# Surprisingly filthy or inappropriate jokes on "The Simpsons" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041 "2008-02-03T00:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/21 "2008-02-03T04:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] “Is there a Mr. Krabappel?” “There used to be…until he tried to chase something small and fluffy down a rabbit hole.” [/QUOTE] And then there’s: “She’s faking it.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/22 "2008-02-03T05:02:34Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 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. [/QUOTE] I think _The Simpsons_ is truly remarkable in that it works on two levels, one that gets the kids laughing and another that goes over their heads and hooks the adults. There are very few shows in TV history that have managed this trick; the only other one that immediately comes to mind is _Rocky and Bullwinkle_, which I loved as a child and gained a whole different appreciation of as an adult. I think a few other more modern shows are going for this effect, like _Futurama_ and _Family Guy_. But I can’t say if they really work for kids, because I’ve only seen tham as an adult, and I don’t have any kids of my own to experiment on. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/23 "2008-02-03T05:36:53Z")
In _My Sister, My Sitter_, they go to Dr. Nick’s all-night clinic. We see a nurse with a checklist of funny injury causes, like Liquor Store Robbery. Elsewhere on the checklist is something like “sex-related injury.” Mr. Smithers is in the line, and he appears to be okay and uninjured. But he’s standing up - everyone else there is sitting down or unconscious, and he looks awfully stiff - and has something he’d “really like to get taken care of.” I always thought they were suggesting Smithers was the victim of something that went wrong during sex . ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/24 "2008-02-03T05:47:01Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I think a few other more modern shows are going for this effect, like _Futurama_ and _Family Guy_. But I can’t say if they really work for kids, because I’ve only seen tham as an adult, and I don’t have any kids of my own to experiment on. [/QUOTE] Futurama maybe, but not Family Guy. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/25 "2008-02-03T06:15:23Z")
Apu attended the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, or **S.H.I.T**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/26 "2008-02-03T06:33:54Z")
[QUOTE=Meyer6] 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. [/QUOTE] IIRC, Bart’s talking about fashion critic Mr. Blackwell when he says, “He’s such a bitch,” after Blackwell says something cutting about an actress’s (possibly Meryl Streep) outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/27 "2008-02-03T06:51:56Z")
The most obvious drug references all belong to Otto. Otto sees Marge lift up a bus and says “Man, what am I smoking?” He then looks at the reefer in his hand and says “Oh yeah, pot”. In another epsiode Otto returns a blood test which shows he has been using “Uppers, downers, inners, outers, horse tranquilizers, cow paralyzers” and several other elicit substances. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/28 "2008-02-03T07:54:00Z")
Otto leaving a store that sells stoneware cookpots with a disgusted look on his face, saying that it’s practicing blatant false advertising. The store’s name? “Stoner’s Pot Palace.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/29 "2008-02-03T12:11:58Z")
The movie shows Bart’s winky… Wasn’t expecting that at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/30 "2008-02-03T14:41:03Z")
More Otto: > [@](#): > > I don’t need drugs to enjoy this, only to enhance it. > [@](#): > > You’ll have to inject it between my toes. My mother checks my arms for needle tracks. More bitch > [@](#): > > Santa’s Little Helper and I used to be a team, until his bitch showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/31 "2008-02-03T16:07:28Z")
Smithers: “I think women and seamen don’t mix.” Burns: “We know what _you_ think!” ---
**Author:** ![stratosphear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@stratosphear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stratosphear)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/32 "2008-02-03T17:28:14Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] The classic example is that there was a sign in some episode that said “Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck’s)”. [/QUOTE] I’m sorry,I’ve been looking at this quote for five minutes and I just don’t get the joke. I realize I will be probably be smacking my head severely when it’s explained to me, but I just don’t get it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/33 "2008-02-03T17:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] IIRC, Bart’s talking about fashion critic Mr. Blackwell when he says, “He’s such a bitch,” after Blackwell says something cutting about an actress’s (possibly Meryl Streep) outfit. [/QUOTE] I think his line is “Memo to Goldie Hawn: Cheerleading tryouts were over 30 years ago.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/34 "2008-02-03T17:36:00Z")
[QUOTE=stratosphear] I’m sorry,I’ve been looking at this quote for five minutes and I just don’t get the joke. I realize I will be probably be smacking my head severely when it’s explained to me, but I just don’t get it. ☹ [/QUOTE] I swear, we should put this in the FAQ…it comes up in every Simpsons thread. If the sign formerly followed the same rhyming pattern as it does now, it would’ve said: Chuck’s Fuck and Suck ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/35 "2008-02-03T17:38:23Z")
[QUOTE=stratosphear] I’m sorry,I’ve been looking at this quote for five minutes and I just don’t get the joke. I realize I will be probably be smacking my head severely when it’s explained to me, but I just don’t get it. ☹ [/QUOTE] The obvious joke is that the business now has a long alliterative name, and it used to simply be called ‘Chuck’s’. Kind of amusing. But change ‘Sneed’s’ to ‘Chuck’s’ and replace the ‘eed’ in the other words to ‘uck’ and you see the real joke. EDIT: _sigh_ Beaten to it. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/36 "2008-02-03T17:38:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m sorry,I’ve been looking at this quote for five minutes and I just don’t get the joke. I realize I will be probably be smacking my head severely when it’s explained to me, but I just don’t get it You have to think what rhymes with Chuck, like Sneed. My take was always “Sneeds, Feed and Seed” to “Chucks Suck and Fuck” At least thats how I saw it… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/37 "2008-02-03T18:08:42Z")
[QUOTE=VarlosZ] 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. [/QUOTE] There was the time Homer ate Chief Wiggum’s chili at the chili cook-off, and it was made with some kind of rare pepper not only ultrahot but psychedelic; Homer went into a “vision quest” as if he had gobbled a stew of peyote buttons and psilocybin 'shrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/38 "2008-02-03T18:18:59Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] If the sign formerly followed the same rhyming pattern as it goes now, it would’ve said: Chuck’s Fuck and Suck [/QUOTE] I’ve always had a problem with the “Formerly Chuck’s” joke because it doesn’t make any sense. I never got the double meaning in “polling the electorate” until this thread. But it works the other way because Lou is making a joke about the mayor doing somethign official and good for the town (which is rare), but in reality he’s boinking some bimbo. But “Chuck’s Fuck and Suck” makes no sense in any way, so it irritates me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/39 "2008-02-03T18:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] But “Chuck’s Fuck and Suck” makes no sense in any way, so it irritates me. [/QUOTE] Why doesn’t it make sense? You just switch the letters and you get a funny name for a brothel of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041/40 "2008-02-03T19:06:27Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] IIRC, Bart’s talking about fashion critic Mr. Blackwell when he says, “He’s such a bitch,” after Blackwell says something cutting about an actress’s (possibly Meryl Streep) outfit. [/QUOTE] Yeah - I knew I didn’t have that one quite right, it’s been a long time since I saw it. I just remember being surprised by it - back in the mid-90s or so I can’t recall hearing much other swearing on sitcom type TV shows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprisingly-filthy-or-inappropriate-jokes-on-the-simpsons/436041.md?page=3)