# Another Simpson thread: more Christian refs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274 "2002-10-28T17:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/1 "2002-10-28T17:39:48Z")
I just watched another Simpson episode and was amazed at the Jesus reference. What happened was Homer got cursed by a Gypsy and Homer ends up at Moe’s. Here is what happens next:(not verbatium) Lenny: To get rid of the curse you need a leprechaun. Carl: Yeah, that or Jesus. Lenny: Yeah, Jesus is like 6 leprechauns but he is harder to catch. (I may have this backwards) (I looked at [snpp.com](http://snpp.com) but they didn’t have the episode up yet so I can’t quote the words exactly) I still find it amazing that the Simpsons gets away with these quotes. I am an atheist BTW, but I am still shocked that the Simpsons can get away with these kind of jokes. I find them to be really funny but, at the same time, I am suprised that various churches don’t bitch about the references. Any other references? Slee ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/2 "2002-10-28T18:32:26Z")
Homer: In order to get into heaven, I have to do a good deed!! Marge: A good deed? I’ve got plenty! You can paint the garage, do the vacuuming … Homer: Woah, woah, woah! I just wanna get in, I’m not running for Jesus!! * * * Bart: Dad, what religion are you? Homer: It’s that one with all those well-meaning rules that don’t work out in real life … oh, Christianity. * * * …does anyone remember the exact words to the one about Jesus’ shoes? All I remember is the following (paraphrased): Marge: Homer, Jesus wore sandals! Homer: Well, maybe if he had better arch support, they wouldn’t have caught him. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/3 "2002-10-28T22:06:57Z")
To overcome the spider’s curse, Simply quote a Bible verse. Um…thou shalt not…(throws a rock) Okay, so it’s not really a Christian ref per se, but it shows how much Homer knows about religion ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/4 "2002-10-29T02:50:58Z")
The one where Bart and Lisa are playing a board game over at Flanders’ place, and their lack of knowledge regarding the Bible leads him to conduct an emergency baptism. Ned asks Bart a “Who am I?” type question, with clues like “Six arms, horns…” and Bart guesses “Jesus?” Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/5 "2002-10-29T03:03:43Z")
My own favourites: Reverend Lovejoy: Ned, have you thought about one of the other major religions? They’re all pretty much the same. Homer: _Save me, Jebus!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/6 "2002-10-29T05:50:33Z")
I love the episode where Lisa grows a civilization of tiny people in a petri dish. Lisa: They’re nailing something to the cathedral door…I’ve created Lutherans! ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/7 "2002-10-29T12:54:54Z")
Mmmm… Sacrilicious. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/8 "2002-10-29T13:17:21Z")
Not exactly Jesus but: At the church picnic there is an ice cream table called “Crucifixin’s” Carl: Any religion that embraces carob is not for Carl Carlson. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/9 "2002-10-29T13:34:32Z")
Ned Flanders: And then, Harry Potter and all his friends went straight to hell for practicing witchcraft. Rod & Todd: YAY! ---
**Author:** ![ravage2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@ravage2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravage2)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/10 "2002-11-07T17:40:05Z")
The one where Homer creates his own religion- Rev. Lovejoy: "Homer, I’d like you to remember Matthew 7:26. “A foolish man who who built his house on sand.’’” Homer: “And YOU remember… Matthew … 21:17!” Rev. Lovejoy: “And he left them and went out of the city into Bethany and he lodged there’’?” Homer: “Yeah… Think about it!” Homer: “Hey Apu I see you’re not in church.” Apu: “But I am. I have a shrine to Ganesha, the god of worldly wisdom, located in the employee lounge.” Homer: "Hey, Ganesha. Wanna peanut?’’ Api: “Please do not offer my god a peanut.” Lifted from the snpp site ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/11 "2002-11-07T18:28:26Z")
When Reverend Lovejoy advises Marge to get a divorce, she asks “Isn’t that a sin?” Rev. Lovejoy- Marge, pretty much everything is a sin these days. Have you ever actually sat down and read this thing? (indicates bible) Technically, we’re not even supposed to go to the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/12 "2002-11-07T18:51:05Z")
Save me, Jebus! is here but not (paraphrased): “I’m not usually a praying man, but if you’re up there and can hear me: Help me, Superman!” ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/13 "2002-11-07T19:06:36Z")
I am not sure the exact wording but it was from the Treehouse of Horror episode “Hell Toupe”. Snake is caught robbing the Quik-E-Mart. Chief Wiggum says that he is going to get the death penalty and then busts out with the following. “There’s going to be a lot of nuns where you’re going…HELL!” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/14 "2002-11-08T00:10:51Z")
The one where Marge and Homer lose custody of the kids to the Flanders, and Homer goes to get the kids back, and finds that the Flanders’ aren’t home. Trying to figure out where they might have gone, Homer thinks, “I’m a big fat doody-head.” and then shouts, “The Springfield river!” which is where Flanders is attempting to perform a baptismal. Homer dives for Bart as the water from Flanders’s chalice is about to strike Bart on the head. Bart: Dad! You took a baptismal for me! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/15 "2002-11-08T00:59:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*Bart: Dad! You took a baptismal for me! \*\* I feel like St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan. What did you say? I said, shut your stupid face, Flanders! ---
**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/16 "2002-11-08T01:22:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\* Trying to figure out where they might have gone, Homer thinks, “I’m a big fat doody-head.” and then shouts, “The Springfield river!” > \*\* I hate to nit-pick, but it goes "Im a big four-eyed lameo’, and i wear the same stupid sweater every day and… (homer shouts) THE SPRINGFEILD RIVER! Moe: I was born a snake handler, and i’ll die a snake handler. ---
**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/17 "2002-11-08T01:23:59Z")
The’ve had planty of jokes that are in support of religion; Kang: We were here 10 thousand years ago when the world was created…BY GOD!! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/18 "2002-11-08T01:29:29Z")
It’s more Judeo-Christian than Christian, but: Bart has wrecked Abe’s dentures when Abe fell asleep while babysitting. Homer and Marge come home and Bart, pretending to be innocent, jumps onto the couch and grabs a random book, pretending to be quiety reading. Bart: Boy, time really flies when you’re reading… [sees what he’s holding] The Bible!? Ewww… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/19 "2002-11-08T01:36:37Z")
It’s more Judeo-Christian than Christian, but: Bart has wrecked Abe’s dentures when Abe fell asleep while babysitting. Homer and Marge come home and Bart, pretending to be innocent, jumps onto the couch and grabs a random book, pretending to be quiety reading. Bart: Boy, time really flies when you’re reading… [sees what he’s holding] The Bible!? Ewww… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274/20 "2002-11-08T02:01:38Z")
Or this: “I’m a Buddhist, I’m a Buddhist!!” Flanders, upon hearing…“Oh no! Into the root cellar, boys!” “When can we come out?” “Maybe…never.” “Yay!!!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-simpson-thread-more-christian-refs/134274.md?page=2)