In the episode where we see Lisa’s future, she walks past a movie theatre that’s advertising “Forty classic movies featuring Jim Carrey”. He’s currently at 39.
That episode also features Marge saying, “You know, Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn’t even notice.”
Season 1: Krusty Gets Busted.
Homer discovers Triple Chocolate ice cream. According to the DVD commentary this was a joke. Since then, triple chocolate has become an actual flavor. Spooky.
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In “Beyond Blunderdome” (AABF23), the episode where Mel Gibson asks Homer for his honest, regular-guy insights on his work, Gibson laments that no one will give him their true opinion, because they’re in awe of his celebrity:
“The problem I have is people love me so much, they never criticize me”, Mel elaborates. “I speed all the time but the cops never give me a ticket”.
In retrospect, that line may have been less a prophecy than a wry inside joke.
I seem to remember reading some interview with the writes where they said they didn’t even know Bush *had *a son named George - the “George Bush Jr” thing was just supposed to make it even more clear how poorly planned Homer’s, uh, plan was.
That’s different from “I voted for Kodos,” though. “I voted for McGovern” says that there is a huge difference between the two parties. “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” is a send up of that, and of the entire two-party system, if you remember the episode.
Nitpickily, George Bush doesn’t have a son named George Bush Jr. The song is George Herbert Walker Bush; the father is George Walker Bush.
During the Watergate scandal, a common bumper stick in my part of the woods was “Don’t Blame Me. I’m From Massachusetts.” Massachusetts was the only stat (along with the District of Columbia) who went for McGovern.
Other way around, of course.
Four? For a moment I thought you included George and Bar’s “adopted son,” Bill, who has been spending more time with mom and dad than the others lately. I had forgotten about Marvin.
The four Bush sons are George W., Jeb, Neil, and Marvin.
The Bush daughters were Robin (who died of leukemia) and Dorothy.
First of all, you got it backwards. Second, that was the point; let me break my post down. The writers did not know there was a son named George, as I said in my previous post. They picked the name because it’s a dumb thing to say, showing how dumb Homer is. George happens to be one of George H.W.'s sons. All good?
At the start of the episode “Homer Defined,” Homer is seen reading a newspaper called “USofA Today,” an obvious play on the real USA Today. The headline of the newspaper reads: “America’s Favorite Pencil: No. 2 is No. 1.” Although it didn’t appear on the front page, the real USA Today ran a story with a very similar headline a couple of years ago.
Yeah, his NATURAL sons, but even Bar has started calling Bill “son.”
In “Marge vs. the Monorail,” which parodies disaster movies, you can see two paintings of disasters during maiden voyage. One, easily visible, has the Hindenburg crashing and burning. Harder to see - I only noticed it because they talk about it in the commentary - is the one showing a burning World Trade Center. The episode aired in January 1993.
