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Extra Large Marge: Jan 21, 2004; Fun Shoe

When Homer got hosed by a panda

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 14:20

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 00:10

Extra Large Marge: Jan 21, 2004; Fun Shoe

Can I see your copy of "Swank", Armin?

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 03:52

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Manchild King posted:

Is your username a reference to the bodybuilding episode?

Not sure, I got this name by posting in a "post here to have your username changed" thread. I thought it was from that PeeWee Herman movie.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 04:05

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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:

i watched the simpsons all the time as a kid, but for some reason my mom didn't want me watching king of the hill. eventually i asked her about it and she couldn't remember why. two years of my young life without great comedy.

They advertised it as "From the creator of Beavis and Butthead" which is how it got banned by my parents.... until they actually saw it.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 01:03

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Empty Sandwich posted:

that's another hallmark of the earlier shows... the headline "Dick Cavett Born!" with a picture of Dick Cavett as an older adult is funny even if you don't know who Dick Cavett is (which I didn't at the time).

that's a really dumb example, but a lot of the early-season spoof stuff works even if you don't know reference.

the joke isn't in the corner.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2020 16:48

Extra Large Marge: Jan 21, 2004; Fun Shoe

Uh, Pa, I cut my finger on the screen door again

# ¿ May 19, 2020 04:27

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Iron Crowned posted:

It's amazing how somewhat esoteric some of the jokes were in old episodes. Sideshow Bob's "Luv" and "Hat" tattoos is from Night of the Hunter (1955), which much like Glengarry Glen Ross, our younger selves probably hadn't seen at that time.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 14:29

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Nutsngum posted:

So what's the general consensus for best episode to show someone who has never seen the Simpsons before?

$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 21:33

Extra Large Marge: Jan 21, 2004; Fun Shoe

Doing a bad Jack Lemmon impression is a lot of fun, I can see why they kept bringing him back.

"Oh, this is bad. This is really bad! You work, and you slave, and you steal just enough for a sweet lick of that shiny brass ring... don't I get a lick? Doesn't Gil get a lick?"

# ¿ Jun 11, 2020 14:11

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Phlegmish posted:

That's what often makes me uncomfortable when it comes to American media, that laser focus on 'race'. It almost seems indecent somehow. It's like how white American goons on this site are constantly making supposedly self-deprecating jokes about them all smelling like dog and loving mayonnaise XD, and cringe remarks like that seem to come up all the time regardless of context. Whether punching up or down or sideways, it often just seems to loop right back around to essentialism.

Thing is, and I would say it's mostly thanks to those same goons that I've realized this, there are historical reasons for it. Racial background really does make a difference in the US (and elsewhere), and it really is important to examine, and ignoring it by proclaiming yourself to be colorblind isn't necessarily the solution. If pointing out reality makes you uncomfortable, that's the point. I personally think that reinforcing those arbitrary historical racial classifications is a mixed bag, even when you do it by chanting 'kill whitey' with varying degrees of irony, but I understand the reasoning. It makes sense.

Just last week I was having dinner with my European boomer parents and they were going on about how racist Americans are. I explained that that was dumb, it's just much more polarized over there, and being obsessed with race is not the same as being racist in the way that we would normally interpret that word. These same parents ironically also like to make 'un-PC' boomer remarks that would likely get them probated on here.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2020 16:45

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I hate Pai Gow!

Can't we just play Quang Jong?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2023 13:47

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 00:10

Extra Large Marge: Jan 21, 2004; Fun Shoe

Larry Burns is designed really well. Instead of an outright caricature, he actually looks like half Mr Burns, half Rodney Dangerfield.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2023 14:44

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