I, for one. welcome our new Simpson quote hating overlords.
When did it reappear on the SDMB? I’ve noticed it a lot lately, and wonder when it repopularized. That episode is from the early 90s.
So you are saying that it is a name that sounds funny the first time, but it gradually became less funny each time you heard it… kind of like, say, The Be Sharps?
Sweet dreams and flying machines, in pieces on the ground…
Sweet dreams and flying machines, flying safely through the air
I heard Fire and Rain today in a pizza parlor and that was the first thing I thought of. Great episode.
“Second comes right after first!”
Oh, right. I have nothing to add. Sorry. Oh, yeah, but then again, I think about The Simpsons all the time. (I can’t believe it took me three days to figure out that that tidal wave in the news might really, sadly, killed some people in Kualalala…Kuala Lu…France.)
Wrong. The “X-Files” episode beats it… but just barely.
Aw, they were just going to show pictures of the rod…
I like to imagine what people ca. 1973 would have said if you’d proposed a cartoon feature that pitted ‘unkempt youngster’ James Taylor against Buzz ‘2nd’ Aldrin, in which Taylor bullies Aldrin, and wins (at least until his idea proves a disaster and he announces, “Got to go”…)
Probably a request to smoke some of what you were on.
Its also a riff on John Glenn’s re-entry scene from The Right Stuff.
:D. Nothing to add, just … 
Only if when they come back, they fail to bring… :dubious:
Don’t look to me for support. I’m still fighting to keep “Hi, Opal” a catchphrase.
I’ve noticed an interesting phenomena. Anytime someone asks about or comments on something related to The Simpsons I will have either seen the episode in question a day or two before or will see it within a day or two. Granted the local station does show reruns at least twice a day but there are an awful lot of episodes available.
The day before I saw this post, I saw the episode in question.
Hey, bite your tongue.
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.
But even then it would take an additional decade for it to become as irritating and overused as “42” (in the “meaning of life” sense.)