# Topics that haven't been covered on either Seinfeld or The Simpsons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755 "2007-07-06T16:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/41 "2007-07-07T14:54:03Z")
[SIDS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_infant_death_syndrome)? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/42 "2007-07-07T14:55:09Z")
Abiogenic petroleum theories? The Lusitania sinking? Ritual female circumcision? ---
**Author:** ![alreadymichigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@alreadymichigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alreadymichigan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/43 "2007-07-07T16:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] South Africa? [/QUOTE] Lisa had an “END APARTHEID NOW!” poster on her wall for many years. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/44 "2007-07-07T19:51:16Z")
The LPGA? Cruise ships? > [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Sitnam > The Holocaust, 60 years later and it’s still not any funnier. > > Well, Jerry did get caught making out with his girlfriend while at the theater watching Schindler’s List Plus, there was the Simpsons episode where Homer’s conscience manifested it self as Col. Klink from _Hogan’s Heroes_. ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/45 "2007-07-07T20:03:38Z")
400-year-old gay, black, left-handed Elvis impersonators? (& the lovers who love them!) Been done, 2nd season? My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/46 "2007-07-07T21:55:01Z")
Transformers? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/47 "2007-07-08T02:57:46Z")
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel] The LPGA? [/quote] From the episode where Homer gets licensed to do weddings, Patty’s almost-spouse was in the LPGA. > [@](#): > > Cruise ships? From the Seinfeld episode, The Andrea Doria. George Costanza: Ahoy! Mr. Eldridge. I understand you were on the Andrea Doria. Clarence: Yes, it was a terrifying ordeal. George Costanza: I tell ya, I hear people really stuff themselves on those cruise ships. [Laughs] George Costanza: The buffet, that’s the real ordeal, huh, Clarence? [Laughs] George Costanza: . Clarence: [Defensively] We had to abandon ship. George Costanza: Well, all vacations have to end eventually. Clarence: The boat sank! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/48 "2007-07-08T03:00:08Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Transformers? [/QUOTE] One of the simpsons opening sequences had them as Transformers. [here](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5558955359997583725) is a link to a video of it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/49 "2007-07-08T05:03:24Z")
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel] Well, Jerry did get caught making out with his girlfriend while at the theater watching Schindler’s List Plus, there was the Simpsons episode where Homer’s conscience manifested it self as Col. Klink from Hogan’s Heroes. [/QUOTE] Well…if we’re going to do this 7 degree’s of sitcom plots, you’re not going to find any topic not covered. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/50 "2007-07-09T16:36:52Z")
For Transformers, don’t forget about the **Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour** ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/51 "2007-07-09T17:07:29Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Richard Gere and the gerbil? [/QUOTE] When Lisa babysits Bart, she takes him to the ER. Smithers is standing in the waiting room, stock-still, with an empty gerbil cage. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/52 "2007-07-09T17:19:43Z")
And of course Richard Gere even guest stars in an episode (She of Little Faith), but even the Simpsons dare not try to work that joke in there. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/53 "2007-07-09T17:21:05Z")
Trotskyism? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/54 "2007-07-09T17:34:50Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] When Lisa babysits Bart, she takes him to the ER. Smithers is standing in the waiting room, stock-still, with an empty gerbil cage. [/QUOTE] The nurse’s checklist at the ER also contains a box for something like “Sex-related injury.” I never noticed a cage next to Smithers, but I figured he was standing up because he’d had such an injury. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/55 "2007-07-10T13:44:13Z")
OK, let me try this again. 1. string theory 2. n-dimensional geometry 3. Pantheistic solipsism 4. Sylvia Browne 5. Betty v. Veronica/Mary Ann v. Ginger ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/56 "2007-07-10T15:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=psychonaut] Trotskyism? [/QUOTE] ELAINE: Just because you’re a communist, does that mean you can’t wear anything nice? You look like **Trotsky**. It’s gorgeous. Fine, you want to be a Communist, be a Communist. Can’t you at least look like a successful Communist? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/57 "2007-07-10T18:57:59Z")
Rape? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/58 "2007-07-10T19:08:28Z")
[QUOTE=xizor] Rape? [/QUOTE] Marge on Homer, at least twice. Also: “Discus Stu has got Ouzo for Two-zo!”, depending on your definition. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/59 "2007-07-10T19:15:58Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Marge on Homer, at least twice. Also: “Discus Stu has got Ouzo for Two-zo!”, depending on your definition. [/QUOTE] Homer got raped by a male panda at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755/60 "2007-07-10T19:37:49Z")
[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel] OK, let me try this again. … 2. n-dimensional geometry .. [/QUOTE] Keep trying [QUOTE= Professor Frink] But, suppose we extend the square between the two dimensions of our universe along the hypothetical Z axis there. This forms a three-dimensional object known as a “cube”, or a “Frinkahedron” in honor of its discovery, n’hey n’hey. [/QUOTE] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topics-that-havent-been-covered-on-either-seinfeld-or-the-simpsons/410755.md?page=2)