FYI, if you’re in the US the Simpsons is not a cable show. Fox shows new episodes Sunday nights.
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I have a vague recollection of Lenny sitting at the bar and making some comment about being profoundly schizophrenic – and Karl wasn’t there. I can’t remember if it was in the Flanders episode or if it was during the repeat episode they played earlier.
Can someone supply the details on that? Or was it just the wind whistling through the cracks in my brain?
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Not all areas of the US have FOX broadcast stations-Maine, for one- and are served by a national feed on cable & satellite.
That was from last night’s other episode, where they were talking about hiring a private investigator. Carl was there, but Homer was sitting between them (I think!)
The gag is that elves supposedly cobble your shoes at night. The PI told him he was doing it himself and didn’t remember it.
Thanks for the context! (I still think Karl’s absence added another layer to the joke…)
I missed that. :smack:
Back on subject: 
I knew a guy once who was Ned Flanders right down to the cheesy moustache and howdly doodly attitude.
And he had some of the worst body odor on any person I’ve ever met.
I think that causes me to assume that Ned also has some pretty hefty pheremones wafting around, making me want to gag at the thought of becoming intimate with him!
Isn’t Ned still married to his Vegas wife?
Yes, I would definitely do Flanders, if I had to. But my heart’s with Apu. His hairy chest is so sexy.
Ummmm…don’t you mean “attra-diddly-active”?
No way!
When Homer tells Flanders that he “stinks” (not in that way). Flanders says “Thanks for the nose news, neighbor-reeno!” and departs to take a shower. I bet Flanders is always squeeky clean.
Now the comic book guy or Skinner’s mom- I bet they smell bad.
Hey Indygrrl, how you doin’?
As a guy who likes guys kinda guy, I’d have to pass on Ned. Can’t say as I ever thought that much about who on the Simpsons I’d want to date, but upon reviewing them now I can’t say as I’d want to date any of them. Well, maybe Apu.
How in the world did we get this far in discussing Clair de Lune without mentioning the great French composer Claude Debussy?! :rolleyes:
I was pretty disappointed that Ned and the movie star got down to business on the picnic blanket. It was way too out of character. I’ve always appreciated the way Ned was almost always written faithful to his born-again character but he seemed to toss out his belief regarding premarital sex pretty casually. He let me down. If it had been Moe or Carl or someone else I wouldn’t have cared, but when Ned does it, it compromises the iconic nature of his character.
Another Flanders inconsistency: alcohol. In the episode where Homer gives up beer for a month, he goes to an AA meeting where Flanders recounts his last drink of blackberry schnapps (“Ann Landers is a boring old biddy!”), and in the Vegas episode, he threw caution to the winds by ordering a “White wine spritzer!..spritzer!..spritzer!..” (great Fear and Loathing parody, BTW!). But he also has a beer tap in his furnished basement. 
Does beer not count as alcohol? It can’t be non-alcoholic, or Homer wouldn’t drink it!
Yeah, I remember that, but knowing Ned, the beer was probably for guests only. Remember the episode with the meteor threatening to crush Springfield? Ned mentions he specifically built his bomb shelter big enough to fit his family plus the Simpsons. Installing a beer-tap for guests wouldn’t be totally out there for a thoughtful guy like Ned.
I think all the regular male characters on the Simpsons are purposely written as losers, though there are a few background men characters who are not too bad…
Mr. Bergstrom (Lisa’s substitute teacher)
Bleeding Gums Murphy (before he died that is)
Lou (the black cop… his partner Eddie is ugly and kind of a dunce)
Akira (the japanese sushi waiter/karate teacher)
Sideshow Bob (when he’s not being evil - which is pretty much eliminates all but the episode with his brother)
Barney (the sober, motivated Barney that is - remember when he was in training to be an astronaut, and when he was a teenager studying for the SAT’s?)
Moe after plastic surgery. He had it goin’ on!
Oh thank you thank you thank you…
Finally somebody else who sees this! I am not alone.
I tried explaining this to my friends, even going as far as to point it out on video. Let me tell you , I’ve never gotten looks like that before.
Now I have been vindicated. May the mystery of Ned’s enormous genitals be known far and wide!
Okay, calming down now…
I have to say, Ned is built nicely, but his goody goody attitude would get old. Plus, my being a guy would cause some problems I would imagine.
Now, like voguevixen said, Jon is just yummo. You would have to peel me off of him, let me tell you.