# What's your favorite sight gag from The Simpsons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061 "2012-03-28T17:06:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/61 "2012-03-30T18:38:10Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > An oldie but goodie: > > Homer makes a snare out of a bent tree in order to trap a rabbit, [but it ends up catapulting the rabbit far, far into the distance.](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/MaynardRules/RabbitTrap.gif) Hahahaha! Just seeing that again threw me into fits of giggling. … One is when Homer pushes one transporter device into the bathroom and leaves the other in the living room, then proceeds to pee in it. One isn’t so much a sight gag, but: Homer: Boy, as long as you live under my house, you’ll live by my rules! Now wrap that sausage link in bacon! Bart: But Dad… Home: No arguments, boy! Butter that bacon! Bart: Dad, my heart hurts! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/62 "2012-03-31T01:48:48Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I think you mean conquer (one of my favorites). What was the “conquer” sight gag? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/63 "2012-03-31T02:16:39Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > What was the “conquer” sight gag? 😕 Carl uses “I concur” and his idiot buddies are mystified. He explains that he got a “word of the day calendar.” Flash to the calendar showing “conquer.” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/64 "2012-03-31T02:42:21Z")
After much fruitless Googling I wonder if I imagined this - at some point did Homer consult to crib notes on his hand saying something like: “Kenny = white; Carl = black”? If that is in fact actually real that is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/65 "2012-03-31T02:54:09Z")
The episode where Apu puts in gas pumps. When Skinners bumps the mortar guy and a minute later the A from the gas station sign drops silently into the ground behind him. Slayed me. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/66 "2012-03-31T09:08:16Z")
Any of the chalkboard gags or couch gags. My favorite chalkboard gag: “I will not waste chalk.” Followed closely by “South Park, we’d stand behind you if we weren’t so scared,” after the Mohammed censorship flap of episode #201. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/67 "2012-03-31T12:24:14Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > … > This made me think of the makeup gun sequence from the episode where Homer tries to become an inventor (“The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace”). Specifically that awful smear of face on the wall when Marge pushes the gun away from her face. “Homer, you have it set to whore.” ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/68 "2012-03-31T13:15:52Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > When the Simpsons go to Australia, Bart brings along a frog as an invasive species. By the end of the episode, they’re everywhere. As the Simpsons are leaving, we see a koala clinging to their aircraft. The camera zooms in on its eye. Hilarious, although it would have been funnier if in subsequent episodes, we saw koalas here and there in Springfield. From the same episode, I love the sign that says “Cultural museum: cart your arse on in.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/69 "2012-03-31T13:46:56Z")
Another one of my favorites is the first time they showed Homer using his reading glasses. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/70 "2012-04-01T00:05:26Z")
Can only find a German version, but from one of the first seasons when the trauma vet [pitches the hamster](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLXnQX18ttU) into a little bucket and basket hoop. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/71 "2012-04-01T00:59:03Z")
This is both an image and sound gag: When Marge got her black eye she used a can of Irish Strength Shiner-B-Gone with Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra in the background. Fucking ballsy. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/72 "2012-04-01T01:53:59Z")
From the episode of The Actors Studio where the entire cast of the The Simpsons was on a few years ago: “Moe’s Tavern - Home Of The World’s Smallest Large Screen TV” ---
**Author:** ![Jennmonkye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jennmonkye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennmonkye)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/73 "2012-04-01T01:54:17Z")
When the Simpsons get a trampoline and all of the injured kids are laid out as far as you can see in an homage to “Gone With the Wind”. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/74 "2012-04-01T06:51:15Z")
Another sign outside a building – “Morningwood Penitentiary” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/75 "2012-04-02T00:42:58Z")
In the episode “Mad Mad Mad Mad Marge”, when Marge, escaping from an insane asylum, tries to blend in with a marching band, and the band turns out to be from the asylum, and she marches right back in with it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/76 "2012-04-02T00:43:52Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > In the episode “Mad Mad Mad Mad Marge”, when Marge, escaping from an insane asylum, tries to blend in with a marching band, and the band turns out to be from the asylum, and she marches right back in with it. Even better: the band are wearing orange jackets that match the one Marge is wearing, and they’re wearing large blue hats that look like her hair. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/77 "2012-04-02T11:06:06Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > After much fruitless Googling I wonder if I imagined this - at some point did Homer consult to crib notes on his hand saying something like: “Kenny = white; Carl = black”? > > If that is in fact actually real that is my favorite. [Yes](http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a276/TheUncannyTom/LennyWhiteCarlBlack.jpg). It’s from A Tale of Two Springfields where the town gets split into two different area codes (“I hate this new area code. Like I don’t have enough to remember already.”) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/78 "2012-04-02T20:24:43Z")
[Homer building a barbeque grill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMmvI2y4u8). I love the ending where he jousts at it with the umbrella. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/79 "2012-04-02T21:06:37Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Homer and Flanders get married in Vegas: > > Wife 1: “Don’t ever try to marry us again!” > Wife 2: “Yeah - we found some guys that know how to treat a woman!” ::gestures towards Siegfried and Roy:: > > The tigers glance at each other and roll their eyes. 🙂 > > I liked that one so much it’s my location. 🙂 Your location is what keeps it fresh in my noggin meat. Not sure if it counts a sight gag but I love it. When they go to Australia and Homer and family are standing just outside the US Embassy and Homer is jumping back and forth between countries with one foot in each saying, “Now I’m in America. Now I’m in Australia. Now I’m in America. Now I’m in Australia. Now I’m in…” And the Marine guard punches him in the face and says," Here in America we don’t tolerate that kind of crap, Sir! https://www.youtube.com/embed/EzJNMRt2yLU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/80 "2012-04-03T04:52:39Z")
Bart is the young Mozart. There are signs over the two doors of the Vienna Opera House. One says “Fops,” and the other says “Dandies.” LOL! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061.md?page=5)