# I just got the joke... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818 "2003-10-06T04:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/1 "2003-10-06T04:13:20Z")
There was this episode of Futurama where Fry votes this guy from 80s to be the president of Planet Express. The new guy shows the crew their new commercial. The commercial turned out to the Mac commercial with the girl in red shorts and white shirt running and throwing the box into the giant television. Leela says " The commercial doesn’t even tell them what we do!" So yea, I just got the joke after watching VH1 25 Greatest Commercials. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/2 "2003-10-06T04:19:10Z")
I finally got the deeper meaning of this one on _The Simpsons_: Groundskeeper Willie is in the school basement, practicing his bagpipes near the furnace. Homer enters the school (which is freezing, this being Smarch 13th…they were there to discuss the misprinted calendars) and finds the thermostat. Next to it is a big sign: DO NOT TOUCH WILLIE Homer: “Hmmmm…do not touch Willie. Good idea!” …and he cranks up the heat, burning Willie to death. Sad to say, I only got the sexual reference recently. I originally thought Homer was just being stupid. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/3 "2003-10-06T04:24:53Z")
I don’t think that was supposed to be sexual. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/4 "2003-10-06T05:40:18Z")
I do think that was supposed to be sexual. Two out of three! ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Short\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/5 "2003-10-06T08:05:45Z")
I don’t. That should even things out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/6 "2003-10-06T08:09:27Z")
I never thought of the sexual meaning until now, but now I think it’s sexual 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/7 "2003-10-06T11:21:25Z")
Good grief, you hosers, of _course_ it’s sexual! ---
**Author:** ![paranormal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3be4f8/32.png) [@paranormal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paranormal)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/8 "2003-10-06T11:24:20Z")
No! the simpsons is PG!! (or is it TV-14) Willie is the scotsman’s name! ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/9 "2003-10-06T11:49:48Z")
So it’s a double entendre (sp), pure and simple. The Simpsons rated PG? One plotline was about Homer and Marge needing to be exhibitionists in order to get off! ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/10 "2003-10-06T18:14:51Z")
Since we’re talking about the Simpsons, can I include a joke I got but none of my friends did? GREAT! So, Mr. Burns is out of town or some such, and has Homer watching his place. Homer decides to take the yacht out for a cruise, they get to international waters and there are pirates and gambling ships galore. There is also a ship with a large satelite dish. Bart asks what it is doing, Homer tells him, “They’re rebroadcasting professional sports with only implied oral consent.” I think that is one of the funniest one-liners ever, but nobody else seems to get it! AARGH! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/11 "2003-10-06T18:24:36Z")
I get it, and I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/12 "2003-10-06T19:13:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by paranormal \* > \*\*No! the simpsons is PG!! (or is it TV-14) Willie is the scotsman’s name! \*\* So when they were snowed in at the school and Willie tells Skinner “Ya won’t have yer Willie to jerk around anymore!”, that was non-sexual as well? ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/13 "2003-10-06T20:27:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Homer tells him, “They’re rebroadcasting professional sports with only implied oral consent.” …so either it’s ALSO a sexual joke, or I’ve just got a really dirty mind. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/14 "2003-10-06T20:50:20Z")
Actually, for once I think that line is just a single entendre. “Implied oral consent” is the opposite of “direct written consent”, which is what they always say on sports broadcasts about rebroadcasts of the game (you need the direct written consent of the network, the NFL, etc. to rebroadcast). Hence, rerunning the game with only implied oral consent would be illegal. And now I’ve explained the humor right out of the joke. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/15 "2003-10-06T20:56:46Z")
I’m ashamed to admit it, but i only just realized a year ago the double entendre behind the “Flaming Moe”: Homer: It’s called a Flaming Ho- Moe: (Interupting) Moe!! It’s a Flaming Moe! A flaming Ho-Mo(e). It was, like, ten years before it dawned on me! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/16 "2003-10-06T21:13:07Z")
Art, I think you’re looking for a sexual inneundo where there is none on that one. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/17 "2003-10-06T21:27:24Z")
Speaking of hidden sexual meanings, Homer kind of looks like a giant penis. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/18 "2003-10-06T22:26:46Z")
It is true that they intentionally made “Flaming Homer” sound like “Flaming homo.” They commented on it in the Season 3 DVD commentary. (They did attempt some other double entendres: the censors had them remove a sign in the now-famous “Land of Chocolate” dream sequence in another episode of the third season reading “Hershey Highway.”) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/19 "2003-10-06T23:05:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Art Vandelay, Architect \* > \*\*I’m ashamed to admit it, but i only just realized a year ago the double entendre behind the “Flaming Moe”: > > Homer: It’s called a Flaming Ho- > > Moe: (Interupting) Moe!! It’s a Flaming Moe! > > A flaming Ho-Mo(e). It was, like, ten years before it dawned on me! \*\* I never got that joke until I saw one of the gay posters ( **matt\_mcl** , IIRC) refer to himself as a “flaming 'mo.” Wasn’t even a Simpsons related thread, but I flashed on that episode and gave myself a :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818/20 "2003-10-06T23:16:06Z")
> [@](#): > > **cbawlmer** : Hence, rerunning the game with only implied oral consent would be illegal. Yaaaaar! It not only be merely _illegal_, but what is commonly defined as an act of _piracy_, ye scurvy dog. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-the-joke/205818.md?page=2)