Let’s talk about those subtle, gotta-be-paying attention gags that get inserted into episodes. I’m not talking about freeze-framing the tape to see the gold between the floors of the Simpson house, but more like this:
The clip-show episode where Homer is dressed like Forrest Gump (the show opens with him getting jabbed in the eyes by the floating feather) and ends up at a roasting of himself.
At the end, they go into a takeoff of Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (I think) and show a bunch of still frames from episodes in the past. As they transition into the lyric “Never fear, we’ve got stories for years” the still frame is of Homer jumping a shark! Literally! The song then continues with ridiculous stories like “Marge becomes a robot” and “Moe gets a cell phone”.
But I didn’t really notice the “jump-the-shark” reference until the second or third time I saw that episode. Classic, I tells ya!
What other jokes slipped under your radars’ the first time?
Another dirty one: when someone (can’t remember if it was Bart or Lisa) picks up the Krusty See ‘n’ Say in a store and pulls the string. Krusty says, “S is for Shiksa! S…H…I…um…I think there’s a T in there…”.
Hmmmm…this thread is turning into a “dirty” Simpsons thread.
I will admit that a lot of Simpsons jokes passed over my head until somebody explained them here. One that comes to mind is the “Hershey Highwaymen” joke from the episode where candy was banned from Springfield. (For those who still don’t know: it’s a euphemism for sodomy.)
I think the jury’s still out on whether “Do not touch Willie” is a dirty joke or not.
In one episode, I remember a character on a stakeout dressed as a bush and arresting Bart for something. Bart is dragged away, screaming, “The bush set me up! The bush set me up!”
A not-so-subtle reference to DC Mayor Marion Barry’s infamous arrest tape.
Well, going back to the OP, the one Simpsons gag that always passed me by was from the episode where Marge is arrested for “shoplifting” at the Kwik-e-mart.
There is a bit when they are in court, and Prof. Frink is showing slides. He says something about a “puff of blue hair from behind the grassy knoll.”
It took me so long to catch that remark and realise that it is a JFK joke.:smack:
The Simpsons are at the Prison Rodeo. A convict is riding a buncking bronco. Bart of course is cheering for the horse to maim the convict. He yells out. “That’s it-- toss his salad!”
In reruns, I was like, “hey- wait a minute. . . .”