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What jokes didn;t you get on the Simpsons?
On that episode where Homer replaces the Capitol City Goofball, Marge expresses enthusiasm for '4th Street and D' and then Tony Bennett sings it in associate enthusiasm.
Why is 4th street and D funny?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Ulgtvx-NA
>We're going to sneak in to an R-Rated movie
>BARTON FINK
>BARTON FINK
>>63088080
Now, the joke there is that while it's R rated - it's a shit 'naughty' movie for 10 year olds to sneak into, right?
>>63088063
It's just a completely generic, unglamorous-sounding name and it's funny to hear it being crooned in this song about how romantic and exciting Capitol City is supposed to be.
>>63088063
>Sneed Feed & Seed
I don't get it.
>>63088063
tony bennett made lots of music for broadway productions, and broadway is on 4th street.
>>63088080
It's funny because the kids assume they're going to get to see something sexy and/ or violent, but we the audience know that they're actually going to be bored and confused by an arty, alienating character drama.
>>63088120
The old owner's name was Chuck
Following from that, the name of the old store was Chuck's Fuck & Suck
>>63088080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNyzdmXhe0who drove the car?
>>63088192
Most overrated Simpsons joke ever.
Just pure contrivance with no actual wit or logic to it.
>>63088108
'cause Moe invented it and it protrudes a large chemical flame to create it's distinct flavor?
>>63088080
title just makes me think of "Bart the fink"
..I hope that wasn't in the same season
>>63088233
Also putting the word "flaming" in big letters above a bar is going to create a certain implication.
>>63088216
Black or Blue haired kid'sDad were dropping them off somewhere (either the cinema complex direct or their intended sleepover home) and they were going to sneak in. Dad (no woman drove a puickup in the 90's) was in the cab and thus couldn't hear their their conspiracy from the pickup tray. Duh.
>>63088279
>put the kids in the pickup tray
oh, naturally.
>>63088224
I have a feeling the writer's designed it to be a cheeky in-joke without knowing that autists/memers/buzzfeeders would expand it in 2014/2015.
>>63088224
>Most overrated Simpsons joke ever.
>Just pure contrivance with no actual wit or logic to it.
I've always hated the joke and the explanation given here. I like to think it used to be called Chuck's Feed & Seed and as a strange coincidence a person named Sneed happened to buy it.
>>63088316
Pretty sure it was legal in a lot of American states in the 90's? No?
>>63088340
I don't know if you're trolling or just autistic. This is /tv/ so it's 50-50 either way.
>>63088120
>>63088404
That one is easy
We'll all be rich! Rich as Nazis!
>>63088108
>Flaming 'mo
I WONDER WHAT THEY COULD BE REFERENCING HERE
>>63088353
doubt it, especially considering their age. doesn't really make sense. but there was no other way to do it i guess.
the kid's who still watched the show learned something new that day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUNgn1KP4g
>>63088340
>>63088376
I thought it was just a way to show how a basic store called "chuck's" had to go with the times and have a catchy name instead
>>63088435
I honestly don't know.
>>63088192
No you dumb ass. The real joke is that you're led to believe it was Chuck's Fuck & Suck but in reality it was Chuck's Feed & Seed.
>>63088438
I'm pretty sure it was, and may still be. But since obviously both of us don't and can't be worried to look up 90's US state traffic laws state-by-state, we'll call a truce (even though i predict I'm right; and even though the Simpsons was deliberately not assigned to a particular US state....which may prove my point).
>>63088216
Jimbo
>>63088504
i checked, it wasn't. in some states is was legal if they were adults, or adult supervision on the flatbed/tray. i guess the dad was a madman.
>>63088421
>imply you get the joke
>dont explain it because you dont
>>63088435
What?
>>63088532
S.H.I.T.
>>63088435
holy shit this is what new simpsons is eh? i stopped watching in ~2005
>>63088543
i don't care if it's a shit joke or not, but tell me what's the joke?
>you don't know
>>63088435
I sense sarcasm in your post, but I have no fucking clue what this is referencing.
>>63088063
Smithers like to introduce big objects into his anus. That's why he's standing in front of a chair in Nick Riviera's clinic when Lisa takes Bart with a broken arm.
Filthiest joke in the whole show.
>>63088404
if you didn't get it, then you wouldn't have even known it was supposed to be a joke, and you wouldn't have posted it here.
>>63088618
Inside Out
I haven't even seen it yet
>>63088063
>"Naked Lunch"
>I can think of at least 2 things wrong with that title
Also
>I'm the first non-Brazilian to travel backwards through time
>>63088671
Oh wow that's gay
>>63088543
>someone rightly calls him out
>ad hominim attacks
keep it up kid
>>63088795
Wow dude u got baited hard smfh 4u family
>>63088795
Calm down and please stop swearing, it's okay if you don't get it
>>63088795
They were kidding with me bro, relax
I know it can be hard to tell sometimes
>>63088527
Watch Murderball, brah. It's a documentary about wheelchair basketball. One of the dude's got paraplegialized because he got drunk and fell asleep in a parked pickup's tray and got hurled off it on the highway when his friend drove off on it. Not too much relevance to this thread, but good doco.
>>63088795
baited
or samefag
>>63088672
>I'm the first non-Brazilian to travel backwards through time
I always assumed it's because Brazil is a backwards fucking country.
>>63088672
>I'm the first non-Brazilian to travel backwards through time
Pretty sure that's the one nobody's been able to definitively figure out.
>>63088881
I assumed it's becaus all kind of weird shit happens in Brazil, with peyote and shit
>>63088795
shit bitch you got gotted
>>63088435
Why are there two male sadness characters?
>>63088632
wow, sherlock holmes over here.
>>63088147
Pretty sure Broadway is on Broadway.
>>63088882
it's just a non-sequitur.
I'm from an european country and I don't have a clue on most of the celebrities mentioned in the golden age. But I don't care. You know, I could google who's Rory Calhum, but I don't care. To me, it's the man that walks.
>>63088672
>Naked Lunch
I figure the joke is that there's no nudity and no lunch, but that isn't true. There's nudity and they eat lunch like three times at least.
>>63089225
but did they have naked lunches.
>>63089107
Rory Calhoun was an incredibly obscure reference even when that episode came out. The joke is that all of Burns' cultural references are about half a century out of date.
>>63088999
>>63088999
checked moleman is loneliness
>>63088999
I think Milhouse is meant to be fear.
>>63088435
Ha, they're spoofing "Up"
NAKED LUNCH
>>63088063
I didn't get the capitol city joke. I just thought the city was called capitol city.
>>63088063
must be hundreds of jokes I can't understand since I'm not american, but I can't think about none at this moment. Fuck my life
>>63088882
>Carlos
Castaneda, "a Brazilian who wrote about his chemical-induced `adventures' about twenty years ago. A rather trendy (for the college crowd) set of books from the late-60's, early 70's."
Also, If I recall was a peruvian guy who also traveled in time but I can't find the source
>>63089579
carlos castañeda himself was peruvian.
>>63089664
Well then I got it mixed up but stills.
>>63088435
why is comic book guy pepe
also stupid sexy flanders
>>63088435
My first thought was The Last Supper.
>>63088435
minecraft?
>>63089507
The spoofed UP twice
1. Itchy and scratchy
2, they had the mr fredrikson's house flying in the background in another episode
>>63088881
>>63088898
They talk about this on the commentary. It was a changed line. The original line had something to do Mr. Peabody and Sherman, but I can't remember the exact joke.
>>63088216
Jimbo
>>63090322
autism
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Remember that classic episode where Homer and Marge divorced and he started dating Lena Dunham?
>>63088898
>with peyote and shit
You're thinking central America, brother.
That girl in the turban
>>63090562
Lemme guess, Homer gets back together with Marge after they find out that Lena was shoving pebbles into Maggie's vagina
>>63090562
I remember when they would draw celebrities almost like caricatures of themselves. Now it's like the complete opposite
>Lena Dunham being that attractive
lol ok
>>63088233
>>63088266
A "mo" is short for "homo"
So a "flaming 'mo" is a "flaming homosexual"
>>63090624
>Lemme guess, Homer gets back together with Marge after they find out that Lena was shoving pebbles into Maggie's vagina
This is something I've never understood. Any clarification would be appreciated
>>63090867
I think it's just that it's a bizarre scene because Twin Peaks is famous for being so strange.
>>63090867
IT'S BAIT
>>63088672
>>63088882
>>63088898
>>63090411
>>63088881
the original line was
>I'm the first non-fictional character...
then they changed it and matt groening (who wrote the joke) didn't get it but they kept it anyway, its non-sequitur, it has nothing to do with any real Brazilians
THANKS BENEVENSTANCIANO THANKS BENEVENSTANCIANO THANKS BENEVENSTANCIANO THANKS BENEVENSTANCIANO THANKS BENEVENSTANCIANO
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This one. Is it some reference?
>>63091067
I just got the new issue of sponge and vacuum.
>>63088116
This. I also thought it was supposed to be poking fun at how songs about New York do the same kind of thing. Throw out references to places and streets that don't make sense to people not from the area.
Didnt got this
>>63091142
children of the corn or the village of the damned remake i guess. spooky kids.
>>63091142
Village of the Damned, I think.
>>63091304
Just a guess, but Cape Canaveral is known for rocket launches. That's an easy sexual pun. JFK was known for banging everything, and Fatty Arbuckle was accused of raping a woman to death.
>Baseball song
>That song about constitutional amendments
>Where's the beef
Quite a few American exclusive references, really.
>>63091362
Still surprised of how many hidden sex jokes simpsons had.
>>63091304
cape canaveral was once actually called cape kennedy. maybe they thought it would be funny to imply that it once was called cape arbuckle but had to change the name due to the rape thing with arbuckle. and then they had to change again becasue kennedy's sexual rumors.
>>63091397
>Where's the beef
No wonder he won Minnesota!
>"It was just like Romeo and Juliet, only it ended in tragedy."
>>63090462
Hat blocking is the term for shaping a hat on a mould (or block).
It's like the "Lionel Hutz: Attourney at Law. Also Expert Shoe Repair" jokes
>>63091060
matt groening writes jokes?
>>63088192
stop perpetuating this joke
the joke is that you assume it was named seed and feed because it rhymed with his name, Reed. But in fact, it used to be called chucks, begging the quesiton why he'd call it seed and feed, a bizarre name, seeing as it didn't rhyme
>>63091397
do other countries not understand what baseball is?
>>63091734
What else would you call a chicken feed and semen store?
>>63091734
that's not what begging the questions means
>>63091734the man who owns the store is Chuck Sneed
>>63091776
I've heard anyone talkin' baseball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKA9Zi5-_Y
>>63091802
ya i realized it sounded dumb. didn't care enough to go back and change it
>>63089729
>why is comic book guy pepe
I wouldn't be surprised if they used Pepe in a couch gag honestly.
It will probably be another few years until it happens though, just to be extra dated.
I never got how the nuclear power plant employees were all poor and stupid.
>>63089614
>it's okay when old simpsons does it!
>>63091871
that's the joke!
>>63088504
>>63088527
>>63088855
Wait as a little kid you never drove in the bed of a truck?
Probably misses his old glasses.
>>63091908
the old simpssons scene is framed so that it's obvious. the whole scene is the joke. iirc he uis making fun of lazy animators when 2nd homer walks by
new simpsons seems liek a lazy attempt to make a seen more "dense"
also, some jokes are only funny the first time
and repeating them gets painfully unfunny
>>63089614
Why does Quimby have a robot hand
Can someone explain this joke to me?
>>63090723
>Copy the entire post
>Reaction image
Why can't you people just fuck off or contribute something to the thread?
>>63092124
>Why can't you people just fuck off or contribute something to the thread?
>>63091870
>Modern Simpsons couch gag
>Family arrive to sit on the settee to watch their beloved TV
>See Pepe, Spurdo, Wojack, etc
>For some reason the Reddit robot is there too
I wouldn't put it past Zombie Simpsons
>>63092152
lol! xd
>>63092124
why can't you?
why/how did they predict 9/11
>>63092188
To warn us, but we just didn't listen.
>>63092188
>Due to the prominence of the World Trade Center in the plot, the episode was removed from syndication after the September 11 attacks. By 2006 the episode had come back into syndication in some areas; however, parts of the episode are often edited out. One previously such edited item is a scene of two men arguing across Tower 1 and Tower 2, where a man from Tower 2 claims, "They stick all the jerks in Tower One!" Co-executive producer Bill Oakley commented in retrospect that the line was "regrettable".
heh
So anyways I sez to Mable
I still wonder who Mable was and what Bart was talking about with him to this day.
>>63092092
12 years too late for this episode.
anyone know remember this scene and what its referencing?:
>Simpsons are driving by large road side billboard advertising something with presumably a quip/pun of some sort
>Lisa: Haha, anyone want to know why thats funny?
>rest of family: NO!!!
probably been years since I saw the episode but I remember not getting whatever the joke was
>>63092253
Lisa being a shit character isn't a joke, its a funny fact
>>63092253
I remember that scene, I think it had to do with computers.
>>63092225
teh republican religion
>>63092253
did you actually see the sign she was referencing?
>>63092253
Lisa was being a pretentious know it all. Her family was tired of it.
>>63092081
He, um er uh, his er, hand in an um er accident
>>63092244
jesus christ
>>63088881
Brazil is lizarB backwards, not Lizard
>>63092382
that was much much funnier in your head
>>63092244
>>63092092
What the actual fuck is that?
>>63092404
Your mums funnier giving me head
>Marge Simpson: C'mon Homer, Japan will be fun. You liked "Rashomon".
>Homer Simpson: That's not how I remember it.
This joke made 0 sense to me as a kid.
>>63092124
>Why can't you people just fuck off or contribute something to the thread?
>>63092370
>>63092414
Upcoming episode "Barthood"
>>63092432
Rashomon is about people's different accounts of the same event
>>63092484
The new "animation" is just painful to look at. I don't know how people keep watching it.
>>63092511
Yes, I understand the joke now obviously
>>63092484
Lisa looks like fucking homo Sonic
>>63092525
Normies dont have subtle, elegant tastes for cartoons like we do.
>>63092484
>simspons in the future
how have they not realized that these episodes all sucked
also note homer smoking bong on the wall of the garage
>>63088435
Is this actually real? Jesus christ.
>>63092550
Lisa's wedding is the only good future one
>>63092550
Because if you age the characters you actually have new stories to tell. If Simpsons really wants to continue for-fucking-ever then they should age the characters up so at least they can tell new stories.
Homer: (On George Bush) I didn't vote for him!
Marge: You didn't vote for anybody.
Homer: I voted for Prell to go back to the old glass bottle. After that I became deeply cynical.
I'm sure I could just google it (as I did the excerpt I just copypasta'd) but I don't care enough and I'm drinking
>>63092484
>Its a parody of boyhood
helium tank is in the mail lads
>>63089614
Two Moes is bad, but
>scene crammed with "popular" characters who have absolutely no reason to be there
this triggers me
A bunch of stuff in Deep Space Homer.
>>63089614
How can they justify this kind of lazy shit when they make it all on a computer?
is millhouse a meme?
>>63088316
I remember doing this, and tons of my friends' dads did this, I'm a 80s kid tho.
>>63092660
I think one of the big things they do nowadays that really makes the show shit is how everyone is always everywhere. No one has a life outside of the Simpsons' antics and the entire town is always ready to come together in those retarded crowd shots.
>yfw Simpsons will never have the courage to do what South Park is doing with a continuous plot season
>>63092092
>Dr. Bart, I'm CIA
>>63092755
>implying south parks continuous plot season is a good thing
>>63092776
what?
>>63089614
I love how they exploit the weirdo side of moe like that scene when he passes immigrants test while hiding behind a fake moustache
>>63092755
That wouldn't really work since most people just watch the Simpsons when nothing else is on and they have nothing else to do, rarely does anybody still follow the Simpsons that closely for it to work.
>>63092793
It often is, and at worst it would be a breath of fresh air in a horribly stale show.
>>63092805
Homer is dressed like CIA
>>63088527
>>63088504
>>63088353
>>63088316
>>63092744
>that one faggot talking out of his about it not being legal anywhere
Hur dur I'm retarded
>>63092731
milhouse is not and will never be a meme
>>63092813
>>63092813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGClMQeV4M
>>63092869
Funnily enough Millhouse not being a meme is a meme, while Millhouse itself is not a meme
pretty meta
>>63092954
did you not read my post?
milhouse is not a fucking meme you fuck
>>63092813
tfw nu simpsons ruined moe
Does anyone know about this one?
milhouse fits the character limit
thrilhouse does not
is it just the eternal badluck of milhouse?
>>63088063
>I heard your dad's a big guy.
What did Ralph mean by this?
>>63092844
What do you mean? is he dressed like he's in the Agency?
>>63093033
>the simpsons parodies the opening scene of TDKR
what a day that'll be
>>63090867
They placed a guy and a horse for a date, and then the guy will get some action, so he will be beating off the horse, but the horse and the guy looks old, so they are "Beating a dead horse"
>>63093001
its a joke how in old vidya the character limit was too small
pretty good joke, if it was zombie simpsons they'd just show a super mario parody instead
>>63092969
>>63092954
>>63092869
>>63092731
am i on 2012 memebase?
>>63089107
That's all the joke was. That burns pulled out a specific name and yet all men walk. It could have been any celebrity name and yet he forced him to guess that one.
>>63093113
Got you covered there
>tfw classic Simpsons was so based it parodied a movie over 15 years before it premiered
>>63093001
Yeah, 8 bit shit in old video games. THRILLHOUSE doesn't fit so it looks like that and it's just goofy.
They could have put in a joke about getting 255 ammo and then it looping to 0 after picking up one more.
>>63088192
Dumbass, it was formerly known as "Chuck's Fuck and Keks"
>>63093132
more like 2008 t b h oldfam
>>63092124
>Why can't you people just fuck off or contribute something to the thread?
>>63091734
>begging the quesiton
No.
>>63093132
For all intents and purposes, yes.
>>63092124
>Why can't you people just fuck off or contribute something to the thread?
>>63093001
One of my favorite jokes t.bh f a m
WHY IS EVERY NEW EPISODE HAVE TO FEATURE A FUCKING CELEBRITY
FUCK JUST LET IT DIE
>>63088435
Jeff Albertson even ends that "scene" with something like "Worst shoehorned movie feference ever" which isn't inaccurate.
What is this referencing to?
>>63088469
This is just awful, rather than just drop (not always subtle) hints that Smithers is gay they just have him standing there but somehow missing the context of the situation at the same time.
>>63093406
It's intensive purposes you clown. Fuck this shit triggers me.
>>63093708
bad animation
>>63093708
Korean slave kids working under animation
>>63088316
We did this all the time when I was a kid. Born in 94.
>>63090562
At least there was a episode that acknowledged Jezebel being shit.
>>63093713
Yeah, the jokes got real cheap.
>>63088469
haha what the f... I just googled fisting and this is like oh wow wtf lol can't believe the simpsons went that far
>>63088618
This.
Obviously some pop culture reference. Which are the worst type of jokes.
>>63093920
>>63088618
It's parodying the Jetsons you fucking uncultured imbeciles
>>63090624
I laughed then cringed at the fact she actually did this
>simpsons jokes thread
>no math references
Seriously? The damn show had people with Doctorates in math fields for fuck sake.
http://dailytv.ru/video/lal12m3lq2o4
>>63093972
Google says it is from some animated movie called "InSideOut" or some shit like that.
http://movietme.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=604
Stream for sampsons
>>63094049
nice video about simpsons and maths references
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOQ300AcSU
>>63091776
We understand, but no one cares.
Except the japs.
Why would Aurora Borealis be in Springfield? Isn't it normally in the North?
>>63094349
can't check for myself cause im at school but...
have you guys fucking fixed chinatown yet
it has been playing the EXACT same shit for 2 months
Post your favorite headlines
>>63094156
You browse a film board and have never heard of inside out? Wow.
>>63093278
if it was formerly c.ucks then why is he still sitting outside it?
>>63094433
Yes
>>63088216
Watch it in slow motion and you can see jimbo
>>63094539
is there a joke in the way burns is drawn?
>>63091842
I never knew it was based of a real song. Not an american though, it was probably didn't get any attention outside of the states.
>>63091842
Baseball is so fucking corny
I'm not American so I don't know, but it's more like a thing for kids right? it's not taken seriously like football or hockey right?
>>63095022
it's a thing for old people.
>>63095071
Then what is softball?
>>63095022
Soccer is so fucking corny.
I'm not European so I don't know, but it's more like a thing for losers right?
>>63095138
for women.
If dubs Milhouse is a meme
If not dubs milhouse isnt a meme
>>63095159
Soccer's for poor people, which is why it's so popular around the world.
Baseball requires equipment, an enormous field, plates, bats, helmets, fencing...it's more for privileged, moneyed people. Am. Football is the same way and why neither caught on in other countries. They're literally too poor for it.
>>63095357
it's because nobody gives a fuck about your adball "sports"
soccer is the most popular sport in the richest part of the world
>>63095159
Ooh sorry guess we've got a baseball fan in the house.
>>63095357
This.
>>63095357
we play baseball in yurop, but only in gym class in elementary school. the fact that people talk this "sport" seriously is hilarious. i think it has some following in netherlands though. and finland have their own version.
Was this one of the best obscure jokes?
In the Selma/Patty dates Skinner episode, is the fact that they are so many opportunities to make Vertigo references that don't actually happen the whole joke?
>>63095748
wat
>>63096294
Apparently this joke predicted the Higgs Boson particle.
>>63096351
yeah but that's just one of them. The second one is almost a perfect disproof of Fermat's theorem, one of the at the time most well known unsolved problems of mathematics
it isn't correct though, it's off by 3 or something, but just finding such a close number for a 5 second joke is pretty huge imo
The other two lines are also pretty significant but i don't know anything about physics so I can't tell you why
>>63096401
Did you Google up all that?
>>63096449
anyone who studies math knows about Fermat's Theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
there are articles about Homer's Blackboard if you're curious though
>>63094877
>beaver lincoln assasinated
>>63092244
Grimes must have been a pretty talented guest star
>>63091776
'Murrica, Nippon and Beanerland are the only 3 countries who play Baseball.
>>63097146
Cuba allso enjoy some ballegg
>>63093598
>suddenly remembering that they gave comic book guy a name
my fucking god UGH
>>63092600
In spanish it just says "I voted for shampoo to come in glass bottles again"
>>63092484
Hate "future" episodes but I do like the idea of Nelson becoming closer friends with Bart and Lisa, he's kinda similar to Bart. Troublemaker but has a good heart
>>63093001
10/10 joke. Thrillho will be one of those references that stays with us forever. Kids will be naming their online avatars thrillho in 1000 years when no one knows what the Simpsons is
>>63092755
>>yfw Simpsons will never have the courage to do what South Park is doing with a continuous plot season
Well probably because South Park's whole season is like 8-10 episodes. The Simpsons does a full 22.
>grover cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions
for the longest time i thought that line was pure nonsensical rambling and never imagined there could be an actual joke behind it
not being a burger didn't help either
>>63091996
I think this was just about how poor homer's recall memory is, kinda like the gag where he remembers marge telling him something as her having green hair and him talking to the president
>>63089081
4th and D through Broadway is an art and entertainment district. Lots of shows and theaters.
When smothers says that Tbor lost the key, was the joke that homer lost the key and blamed Tbor, or is it that smothers also uses the guy who doesn't speak English as a scapegoat like homer?
>>63100671
>smothers
I meant smothers, obviously
>>63100671
I never really considered the second one, so I lean towards the first one. But I suppose it's possible.
>>63088063
How does /tv/ feel about references? Especially if they're for something super obscure?
Personally, I think they're kid of pretentious.
...I'm NOT wearing a tie at all.
No further questions.
what the fuck does this mean
>>63093848
Are you ten?
>>63093708
man i hope somebody got fired for that blunder
who /zutroy/ here
>>63092251
this one is very spooky. it looks exactly like 911
>>63100847
It means you're a fucking moron if you don't get it.
When the telephone was first invented ahoy was suggested for how to answer the phone. This is why mr burns answers the phone ahoy hoy
>>63100847
first one means he will be paid when the case is resolved, second one means the exact opposite
>"Oh yeah and before you come in for work, make sure to change your pants"
>"Why?"
>"When it happens you'll know"
I still don't get it.
>>63090567
South America has ayahuasca. Which is basically DMT soup.
>>63100847
The lawyer is a liar and a scumbag, he uses a buisness card that says he will work for free unless you win. And no money down, when he wont, so when called out on it, he uses a red sharpie to place a comma and question mark to change the context of the card so he is not a liar.
>>63100847
It's the difference between:
>"You won't pay unless you win. No deposit is required up front."
and
>"Do I only have to pay in the event that I win? No, in fact, an up front deposit is required!"
>>63101334
>>63101264
>>63101223
still don't get it
>>63096401
>>63095748
>>63096294
the third one is about the energy density of the universe at t_0 (right now)
firstly, note that the curvature of the universe is either
1)zero -> flat
2)positive -> elliptical
3)negative -> hyperbolic
now, the symbol that homer writes, omega, is the (energy density of the universe) / (energy of the universe for flat space)
so if omega >1 we are dealing with elliptical geomtry which means the universe will eventually be crushed under it's own weight
if omega <1 we have hyperbolic geometry and the universe will expand infinitely
if omega =1 then the universe is flat, which is most likely what the univers truely is, or very close to flat at least
In the scene, homer writes greater than, walks to basement, a large explision is heard, he walks upstairs, cahnges to less than, walks downstairs, another large explison is heard, and he walks upstairs and changes it to an equlaity .So the "joke" is that homer has destroyed the universe twice, and somehow brought it back to its previous state.
source: im a fourth year physics major avoiding doing my homework
>>63094760
I think the joke is that it looks like he's doing the Nazi salute
>"For you!"
What did he mean?
>>63101416
You're retarded tbqhwyf
>>63101416
The lawyer is tricking people with the buisness card, people will think he will give them a great deal,(only taking money if he wins the case), but thats a lie, he wont. When someone points out that he wont do the deal, he makes changes to the business card to fit the work he is willing to provide, they must pay him win or lose.
If u still dont get it, then wew lad.
>>63091839
GOAT tier sign joke.
>>63101125
zprolyizie da ztr mr Burns
>>63094655
he JUST sold it
>>63092484
A parody of Boyhood?
Noooooooooooooo! ;_;
>>63092588
>>63092550
lisa's wedding AND holidays of future passed were good future episodes. the rest range from decent (milhouse working out his calves) to awful (bart to the future)
>>63101647
Holy fuck why am I laughing
>>63101647
ayyy
This whole entire episode was great. The music absolutely was icing on the cake tho
>>63102025
Never knew that was a West World reference and not a Terminator reference or something.
>>63092484
I want to impregnate teen Lisa
>>63101450
Its been awhile, but isn't the first the size of the universe or the speed at which its expanding or something? Pretty basic proof once you've got your head around gravity and special relativity.
I never got this one
>>63102464
"isn't the first"
i don't know what youre referring to
>>63102558
The first formula, you dip.
>>63102525
>Hitler spoke German
>Hitler supposedly killed 6 billions jews and is therefore evil
>Groening is a known supporter of Israel
>>63102581
The first equation is a prediction of the mass of the higgs as discussed in this thread, you dip.
>>63092244
>future of europe
>>63102612
Sorry, like I said its been a while and I saw the pi and Newton's Gravitational Constant and what looks like the Hubble Constant.
>>63101450
You should get a copy of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. You'd enjoy it.
>>63092124
>Why can't you people just fuck off or contribute something to the thread?
Why did Homer need irregular Oreo's when he hosted an NRA meeting, and why did Moe go "oh" when he tried one that he thought wasn't irregular?
what's a chachee?
>>63102655
Fair enough, i was only being sassy because you were. Hubble's constant has the naught as a subscript instead of a superscript
>>63102677
i was thinking about it. have you read it? and is it good?
reason i haven't already is that i feel like it is going to be a 150 page book about 5-6 instances that the simpsons referenced fairly entry-level math. Except the higgs of course, but even that was a quite widely accepted prediction for the mass.
off the top of my head, times that math was referenced:
r dr r from the first episode
this chalkboard
another near-miss fermat from a tree-house of horrors
So basically i'm worried it'll be nothing more than "(math equation) is historically important because _____. the joke was written by ____. its funny because _____."
>>63102878
>Fair enough, i was only being sassy because you were.
Looks like someone doesn't know the popular culture of the internet.
>>63091522
The joke is that Romeo and Juliet started out romantic and in fact did end tragically. I think this is a Bart line, so the joke is that Bart is stupid.
Man our money sure is gay
>>63096401
>The second one is almost a perfect disproof of Fermat's theorem, one of the at the time most well known unsolved problems of mathematics
>it isn't correct though, it's off by 3 or something, but just finding such a close number for a 5 second joke is pretty huge imo
And they did it twice.
>>63103045
looks like P=NP on the right there
>>63102878
I found it to be pretty entertaining and I know dick about maths theory so it was fun to get some insight into the actual maths and the history/significance of it.
The chapters range from Pi to Homer's chalkboard, Homer3, another slice of Pi, and even into Futurama.
There's trivia along the way thanks to the author actually speaking to the writers rather than just studying the episodes.
A nice touch are the "exams" throughout the book to test your maths based humour too.
I got it for a fiver on Amazon so I'd say it was worth it for sure.
>>63100151
I prefer Milpool
>>63101231
once you get a shitty job, you'll know
What are the implications of Fermat's theorem? or is it just a weird math thing?
>>63101264
Actually it's more scummy to work on contingency. Lawyers working on contingency dupe suckers into hiring them and then take a huge portion of their settlement (can be as much as 50% + expenses). This is common in personal injury cases.
But of course, Lionel Hutz is whatever kind of scumbag is appropriate. In the episode where Bart eats the jagged metal Krusty-O, Lionel Hutz works on contingency.
>how much of the hundred thou do I get?
>$500?
>>63103070
Yeah. Some of the Simpsons writers have math and computer science degrees, hence all these jokes.
Here's another P=NP claim (that Travelling Salesman has a poly-time solution), among others.
>>63092124
I don't understand why people do this.
How did they not learn proper post and quoting etiquette
>>63103171
Nothing, it's just that people had been trying to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for 350 years.
In the margin of one of his books he wrote that he found a proof but the margin didn't have enough room to write it all out. And none of his other notes contained the proof. This was in the 1600s. It took until 1994 for someone to finally prove it.
So it's kind of a big deal that he basically didn't even think it was worth writing down, but meanwhile nobody else could figure it out for hundreds of years.
>>63103270
>UR 2YS 2B 4GOT
I don't get it. "You're twice to be forgot"? "Your two eyes to be forgot"??
>>63093721
>intensive purposes
i dont get why people never wonder if they are wrong before running their mouth
http://grammarist.com/eggcorns/for-all-intensive-purposes/
>>63103124
cool man, thanks for the response. going to buy it
>>63103431
hah, neat
>>63103448
I thought it was "You are too wise to be forgot(en)."
>>63103464
No worries. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
One of the nicer things about it is that they're still putting maths into the show. Even adding something just for two maths students who sat in on a script writing session.
>>63092484
Why is he dressed as Fry?
>>63088224
Definitely, worst thing next to people legit believing SIMPSONS DID IT
>>63091304
>John Arbuckle
>John F Kennedy
>John Canaveral
That's the joke
>>63100871
No I'm on the newest season its getting better as it goes
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