Lou: Tonight His Honor is, uh, “polling the electorate.” [cut to Quimby in a motel room with a bimbo.]
[Wiggum tells Lisa and Ralph about bumping into Krusty in a porno theater] Lisa: Chief Wiggum, that story’s not appropriate for children.
Wiggum: Really? I keep my pants on in this version.
I also notice that there’s a fair amount of drug use on The Simpsons (even aside from the fact that the main character is an alcoholic, I mean). Lisa has two psychadelic freak-outs: once when she gets gassed at the dentist (Yellow Submarine style), and again when she drinks the “water” from the ride at Duff Gardens (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas). Bart gets drunk by accident in the Beer Baron episode (and on purpose in the movie). I know there are some other drug episodes I’m forgetting.
Other examples of inappropriateness, considering it has a large following among kids?
I was watching the ep. today where Groundskeeper Willie is turned into a Gentleman ala “My Fair Lady.” When Mrs. Crabapple asks him for a date he writes in his daytimer - “Boink Slut!”. Good stuff.
Not a joke, per say, but I remember being surprised at the episode where Bart sees Meryl Streep on TV (at an awards show or something?) and he says “Huh, she’s such a bitch!”. That struck me as kind of shocking language for a show with a young audience, and you still don’t here that word too much on most sitcoms.
(from Wikipedia)
In the Simpsons episode “The Way We Was” (7F12), Homer and Marge recount the story of how they met. At their prom, Principal Dondelinger works the door and chaperons the prom. At the door, a student tries to enter with a bong, Dondelinger says “Wait a second, is that a bong?” The student then points at his throat and Dondelinger replies, “You have asthma? All right. Move along.”
In the Simpsons episode “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet” (9F21), on the drive home from the swap meet the family compare what they’ve bought:
Homer: What’d you kids get?
Bart: I bought this cool pencil holder.
Homer: Heh heh, far out man. I haven’t seen a bong in years.
In “A Tale of Two Springfields” New Spring field dams the river supplying Olde Springfield’s water, only to have Olde Springfieldians find heaps of gold on the river bed.
Cut to Kent Brockman reporting the story:“Thank you, Mayor Simpson. Because of you, we’re all taking golden showers.”
The ep where Homer and Marge are hiding in a barn (they were getting into doing it in odd places) and the farmer barges in with a pitchfork threatening to do some “ass-forking”.
In “Homer’s Phobia,” John says that Helen Lovejoy’s “cuffs and collar don’t match.” Marge doesn’t get it, but we do.
In one of the Halloween episodes, Homer mentions a few of the inventions that made humanity great. One is the glory hole.
I didn’t get this one on my own, but there’s a reference to a famous dirty limerick in the pilot episode, when Homer says “My name is Samson, not Simpson!” In the limerick, it’s the other way round.
Another dirty limerick is referenced when Chief Wiggum tells his wife a joke about popcorn.
Lisa as a hockey goalie: “Milhouse, knock him down if he’s in your way! Jimbo, Jimbo, go for the face! Ralph Wiggum lost his shin guard! Hack the bone! Hack the bone!”
There was one where Homer was talking about dolphins and said something like humans were smarter than dolphins because we’d invented the “gloryhole.” Then there was one where Homer called someone a “Hershey highwayman” and when they went to England, Bart and Lisa had a hallucinatory experience after eating candy to the tune of Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life (which is about heroin addiction). Not to mention the one where Bart and Millhouse drink the all syrup Squishee[sup]TM[/sup] and proceed to have a drunken Broadway-style adventure around town, complete with tattoos.
In the episode where Homer becomes the garbage commissioner (Motto: Can’t Someone Else Do It?), he blows the annual budget in the first month. To raise revenue, he allows other cities to dump their trash in abandoned mines near Springfield. Marge is appalled and mentions that homer is turning Springfield into America’s trash hole. Homer’s reply:
“Marge… Ixnay on the ashhole-tray.”
This must be the closest a primetime show has ever gotten to saying “asshole” on the air.
I think just about all of the Itchy & Scratchy cartoons are inappropriate for kids, but I understand the point they’re making about awful but “funny” cartoon violence.
