Nitpick: Not the Bible stories, the classics: Homer’s Odessey, Joan of Arc and Hamlet. That story also had the sickest line, where Discus Stu says he has “Ozo for two-zo” and when Bart says he’ll leave Stu and Marge alone, Stu says “I was talking to you.” Bart and I both shudder.
Disco Stu was originally a throw away character from the garage sale when Homer is selling the jacket he studded with “Disco Stu” cause he ran out of space for the final “D.” Disco Stu didn’t buy it cause “Disco Stu doesn’t have to advertise.”
“Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else - and it hasn’t - it’s that girls should stick to girls’ sports, such as hot-oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.”
I like whenever they add the James Stewart-esque character. And for years I never even got those jokes…
In “The PTA Disbands,” Bart goes to the bank and plays a prank, saying in a low voice, “What do you mean the bank doesn’t have our money?” This causes all the people to demand their money, resulting in a nervous looking guy to respond, “I don’t have your money…it’s at Fred’s house…and…” a la “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Moe’s response is priceless: “What the hell are you doing with my money, Fred?!” Ensuing riot.
And the one in “Bart of Darkness,” the “Rear Window Spoof.” “Grace, come here…there’s a sinister looking kid staring out the window.”
In the Streetcar Named Desire episode (which has many, many cool throwaways), the Ayn Rand school for tots has a sign on the wall that reads “A is A”.
When Maggie gets put in her playpen, one of the other babies throws her a ball, which she starts bouncing off the side of the playpen. This is a homage to “The Great Escape”, in which Steve McQueen’s character would always bounce a ball off the wall when put in the cooler.
While Marge is practicing with Ned, Homer stands outside and yells “MARGE!!!”. Exactly duplicating the original scene in Streetcar.
Homer: (after blowing Lisa’s room to bits getting a tape out of her vcr) “It’s gonna take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up.”
Same episode, when Krusty’s daughter meets him for the first time:
Sophie: No, I’m sure you’re my father. You met my mom during the Gulf War. Krusty: [getting nervous] Was you mother an Israeli flight attendant? Sophie: No… Krusty: Cokie Roberts?
When Lisa catches the bus to the museum, she is waiting for it with Moe who, getting annoyed that she keeps talking, hails a cab and gets inside, he says to the driver, “VD Clinic!”
Another funny bit in that ep is when he’s looking for a way to get in the sky, he sees a man selling balloons, he buys the balloons and exchanges them with the cherry picker operator to use the cherry picker, the cherry picker says "ive already got some balloons…but they’re not this nice
Another good one is when Cheif Wiggum is looking at Homer’s gravestone upside down he says something like “we’re looking for a UosdwoS R. DewoH” (homer j simpson upside down)
Another is when Homer walks into the Kwik-e-Mart depressed about something and says
Homer: “hey Apu, you got any of that beer with candy floating in it?You know, Skittlebrau?”
Apu: “erm, Mr Simpson, I think you may have made that up”
Homer: “Oh ok then, well then just give me a six pack and a few packets of Skittles”
Another I like is when Bart and Jay Leno are washing Krusty’s hair and Jay says something about the tangles in Krusty’s hair to which Bart says in a rather feminine voice, “I know they are just impossible!” Jay and Krusty look at him oddly to which he remarks “Well they are!”
Because that episode was like a THOH episode, or the one with the hobo stories, where each vignette is pure satire. To this end, every character is “played by” a recurring character with a corresponding personality (Skinner as the Pharaoh, Nelson as Goliath, and so on).
*Or, occasionally the complete opposite, as when Flanders was Satan.
I especially love how the Hispanic slapstick actor (name please?) is able to take Kent Brockman’s place at the news desk and flawlessly reel off Kuala Lumpur and other foreign place names.
Now would someone please come in and give the correct name for the place Bart doesn’t get to go to on the field trip because he forgot his permission slip. Wasn’t it something like the:
I think “Puppy dog, candy store and fireworks factory” appeared in the episode where Bart ruined Springfield’s change of hosting the Olympics and was made to work at old folk’s home (located next to the “Puppy dog, candy store and fireworks factory”). I could be wrong, though.
The one episode which I know of where he forgot his field trip permission slip the school was going to a chocolate factory.
A bit of a hijack, but a few years back when I was in college, my friend and I had been drinking and this Simpson’s episode came on. Then we decided to give “Skittlebrau” a try. He had a bag of Skittles and we had the beer, so we poured about two inches of Skittles into each pint glass and then filled it with beer. It basically made the beer taste kind of fruity and it took all the color off of the Skittles. The Skittles ended up losing all their flavor and tasted like alcohol.
All in all, it was quite nasty and we never tried it again.
Oh, and in the end of the Bible Stories episode, when Chief Wiggum is loading David/Bart into the paddy wagon, and snarls, “Nyah—where’s your saviour now?” just like Edward G. Robinson (Wiggum’s soundalike) in The Ten Commandments (1956).
Wiggum has actually used that line elsewhere. When Flanders appears to fail a drug test (“Hepped up on goofballs!”), Wiggum asks him the same question.
Pedro’s atrocities during the filming (or making) of the show include
getting attacked by a woodpecker, becoming electrically shocked with
spaghetti, and whacked with a giant baseball.
Pedro: Ah, tiempo para relaxar en paz y quieto.
[opens a cabinet full of oranges which wallop his head]
!Ay, naranjas en la cabeza!
[flails about in his home until he finds himself stuck on
a chandelier]
!Ay, una candelabra precariosa!
[the chandelier is pulled free of the ceiling; bringing the
ceiling down with it]
Emma: [walking down and seeing the disaster] !Ay!
Mira que cosa tan terrible, yo no puedo entender algo como
esto, como puedo vivir con un hombre tan irresponsible.
!No, no, no, no no!
[walks off, handing Pedro a divorce paper]
– “Twenty-Two Short Films About Springfield”
Ay, ?donde esta mi tequila?
– Pedro the Bumblebee Man, “Twenty-Two Short Films About Springfield”
The rest of the house crumbles.
Of course I use “!Ay, una candelabra precariosa!” everytime something goes wrong. I need help.
