# Simpsons Throwaways and Tossoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082 "2003-06-02T06:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/221 "2003-06-17T20:12:22Z")
Danke. That’s about the Valjean thing, right? ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/222 "2003-06-17T22:32:07Z")
This was just showing today, and I finally picked up on it after seeing the episode 2-3 times in the past. Alex, the new girl, was talking about the perfume she was using. Lisa: “Perfume?” Alex: “Oh, don’t be such a Phoebe.” Of course, the voice actress playing Alex was Lisa Kudrow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/223 "2003-06-17T22:39:29Z")
I just heard that myself. And I then wondered - was it “Phoebe” or “feebie,” like feeble? Is there a connection to the Friends character in the way Lisa is acting? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/224 "2003-06-17T23:54:27Z")
Homer finds Henry Kissingers glasses in the toilet and thinking it makes him look smarter says Homer: The square of the sides of isocoles triangle is equal to the square of the third side. Voice from Bathroom Stall: That’s a right triangle, you idiot! Of course, this is in reference to the not so obscure “mistake” (some have argued that it is indeed not a mistake, but intentional) in the _Wizard of Oz_ when the scarecrow finally gets a brain. I think if you didn’t know that then you would just think it was Homer being stupid as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/225 "2003-06-17T23:56:10Z")
I just love this exchange, in which Homer buys an evil Krusty doll: > [@](#): > > Shopkeeper: Take this object, but beware, it carries a terrible curse! > Homer: Ooooh, 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 topping. > Homer: That’s good. > ShopKeeper: The toppings contain potassium benzoate. > Homer: [Blank stare] > Shopkeeper: That’s bad. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/226 "2003-06-18T06:22:43Z")
Burns: You know Smithers, I believe I’ll donate a million dollars to the local orphanage - when pigs fly! [Homer’s roast pig goes sailing by window] Smithers: Will you be donating the million now, sir? Burns: No, I’d still prefer not. ---
**Author:** ![Henry\_Weinhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Henry\_Weinhard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henry_Weinhard)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/227 "2003-06-18T14:27:17Z")
In the Grade School Confidential episode: [Skinner comes out of the school and opens his coat, revealing what looks like dynamite strapped to his chest.] Skinner: I have a bomb! [crowd is aghast] [Wiggum looking through binoculars] Wiggum: Hey, wati a minute! Those are hot dogs! _Armor_ hot dogs. Chalmers: What kind of man wears Armor hot dogs? -Henry ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/228 "2003-06-18T16:22:47Z")
Back in a older thread, I would have put this down as my “Favorite Homer smart moment” if I had remembered: Lisa is disappointed that she cannot tap-dance. Homer suggests she write a play. “You can throw in a lot of swears, like David Mamet does.” ---
**Author:** ![Violin\_D\_Ingrate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/898d66/32.png) [@Violin\_D\_Ingrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violin_D_Ingrate)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/229 "2003-06-18T18:15:27Z")
I like the one when they’re walking through Chinatown and pass a store whose sign reads “Toys L Us” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/230 "2003-06-18T18:17:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Lisa is disappointed that she cannot tap-dance. Homer suggests she write a play. “You can throw in a lot of swears, like David Mamet does.” Preceeded by Marge’s advice, “It can be about people coming to terms with things!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![G-Unit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@G-Unit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G-Unit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/231 "2003-06-18T19:38:49Z")
Moe giving advice to Homer. Moe: Sounds like they need a little face time with good 'ol lady brick. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/232 "2003-06-19T02:40:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Miskatonic \* > \*\*I think the box factory just had the line: > > Milhaus: Do any of these boxes hold candy? > Box Factory Guy: No…they hold nails. \*\* I just saw the episode today, and I was right. It was the fireworks factory, candy factory, and slide factory. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/233 "2003-06-19T03:20:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Violin D’Ingrate \* > \*\*I like the one when they’re walking through Chinatown and pass a store whose sign reads “Toys L Us” \*\* In the same episode, a lit firework goes into a fireworks factory. One of the residents of Chinatown runs out and yells “Chineese Fire Drill! For real this time!” ---
**Author:** ![Shirty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Shirty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirty)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/234 "2003-06-19T04:23:57Z")
Remember that episode (I can’t) featuring a mental institution and where, towards the end you see Chief from One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest tear a drink fountain out of the floor, hurl it threw a nearby window and escape? There’s a Citizen Kane reference in another episode, but again it slips through the sieve. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/235 "2003-06-19T05:17:03Z")
**Comatoast** welcome! That was the April Fool’s episode where Homer gets injured by Bart’s exploding beer. It was a clip show, but near the end Barney and Moe come to visit Homer and Moe offers Homer a beer. Homer shies away and says “No! Beer bad!”. That’s when Barney says “I can’t stand to see him like this!”, smothers him with the pillow, breaks the window, and runs away. Moe’s response: “He REALLY needs a girlfriend.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/236 "2003-06-19T05:36:21Z")
There’s actually an even better _Cuckoo’s Nest_ joke in “The Old Man and the “C” Student,” where Bart works at the nursing home. Bart talks to a Native American man who turns out to not be a nursing home resident (he’s passing out flyers for Proposition 217). When he’s done, he throws a water fountain through the window and jumps out. The Crazy Old Man comments “You know, the door was open, Chief Break-everything!” A minute later, after Bart and the seniors are gone, Lisa comes looking for them. Suddenly the fountain flies through the window coming _back in_. “Forgot my hat,” says the chief. Then he hands Lisaa pamphlet and bolts. Absolutely PRICELESS. 😃 There are any number of _Citizen Kane_ jokes. They love referring to that film, _2001_, and anything by Hitchcock (especially _Psycho_). ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/237 "2003-06-19T06:06:38Z")
In the X-Files take off with Leonard Nimoy where Montgomery Burns is the alien, Homer approaches the sighting location once more and the “Psycho” violin theme starts shrieking in the background. Just then, the Springfield Symphony bus pulls up with the violin section bowing away at their instruments. Effing priceless! Also, when Homer first encounters Burns as the alien he goes running out of the forest and into a field of tall grass. His path traces out a crop-circlesque written form of “Yaaaaah!” To form the period under the exclamation point, Homer has to make a concerted effort, jumping up and over to stamp down the final patch of grass. This cracks me up in a big way every single time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/238 "2003-06-19T06:57:00Z")
From that same episode… Homer runs through the woods and comes upon a billboard that says “DIE” and screams. A few seconds later the wind blows away some tree branches and the sign now says “DIET” and Homer screams even louder! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/239 "2003-06-19T08:07:06Z")
Backstage at Homerpalooza: > [@](#): > > Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra?.. Come on people, somebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra… possibly while _high_…Cypress Hill, I’m looking at _you_ here… ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082/240 "2003-06-19T15:29:24Z")
In the episode where Burns has all the plant employees teams up and complete a wilderness challenge, Lenny: We made it thanks to our team-work. Carl: Yeah MY teamwork! Basically anything Lenny or Carl say is a riot. From the Marge on steroids episode, Homer is recovering from a night of sex with Marge. Bart walks in. Some conversation ensues. Homer limps out of the room saying “Mommy has to shave for the big show today.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-throwaways-and-tossoffs/179082.md?page=13)