# Favorite Simpsons "visual only" moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612 "2005-05-05T23:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/21 "2005-05-06T12:37:35Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > The episode where Ned is jealous and/or angry at Homer, and has a nightmare where he is sniping people from a clock tower like that guy who killed a bunch of people at a texas university. Kind of showed all the bottled-up rage Ned is capable of. But the shot that made that scene hysterically funny to me was when the postman pulled a rifle out of his letter bag and began shooting back. I giggle just thinking about it! ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/22 "2005-05-06T12:50:40Z")
The look on Bart’s face when he’s holding up a cupcake after Lisa tells him to take her \ (damn my lack of geological knowledge) ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/23 "2005-05-06T13:32:16Z")
Oh yeah, and when Lisa is trying to avoid going to the library so she’ll seem ‘cool’ to the kids in the beach house episode. She’s looking at all the characters from novels standing there wistfully, and sees Alice from Alice in Wonderland. “It would be ever so wonderful if you could join us for tea…no don’t do it Lisa its a trap!” Then the mad hatter holds her hostage by gunpoint :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/24 "2005-05-06T14:26:15Z")
> [@Arch Trout](#): > > \ (damn my lack of geological knowledge) Geode. I like the bit in the clown college episode where Homer keeps seeing clowns everywhere. In particular, I get a chuckle out of the part where Lenny comes in and tells him that the section he’s supposed to be monitoring is on fire. A bunch of guys come running into the room screaming and on fire, but Homer just tunes them out and imagines the guys as clowns doing acrobatics. I also like Homer driving while sleep-deprived in the episode where he gets Lisa a pony. He falls asleep at the wheel and dreams/hallucinates that his car turns into a bed and that he’s being watched over peacefully by the moon. It cuts back to reality and they show him driving with the remains of a picket fence stuck to the car. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/25 "2005-05-06T14:53:27Z")
-The fire drill at the plant. Homer is the first out and then bars the door behind him. -The “food chain” from Troy McClure’s "The Meat Council Presents: `Meat and You: Partners in Freedom’ film. Lion killing a dear, dog eating a frisby, shark eating a gorilla out of a tree. Also memorable - Troy testing the cows for ripeness, his stroll through “cattle country” and Billy’s look of horror after seeing the killing floor of the slaughterhouse (although it’s not really a floor…). ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/26 "2005-05-06T15:05:10Z")
When the family has to leave the house (for fumigation? I forget) and they’re wondering where to go next, so they just stand out in front of the house. All of a sudden, the King of the Hill theme song starts and they do the whole opening sequence. I love crossover humor. In the episode where Homer follows the Ribwich tour, every time he takes his first bite, the scene plays out like the drug addicts taking their first hit in _Requiem for a Dream_. I love the Sideshow Bob/rakes bit, but I don’t think it counts because the groaning is part of the funny. Of course, there’s the classic scene where Homer tries to jump the gorge and doesn’t make it. He bounces all the way down, is rescued and then the ambulance drops him and he bounces all the way down again. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/27 "2005-05-06T15:10:35Z")
When the town goes into a religious frenzy after they dig up that “angel skeleton.” There are shots of all kinds of scientific things being looted and burned, including the Christian Science Reading. Oh, that cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/28 "2005-05-06T15:57:54Z")
> [@Typically Sunday](#): > > In the episode with the springfield cat burglar, Homer is in the kitchen with the rest of the family and decided to come up with a way of catching the burglar. Lisa’s sax was stolen, so Homer gets her to play the jug while he thinks. The image of Homer pondering with the upper half of his body and doing a jig with his legs while Lisa plays the jug craks me up every time. I am of the firm belief that this is the single most hilarious comedy image ever created in the history of mankind. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/29 "2005-05-06T16:28:39Z")
I love the scene in the episode where Moe is committing insurance fraud for the girl. He sets his bar on fire trapping homer and Moe inside when they are overcome by smoke. Barney goes in to rescue them, you see his silhouette in the smoke carrying to masses. As he comes into the light you see he’s carying two kegs, then he goes back in for Homer and Moe…and 2 more cases of Duff. I love Barney. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/30 "2005-05-06T16:29:45Z")
Crap…preview damnit, > [@Omniscient](#): > > Barney goes in to rescue them, you see his silhouette in the smoke carrying **two** masses. As he comes into the light you see he’s carying two kegs, then he goes back in for Homer and Moe…and 2 more cases of Duff. I love Barney. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/31 "2005-05-06T16:30:27Z")
Seen on the Springfield Church Marquee: "We welcome all God’s victims ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/32 "2005-05-06T17:19:03Z")
From **Bart The General** : Aw, come on, Bart. We don’t want your mother to see you crying. Here, let me help you dry those tears… and then Bart’s face with the 2 **billion** watt hairdrier. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/33 "2005-05-06T17:57:25Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > Seen on the Springfield Church Marquee: > > "We welcome all God’s victims We could probably do a whole thread of just the sign in fron the the church. My favorite was from the one where Homer stopped going to church so he could sleep in and watch TV. “When Homer Met Satan” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/34 "2005-05-06T18:28:21Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > We could probably do a whole thread of just the sign in fron the the church. My favorite was from the one where Homer stopped going to church so he could sleep in and watch TV. > > “When Homer Met Satan” Yep, those are some of my favourites, plus these: \*\*Today: Senior Citizens Swing Dance; Tomorrow: Cat Spay-A-Thon Evil women in history from Jezebel to Janet Reno No Shirt, No Shoes, No Salvation There’s something about the Virgin Mary Private Wedding; Please Worship Elsewhere\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/35 "2005-05-06T18:34:22Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > The smile that slowly spreads across Homer’s face after Bart draws the “dud” card while playing _Mystery Date._ It was just so genuinely…_human._ And didn’t the dud look exactly like Milhouse? For dialogue-less “Simpsons” bits - you can’t beat the Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. Best of the lot has to be the “dynamite bride” that the mouse (I can never get straight which one is which) gives the cat. They show the courtship, the wedding, the birth of a dynamite baby, the golden 50th anniversary and finally the rest home - before the bomb finally explodes. As soon as it does, the mouse barely has time to laugh before dying of old age. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/36 "2005-05-06T19:06:23Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Yep, those are some of my favourites, plus these: > > \*\*Today: Senior Citizens Swing Dance; Tomorrow: Cat Spay-A-Thon > > Evil women in history from Jezebel to Janet Reno > > No Shirt, No Shoes, No Salvation > > There’s something about the Virgin Mary > > Private Wedding; Please Worship Elsewhere\*\* I SAID NO SIGNAGE, DAMMIT!!! 🙂 * * * • In the 138th Episode Special, the look on Troy McClure’s face after they have just shown the very first Simpsons cartoon. • Santa’s Little Helper doing the Snoopy dance after being shot with the tranquilizer dart. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/37 "2005-05-06T19:40:27Z")
The shifty-eyed dog outside the movie theater after the premiere of Mel Gibson in _Mr. Smith Goes to Washington._ Gets me every damn time. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/38 "2005-05-06T20:30:49Z")
I don’t know why they had this, but they were showing fox news and I loved the news crawler at the bottom. “Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at [Foxnews.com](http://Foxnews.com)” “Rupert Murdoch= terrible cancer” “Study shows 97 percent of Democrats are gay” “JFK posthumously joins Republican Party.” “Brad Pitt + Albert Einstein = Dick Cheney” ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/39 "2005-05-06T21:18:43Z")
“The Bart of War” - the one where Bart joins an Indian scout troop and Milhouse is in a little cavalry troop. They run into this Indian who tells them about how clean the environment used to be, and they show this peaceful scene of the area with the stream and grass and flowers and the animals - and then a gorilla walks by rolling a hoop. Cracks me up every time. Another one, I forget the episode but a recent one; Homer is fantasizing and he turns up inside the Kool Aid man. He drinks the Kool Aid from inside, and then the Kool Aid man keels over and dies, and his eyes turn to X’s. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612/40 "2005-05-06T21:36:55Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I am of the firm belief that this is the single most hilarious comedy image ever created in the history of mankind. I dunno…I like the close-up of Homer’s brain the morning after Troy McClure confessed that he was only getting married to help his image, and resurrect his career. The preacher asks if anyone has any reason why Troy and Patty should not be married. The camera zooms to Homer, and his brain is playing Gary Glitter’s “Rock N Roll.” To me, that’s funnier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-simpsons-visual-only-moments/302612.md?page=3)