# Explain this Simpsons joke please
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 8, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438 "2011-12-08T00:58:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/1 "2011-12-08T00:58:05Z")
This was the episode where Bart gets medicated up to control his hyperactiveness, but then gets taken off the medication. He rebels, eats a bunch of them then steals a tank and goes on a rampage. At the end of the rampage, this conversation happens:
Nelson: (after Bart destroys a bunch of things in the tank) “You’ve raised the bar for all of us Simpson, and I thank you” (bows)
Bart: “Wow, praise from Caesar”
Nelson: “Huh?”
What does Bart mean by that?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/2 "2011-12-08T01:02:23Z")
**Horace** Satires 2.1.84: _iudice laudatus Caesare_ “praised by such a judge as Caesar”
The Big Guy just said you rocked. Jimi liked your guitar chops. The Most Interesting Man In the World smiled at you.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/3 "2011-12-08T01:16:38Z")
Paris Hilton masturbated to your sex tape.
Donald Trump admired your haircut.
Robin Williams admired your energy.
Stephen Wright liked your stoic calm.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/4 "2011-12-08T01:16:44Z")
I can’t decide what’s more odd: that you had never heard that phrase before, that you couldn’t guess the meaning from the context, or that you didn’t Google it.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/5 "2011-12-08T01:27:48Z")
that would be
Brother’s Little Helper
AABF22
10/03/99
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### Author:  [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/6 "2011-12-08T05:10:33Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#):
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> Nelson: (after Bart destroys a bunch of things in the tank) “You’ve raised the bar for all of us Simpson, and I thank you” (bows)
> Bart: “Wow, praise from Caesar”
> Nelson: “Huh?”
>
> What does Bart mean by that?
So, you would be Nelson in that skit. 😉
HA-HAA! 😛
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/7 "2011-12-08T07:40:54Z")
“Praise from Caesar is praise indeed” is an old saying. It’s basically like saying “this is how I’d feel if Tiger Woods complimented my drive, or if Adele just told me I’ve got a great voice”- basically the compliment is all the more exalted because of the giver.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/8 "2011-12-08T14:28:44Z")
Meryl Streep is impressed by your Oscar collection.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/9 "2011-12-08T14:43:07Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Paris Hilton masturbated to your sex tape.
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> Donald Trump admired your haircut.
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> Robin Williams admired your energy.
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> Stephen Wright liked your stoic calm.
Bill Gates thinks you’re rich.
John Lennon wants to write songs like yours.
Kerri Strug admires how you persevere in the face of adversity.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/10 "2011-12-08T14:44:33Z")
Keith Richards admires your drug taking capacities.
Woody Allen admires your ability to fuck younger women.
OJ Simpson admired your ability to get away with breaking the law.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/11 "2011-12-08T14:57:11Z")
Ron Jeremy thinks you’re well hung.
Esme Weatherwax asks you for advice.
Aphrodite is envious of your looks, but likes you too much to zap you.
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### Author:  [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/12 "2011-12-08T15:00:24Z")
Put simply, you are getting praise from the master of the thing you are doing or did.
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/13 "2011-12-08T15:03:15Z")
> [@Morbo](#):
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> I can’t decide what’s more odd: that you had never heard that phrase before, that you couldn’t guess the meaning from the context, or that you didn’t Google it.
I walked past some graffiti once that said “The cake is a lie!” and asked my Facebook friends what it meant, turns out 5 seconds on Google could have answered that.
I think sometimes the human species is still trying to comprehend the incredible utility of the internet.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/14 "2011-12-08T15:10:45Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Paris Hilton masturbated to your sex tape.
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> Donald Trump admired your haircut.
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> Robin Williams admired your energy.
>
> Stephen Wright liked your stoic calm.
♫One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong…♫
mmm
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### Author:  [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/15 "2011-12-08T15:15:40Z")
Cecil had a question for you.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/16 "2011-12-09T00:59:20Z")
Ted Williams admires your swing
Jackie Chan admires your ability to jump off walls
Cheech and Chong admire your…uh…I can’t remember man…
Seth MacFarlane admires your ability to flashback more than Hitler loved pandas having sex
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/17 "2011-12-09T01:04:57Z")
Rick Perry admires your adherence to fundamentalist Christian principles.
Carl Sagan admires your rational skepticism.
Ayn Rand admires your selfishness.
Herman Cain admires your way with women.
Hillary Clinton admires your tenacity in obtaining power.
Rush Limbaugh admires your ability to keep your audience’s attention while spouting gibberish.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/18 "2011-12-09T01:08:48Z")
Snooki thinks you have a great tan.
I feel all dirty now.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/19 "2011-12-09T22:29:44Z")
Godot says he’ll wait for you.
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### Author:  [@WilburJones95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilburJones95)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-simpsons-joke-please/605438/20 "2011-12-12T22:57:17Z")
Jesus asks you to forgive him for his sins.
Superman thinks better of tugging on your cape.
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