My husband and I passed a billboard last night that had this slogan on it. I was baffled. What does this mean? My epidermis is showing? The car’s epidermis is showing?
We finally decided it was a reference to the car being “topless.” :dubious:
It means buy it!
Seriously, I guess it means your epidermis will be showing (or more of it will be) when you drive in a convertible.
You see, epidermis means your hair. So technically…
I’m waiting for someone to get whooshed on this.
I thought I heard a whoosh, but it was just somebody falling out of a tree.
Like most things, it started as a joke on The Simpsons*
- I think. It may have popped up somewhere else, but The Simpsons brought it out into the bigger world.
Hair?
Maybe it’s a anti-convertible commercial - you know - warning of skin cancer.
T’was the episode where they get a pool, methinks.
I remember falling for it in 1nd grade… in 1963.
Well it really means skin
But carry on none the less 
For a good ten years or so I’ve I thought that was wrong. Wonder if it’s a writer screwup or a ‘character’ screwup.
I just saw one of these billboards for the first time last night and was tremendously amused. Not that I’ll ever buy or afford a convertible, but I like those little reminders of how large a place The Simpsons has in popular culture. I’m not sure how many people get the reference, but I can’t imagine anybody else finding it amusing.
As has been mentioned - it’s not a Simpsons reference, it’s an old joke (I first remember it from 4th grade, which was in 1986). If it had followed up with a footnote that read ‘See, your epidermis is your hair, so technically…’, then it would have been a Simpsons reference.
Epidermis is your hair? Simpson’s references? What the hell are you people talking about?
Ah, okay. I was in elementary school from about '86 to '94 and never heard it there, I only knew it as a Simpsons reference- which may be true for a lot of people.
There was an episode of the Simpsons where the Simpsons got a pool. Just as Bart was about to jump in, Nelson did the old ‘Your epidermis is showing’ joke, distracting Bart so he fell and broke his leg.
Then Nelson turns to Kearney (I think), to explain why ‘your epidermis is showing’ is funny. His explaination is that your epidermis is your hair (I mean…it IS Nelson). So, we have a double-joke - Bart falling for the old epidermis joke, and Nelson, who pulled it, not actually realising what the joke is.
And the humor of bully Nelson going into a scientific (if wrong) explanation that his joke is funny not just because it hurt Bart, but because technically it’s true.
Right. Triple-joke. Quadruple, even, throwing in the fact that Bart was injured.