# Don't get a joke from The Simpsons, Futurama, or Family Guy? Post here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352 "2005-07-27T03:08:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/1 "2005-07-27T03:08:08Z")
This is the amalgamated “I don’t get this joke” from one of those three cartoons thread. If there’s a joke, sight gag, or whatever you don’t understand, then say so and let those of us who do know fill you in and make you feel like a complete idiot! And just because I’m nice, I’ll go first: In one ep. of Family Guy, Peter mentions having some actress over for dinner (I think it was the woman who played Lois in the Superman movies) and the woman goes all apeshit and tears up the room. I assume this actress must have had some kind of similar breakdown, or something, but I’m unsure. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/2 "2005-07-27T03:10:44Z")
If it was Margot Kidman, who played Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve’s Superman, then it was probably a reference to her highly-publicized nervous breakdown. As I recall, she was found wandering through neighborhoods in a disheveled condition, without her dentures. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/3 "2005-07-27T03:11:59Z")
Ack, not Margot Kidman. Margot **Kidder**. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/4 "2005-07-27T03:12:19Z")
Her name is Margot Kidder, not Kidman. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/5 "2005-07-27T03:15:34Z")
Dang, the correction wasn’t there when I posted. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/6 "2005-07-27T03:18:25Z")
I’ll play. In the episode of Family Guy where the family is relocated in witness protection to the deep south, there is a part where someone is upset for some reason and describes themselves as “lower than a bow-legger caterpillar.” (or maybe are described that way in a voiceover? I can’t remember.) The shot cuts to a guy in a cornfield laughing at the joke and then says “and now here’s Roy” or something like that. I assume it’s a TV show reference, as a big portion of the jokes on FG are. Anyone clue me in? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/7 "2005-07-27T03:24:50Z")
It’s a parody of Hee-Haw. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/8 "2005-07-27T03:24:52Z")
That’s a Hee Haw reference. Roy is Roy Clark. That had a running bit where two cast members would pop up in a cornfield and tell bad jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/9 "2005-07-27T03:27:23Z")
> [@Ooner](#): > > I’ll play. In the episode of Family Guy where the family is relocated in witness protection to the deep south, there is a part where someone is upset for some reason and describes themselves as “lower than a bow-legger caterpillar.” (or maybe are described that way in a voiceover? I can’t remember.) The shot cuts to a guy in a cornfield laughing at the joke and then says “and now here’s Roy” or something like that. I assume it’s a TV show reference, as a big portion of the jokes on FG are. Anyone clue me in? It’s a ‘Hee-Haw’ reference: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063908/combined](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063908/combined) Holy crap, that show was on a long time! 1969-1993! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/10 "2005-07-27T03:28:24Z")
I may be slow, but I provide links. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/11 "2005-07-27T03:28:41Z")
Actually I think it was a reference to Rio, by Duran Duran… ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/12 "2005-07-27T06:22:52Z")
Marge: You liked _Rashomon_. Homer: That’s not how I remember it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/13 "2005-07-27T06:25:01Z")
> [@TheOnlySaneOne](#): > > Marge: You liked _Rashomon_. > Homer: That’s not how I remember it. > > 😕 Rashomon is a Japanese film about three tellings of the same story from three points of view, each differing wildly. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/14 "2005-07-27T10:48:12Z")
Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck’s)? Huh? I kid! I kid! ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/15 "2005-07-27T10:58:10Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Rashomon is a Japanese film about three tellings of the same story from three points of view, each differing wildly. Actually, [four](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/plotsummary) viewpoints: The bandit, the wife, the medium channeling the murder victim, and the woodcutter. ---
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/16 "2005-07-27T12:19:06Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > It’s a ‘Hee-Haw’ reference: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063908/combined](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063908/combined) > Holy crap, that show was on a long time! 1969-1993! It was, but IIRC they kept canceling it and bringing it back. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/17 "2005-07-27T12:45:31Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck’s)? Huh? > > I kid! I kid! See, you say you kid, but I predict that before the end of the day, someone will come in and honestly not get the joke. There’s always one. No matter how many times we explain it, there’s always someone who doesn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/18 "2005-07-27T13:11:07Z")
Because it’s a really lame joke. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/19 "2005-07-27T14:13:39Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s always one. No matter how many times we explain it, there’s always someone who doesn’t get it. ☹ Me. I don’t get it… ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352/20 "2005-07-27T14:25:49Z")
“Sneed’s Feed & Seed” has three words rhyming. Replace Sneed with Chuck, and think of what words begin with F and S that rhyme with Chuck. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-a-joke-from-the-simpsons-futurama-or-family-guy-post-here/314352.md?page=2)