# Simpsons 9/18 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281 "2005-09-18T23:55:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/41 "2005-09-19T15:34:05Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Also, when Homer mentioned that the brakes were shot on the racecar bed and they cut to Bart’s bed out of control in his room, I thought it was the kind of thing **Family Guy** does. That’s definitely a kind of joke The Simpsons was doing before Family Guy even existed. > [@Otto](#): > > I was talking about within the context of the episode, not about whatever backstage axe the writers had to grind. I know. But I think since it’s not that funny on its own, it’s much more amusing if you know why they went after him there. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/42 "2005-09-19T16:25:08Z")
The graveyard scene with Dr. Nick was both very funny and extremely disturbing. “I’m Dr. Octopus.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/43 "2005-09-19T16:47:30Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Actually, I think they were getting back at Lucas for pulling out of a guest appearance. Cite? And there was a segment at a Stamp Museum?!?!? :cue overhead camera: “NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/44 "2005-09-19T16:56:14Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > They’re about 7 years too late to end gracefully. Given 🙂 But how _would_ they end the show? Blow up Springfield? ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/45 "2005-09-19T17:01:16Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Given 🙂 But how _would_ they end the show? Blow up Springfield? If that isn’t a promising idea for a new thread, I’ve never heard one. Care to do the honors? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/46 "2005-09-19T17:17:27Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > If that isn’t a promising idea for a new thread, I’ve never heard one. Care to do the honors? I always thought the show should end with Homer and Marge waking up and discovering they are still on the Tracey Ullman Show. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/47 "2005-09-19T17:36:03Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > If that isn’t a promising idea for a new thread, I’ve never heard one. Care to do the honors? Here’s one, from May 2004: [Simpsons Series Finale](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=255390) Here’s another, from '04, with links to even older ones: [Why won’t the Simpsons end with dignity?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=151063) ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/48 "2005-09-19T17:54:10Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s definitely a kind of joke The Simpsons was doing before Family Guy even existed. You may be right. I guess I just noticed it more now that I’ve been watching **Family Guy**. I still don’t like Homer swearing, though. AFAIK, the harshest curse he’s uttered has been “Jerkass”. I could be wrong (again). ---
**Author:** ![Amok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/49 "2005-09-19T18:09:16Z")
Screw ending, gracefully or otherwise; I want them to break **Meet the Press’s** record for years on the air. (And yes, I realize that **Meet the Press** would have to go off the air at some point for that to happen, but hey, as long as The Simpsons keep being made, hope lives on.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/50 "2005-09-19T19:12:52Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Cite? I saw Simpsons producer Mike Reiss speak last November at my alma mater, and of course, some of the more hard-core fanboys talked to him for a while afterward over snacks and autographs. I wish I could give you quotes. Remember the recent episode where Stan Lee guest starred? “I am Furious Yellow?” He said that part was originally written for Lucas, who had volunteered to do a guest spot. But he pulled out and it was rewritten for Lee. When Reiss told this story, I laughed and said something to the effect of “and then you savaged him in another episode…” His response to me indicated that it was revenge on the show’s part. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/51 "2005-09-20T00:05:43Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > I still don’t like Homer swearing, though. AFAIK, the harshest curse he’s uttered has been “Jerkass”. I could be wrong (again). He screamed the F-word in the first part of _Who Shot Mr. Burns_ after he realizes Mr. Burns was unable to remember his name on a thank-you card. (We could hear him inhale “Ffff…” The rest was drowned out by a church organ.) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/52 "2005-09-20T00:32:27Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > He screamed the F-word in the first part of _Who Shot Mr. Burns_ after he realizes Mr. Burns was unable to remember his name on a thank-you card. (We could hear him inhale “Ffff…” The rest was drowned out by a church organ.) Flanders: “Dear Lord! That’s the loudest profanity I’ve ever heard!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/53 "2005-09-20T04:57:23Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > A heads up: no new Simpsons until 11/6 (this years Treehouse of Horror ep). [SNPP.com](http://SNPP.com) says you’re wrong. There’s another new one next Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern, then they’re off until November. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/54 "2005-09-20T11:12:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [SNPP.com](http://SNPP.com) says you’re wrong. There’s another new one next Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern, then they’re off until November. I was going by [Epguides.com](http://Epguides.com). That sight shows this, too, so I was right at the time. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/55 "2005-09-20T16:15:28Z")
This is going to be **awful**. For the new 9/25 show from the SNPP [upcoming episodes page](http://www.lorisaunders.com/images/photo/full/) (contains title and plot description): 8:00 • Milhouse of Sand and Fog (GABF19) Now here’s an idea for a party: all parents are invited to bring their children to the Simpson house so they can catch chicken pox now from Maggie Egad, ripping off a recent South Park! (Which itself wasn’t all that original.) I guess SP won’t have to worry about “The Simpsons did it.” syndrome anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281/56 "2005-09-20T16:46:16Z")
I didn’t know South Park had done an episode like that. Shades of the Great Brain! (And other things too I’m sure.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-9-18/322281.md?page=2)