# Great laughs, Homer Simpson's life! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457 "2001-01-04T20:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/21 "2001-01-05T19:59:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scratch1300 \* > \*\*Quotations: > > [ul] > > [li]“Never have I partied so hearty.”[/li] > Apu > > [li]“Did you see a scary picture in your picture book?”[/li] > Homer to Lisa. > > [li]“Take that badge out of your mouth!”[/li] > Rex Banner > > [/ul] > > Who said 'em? > > \*\* Still thinking about the other two… ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/22 "2001-01-05T20:09:21Z")
What song does Lenny ask Lisa to play on her guitar during the strike of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant? What’s the first thing that “goes wrong” at Itchy and Scratchy Land? Who uses the alias “Muddy Mae Suggins?” What comic book is “Comic Book Guy” reading right before Springfield is hit with a nuclear missle sent by the French? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/23 "2001-01-05T20:12:18Z")
Hey everybody, It’s Clayton again. Sorry I havn’t posted lately, I’m in a near net-death state. ☹ Well I’m glad this thread is going so well. I love the questions, keep on posting em’!! I’ll check in again later. A little bit of trivia: From what state was the Springfield Elementary moved from brick by brick? And a little problem w/ the “B-Sharps” episode: When they sing in the church (remember when Ned got paranoid) out in front the sign says “The B-Sharps”. They don’t come up with that name for a while after… ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/24 "2001-01-05T20:14:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chief Crunch \* > \*\*Who uses the alias “Muddy Mae Suggins?” > > What comic book is “Comic Book Guy” reading right before Springfield is hit with a nuclear missle sent by the French? \*\* “MMuddy Mae” is Homer’s mom, I forget her real first name. CBG is reading “Aquaman”, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/25 "2001-01-05T20:17:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \* > **A little bit of trivia: > From what state was the Springfield Elementary moved from brick by brick?** Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/26 "2001-01-05T20:17:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chief Crunch \* > \*\*What song does Lenny ask Lisa to play on her guitar during the strike of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant? > > What’s the first thing that “goes wrong” at Itchy and Scratchy Land? > > Who uses the alias “Muddy Mae Suggins?” > > What comic book is “Comic Book Guy” reading right before Springfield is hit with a nuclear missle sent by the French? \*\* Song: Classical Gas Muddy Mae: Homer’s Mom My favorite Comic Book Guy relate quote is when he tries to return the star trek belt and the guy at the store says, “woah! A fat sarcastic star trek fan, you must be a hit with the ladies!” jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/27 "2001-01-05T20:19:45Z")
Originally posted by Chief Crunch About the q. " What comic book is “Comic Book Guy” reading right before Springfield is hit with a nuclear missle sent by the French? " “But aquaman, you can’t marry a woman without gills, you’re from two different worlds. Oh, I’ve wasted my life” _Boom_ ---
**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:** [January 5, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/28 "2001-01-05T20:38:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Dewaholic \* > > **There’s a Simpson’s trivia game out now…** > > I got this for Xmas. I am very disapointed in the game. There are only 200 question cards, 5 questions each. and usually once a card you have to pick someone from the poster. So basically, they could only find 800 questions? Gimme a f’n break. Also, I think the charades/pictionary portions of the game suck eggs. What a waste, they could have done it so much better. \*\* Well, from everyone’s responses to this thread, I can see why I find the game fun and challenging. I know less than I thought I did about the Simpsons. But I have to agree about the pictionary party of the game. It’s kind of stupid. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/29 "2001-01-05T21:00:30Z")
Helicopter Pilot: “And soon we’ll be making our final approach to Itchy and Scratchy Land, where nothing could possib-LY go wrong. Possibl-EE go wrong. That’s the first thing that’s gone wrong.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/30 "2001-01-05T23:47:30Z")
What episode did creator Matt Groening take his name off of and why? What is Groening’s answer to the question, “How do you find the time to write and draw a Simpsons episode every week?” ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/31 "2001-01-06T00:06:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*What episode did creator Matt Groening take his name off of and why? > > What is Groening’s answer to the question, “How do you find the time to write and draw a Simpsons episode every week?” \*\* 1.) The crossover promotion for “The Critic”. He felt it would give viewers the false idea the two shows were somehow related. 1. ) “Get out of my office!” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/32 "2001-01-06T02:48:18Z")
Good job, Chief Crunch! I thought someone would get the first one. I just didn’t know how soon. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/33 "2001-01-06T03:16:03Z")
Damn. I wanted to answer questions. Here are s’more. What band do Lisa and Hugh avidly follow in _Lisa’s Wedding_? In the one where Santa’s Little Helper and his girlfriend have puppies, who does Burns’s fave puppy remind him of? When Ralph is in the Presidential play, who does he accidentally dress up as? (Who is he actually playing?) In the episode where Burns is crushing the buildings in his scale model of Springfield (ep where he gets shot), what does he call the Kwikie-Mart? And what does Burns (we sure have a lot of questions about him!) own shares in, in the episode where he loses his fortune? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/34 "2001-01-06T03:53:41Z")
Which four characters (including satellite characters) have died? ---
**Author:** ![keeper0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@keeper0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeper0)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/35 "2001-01-06T04:20:16Z")
> [@](#): > > What band do Lisa and Hugh avidly follow in Lisa’s Wedding? The Rolling Stones… but not for their music, but for their tireless efforts to save the environment. ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/36 "2001-01-06T05:12:25Z")
4 dead characters: Frank Grimes “Grimey” that psychiatrist (can’t think of his name) Maude Flanders Bleeding gums murphy **Another Question** : In the opening sequence, when Maggie is passed over the scanner at the super market, what does it flash? hint: it’s _not_ NRA4EVER… ---
**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:** [January 6, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/37 "2001-01-06T05:50:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by keeper0 \* > \*\*The Rolling Stones… but not for their music, but for their tireless efforts to save the environment. \*\* Sigh. Building! Its save old buildings!! ---
**Author:** ![McKenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/38 "2001-01-06T05:55:36Z")
The episode where the family goes to that Cape-Cod-esque town and Lisa tries to overcome geekiness is “Summer of 4’2”, one of my faves. My favorite Marge line is from it, too, and a good follow-up to some of these previous posts: As Marge pulls out the panty shields, enemas, porn, Old Harper, etc. from Homer’s shopping bag, she pauses and then says, “Homer, whatever you’ve got planned for tonight, count me out.” Wump, there was also Bea, Grandpa’s girlfriend who died in the episode where he later refurbishes the retirement home with the money she left him. The psychiatrist (who “died” off camera and no, we never learn why!) was Dr. Marvin Monroe. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/39 "2001-01-06T06:48:05Z")
And of course… … Springfield is based on a real city, complete with nuclear power station. Anyone know which one? ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457/40 "2001-01-06T06:52:54Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zoggie_ > And what does Burns (we sure have a lot of questions about him!) own shares in, in the episode where he loses his fortune? Amalgamated Spats and some company that makes Zeppelins, I believe. What’s the name of the musical Troy McClure stars in? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-laughs-homer-simpsons-life/48457.md?page=3)