Thread 149498220

Pic related.

"Haha! Blupid bloropope!"

>>149498220 (OP)
the one with the imaginary freind who fixes shit for homer
took me years to realise its a guy from a famous american sitcom id never heard of, the episode always felt really weird and out of place for me until i noticed that.

>>149498220 (OP)
I genuinely had no idea this was a real song until just this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXik0jy_4rE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wro3bqi4Eb8

>>149498838
music references would need their own thread anon.
i remember humming glycerine and my little brother asked me why i was humming a simpsons song. (he was only 15ish at the time, i dont think he even knew who bush where)

>>149498220 (OP)
I like in Springfield (with a dollar sign) I think it is, Bart makes a Klaus von Bulow joke. I looked it up and learned :)

>>149498834
Ray Ramono of "Everybody Loves Raymond" fame.
He also voices Manny from the "Ice Age" movies.

>Click click
>you know
I still don't know what that's a reference to.

>>149498220 (OP)
I didn't get what was going on with the loafer lightener and mincing gel gag for years. I always figured it was just the irreverent random humor that the Scully eps usually had and it turns out it was a subtle, out of date gay joke.

>>149498970
>mincing gel
thats not out of date anon lmao
calling gay people mincers is still a thing, i can understand how light in the loafers might go over peoples heads though

For me it's the opposite. I thought pic related was an obscure pop culture reference. The real reason was they didn't want to bother reanimating the characters's mouths in case the football teams changed.

>>149499018
and that was probably done on purpose so you could clearly notice it. if anything its a meta joke/4th wall joke

Farmers

>>149498954
You know

>>149498834
For a second I thought you meant Karl, and was thinking "oh my god! it never occurred to me he might not have been real!"

>>149498220 (OP)
and where's that from?

>>149498220 (OP)
I didn't realize this guy was a take on Sydney Greenstreet until I watched The Maltese Falcon years later.

>>149499018
It's a reference to how hiding the mouth-movement is a common practice in these superbowl-related episodes because they're produced so far in advance they never know whether the original lines are still relevant. Here they just drew extra attention to it, and deliberately treated Clinton and his wife the same way because the episode aired in the middle of his impeachment-trial when the public media was all about his extramarital affairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE23p5hZAqA

>>149502086
Better then whatever you like, zoomtard

>>149501331
The Prince of Tides, a 1991 film where Nick Nolte plays a married man who falls in love with a psychiatrist named Lowestein, played by Barbra Streisand. In the end, he goes back to his family, but thinks about her every day, repeating "Lowenstein... Lowenstein..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_05zOUyHnNA

It was a big movie at the time and got nominated for several Oscars, but got memory-holed with time. Also, it features a surprisingly harrowing gang-rape scene.

>>149498220 (OP)
>Be spic
>No idea who the fuck was Paul Shaffer
>It sounds just like Paul Schäfer
>Assumed it was a dub-only dark joke about Bart getting hyped for seeing the birthplace of a german pederast
And I first saw it around the same time Schäfer was caught and kids in my school were doing juvenile "jokes" about him, which amounted to literally yelling "PAUL SCHÄFER!" out of the blue and making loud moans

>>149498954
Actress/Model Vanessa Williams, who resigned her Miss America title after it got out that she posed nude for Penthouse Magazine

>>149499018
>>149502219
If anything, it was made so that they could replace the dialogue in reruns so they can keep current with whatever teams are playing. Needless to say it never caught on.

That being said, in the wake of the COVID pandemic, horror host Svenghooli started running ads using the same gag to advertise whatever movie is being shown that week.

>>149504653
I see. It's sort of messed up to bring that up in a children's pageant show.

>>149504653
>Vanessa Williams posed nude for Penthouse Magazine
Whoa she DID?

>>149504399
Wait isn't that the drummer guy from that talk show?

>>149505803
The band leader from The Late Show w/ David Letterman, yeah.

>>149499018
>>149504691
It's very clearly a purposeful gag.

>>149503780
>mfw "I didn't know it could happen to a boy."

I didn't know Doctor Demento was an actual DJ. I thought the joke was that Bart was feuding with a comic-book supervillain off-screen.

>>149505881
Geez, this guy was all over cartoons.

>>149507339
Used to have a few albums/collections of songs he'd showcase on his show. Stuff like "Fish Heads", "The Time Warp", "They're Coming to Take Me Away", and the Spike Jones version of 'Dance of the Hours"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fSnzmCtGQ

Referential humor killed comedy for decades but the Simpsons were really classy about it
The writers had a weirdly wide palate

>>149499018
i thought it was just a set up to the "and his wife, Hillary" line where they do the same thing, so the joke is about Bill's intern scandal, since they're implying he could be divorced by the time the episode aired

>>149507497
Comics too.

>>149498220 (OP)
Barney smothering Homer, then using the fountain to smash the window and running out into the wilderness
Then I saw Cuckoo's Nest years later and went ohhhhh

>>149507924
There was also the other reference in the Michael Jackson episode where they meet a patient named Chief

Homer buying illegal fireworks is a refence to American graffiti

>you liked rashomon
>that's not how I remember it

>>149509204
It's funny. I've seen Rashomon, and even afterwards it took a while for that exchange to really sink in.

>>149508131
>make an American Graffiti reference outright
>reference it again in Homer's Animal House song

They must have really liked that movie during classic Simpsons.

>>149498220 (OP)
idgi

>>149498756
explain? also I thought it was 'clupid bloropope'
>>149498834
That's not really a reference, it's just they got the actor and they drew him like the real guy.. it's not like he's really a handyman
>>149498838
This one's funny because the sound guy obviously was not really told what to do here. A) all you can hear is the guitar, none of the rest of the instruments, and B) his guitar playing is actually amazing, nobody would boo that.
>>149498970
Yeah this one.. I knew those terms, but the way the joke was delivered, it didn't feel like a joke at all. It felt totally flat.
>>149499009
it's the way it was phrased. It didn't really make sense any way you look at it.

>>149502174
I've just seen this archetype so many times in things, I knew it was a thing...
>>149504653
that's so mean. Obviously that's part of america. as long as people bought the magazines, then it's okay.
>>149507339
ah so you didn't see him on Bobby's World. I can't imagine what I would have thought of the Simpsons gag if I hadn't..
>>149507530
oh yeah then Homer sang Fish Heads in that one ToH.
>>149507533
you have to understand something.. for a while there, to have OUR STUFF referenced felt AMAZING. you felt like, in on it. Then it got massively overdosed, and now none of that is funny anymore.
I'm reminded of that bit in Venture Bros where Henchman 21 is making this really clumsy, unsophisticated reference to Totally Spies, and that's the foreshadowing that he's the Sovereign in disguise
>>149507551
yes that too.
>>149507924
They do that one a lot.. I've seen so many shows reference that..
>>149509925
Same, well i never saw it but I was aware of it, and heard it referenced in regards to that BTAS episode.. it took me ages to realize this wasn't just Jerkass Homer being Jerkass Homer.

>>149498220 (OP)
Too many. Watching multiple Simpsons episodes in a row gets overwhelming at times due to the sheer number of references I have to pause and look up

MICHAEL JACKSON STILL WAS BLACK

>>149504399
>like Paul Schäfer
>At age six, Schäfer accidentally stabbed himself in the right eye with a fork while using it to undo a knot in his shoelace.
lol

>Watching Simpsons as a kid
>They do a hilarious joke
>Think it's something original the writers came up with and that they're geniuses
>As an adult find out it's just a reference
This has happened so many times. I'm starting to think The Simpsons was always just yellow Family Guy.

>>149513140
when I was a lad, I thought when Homer quickly improvised that he was at 'a pornography store, buying pornography' to cover up that he was at a bar before his car accident, I thought he was just making up a sciencey-sounding word and that that was the joke.

>>149513140
>I'm starting to think The Simpsons was always just yellow Family Guy.
Simpsons literally invented doing that. Almost everything we take as red in TV today was ground the simpsons broke.

>>149498220 (OP)
I'm too old. I knew them all.

R.I.P. Ozzy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhagVQoyLSI&t=12s

>>149513140
>Think it's something original the writers came up with and that they're geniuses
>As an adult find out it's just a reference
Same here, but also with Futurama (and other sci-fi stuff). Lost count of the times something that seemed original turned out to be just a reference to either Star Trek or some forgotten show from the 60's to 80's

>>149513432
it's more like both shows became mindless samey dreck
but they started out different enough. Simpsons started as "what if we actually take some potshots at authorities, and show sympathy toward the bottom of the barrel?" which was novel, once.
Family Guy, very much like Beavis and Butt-Head, started out as metacommentary on societal concerns.. It basically said "what if TV really DID rot our brains, what if one man is a complete idiot who has no way of telling entertainment from reality, just like all of our moms claimed?" and so it was full of pop culture references, which.. was also pretty novel, once.
Both of them obviously lost their way, as authorities lost all power, the populace all became idiots, popculture became king, and TV writing went in the toilet just as the wags always used to accuse it of being, but this time, it's directly their fault.

>>149498838
I love when they do cultural references and the material is completely wrong like the Guys and Dolls song or Moe reading Little Women

>>149513557
>>149513140
I had a moment like this with the King of the Hill YTPs.
>SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
>and saturday

>>149507588
Has Letterman or any other person talked about this? At least Frank Miller? I always wondered if Letterman's inclusion was just to show a dichotomy between him and the Joker or to just be a topical reference. Like if Miller was treating Letterman as a part of Reagan's America? I mean Ruth Westheimer also appears alongside the quack psychologist that treats Joker which may also be Miller wanting America to just be like Batman, willing to just use brute force or say that crime needs punishing from the people rather than soft liberals or Reagan/conservatives. Like a scene where all these forces come to a confluence and death results while Batman's arrival is a confluence but ends up sparking his retaking of the streets and winning against Superman (the government).
>>149507613
Yeah I recall there's a Letterman clip where he pulls up the cover and makes fun of the artist's depiction of him. Seems to me this comic was a somewhat forced partnership that he thought didn't fit his hijinks and efforts to be seen as unpredictable on his show as seen by bringing on people like Kaufman, Pekar, etc. Also yeah Letterman basically laying praise on the Avengers as well as the writing seems in that pic make it seem a little hokey even back then. Still kinda want that issue though.
Not as bad as when Jack Kirby saw Don Rickles cringe at his comic book cover and say to get it away from the cameras, I think.
Also pretty cool the Letterman writers and Simpsons writers during their histories basically brought comic book talent to guest on their shows.

>>149498220 (OP)
Marge is oh so CUTE!

Homer crafting a circus tent with his mashed potatoes is a reference to the dad in Close Encounters of the Third Kind doing the same thing for a mountain.

>>149515008
Holy crap that makes so much sense now...

>>149507339
>>149511056
I knew who Doctor Demento was because my dad had a few of his CDs, but I didn't really get why he'd be Bart's "mortal enemy", seemingly just being a random reference.

>>149515722
>but I didn't really get why he'd be Bart's "mortal enemy", seemingly just being a random reference.
Is there a reason beyond random reference?

>>149516023
If there is, I don't know what it is. Not all of their jokes are funny.

>>149513280
Wait that was a reference?

>>149513915
I don't know if Miller or Letterman ever commented about that. I always took it as Miller finding Letterman funny and doing a topical reference

>>149516023
It's just the setup

>you expect Lisa to be playing the radio to Sideshow Bob
>accidentally plays Dr Demento
>Bart screams, you assume he's wrongly assuming Dr Demento to be his enemy and overreacting
>Lisa confirms that Dr Demento is one of his enemies

>>149516407
Yeah, the joke is fairly obvious (Except I thought Dr. Demento is a supposed to be supervillain/mad scientist). I thought there might be a reason why they picked him.

>>149516201
Little anon didn't know what pornagraphy was

>>149510985
>t didn't really make sense any way you look at it.
its not realities fault that you dont understand slang for gay people.

>>149513432
>Simpsons literally invented doing that
Actually, you'd probably be better able to trace referential humor back to the things like Looney Tunes, it just depends on where you draw the line of what qualifies as "television," given that a lot of it were theatrical shorts that were then used on syndicated television.

>>149499018
the same happened to me with pic related, it's just a stupid non-sequitur

>>149516568
Yeah, Looney Tunes has a couple of really blatant ones, like how the Bugs with a penguin short gets basically paused a couple of times so they can poke fun at Bogart in Sierra Madre begging for money.

>>149503780
>Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisan
I cannot possibly think of two more meaty, unappealing people.

>>149507613
It's amazing how poorly they capture anyone's voices. It's like they just don't care to write any character in anyone but the author's own voice.

>>149513459
rip king

>>149516116
That one was though.

In "Duffless" when Lisa is using Bart for her science fair experiment by giving him a mild shock randomly and Bart reaches up to grab the pair of cupcakes on the counter: I thought they were just being artsy with the direction/camera angle and didn't know it was a Clockwork Orange reference.

>>149513140
Good Simpsons reference: You didn't notice it for 30 years and enjoyed the joke anyway.
Bad Family guy reference: HEY LOIS REMEMBER THAT TIME I MET SYLVESTER STALLONE IN THE SUPERMARKET? *cut* [Stallone dressed like Rocky, shirtless with gloves] EYY YO I NEED MORE STEAKS FOR MY BLACK EYE

I had no context for My Dinner with Andre so I thought Martin was just playing one of those artsy fartsy adventure games.

>>149498838
jesus, theyve been doing DEI slop for a long time now.

>>149498838
>Buzz off, Giuseppe!
>still playing the song while being mauled, just faster
so fuckin good

>"I buried it under a big T"
>this and the whole extended sequence that follows it

>>149511056
>to have OUR STUFF referenced felt AMAZING. you felt like, in on it
I totally get it. I'm europoor so many pop culture references in Family Guy and The Simpsond fell flat to me growing up. But since I started actively watching movies I get more and more of their jokes.

>>149517236
I have seen Clockwork Orange and didn't realize that

>>149511056
>you have to understand something.. for a while there, to have OUR STUFF referenced felt AMAZING. you felt like, in on it.
It's the same thing with MST3K. There was a period of our pop culture history where that kind of thing was genuinely made only BY, and FOR, nerds. Before "nerd" meant "hot topic slag with 6 tattoos and a $1500 webcam". It was one of those sly wink nod things only a select niche of people were into, and you knew that if you met someone into that, they'd be into a bunch of other niche things that the normie television market didn't know about.

>>149501306
I thought he was talking about The Great Gazoo. I mean, Ozmodiar.

I don't know if this is really referential but as kids we just barely didn't get Troy's "romantic abnormality"
It's kinda funny how that works as kids back before porn was widespread, like you knew they were talking about something naughty and weird, but it's like you didn't dare go all the way imagining it.

>>149517633
Was it a reference to something?

>>149498220 (OP)
I honestly can't think of any, but it might just be because of how many celebrity episodes they did and the way things were set up I was used to knowing something was a reference to some other thing I didn't know about as a kid. I definitely catch more re-watching it, but the jokes generally worked even before, and it's hard to keep track of when you learned about a certain pop culture thing.
>>149515008
Things like this are a good reason why so many references were missed. Even if you've never seen Close Encounters, the scene still works as a joke on how obsessed he is becoming and moving the plot along by showing his obsession in a clear way. It's not like Family Guy making references just because they can. A good reference should have a joke or purpose to stand on it's own even if the audience doesn't understand the source, knowing just makes it an extra bonus enjoyment.
>>149507339
That's a fair assumption, considering there were random supervillain/hero type jokes in multiple episodes like Hank Scorpio, the Human Fly (B sharps), Dr Colossus (Who Shot Mr Burns), the mad scientist from the monorail episode. And those weren't even the main comic book parody episodes.

>>149517646
i assume troy was meant to be gay?

>>149517733
Fish = vagina
Meat = dick

>>149516501
...because his name sounds like a supervillain/mad scientist?

>>149517571
it's when they put a naked woman in front of Alex to test his rehabilitation and he reaches for her breasts

>>149498220 (OP)
(((Lowenstein)))...(((Lowenstein)))...

The One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest reference used to seem like a random Barney moment to me
https://youtu.be/3Bxeu5x64Ww

>>149517510
I lucked out and saw the movie for the first time just shortly before seeing that episode for the first time. I will admit that it took me years to catch the couple of characters from the movie showing up at the dig site.

>>149516725
I’ve read that it’s meant to be a reference to author Carlos Castañeda, but he’s actually Peruvian, not Brazillian like the Simpsons writers thought at first. So the gag really ended up being a non-sequitur in the end.