# Simpsons 11/22: "Pranks and Greens" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703 "2009-11-23T22:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/1 "2009-11-23T22:20:44Z")
Episode 447, LABF18, written by Jeff Westbrook, directed by Chuck Sheetz Not a great episode - in fact the opening “12 Days of Christmas” sequence might have been the best part - but it did get me to do something I hadn’t done before: enjoy Jonah Hill. I’ve never been a fan. Overall I found it an odd episode. Bart going out of his way to help someone was a little too Marge-like for me, and I saw the ending coming from a mile away. On the other hand I liked the B-plot, with Marge trying to keep the family eating healthy (okay, we’ve seen that before) and keep up with the latest baby health panic fads. The Whole Foods parody was a bullseye. I especially enjoyed the resolution to that story, both with Marge finding Homer’s stash and the line “From now on, we’ll just make the kids eat healthy.” “Hard pour corn” was also clever. As for Andy’s ultimate prank? Brutal, but I think Bart’s done better. I love the pranks we’ve seen in recent years, and this episode reminded me that I’d really like to see Topher Grace’s Donny character come back some time. Other than “nine Lennys leaping,” the highlight of the episode for me was Lisa riding past Bart and Andy with the ‘L’ symbol on her forehead. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/2 "2009-11-23T22:35:35Z")
I thought the highlight was what happened when Bart asked Lisa to zoom in and enhance… An entertaining enough but forgettable episode. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/3 "2009-11-23T22:37:54Z")
Loved comic book guy doin’ the right thing at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/4 "2009-11-24T02:55:38Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > in fact the opening “12 Days of Christmas” sequence might have been the best part No argument there, but I did enjoy the episode. The overall storyline wasn’t brilliant, but it wasn’t bad, and there were enough fun little bits (beginning with the “Upcoming Pranks” (“Night of a Thousand Skunks,” “Operation Gumbo Drop”)) that made it worth watching. > [@](#): > > - but it did get me to do something I hadn’t done before: enjoy Jonah Hill. Who? Am I getting to be an out-of-touch old fart when the Simpsons guest star is someone I’ve never heard of? Or did that happen when Weird Al started parodying songs I’d never heard? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/5 "2009-11-24T04:18:57Z")
oh you know him… the fat jew-froed kid making the rounds in all the comedy flicks lately. he was trying to buy shoes from the ebay store in 40yo viring? he had period blood stain his pants in Superbad? He was the aspiring singer/waiter in Forgetting Sarah Marshall… what threw you off was probably the fact that a) NOBODY seems to remember his name, and b) the character did not resemble his real life figure at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/6 "2009-11-24T04:50:03Z")
I was hoping that Lisa would call the credits losers. I think it would have been funny… ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/7 "2009-11-24T05:17:54Z")
^something oldschool simpsons writers would have done. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/8 "2009-11-24T05:39:02Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Who? He’s been in some Judd Apatow-clan movies, like The Forty Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up and Superbad. > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I was hoping that Lisa would call the credits losers. > > I think it would have been funny… > [@pancakes3](#): > > ^something oldschool simpsons writers would have done. Uh… she did. She didn’t do it for the entire credit sequence, but she did it over Al Jean’s credit and Matt Groening/Sam Simon/James L. Brooks’ credit. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/9 "2009-11-24T06:41:09Z")
All of whom are (or were) writers, which I thought was the point of the joke. I laughed out loud at “zoom in and enhance,” and there were several smirk-worthy moments. An above-average episode, but not outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/10 "2009-11-24T16:20:49Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > He’s been in some Judd Apatow-clan movies, like The Forty Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up and Superbad. > > Uh… she did. She didn’t do it for the entire credit sequence, but she did it over Al Jean’s credit and Matt Groening/Sam Simon/James L. Brooks’ credit. I noticed. It’s what made me hope she would do it for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/11 "2009-11-24T16:59:09Z")
I thought it was a very funny episode. Story wasn’t top notch, but there were enough gags. Swim Teacher Willie “Five golden Frinks!” “Stupid horny jellyfish, neutering our dudes!” ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/12 "2009-11-24T17:13:39Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > oh you know him… the fat jew-froed kid making the rounds in all the comedy flicks lately. he was trying to buy shoes from the ebay store in 40yo viring? he had period blood stain his pants in Superbad? He was the aspiring singer/waiter in Forgetting Sarah Marshall… > > what threw you off was probably the fact that a) NOBODY seems to remember his name, and b) the character did not resemble his real life figure at all. It’s Jonah Hill, dude. I’ll admit that I was helped out by the ads this week in remembering this, and most of my non-IMDB/Wikipedia addict friends tell me I have strange actor-remembering powers, but he’s got a fairly distinct voice and attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/13 "2009-11-24T17:33:00Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Loved comic book guy doin’ the right thing at the end. That’s actually from an earlier episode this season (“Homer the Whopper” - I think it was the season premiere). But that was a good one and I liked that ending, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/14 "2009-11-24T17:48:14Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s actually from an earlier episode this season (“Homer the Whopper” - I think it was the season premiere). But that was a good one and I liked that ending, too. In at least some places, that episode was rerun at 7:30, immediately before “Pranks.” ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/15 "2009-11-24T22:53:57Z")
What was the last line of the “12 Days…” parody? It sounded like, “'Maggie in a sub lee.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/16 "2009-11-24T23:10:44Z")
“Maggie in [a Snugli](http://www.evenflo.com/category.aspx?id=23).” ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-11-22-pranks-and-greens/518703/17 "2009-11-24T23:24:58Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > “Maggie in [a Snugli](http://www.evenflo.com/category.aspx?id=23).” Thanks. No wonder I couldn’t parse it. It’s something I never heard of.