# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/81 "2012-04-03T05:06:44Z")
Homer is promoted, and gets a key to the executive bathroom. It is about a million square feet, and the interior looks like Versailles, with marble floors, gilded chandeliers, etc. Someone dries his hands with a pristine white towel, and throws it on the floor. A towel boy sprints out of nowhere, picks it up, and races off with it like a ball boy at Wimbledon. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/82 "2012-04-03T13:43:58Z")
Somewhere there’s a photo of Patty and Selma’s visit to Easter Island. In the pic they bear a strong resemblance to the stone heads. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/83 "2012-04-03T13:47:40Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Homer is promoted, and gets a key to the executive bathroom. It is about a million square feet, and the interior looks like Versailles, with marble floors, gilded chandeliers, etc. Someone dries his hands with a pristine white towel, and throws it on the floor. A towel boy sprints out of nowhere, picks it up, and races off with it like a ball boy at Wimbledon. I thought the towel boy retreated backwards, as if attending a king? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/84 "2012-04-03T14:34:23Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I thought the towel boy retreated backwards, as if attending a king? Are you questioning my memory of something I saw for five seconds, ten years ago? ---
**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, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/85 "2012-04-03T14:36:11Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > The whole show is littered with great business signs and names. Like the gun shop, “Blood Bath & Beyond”. Or the coffee shop, “Java the Hut”. Or the music store, “King Toot’s”. Or the toy store in Chinatown, “Toys ‘L’ Us”. Or the Cuban dance club, “Chez Guevara”. Or the mega-mart, “Try ‘N’ Save”. Or the seafood restaurant, “The Frying Dutchman”. Or the hair salon, “Turn Your Head And Coif”. Or the Canadian pharmacy, “Dudley Do Drugs”. > > But I think my favorite is the dog neutering clinic, “Nuts Landing”. And the very expensive, ritzy department store, “Costingtons.” The giant stone head of the Olmec god of war Xtapolapocetl, gathering dust in a corner of the basement, always gets me. The elaborate security measures surrounding Mr. Burns’s vault at the nuclear power plant. But the very last room has a rickety screen door to the outside, and Mr. Burns has to chase a stray dog out. The mushroom cloud, seen from a distance over the Simpsons’ house, after Homer opens the beer can which Bart has shaken and shaken and shaken… ---
**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 3, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/86 "2012-04-03T15:53:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The giant stone head of the Olmec god of war Xtapolapocetl, gathering dust in a corner of the basement, always gets me. The first time I saw that episode we were learning about the Olmecs in high school. It was a pleasant coincindence. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/87 "2012-04-03T18:02:51Z")
D’oh! A deer. A female deer. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/88 "2012-04-03T22:30:45Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > The whole show is littered with great business signs and names. Like the gun shop, “Blood Bath & Beyond”. Doesn’t Grampa live at the “Golden Sheets” nursing home? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061/89 "2012-04-03T22:37:06Z")
No, he lives at Springfield Retirement Castle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-sight-gag-from-the-simpsons/617061.md?page=4)