I have a really interesting hijack to go with that classic moment!
Once uppon a time I was in school and not really paying attention (ok, so it was all the time). The teacher was rambling on about something and then suddenly made the “kaching-kaching!” thing repeatedly, I have no idea what she was talking about to this day.
Here´s where the weird part comes in. I watch the Simpsons A LOT, and had just been having a video binge session.
For some reason I was just thinking of that particular episode, the “ICE CREAM TRUCK!” thing was particularly on my mind.
I didn´t even realize I was doing something stupid untill after I had screamed at the top of my lungs and jumped out of my chair: “ICE CREAM TRUCK, ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!”
Like… NO ONE GOT THE JOKE! I was thrown out of class and everybody was completely puzzled as to what the hell that was about. Bit of a bummer, but I will always think of that incident when I laugh at that bit.
Hate to nitpick, but it was “Handsomest boy in Albany, New York.” I just remember because that line keeps going through my head once in a while ever since I heard it years ago, something about the tone in which he said it.
Just ooonneee more thing! Someone mentioned Simpsons tapes before, does anyone know if the series can be bought in their entirety? Getting random episodes arranged according to some weird themes makes it hard to collect them.
Homer and Bart are sat on the couch. Homer says words to the effect of “It’s a cartoon. It doesn’t have to make sense”, when another Homer mowing the lawn walks past the window and says “Hi”
and
Marge telling Bart off for whistling “that annoying song”. The song in question? The Simpsons theme
In the Mr. Sparkle episode, Reverend Lovejoy is giving a long, boring sermon and Homer falls asleep. His head falls forward and hits the pew in front of him and he just yells, “DAMMIT!” in the middle of the sermon. Greatest moment ever. That whole episode is my favorite by far.
I’m suprised I didn’t hear my current all-time favorite:
Homer: I’m going out to the garage.
Moe: Oooh, garage, is it? What a fancy french word!
Homer: Well what do you call it?
Moe: I call it a car hole!
But there are other moments, more appropriate for this thread, that have jokes that didn’t seem all that great at first, but every time I watch them, they get better and better. Unfortunately I can’t remember them right now…
From the episode where Bart goes to the party at the Quimby Compound:
Bart: Whoa! Rainier Wolfcastle! Hey, that last McBain movie of yours really stunk.
Chief Wiggum: Yeah, that movie was terrible.
Rainier Wolfcastle: I knoe, I knoe. There vere script problems from day vone. (To wife) Maria, my mighty heart is broken. I’ll be crying in the Humvee.
(In Lionel Hutz’s office. Bart and Lisa have just requested his services. Hutz asks for money.)
Lisa: But what about this ad in the paper? (The ad says “Works on contingency. No money down.”)
Hutz: Oh, no, that’s a typo.
Then he changes the ad to “Works on contingency? No, money down!” Laughed my ass off.
But my favorite Simpsons moment of all time is easily the video the Mr. Sparkle company sends Homer. When the Mr. Sparkle logo says to the underwater dancing girls “I will not tolerate loafers! Join me or die, can you do no less?” I just about doubled over in laughter. It’s the most dead-on parody of Japanese advertising I’ve ever seen.
Many many good ones here. Laughing my ass off. My fav? Well…
Professor Frink: Sorry I’m late, trouble at the lab with the kicking and the screaming and the monkey stole the glasses right off my head! Oh, no wait! I have a funny story to tell! I even wrote theme music!
Ah-em.
Professor Frink, Professor Frink
He’ll make ya’ laugh, he’ll make ya’ think
He likes to laugh and then the thing with the…
person?
Oh…That monkey is going to pay for this.
Cracks me up every time! Frink is my favourite character (as well as Hank Azaria’s) and always makes me laugh.
This thread may never end because there are at least a couple of great moments in even the worst shows. Some of my favourites include:
Homer’s “Well, well, well…” “Well-y, well-y well-y…” “Well-ity, well-ity, well-ity” response to Flanders asking for his help.
“UP AND AT THEM!” when Ranier Wolfcastle says it during the actual filming of the scene. It was nicely set up in the earlier rehearsal scene, but coming again out of the blue was hilarious.
Pretty much any scene involving Prof. Frink (i.e. Maude’s funeral) or Milhouse (“So this is what it’s like when doves cry…”).
I’ve never posted before, but I just gotta. One of the characters that I find unfailing funny is Kodos.
“Remember, we’re newlyweds on our way to Earth Capital.”
“We must go forward, not backward! Upward, not forward! And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!”
“I anticipate an orderly election which will eliminate the need for a violent bloodbath.”
I think one of the best scenes that makes me laugh out loud for a LONG time afterward, was during the episode where Homer thinks he sees an alien, and Mulder and Scully are giving him a lie detector test.
They begin to tell him what the test does in scientific terms, and then ask if he understands, he says “yes” and the machine blows up!! Kills me every time!
Can you hurry this up I have a hot date.
BUZZ
A great night alone.
BUZZ
Alright, alright. I’ll be ogling Playboy.
BUZZ
Victoria’s Secret.
BUZZ
Sears Catalogue.
DING
Now turn me loose. I don’t deserve this kind of treatment.
BUZZ
One that just kills me (and has been running through my head often the last few months) is the one where Lisa buys a copy of Al Gore’s book “Earth in the Balance” and the sale is beamed by satellite to the White House where an aide bursts into Gore’s office and blurts: “Mr. Vice President! Mr. Vice President! Someone bought a copy of your book!”
Cut to expressionless Al Gore at his desk. He activates a recordplayer:
“Ceeeeeel-e-brate good times – COME ON!”
Gore: (monotone) “I will!”
BWHAHAHAHA!
Favorite Ralph Wiggum quote: “Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel were in the closet making babies, and I saw the baby and the baby smiled at me!”
The entire “Short stories about Springfield” episode is hilarious, especially the Pulp Fiction parts.
Gotta love the gay steelworkers: “Keep reachin’ for that rainbow!”
Homer: “Mmm… 64 slices of American cheese.”
"64… " [eats a slice]
"63… " [eats another]
[Next morning]
"Two… "[slowly]
"One… "[finished]
[Marge walks in]
Marge: “Have you been up all night eating cheese?”
Homer: [slurred] "I think I’m blind… "
Homer Simpson in his purest form.
The great PLANET OF THE APES: THE MUSICAL!!!
Troy McClure: “What’s Wrong with me?”
Dr. Zaius: “I think you’re crazy.”
Troy McClure: “I want a second opinion.”
Dr. Zaius: “You’re also lazy.”
Chorus
Troy McClure: “Can I play the piano any more?”
Dr. Zaius: “Of course you can.”
Troy McClure: “Well I couldn’t before.”
[Plays Piano solo]
and of course
(sung to Rock Me Amadeus)
Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius, Dr Zaius
Good lord, I know it somewhere on the horizon that this will in fact be a Broadway Show
Whacking Day
Homer’s pre-whacking warmup is pure poetry and a homage to every kung fu film I have seen. Who knew he could flip like that. And Marge getting all hot watching him and stroking his wacking rod. Priceless
Scorpio digs into his pocket and pulls out a handful of sugar and says: “Sure Homer, sorry it’s not in packets.”
That, and the Hammock district in the same episode.
OR, howabout when Homer is driving singing like from the Flintstones
Simpson, Homer Simpson.
He’s the greatest guy in history.
From the
Town of Springfield,
He’s about to hit a chestnut tree.
AAAAHH!
all time best for cameo appearances has to be either Sideshow Luke Perry “It’s a nineteenth century carousel.”
-or-
When David Hyde Pierce was on as Sideshow Bob’s brother Cecil. Bart puts his hands over Cecil’s eyes and says Guess Who? And Cecil says, “Maris?”
