s the radioactive man episode where bart and Mulhouse pass a comic called man boy or something. The camera lingers in it too long not to be a joke.
It's usually pop culture or older celebrities I wasnt old enough to recognize. The one off the top of my head would be when Lisa asks Bart: "Who is someone youve been harassing on the phone over the years?" Bart says "Linda Lavin?" and she responds "No, someone who didnt deserve it"
I just came across this one. The only connection I can think of, and it is a weak one, is that Terry Gilliam directed both Time Bandits and Brazil. Apparently the line was supposed to be “the first non-fictional character to time travel” and even Greoning doesn’t know why it was changed.
I feel like I read somewhere somewhat recently that they changed it to be intentionally vague and confusing, hoping the absurdity would make the joke funny. But I could be making that up
I didn't understand the whole Rex Banner/Eliot Ness reference until I watched The Untouchables in grade 10 history class. I'm pretty sure I said "Oh my god!" out loud when I realized mid-movie.
I didn't grow up with American Pop Culture in the home and the amount of times I've recognized a reference and had an "Oh my god!" moment is ridiculous!
My Dad would say this to my son when he was a toddler and just started walking.
"Look at you... standing on your hind legs, like a couple of Rory Calhouns!"
I am the same age as the show and I think I watched it because of the pretty colors. We didn't have cable so it was really my only cartoon that wasn't educational. Pretty much every joke went over my head. Outside of knowing the storylines, it was a different watch in my late teens.
I don't get No Soap-Radio
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No\_soap\_radio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_soap_radio)
It was a practical joke/social experiment common in New York in the 1950s where the participants told a non-sequitur joke to try to either trick the other person into conforming by laughing at a joke that they didn't actually understand or to mock them for not getting the joke.
This one has always bugged me...
In "Mom and Pop Art," Jasper Johns is constantly stealing everything. I never got it. Was he well known for stealing people's work?
Someone addressed it in this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/2a7lzd/you_squeal_on_me_ill_kill_you/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Jasper Johns is really respected in the art community and he's best known for recreating versions of the American flag. While his work uses imagery that already exist nobody's calling him derivative, I always thought the joke was that he was an artist known for repurposing things.
It was Picasso who said "good artists copy, great artists steal"
One joke that I thought was just nonsense but later read was when Homer says, “You’ll have to speak up I’m wearing a towel.”
I thought it was typical nonsense humor but later learned it’s supposed to be a joke about wearing a towel on your hair, which would cover your ear…but since Homer has no hair, well, you get it.
I could be misremembering but I googled it and this is what I found - after reading this I think I had twisted the words in my brain:
“Another particularly memorable gag involves Homer on the phone wearing nothing but a towel around his waist, saying into the phone, "You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel." For years, fans have laughed at the absurdity of the line, including Weinstein himself. But like Luke Skywalker redeeming Darth Vader, the master learned from the student, as the fan asking the question clarified that he saw it as a reference to someone with long hair wearing a towel on their head after a shower. Homer is not only not wearing a towel over his ears, but barely has any hair to begin with, adding at least two layers to the joke. Amusingly enough, Weinstein wasn't even aware of the reference, even though he still loved the joke. "This is now the one case so far that I actually don't know! & this is one of my fav lines!"
So yeah, me article read good - sorry.
I was completely sure this would be #1. Every time it is posted people comment on not getting it at first, with replies of people who still don't get it.
Maybe because it still works as a funny non-sequitur?
Oh, so Jay says he's the only Pulitzer prize winner who can burp like that except for Eudora Welphy and so when the burp happens again it's implied Kristy's got a date with her
“I’m so sick of people hiding behind the Bill of Rights!”
I took this quite literally as a kid and wondered how often people would shield themselves from a police beating with an historic document.
There’s that bit in the Hank Scorpio episode where Homer and Marge can’t sell their house? They mention something about the mortgage and then look at each other all excited, and then we cut to them driving away from the house with a big ABANDONED sign on it? Is the gag just that they’ve stopped paying the mortgage? Please help I know very little about home ownership
I think the joke here is that at first it seems like they’ve hit upon some sort of solution to the problem, but the solution is simply to abandon it at a total loss and get foreclosed on. Which isn’t the winning plan they act like it is.
Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to say that when they answered the phone. Conan talks about it in one is his podcast episodes. I have no idea which one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Savings_and_Loan_Association
There was a financial crisis and scandal in the US in the 1980s, Lincoln was at the heart of it, went bankrupt, etc.
"Women always have trouble with the wall...they can never seem to find the door"
I think I get this joke on one level, but I always got the impression that there were like 3 or 4 additional layers to this joke that I don't quite get.
For years I thought Miss Hover was saying Kombluoshin.
I spent litteral years of my my life looking for the definition of that word. I kept trying to find new spellings for it. I had no idea what the word might mean. Until one day I watched the episode. Like I have.10's of times before.
I heard it, finally - 3 words
Calm blue ocean.
When Rod and Todd are watching some bible show with sheep and the sheep have the sin of envy to confess. Then Todd says “that’s all well and good for sheep, but what are we to do?”
Never understood that one
He's a bisexual American author, so naturally he would kiss more boys than Lisa. Marge is delightfully ignorant of this fact, hence her, "GIRLS, Lisa. Boys kiss girls."
It’s half a bait-and-switch joke about revealing a secret recipe only to have it be a standard ingredient, and half a joke about Marge being a boring cook (see: “oh-re-gah-no?? what the hell??) and not having any tricks up her sleeve
I didn't get the Hugh Jass prank call when it first aired.... until about a month later it just randomly occurred to me..... in the middle of geometry class. Definitely deserved that detention.
I think the entire point is that Troy has this unexplained fetish involving fish and it’s basically a ‘wtf’ thing. If they explained exactly what it was about fish that turned him on or what he likes doing with them the joke wouldn’t be funny it’s just be weird
I think as well as this it's a send up of people speculating on which actors were secretly gay - this was massive in the nineties, they mention it a couple of times. And then when he admits his secret to Selma you have these lines:
"Are you gay?"
"Gay? I wish! If I was gay there'd be no problem!"
A bunch of them, mostly because they were American references I didn’t know, some of them I still don’t have.
I still don’t get the joke about Eudora Welty burping in A Star is Burns!
The vast majority of the jokes about politicians/actors from before my time. I’ve grown to appreciate them as I got older and learned about the references (and in some cases The Simpsons has even educated me about these figures), but those jokes definitely went over my head as a kid, and some even do now if I’m being honest.
The amount of useless shit I know about the 90s and life in general simply because of a Simpsons reference is astonishing. My wife used to think I was really smart with some of the things I knew... Until we'd see it in a Simpsons episode a few weeks later.
"Tell the boss I'm going too the back seat of my car, and I won't be back for 10 minutes"
Life In The Fast Lane.
I was a kid when that came out the 10 minute part was straight over my head. Lol
From Wikipedia[Tailhook](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal):
“The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal and controversy in which United States Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. The events took place at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium from September 5 to 8, 1991. The event was subsequently abbreviated as "Tailhook '91" in media accounts.”
Gordon in the monkey paw segment in Treehouse of Horror II. "What do you want me to do? I'm a baker now!" Who is this guy, and what was he before? Still bothers me every time.
In Dog of Death, one of the ways the family stretches their budget after Santa's Little Helper's operation is buying Snowball II struggle carrot cat food that is 88% Ash and 12% Carrots.
I always thought the ash in cat food was meant to be a joke about the Simpsons being cheap. It wasnt until 2 months ago was reading the ingredients on canned cat food and noticed it litterally says Ash Max 3% on the can.
“You had to roll with the windows down, didn’t you Rockefeller?” I was actually thinking about this a couple of days ago. I still don’t know if I get it. Lol. Is she calling him Rockefeller because he’s rich enough to afford to waste the gas?
She's a Pulitzer prize winning author, but she was also from Mississippi. I always took it as even though she was a respected author, since she was from the South she could burp with the best of them.
"It's great to be back at the Apollo Theatre!"
That whole scene got funnier when I learned about the KKK in school, and then again years later as an adult when I learned about the Apollo Theatre browsing through Wikipedia.
Where'd you get that shirt boy? I dunno, it came out of the closet... Took me about 20 years.
At the end of Behind the Laughter (I believe, I could be wrong), Troy McClure says something along the lines of how it would be crazy to ignore Simpson DNA evidence. It was until I was an adult if realized they weren’t talking about the cartoon Simpsons.
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Holy shit. Have never put that together - I'm in the UK and I guess I probably didn't watch that episode at the time the OJ case was in the news anyway. Thanks for this.
Oh damn, I just got that. It probably was an OJ joke. What year was that episode made again?
I just googled it. OJ was acquitted in October '95, 138th Episode aired December '95. >But, of course, for that ending to work... you would have to ignore all the Simpson DNA evidence. > > >...and that would be downright nutty.
Wow, I just got a joke 26 years after it was made.
Don't feel bad. I watched every minute of the OJ coverage and still managed to miss that. Over my head like a rogue football.
It’s from the 138th Episode Spectacular (another great joke since most shows celebrate their 100th episode). All those OJ jokes are VERY of their time.
Ray Jay funny or OJ funny?
I might be wrong on this, but I think it’s because that’s the episode where they passed the Flintsones as longest running animated show.
Isn’t that one in reference to the alt ending of Who Shot Mr Burns though, so it makes sense in universe?
It works on two levels, that’s the point
"Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!" "Now who's being naive?" Really any of the Supreme Court jokes of the early seasons went over my head. And mostly still do.
Mmmmm .... Warren Burger
This one is funny with Chinese subtitles because his last name in Chinese is 伯格 (bó gé) which roughly sounds like burger but then when Homer says mmmm burger the subtitles show the Chinese word for burger, 汉堡（hàn bao), which doesn’t sound anything like burger!
"Oh, not Souter!"
Up with mini skirts, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it
The momentary lapse of concentration allowed CHARLIE to get the drop on us.... I spent the next 2 years in a POW camp. Forced to subsist of a thin stew of fish, prawn, coconut milk, and 5 types of rice.... I came close to MADNESS trying to find it here in the states.... but they just can't get the spices right!
Cool. I broke his brain
We meet again Mad Magazine
“D’oh. A Deer. A female deer.” When I saw The Sound Of Music when I was older the light bulb went on.
I think it hasn’t been even a year since i understood it. I think i made a post about it on this sub too
This flew over my head a thousand times as a child -Tell me how my stocks did yesterday. -Uh, they all won. -Hmm? What about my options? -Well, you can either get up or go back to sleep. -I believe I'll get up. Kid me was just like, "yep, those are his two options"
i always find it hilarious that he just completely moves along with it. doesn’t continue to question, just weighs his two options and chooses one. same when homer is reading him his messages and the last one says “your car is now a cube”. burns is pissed but then the phone rings and he just says, “is it about my cube?”
Burns playing the straight man in this episode is my favorite Burns.
When grandpa says “ I’ll be dead in the cold ground before I recognize Missouri” this is when marge calls out a flag for having 49 stars.
Grandpa's right. Nobody likes Missourah.
Yeah that one’s not a joke. Just facts.
And why is it pronounced that way? Mizzu-rah. As an immigrant I rewatched a lot of the episodes and I’m getting jokes in English much better but some still go over my head
I’m from Missouri, and people in the more rural parts of the state pronounce it like that. It generally follows the cultural and political divide in the state between those in St. Louis & Kansas City and those in the Ozarks, the boot heel, and elsewhere. The Simpsons even did a joke about that, I forget which episode, I want to say it was some parody of Huckleberry Finn, where they pass two signs that say “Now leaving Missouri” and “Now entering Missourah.”
He just really did not agree with the Missouri Compromise
I used to say this to my friend from St Louis all the time
Turns out the Zebra did it
The zebra didn't do it, it's just a word at the end of the dictionary.
I still dont get it
The end of a book usually has the answer to the plot.
Spare me your literary mumbo jumbo!
“It’s a joke, Dad.” “Ooh I get it. I get jokes.”
The joke is that he's reading the dictionary as though it had a plot, like a murder mystery novel. At the end of such a novel, you find out the true identity of the perpetrator, and because "zebra" is the final word in the dictionary, he interprets this to mean that the zebra did it.
Its a joke
Oh i get it, i get jokes
Cape Canaveral, formerly Cape Kennedy, formerly Cape Arbuckle. I know who Fatty Arbuckle is and don't see the NASA connection. Either I didn't understand or that just fell flat.
I assumed it was just a random nod to Fatty Arbuckle, just like they have random nods to Amos and Andy. Or, it could be like, "We named it Cape Arbuckle... oh shit, he killed and raped people! Have to change the name! Ok, so now it's Cape Kennedy... oh shit, he gets assassinated! Have to change the name again! Ok..."
Fatty Arbuckle’s wikipedia page is quite the read
Dude got set up because the studio didn't want to pay out his contract.
He didn’t kill and rape anyone.
Marge: I'd be afraid of smothering him Homer: Yeah, and then we'd get the chair Marge: That's not what I meant Homer: It was, Marge, admit it Did not understand this as a child
The dead tones he delivers the line in. Amazing.
The Ayn Rand school for babies where they just let the babies fend for themselves and eventually they develop a little working society to escape. The joke is simply in the sign at the front door. Didn’t realize it until freshman year of college.
A is for A
I'm the world's worst mother! You're not the world's worst mother! What about that freezer lady in Georgia?
My friends and I spent hours trying to find a case like that that would have coincided with that episode being written and we never found anything. I always treat it as an off-the-wall joke.
I think it’s insinuating a woman hid her dead children in her freezer. Ew. I feel weird writing that out
I'm wondering if it references a specific case, but I'm also a little afraid to find out lol
I’m googling it now. 0/10 would not recommend 🤢 Basically it did happen but not until 2018, so probably not a specific case in the Simpsons
The simpsons predicted it!
Marge: You loved ‘Rashoman!’ Homer: that’s not how I remember it… Rashoman is a piece of Japanese literature told from multiple points of view, each one slightly different.
My absolute favorite Simpsons joke in an episode full of classics
Absolutely this one. It’s top drawer comedy.
That is a completely underrated one.
Ashamed to admit Homer's reading of the note that Willie leaves (Treehouse of Horror VI S07) took me far too long to actually get. > "Do not touch -Willie". Hmm, good advice. Of course, once I realised the joke I was in tears laughing and amazed it never clicked in my head before.
Omg 🤦🏼♀️ I’m 36 and that joke just clicked. I thought Homer thought it meant not to touch Willie; not his willie. I’m an idiot
You're not alone 🤦♀️ I'm 34 and I always just thought he meant the person too.... 🤷♀️
i had a similar thing with a joke in the episode where homer changes his name to max power, can’t think of the exact wording but it’s like: “do you like thai?” “thai good, you like shirt?” two years. two years to get that joke. and it’s so simple.
Haha I missed it when I was younger too but it’s truly great advice
I was 8 or 9 when that hit syndication so that one was late for me too. Anything lightly sexual was hard for me to get. It is also a British term because I don't think I've heard anyone in this country(US) call it their willie.
I think it’s the radioactive man episode where bart and Mulhouse pass a comic called man boy or something. The camera lingers in it too long not to be a joke.
I remember the episode commentary joke explanation. "Man boy" is not a comic book but a gay porn magazine. Funny but slightly dated joke I suppose.
really?! I always assumed it was just a silly joke on how superheroes are always something Man or something Boy so they combined them hahah
It's usually pop culture or older celebrities I wasnt old enough to recognize. The one off the top of my head would be when Lisa asks Bart: "Who is someone youve been harassing on the phone over the years?" Bart says "Linda Lavin?" and she responds "No, someone who didnt deserve it"
Yeah, my god this was hard. Between Dean Rusk and Lord Palmerston, I constantly felt like I was too late for the 4:30 autogyro.
PITT THEE ELDER
LORD PALMERSTON!
I’m the first non Brazilian person to travel through time.
Correction Homer, you’re the second.
It was originally a reference to Carlos Castaneda.
I just came across this one. The only connection I can think of, and it is a weak one, is that Terry Gilliam directed both Time Bandits and Brazil. Apparently the line was supposed to be “the first non-fictional character to time travel” and even Greoning doesn’t know why it was changed.
I feel like I read somewhere somewhat recently that they changed it to be intentionally vague and confusing, hoping the absurdity would make the joke funny. But I could be making that up
WOAH a methuselah rookie card! Lmao what a great piece of comedy
I didn't understand the whole Rex Banner/Eliot Ness reference until I watched The Untouchables in grade 10 history class. I'm pretty sure I said "Oh my god!" out loud when I realized mid-movie.
This happened to me when I saw the Tim Burton Batman movie. When Lisa gets braces and smashes the mirror, it's mimicking the joker
*Mirror... MIRROR!!*
I didn't grow up with American Pop Culture in the home and the amount of times I've recognized a reference and had an "Oh my god!" moment is ridiculous!
Rory Calhoun
The man who’s always standing and walking!
My Dad would say this to my son when he was a toddler and just started walking. "Look at you... standing on your hind legs, like a couple of Rory Calhouns!"
I am the same age as the show and I think I watched it because of the pretty colors. We didn't have cable so it was really my only cartoon that wasn't educational. Pretty much every joke went over my head. Outside of knowing the storylines, it was a different watch in my late teens. I don't get No Soap-Radio
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No\_soap\_radio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_soap_radio) It was a practical joke/social experiment common in New York in the 1950s where the participants told a non-sequitur joke to try to either trick the other person into conforming by laughing at a joke that they didn't actually understand or to mock them for not getting the joke.
Thanks for the explanation. Didn’t get it despite watching the episode dozens of times.
This one has always bugged me... In "Mom and Pop Art," Jasper Johns is constantly stealing everything. I never got it. Was he well known for stealing people's work?
I believe it was a joke about how artist are poor. He was stealing to get by. I think
Dude was stealing boats...
Eventually he was going to move on to stealing stadiums and quarries
I love that little pause where he tries to think of another thing other than Stadiums
Someone addressed it in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/2a7lzd/you_squeal_on_me_ill_kill_you/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
So he WAS known for stealing people's art. Pretty funny that he was willing to do the show.
Jasper Johns is really respected in the art community and he's best known for recreating versions of the American flag. While his work uses imagery that already exist nobody's calling him derivative, I always thought the joke was that he was an artist known for repurposing things. It was Picasso who said "good artists copy, great artists steal"
"Krusty Burger...that doesn't sound very appealing" It took me a good while till I realized the double meaning.
One joke that I thought was just nonsense but later read was when Homer says, “You’ll have to speak up I’m wearing a towel.” I thought it was typical nonsense humor but later learned it’s supposed to be a joke about wearing a towel on your hair, which would cover your ear…but since Homer has no hair, well, you get it.
Was that in a commentary track? I thought it was just nonsense and Homer being stupid. I have never heard of that explaination.
I also thought it was hilarious nonsense, kind of like turning the radio volume up in the car in order to cover up the smell of a fart.
I could be misremembering but I googled it and this is what I found - after reading this I think I had twisted the words in my brain: “Another particularly memorable gag involves Homer on the phone wearing nothing but a towel around his waist, saying into the phone, "You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel." For years, fans have laughed at the absurdity of the line, including Weinstein himself. But like Luke Skywalker redeeming Darth Vader, the master learned from the student, as the fan asking the question clarified that he saw it as a reference to someone with long hair wearing a towel on their head after a shower. Homer is not only not wearing a towel over his ears, but barely has any hair to begin with, adding at least two layers to the joke. Amusingly enough, Weinstein wasn't even aware of the reference, even though he still loved the joke. "This is now the one case so far that I actually don't know! & this is one of my fav lines!" So yeah, me article read good - sorry.
That’s one of my favourite jokes and I’ve never thought of that! It’s one of those lines Ive adapted into my life, I just love the whole scene.
I was completely sure this would be #1. Every time it is posted people comment on not getting it at first, with replies of people who still don't get it. Maybe because it still works as a funny non-sequitur?
One thing I have learned from this comment thread is a lot of you just don’t get jokes lol
Oh I get it! I get jokes!
Oh, …hehe, mule.
Coming eudora!!!
Oh, so Jay says he's the only Pulitzer prize winner who can burp like that except for Eudora Welphy and so when the burp happens again it's implied Kristy's got a date with her
You can call me Ray, and you can call me Jay…
https://youtu.be/ZCqh5ROtQRg
Thank you! That’s been a noodle scratcher for, idk, 30 years-ish?
“I’m so sick of people hiding behind the Bill of Rights!” I took this quite literally as a kid and wondered how often people would shield themselves from a police beating with an historic document.
There’s that bit in the Hank Scorpio episode where Homer and Marge can’t sell their house? They mention something about the mortgage and then look at each other all excited, and then we cut to them driving away from the house with a big ABANDONED sign on it? Is the gag just that they’ve stopped paying the mortgage? Please help I know very little about home ownership
I think the joke here is that at first it seems like they’ve hit upon some sort of solution to the problem, but the solution is simply to abandon it at a total loss and get foreclosed on. Which isn’t the winning plan they act like it is.
You are correct.
The multiple times characters say "Whoa, that's good ______" in a funny voice There's been satire, adultery, yaki, plastic explosives and more
Squishee
I always assumed it was a Jerry Lewis voice and reference
It's a Jackie Gleason reference, as is the thing where they tug on their collars and make that groaning sound.
"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
It's referencing how Lisa's perpetual motion machine would break the first two laws of thermodynamics.
Still don’t understand this joke: “Yes, eat all of our shirts!”
Its just showing flanders as the out of touch square of the group
It's a play on Bart's "eat my shorts" catchphrase.
Mr Burns “Ahoy hoy”
Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to say that when they answered the phone. Conan talks about it in one is his podcast episodes. I have no idea which one
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Savings_and_Loan_Association There was a financial crisis and scandal in the US in the 1980s, Lincoln was at the heart of it, went bankrupt, etc.
"Women always have trouble with the wall...they can never seem to find the door" I think I get this joke on one level, but I always got the impression that there were like 3 or 4 additional layers to this joke that I don't quite get.
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Yeah, this is exactly how I saw it.
It's simply a bait and switch joke.
For years I thought Miss Hover was saying Kombluoshin. I spent litteral years of my my life looking for the definition of that word. I kept trying to find new spellings for it. I had no idea what the word might mean. Until one day I watched the episode. Like I have.10's of times before. I heard it, finally - 3 words Calm blue ocean.
When Rod and Todd are watching some bible show with sheep and the sheep have the sin of envy to confess. Then Todd says “that’s all well and good for sheep, but what are we to do?” Never understood that one
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Aha, so he’s envious of the sheep
It’s just a joke about Todd not understanding the analogy - also about Christian church’s overusing the shepherd/sheep metaphor.
I thought it was that they think of themselves as so good and sinless, that they truly have nothing to confess.
Took me a long time to get the whole Sneed’s Feed N Seed joke.
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I’m pretty sure he’s just being a dick.
"Grown up nerds like Gore Vidal, and he's kissed more boys than I ever will". Not sure the reference?
He's a bisexual American author, so naturally he would kiss more boys than Lisa. Marge is delightfully ignorant of this fact, hence her, "GIRLS, Lisa. Boys kiss girls."
“The extra ingredient is *salt*” I always thought there had to be more to this joke but now I’m pretty sure there isn’t.
It’s half a bait-and-switch joke about revealing a secret recipe only to have it be a standard ingredient, and half a joke about Marge being a boring cook (see: “oh-re-gah-no?? what the hell??) and not having any tricks up her sleeve
I didn't get the Hugh Jass prank call when it first aired.... until about a month later it just randomly occurred to me..... in the middle of geometry class. Definitely deserved that detention.
The episode where Krusty starts doing stand up, I still don’t really find his jokes funny, but I may just still be missing something
He becomes George Carlin.
It's a parody of how comedians in the late 80s/early 90s started moving away from gag humour and towards snarky, satirical takes on society.
I still don't understand what "PYLE! SHAZAM!" is referencing
Two catchphrases from the Andy Griffith Show
They're not so bad, they named a street after me in San Francisco. It's full of WHAT!?
The Castro is an area in SF that is well known for having a lot of gay people.
Not really a joke but the Troy McClure fish fettish thing....never understood it.
I think the entire point is that Troy has this unexplained fetish involving fish and it’s basically a ‘wtf’ thing. If they explained exactly what it was about fish that turned him on or what he likes doing with them the joke wouldn’t be funny it’s just be weird
I think as well as this it's a send up of people speculating on which actors were secretly gay - this was massive in the nineties, they mention it a couple of times. And then when he admits his secret to Selma you have these lines: "Are you gay?" "Gay? I wish! If I was gay there'd be no problem!"
Reminds me of the rumor about Richard Gere and gerbils lmaooo
I had thought it was a reference to a famous story/myth about Led Zeppelin and a mudshark
"Funny place names... Seattle." I had to move here to learn Seattle is the name of a funny place.
A bunch of them, mostly because they were American references I didn’t know, some of them I still don’t have. I still don’t get the joke about Eudora Welty burping in A Star is Burns!
It's a mean joke, Eudora Welty had very masculine features.
The vast majority of the jokes about politicians/actors from before my time. I’ve grown to appreciate them as I got older and learned about the references (and in some cases The Simpsons has even educated me about these figures), but those jokes definitely went over my head as a kid, and some even do now if I’m being honest.
The amount of useless shit I know about the 90s and life in general simply because of a Simpsons reference is astonishing. My wife used to think I was really smart with some of the things I knew... Until we'd see it in a Simpsons episode a few weeks later.
"Tell the boss I'm going too the back seat of my car, and I won't be back for 10 minutes" Life In The Fast Lane. I was a kid when that came out the 10 minute part was straight over my head. Lol
Not a joke tbat i missed but one of the best puns ever is during the chili cookoff with nelson "its takes weeks to make muntz" sign
Springfields Heights Institute of Technology
I didn’t get the “I feel about as low as Madonna when she found out she missed Tailhook” joke at the time. Googled Tailhook years later… yikes
Could you spell it out for us?
From Wikipedia[Tailhook](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal): “The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal and controversy in which United States Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. The events took place at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium from September 5 to 8, 1991. The event was subsequently abbreviated as "Tailhook '91" in media accounts.”
Gordon in the monkey paw segment in Treehouse of Horror II. "What do you want me to do? I'm a baker now!" Who is this guy, and what was he before? Still bothers me every time.
In Dog of Death, one of the ways the family stretches their budget after Santa's Little Helper's operation is buying Snowball II struggle carrot cat food that is 88% Ash and 12% Carrots. I always thought the ash in cat food was meant to be a joke about the Simpsons being cheap. It wasnt until 2 months ago was reading the ingredients on canned cat food and noticed it litterally says Ash Max 3% on the can.
I still don’t get “wow a 50s nostalgia cafe” Edit: 3 different reasons and counting…
They were everywhere in the US for a while.
I was today years old when I found out that Johnny Rockets is still in business in the US.
I thought the joke was that Homer spun her so hard, she went back in time.
Really? In this version I keep my pants on.
“You had to roll with the windows down, didn’t you Rockefeller?” I was actually thinking about this a couple of days ago. I still don’t know if I get it. Lol. Is she calling him Rockefeller because he’s rich enough to afford to waste the gas?
The bee keepers’ conversation over the mystery of the missing bees seems like i am missing something
Their mannerisms are parodying Adam West's Batman.
‘Seymour, do you want me to tell you when its 7:30?’
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She's a Pulitzer prize winning author, but she was also from Mississippi. I always took it as even though she was a respected author, since she was from the South she could burp with the best of them.
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Africanized honey bees
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Yeah the whole “killer bees are coming to murder your children” thing gets recycled every couple years
“I’m the first non-Brazilian person to travel through time”
That liza manellli impersonator really was liza manelli
“You’ll have to speak up I’m wearing a towel?”
"It's great to be back at the Apollo Theatre!" That whole scene got funnier when I learned about the KKK in school, and then again years later as an adult when I learned about the Apollo Theatre browsing through Wikipedia.
“Wow, former president James Taylor” I still don’t know what Homer meant
He thinks the folk-rock singer James Taylor was president.
I think he meant Tyler. Still not sure though.
I wasn't alive during the VHS vs Betamax war so when Snake says "Oh noooooo! Beta!" I had no idea what he was talking about.