"Simpsons"-isms in everyday life

Cafe Society
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What phrases and routines from The Simpsons do you do or say in your day-to-day life? I have several which are so natural to me that I’m usually unconsious of them.

Example:
When I pick up the flavor of Friskies canned catfood known as “Sea Captain’s Choice”, I automatically say to the kitties, “Arrrr! The Seeeea Captain’s Choice!” in character. The Lord knows what they think of me.

So what little things do you say all the time, just as a matter of course, from The Simpsons?

p.s.

I have some sympathy for people who are sick of all the Simpsons threads lately. I’m almost sick of them myself. Almost, but not quite. There’s always room for one more, in my humble opinion. (In which forum I almost put this.)

C’mon, it’s The Simpsons!

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None! Maybe because I don’t watch it often. But the ones I’ve seen are sooooo amusing. :slight_smile:

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OK, we’re at a meeting in work and one cow-orker says, “Irregardless, I think we should…” and I cut her off:

“‘Irregardless’? It’s just regardless.”

Another cow-orker pipes up, “What’s the matter with ‘irregardless’? It’s a perfectly cromulent word.” :smiley: Man that was perfect.

We also use “embiggen” a lot. Also, “science-pole.” Love that one.

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I think everyone that watches the Simpsons does a Homer thing, too…the “Mmmmmm…<insert food product here>”

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I’m rather particular to the Burns style “Excellent…”

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:smack: DOH! :smiley:

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Oddly enough, I find myself saying quite often:

“It ate everybody…”

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What’s a “science pole”? I missed that one. (d’oh!)

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The ones (over one syllable) that I tend to salt my conversation with most frequently are, in no particular order, [ul][li]“Me fail english? That’s unpossible!”“Chemicals are our friends.”[/li]
and

“The dead have risen and they’re voting Republican!”[/ul]

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I find myself daying “D’oh!” from time to time. Only, not as loud as Homer would. :slight_smile:

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D’oh, Excellent, and Mmmm I use frequently. You can be quite expressive with them. I wish they made a keychain with three buttons that said just those things.

“Tastes like burning” (Ralph) is my favorite but it hardly ever comes into context so I do not get a chance to use it often.

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I use Nelson’s “Ha ha” quite a bit.

Our office phones have ID on them, so a few of answer “Ahoy hoy” if we see another Simpson freak is calling.

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Here is a few (now I have my wife doing it too!). I put the whole joke so you can get the content, but often use just the punchline:

Sea Captain McAllister: “Arr, here be a fine vessel, the yarest river goin’ boat
thar be.”
Homer: “I’ll take it!”
(the boat sinks)
McAllister: (sadly) “Arr, I don’t know what I’m doin’.”
McAllister: “Arr, matee, narry a warning light to be seen. Clear
sailin’ ahead for our precious cargo.”
Sailor: “Uh, would that be the hot pants, sir?”
McAllister: “Aye, the hot pants.”

Charity Bachelor Auction reject:
Krusty: “Come on! He likes sunsets, what more do you want?”
McAllister: “Arr, I’m not attractive.”

Homer: To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

Rev. Lovejoy: Wait a minute. This sounds like rock and/or roll.

Homer: Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?
Apu: Such a beer does not exist, sir. I think you must have dreamed it.
Homer: Oh. Well, then just give me a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles.

Homer: I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.”

Kang: Holy fleurking schnit!

Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don’t show up tomorrow don’t bother showing up on Monday.
Homer: Woo-hoo! Four-day weekend!

Shopkeeper: Take this object, but beware: it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: Oooh, that’s bad.
Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
Homer: That’s good!
Shopkeeper: The Frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: That’s bad.
Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of toppings!
Homer: That’s good!
Shopkeeper: The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
[Homer looks puzzled.]
Shopkeeper: That’s bad.
Homer: Can I go now?

Grampa Simpson: Welcome home, son. I broke two lamps and lost all your mail. What’s wrong with your wife?
Homer: Never mind, you wouldn’t understand.
Grampa Simpson: Flu?
Homer: No.
Grampa Simpson: Protein deficiency?
Homer: No.
Grampa Simpson: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
Homer: No.
Grampa Simpson: Unsatisfying sex life?
Homer: N – yes. But please, don’t you say that word!
Grampa Simpson: What, seeex? What’s so unappealing about hearing your elderly father talk about sex? I had seeeeex.

Homer: Here are your messages: You have 30 minutes to move your car. You have 10 minutes. Your car has been impounded. Your car has been crushed into a cube. You have 30 minutes to move your cube.

Homer: Sometimes I think we’re the worst family in town.
Marge: Maybe we should move to a larger community.

Bart: I am through with working. Working is for chumps.
Homer: Son, I’m proud of you! I was twice your age when I figured that out.

Homer: Kids, kids. I’m not going to die. That only happens to bad people.
Bart: What about Abraham Lincoln?
Homer: Uh, he sold poison milk to school children.

Chief Wiggum: What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?

George Washington: We had quitters during the Revolution too. . . we called them Kentuckians.

No lawyer is complete without this one:

Judge: Mr. Hutz, are you aware you’re not wearing any pants?
Lionel Hutz: Uh, your Honor, can I call for one of those bad trial thingys?
Judge: You mean a mistrial?
Lionel Hutz: Yeah…that’s why you’re the judge, and I am the law… talkin’…guy.

Mr. Burns: A lifetime of working with nuclear power has left me with a healthy green blow… and left me as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner.

Homer: Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed? That’s the American way.

Homer: Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Maude Flanders: They were having S-E-X in front of C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N!
Krusty the Clown: Sex Cauldron? I thought they closed that place down!

Chief Wiggum: No jury in the world is going to convict a baby. …Maybe Texas.

And my #1 all time favorite:

Insurance Agent: Now, before I give you the check, one more question. This place “Moe’s” you left just before the accident. This is a business of some kind?
Homer’s Brain: Don’t tell him you were at a bar. Gasp! But what else is open at night?
Homer: It’s a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
Homer’s Brain: Heh heh heh. I woulda never thought of that.

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I use many of the ones mentioned here, especially “cromulent” and the unpossible quote.

Some others that have caused strange looks to be cast at me:

“Rock stars! Is there anything they can’t do?”
“It takes two to lie: one to lie and one to listen”
“You don’t make friends with salad! You don’t make friends with salad!”
“Can’t talk – eating!”
“Lies make baby Jesus cry!”

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My cat’s breath smells like cat food.

Mmmmm…potato chips!

Excellent!

D’OH!

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My favorite one is Homer’s “xxxx, eh?” after someone gives him an idea or something. Example: Akira tells him that Mr. Sparkle is made in Hokkaido, Japan. Homer’s reply: “Hokkaido, eh?”

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Marge, I can’t be expected to keep track of all my wheelings and dealings!

I use that one often at work, usually in response to “Did you order THESE?!”

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The obvious winner is “Internet, eh?”, sometimes followed with “Maude, eh?”

I work in real estate, and another classic is “Yar, I nailed the one about house-boats, did you?”

Oh yeah, also “Don’t worry money. Your money’s money is all that money.”

And finally, “… or we’ll choke their rivers with our dead!”

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My then-girlfriend (later fiancee’ and now wife) thought I was an incredibly witty and quirky person until she started watching the Simpsons with me. She sooned realized I was a hack who ripped off the Simpsons left and right. She thought they were all watsonwil originals.

I tried to convince her that it was “how you use it”…:wink:

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In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!