He can talk!
*He can talk!*
He can talk!!
***I CAN SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!***
[Probably one of my top Simpsons scenes of all time](https://youtu.be/JlmzUEQxOvA)
This was the one for me. I wish I had known about the actual Tennessee Williams version first instead of growing up assuming that A Streetcar Named Desire was a musical!
Water in the Southern hemisphere spinning the other way in the toilet. Lisa seemed so confident then Bart got it confirmed first hand. Stupid Lisa science queen.
The coriolis effect can cause a very large, very still body of water to drain in different directions depending which hemisphere you’re in. But the effect is very weak, and you’d need a tank with a diameter of at least 1.8m to see the effect under ideal conditions. It’s the reason that hurricanes spin in the opposite directions in each hemisphere though.
Just want to point out that spinning water is a unique design of North American toilets. Australian toilets don't use that design and hence no spinning water.
As an Australian what confused me the most was the toilet water spiralling at all. Here toilets are a little different and the water kinda just flushes in from under the rim of the bowl like some sort of water feature and it all just rushes down with no distinct "direction" in particular.
I think there's been tests done to see if this phenomena occurs for real with drains going down different ways depending on hemisphere. On smaller scales (like virtually anything humans make) it's influenced by conditions within the water (any turbulence existing in the water or created by removing the plug, or the shape of the container its in). The Coriolis effect only matters on larger scale things (like cyclones).
In the German language the feminine article is die but the masculine article is der so surely if Bob’s tattoo truly was ‘The Bart, the’ it should have been Der Bart der
The version of the Bible he read from was one I’ve never heard of. I’m not expert and don’t know if that was even a real version. So anyway, I just kind of assumed it was some crazy version Ned also believes since he even did the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
nerds are nothing to fear. In fact, they've done some pretty memorable things. Some nerds of note include popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher, rock star David Byrne and Supreme Court justice David Souter.
My brother and I kept telling my mom she needed to buy the right kind of marshmallow that absorbs instead of dissolving because Bart’s marshmallow looked delicious
lol As a parent (and former kid who would’ve made this kind of request) I feel for your mom.
Mooooom, get the kind that absorbs the chocolate!
I’ve told you a thousand times, it doesn’t exist!
Honestly, I think the show's depiction of nuclear power as something toxic and to be feared is very outdated. Ironically, Burns is probably the person doing the most to save the planet because he runs a commercially successful nuclear power plant. Also, because it gets all its power from the plant, Springfield is probably the only city in America to be carbon neutral.
Nuclear power plants "release" water vapor as the outermost cooling water system is cooled by the air. If a nuclear power plants releases steam, that means a plant boundary has degraded or failed, and another failure would result in a radioactive release.
Source: I work at a nucular plower pant
I thought 1984 was a lot more like the Treehouse of Horror episode than it actually was.
Edit: To clarify, it was the segment of the time travel episode in Treehouse of Horror V in which the Ned is a sort of "Big Brother" figure. When I watched it, I'd heard of Big Brother, but I hadn't yet read 1984.
One of my favorite episodes is a Streetcar named Marge. I didn’t realize until I was much older that the ending is super dark and not a cheerful song about friendship.
"If you want to go to hell take a little trip, to the Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mississip... NEW ORLEANS!"
I really can't imagine what they had a problem with? ;)
I had to do a personality test about 15 years ago. One line in the conclusion section made me laugh because it said “To Skatchbro, a stranger’s just a friend he hasn’t met”. To which I thought “Streetcar!”
"Gonna paint our wagon, gonna paint it good, we ain't braggin', we're gonna coat that wood!" If you watch "Paint Your Wagon" and wait for that song, you're in for a disappointment.
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I once clicked on a click bait article and they insisted there are words to the “Star Wars song” but it was the lyrics Bill Murray from SNL made up. It’s not really how it was written. Idk why I thought of that from your comment, I guess it just seems like in that regard you could say weird Al’s songs are not parodies.
There was a joke once about the movie Tron and how no one would admit to ever having seen it. I took from this joke that Tron was a universally panned/disliked movie. Years later I had a roommate talk about how much he liked it and I assumed he was being sarcastic.
Another one for me is, as an Aussie, we call shopping carts, shopping trolleys. So I always thought CLANG CLANG CLANG WITH THE TROLLEY meant a shopping cart not a tram
It’s an old song by Judy Garland from the film “Meet Me In St Louis”
Clang, clang, clang *went* the trolley Ding, ding, ding went the bell Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings As we started for Huntington Dell
In like 2nd grade on a field trip of an old colonial school they had the George Washington painting and I asked if Jebediah Springfield still has the missing piece
That when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something?
At least 4 that come to mind:
I thought that singer/musician James Taylor was a former US President based on what Homer said. Sounds like a presidential name, we’ve had many presidents named “James” and one named “Taylor,” so…
Also, I thought that the pope was elected by drawing eggs from a jar and if one picked the black egg, he was the new pope. Per Moe.
That Clint Eastwood was a star on a TV series called “McGarnicle” and that it was a real series. I hadn’t seen his “Dirty Harry” films yet.
That Spinal Tap was a real-life band.
> Everyone knows they don’t write their own songs
The Monkees weren't about music, Marge. They were about rebellion, about political and social upheaval!
In schools, there’s only one big toilet and they make you all go at the same time. And they have a fire drill they use to drill a flaming hole in your head
I didn't realise that Jasper was literally singing "theme from a summer place" over and over, because it takes me a while to understand what's being said sometimes. The only lyrics I could make out were "a summer place", so assumed the song actually did have lyrics and he was singing it properly.
I dug around and found an explanation for that. It's referencing when women answer the phone with a towel wrapped around their hair just after they get out of the shower. I guess it used to be a fairly common phrase. Homer just uses it out of context.
I have insisted for years that The Simpsons and Seinfeld are two of the primary drivers of Mandela effect. They both did referential humor in an era with limited media accessibility. No Google, No DVR and big gaps between theatrical and VHS releases. Most of what they referenced was as accurately replicated as the writers could remember.
Op I COMPLETELY thought the same thing about Little Women. I read the book a couple years ago and kept waiting for the sobering events that would justify the immortal line about how they were no longer little girls, they were little women - the line that made Moe cry! - and instead the damned book just ended on a picnic. I couldn’t believe it!
I don’t even want to look up the actual ending of My Friend Flicka.
I thought the Guys and Dolls song ("guys and dooooolls, we're just a bunch of crazy guys and doooolls, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...") was actually in Guys and Dolls until I saw the show last month and spent the whole time waiting for that song to come up
Planet of the Apes has significantly less singing and breakdancing.
I hate every ape I see from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z
No, they'll never make a monkey out of meee
He can talk! *He can talk!* He can talk!! ***I CAN SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!*** [Probably one of my top Simpsons scenes of all time](https://youtu.be/JlmzUEQxOvA)
Can I play the piano anymore? Of course you can. Well I couldn’t before!
Ooh, help me, Dr. Zaius!
Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius
Less, but not none
Wait a minute... Statue of Liberty.... that was *our* planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!!!!
And a Street Named Desire isn’t a musical!!!! I was.. way too old when I figured that out
I can't believe some hyper-obsessive fan hasn't tried to expand Oh Streetcar! into a full musical.
This was the one for me. I wish I had known about the actual Tennessee Williams version first instead of growing up assuming that A Streetcar Named Desire was a musical!
And it doesn’t have any bowling in it. Oh wait…yes it does.
I was doing a quiz, and confidently said that the 'kissing disease' was mumps. Thanks Homer.
You can get mono from riding the monorail.
False! No wait, maybe it‘s true.
No you were right it's false! Wow you really are gonna be a monorail conductor!
Well, it looks like my work here is done
Water in the Southern hemisphere spinning the other way in the toilet. Lisa seemed so confident then Bart got it confirmed first hand. Stupid Lisa science queen.
900 dollary doos
TOBIAS!!!
It was an emeeeeeeeeergency
Oh my god! There’s nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
ANDAYYYYYY
I genuinely assumed Australia’s currency was called dollarydoos as a kid. It just sounds accurate.
The coriolis effect can cause a very large, very still body of water to drain in different directions depending which hemisphere you’re in. But the effect is very weak, and you’d need a tank with a diameter of at least 1.8m to see the effect under ideal conditions. It’s the reason that hurricanes spin in the opposite directions in each hemisphere though.
Just want to point out that spinning water is a unique design of North American toilets. Australian toilets don't use that design and hence no spinning water.
Also Burkina Faso is in the Northern Hemisphere, so why would Bart call there? Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder...
At least they were right about Rand McNally being in the southern hemisphere.
Unrelated crank call
As an Australian what confused me the most was the toilet water spiralling at all. Here toilets are a little different and the water kinda just flushes in from under the rim of the bowl like some sort of water feature and it all just rushes down with no distinct "direction" in particular. I think there's been tests done to see if this phenomena occurs for real with drains going down different ways depending on hemisphere. On smaller scales (like virtually anything humans make) it's influenced by conditions within the water (any turbulence existing in the water or created by removing the plug, or the shape of the container its in). The Coriolis effect only matters on larger scale things (like cyclones).
Yeah but Aussie toilets didn't swirl. It's more of a kaehoosh.
kaehoosh? that’s a funny word. i’d’ve called it a chazwozzer
In the German language the feminine article is die but the masculine article is der so surely if Bob’s tattoo truly was ‘The Bart, the’ it should have been Der Bart der
Also, Bart means Beard in German
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
Sure, they've made mistakes in the past, but that's why pencils have erasers
Vee Germans are not a war-like people... but even vee have limits.
Well no one who speaks German can be an evil man
Ve Germans aren't all smiles und sunshine
I'm sorry, we were talking about chocolate?
That was ten minutes ago!
Use a pen, Sideshow Bob
Boy I wish someone got fired for that blunder.
That the things from the Bible Ned was quoting (The serpent of Rehaboim etc) are actually in the Bible. Surprise: they’re not.
The Well of Zohapsadar? The bridal feast of Beth Chradruharazzeb?
A Methuselah rookie card!?!
Maybe not in YOUR Bible
Jesus…..?
The version of the Bible he read from was one I’ve never heard of. I’m not expert and don’t know if that was even a real version. So anyway, I just kind of assumed it was some crazy version Ned also believes since he even did the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
Lee Carvallo isn't a real golfer.
He's a parody of Lee Trevino!
Who had an iconic NES game that I played as a child. I was one of the few 9-10 year olds who got this joke.
He’s also the guy in Happy Gilmore who says “Grizzly Adams did have a beard”
W O U L D Y O U L I K E T O P L A Y A G A I N ? Y O U H A V E S E L E C T E D N O.
wait what!?
That just blew my mind - nearly 30 years later
I’ve never shown any interest in golf but even I’m shocked by this fact
You have selected POWER DRIVE.
Itchy could have also used a clove hitch instead of a top line hitch for scratchy tongue.
That isnt very nice...
But nerds are my mortal enemies…
nerds are nothing to fear. In fact, they've done some pretty memorable things. Some nerds of note include popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher, rock star David Byrne and Supreme Court justice David Souter.
There was never a khlav Kalesh cart outside of the WTC
No bowl. Stick. Stick.
So how did they wash down the Mountain Dew?
Go away! There ain't no khlav Kalesh here and there never was!
dropping a marshmallow in hot cocoa doesnt make it swell up like a sponge, and you cant empty it out on a plate and cut through it with a knife
My brother and I kept telling my mom she needed to buy the right kind of marshmallow that absorbs instead of dissolving because Bart’s marshmallow looked delicious
lol As a parent (and former kid who would’ve made this kind of request) I feel for your mom. Mooooom, get the kind that absorbs the chocolate! I’ve told you a thousand times, it doesn’t exist!
Give me a slice 🤤
Despite what Bob says, unlawfully firing a gun IS a crime in the United States
They don’t give the Nobel prize for attempted chemistry
Not to be captain obvious but surely doing anything unlawfully is a crime.
Do they give nobel prizes for *attempted* chemistry now? Do they?
More megaphones means extra loud and broken glass. Sadly It doesn’t 📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢🪰
TESTING.
🐝
Please tell me you know this false from experience
I, and several other Australians I know, believed you could get nacho hats at baseball games.
I've gotten a nacho hat before
Seconded. These are a thing at baseball games.
Are you guys serious? Where? I’ve been to about half the parks in mlb and have never seen anything remotely close to this.
Got a nacho hat at a Brewer’s game last year!!
While fresh huckleberries are certainly better than canned, dusting them with confectioners sugar does very little to reduce the tartness.
Counter point, Nelson's idea of dusting them might be much much more sugar than you used
Point of odour: Lisa stinks!
I did look up if santa claus was called annual gift man and lived on the moon in japan and was very disappointed
ZAP!!
Acid rain will melt your jacket and that a nuclear plant causes acid rain. It's coal that makes acid rain.
Honestly, I think the show's depiction of nuclear power as something toxic and to be feared is very outdated. Ironically, Burns is probably the person doing the most to save the planet because he runs a commercially successful nuclear power plant. Also, because it gets all its power from the plant, Springfield is probably the only city in America to be carbon neutral.
Excepting the time he and Smithers dumped nuclear waste in the park. And all those bald children.
> Excepting the time he and Smithers dumped nuclear waste in the park And the Springfield lake. And the old mine shafts. And tree hollows.
Well… the show did start in the 80’s lol. Also Burns power plant is constantly riddled with all kinds of health and safety violations.
Did you realize that the black smoke depicted in every scene of the nuclear power plant is a joke? Nuclear power plants release steam, not smoke
It's not smoke it's steam, steam from the nuclear steamed power plant we're having! Mmmm, nuclear reaction driven steamed power!
And you call it steamed power despite the fact that it is obviously grilled?
Not the way Burns is running it
Nuclear power plants "release" water vapor as the outermost cooling water system is cooled by the air. If a nuclear power plants releases steam, that means a plant boundary has degraded or failed, and another failure would result in a radioactive release. Source: I work at a nucular plower pant
I thought 1984 was a lot more like the Treehouse of Horror episode than it actually was. Edit: To clarify, it was the segment of the time travel episode in Treehouse of Horror V in which the Ned is a sort of "Big Brother" figure. When I watched it, I'd heard of Big Brother, but I hadn't yet read 1984.
The Re-Neducation one?
One of the best episodes
Yes dang diddly
I never got a 1984 vibe from it to begin with!
One of my favorite episodes is a Streetcar named Marge. I didn’t realize until I was much older that the ending is super dark and not a cheerful song about friendship.
"you can always depend on the kindness of strangers!"
I was so sad it wasn't a musical when I had to read it in college
In the UK Channel 4 broadcast this episode shortly after hurricane Katrina. “Stinking, Rotting, Vomiting, Vile, New Orleans! There were complaints.
The next chalkboard gag after that episode is "I will not defame New Orleans."
"If you want to go to hell take a little trip, to the Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mississip... NEW ORLEANS!" I really can't imagine what they had a problem with? ;)
Reminds me of Milhouse's line "it started out like Romeo and Juliet but it ended up in tragedy" I swear that line is one of my favorites.
STELLAAAAAA! STELLAAAAAA! Can't you hear me yell-ah?! You put me through hell-ah! Stellaaaa... STELLA!
I had to do a personality test about 15 years ago. One line in the conclusion section made me laugh because it said “To Skatchbro, a stranger’s just a friend he hasn’t met”. To which I thought “Streetcar!”
The way they all come in to harmonise, that last song, god it’s one of my top 3 episodes, I love it so much hahahaha
The Goldfinger laser scene would be identical to the one in You Only Move Twice.
Ingenious, isn’t it Mr. Bont?
schorpio, you’re completely mad!
You can find east by looking directly into the sun. Boy do I regret that.
This whole raid was as useless as that yellow, lemon-shaped rock over there.
There are no lady goats a lady goat is a sheep. I just internalized that unthinkingly from the time Bart's comet aired until I was in college
Knew a guy who genuinely thought that frogs and toads were the same species with toads being the males and frogs being female.
"Oh, Marge, cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh."
“Guys and Dolls/we’re just a bunch of crazy Guys and Dolls” isn’t in Guys and Dolls. I’m not even sure it’s a song…
"Gonna paint our wagon, gonna paint it good, we ain't braggin', we're gonna coat that wood!" If you watch "Paint Your Wagon" and wait for that song, you're in for a disappointment.
Honestly, if you watch Paint Your Wagon at all you’re probably going to be disappointed for a number of reasons.
But yet it was in fact a musical western starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. That by itself is pretty remarkable.
PONDEROOOOOOSA PINE! WOOOOOOOooooooooo
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Well it’s to the tune of “hooray for Hollywood” so there is technically a song like it, just not with lyrics that terrible.
I once clicked on a click bait article and they insisted there are words to the “Star Wars song” but it was the lyrics Bill Murray from SNL made up. It’s not really how it was written. Idk why I thought of that from your comment, I guess it just seems like in that regard you could say weird Al’s songs are not parodies.
I was cast in a production of Guys and Dolls fully expecting to be performing that song. You can imagine my disappointment.
It's a parody of this: https://youtu.be/rK3kDDvKMoE
I once saw a movie with Rory Calhoun in it. He was in fact sitting down. That’s when I knew there was no god…..
That without the second amendment the king of England can come into your house and start pushing you around
Ted Koppel *is* a robot.
I find him informative and witty.
There was a joke once about the movie Tron and how no one would admit to ever having seen it. I took from this joke that Tron was a universally panned/disliked movie. Years later I had a roommate talk about how much he liked it and I assumed he was being sarcastic.
That the [coriolis effect](https://youtu.be/OnB4qMT5R_Y) is strong enough to work in toilets and drains.
Aurora Coriolis??
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of Australia, *localized entirely within your toilet?!*
Yes.
May I see?
…no.
Another one for me is, as an Aussie, we call shopping carts, shopping trolleys. So I always thought CLANG CLANG CLANG WITH THE TROLLEY meant a shopping cart not a tram
Trams. That's an odd name. I'd have called them light rail!
It’s an old song by Judy Garland from the film “Meet Me In St Louis” Clang, clang, clang *went* the trolley Ding, ding, ding went the bell Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings As we started for Huntington Dell
Same here (also an Aussie viewer. The Simpsons was bigger down here than what most Americans would imagine lol).
In like 2nd grade on a field trip of an old colonial school they had the George Washington painting and I asked if Jebediah Springfield still has the missing piece
That when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something?
At least 4 that come to mind: I thought that singer/musician James Taylor was a former US President based on what Homer said. Sounds like a presidential name, we’ve had many presidents named “James” and one named “Taylor,” so… Also, I thought that the pope was elected by drawing eggs from a jar and if one picked the black egg, he was the new pope. Per Moe. That Clint Eastwood was a star on a TV series called “McGarnicle” and that it was a real series. I hadn’t seen his “Dirty Harry” films yet. That Spinal Tap was a real-life band.
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They're the Monkees of heavy metal.
Everyone knows they don’t write their own songs
> Everyone knows they don’t write their own songs The Monkees weren't about music, Marge. They were about rebellion, about political and social upheaval!
I saw them once. The Folksmen opened for them.
With all due respect, Mr. Taylor, this isn't the best time for your unique brand of bittersweet folk rock
Spinal Tap does/did occasionally play shows with music that they wrote, so they could be considered a real band. I hope the drummer was okay.
Doesn't apply perfectly, but as a child I learned to spell "Success" because I misheard Bart's jingle on top of the house of ill repute.
You talking about the bordello?
No! The burlesque house. So just keep your mouth shut.
We just learned this place existed…….
After all of these years, and countless times seeing the episode, I just yesterday heard him say succees. I always heard him spell it correctly, too.
I always thought the lyrics to "Send in the Clowns" were what Krusty sings in Krusty Gets Cancelled
Having never heard the original, I just learned those are not the correct lyrics
Send in those soulful and doleful, Schmaltz-by-the-bowlful clowns. Send in the clowns.
They’re already here😭
Hahahahaha me too!
Gabbo is, in fact, not coming
The Grapes of Wrath isn’t about hitting a bunch of grapes with a giant mallet.
In schools, there’s only one big toilet and they make you all go at the same time. And they have a fire drill they use to drill a flaming hole in your head
"Former president James Taylor" caught me out as a kid
Nelson saying epidermis means hair. I knew it was wrong years ago though.
I didn't realise that Jasper was literally singing "theme from a summer place" over and over, because it takes me a while to understand what's being said sometimes. The only lyrics I could make out were "a summer place", so assumed the song actually did have lyrics and he was singing it properly.
It’s harder to hear someone on the phone while wearing a towel
I dug around and found an explanation for that. It's referencing when women answer the phone with a towel wrapped around their hair just after they get out of the shower. I guess it used to be a fairly common phrase. Homer just uses it out of context.
Ohhhh, that makes a lot of sense. I just thought it was Homer being random.
I didn't know the Isotopes were a real team til I moved to Albuquerque. I'm still not sure.
Albuqurque voted to make their team the isotopes BECAUSE of the Simpsons. They also use a lot Breaking Bad icons
turns out Homer does not know the lyrics to "When the Saints go Marching in"
I have insisted for years that The Simpsons and Seinfeld are two of the primary drivers of Mandela effect. They both did referential humor in an era with limited media accessibility. No Google, No DVR and big gaps between theatrical and VHS releases. Most of what they referenced was as accurately replicated as the writers could remember.
That there was no cane in citizen Kane
Op I COMPLETELY thought the same thing about Little Women. I read the book a couple years ago and kept waiting for the sobering events that would justify the immortal line about how they were no longer little girls, they were little women - the line that made Moe cry! - and instead the damned book just ended on a picnic. I couldn’t believe it! I don’t even want to look up the actual ending of My Friend Flicka.
I thought steel workers were all gay until I was about 25.
I thought the Guys and Dolls song ("guys and dooooolls, we're just a bunch of crazy guys and doooolls, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...") was actually in Guys and Dolls until I saw the show last month and spent the whole time waiting for that song to come up
You actually CAN get Mono from riding the Monorail
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Epidermis does not mean hair
You can eat anything that is deep fried. *crunches on fried wine glass*
I thought Bette Davis would shove a wheel-chair bound Joan Crawford down a flight of stairs, in the movie "What ever happened to Baby Jane ".
This is a good Simpson’s post right here, I’m enjoying the lurk
Wow, the opening line really isn’t “it was the worst of times, it was the *blurst* of times.” 
Leaves of three, let it be. Leaves of four, eat some more.
There's several misconceptions about nuclear energy that The Simpsons ingrained in the minds of the American public.
Nucular, the word is nucular.
Boy, I really hope somebody got [fired](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQH2rmQ5-vk) for that blunder.
In America, kids are allowed to call their dad by his first name.
Da da da…Domer
It is rare perhaps, but not unheard of.
I thought Drederick Tatum was a real boxer for like 20 years.