# The Simpsons 4/18 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892 "2004-04-19T21:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/21 "2004-04-21T22:25:48Z")
The show has kept all of the Simpsons the same age for 15 years and NOW it’s time to start complaining about continuity? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![helieo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@helieo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/helieo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/22 "2004-04-21T22:54:48Z")
> [@skutir](#): > > Rabbit from Donnie Darko? Jane, you ignorant slut\*, that was Harvey from the movie of the same name. OK, I forget, where does “Jane, you ignorant slut” come from? My favorite part of the episode was the bus driver saying that he loves happy endings, just like his last massage! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/23 "2004-04-21T23:05:47Z")
Well, I was sort of willing to forgive quite a lot for the line: “The BiMonSciFiCon? Yeah, girls’ll put out just to get the hell out of there!” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/24 "2004-04-21T23:08:09Z")
Oh, “Jane, you ignorant slut” comes from Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtain’s SNL takeoff of the old 60 Minutes Point/CounterPoint segment (with James J. Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander. It used to occupy Andy Rooney’s time slot. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/25 "2004-04-21T23:10:16Z")
> [@](#): > > OK, I forget, where does “Jane, you ignorant slut” come from? Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. They would do a Point-Counterpoint segment parodying Crossfire-type debates, but they’d just insult the shit out of each other while making only tangential reference to the issue. Dan always started by saying “Jane, you ignorant slut.” > [@](#): > > My favorite part of the episode was the bus driver saying that he loves happy endings, just like his last massage! Like a couple of the best lines in the episode, that was just awful. Loved it. 😉 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/26 "2004-04-22T05:10:35Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I wish they’d let Skinner’s character grow – no one has _that_ big a stick up their butt. Well, that stick is held in place by the steel plate he got in Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/27 "2004-04-22T05:53:33Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Makes you wonder what some people did on Sunday evenings before The Simpsons were on. We complained about “60 Minutes” and went to bed earlier. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892/28 "2004-04-22T21:41:54Z")
I finally watched this (was away and TiVoed it) and was expecting pure stinko from some of the comments here. I found a pretty typical episode with some lameness and a few hilarious bits. My favorite bit was Nelson telling Krabapple “Bros before hos!” _snork_ My only scoffs are that I don’t buy that Edna would back out because she was so ADAMANT about marrying him in the first place. Skinner didn’t revert back to anything; he only agreed in the first place because he didn’t believe it would ever happen. The Marge/Homer thing was lame though, I’ll give you that. I cracked up at the band in the closet though. “How romantic!!!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-4-18/240892.md?page=1)