# Simpsons 3/9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223 "2003-03-10T04:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/1 "2003-03-10T04:12:05Z")
So the monkey’s uncle was the head of Tourism in Brazil, huh? priceless ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/2 "2003-03-10T04:17:37Z")
ABC is shelving away its _Drew Careys_ (Drew Careies?) for either summer or fall. Whose Line and Drew are next to each other, so the same thing may be happening. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/3 "2003-03-10T04:21:38Z")
Aw, crud! This was supposed to go in the Whose Line thread! Corrected post follows… (eating an on-screen Joe Millionaire ad) Mmm…promo. (spits) Ew, FOX! FOX NEWS-Your source for evil® newsticker… [sub]JFK POSTHUMOUSLY JOINS REPUBLICAN PARTY…RUPERT MURDOCH-TERIFFIC DANCER…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/4 "2003-03-10T04:27:28Z")
[SUB]COMING UP NEXT ON FOX NEWS-HANNITY AND IDIOT…[/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/5 "2003-03-10T04:40:13Z")
I got a pretty big laugh from the ending. “Now all the planes are back where they should be. Over poor people’s houses.” Heehee. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/6 "2003-03-10T05:15:10Z")
The whole episode was hillarious, but the Fox News segment was the funniest thirty seconds of Simpsons this whole season. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/7 "2003-03-10T05:28:27Z")
Kent Brockman was great, > [@](#): > > How can I prove that this is live? Penis. That was great. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/8 "2003-03-10T05:32:31Z")
There’s always one or two jokes in the Simpsons at which nobody laughs but me. Makes me feel so awkward. 🙂 This week it was the _Citizen Kane_ reference. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/9 "2003-03-10T07:15:09Z")
… 92% OF DEMOCRATS ARE GAY … JIMMY CARTER OLD, WRINKLED, USELESS … Anybody else get a tear in their eye at the end? God Bless America! ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/10 "2003-03-10T07:18:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*There’s always one or two jokes in the Simpsons at which nobody laughs but me. Makes me feel so awkward. 🙂 This week it was the _Citizen Kane_ reference. \*\* Ok – 'splain, please. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/11 "2003-03-10T07:25:15Z")
When Quimby tells his mistress that he can finally hear her voice, she squeaks out a thank you. He asks if that it’s her real voice and then when she says yes, he replies, “Now I regret building you that opera house!” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/12 "2003-03-10T07:35:47Z")
I loved when Marge says someone should do CPR and Homer starts singing, “Bad Moon Rising.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/13 "2003-03-10T13:29:12Z")
Speaking as a person whose apartment house is on the flight plan for small planes going into and out of Teterboro Airport, so close I sometimes see them out my front window, last night’s episode was something I identified with. And very funny. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/14 "2003-03-10T13:42:12Z")
The news ticker alone made the show worthwhile. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/15 "2003-03-10T13:57:30Z")
Was that Count Blah (from Greg the Bunny) at the Republican meeting? ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/16 "2003-03-10T13:59:52Z")
Some of the jokes were patently recycled…well, ok, two come to mind: 1. the “devil horns” over the democrat’s head were similar to Quimby’s horn-shaped-cowlicks in “Sideshow Bob Roberts.” (The network added flame effects there.) 2. “Wow, he looks just like Walter Mondale!” “Yeah…looks like.” Already heard that with John Travolta in the Itchy & Scratchy Land episode. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/17 "2003-03-10T14:09:06Z")
The three eps that preceded this one were just not funny. Way below par for the Simpsons. I was starting to worry about sharks there. Thing that made this one funny was some nice, sharp political commentary. The previous episodes were so innocuous that they lost all their punch. Hope the Simpsons writers take the obvious lesson here – in comedy, it is less dangerous to risk offending people than it is to risk boring them. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/18 "2003-03-10T14:53:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*Was that Count Blah (from Greg the Bunny) at the Republican meeting? \*\* I think it was a repeated character parody of Count Chocula, who they had used before in the “Republican Party Headquarters” gag bit (remember they thought the water cooler was their candidate for a minute) from a couple of seasons ago. I believe this first instance was prior to “Greg the Bunny”. They have reused the crazy texas oil baron a few times as well. As far as the episode, it was a classic. Anytime they rip on Fox, you know it will be a good episode. Gee, not one wanna-be CBG in the thread yet? Was there a convention this weekend or something? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/19 "2003-03-10T15:16:36Z")
CBG? ---
**Author:** ![shulmahn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@shulmahn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shulmahn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223/20 "2003-03-10T15:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neurotik \* > \*\*CBG? \*\* Comic Book Guy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-3-9/160223.md?page=2)