# Simpsons jokes you missed the first (or second) time around **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925 "2003-12-09T15:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/1 "2003-12-09T15:10:42Z")
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? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/2 "2003-12-09T15:18:10Z")
The infamous sign: Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck’s) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/3 "2003-12-09T15:31:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\*The infamous sign: Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck’s) \*\* Okay, I still don’t get that one. ---
**Author:** ![PRNYouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PRNYouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRNYouth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/4 "2003-12-09T15:35:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\*Okay, I still don’t get that one. \*\* Since “Sneed”, “Feed”, and “Seed”, all rhyme … Take the “uck” from “Chuck’s” … and replace the “eed” in “Feed” and “Seed”. Very subtle. But it cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/5 "2003-12-09T15:40:52Z")
Ah, gotcha. Maybe I should have another cup of coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/6 "2003-12-09T17:09:30Z")
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…”. Basically, Krusty spelled out “shit”. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/7 "2003-12-10T04:03:35Z")
Apu got his graduate degree in Computer Science from the _S_pringfield _H_eights _I_nstitute of _T_echnology. Also in Moaning Lisa’s Blues, the club she plays in at the end is called the Jazzhole. ---
**Author:** ![autobulb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@autobulb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/autobulb)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/8 "2003-12-10T05:38:57Z")
In one of the Halloween episodes something startles Kang and Kodos up in their ship and they exclaim: Holy Flurkin Shnit! ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/9 "2003-12-10T07:19:06Z")
In the flashback episode about Bart’s birth, Marge is giving potential names and Homer responds with what the other kids would call him. Marge: Marcus? Homer: Mucus. Marge: Bart? Homer: Bart? Art, Cart, Dart, Eee-art. Nope, can’t think of a thing wrong with that. If Homer had gone down one more letter, he would have found something. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/10 "2003-12-10T07:25:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/11 "2003-12-10T08:26:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SJSB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SJSB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SJSB)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/12 "2003-12-10T11:10:41Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/13 "2003-12-10T13:32:03Z")
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. . . .” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/14 "2003-12-10T14:12:04Z")
I like when Bart and Milhouse break into Flanders’s house. One of the video takes you can see is titled “Debbie Does Penance” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/15 "2003-12-10T14:14:42Z")
I didn’t get this joke until I read an explanation, and now I find it hilarious. Something like “He abuses his pets worse than Bob Guiccione!” Bob Guiccione is the head of _Penthouse_ magazine, whose centerfolds are dubbed “Penthouse Pets.” ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/16 "2003-12-10T15:44:52Z")
The banner at the Reading Digest luncheon that they go to in ‘Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington’ says “Brevity is . . . wit.” ---
**Author:** ![Sketch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Sketch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sketch)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/17 "2003-12-10T21:00:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bakhesh \* > \*\*I like when Bart and Milhouse break into Flanders’s house. One of the video takes you can see is titled “Debbie Does Penance” \*\* Don’t forget “Girls gone Mild!” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/18 "2003-12-10T22:03:24Z")
I didn’t get the “Flaming Moe” until it was explained to me…on this board, now that I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/19 "2003-12-10T22:21:22Z")
I didn’t get “Flaming Moe” either until it was pointed out here at the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@Age\_Quod\_Agis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Age_Quod_Agis)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925/20 "2003-12-10T22:28:09Z")
I didn’t get “Flaming Moe”/“Flaming Homer” until I read it on this board, too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-jokes-you-missed-the-first-or-second-time-around/217925.md?page=2)