I think what he’s getting at is this: Sneed’s Feed and Seed is a place that sells feed and seed. Since it was formerly known as Chuck’s, one would assume that the business was the same but the name had changed. Thus, Chuck’s would have sold feed and seed. But if it was originally Chuck’s Fuck and Suck, then it doesn’t make sense. Why would a feed and seed store be called ‘Fuck and Suck’?
Justin_Bailey is overanalysing. The joke isn’t that the store sold ‘fuck and suck’; but that by substituting ‘uck’ it makes it dirty. It’s funny as ‘toilet humour’, but doesn’t work if you take it literally.
I always had a slightly different take on this – that the pepper is *soooo *hot that it goes beyond hot, and into psychedelic. They make the same joke in the episode where Apu is living with the Simpsons and makes curry so hot that Lisa says she can “see though time”.
Yeah, it’s hard to believe now, but the Simpsons caught a lot of shit in the beginning. I think once ‘Beavis And Butthead’ came around ‘The Simpsons’ were off the hook.
When I was in 6th grade, and kids were wearing t-shirts with that quote on it (and Bill Cosby was lamenting at the filth the Simpsons represented) the school made kids cover up the “hell” with tape.
And there was the episode where Homer went to a native island to do missionary work and passed the time by licking psychedlic toads.
My take is that the place used to be a bordello called Chuck’s Fuck and Suck. Sneed took it over, converted it into a feed store and decided to go with the same format.
No kidding. When the Simpsons first came out you had churches, parents, and teachers whining about how it was destroying our children. Now compared to some other shows it is wholesome by comparison.
I think that, back to the OP, what makes this show great is that NONE of these subtle adult jokes would be picked up on by kids. Adults get it, but what kid would understand Brockman’s reference to “golden showers” or “polling the electorate”?
Not when I was 13 either. I only heard those things when I got to college. But 13-year-olds today? I think so.
I agree with your main point, though. My mom wouldn’t let me get one of those “Underachiever and Proud of It” bootleg shirts, and I was a big-time overacheiver. And these days, there are books out there about the role of Christianity in the Simpsons, and religious groups that love Ned Flanders! Even John Ashcroft supposedly broke out a Mr. Burns impression from time to time when he was Attorney General, although he didn’t actually watch the show.
Of course, Bart is using “bitch” here with its proper definition- a female dog- and he knows it. Bart is always finding loopholes to allow him to swear- such as referring to Herb Powell as a bastard (“His parents aren’t married, right? That is the correct term.”) and continually talking about Hell after learning about it in Sunday School- as he puts it, how the hell are you supposed to talk about Hell without saying “hell?”
As an aside, don’t you think that an explanation of Sneeds …formerly Chuck’s should be made a sticky here? Every time it comes up someone doesn’t get it.
I can’t believe “Skinner’s Sense of Snow” hasn’t been referenced. Some highlights:[ul]
[li]Wiggum writes his name in the snow and asks Lou to “shake out the last few drops” (we eventually discover this is actually from a thermos)[/li] [li]“Okay, Skinner, that’s the last time you’ll slap your Willie around!”[/li] [li]“Enough I grow weary of your sexually suggestive dancing. Bring me my ranch dressing hose.”[/li] [li]“You did it, Nibbles. Now, chew through my ball sack.”[/li] [li]The phallic, collapsing salt silo[/li][/ul]