# Simpsons jokes you didn't understand. Hopefully explained! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980 "2003-08-04T22:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/121 "2003-08-12T21:34:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xzebit \* > \*\*Just a WAG but was Aunt Helga referring to that play with the blind girl…i believe it was called Helen…or at least that was her name. > Anyway i was wondering about the episode where Bart discovers the comet that is headed towards Springfield. When Principal SKinner is talking about the comet he almost claimed as his but another principal…i believe he said Principal Kahoutek…had called it in first. As soon as he says it the clouds get dark and lightning strikes in the sky and Skinner says… I got back at him, though…him and that little boy of his too. > \*\* Mostly just silliness, the idea that humble elementary school principle Skinner is in actual competition with[Dr. Lubos Kahoutek](http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Kohoutek/index.html), who is not a school principal, but a published professor makes the humor of the scene. The “little boy” implies that Kahoutek had a kid working with him much like Bart was. After that its an Oz reference, Little Boy = Little dog. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/122 "2003-08-12T21:40:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skwerl \* > \*\*In the episode where Sideshow Bob hypnotizes Bart so he’ll kill Krusty, there’s a scene where he’s mixing the plastic explosive. He tastes some of it and says in a weird voice “That’s goood plastic explosive!” They’ve used that voice in other episodes, always in the context of “That’s goood…” Jon Stewart’s done a similar voice on the Daily Show. It has to be a spoof of someone, right? \*\* It think its a rip of an old Johnny Carson routine where he’d do a character with that voice who taste something and say “Mmmmmm that’s good \” the something was often a double entendre or drug reference. Or it could be from an old SNL commercial for the “Bass-0-matic”, the commercial was done primarily by Dan Ackroyd, but one cut away to one of the female cast drinking the liquified fish and saying “Mmmmmm that’s good Bass!” ---
**Author:** ![epraz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/82dd89/32.png) [@epraz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epraz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/123 "2003-08-13T01:28:52Z")
Cadets at the military school: “It was worth sneaking into town. That was some gooooooooood corn!” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/124 "2003-08-13T08:26:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\*It’s the implication that’s funny. The sign said “Snead’s Feed & Seed. Formerly Chuck’s.” It’s getting the very subtle, vulgar joke that’s funny. Or not. \*\* I also thought, perhaps incorrectly, that this was also vaguely referencing the movie “Chuck and Buck,” where one of the characters mentions playing Chuck and Buck’s Fuck and Suck. ---
**Author:** ![Madisonmiranda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Madisonmiranda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madisonmiranda)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/125 "2020-09-24T01:33:06Z")
I have 2 jokes I don’t understand: 1: Lisa The Veterinarian: The Simpsons go to the water park. Bart asks Milhouse how long he’s been waiting in line and he responds, “you didn’t use the app last week to get your Slammin’ Salmon line number? What are you, Amish?” I don’t really understand that joke. 2: Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily: Bart gets lice from playing with Milhouse’s monkey. Bart says “how come I get lice and nothing happens to Milhouse?” We then see Milhouse is pale and shaking saying " so cold, so very very cold" I don’t understand why Milhouse would be shivering ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/126 "2020-09-24T02:45:50Z")
Regarding #2, Milhouse appears to have gotten some sort of tropical illness from the monkey. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/127 "2020-09-24T02:57:32Z")
And regarding #1, it’s probably a slam on anyone who doesn’t have the latest app for…whatever. Like in the Weird Al song “First World Problems” one of the lines is: _My Sonicare won’t charge/Now I have to brush my teeth like a Neanderthal!_ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/128 "2020-09-24T19:06:01Z")
It’s a variation of a rarely used trope. Example: [Extremely tense scene] Man dramatically pulls out document. “Eggs, milk…” “Damn it, this is my grocery list.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/129 "2020-09-24T19:12:31Z")
You can get FastPasses for the large rides at Disney parks up to 30 or more days ahead of time online which allow you to pass the queue if you go at your designated time. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/130 "2020-09-24T19:19:05Z")
> [@Miss\_Gretchen](#): > > What about the insane grinning guy who has appeared a few times (usually as a waiter or something similar) who answers questions with “Yeeeeeesssss!!!”??😕 > I know that that’s gotta be a parody of something but…well, I’m confused! That’s a reference to Mel Blanc’s character from the radio (and later TV) show: _The Jack Benny Show_. A running gag was that wherever Benny went, he was bound to turn around somewhere and there Mel would be (as a waiter, bellboy, policeman, anything) and say “Yeeeeesssss!!!?” To which Benny replied, “Oh, not you again.” Cue the guaranteed laughs. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/131 "2020-09-24T20:17:27Z")
As was mentioned 17 years ago 😀, the actor being parodied was not Mel Blanc, but [Frank Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_(actor)). ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/132 "2020-09-24T21:34:00Z")
Well it’s been 17 years, but since it’s been bumped, several posters seem to be under the impression that the previous establishment was **actually** called “Chuck’s Suck and Fuck”. The clear joke is that it was obviously just called “Chuck’s Seed and Feed”, and any connections you make to another title is your own dirty mind. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/133 "2020-09-25T00:00:25Z")
Yeah. As if a brothel could be easily converted into a livestock food store. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980/134 "2020-09-25T00:05:55Z")
You have obviously never been to Northern Nevada. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-didnt-understand-hopefully-explained/192980.md?page=6)