# Simpsons Didn't Do It! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216 "2004-07-21T18:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/101 "2004-07-25T23:15:33Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Segways. Dr. Hibert loots one and drives it away from a town meeting. “So, can we keep all that stuff we stole?” “I think that’s implied!” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/102 "2004-07-26T00:24:34Z")
And on the episode where Mr Burns tries to buy Lisa out, he sends a man on a Segway to drive them (Lisa, Homer, and Lisa’s staff) off the road. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/103 "2004-07-26T00:50:20Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > The NBA The guest voice was Magic Johnson. They’re also made fun of the WNBA, if I remember right. > [@](#): > > Cyberstalking I suppose you could argue that Comic Book Guy is stalking Kate Mulgrew (Cpt. Janeway) - we see him downloading porn of her. > [@](#): > > Global Positioning Devices Skinner laments in one episode that only one student took the school up on its offer to implant a tracking device in his head - Martin Prince. That’s all I can think of right now. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/104 "2004-07-26T02:43:02Z")
You guys are KILLING me. I don’t know what’s more impressive – the fact that the Simpsons writers have referenced all this stuff, or that you guys remember the when where and context where you seen 'em. I’m glad I thought of cicadas! The writers are not omniscient. Mwah ha ha ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/105 "2004-07-26T05:28:52Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Barney crashes the Duff blimp, causing Kent Brokman to comment “Oh! The humanity!” Also, Bart’s checkbook is a flip series,showing the crash of the Hindenberg. Another blimp reference: Homer financed his entry of Lisa into the Little Miss Springfield beauty pageant by selling a contest prize - a flight in a blimp. I think the episode title was “Lisa the Beauty Queen”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/106 "2004-07-26T05:51:12Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > I’m glad I thought of cicadas! The writers are not omniscient. Mwah ha ha ha ha! Keep in mind that cicadas were a big story this year- so if the writers decided to throw in some jokes about them, you wouldn’t have seen it yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/107 "2004-07-26T07:20:45Z")
Hmmm… So Marge has razed a whorehouse? Has Lisa been spoonfed ground up dolphin carcasses? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/108 "2004-07-26T07:29:40Z")
Are you really asking, Ilsa, or or you seeing if we’ll recognize your hints? 😉 Little Lisa Slurry may not be pure dolphins, but it’s got kelp, dolphins, fish, and whales. It’ll cure what ails ya, it’s a petroleum-free lubricant, and is a handy explosive. And Burns tried to give some to Lisa (in a spoon) when she felt disgust about it. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2004, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/109 "2004-07-26T08:14:45Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Another blimp reference: Homer financed his entry of Lisa into the Little Miss Springfield beauty pageant by selling a contest prize - a flight in a blimp. I think the episode title was “Lisa the Beauty Queen”. Right, he sold his ticket to Barney, who promptly crashed the blimp. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/110 "2004-07-27T01:27:20Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > Are you really asking, Ilsa, or or you seeing if we’ll recognize your hints? 😉 > > Little Lisa Slurry may not be pure dolphins, but it’s got kelp, dolphins, fish, and whales. It’ll cure what ails ya, it’s a petroleum-free lubricant, and is a handy explosive. And Burns tried to give some to Lisa (in a spoon) when she felt disgust about it. 😉 ---
**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:** [July 27, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/111 "2004-07-27T11:35:39Z")
> [@badomen](#): > > There was also the motorcycle gang episode “Hell’s Satan’s” and the snack food franchise episode where the mob and yakuza had a gang war on the Simpson’s front lawn. Not exactly street gangs, but gangs in general. More to the point, there’s the ep where Homer and his buddies form a motorcycle gang. They behave like a street gang: at one point they are lagging pennies at the KwikEMart and Apu chases them off with a broom. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/112 "2004-08-02T02:43:46Z")
How about breaking the fourth wall? I can’t think of any episode where they looked at the camera and addressed the audience. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/113 "2004-08-02T02:53:39Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > How about breaking the fourth wall? I can’t think of any episode where they looked at the camera and addressed the audience. You gotta be kidding. They do it CONSTANTLY. In the Who Shot Mr. Burns two-ep storyline, at the end of the first ep, Clancy say, “I can’t solve this mystery (points at viewers) can you?” In almost every ep in which he appears as a host, Lionel Hutz addresses the audience. At the end of the ep where Homer and family goes to the island, the mysterious bird creature addresses the camera. Bart makes several references to his Butterfinger endorsement. Fox gets referenced. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/114 "2004-08-02T03:01:51Z")
> [@yellowcakesolid](#): > > 1. The Holocaust and concentration camps The closest they got to this (and it’s a big stretch) was when Homer took the family to Duff Gardens and the designated drivers (Marge, in this case) were locked inside a barbed wire enclosure. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/115 "2004-08-02T03:09:26Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > How about breaking the fourth wall? I can’t think of any episode where they looked at the camera and addressed the audience. Fox just reran last week the recent episode where Lisa goes head-to-head against Mr. Burns’ media control. At the end, both Smithers and Burns face the “camera”, smile and say wonderful things about Rupert Murdoch. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/116 "2004-08-02T06:33:38Z")
I can’t think of anything else offhand that involved concentration camps. But there have been a number of flashbacks to Skinner’s days in Vietnam, some of them in prison camps. (Like the one where a Viet Cong elephant eats his platoon.) Not quite the Holocaust, but Grampa served in WWII, and we’ve seen that. ---
**Author:** ![Daver914](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Daver914](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daver914)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/117 "2004-08-02T07:53:34Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I suppose you could argue that Comic Book Guy is stalking Kate Mulgrew (Cpt. Janeway) - we see him downloading porn of her. He’s also stalking Lynda Carter. "CBG: The technical term is ‘courting’. The restraining order says, ‘no, no’, but her eyes say, ‘yes, yes!’ " ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/118 "2004-08-02T23:24:52Z")
Have the Simpson’s won a lottery yet (and then pissed it away)? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/119 "2004-08-02T23:51:45Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > Have the Simpson’s won a lottery yet (and then pissed it away)? Kent Brockman did. (Actually, I don’t think he pissed it away, I think he’s still kind of wealthy.) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216/120 "2004-08-09T14:19:05Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Spider-Man was indirectly referenced in the Malibu Stacy episode, when one of the talking Malibu Stacy dolls said “My spider-sense is tingling! Better sling a web!” or something to that effect (based on a real-life incident when some talking Barbies were accidentally given recordings for talking G.I. Joe dolls). Nitpick: That was not an accident. A gay advocacy group tampered with the dolls, and IIRC, it was G.I. Joes who were given Barbie’s voice. But around that same time, genuine talking Barbies were the subject of some controversy. One of the phrases was “Math is really hard!” Of course, that can be taken two ways, but at any rate, this was the incident that inspired the main plot of that episode, with Malibu Stacy saying “Don’t ask me…I’m just a girl! Heehee! Heehee!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-didnt-do-it/256216.md?page=7)