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A Star Is Born Again/Quotes

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{{qf|[[Julius Hibbert's daughter]]}} Daddy, why is everyone so happy the [[Stinging Red Jellyfish|jellyfish]] are back?
{{qf|[[Dr. Hibbert]]}} Well, in the old days, people thought jellyfish venom had curative properties. Now we know it just makes things a whole lot worse.
{{qf|[[Julius Hibbert's youngest son]]}} Like laser eye surgery?
{{qf|Dr. Hibbert}} Exactly! ''[laughs]''
----
{{qf|[[Chief Wiggum]]}} Sarah, you're as lovely as the day I first arrested you.
{{qf|[[Sarah Wiggum]]}} Oh, Clancy.
{{qf|Chief Wiggum}} You know, I planted that crystal meth just to meet you. I was so shy.
----
{{qf|[[Ned Flanders]]}} Well, Sea Captain, looks like you and I are sailin' solo tonight.
{{qf|[[Horatio McCallister]]}} Arrr you hitting on me? 'Cause I don't do that... on land.
----
{{qf|[[Sara Sloane]]}} Are you for real?
{{qf|Ned}} I'm as real as the nose on your face.
{{qf|Sara}} Yeah... real. ''[she taps her nose and it makes a metallic sound]''
{{qf|Ned}} Well, it looks good... and it sounds pretty too.
----
{{qf|Sara}} I'm here for a while and I don't really know anyone. Would you like to have dinner tomorrow night?
{{qf|Ned}} A woman askin' a man out? Well, well why not. And maybe I'll eat my steak with a spoon.
----
{{qf|[[Homer]]}} I used to worry Marge was too good for me. She was always thinking of ways to improve me. But then part of her died and she doesn't try any more. So we're all where we want to be.
----
{{qf|[[Lenny]]}} Excuse me, Miss Sloane. May I have an autograph?
{{qf|Sara}} Sure.
{{qf|Lenny}} Oh man, this is going right on [[eBay]]. I mean, my wall. Which I will then sell on eBay.
{{qf|Sara}} ''[to Ned]'' Sad to say this isn't the worst I get.
{{qf|Lenny}} Oh, oh, can I just push this plaster cast onto one of your boobs?
{{qf|Sara}} ''[to Lenny]'' Okay, now you are the worst.
----
{{qf|[[Bart]]}} Rainier Wolfcastle!?
{{qf|Sara}} My ex-boyfriend.
{{qf|[[Rainier Wolfcastle]]}} Sara, liebchen, take me back. If tears could burst through my muscular ducts, I would cry like a baby who was just hit by hammer.
{{qf|Sara}} Rainier, you're too jealous. You beat up {{Ch|Jon Lovitz}} just because he presented me an award.
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Oh c'mon. No one misses a handshake that badly.
----
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} My libido has been terminated.
----
{{qf|Sara}} Ned, I've never met a man like you. You're sensitive, you're in great shape, you have a mustache, and yet you're not gay.
{{qf|Ned}} No way! I won't even eat vegetables over two inches long.
----
{{qf|{{Ch|James L. Brooks}}}} Ned, I'm James L. Brooks.
{{qf|Ned}} Can I call you Jim?
{{qf|James L. Brooks}} James L. Brooks is good.
----
{{qf|Ned}} Sure is nice to be shopping for a woman again. The last thing I bought for a lady was a casket.
----
{{qf|[[Apu]]}} Sir, would you ask your sweetheart to sign her autograph for me?
{{qf|Ned}} Well of course. Wait a minute. This is to adopt two of your kids.
{{qf|Apu}} Oh, so it is. I've already dumped three on [[Mia Farrow]]. Sucker!
----
{{qf|Sara}} Wow. Wow. That made me completely forget about {{Ch|Bob Balaban}}.
{{qf|Ned}} That's what Maude used to say.
----
{{qf|Male Host}} Screen siren Sara Sloane shocked tinseltown last night with a midnight marriage to Gosford Park mega-hunk, Bob Balaban. This was followed three hours later by a quickie divorce.
{{qf|Ned}} I bet we woulda lasted twice that long.

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A Star Is Born Again/Quotes

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{{qf|[[Julius Hibbert's daughter]]}} Daddy, why is everyone so happy the [[Stinging Red Jellyfish|jellyfish]] are back?
{{qf|[[Dr. Hibbert]]}} Well, in the old days, people thought jellyfish venom had curative properties. Now we know it just makes things a whole lot worse.
{{qf|[[Julius Hibbert's youngest son]]}} Like laser eye surgery?
{{qf|Dr. Hibbert}} Exactly! ''[laughs]''
----
{{qf|[[Chief Wiggum]]}} Sarah, you're as lovely as the day I first arrested you.
{{qf|[[Sarah Wiggum]]}} Oh, Clancy.
{{qf|Chief Wiggum}} You know, I planted that crystal meth just to meet you. I was so shy.
----
{{qf|[[Ned Flanders]]}} Well, Sea Captain, looks like you and I are sailin' solo tonight.
{{qf|[[Horatio McCallister]]}} Arrr you hitting on me? 'Cause I don't do that... on land.
----
{{qf|[[Sara Sloane]]}} Are you for real?
{{qf|Ned}} I'm as real as the nose on your face.
{{qf|Sara}} Yeah... real. ''[she taps her nose and it makes a metallic sound]''
{{qf|Ned}} Well, it looks good... and it sounds pretty too.
----
{{qf|Sara}} I'm here for a while and I don't really know anyone. Would you like to have dinner tomorrow night?
{{qf|Ned}} A woman askin' a man out? Well, well why not. And maybe I'll eat my steak with a spoon.
----
{{qf|[[Homer]]}} I used to worry Marge was too good for me. She was always thinking of ways to improve me. But then part of her died and she doesn't try any more. So we're all where we want to be.
----
{{qf|[[Lenny]]}} Excuse me, Miss Sloane. May I have an autograph?
{{qf|Sara}} Sure.
{{qf|Lenny}} Oh man, this is going right on [[eBay]]. I mean, my wall. Which I will then sell on eBay.
{{qf|Sara}} ''[to Ned]'' Sad to say this isn't the worst I get.
{{qf|Lenny}} Oh, oh, can I just push this plaster cast onto one of your boobs?
{{qf|Sara}} ''[to Lenny]'' Okay, now you are the worst.
----
{{qf|[[Bart]]}} Rainier Wolfcastle!?
{{qf|Sara}} My ex-boyfriend.
{{qf|[[Rainier Wolfcastle]]}} Sara, liebchen, take me back. If tears could burst through my muscular ducts, I would cry like a baby who was just hit by hammer.
{{qf|Sara}} Rainier, you're too jealous. You beat up {{Ch|Jon Lovitz}} just because he presented me an award.
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Oh c'mon. No one misses a handshake that badly.
----
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} My libido has been terminated.
----
{{qf|Sara}} Ned, I've never met a man like you. You're sensitive, you're in great shape, you have a mustache, and yet you're not gay.
{{qf|Ned}} No way! I won't even eat vegetables over two inches long.
----
{{qf|{{Ch|James L. Brooks}}}} Ned, I'm James L. Brooks.
{{qf|Ned}} Can I call you Jim?
{{qf|James L. Brooks}} James L. Brooks is good.
----
{{qf|Ned}} Sure is nice to be shopping for a woman again. The last thing I bought for a lady was a casket.
----
{{qf|[[Apu]]}} Sir, would you ask your sweetheart to sign her autograph for me?
{{qf|Ned}} Well of course. Wait a minute. This is to adopt two of your kids.
{{qf|Apu}} Oh, so it is. I've already dumped three on [[Mia Farrow]]. Sucker!
----
{{qf|Sara}} Wow. Wow. That made me completely forget about {{Ch|Bob Balaban}}.
{{qf|Ned}} That's what Maude used to say.
----
{{qf|Male Host}} Screen siren Sara Sloane shocked tinseltown last night with a midnight marriage to Gosford Park mega-hunk, Bob Balaban. This was followed three hours later by a quickie divorce.
{{qf|Ned}} I bet we woulda lasted twice that long.
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{{qf|[[Sara Sloane]]}} Ned, I've never met a man like you, you're sensitive, you're in great shape, you have a moustache...and yet you're not gay.
----
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A Star Is Born Again/References

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== Cultural references ==
*This episode is a parody of the 1999 film ''{{W2|Notting Hill|film}}''.
*The episode title is a play on the 1937 film ''{{W2|A Star Is Born|1937 film}}''.
*The episode title is also a play on the term "born again", which means to have a personal conversion experience, as the plot is centered around [[Ned Flanders]] and the "born again" experience is a key component of his faith.
*Throughout the episode, "{{W|Suite bergamasque|Clair de lune}}" by {{W|Claude Debussy}} plays.
*When the [[Stinging Red Jellyfish]] return to the beach, "{{W2|Born Free|Matt Monro song}}" by {{W|Matt Monro}} plays.
*After [[Sara Sloane]] visits the [[Leftorium]] and makes a date with [[Ned]], he sings "[[A Girl with No Name]]", a parody of "{{w|A Horse with No Name}}" by {{W2|America|band}}.
*Sara's name is probably a pun on actress {{w|Sharon Stone}}, to whom she bears a slight resemblance.
*Homer mentions that he mixes {{W|Twinkie}}s and {{W|Ding Dong}}s all the time.
*[[Ned Flanders]] mentions [[Arthur Miller]] and {{W|Lyle Lovett}}.
*Sara Sloane mentions that the actors she normally wants to date talk about their botox, their {{W|Tae Bo}} and their [[Xbox]].
*Marge mentions that Sara Sloane has been with every Tinseltown hunk from [[Ben Affleck]] to [[Adrian Zmed]].
*Ned says that Sara's movie is starting to get like "SpongeBob NoPants", a reference to the television show ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.
*Sara Sloane mentioned that [[Katharine Hepburn]] never showed her breasts.
*''[[Honey, I Scotchguarded the Kids]]'' is a parody of ''{{w|Honey, I Shrunk the Kids}}'' and ''[[Sleeping with Pinocchio]]'' is a reference to {{W|Pinocchio}}.
*The song "{{W|Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves}}" by [[Cher]] plays next to the Cher-crow.
*When the paparazzi talk to the Cher-crow one of them asks "Is it true that your daughter is gay?", referencing the fact that Cher's daughter had a sex change.
*Sara Sloane said that [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] beat up {{Ch|Jon Lovitz}} because he presented her with an award.
*One of [[Chief Wiggum]]'s photos is of him dressed as [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].
*[[Apu]] said that he had already dumped three of his kids on [[Mia Farrow]].
*Marge's book club reads ''[[Bridget Jones's Diary]]'' by {{Ch|Helen Fielding}}, who also attends the book club.
*When Helen Fielding runs around being chased by bobbies and a man in a gorilla suit (following the book club meeting and the end of the episode), it is an homage to the UK sketch comedy ''{{w|The Benny Hill Show}}''. The music featured in the background of the sequences, "{{w|Yakety Sax}}", is the same music used in that series.
*The concert Ned and Sara attend is conducted by {{W|John Williams}}.
*Ned said that he's like {{W|Baskin-Robbins}}. You get one free taste, then you've got to buy the scoop.
*A {{w|Sydney opera house}} shaped sandcastle is shown on both the cover of "Modern Sandcastle Magazine" shown by Lisa and "Bad Boys'life" shown by Bart.

== Trivia ==
*Originally, Sara's line after Ned starts a fight with the director was "Katherine Hepburn never showed her breasts". In an airing in on August 27, 2003, it was changed to Angela Lansbury because Katherine Hepburn died months after this episode was shown. In UK airings, the original line is present.
*James L. Brooks is credited as Jim Brooks for his appearance.
*The metallic sound that Sara Sloan's nose makes is clearly due to a metal plate in it, a prosthesis that must be used by those who burn her mucous membranes by snorting cocaine frequently.

== Goofs ==
*Lenny's lip sync is off after admitting he's selling Sara's autograph on eBay.
*Homer's lipsync from his response to Ned Flanders' "milk for free" saying is also off.

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2021-05-07T17:08:29Z

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== Cultural references ==
*This episode is a parody of the 1999 film ''{{W2|Notting Hill|film}}''.
*The episode title is a play on the 1937 film ''{{W2|A Star Is Born|1937 film}}''.
*The episode title is also a play on the term "born again", which means to have a personal conversion experience, as the plot is centered around [[Ned Flanders]] and the "born again" experience is a key component of his faith.
*Throughout the episode, "{{W|Suite bergamasque|Clair de lune}}" by {{W|Claude Debussy}} plays.
*When the [[Stinging Red Jellyfish]] return to the beach, "{{W2|Born Free|Matt Monro song}}" by {{W|Matt Monro}} plays.
*After [[Sara Sloane]] visits the [[Leftorium]] and makes a date with [[Ned]], he sings "[[A Girl with No Name]]", a parody of "{{w|A Horse with No Name}}" by {{W2|America|band}}.
*Sara's name is probably a pun on actress {{w|Sharon Stone}}, to whom she bears a slight resemblance.
*Homer mentions that he mixes {{W|Twinkie}}s and {{W|Ding Dong}}s all the time.
*[[Ned Flanders]] mentions [[Arthur Miller]] and {{W|Lyle Lovett}}.
*Sara Sloane mentions that the actors she normally wants to date talk about their botox, their {{W|Tae Bo}} and their [[Xbox]].
*Marge mentions that Sara Sloane has been with every Tinseltown hunk from [[Ben Affleck]] to [[Adrian Zmed]].
*Ned says that Sara's movie is starting to get like "SpongeBob NoPants", a reference to the television show ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.
*Sara Sloane mentioned that [[Katharine Hepburn]] never showed her breasts.
*''[[Honey, I Scotchguarded the Kids]]'' is a parody of ''{{w|Honey, I Shrunk the Kids}}'' and ''[[Sleeping with Pinocchio]]'' is a reference to {{W|Pinocchio}}.
*The song "{{W|Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves}}" by [[Cher]] plays next to the Cher-crow.
*When the paparazzi talk to the Cher-crow one of them asks "Is it true that your daughter is gay?", referencing the fact that Cher's daughter had a sex change.
*Sara Sloane said that [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] beat up {{Ch|Jon Lovitz}} because he presented her with an award.
*One of [[Chief Wiggum]]'s photos is of him dressed as [[Eleanor Roosevelt]].
*[[Apu]] said that he had already dumped three of his kids on [[Mia Farrow]].
*Marge's book club reads ''[[Bridget Jones's Diary]]'' by {{Ch|Helen Fielding}}, who also attends the book club.
*When Helen Fielding runs around being chased by bobbies and a man in a gorilla suit (following the book club meeting and the end of the episode), it is an homage to the UK sketch comedy ''{{w|The Benny Hill Show}}''. The music featured in the background of the sequences, "{{w|Yakety Sax}}", is the same music used in that series.
*The concert Ned and Sara attend is conducted by {{W|John Williams}}.
*Ned said that he's like {{W|Baskin-Robbins}}. You get one free taste, then you've got to buy the scoop.
*A {{w|Sydney opera house}} shaped sandcastle is shown on both the cover of "Modern Sandcastle Magazine" shown by Lisa and "Bad Boys'life" shown by Bart.

== Trivia ==
*Originally, Sara's line after Ned starts a fight with the director was "Katherine Hepburn never showed her breasts". In an airing in on August 27, 2003, it was changed to Angela Lansbury because Katherine Hepburn died months after this episode was shown. In UK airings, the original line is present.
*James L. Brooks is credited as Jim Brooks for his appearance.

== Goofs ==
*Lenny's lip sync is off after admitting he's selling Sara's autograph on eBay.
*Homer's lipsync from his response to Ned Flanders' "milk for free" saying is also off.

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== Cultural references ==
=== Seven Sister Colleges parody ===
*This episode is often noted for its famous parody of the Seven Sister Colleges (as they were prior to the 1970s; Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe college merged with Harvard) who appear to Lisa Simpson in a dream:<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/12812.shtml Seven Sisters, Mount Holyoke College]</ref>
:'''Barnard College:''' ''(wearing glasses)'': We are the Seven Sisters. And you can attend any one of us! Like Barnard, Columbia's "girl next door."
:'''Radcliffe College:''' Come to Radcliffe and meet Harvard men.
:'''Wellesley College:''' Or come to Wellesley and marry them.
:'''Mount Holyoke College:''' ''(slurring, champagne glass in hand)'' No. Party with me! ''(Falls face first.)''
:'''Vassar College:''' Or nonconform with me! ''(Raises arms, reveals hairy armpits.)''
:'''Smith College:''' ''(muscular, carries lacrosse stick, husky voice)'' Play lacrosse with me!
:'''Bryn Mawr College:''' Or explore with me! ''(She and Smith kiss with passion.)''

=== General ===
*While opening the school, Principal Skinner sings a parody of ''{{W2|School's Out|song}}'' by Alice Cooper.
*The song played during the ''Spelling Bee Olympics'' is "{{W|I Put a Spell on You}}" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
*Another song played during {{W|Olympic Games|the Olympics}} was "Get Ready to Rumble" (original: "2 unlimited - Get ready for this"). This song was also played in the episode "[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]".
*The lawsuit against the ''Spellympics'' by the Olympics (for using -lympics) is a parody of the law made by Congress which says that the Olympic Committee can sue anyone who uses "Olympics" or makes an arrangement of the five rings.
*This episode contains some ''{{W|Grateful Dead}}'' references. "Ribheads" are touring the country in devotion to the Ribwich (as opposed to Deadheads) and end up in San Francisco. At the end of the episode, Krusty says, "What a long strange product rollout it's been".
*[[Booberella]], the vampiric hostess appearing at the beginning of the episode, is a parody of television personalities {{W|Maila Nurmi|Vampira}} and/or {{W|Elvira, Mistress of the Dark|Elvira}}.
*The title of the episode is a reference to the 1981 book ''{{W|I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can}}'', by Barbara Gordon. The book describes Gordon's addiction to prescription medication and her rehabilitation. This episode depicts Lisa's addiction to fame and longing for acceptance.
*The stairs Lisa runs up are similar to the ''{{W|Rocky}}'' Steps.
*The framed number 0 jersey in George Plimpton's office is in the style of the {{W|Detroit Lions}}, the team Plimpton practiced with in his book ''{{W|Paper Lion}}''.
*The RibWich TV jingle is very similar to {{W|Bob Seger}}'s "{{W|Like a Rock}}" which was played in the '90s for {{W|Chevrolet}} trucks.
*The shirt that [[Martin]] wears when he meets [[Bart]] and [[Nelson]] shows a picture of him and [[Nelson]] in [[Star Trek]] costumes. The exchange of words of the scene suggests that during the summer [[Martin]] and [[Nelson]] played [[Star Trek]] also using the flight simulator ... and [[Martin]] was the commander and [[Nelson]] the cadet ..
*When [[Homer]] wants to justify to [[Lisa]] for his desire to go to the last Ribwich day in San Francisco he tells her "''It's about brotherhood..It's about freedom''" phrases that are a quote from {{w|Martin Luther King Jr.}}'s "''{{w|I have a dream}}''" speech.
*The olympics skin scene kicks off with the song {{w|Get Ready for This}} by the {{w|2 unlimited}}.

== Trivia ==
*An alternate version of the first scene is used in 17th season episode "[[The Monkey Suit]]".
*The [[Ribwich]] is an obvious parody of the [[McDonald's]] {{W|McRib}} sandwich, which is also noted for its intermittent availability and the less than obvious origin of its meat.
*Portions of this episode were a parody of a Darren Aronofsky film called ''{{W|Requiem for a Dream}}''. The use of a 'hip-hop montage' around a central theme, in the film and this episode, addiction (the Ribwich); also the visuals when Homer eats the Ribwich (dialating pupils, blood pulsing through veins, etc.).
*George Plimpton later appears on the movie in "[[Bart Gets a "Z"]]".
*In order to compose the {{W|ESPN}} acronym (TV broadcaster uses [[Fox]]'s competitor at the time of the episode's release) Homer misspells the word Knowledge.
*In Lisa's dream, the girl who represents {{w|Bryn Mawr College}} proposes to "''..or explore with me''" by kissing the girl representative of {{w|Smith College}}, giving an evident sexual connotation to her proposal.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Cultural references]]
[[Category:Trivia]]

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2021-03-28T08:27:37Z

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{{TabR}}

== Cultural references ==
=== Seven Sister Colleges parody ===
*This episode is often noted for its famous parody of the Seven Sister Colleges (as they were prior to the 1970s; Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe college merged with Harvard) who appear to Lisa Simpson in a dream:<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/12812.shtml Seven Sisters, Mount Holyoke College]</ref>
:'''Barnard College:''' ''(wearing glasses)'': We are the Seven Sisters. And you can attend any one of us! Like Barnard, Columbia's "girl next door."
:'''Radcliffe College:''' Come to Radcliffe and meet Harvard men.
:'''Wellesley College:''' Or come to Wellesley and marry them.
:'''Mount Holyoke College:''' ''(slurring, champagne glass in hand)'' No. Party with me! ''(Falls face first.)''
:'''Vassar College:''' Or nonconform with me! ''(Raises arms, reveals hairy armpits.)''
:'''Smith College:''' ''(muscular, carries lacrosse stick, husky voice)'' Play lacrosse with me!
:'''Bryn Mawr College:''' Or explore with me! ''(She and Smith kiss with passion.)''

=== General ===
*While opening the school, Principal Skinner sings a parody of ''{{W2|School's Out|song}}'' by Alice Cooper.
*The song played during the ''Spelling Bee Olympics'' is "{{W|I Put a Spell on You}}" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
*Another song played during {{W|Olympic Games|the Olympics}} was "Get Ready to Rumble" (original: "2 unlimited - Get ready for this"). This song was also played in the episode "[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]".
*The lawsuit against the ''Spellympics'' by the Olympics (for using -lympics) is a parody of the law made by Congress which says that the Olympic Committee can sue anyone who uses "Olympics" or makes an arrangement of the five rings.
*This episode contains some ''{{W|Grateful Dead}}'' references. "Ribheads" are touring the country in devotion to the Ribwich (as opposed to Deadheads) and end up in San Francisco. At the end of the episode, Krusty says, "What a long strange product rollout it's been".
*[[Booberella]], the vampiric hostess appearing at the beginning of the episode, is a parody of television personalities {{W|Maila Nurmi|Vampira}} and/or {{W|Elvira, Mistress of the Dark|Elvira}}.
*The title of the episode is a reference to the 1981 book ''{{W|I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can}}'', by Barbara Gordon. The book describes Gordon's addiction to prescription medication and her rehabilitation. This episode depicts Lisa's addiction to fame and longing for acceptance.
*The stairs Lisa runs up are similar to the ''{{W|Rocky}}'' Steps.
*The framed number 0 jersey in George Plimpton's office is in the style of the {{W|Detroit Lions}}, the team Plimpton practiced with in his book ''{{W|Paper Lion}}''.
*The RibWich TV jingle is very similar to {{W|Bob Seger}}'s "{{W|Like a Rock}}" which was played in the '90s for {{W|Chevrolet}} trucks.
*The shirt that [[Martin]] wears when he meets [[Bart]] and [[Nelson]] shows a picture of him and [[Nelson]] in [[Star Trek]] costumes. The exchange of words of the scene suggests that during the summer [[Martin]] and [[Nelson]] played [[Star Trek]] also using the flight simulator ... and [[Martin]] was the commander and [[Nelson]] the cadet ..
*When [[Homer]] justifies [[Lisa]]'s desire to go to __ and says "''It's about brotherhood..It's about freedom''" is a quote from {{w|Martin Luther King Jr.}}'s "''{{w|I have a dream}}''" speech.
*The olympics skin scene kicks off with the song {{w|Get Ready for This}} by the {{w|2 unlimited}}.

== Trivia ==
*An alternate version of the first scene is used in 17th season episode "[[The Monkey Suit]]".
*The [[Ribwich]] is an obvious parody of the [[McDonald's]] {{W|McRib}} sandwich, which is also noted for its intermittent availability and the less than obvious origin of its meat.
*Portions of this episode were a parody of a Darren Aronofsky film called ''{{W|Requiem for a Dream}}''. The use of a 'hip-hop montage' around a central theme, in the film and this episode, addiction (the Ribwich); also the visuals when Homer eats the Ribwich (dialating pupils, blood pulsing through veins, etc.).
*George Plimpton later appears on the movie in "[[Bart Gets a "Z"]]".
*In order to compose the {{W|ESPN}} acronym (TV broadcaster uses [[Fox]]'s competitor at the time of the episode's release) Homer misspells the word Knowledge.
*In Lisa's dream, the girl who represents {{w|Bryn Mawr College}} proposes to "''..or explore with me''" by kissing the girl representative of {{w|Smith College}}, giving an evident sexual connotation to her proposal.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Season 14|R}}
[[Category:Cultural references]]
[[Category:Trivia]]

I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can/References

2021-03-28T08:18:36Z

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{{TabR}}

== Cultural references ==
=== Seven Sister Colleges parody ===
*This episode is often noted for its famous parody of the Seven Sister Colleges (as they were prior to the 1970s; Vassar College is now coeducational and Radcliffe college merged with Harvard) who appear to Lisa Simpson in a dream:<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/12812.shtml Seven Sisters, Mount Holyoke College]</ref>
:'''Barnard College:''' ''(wearing glasses)'': We are the Seven Sisters. And you can attend any one of us! Like Barnard, Columbia's "girl next door."
:'''Radcliffe College:''' Come to Radcliffe and meet Harvard men.
:'''Wellesley College:''' Or come to Wellesley and marry them.
:'''Mount Holyoke College:''' ''(slurring, champagne glass in hand)'' No. Party with me! ''(Falls face first.)''
:'''Vassar College:''' Or nonconform with me! ''(Raises arms, reveals hairy armpits.)''
:'''Smith College:''' ''(muscular, carries lacrosse stick, husky voice)'' Play lacrosse with me!
:'''Bryn Mawr College:''' Or explore with me! ''(She and Smith kiss with passion.)''

=== General ===
*While opening the school, Principal Skinner sings a parody of ''{{W2|School's Out|song}}'' by Alice Cooper.
*The song played during the ''Spelling Bee Olympics'' is "{{W|I Put a Spell on You}}" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
*Another song played during {{W|Olympic Games|the Olympics}} was "Get Ready to Rumble" (original: "2 unlimited - Get ready for this"). This song was also played in the episode "[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]".
*The lawsuit against the ''Spellympics'' by the Olympics (for using -lympics) is a parody of the law made by Congress which says that the Olympic Committee can sue anyone who uses "Olympics" or makes an arrangement of the five rings.
*This episode contains some ''{{W|Grateful Dead}}'' references. "Ribheads" are touring the country in devotion to the Ribwich (as opposed to Deadheads) and end up in San Francisco. At the end of the episode, Krusty says, "What a long strange product rollout it's been".
*[[Booberella]], the vampiric hostess appearing at the beginning of the episode, is a parody of television personalities {{W|Maila Nurmi|Vampira}} and/or {{W|Elvira, Mistress of the Dark|Elvira}}.
*The title of the episode is a reference to the 1981 book ''{{W|I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can}}'', by Barbara Gordon. The book describes Gordon's addiction to prescription medication and her rehabilitation. This episode depicts Lisa's addiction to fame and longing for acceptance.
*The stairs Lisa runs up are similar to the ''{{W|Rocky}}'' Steps.
*The framed number 0 jersey in George Plimpton's office is in the style of the {{W|Detroit Lions}}, the team Plimpton practiced with in his book ''{{W|Paper Lion}}''.
*The RibWich TV jingle is very similar to {{W|Bob Seger}}'s "{{W|Like a Rock}}" which was played in the '90s for {{W|Chevrolet}} trucks.

== Trivia ==
*An alternate version of the first scene is used in 17th season episode "[[The Monkey Suit]]".
*The [[Ribwich]] is an obvious parody of the [[McDonald's]] {{W|McRib}} sandwich, which is also noted for its intermittent availability and the less than obvious origin of its meat.
*Portions of this episode were a parody of a Darren Aronofsky film called ''{{W|Requiem for a Dream}}''. The use of a 'hip-hop montage' around a central theme, in the film and this episode, addiction (the Ribwich); also the visuals when Homer eats the Ribwich (dialating pupils, blood pulsing through veins, etc.).
*George Plimpton later appears on the movie in "[[Bart Gets a "Z"]]".
*In order to compose the {{W|ESPN}} acronym (TV broadcaster uses [[Fox]]'s competitor at the time of the episode's release) Homer misspells the word Knowledge.
*In Lisa's dream, the girl who represents {{w|Bryn Mawr College}} proposes to "''..or explore with me''" by kissing the girl representative of {{w|Smith College}}, giving an evident sexual connotation to her proposal.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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2021-03-28T08:02:48Z

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{{qf|[[Skinner]]}} And here's your prize for today, a scale model of the planet [[Mars]].
:''[He hands her a red sphere.]''
{{qf|[[Lisa]]}} This is just a kickball with "Mars" written on it.
{{qf|Skinner}} Behold... the Red Planet!
{{qf|Students}} Yaaay!
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{{qf|[[Martin]]}} At ease, Cadet [[Nelson]]....
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{{qf|[[George Plimpton]]}} Today's students would rather watch [[Ozzy Osbourne]]."Look at me, I'm a drug addict. Ho, ho, ho."
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{{qf|[[George Plimpton]]}} ...and a hot plate!!.

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Barting Over/References

2021-03-25T17:19:02Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The theme music from ''{{w|The Mary Tyler Moore Show}}'' plays as [[Bart]] moves into his apartment. After the music finishes, Bart tosses his cap into the air, similar to {{w|Mary Richards}} tossing her hat into the air during ''MTM''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s opening sequence, except that Bart's cap is destroyed by a ceiling fan.
*The scene in which [[Homer]] is sitting at his computer with a large glass of whiskey, watching Bart on the live feed from Tony Hawk's webcam, and says "Of all the sites, on all the web, I had to click onto his..." is a reference to a classic scene in the film ''[[Casablanca]]'', in which [[Humphrey Bogart]]'s character, Rick, sits at a table in his bar, drinking a large glass of whiskey, and says "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine...". The music that starts playing at the end of Homer's line is "{{W2|As Time Goes By|song}}", which is played several times in ''Casablanca'', including during the aforementioned scene.
*The "leave the parents" trial may be based on the movie {{W2|North|1994 film}}.
*The "{{w|Furby}}s" that Marge tells to Homer to get rid of it are actually produced puppets and their "turned feral" is reminiscent of the {{w|Gremlins}} movie.
*The devil appearing while Lisa is reading a book is a reference to the {{w|Faust}}.
*What Bart does at the table with his plate and food is a double movie quote "
**Bart doing Homer's head refers to {{w|Close Encounters of the Third Kind}} when {{w|Richard Dreyfuss}} does the {{w|Devil's Tower}} (also seen a painting with the {{w|Devil's Tower}} above [[Grampa Simpson]]'s bed at the resting castle).
**Bart stabbing the plate is a reference to the stabbing in the shower in {{w|Hitchcock}}'s film {{w|Psyco}} (which also plays music).
*The term "{{w|loft}}", the place that Bart has rented as a place to live, refers to an abandoned industrial open space whose urban restructuring activity has become very fashionable in large cities since the 1980s.
*The advertisement "Absolut Krusty" that you see on the wall of the building where Bart lives is a reference to the wodka brand "{{w|Absolut Vodka}}" and its campaign of artistic collaborations and creative promotions linked to the brand started over the years 80.
*The skate encounter between [[Tony Hawk]] and Homer and a quote from the sword fighting scenes from the movie {{w2|Hero|2002 film}} with background music played with {{w|Zhangu}} chinese drums that often accompanies these scenes.

== Trivia ==
*This episode was advertised to be the 300th episode of ''The Simpsons'', but was the 302nd episode to air.
**This fact is referenced by Marge during the scene at the skate park. When Marge comments about not being able to count many crazy things Homer has done, Lisa claims that it's 300. Marge then remarks that she could have sworn it was 302, only for Lisa to nervously shush her.
*When Bart watches the video of the Baby Stinkbreath commercial, he states to Lisa that he didn't remember being in a commercial. Then he pulls out a Butterfinger and eats it. This is a reference to the old {{W|Butterfinger}} adverts ''[[The Simpsons]]'' used to be in.
*The tree that Bart and Milhouse sit under appears to be the [[Lemon Tree]] from "[[Lemon of Troy]]"; however, it is missing the lemons (implying the tree is not in season).
*The meaning of the writing that Bart makes on his arm with the marker ''(Mr. Awesome)'' is "a guy or girl that is basically succeeding at everything that a person is supposed to be, according to social expectations" and is congruent with what's happening to Bart. <ref>https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mr.%20Awesome</ref>
*The name of [[Cletus]] and [[Brandine]]'s daughter (exchanged for Homer's sugar packet) "Condoleezza Marie" is a reference to [[Condoleezza Rice]] (Former US Secretary of State) whose name is unique in the world because she was a Italian word badly registered by the clerk of the registry when she was born.

== Goofs ==
*Bart is clearly living on the top floor of the loft building (as indicated by the pan-in from the Absolut Krusty mural painted on the building's exterior), but when he panics and takes the elevator to escape the rat in his room, the elevator takes him up - numerous flights - and opens at Tony Hawk's pad.

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2021-03-25T15:41:08Z

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2021-03-25T15:27:57Z

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{{qf|[[Marge]]}} Bart, you're suing us?
{{qf|[[Bart]]}} Yes, I want to be emancipated.
{{qf|[[Homer]]}} Emancipated? Don't you like being a dude?!
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{{qf|[[Homer]]}} (to Bart) ...You're mine until you're 18.

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2021-03-22T18:05:09Z

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== Characters ==
<gallery>
File:Johnny Bench.png|[[Johnny Bench]] (picture)
File:No image.png|[[Best Way Linen Supply]]
File:Blue-haired lawyer.png|[[Blue-haired lawyer]]
File:Kent Brockman.png|[[Kent Brockman]]
File:Gautama Buddha.png|[[Gautama Buddha]]
File:Carl Carlson.png|[[Carl Carlson]]
File:Comic Book Guy.png|[[Comic Book Guy]]
File:Ned Flanders.png|[[Ned Flanders]]
File:Rod Flanders.png|[[Rod Flanders]]
File:Todd Flanders.png|[[Todd Flanders]]
File:Jonathan Frink.png|[[Jonathon Frink]]
File:Alice Glick.png|[[Alice Glick]]
File:God.png|[[God]]
File:Barney Gumble.png|[[Barney Gumble]]
File:Gil Gunderson.png|[[Gil Gunderson]]
File:Herman Hermann.png|[[Herman Hermann]]
File:Julius Hibbert.png|[[Julius Hibbert]]
File:Jimbo Jones.png|[[Jimbo Jones]]
File:Edna Krabappel.png|[[Edna Krabappel]]
File:Krusty the Clown.png|[[Krusty the Clown]]
File:Larry H. Lawyer, Jr..png|[[Larry H. Lawyer, Jr.]]
File:Larry.png|[[Larry]]
File:Lenny Leonard.png|[[Lenny Leonard]]
File:Lisa Leslie.png|{{Ch|Lisa Leslie}}
File:Lou.png|[[Lou]]
File:Louie.png|[[Louie]]
File:Helen Lovejoy.png|[[Helen Lovejoy]]
File:Timothy Lovejoy, Jr..png|[[Timothy Lovejoy, Jr.]]
File:Mayo Clinic doctor.png|[[Mayo Clinic doctor]]
File:Horatio McCallister.png|[[Horatio McCallister]]
File:Hans Moleman.png|[[Hans Moleman]]
File:Nelson Muntz.png|[[Nelson Muntz]]
File:Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.png|[[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]]
File:Fung Pang-Li.png|[[Fung Pang-Li]]
File:Ruth Powers.png|[[Ruth Powers]]
File:Mrs. Prince.png|[[Martha Prince]]
File:Martin Prince, Sr..png|[[Martin Prince, Sr.]]
File:Arnie Pye.png|[[Arnie Pye]]
File:Joe Quimby.png|[[Joe Quimby]]
File:Wise Guy.png|[[Raphael]]
File:The Rich Texan.png|[[The Rich Texan]]
File:Nick Riviera.png|[[Nick Riviera]]
File:Sam.png|[[Sam]]
File:Colonel Sanders.png|[[Colonel Sanders]]
File:Santa's Little Helper.png|[[Santa's Little Helper]]
File:Abraham Simpson.png|[[Abraham Simpson]]
File:Bart Simpson.png|[[Bart Simpson]]
File:Homer Simpson.png|[[Homer Simpson]]
File:Lisa Simpson.png|[[Lisa Simpson]]
File:Maggie Simpson.png|[[Maggie Simpson]]
File:Marge Simpson.png|[[Marge Simpson]]
File:Seymour Skinner.png|[[Seymour Skinner]]
File:Snake Jailbird.png|[[Snake Jailbird]]
File:Roy Snyder.png|[[Roy Snyder]]
File:Cletus Spuckler.png|[[Cletus Spuckler]]
File:Dolph Starbeam.png|[[Dolph Starbeam]]
File:Squeaky-voiced teen.png|[[Squeaky-voiced teen]]
File:Disco Stu.png|[[Disco Stu]]
File:Swish.png|[[Swish]]
File:Moe Szyslak.png|[[Moe Szyslak]]
File:Sideshow Mel.png|[[Sideshow Mel]]
File:Kirk Van Houten.png|[[Kirk Van Houten]]
File:Milhouse Van Houten.png|[[Milhouse Van Houten]]
File:Clancy Wiggum.png|[[Clancy Wiggum]]
File:Groundskeeper Willie.png|[[Groundskeeper Willie]]
File:Rainier Wolfcastle.png|[[Rainier Wolfcastle]]
File:Yale man and Yale woman.png|[[Yale man]]
File:Kearney Zzyzwicz.png|[[Kearney Zzyzwicz]]
</gallery>

== Locations ==
<gallery>
File:742 Evergreen Terrace.png|[[742 Evergreen Terrace]]
File:Barney's Bowlarama.png|[[Barney's Bowlarama]]
File:First Church of Springfield.png|[[First Church of Springfield]]
File:Springfield Square Garden.png|[[Springfield Square Garden]]
</gallery>

== Media ==
<gallery>
File:MonkeyOlympics.png|[[Monkey Olympics]]
File:First Church of Springfield Bulletin.png|[[First Church of Springfield Bulletin]]
</gallery>

== Miscellaneous ==
<gallery>
File:Johnny Bench.png|[[Johnny Bench's Pre-Cooked Bacon]]
File:Washington Delaware.jpg|{{w2|Washington Crossing the Delaware|1851 painting}}
File:Wienermobile.png|{{w|Wienermobile}}
</gallery>

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2021-03-22T17:58:45Z

Alessandra: Seen in episode "Pray Anything" number 301-Season number S14 E10-Production code:EABF06

== Summary ==
Seen in episode "Pray Anything" number 301-Season number S14 E10-Production code:EABF06
== Licensing ==
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Pray Anything/Quotes

2021-03-22T17:46:08Z

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{{qf|[[Barney]]}} If it weren't for {{w|Alcoholics Anonymous}}, I'd still be sucking the juice out of glow sticks.
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{{qf|[[Marge]]}} Homer, this housewarming party has been going on for a few days, please sent these people home.
{{qf|[[Moe]]}} You can't kick us out, I just made a Cornish Game Hen with chestnut stuffing.
:''[Marge and [[Homer]] stare at him not believing what he says.]''
{{qf|Moe}} Would you believe a pigeon stuffed with spam?
:''[Marge and Homer still don't believe him.]''
{{qf|Moe}} Would you believe a rat filled of cough drops?
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{{qf|[[Flanders]]}} (speaking of Homer) It's his skull. It's hypnotic.
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{{qf|[[Mrs. Lovejoy]]}} Oh, it's not so bad.We'll be staying with the Flanders'.
{{qf|[[Ned Flanders]]}} ...And, Rev, you'll be bunking with me.
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{{qf|[[Marge]]}} Homer, aren't you afraid you might be...? I don't know, incurring God's wrath?
{{qf|[[Homer]]}} Eh. God's cool.
{{qf|[[Marge]]}} See, I don't know that he is.In the Bible, he's always smiting and turning people into salt.
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{{qf|[[God]]}} Keep that popcorn chicken coming, colonel.

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Pray Anything/References

2021-03-22T17:33:09Z

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== Goofs ==
*While at the WNBA game when choosing the contestant for the shot, Homer stands up and no one is in the seat to his left. Then when Flanders makes the shot, there is someone sitting next to him.
*Before Homer prayed for the remote to be found, it is not under the couch until after he prays.
*When [[Moe]] comes in wearing a fake mustache at the community outreach center, it was brown, but when everyone leaves out of the center, his mustache turns gray.
*The seat Homer was sitting in would be the same as Flanders seat, as it is the same arena. Regardless of the teams playing.

== Cultural References ==
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] is mentioned in [[Bart]]'s blackboard gag.
*The postcard of God that Homer looks at and that changes position in relation to how he looks, is equal to God painted by {{w|Michelangelo Buonarroti}} in the {{W|Sistine Chapel}} in Rome.
*The figure on the drywall of the Simpson house destroyed by the plumber is a reference to the paint ''{{w2|Washington Crossing the Delaware|1851 painting}}'' by {{w|Emanuel Leutze}}.
*The title of [[Rev. Lovejoy]]'s sermon in church "''God: the original {{w|Toni Soprano}}"'' is clearly a reference to the TV series ''{{w|The Sopranos}}''.
*The Country Cort House of Spriengfield, with its neoclassical buildings and lion statues is a reference to {{w|Trafalgar Square}} in London.
*While Homer in his underwear in his church, drinks beer from the goblet, listens and sings ''{{w|I Was Made for Lovin' You}}'' by the [[Kiss]].
*The biblical commandment not yet violated that [[Ned Flanders]] says he has not yet been to Homer's church party, turns out to be eating chili fries, so it means that the other 9 commandments had already been violated (so for example also V: do not kill, VI: Do not commit impure acts, VII: do not steal).
*[[Flanders]] is happy when his children start speaking many tongues and squirming, even if these are classic symptoms of demonic possession.
*When [[Marge]] says that God.. ''"..in the bible..turning people into salt"'' she quotes the bible Gen 19.26 an episode from the narration of {{w|Sodom and Gomorrah}}

== Trivia ==
*The jury in this episode has many of the same people as the jury in the fake trial in "[[The Great Money Caper]]", namely [[Cletus]], [[Louie]], the [[Yale man]] and the [[Mayo Clinic doctor]].
*[[Sideshow Mel]] is one of the alcohol anonymous at the churches alcohol anonymous program with Barney. Mel's alcohol problems were first eluded to in "[[I Love Lisa]]" (in a clip of Mel drunk at the Krusty's upcoming 29th Anniversary Special).
*The scene of WNBA basketball player of Chinese nationality [[Fung Pang-Li]] (non-existent character) appears to be an irony on {{w|Yao Ming}}, also very tall and the first Chinese to play in the NBA (just in the release period of the episode), in fact the uniform of his basketball team is the same as that used by the {{w|Houston Rockets}}, {{w|Yao Ming}}'s team.
*The {{w|Wienermobile}} used in the episode really existed.
*The reaction of the skater monkey to the score received is an irony on {{w|2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal}}. Also [[Carl]] later points out the scoring scandal.
*The scene of [[Dr. Hibbert]] playing the claw machine at the boowling is a replica of a moment of episode s7 e12 "[[Team Homer]]" starring [[Otto Mann]].

== Notes ==
*[[Maggie Roswell]] returns to the show permanently starting with this episode.

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Pray Anything/References

2021-03-21T14:28:23Z

Alessandra: /* Cultural References */

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== Goofs ==
*While at the WNBA game when choosing the contestant for the shot, Homer stands up and no one is in the seat to his left. Then when Flanders makes the shot, there is someone sitting next to him.
*Before Homer prayed for the remote to be found, it is not under the couch until after he prays.
*When [[Moe]] comes in wearing a fake mustache at the community outreach center, it was brown, but when everyone leaves out of the center, his mustache turns gray.
*The seat Homer was sitting in would be the same as Flanders seat, as it is the same arena. Regardless of the teams playing.

== Cultural References ==
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] is mentioned in [[Bart]]'s blackboard gag.
*The postcard of God that Homer looks at and that changes position in relation to how he looks, is equal to God painted by {{w|Michelangelo Buonarroti}} in the {{W|Sistine Chapel}} in Rome.
*The figure on the drywall of the Simpson house destroyed by the plumber is a reference to the paint ''{{w2|Washington Crossing the Delaware|1851 painting}}'' by {{w|Emanuel Leutze}}.
*The title of [[Rev. Lovejoy]]'s sermon in church "''God: the original {{w|Toni Soprano}}"'' is clearly a reference to the TV series ''{{w|The Sopranos}}''.
*The Country Cort House of Spriengfield, with its neoclassical buildings and lion statues is a reference to {{w|Trafalgar Square}} in London.
*While Homer in his underwear in his church, drinks beer from the goblet, listens and sings ''{{w|I Was Made for Lovin' You}}'' by the [[Kiss]].
*The biblical commandment not yet violated that [[Ned Flanders]] says he has not yet been to Homer's church party, turns out to be eating chili fries, so it means that the other 9 commandments had already been violated (so for example also V: do not kill, VI: Do not commit impure acts, VII: do not steal).

== Trivia ==
*The jury in this episode has many of the same people as the jury in the fake trial in "[[The Great Money Caper]]", namely [[Cletus]], [[Louie]], the [[Yale man]] and the [[Mayo Clinic doctor]].
*[[Sideshow Mel]] is one of the alcohol anonymous at the churches alcohol anonymous program with Barney. Mel's alcohol problems were first eluded to in "[[I Love Lisa]]" (in a clip of Mel drunk at the Krusty's upcoming 29th Anniversary Special).
*The scene of WNBA basketball player of Chinese nationality [[Fung Pang-Li]] (non-existent character) appears to be an irony on {{w|Yao Ming}}, also very tall and the first Chinese to play in the NBA (just in the release period of the episode), in fact the uniform of his basketball team is the same as that used by the {{w|Houston Rockets}}, {{w|Yao Ming}}'s team.
*The {{w|Wienermobile}} used in the episode really existed.
*The reaction of the skater monkey to the score received is an irony on {{w|2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal}}. Also [[Carl]] later points out the scoring scandal.
*The scene of [[Dr. Hibbert]] playing the claw machine at the boowling is a replica of a moment of episode s7 e12 "[[Team Homer]]" starring [[Otto Mann]].

== Notes ==
*[[Maggie Roswell]] returns to the show permanently starting with this episode.

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[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:Goofs]]

Pray Anything/References

2021-03-21T14:26:08Z

Alessandra: /* Trivia */

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{{EpisodePrevNextRef|The Strong Arms of the Ma|Barting Over}}

== Goofs ==
*While at the WNBA game when choosing the contestant for the shot, Homer stands up and no one is in the seat to his left. Then when Flanders makes the shot, there is someone sitting next to him.
*Before Homer prayed for the remote to be found, it is not under the couch until after he prays.
*When [[Moe]] comes in wearing a fake mustache at the community outreach center, it was brown, but when everyone leaves out of the center, his mustache turns gray.
*The seat Homer was sitting in would be the same as Flanders seat, as it is the same arena. Regardless of the teams playing.

== Cultural References ==
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] is mentioned in [[Bart]]'s blackboard gag.
*The postcard of God that Homer looks at and that changes position in relation to how he looks, is equal to God painted by {{w|Michelangelo Buonarroti}} in the {{W|Sistine Chapel}} in Rome.
*The figure on the drywall of the Simpson house destroyed by the plumber is a reference to the paint ''{{w2|Washington Crossing the Delaware|1851 painting}}'' by {{w|Emanuel Leutze}}.
*The title of [[Lovejoy]]'s sermon in church "God>: the original {{w|Toni Soprano}} is clearly a reference to the TV series ''{{w|The Sopranos}}''.
*The Country Cort House of Spriengfield, with its neoclassical buildings and lion statues is a reference to {{w|Trafalgar Square}} in London.
*While Homer in his underwear in his church, drinks beer from the goblet, listens and sings ''{{w|I Was Made for Lovin' You}}'' by the [[Kiss]].
*The biblical commandment not yet violated that [[Ned Flanders]] says he has not yet been to Homer's church party, turns out to be eating chili fries, so it means that the other 9 commandments had already been violated (so for example also V: do not kill, VI: Do not commit impure acts, VII: do not steal).

== Trivia ==
*The jury in this episode has many of the same people as the jury in the fake trial in "[[The Great Money Caper]]", namely [[Cletus]], [[Louie]], the [[Yale man]] and the [[Mayo Clinic doctor]].
*[[Sideshow Mel]] is one of the alcohol anonymous at the churches alcohol anonymous program with Barney. Mel's alcohol problems were first eluded to in "[[I Love Lisa]]" (in a clip of Mel drunk at the Krusty's upcoming 29th Anniversary Special).
*The scene of WNBA basketball player of Chinese nationality [[Fung Pang-Li]] (non-existent character) appears to be an irony on {{w|Yao Ming}}, also very tall and the first Chinese to play in the NBA (just in the release period of the episode), in fact the uniform of his basketball team is the same as that used by the {{w|Houston Rockets}}, {{w|Yao Ming}}'s team.
*The {{w|Wienermobile}} used in the episode really existed.
*The reaction of the skater monkey to the score received is an irony on {{w|2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal}}. Also [[Carl]] later points out the scoring scandal.
*The scene of [[Dr. Hibbert]] playing the claw machine at the boowling is a replica of a moment of episode s7 e12 "[[Team Homer]]" starring [[Otto Mann]].

== Notes ==
*[[Maggie Roswell]] returns to the show permanently starting with this episode.

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[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:Goofs]]

Pray Anything/References

2021-03-21T14:23:02Z

Alessandra: /* Trivia */

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{{EpisodePrevNextRef|The Strong Arms of the Ma|Barting Over}}

== Goofs ==
*While at the WNBA game when choosing the contestant for the shot, Homer stands up and no one is in the seat to his left. Then when Flanders makes the shot, there is someone sitting next to him.
*Before Homer prayed for the remote to be found, it is not under the couch until after he prays.
*When [[Moe]] comes in wearing a fake mustache at the community outreach center, it was brown, but when everyone leaves out of the center, his mustache turns gray.
*The seat Homer was sitting in would be the same as Flanders seat, as it is the same arena. Regardless of the teams playing.

== Cultural References ==
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] is mentioned in [[Bart]]'s blackboard gag.
*The postcard of God that Homer looks at and that changes position in relation to how he looks, is equal to God painted by {{w|Michelangelo Buonarroti}} in the {{W|Sistine Chapel}} in Rome.
*The figure on the drywall of the Simpson house destroyed by the plumber is a reference to the paint ''{{w2|Washington Crossing the Delaware|1851 painting}}'' by {{w|Emanuel Leutze}}.
*The title of [[Lovejoy]]'s sermon in church "God>: the original {{w|Toni Soprano}} is clearly a reference to the TV series ''{{w|The Sopranos}}''.
*The Country Cort House of Spriengfield, with its neoclassical buildings and lion statues is a reference to {{w|Trafalgar Square}} in London.
*While Homer in his underwear in his church, drinks beer from the goblet, listens and sings ''{{w|I Was Made for Lovin' You}}'' by the [[Kiss]].
*The biblical commandment not yet violated that [[Ned Flanders]] says he has not yet been to Homer's church party, turns out to be eating chili fries, so it means that the other 9 commandments had already been violated (so for example also V: do not kill, VI: Do not commit impure acts, VII: do not steal).

== Trivia ==
*The jury in this episode has many of the same people as the jury in the fake trial in "[[The Great Money Caper]]", namely [[Cletus]], [[Louie]], the [[Yale man]] and the [[Mayo Clinic doctor]].
*[[Sideshow Mel]] is one of the alcohol anonymous at the churches alcohol anonymous program with Barney. Mel's alcohol problems were first eluded to in "[[I Love Lisa]]" (in a clip of Mel drunk at the Krusty's upcoming 29th Anniversary Special).
*The scene of WNBA basketball player of Chinese nationality [[Fung Pang-Li]] (non-existent character) appears to be an irony on {{w|Yao Ming}}, also very tall and the first Chinese to play in the NBA (just in the release period of the episode), in fact the uniform of his basketball team is the same as that used by the {{w|Houston Rockets}}, {{w|Yao Ming}}'s team.
*The {{w|Wienermobile}} used in the episode really existed.
*The reaction of the skater monkey to the score received is an irony on {{w|2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal}}. Also [[Carl]] later points out the scoring scandal.

== Notes ==
*[[Maggie Roswell]] returns to the show permanently starting with this episode.

{{Season 14|R}}

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{{Character
|name = Nedward Flanders, Jr.
|image = [[File:Ned Flanders.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|alias = Stupid Flanders
|age = 60<ref name="Viva Ned Flanders">"[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"</ref>
|hair = Brown
|job = Fourth grade teacher Entrepreneur Owner of [[FlanCrest Enterprises]] and Volunteer Soup Kitchen worker '''Former:''' See [[#Other jobs]]
|relatives = '''Mother:''' [[Capri Flanders]] '''Father:''' [[Nedward Flanders, Sr.]] '''Wife:''' [[Edna Flanders]] (deceased) '''Ex-wives:''' [[Maude Flanders]] (deceased) and [[Ginger Flanders]] '''Sons:''' [[Todd Flanders|Todd]] and [[Rod Flanders]] '''Grandparents:''' [[Grandma Flanders]] (deceased) '''Cousins:''' [[José Flanders]], [[Lord Thistlewick Flanders]] and [[Ted Flanders]]
|appearance = "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]] [[Karl Wiedergott]]<ref>"[[Homer to the Max]]"</ref>
}}

'''Nedward "Ned" Flanders, Jr.'''<ref name="I'm Goin' to Praiseland">"[[I'm Goin' to Praiseland]]"</ref> is the [[Simpson family]]'s extremely religious next door neighbor and landlord. He is a genuinely well-meaning good-natured person and is one of the few in [[Springfield]] to whom that description applies. Though firmly religious, he can be timid and something of a pushover. He thoroughly worships [[God]] and strictly follows the Bible as literally as possible and is easily shocked when challenged on any point of dogma. He also previously owned the Leftorium and a home business, [[FlanCrest Enterprises]], which makes religious hook rugs.<ref name="Das Bus"/> He also works as a member of the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department.<ref name="Brother's Little Helper"/> [[Homer]] often dislikes Flanders for his ways of doing things and his success.

== Biography ==
[[File:Ned Flanders Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
[[File:Flanders with Parents.png|thumb|Ned as a boy with his parents]]

Flanders grew up in [[New York]] and was the son of "freaky beatniks" who did not discipline Ned and let him run wild. Eventually they took him to [[Dr. Foster]], a psychiatrist, who put the young Ned through the University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol, which involved eight months of continuous spanking. The treatment worked so well that it rendered Flanders unable to express any anger at all and resulted in his trademark nonsensical jabbering at moments when he was particularly close to losing his temper, causing Ned to unknowingly repress his anger.<ref name="Hurricane Neddy">"[[Hurricane Neddy]]"</ref> Flanders got his diploma from {{W|Bob Jones University}}, where he majored in teaching and casting out demons.<ref name="Left Behind"/> Flanders worked as a salesman in the pharmaceuticals industry for the bulk of his adult life. Having saved much of his earnings, Flanders decided to quit his job and invested his family's life savings into a store in the Springfield mall called "[[The Leftorium]]" specializing in products for left-handed people.<ref name="When Flanders Failed"/> He is 60 years old and attributes his youthful appearance to his conformity to the "clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin church."<ref name="Viva Ned Flanders"/> He lives at 744 Evergreen Terrace.

=== Personality ===
[[File:Young Ned Spanked.png|thumb|left|Ned being spanked as part of his treatment]]
Ned is very honest and sincere in carrying out the Christian doctrines of charity, kindness and compassion to an extent unseen within the rest of the Springfield community. He is frequently shown doing volunteer work, and is rigorously honest and upright, even going so far as to spend an entire day tracking down a Leftorium customer in order to give him the extra change that he had forgotten to hand over. He once donated a kidney and a lung out of the goodness of his heart to whoever needs them first.<ref>"[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]"</ref> He is also a good neighbor to the Simpsons, regularly offering his assistance. Ned's dogged friendship inspires the loyalty of others; when his Leftorium appeared on the verge of bankruptcy shortly after it opened, Homer arranged a George Bailey-esque bailout with the help of many people in Springfield.<ref name="When Flanders Failed"/> However, he also embodies many of the intolerant aspects of the American religious right. Upon discovering that [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] Simpson were not baptized, he immediately took it upon himself to (unsuccessfully) conduct the ceremony without their consent.<ref name="ReferenceA">"[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]"</ref>

[[File:744 Evergreen Terrace.png|250px|thumb|Ned's house on Evergreen Terrace.]]

[[Homer]] generally loathes Ned, because his family, job, health and self-discipline are of higher quality than he could ever hope to attain himself. Homer has since come to have a love-hate relationship with Flanders, sometimes being his best friend, partly due to Ned's selfless tolerance of him, and other times treating Flanders with complete disregard. Homer seems to genuinely care for Ned, despite still expressing and often acting on feelings of loathing. Nowadays Homer seems to regard Ned as more of a nuisance. Sometimes, Marge considers Flanders to be a perfect neighbor and usually sides with him instead of her husband, which always enrages Homer.

Flanders has been shown to call [[Reverend Lovejoy]] for advice often, even over minuscule things, to the point that Lovejoy has stopped caring and has even suggested that Flanders try a different religion. Reverend Lovejoy used to care for Flanders' problems, but over the years Lovejoy became increasingly uninterested in Flanders' problems.<ref name="In Marge We Trust">"[[In Marge We Trust]]"</ref> Flanders is shown to have a room in his house filled with memorabilia of the Beatles. He claims that this is because they were "bigger than Jesus".<ref>"[[The Bart of War]]"</ref>

Ned is a genuinely well-meaning and good-natured person. He is often insecure and is obsessed with following the Bible as literally as possible and is easily shocked when challenged on any point of dogma. This has led to his frequent calls to Reverend Lovejoy ("I... I think I'm coveting my own wife!"),<ref name="In Marge We Trust"/> who has become increasingly frustrated with Flanders and passive-aggressively avenges himself by encouraging his Olde English Sheepdog to defecate on Ned's lawn.<ref>"[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]"</ref> Ned is also against drugs. When Ned, Homer and [[Apu]] go on road trip to [[Canada]] for cheap prescription drugs, they meet [[Canadian Flanders|someone who looks and acts just like Ned]], but then this guy offers Ned marijuana ("Hey, would you like to puff on a reeferino? It's legal here.") but he promptly turns down ("They warned me Satan would be attractive. Let's go").<ref name="Midnight Rx">"[[Midnight Rx]]"</ref> He did, however, briefly smoke a cigarette when playing the role of Mad Dog during his fire safety skit with some disgust.<ref name="Brother's Little Helper">"[[Brother's Little Helper]]"</ref> He also once suffered hallucinogenic experiences of the Dancing Bears and Skeletons of the Grateful Dead crossing the road, as well as witnessing an entity resembling a fusion between the hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall and the Rolling Stones' lips & tongue attempting to kiss him after drinking groovy grove juice that, unbeknownst to him, was spiked with Peyote thanks to Homer Simpson.<ref>"[[D'oh-in' in the Wind]]"</ref>

His sons Rod and Todd are very sheltered and raised in an extremely strict climate of Christian morality, causing them to be unable to behave like all the other children in Springfield ("They're going to be eaten alive, in Middle School" Lisa once observed). Also, all of the family's board games contain no dice, as Ned believes that dice are "wicked". Rod says that they just move one space at a time, as it is "less fun that way".<ref name="My Sister, My Sitter">"[[My Sister, My Sitter]]"</ref> His pet peeve is Maude underlining passages in his Bible.<ref>"[[The War of the Simpsons]]"</ref>

=== Appearance ===
[[File:Cyrus Manley.png|left|thumb|How Flanders was once pictured by Marge when she was writing a book]]
Despite a meek outward appearance, Ned hides an exceptionally well-built physique under his pink shirt and green sweater combination. When he is revealed to be in his early 60s, Ned claims his deceptively youthful appearance is due to his conformity to the "three Cs" - "clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of vitamin Church".<ref name="Viva Ned Flanders">"[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"</ref>

Both Ned and his family rarely refer to his moustache as such, preferring nicknames such as "Nose Neighbour," "Mr. Tickles," "The Soup Strainer," "The Cookie Duster," "The Pushbroom," and "Dr. Fuzzenstein." He once shaved it off, after Homer implied that people were mocking Ned's facial hair behind his back.{{cn}} He also once had it pulled off with a vacuum cleaner by Maude after Homer, who was thought to have leprosy, kissed Ned in gratitude for sending them to be treated.<ref>"[[Little Big Mom]]"</ref> Ned's moustache would also affect his decision to move to the town of [[Humbleton]], PA. After being hired at the town's Humble figurine manufacturing factory, Ned was ordered to shave his moustache, due to an unofficial ban on facial hair. Ned defiantly refused to shave his moustache for which he was labelled a troublemaker.<ref name="Home Away from Homer">"[[Home Away from Homer]]"</ref>

=== Religion ===
Flanders is a devout Christian. Ned's sons have been raised in a strict climate of Christian morality, to which they willingly conform. It is revealed that they "{{W|vaccine controversy|don't believe in inoculations}}",<ref>"[[The Computer Wore Menace Shoes]]"</ref> much as their father considers insurance to be a "form of gambling"<ref name="Hurricane Neddy"/> and dice games to be "wicked".<ref name="My Sister, My Sitter"/> Rod and Todd go to bed several hours before sunset and are not allowed to consume sugar.

Most of the entertainment enjoyed by the family involves religion in some way. The family uses at least five different versions of the Bible to play "Bombardment... of Bible Questions!" ("The bridal feast of Beth Chadruharazzeb!?"),<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and are part of a competitive bowling team called the ''Holy Rollers''<ref>"[[Team Homer]]"</ref> (their uniform consisting of a Franciscan Friar's robes). Ned seems to sense that he cannot completely shield his family from the vagaries of popular culture, but does his best to mitigate the effects; one of his children's stories concludes "...and Harry Potter and all his wizard friends went straight to Hell for practicing witchcraft."<ref>"[[Trilogy of Error]]"</ref> Though they have satellite TV, nearly all of the 230 channels are blocked out<ref name="Homer Loves Flanders">"[[Homer Loves Flanders]]"</ref> — likely for the best, as one episode of [[Itchy & Scratchy]] was enough to more or less permanently scar Rod and Todd.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Rod used to watch "Davy and Goliath", but finding the idea of talking dogs to be blasphemous, he has since stopped.<ref name="Bart the Lover">"[[Bart the Lover]]"</ref>

Ned is willing to fight for what he believes in. For example, he once attempted to forcibly baptise the Simpson children, using his portable baptism' kit, after finding out that they had never undergone the ritual.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Ned once reminded himself to get his hand "re-blessed" after shaking a Catholic priest's hand (odd, considering he keeps a Latin Vulgate Bible in his home).<ref>"[[The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star]]"</ref>

Despite occasional antipathy toward Catholicism, Judaism and Hinduism (he once compared worshipping Shiva to asking for help from Hawkman,<ref name="Midnight Rx"/> and he fears that his children will grow up to become Jewish Hollywood producers),<ref name="A Star Is Born Again">"[[A Star Is Born Again]]"</ref> Ned is honest and sincere in carrying out the Christian doctrines of charity, kindness and compassion. He even admits (after a hurricane destroyed his home) that he has kept kosher just in case.<ref name="Hurricane Neddy"/> He is frequently shown doing volunteer work, and is rigorously honest and upright, even going so far as to spend an entire day tracking down a Leftorium customer in order to give him the extra change that he had forgotten to hand over.<ref name="Bart the Lover"/> Similarly, after winning football tickets by answering a radio trivia question, he immediately asked for the cash value so he could report it on his income taxes.<ref name="Homer Loves Flanders"/> He also is a good neighbor to the Simpsons, regularly offering his assistance — and then suffering the consequences often paid to those with good intentions.
[[File:Flanders Family.png|thumb|Ned, Maude, Rod and Todd]]Ned Flander's bigoted radicalism sometimes goes beyond biblical descriptions (he has prepared an ark with pairs of only male animals ..).<ref>[["Pray Anything"]]</ref>

=== Family ===
The Flanders Clan has members around the globe, who convened at the Flanders Family Reunion bible bashing BBQ. Relatives included Mexican [[Jose Flanders]] ("Buenos ding-dong-diddliy días, señor") and English [[Lord Thistlewick Flanders]] ("Charmed... ''[he is prompted by Ned]'' ...a-googily-doogily").<ref>"[[Lisa the Vegetarian]]"</ref>

Flanders is believed to have 3 younger sisters.<ref name="Das Bus">"[[Das Bus]]"</ref><ref>"[[Burns, Baby Burns]]"</ref> Ned and family planned on moving in with one of them who lived in [[Capital City]] after the loss of their home and business in Springfield.<ref name="When Flanders Failed">"[[When Flanders Failed]]"</ref> He might also have a possible Gay brother or stepbrother.

=== Speech patterns ===
Ned has the odd habit of attaching "diddily," "doodily" and other nonsensical phrases to his sentences. "Hi-diddily-ho, neighborino," is a common example.<ref>It reflects the greeting of the Gordon Hathaway recurring character on the Steve Allen Show, with his arch "Hi-ho, Steverino!"</ref> This is the result of sublimated anger caused by his upbringing, anger which has no other outlet. This trait is, strangely, demonstrated by his relatives from around the world. However, one of his relatives; Lord Thistlewick Flanders, does not have this trait other than when pressured by Ned Flanders, which may imply that his relatives might just attach the trait when with Flanders. He also has the habit of saying "Okally-Dokally", when replying to someone - meaning OK. He might also occasionally add a "doo" on the end, for example... "Okilly dokilly-doo". This is more often than not repeated, when Homer tells him to "Shut up" or "Get lost and we don't need your help".

His extreme prudishness makes him averse to saying "sex" aloud, even when there are no children in sight — he either spells it out or sheepishly calls it "doodily". Ned also uses the word "doodle", "Flander-doodle" or "shrinky-dink" when referring to his penis (ironically, he actually shouts "penis" while praying with his kids before eating at [[Krusty Burger]] after Bart lands on a window naked in front of him<ref name="The Simpsons Movie">''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref>). He wears a bathing suit in the shower or when he takes a bath. He also uses annotated words, when referring to words that could slightly have a bad, injury related, or slightly offensive meaning. An example is when Bart and Homer are on the roof, and Bart is dangling from the guttering. He says the word "parapleig-orino" referring to parapleigic. (A person paralysed from the waist down). Nevertheless Bart and Homer both reply "Shutup Flanders..." His speech pattern once got him into trouble with [[Rex Banner]] because the latter thought he was drunk during a time when prohibition was revived.<ref>"[[Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment]]"</ref>
[[File:Leftorium 2.png|thumb|right|The Leftorium]]

=== Career ===
==== The Leftorium ====
Ned worked as a salesperson in the pharmaceuticals industry for the bulk of his adult life. Having saved much of his earnings, Flanders announced during a barbecue he was throwing for his family and friends that he had quit his job and planned to invest the family's life savings into a new business. After burning his necktie, he proclaimed his intent to open a store in the [[Springfield Mall]] called ''The Leftorium'' specializing in products for left-handed people: everything from left-handed can openers to an entirely left-handed car, of which only three were ever made. Many of the Leftorium's products are merely labeled as "left-handed," such as pens and nunchucks. He does not sell, however, left-handed eyelash curlers.<ref name="When Flanders Failed"/>

The Leftorium faces stiff competition from ''[[Leftopolis]]'' and ''[[Left-Mart]]''. However an unusually large proportion of Springfield's citizens are left-handed, including [[Bart Simpson]], [[Marge Simpson]], [[Principal Skinner]], [[Mr. Burns]], and [[Moe Szyslak]].

Eventually, the Leftorium was downsized to a stall before being shut down completely.<ref name="Left Behind">"[[Left Behind]]"</ref>

==== Other jobs ====
Ned began an internet company called ''Flancrest Enterprises'' (which deals in religious hook-rugs)<ref name="Das Bus"/> and founded a Bible-themed amusement park called ''[[Praiseland]]'', in honor of his late wife<ref name="I'm Goin' to Praiseland"/> (that he would go to such lengths to fulfill her last wish is unsurprising, as Ned had previously exerted himself a great deal in order to avoid disappointing Maude — after accidentally killing Maude's prized ficus plant, he attempted to bury and secretly replace it rather than explain the situation).<ref>"[[Bart of Darkness]]"</ref> Ned also spent a stint as principal of Springfield Elementary School, replacing [[Seymour Skinner]].<ref>"[[Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]"</ref>

He, along with his late wife, also worked as a member of the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department, once saving Homer from his burning house.<ref>"[[Homer the Heretic]]"</ref> Because of his membership status, he also participates in Fire Safety Day at Springfield Elementary School, once doing an act trying to display the dangers of not taking care of Fire Safety where he acted completely different from himself for the role. He portrayed a pot-smoking, chain smoking, hog-riding hippie partygoer named MadDog whom, after arriving back home with his girlfriend (played by Maude Flanders), who is also a pot-smoking hippie partygoer, they smoked a cigarette to "make the night complete." His girlfriend suggests that they get another smoke alarm in case their current one "tricks out on them" but Mad Dog refused as one was good enough for him before telling her that they should "hit the sack." While sleeping, Mad Dog accidentally drops his cigarette on his pants thus burning them. His girlfriend tries to warn him to stop drop and roll, but he ignores it as he felt it was for clydes and that "a little fire won't hurt him." The performance turned out awry because Ned Flanders was forced to break character due to the fire spreading fast, and the usual method of stop drop and roll was not successful at all in putting out the fire, and had it not been for Bart Simpson's latest hijyx involving a hose and the gymnasium, he would have been burned alive.<ref name="Brother's Little Helper"/>

Ned has also worked as a bounty hunter, alongside Homer Simpson, for a short time.<ref name="Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes">"[[Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes]]"</ref>

After The Leftorium closed down, Ned temporarily worked as the head of human resources at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]. After getting fired from that job for suggesting the Power Plant gives money to charity, Ned went to work for [[Springfield Harbor Cruises]] and {{ap|Rolling Stone Magazine|Left Behind}}, being fired from both jobs. He now currently works as a fourth grade teacher at [[Springfield Elementary School]].<ref name="Left Behind"/>

=== Relationships ===
Ned's dogged friendship inspires the loyalty of others; when his Leftorium appeared on the verge of bankruptcy shortly after it opened, Homer arranged a Frank Capra-esque scene akin to {{W|George Bailey}} by advertising the Leftorium to many left-handed people in Springfield.

==== Romantic relationships ====
[[File:Ned sara sloane.png|thumb|Ned and Sara on their first date]]
At some point before or after college, Ned met and married the equally meek and religious Maude. They had two children together; the sheltered and naïve Rod and Todd. Maude died an untimely death in a freak accident involving t-shirt cannons,<ref name="Alone Again, Natura-Diddily">"[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]"</ref> leaving Ned alone and grieving. He is technically still married to a woman named [[Ginger Flanders]], whom he married on a drunken bender in Las Vegas.<ref name="Viva Ned Flanders">"[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"</ref> Ginger came to live with Ned and his sons for a brief period following Maude's death, but she quickly grew tired of the Flanders' sickly-sweet personalities and fled.<ref>"[[Brawl in the Family]]"</ref> Also since Maude's death, Ned has been connected romantically with a beautiful Christian-rock singer, [[Rachel Jordan]],<ref name="I'm Goin' to Praiseland"/><ref name="Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"/> and a movie star, [[Sara Sloane]] with whom he had a sexual relationship,<ref name="A Star Is Born Again"/> despite his own "no sex before marriage" beliefs. Ned and Marge had once almost kiss twice, since Homer spent too much time as [[Carl]]'s assistant and Ned felt alone. Marge had hit Ned with a hammer, so she invited him to dinner. While helping [[Marge]] with the food they were going to kiss, but the oven rang, later, while eating cream strawberries, they almost kiss again, but Marge remembers Homer so they just hug before Homer arrives.<ref>"[[The Devil Wears Nada]]"</ref> He then entered a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> They had a small difference in opinion, but soon eventually sorted it out,<ref>"[[The Falcon and the D'ohman]]"</ref> ending with Edna moving in with Ned. Edna was then married to Ned.<ref>"[[Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda]]"</ref> up until her death.<ref>"[[The Man Who Grew Too Much]]"</ref>

==== Friendship/One-sided conflict with Homer Simpson ====
Flanders personality makes him think of Homer as good and friendly, but Homer actually hates Flanders. Homer tells Ned to "shut his stupid face" on a regular basis, and has even prayed for his ruin and death — "I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another, until you just wish Flanders was dead." Ironically, at one time, Homer becomes Flanders' best friend, but becomes so annoying that Flanders starts to hate him, but eventually things go back to the way they were.<ref name="Homer Loves Flanders"/> Homer and Ned's relationship has been good on occasions, in which Homer seems to genuinely care for Ned, despite still expressing (and often acting on) feelings of loathing. Examples of this include Homer comforting Ned following Maude's death (seconds after preparing to bash Ned's head in with a rock) largely due to Marge's insistence that the Simpson family must now be supportive of the Flanders family in wake of the tragic loss of Maude,<ref name="Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"/> and helping Ned build Praiseland Amusement Park.<ref name="I'm Goin' to Praiseland"/> Despite their friendship, Homer wrote the song "[[Everybody Hates Ned Flanders]]", and even sang and produced it with {{Ch|David Byrne}}.<ref>"[[Dude, Where's My Ranch?]]"</ref> When Ned was embarrassed in front of the entire community after two young women who rented his house were found to be using it to film a racy website (for which Homer helped spread), Ned moves away in shame. Homer genuinely misses Ned's absence, especially when a gruff, unneighborly man buys the house, and is overjoyed when Ned returns to Springfield.<ref name="Home Away from Homer"/> Homer and Ned became friends when they got a job as bounty hunters.<ref name="Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"/>

==== Friendship with Bart Simpson ====
When Bart becomes a camper, he would seem to have taken a liking to his head camper Ned Flanders. This is shown by Bart talking in Flanders normal diddly-doodily fashion.<ref>"[[Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood]]"</ref> However, Ned reassures Bart that Homer is his true father, and that Bart must be a receptive son in order to help Homer be a concerned father during [[Trappuccino|Springfield's darkest hour]].<ref name="The Simpsons Movie"/>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
[[File:Homer with Devil Flanders.png|thumb|Flanders as the devil in "Treehouse of Horror IV", portrayed as such due to being "the one you least suspect".]]
=== Treehouse of Horror ===
In the "[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]" segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson", Flanders appeared as the devil in front of Homer Simpson (quoted by Flanders, "It's always the one you least expect!") and when he comes to claim Homer's soul, he and Bart exchange casual greetings. He acts as the "unquestioned Lord and Master of the world" (in a parallel universe) in a segment in "[[Treehouse of Horror V]]", in which he instituted Orwellian "Re-Neducation" facilities for those with impure thoughts culminating in frontal lobotomies. In other Halloween episodes he proclaimed his preference for "wanton carnality" as an early Pilgrim immigrant to the New World, only to be vetoed by Maude; been transformed into a werewolf; been murdered by Homer Simpson (who used the rise of a zombie horde as an excuse for killing him) (Homer Simpson: "He was a zombie?"— Homer didn't care if Ned was actually zombie or not), a clone of Homer Simpson, and an evil bus-gremlin whom he attempted to adopt.

=== Future ===
In "[[Bart to the Future]]", Bart sees his own future. Ned, at age 90, is seen blind, revealing he received laser eye surgery, which was great at the beginning, but after the 10-year-point, your eyes fall out.
[[File:Flanders Werewolf.png|thumb|right|Ned as a werewolf in Treehouse of Horror X]]
In "[[Holidays of Future Passed]]", he is seen married with Maude's ghost.

=== The Simpsons Road Rage ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Road Rage]]'' Ned Flanders is a driver that you can unlock. While not being played, he is a passenger.

=== The Simpsons Game ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', Ned is carjacked by [[Martin Prince, Jr.]] in the level "[[Mob Rules]]", so he joins Marge's mob to stop the game ''Grand Theft Scratchy'' to be sold to kids.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Ned ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Flanders Family|Ned}}

==== Costumes ====
<gallery>
File:Devil Flanders.png|[[Devil Flanders]]
File:Tapped Out Ned SantaSuit.png|[[Santa Flanders]]
File:Tapped Out Puritan Flanders.png|[[Puritan Flanders]]
File:Tapped Out Stupid Sexy Flanders.png|[[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]
File:Shredded Ned.png|[[Shredded Ned]]
File:Werewolf Flanders.png|[[Werewolf Flanders]]
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
*Ned's email address is ned.flanders@springface.com.<ref name="Left Behind"/>
*Ned graduated from {{W|Bob Jones University}} and majored in teaching and casting out demons. He also speaks fluent {{W|Aramaic language|Aramaic}}.<ref name="Left Behind"/>

== Behind the Laughter ==
[[File:Flanders' book of Faith.png|thumb|right|One of the many Flanders merchandise, Flander's Book of Faith]]
=== Creation ===
The writers found Harry Shearer's voice for Flanders so sweet that they decided to make the character a Christian.

Ned Flanders, who was designed by Rich Moore, first appeared in the season one episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". The episode was the series premiere, but not the first episode produced. The first episode in which Flanders and his family were prominent is season two's "Dead Putting Society", which also contained the first appearance of Maude and Rod Flanders. Flanders was named after Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Groening described the inspiration for Flanders as "just a guy who was truly nice, that Homer had no justifiable reason to loathe, but then did". It was not until after the first few episodes that it was decided Flanders would be a faithful Christian. Mike Scully noted that Flanders is "everything Homer would love to be, although he'll never admit it". Flanders had been meant to be just a neighbor that Homer was jealous of, but Harry Shearer used "such a sweet voice" and Flanders was broadened to become a Christian and a sweet guy that someone would prefer to live next to over Homer. Flanders is known for his nonsensical jabbering, and his first use of the word "didly" was in "The Call of the Simpsons".

=== Development ===
Ned Flanders was not religious in his first few appearances and in the first few seasons he was only mildly religious and his primary role was to be so "cloyingly perfect as to annoy and shame the Simpsons", whereas Homer Simpson has always hated Ned Flanders and always tries to undermine him. There has been a consistent effort among the show's writers to make him not just "goody good and an unsympathetic person". In the later seasons, Flanders has become more of a caricature of the Christian right, and his role as an irritating "perfect neighbor" has been lessened.

Ned's store "The Leftorium" first appeared in "[[When Flanders Failed]]". It was suggested by George Meyer, who had had a friend who had owned a left-handed specialty store which failed. The episode "[[Hurricane Neddy]]" shows Ned's faith being tested and the writers also used the episode as a chance to examine what makes him tick.

=== Voice ===
In most of Flanders' appearances on the show, he was voiced by [[Harry Shearer]]. However, there was one episode where he was voiced by someone other than Harry Shearer. The episode was "[[Homer to the Max]]" where he was voiced by [[Karl Wiedergott]], which was deliberately done as a self-referential joke at the time where the voice actors for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' got low salaries from [[FOX]], and FOX threatened to replace them with replacement voice actors.

=== "The Adventures of Ned Flanders" ===
{{Main|The Adventures of Ned Flanders}}
''The Adventures of Ned Flanders'' was a short that appeared at the end of the episode "[[The Front]]". Entitled ''Love that God'', it highlights the Flanders' dedication to religion and perfect family niceness, yet again. Ned nearly scolds Rod and Todd, who are busy praying, after they refuse to get ready for church — only to be told that it is, in fact, a Saturday. Ned laughs at his mistake with a trademark "Okelydokely!" According to commentary on ''[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]'', ''The Simpsons'' team wanted to do more "Adventures of Ned Flanders" shorts. Time limitations have prevented them from producing more. Ironically, the reason why "The Adventures of Ned Flanders" was first conceived was because they couldn't expand the episode to fill up the remaining time gap.

=== Foreign dubs ===
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== Appearances ==
{{Incomplete}}
{{scroll|
*{{ep|Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire}}
*{{ep|The Call of the Simpsons}}
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out}}
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets an "F"}}
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
*{{ep|Bart the Daredevil}}
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy & Marge}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
*{{ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
*{{ep|Old Money}}
*{{ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
*{{ep|I Married Marge}}
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Greek}}
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
*{{ep|Homer at the Bat}}
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
*{{ep|Dog of Death}}
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
*{{ep|Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?}}
*{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III}}
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
*{{ep|I Love Lisa}}
*{{ep|Duffless}}
*{{ep|So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show}}
*{{ep|Cape Feare}}
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
*{{ep|Homer Loves Flanders}}
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
*{{ep|Bart of Darkness}}
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror V}}
*{{ep|Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy}}
*{{ep|A Star Is Burns}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
*{{ep|Two Dozen and One Greyhounds}}
*{{ep|'Round Springfield}}
*{{ep|The Springfield Connection}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
*{{ep|Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Vegetarian}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VI}}
*{{ep|King-Size Homer}}
*{{ep|Mother Simpson}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming}}
*{{ep|Marge Be Not Proud}}
*{{ep|Team Homer}}
*{{ep|Two Bad Neighbors}}
*{{ep|Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Bart the Fink}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
*{{ep|The Day the Violence Died}}
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
*{{ep|Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"}}
*{{ep|Much Apu About Nothing}}
*{{ep|Summer of 4 Ft. 2}}
*{{ep|Homerpalooza}}
*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
*{{ep|Bart After Dark}}
*{{ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
*{{ep|A Milhouse Divided}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
*{{ep|Hurricane Neddy}}
*{{ep|El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer}}
*{{ep|The Springfield Files}}
*{{ep|Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious}}
*{{ep|The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show}}
*{{ep|Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment}}
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
*{{ep|In Marge We Trust}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|Bart Carny}}
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
*{{ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
*{{ep|I'm with Cupid}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
*{{ep|Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo}}
*{{ep|Beyond Blunderdome}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror X}}
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
*{{ep|Eight Misbehavin'}}
*{{ep|Grift of the Magi}}
*{{ep|Little Big Mom}}
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
*{{ep|Saddlesore Galactica}}
*{{ep|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily}}
*{{ep|Missionary: Impossible}}
*{{ep|Bart to the Future}}
*{{ep|Days of Wine and D'oh'ses}}
*{{ep|Behind the Laughter}}
*{{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
*{{ep|Insane Clown Poppy}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Tree Hugger}}
*{{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
*{{ep|The Great Money Caper}}
*{{ep|Skinner's Sense of Snow}}
*{{ep|Tennis the Menace}}
*{{ep|Trilogy of Error}}
*{{ep|I'm Goin' to Praiseland}}
*{{ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|The Parent Rap}}
*{{ep|She of Little Faith}}
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
*{{ep|Jaws Wired Shut}}
*{{ep|Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
*{{ep|Large Marge}}
*{{ep|Helter Shelter}}
*{{ep|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}}
*{{ep|Pray Anything}}
*{{ep|A Star Is Born Again}}
*{{ep|Three Gays of the Condo}}
*{{ep|Dude, Where's My Ranch?}}
*{{ep|The Bart of War}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
*{{ep|Fraudcast News}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XV}}
*{{ep|All's Fair in Oven War}}
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
*{{ep|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass}}
*{{ep|Mobile Homer}}
*{{ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
*{{ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
*{{ep|Home Away from Homer}}
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
*{{ep|Simpsons Christmas Stories}}
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
*{{ep|The Wettest Stories Ever Told}}
*{{ep|Regarding Margie}}
*{{ep|The Monkey Suit}}
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVII}}
*{{ep|Marge Gamer}}
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs}}
*{{ep|The Homer of Seville}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVIII}}
*{{ep|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind}}
*{{ep|Love, Springfieldian Style}}
*{{ep|Mona Leaves-a}}
*{{ep|Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIX}}
*{{ep|Dangerous Curves}}
*{{ep|MyPods and Boomsticks}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
*{{ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
*{{ep|In the Name of the Grandfather}}
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster}}
*{{ep|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}
*{{ep|Father Knows Worst}}
*{{ep|Coming to Homerica}}
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets a "Z"}}
*{{ep|The Devil Wears Nada}}
*{{ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
*{{ep|To Surveil with Love}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
*{{ep|Homer the Father}}
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|The Falcon and the D'ohman}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants|(cog in [[Homer]]'s head)}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|Moonshine River}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|The Day the Earth Stood Cool}}
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV|(opening scene)}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{ep|The Kids Are All Fight}}
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
*{{ep|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles}}
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead}}
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers)}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
*{{ep|E My Sports|(voice only)}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
*{{ep|D'oh Canada|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX|(opening sequence)}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
*{{spec|Homer Votes 2012}}
*{{spec|Simpsons Ice Bucket Challenge|(mentioned)}}
*{{spec|Marge Simpson's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge}}
*{{ad|Piggy Bank}}
*{{ad|CC's Dare Number 65}}
*{{ad|Box}}
*{{ad|Crime of the Century}}
*{{bon|O Bart, Where Art Thou?}}
*{{bk|Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture}}
*{{bk|Flanders' Book of Faith}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Wrestling}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Road Rage}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Skateboarding}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Hit & Run}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{merch|Simpsons Mania! (Inkworks)|Simpsons Mania!|(mentioned)}}
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== References ==
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The Strong Arms of the Ma/Quotes

2021-03-17T14:49:04Z

Alessandra:

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{{qf|[[Kent Brockman]]}} I'm here with actor [[Rainier Wolfcastle]], who, surprisingly, has filed for bankruptcy. Rainier, what went wrong?
{{qf|Rainier Wolfcastle}} Three divorces in three months. What can I say, Kent? I'm a romantic.
{{qf|Brockman}} But this personal tragedy translates into a good old fashioned bankruptcy sale!
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Yeah! Everything must go. Even the painting of my Nana. This was done on her wedding day. Or should I say "deading day".
----
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Do you need some assistance picking over the tattered remains of my life?
{{qf|[[Homer]]}} No, I'm good. Hey, your early porno movies! Are any of these hetero?
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} What's there is there.
----
{{qf|Homer}} Do you think you could give me a lift home?
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Sure, I'll carry you in this giant Snuggli. I used it to carry Rob Schneider in the movie "My Baby Is An Ugly Man".
{{qf|Homer}} Your heartbeat is so soothing.
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Shh. Time for sleep, little fatso.
----
{{qf|[[Apu]]}} Hello, Mrs. Homer!
{{qf|[[Marge]]}} Apu, where's your bathroom?
{{qf|Apu}} The bathroom is not for customers. Please use the crack house across the street. ''[gets whiff]'' Ugh, that is the most pungent thing I have ever smelled, and I am from India! All right, all right, but speak of this to no one!
----
{{qf|Marge}} Oh no! I pepper sprayed Ralph!
{{qf|[[Ralph]]}} Even my boogers are spicy!
----
{{qf|[[Lisa]]}} Mom, you didn't get the milk.
{{qf|[[Bart]]}} And you parked on top of the mailman.
{{qf|[[Mailman]]}} It's okay. All part of the job. Can you believe I get paid to wear short pants?
----
{{qf|Marge}} Ned, I'm not afraid!
{{qf|[[Ned Flanders]]}} Well, aren't you a super-duper recouper.
{{qf|Marge}} Grampa! I'm not afraid!
{{qf|[[Grampa]]}} Then you're not paying close enough attention!
----
{{qf|[[Ruth Powers]]}} Steroids aren't drugs. They occur naturally in the body, like sweat, or tumors.
----
{{qf|[[Otto]]}} Man, what am I smoking? Oh yeah, pot.
----
{{qf|Announcer}} In second place: Marge Simpson!
{{qf|Bart}} Second place!? Oh man, this'll just encourage her.
{{qf|Lisa}} I'm tired of her criticizing my saggy glutes.
{{qf|Homer}} Quiet, her muscular ears can hear us.
----
{{qf|Homer}} Oh, I'm so proud of you, honey. You bulked up, but managed to keep your femininity.
{{qf|Marge}} And that's why I didn't win!
{{qf|Homer}} Sorry, sir, sorry.
{{qf|Marge}} Starting tomorrow, I'm gonna up my glyco-load, use a denser ripping gel...
{{qf|Homer}} Denser?!
{{qf|Marge}} Damn straight, I didn't sacrifice my period for second place!
----
{{qf|Homer (to Marge)}} Now, Dr. Hibbert said to use a number from one to 10 to describe how anxious you are.
{{qf|Marge}}..Two.. three...two...
{{qf|Homer}} Don't worry. Everything is fine.- What the hell is that?
{{qf|Marge}}..Eight...
{{qf|Lisa}} Dad, it's just a bug.
{{qf|Marge}}..Two...
{{qf|Homer}} Not just a bug, it's the queen of something!!
{{qf|Marge}} Ten!!Ten!! Ten!!
{{qf|Homer}} Don't worry. I'll set fire to the hive.
{{qf|Marge}} '''TWELVE!! FIFTEEN!!!! SEVEN HUNDRED AND THREE!!!!'''
----
{{qf|Homer}} I'm married to [[Joey Heatherton]].
----
{{qf|Homer}} It's like I'm married to {{w2|Shaft|2000 film}}.
----
{{qf|Marge (to Homer)}} You know..I really do miss being a lady.

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The Strong Arms of the Ma/Quotes

2021-03-17T10:14:18Z

Alessandra:

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{{EpisodePrevNextQuo|The Dad Who Knew Too Little|Pray Anything}}

{{qf|[[Kent Brockman]]}} I'm here with actor [[Rainier Wolfcastle]], who, surprisingly, has filed for bankruptcy. Rainier, what went wrong?
{{qf|Rainier Wolfcastle}} Three divorces in three months. What can I say, Kent? I'm a romantic.
{{qf|Brockman}} But this personal tragedy translates into a good old fashioned bankruptcy sale!
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Yeah! Everything must go. Even the painting of my Nana. This was done on her wedding day. Or should I say "deading day".
----
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Do you need some assistance picking over the tattered remains of my life?
{{qf|[[Homer]]}} No, I'm good. Hey, your early porno movies! Are any of these hetero?
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} What's there is there.
----
{{qf|Homer}} Do you think you could give me a lift home?
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Sure, I'll carry you in this giant Snuggli. I used it to carry Rob Schneider in the movie "My Baby Is An Ugly Man".
{{qf|Homer}} Your heartbeat is so soothing.
{{qf|Wolfcastle}} Shh. Time for sleep, little fatso.
----
{{qf|[[Apu]]}} Hello, Mrs. Homer!
{{qf|[[Marge]]}} Apu, where's your bathroom?
{{qf|Apu}} The bathroom is not for customers. Please use the crack house across the street. ''[gets whiff]'' Ugh, that is the most pungent thing I have ever smelled, and I am from India! All right, all right, but speak of this to no one!
----
{{qf|Marge}} Oh no! I pepper sprayed Ralph!
{{qf|[[Ralph]]}} Even my boogers are spicy!
----
{{qf|[[Lisa]]}} Mom, you didn't get the milk.
{{qf|[[Bart]]}} And you parked on top of the mailman.
{{qf|[[Mailman]]}} It's okay. All part of the job. Can you believe I get paid to wear short pants?
----
{{qf|Marge}} Ned, I'm not afraid!
{{qf|[[Ned Flanders]]}} Well, aren't you a super-duper recouper.
{{qf|Marge}} Grampa! I'm not afraid!
{{qf|[[Grampa]]}} Then you're not paying close enough attention!
----
{{qf|[[Ruth Powers]]}} Steroids aren't drugs. They occur naturally in the body, like sweat, or tumors.
----
{{qf|[[Otto]]}} Man, what am I smoking? Oh yeah, pot.
----
{{qf|Announcer}} In second place: Marge Simpson!
{{qf|Bart}} Second place!? Oh man, this'll just encourage her.
{{qf|Lisa}} I'm tired of her criticizing my saggy glutes.
{{qf|Homer}} Quiet, her muscular ears can hear us.
----
{{qf|Homer}} Oh, I'm so proud of you, honey. You bulked up, but managed to keep your femininity.
{{qf|Marge}} And that's why I didn't win!
{{qf|Homer}} Sorry, sir, sorry.
{{qf|Marge}} Starting tomorrow, I'm gonna up my glyco-load, use a denser ripping gel...
{{qf|Homer}} Denser?!
{{qf|Marge}} Damn straight, I didn't sacrifice my period for second place!
----
{{qf|Homer (to Marge)}} Now, Dr. Hibbert said to use a number from one to 10 to describe how anxious you are.
{{qf|Marge}}..Two.. three...two...
{{qf|Homer}} Don't worry. Everything is fine.- What the hell is that?
{{qf|Marge}}..Eight...
{{qf|Lisa}} Dad, it's just a bug.
{{qf|Marge}}..Two...
{{qf|Homer}} Not just a bug, it's the queen of something!!
{{qf|Marge}} Ten!!Ten!! Ten!!
{{qf|Homer}} Don't worry. I'll set fire to the hive.
{{qf|Marge}} '''TWELVE!! FIFTEEN!!!! SEVEN HUNDRFED AND THREE!!!!'''
----
{{qf|Homer}} I'm married to Joey Heatherton.
----
{{qf|Homer}} It's like I'm married to Shaft.
----
{{qf|Marge (to Homer)}} You know..I really do miss being a lady.

{{Season 14|Q}}
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The Strong Arms of the Ma/References

2021-03-17T09:06:09Z

Alessandra: /* Trivia */

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a pun on the expression "the long arm of the law".
*Lisa gets [[Vincent van Gogh]]'s "Self-Portrait with Straw Hat" from the bankruptcy sale.
*The scene where [[Homer]] struggles to fit the family members and their purchases into the station wagon is a sight gag on the video game ''[[Tetris]]'', complete with the game's main theme "A-Type" (plus the game over snippet when Marge points out that there's no room for Homer in the car).
*When there's no room left in the car for Homer, [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] gives him a ride home, carrying him in a giant {{W2|Ann Moore|inventor|Snugli}}. Wolfcastle used it to carry {{W|Rob Schneider}} in his film ''My Baby Is An Ugly Man''.
*At Rainier's garage sale, [[Lenny]] finds a cybernetic arm that resembles the Terminator's from ''[[Terminator]]''.
*When [[Marge]] runs over the mailman and tells him that it will take a while for help to arrive, he says it's no problem as he's got plenty to read and picks up a Twilight Zone magazine. Then, to his horror, he discovers that his glasses are broken, referencing the 1959 ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "{{w|Time Enough at Last}}". The music from the show plays after this.
*When the family eat dinner in the basement:
**They sit at an {{w|air hockey}} table and pass the food around as though they were playing the game.
**[[Lisa]] is bothered by the sight of people's feet as they walk by the window, and Homer reassures her by telling her it's just like ''[[Cheers]]'', referring to the bar's being located in a basement. Homer said he loved the show as it meant there was only half an hour until ''{{W2|Wings|1990 TV series}}''
*When Marge first takes steroids, the theme music from ''{{ap|Popeye|comic strip}}'' plays briefly.
*When Marge meets her mugger again and beats him up in the street, the fight sequence is taken directly from the movie ''[[The Godfather]]'' when {{w|Sonny Corleone}} beats up his brother in law Carlo after finding out he was beating his sister.
*A pastiche of "{{w|Gonna Fly Now}}" (the theme music from the ''{{W2|Rocky|film series}}'' movie series) is played at a couple of places in the episode:
**During the sequence where Marge is working out and meets up with a group of local bodybuilders (including [[Ruth Powers]]).
**At the beginning of the closing credits.
*[[Let's Hear It for the Soy]]'s name is a reference to the song "{{W|Let's Hear It for the Boy}}" by {{W|Deniece Williams}}.
*"{{W|Für Elise}}" by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] plays during [[The Iron Maidens]] competition.
*[[Sonya]] sings the song "[[(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance]]" by {{W|Gene Pitney}}.
*During the bar fight, "{{W|Love Is a Battlefield}}" by {{W|Pat Benatar}}, "{{W|At Last}}" by {{W|Etta James}} and "{{W2|Relax|song}}" by {{W|Frankie Goes to Hollywood}} all play.
*When the sailors enter the bar, "{{W|Anchors Aweigh}}", the fight song for the {{W|United States Navy}}, plays.
*During the aftermath of the fight, "{{W|Adagio for Strings}}" by {{W|Samuel Barber}} plays.
*The shock and subsequent agoraphobia suffered by [[Marge]] are a reference to the movie ''{{w2|Copycat|film}}''.

== Trivia ==
*Marge's car's license plate is "EABF 04", the production code for the episode.
*It is the first time a lemon tree has been seen in the Simpsons' garden.

== Continuity ==
*One of the items the Simpsons buy at Wolfcastle's yard sale is a bumper pack of [[PowerSauce]] bars. ("[[King of the Hill]]")
*When Lisa plays the magazine rack, she is holding the issue of ''[[Time]]'' magazine with the [[Inanimate carbon rod]] on the cover. ("[[Deep Space Homer]]")
*[[Ruth Powers]] makes a return appearance, voiced by [[Pamela Reed]]. She was last seen in "[[Marge on the Lam]]".
**Ruth mentions having been in prison, apparently for offenses unrelated to the events of "Marge on the Lam". (In that episode, the voiceover narration at the end said that the auto theft charges against her were dropped.)

== Goofs ==
*In the First Church of Springfield, [[Becky Shorter]], [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] all have the wrong colors.
*Before Marge picks up the jukebox to slam it into other people in Moe's Tavern, it isn't playing anything, but when she goes over to it, it starts playing music.
*When the family is eating dinner at the Air Hockey table, there are no goals on the ends of the table (where Lisa and Homer are sitting), except when there's a close up on Lisa. There is no goal when there's a close-up of Homer talking about "Cheers".
*When the lady smashes the piano saying "support the arts", her lips don't move.
*Homer packs lots of boxes in the car, but when Marge drives the car, the boxes disappear.
*In the first interior shot of [[Moe's Tavern]], [[Louie]] has [[Carl]]'s colors.

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The Strong Arms of the Ma/References

2021-03-17T09:03:17Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a pun on the expression "the long arm of the law".
*Lisa gets [[Vincent van Gogh]]'s "Self-Portrait with Straw Hat" from the bankruptcy sale.
*The scene where [[Homer]] struggles to fit the family members and their purchases into the station wagon is a sight gag on the video game ''[[Tetris]]'', complete with the game's main theme "A-Type" (plus the game over snippet when Marge points out that there's no room for Homer in the car).
*When there's no room left in the car for Homer, [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] gives him a ride home, carrying him in a giant {{W2|Ann Moore|inventor|Snugli}}. Wolfcastle used it to carry {{W|Rob Schneider}} in his film ''My Baby Is An Ugly Man''.
*At Rainier's garage sale, [[Lenny]] finds a cybernetic arm that resembles the Terminator's from ''[[Terminator]]''.
*When [[Marge]] runs over the mailman and tells him that it will take a while for help to arrive, he says it's no problem as he's got plenty to read and picks up a Twilight Zone magazine. Then, to his horror, he discovers that his glasses are broken, referencing the 1959 ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "{{w|Time Enough at Last}}". The music from the show plays after this.
*When the family eat dinner in the basement:
**They sit at an {{w|air hockey}} table and pass the food around as though they were playing the game.
**[[Lisa]] is bothered by the sight of people's feet as they walk by the window, and Homer reassures her by telling her it's just like ''[[Cheers]]'', referring to the bar's being located in a basement. Homer said he loved the show as it meant there was only half an hour until ''{{W2|Wings|1990 TV series}}''
*When Marge first takes steroids, the theme music from ''{{ap|Popeye|comic strip}}'' plays briefly.
*When Marge meets her mugger again and beats him up in the street, the fight sequence is taken directly from the movie ''[[The Godfather]]'' when {{w|Sonny Corleone}} beats up his brother in law Carlo after finding out he was beating his sister.
*A pastiche of "{{w|Gonna Fly Now}}" (the theme music from the ''{{W2|Rocky|film series}}'' movie series) is played at a couple of places in the episode:
**During the sequence where Marge is working out and meets up with a group of local bodybuilders (including [[Ruth Powers]]).
**At the beginning of the closing credits.
*[[Let's Hear It for the Soy]]'s name is a reference to the song "{{W|Let's Hear It for the Boy}}" by {{W|Deniece Williams}}.
*"{{W|Für Elise}}" by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] plays during [[The Iron Maidens]] competition.
*[[Sonya]] sings the song "[[(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance]]" by {{W|Gene Pitney}}.
*During the bar fight, "{{W|Love Is a Battlefield}}" by {{W|Pat Benatar}}, "{{W|At Last}}" by {{W|Etta James}} and "{{W2|Relax|song}}" by {{W|Frankie Goes to Hollywood}} all play.
*When the sailors enter the bar, "{{W|Anchors Aweigh}}", the fight song for the {{W|United States Navy}}, plays.
*During the aftermath of the fight, "{{W|Adagio for Strings}}" by {{W|Samuel Barber}} plays.
*The shock and subsequent agoraphobia suffered by [[Marge]] are a reference to the movie ''{{w2|Copycat|film}}''.

== Trivia ==
*Marge's car's license plate is "EABF 04", the production code for the episode.

== Continuity ==
*One of the items the Simpsons buy at Wolfcastle's yard sale is a bumper pack of [[PowerSauce]] bars. ("[[King of the Hill]]")
*When Lisa plays the magazine rack, she is holding the issue of ''[[Time]]'' magazine with the [[Inanimate carbon rod]] on the cover. ("[[Deep Space Homer]]")
*[[Ruth Powers]] makes a return appearance, voiced by [[Pamela Reed]]. She was last seen in "[[Marge on the Lam]]".
**Ruth mentions having been in prison, apparently for offenses unrelated to the events of "Marge on the Lam". (In that episode, the voiceover narration at the end said that the auto theft charges against her were dropped.)

== Goofs ==
*In the First Church of Springfield, [[Becky Shorter]], [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] all have the wrong colors.
*Before Marge picks up the jukebox to slam it into other people in Moe's Tavern, it isn't playing anything, but when she goes over to it, it starts playing music.
*When the family is eating dinner at the Air Hockey table, there are no goals on the ends of the table (where Lisa and Homer are sitting), except when there's a close up on Lisa. There is no goal when there's a close-up of Homer talking about "Cheers".
*When the lady smashes the piano saying "support the arts", her lips don't move.
*Homer packs lots of boxes in the car, but when Marge drives the car, the boxes disappear.
*In the first interior shot of [[Moe's Tavern]], [[Louie]] has [[Carl]]'s colors.

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The Dad Who Knew Too Little/References

2021-03-17T08:57:59Z

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== Cultural references ==
[[File:Lisa Simpson with Buttercup hairstyle.png|thumb|right|200px|[[Lisa Simpson]] with Buttercup hairstyle.]]
*When [[Homer]] and [[Lisa]] blacken his hairs, Lisa says: "look just like a Powerpuff Girl". This is a reference to Buttercup, one of three main characters of ''{{w|The Powerpuff Girls}}''.
*At the hotel, Lisa says her name is Lady Penelope Ariel Ponyweather. This a spoof of 1965 children's TV series ''Thunderbirds'', as International Rescue has a London agent, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward.
*The quote about Carl saying someone is cobbling shoes for him at night is a reference to the story The Elves and the Shoemaker.
*The name Amy in one of the monkey cages released from the laboratory is a quote from the book {{w2|Congo|novel}}.
*The black tears that [[Homer]] draws after confessing to [[Lisa]] that he is the source of hers problems, is a reference to the tattoo that many inmates do and which indicates that someone has killed (or tried to kill) someone.

== Trivia ==
*According to this episode, Officer Lou's ex-wife's name is Amy.
*When Bart and Homer are looking at the video kiosk in the mall, behind them is a kiosk labeled "Another Damn Candle Stand."
*There's a season 5 episode with the opposite title: "[[The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]" (They were parodies of the same film: The Man Who Knew Too Little).
**"[[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]" and "[[The Man Who Grew Too Much]]" are another parodies of that film.
*When Bart beams the laser at Principal Skinner, the red dot on his pants, when he pulls them down and Chief Wiggum stops in his car in front of him, how can the laser still be beaming on Skinner if Wiggum's car is blocking out the laser.
*Bart appears to be reading Lisa's diary from back to front.
*When Homer and Lisa pass by the "bridge out" sign we can see all the way to the bottom of the sign up to the letter U in out. When the sign is viewed after the branch is pulled back, we can see that the O and probably V in the word "overpass" should have been seen in the first place.
*Some of the [[P.T.E.T.A.]] members are also part of [[Dirt First]].
*It's implied that [[Rod Flanders]] is diabetic.
*It's mentioned that Carl has severe schizophrenia and he cobbles shoes at night with no memory as a result.
*Dexter Colt vandalizes the Screaming Monkey Research Lab, a possible reference to the Screaming Monkey Medical Lab in [[HOMЯ]].
*The song Homer plays for Lisa is Budo by Miles Davis off his 1957 album Birth of the Cool.
*This is the second episode that Lisa had a birthday. The first time was in the [[Season 3]] premiere episode: "[[Stark Raving Dad]]".
**Despite this, Lisa is still considered as 8 years old in subsequent episodes, despite the fact this would have theoretically been the point in which she turned 9.

== Goofs ==
*In the end credits, Lisa's bedroom has no door.
*When Lisa blinds Colt with the laser pointer and he falls to the ground, his tie disappears.

== Notes ==
*This episode won the 2004 WGA Award (TV) for Animation.
*For the first time ever, we see what Lisa's hairline looks like in this episode when she colors it black. (Not counting 'Lisa The Beauty Queen' because she gets different hairstyles.)
*Fox announced that it had renewed the show until 2005 and its 16th season. This will make the series the longest running comedy series in US TV history save for "Saturday Night Live", and it will have beaten the previous record holder for longest-running prime-time animated series (The Flintstones) by a full 10 years.
*Homer's e-mail address is actually writer Matt Selman's e-mail address. Matt used to write back to fans as Homer until about a month after this episode aired. Later, the address was disabled due to too many sent letters.
*The couch is Groening's version of the famous 1932 photograph "{{w|Lunch atop a Skyscraper}}".

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Dexter Colt

2021-03-16T17:52:29Z

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'''Dexter Colt''' is a private detective hired by [[Homer]] to spy on [[Lisa]] and report his discoveries so Homer could appear to know facts about her life.
*The character is modeled on detective {{W|Philip Marlowe}} and his performers in the many films about him.

== History ==
However, Colt charges Homer $1000 for expenses, including a $40 steak, which would've been free had Colt eaten all of it, as well as silver bullets, because Colt initially suspected Lisa of being a werewolf. When Homer refused to pay, Colt framed Lisa for stealing all the animals of the [[Screaming Monkey Medical Research Center]].

Colt later confronts Homer and Lisa at a circus. After Colt shoots a human cannonball at him, Homer hides in a hall of mirrors. Colt pursues Homer and attempts to shoot him, but he is foiled by Lisa, who blinds him with a laser pointer. The cops then show up and take Colt away to prison.<ref>"[[The Dad Who Knew Too Little]]"</ref>

Dexter Colt was hired by [[Mr. Burns]] to find information on [[Lyla]]. When Colt wanted payment, Burns hit the trap door button but someone had moved his desk and Burns fell down instead.<ref>"[[Four Regrettings and a Funeral]]"</ref>

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*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}

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The Dad Who Knew Too Little/Gags

2021-03-14T18:19:51Z

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Filmed in black and white, everyone sits on a girder watching TV, placed on another one, at a construction site. They all wear early 20th century clothes. (Done in the style of Charles C. Ebbets' photograph "{{w|Lunch Atop a Skyscraper}}".)

=== Appearances ===
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File:Bart Simpson.png|[[Bart Simpson]]
File:Homer Simpson.png|[[Homer Simpson]]
File:Lisa Simpson.png|[[Lisa Simpson]]
File:Maggie Simpson.png|[[Maggie Simpson]]
File:Marge Simpson.png|[[Marge Simpson]]
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=== Notes ===
*This couch gag was reused in "[[Old Yeller-Belly]]".

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The Dad Who Knew Too Little/References

2021-03-14T18:18:17Z

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== Cultural references ==
[[File:Lisa Simpson with Buttercup hairstyle.png|thumb|right|200px|[[Lisa Simpson]] with Buttercup hairstyle.]]
*When [[Homer]] and [[Lisa]] blacken his hairs, Lisa says: "look just like a Powerpuff Girl". This is a reference to Buttercup, one of three main characters of ''{{w|The Powerpuff Girls}}''.
*At the hotel, Lisa says her name is Lady Penelope Ariel Ponyweather. This a spoof of 1965 children's TV series ''Thunderbirds'', as International Rescue has a London agent, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward.
*The quote about Carl saying someone is cobbling shoes for him at night is a reference to the story The Elves and the Shoemaker.
== Trivia ==
*According to this episode, Officer Lou's ex-wife's name is Amy.
*When Bart and Homer are looking at the video kiosk in the mall, behind them is a kiosk labeled "Another Damn Candle Stand."
*There's a season 5 episode with the opposite title: "[[The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]" (They were parodies of the same film: The Man Who Knew Too Little).
**"[[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]" and "[[The Man Who Grew Too Much]]" are another parodies of that film.
*When Bart beams the laser at Principal Skinner, the red dot on his pants, when he pulls them down and Chief Wiggum stops in his car in front of him, how can the laser still be beaming on Skinner if Wiggum's car is blocking out the laser.
*Bart appears to be reading Lisa's diary from back to front.
*When Homer and Lisa pass by the "bridge out" sign we can see all the way to the bottom of the sign up to the letter U in out. When the sign is viewed after the branch is pulled back, we can see that the O and probably V in the word "overpass" should have been seen in the first place.
*Some of the [[P.T.E.T.A.]] members are also part of [[Dirt First]].
*It's implied that [[Rod Flanders]] is diabetic.
*It's mentioned that Carl has severe schizophrenia and he cobbles shoes at night with no memory as a result.
*Dexter Colt vandalizes the Screaming Monkey Research Lab, a possible reference to the Screaming Monkey Medical Lab in [[HOMЯ]].
*The song Homer plays for Lisa is Budo by Miles Davis off his 1957 album Birth of the Cool.
*This is the second episode that Lisa had a birthday. The first time was in the [[Season 3]] premiere episode: "[[Stark Raving Dad]]".
**Despite this, Lisa is still considered as 8 years old in subsequent episodes, despite the fact this would have theoretically been the point in which she turned 9.

== Goofs ==
*In the end credits, Lisa's bedroom has no door.
*When Lisa blinds Colt with the laser pointer and he falls to the ground, his tie disappears.

== Notes ==
*This episode won the 2004 WGA Award (TV) for Animation.
*For the first time ever, we see what Lisa's hairline looks like in this episode when she colors it black. (Not counting 'Lisa The Beauty Queen' because she gets different hairstyles.)
*Fox announced that it had renewed the show until 2005 and its 16th season. This will make the series the longest running comedy series in US TV history save for "Saturday Night Live", and it will have beaten the previous record holder for longest-running prime-time animated series (The Flintstones) by a full 10 years.
*Homer's e-mail address is actually writer Matt Selman's e-mail address. Matt used to write back to fans as Homer until about a month after this episode aired. Later, the address was disabled due to too many sent letters.
*The couch is Groening's version of the famous 1932 photograph "{{w|Lunch atop a Skyscraper}}".

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Special Edna/Quotes

2021-03-14T18:07:09Z

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{{qf|[[Edna]]}} [[Seymour]]. Of course I'll marry you.
{{qf|[[Agnes]]}} Oh, great. Three in a bed.
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{{qf|[[Bart]]}}: (to Skinner) Because I like you, I'll even do it pro boner.
{{qf|[[Skinner]]}} It's pro bono.
{{qf|[[Bart]]}}: I know what I said!

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2021-03-14T18:01:21Z

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{{qf|[[Bart]]}}: Because I like you, I'll even do it pro boner.
{{qf|[[Skinner]]}} It's pro bono.
{{qf|[[Bart]]}}: I know what I said!

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2021-03-14T17:54:58Z

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{{qf|[[Marge]]}} These are [[Homer]]'s friends and family. They don't want him dead! They just want him to suffer.
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{{qf|[[Sideshow Bob]]}}: Now we lie in wait....like hungry Cassius for noble Caesar.
{{qf|[[Homer]]}}: You're so smart. (To Bart) Shock him.
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{{qf|[[Duffman]]}}: Everything going dark, Like Duff Stout, the beer that made Ireland famous.
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{{qf|[[Bart]]}}:Dad, I'm really glad you're still alive.
{{qf|[[Homer]]}}:Yeah, it's every parent's dream to outlive their children.
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{{qf| [[Homer]]}}:I just wanted to impress you.
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Special Edna/References

2021-03-14T17:24:21Z

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== Cultural references ==
* This episode features a parody of the {{w|Epcot|EPCOT Center}}. A sign outside the park reads "When Every Other Place is Booked," and [[Homer]] moans that EFCOT is "even boring to fly over!"
* The references to EPCOT Center being different from {{w|Walt Disney World}} is confusing, since EPCOT is indeed one of the four Disney theme parks in Orlando that makes up Walt Disney World. Homer's reference to Disney World and the location to which he escapes at the end is most likely a reference to the {{w|Magic Kingdom}} park. Alternatively, it may be an indication that EFCOT is a distinct entity from Walt Disney World's Epcot.
* [[Enron's Ride of Broken Dreams]] is a reference to the fallout caused by the {{w|Enron scandal|''Enron'' scandal}}. The ride goes up for quite a distance parodying the stock's rise, then suddenly drops steeply and briefly rises again (stock partial recovery) and then drops down into a poor house shed (total collapse of the company, wiping out the savings of many).
* The attractions shown in the episode are:
**[[Honey, I Squirted Goo on the Audience]] - A parody of ''{{w|Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!}}''
**Great Moments with Mr. Eisner - A parody of Disneyland's {{w|Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln}}
**The FutureSphere - A parody of Epcot's Spaceship Earth and {{w|Magic Kingdom}}'s If You Had Wings
**The Home of Tomorrow - A parody of Disneyland's {{w|Monsanto House of the Future}}
**The World of Tomorrow attraction has some basis in the former Magic Kingdom attraction {{w|If You Had Wings}}, which was sponsored by {{w|Eastern Airlines}}. Eastern Airlines was the official airline of Walt Disney World until shortly before it filed for bankruptcy in 1989.
**The music playing while the giant Eastern Airlines robots herd people with whips is "Happy Together" by the Turtles. The people are walking/marching in step to the music.
**The building where the award ceremony is held is an exact likeness of Epcot's Horizons.
**The Electric Car of the Future, a parody of World of Motion, which was sponsored by {{w|General Motors}} (its replacement, Test Track, still is sponsored by General Motors).
* The nighttime fireworks/laser display being watched by Homer and [[Marge]] is a parody of Epcot's Illuminations show, taking place in a facsimile of Epcot's World Showcase.
* The "World of Tomorrow" ride parodies the fact that most of Epcot's attractions were sponsored by huge corporations ({{w|General Electric}}, {{w|AT&T}}, {{w|Exxon}}, {{w|United Technologies}}) that used their attractions to offer a very clean version of themselves and how they were bringing the future to the American public.
*At the [[Teacher of the Year]] awards ceremony, Homer twice misidentifies presenter {{ch|Little Richard}}:
**When Richard introduces himself, Homer calls out "{{W2|Purple Rain|song}}!", a song by [[Prince]].
**When Richard tells Homer to shut up, Homer (still in awe) says, "[[Michael Jackson]] just told me to shut up."
*[[Julio Estudiante]], the teacher who wins the Teacher of the Year award, is reminiscent of {{w|Jaime Escalante}} and the [[1988]] film ''{{w|Stand and Deliver}}'', where Escalante indeed teaches inner city school students that differential equations were more powerful than bullets.
* When Homer and [[Bart]] ride the electric car, the gay robots say "One of us! One of us!" This is homage to the classic line from the 1932 film ''{{w|Freaks}}''. The ride, sponsored by "gas producers of America" exhibits a veiled parody of smear campaigns and conspiracies by oil companies (such as the Streetcar Scandal) to squash alternative transportation (such as mass transit and electric cars) and expand the use of gasoline-powered automobiles.
* [[Edna]] mentions that she accidentally showed the "R-rated version of Romeo and Juliet", which is {{W2|Romeo and Juliet|1968 film|the 1968 film adaptation}}.
* The opening music to the documentary on holes is the beginning of "{{w2|Fragile|song}}" by [[Sting]]. This is a reference to the IMAX documentary ''{{w|The Living Sea}}'', whose soundtrack featured the same song.
**EPCOT had an attraction called The Living Seas from 1986 until 2006.
*When [[Lisa]] mocks Bart for befriending Edna, she quotes "put mothballs in the beef stew", a line from the Simpsons' hit single "[[Do the Bartman]]".
* The wrestling match [[Bart]] watches on TV is an irony of the {{w|2003 invasion of Iraq}}; the fighter [[Osama bin Rotten]] is an ironic reference to {{w|Osama bin Laden}} and the fighter "the Secretary of Hate, Colin Kapow" is a reference to the {{w|US Secretary of State}} during that war, {{w|Colin Powell}}.
* The text that Bart uses to study World War I confuses the agreement between states defined {{w|Entente Cordiale}} with the {{w|Triple Entente}}.
* [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]]'s intimidating use of the {{w2|Black Hawk|Sikorsky UH-60}} helicopter on flirting couples in cars is a reference to the {{W|Blue Thunder}} movie.
* The committee for the selection of the best teacher of the year cites the film [[Dead Poets Society]] as "destroyer of educators". To confirm this consideration, the video is shown in which a teacher makes irony and humor (even with quite vulgar gestures) on one of the most critical moments of the cold war between the USA and the USSR (the {{w|Cuban missile crisis}}) where it was avoided. the start of a conflict between the two nuclear superpowers.
* The motto ''"We chech IDs"'' that [[Moe]] says in the [[Moe's Tavern]] advertisement that [[Bart]] inserts in his {{w|World War I}} assignment refers to checking the identity documents made by bartenders to avoid serving alcohol to minors. but [[Moe]] winks to the effect that he is joking, so the commercial becomes downright dangerous legally.
* While [[Bart]] imagines who could pair up with [[mrs. Krabappel]] hears the song ''{{w|You Sexy Thing}}'' by {{w|Hot Chocolate;}} among the various characters that he imagines the only one who is not a cartoon character is [[George Meyer]] (one of the producers of the Simpsons).
*The sports car that [[Willie]] lends to [[Skinner]] and a yellow {{w|Lola T70}} Mk II, star of track races in the 1960s.
*When [[Skinner]] drives off in [[Willie]]'s car you hear the 007 movie theme and also the monitor with which Willie calls Skinner in the car is a quote from the 007 movie ''{{w|You Only Live Twice}}''.
*The square where the Simpson family has lunch at {{w|Epcot Center}} is a reference to the squares and buildings of the medieval cities of northern Europe (it looks a lot like {{w|Bruges}} in Belgium). Far on the horizon you can also see the bell {{w|St Mark's Campanile}} with the {{w|Doge's Palace}} of {{w|Venice}}, the {{w|Big Ben}}, the {{w|Eiffel Tower}}, the {{w|Chichén Itzá}} pyramid, the {{w|Hōryū-ji}} Pagoda, the {{w|Fontainebleau}} Castle, the {{w|Royal Palace of Amsterdam}}.
* The movie ''"[[Honey, I Squirted Goo on the Audience]]"'' that is screened at Epcot Center, the green thing stuck on the facades of the cinema building and that comes out of its doors, and that is on Homer and Bart, is a reference to the movie ''{{w|The Blob}}'' (1958).
*The phrase Bart says to Skinner in the car simulator ''"pro boner"'' is a saying that indicates an activity apparently ''"pro bono"'' (definition used by professionals to indicate a job done without compensation) but instead having the purpose of obtaining a sexual reward from someone. <ref>https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pro-boner</ref>
*The ending has two closing credits. the first is the song {{w|''Happy Together''}} by [[The Turtles]], the second is the song ''"[[What Do I Think of the Pie]]"'' sung by the Simpson characters and composed by [[Alf Clausen]].

== Trivia/Goofs ==
*This episode is a sequel to "[[Grade School Confidential]]".
*According to a sign [[Seymour Skinner|Skinner]] passes on the edge of town, [[Springfield]] is 2,653 miles from [[Orlando]].
*The original title for this episode is "Love and Marking".
**This may be an indicator that "The Principal and the Pauper" is non-canon.
*The Simpsons visit [[EFCOT Center]] (a parody of Disney's EPCOT Center) in Orlando, Florida to attend the "Teacher of the Year" award, but in the season eleven episode, "[[Kill the Alligator and Run]]", the Simpsons were banned from setting foot in [[Florida]].
*In the credits, Homer's chair changes from metal black to wooden beige. Also, when Homer pushes his chair back, he doesn't actually, and the chair is moved one step back, as the frame will have altered the push.
*Two of the kids Bart runs over in "Halloween Hit and Run" are [[Lewis]] and [[Richard]] in their Halloween costumes from "[[Treehouse of Horror II]]".
*In church several people have the wrong color.

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2021-03-14T14:23:12Z

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== Cultural references ==
* This episode features a parody of the {{w|Epcot|EPCOT Center}}. A sign outside the park reads "When Every Other Place is Booked," and [[Homer]] moans that EFCOT is "even boring to fly over!"
* The references to EPCOT Center being different from {{w|Walt Disney World}} is confusing, since EPCOT is indeed one of the four Disney theme parks in Orlando that makes up Walt Disney World. Homer's reference to Disney World and the location to which he escapes at the end is most likely a reference to the {{w|Magic Kingdom}} park. Alternatively, it may be an indication that EFCOT is a distinct entity from Walt Disney World's Epcot.
* [[Enron's Ride of Broken Dreams]] is a reference to the fallout caused by the {{w|Enron scandal|''Enron'' scandal}}. The ride goes up for quite a distance parodying the stock's rise, then suddenly drops steeply and briefly rises again (stock partial recovery) and then drops down into a poor house shed (total collapse of the company, wiping out the savings of many).
* The attractions shown in the episode are:
**[[Honey, I Squirted Goo on the Audience]] - A parody of ''{{w|Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!}}''
**Great Moments with Mr. Eisner - A parody of Disneyland's {{w|Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln}}
**The FutureSphere - A parody of Epcot's Spaceship Earth and {{w|Magic Kingdom}}'s If You Had Wings
**The Home of Tomorrow - A parody of Disneyland's {{w|Monsanto House of the Future}}
**The World of Tomorrow attraction has some basis in the former Magic Kingdom attraction {{w|If You Had Wings}}, which was sponsored by {{w|Eastern Airlines}}. Eastern Airlines was the official airline of Walt Disney World until shortly before it filed for bankruptcy in 1989.
**The music playing while the giant Eastern Airlines robots herd people with whips is "Happy Together" by the Turtles. The people are walking/marching in step to the music.
**The building where the award ceremony is held is an exact likeness of Epcot's Horizons.
**The Electric Car of the Future, a parody of World of Motion, which was sponsored by {{w|General Motors}} (its replacement, Test Track, still is sponsored by General Motors).
* The nighttime fireworks/laser display being watched by Homer and [[Marge]] is a parody of Epcot's Illuminations show, taking place in a facsimile of Epcot's World Showcase.
* The "World of Tomorrow" ride parodies the fact that most of Epcot's attractions were sponsored by huge corporations ({{w|General Electric}}, {{w|AT&T}}, {{w|Exxon}}, {{w|United Technologies}}) that used their attractions to offer a very clean version of themselves and how they were bringing the future to the American public.
*At the [[Teacher of the Year]] awards ceremony, Homer twice misidentifies presenter {{ch|Little Richard}}:
**When Richard introduces himself, Homer calls out "{{W2|Purple Rain|song}}!", a song by [[Prince]].
**When Richard tells Homer to shut up, Homer (still in awe) says, "[[Michael Jackson]] just told me to shut up."
*[[Julio Estudiante]], the teacher who wins the Teacher of the Year award, is reminiscent of {{w|Jaime Escalante}} and the [[1988]] film ''{{w|Stand and Deliver}}'', where Escalante indeed teaches inner city school students that differential equations were more powerful than bullets.
* When Homer and [[Bart]] ride the electric car, the gay robots say "One of us! One of us!" This is homage to the classic line from the 1932 film ''{{w|Freaks}}''. The ride, sponsored by "gas producers of America" exhibits a veiled parody of smear campaigns and conspiracies by oil companies (such as the Streetcar Scandal) to squash alternative transportation (such as mass transit and electric cars) and expand the use of gasoline-powered automobiles.
* [[Edna]] mentions that she accidentally showed the "R-rated version of Romeo and Juliet", which is {{W2|Romeo and Juliet|1968 film|the 1968 film adaptation}}.
* The opening music to the documentary on holes is the beginning of "{{w2|Fragile|song}}" by [[Sting]]. This is a reference to the IMAX documentary ''{{w|The Living Sea}}'', whose soundtrack featured the same song.
**EPCOT had an attraction called The Living Seas from 1986 until 2006.
*When [[Lisa]] mocks Bart for befriending Edna, she quotes "put mothballs in the beef stew", a line from the Simpsons' hit single "[[Do the Bartman]]".
**
* The wrestling match [[Bart]] watches on TV is an irony of the {{w|2003 invasion of Iraq}}; the fighter [[Osama bin Rotten]] is an ironic reference to {{w|Osama bin Laden}} and the fighter "the Secretary of Hate, Colin Kapow" is a reference to the {{w|US Secretary of State}} during that war, {{w|Colin Powell}}.
* The text that Bart uses to study World War I confuses the agreement between states defined {{w|Entente Cordiale}} with the {{w|Triple Entente}}.
* [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]]'s intimidating use of the {{w2|Black Hawk|Sikorsky UH-60|}} helicopter on flirting couples in cars is a reference to the {{W|Blue Thunder}} movie.
* The committee for the selection of the best teacher of the year cites the film [[Dead Poets Society]] as "destroyer of educators". To confirm this consideration, the video is shown in which a teacher makes irony and humor (even with quite vulgar gestures) on one of the most critical moments of the cold war between the USA and the USSR (the {{w|Cuban missile crisis}}) where it was avoided. the start of a conflict between the two nuclear superpowers.
* The motto ''"We chech IDs"'' that [[Moe]] says in the [[Moe's Tavern]] advertisement that [[Bart]] inserts in his {{w|World War I}} assignment refers to checking the identity documents made by bartenders to avoid serving alcohol to minors. but [[Moe]] winks to the effect that he is joking, so the commercial becomes downright dangerous legally.
* While [[Bart]] imagines who could pair up with [[mrs. Krabappel]] hears the song ''{{w|You Sexy Thing}}'' by {{w|Hot Chocolate;}} among the various characters that he imagines the only one who is not a cartoon character is [[George Meyer]] (one of the producers of the Simpsons).
*The sports car that [[Willie]] lends to [[Skinner]] and a yellow {{w|Lola T70}} Mk II, star of track races in the 1960s.
*When [[Skinner]] drives off in [[Willie]]'s car you hear the 007 movie theme and also the monitor with which Willie calls Skinner in the car is a quote from the 007 movie ''{{w|You Only Live Twice}}''.
*The square where the Simpson family has lunch at {{w|Epcot Center}} is a reference to the squares and buildings of the medieval cities of northern Europe (it looks a lot like {{w|Bruges}} in Belgium). Far on the horizon you can also see the bell {{w|St Mark's Campanile}} with the {{w|Doge's Palace}} of {{w|Venice}}, the {{w|Big Ben}}, the {{w|Eiffel Tower}}, the {{w|Chichén Itzá}} pyramid, the {{w|Hōryū-ji}} Pagoda, the {{w|Fontainebleau}} Castle, the {{w|Royal Palace of Amsterdam}}.
* The movie ''"[[Honey, I Squirted Goo on the Audience]]"'' that is screened at Epcot Center, the green thing stuck on the facades of the cinema building and that comes out of its doors, and that is on Homer and Bart, is a reference to the movie ''{{w|The Blob}}'' (1958).
*The phrase Bart says to Skinner in the car simulator ''"pro boner"'' is a saying that indicates an activity apparently ''"pro bono"'' (definition used by professionals to indicate a job done without compensation) but instead having the purpose of obtaining a sexual reward from someone. <ref>https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pro-boner</ref>
*The ending has two closing credits. the first is the song {{w|''Happy Together''}} by [[The Turtles]], the second is the song ''"[[What Do I Think of the Pie]]"'' sung by the Simpson characters and composed by [[Alf Clausen]].

== Trivia/Goofs ==
*This episode is a sequel to "[[Grade School Confidential]]".
*According to a sign [[Seymour Skinner|Skinner]] passes on the edge of town, [[Springfield]] is 2,653 miles from [[Orlando]].
*The original title for this episode is "Love and Marking".
**This may be an indicator that "The Principal and the Pauper" is non-canon.
*The Simpsons visit [[EFCOT Center]] (a parody of Disney's EPCOT Center) in Orlando, Florida to attend the "Teacher of the Year" award, but in the season eleven episode, "[[Kill the Alligator and Run]]", the Simpsons were banned from setting foot in [[Florida]].
*In the credits, Homer's chair changes from metal black to wooden beige. Also, when Homer pushes his chair back, he doesn't actually, and the chair is moved one step back, as the frame will have altered the push.
*Two of the kids Bart runs over in "Halloween Hit and Run" are [[Lewis]] and [[Richard]] in their Halloween costumes from "[[Treehouse of Horror II]]".
*In church several people have the wrong color.

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Lenny Leonard

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{{Character
|name = Lenford Leonard
|image = [[File:Lenny Leonard.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Lenny by [[Matt Groening]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Dark brown
|age = 38
|status = Alive
|job = Co-worker of [[Homer Simpson]] at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], job title unclear
|relatives = '''Sister:''' [[Lainie Leonard]] '''Mother:''' Cheryl<ref>"[[I Want You (She's So Heavy)]]"</ref> '''Grandmother:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Simprovised]]"</ref>
|appearance = [[Life on the Fast Lane]]
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]]
}}

'''Lenford "Lenny" Leonard''' is the best friend of [[Carl Carlson]] and, along with Carl, second best friend of [[Homer Simpson]], behind [[Barney Gumble]]. He works at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] and possesses a master's degree in nuclear physics, but he is portrayed as a simple, often naive, blue-collar working man.

== Biography ==
[[File:Lennyfolder.PNG|thumbnail|left|Lenny's character folder in the Hall of Records on The Simpsons website.]]
Despite being shown in the [[First Church of Springfield]], Lenny is a Buddhist. Born in [[Chicago]], he is also a war hero and a three-time juror. His grandmother spent 20 years in a Soviet labour camp, hinting that Lenny may have ancestors from the former Soviet Union, or have ancestors who were POWs.<ref>"[[Midnight Towboy]]"</ref> Lenny was a member of the Springfield chapter of the Stonecutters secret society (Number 12, outranking Mr. Burns).<ref>"[[Homer the Great]]"</ref> Lenny seems to have little regard for his own life: "Quick and pointless, that's the death for me".<ref name="Half-Decent Proposal">"[[Half-Decent Proposal]]"</ref> Another example of his apathy towards salvation is that he shrugs after being pulled from a ladder which would have seen him and Homer to safety. Lenny also has a problem of interrupting people.<ref>"[[Bart's Inner Child]]"</ref>
He was portrayed by famous portrait photographer {{w|Richard Avedon}} whose photos were published in The New Yorker magazine.<ref>[[The Sweetest Apu]]</ref> [[File:Lenny by Avedon.png|thumbnail|right|Avedon photo shoot published in The New Yorker magazine]]

=== Jobs ===
Lenny works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant alongside Homer Simpson and Carl Carlson. Despite his steady job, Lenny has been featured with several other jobs. On one occasion, he is promoted to head of the power plant when [[Mr. Burns]] goes bankrupt; which Smithers later describes to Homer Simpson as a "reign of terror". Homer considers Lenny to be the second richest man he knows. However, Lenny is once shown living in a dilapidated house, and asks Marge to not tell anyone how he lives. In another episode<ref>"[[Helter Shelter]]"</ref>, he is shown living in a fancy, well-furnished modern apartment with hanging on the walls paintings of considerable importance (that they are paintings and not prints can be deduced from the lighting dedicated to them) such as a composition by {{w|Mondrian}}, a part of {{w|van Dyke}}'s "''{{w|portrait of Charles I on the hunt}}''", one of {{w|Juan Gris}}' guitars....but that happens to share a wall with a jai-alai court. In a "future episode", it's shown Lenny is once again in charge of the power plant. On one episode, it is implied he is an undercover agent whose target is Homer. He was also fired from the Nuclear Power Plant at least twice, once as a demonstration to Bart as how he should act as his heir, and the second due to being the last one in the designated cabin in a Company Competition. Also, during an Employee Appreciation Night, he attempted to thank Mr. Burns for the great evening, but his attempt backfired due to his being drunk, which only resulted in terrifying Mr. Burns.

At the Adult Education Annex, Lenny teaches a class on "How To Chew Tobacco". In one of Homer's daydreams, it's shown that Lenny is the President of the United States.<ref>"[[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]"</ref>

Lenny is a member of the Republican party, and possesses a Dole/Kemp '96 American flag tattoo.<ref>"[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]"</ref> Lenny is also a successful writer who wrote a series of mystery novels, one of them entitled "The Murderer Did It", which are called "scary good fun" by Stephen King. Lenny is also shown to be a member of the NRA as seen in "The Cartridge Family". His weapon of choice appears to be an AR-15 rifle, which he says "are manufactured for a reason: to take out today's modern super animals like the flying squirrel, and the electric eel." <ref>"[[The Cartridge Family]]"</ref>
Lenny is an adept guitar player.

== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
Lenny's best friend is Carl Carlson, as they are rarely seen apart; his other friends are Homer, and regulars at Moe's including [[Barney Gumble]] and [[Moe Szyslak]]. He met [[Homer]] and [[Moe]] at summer camp at a young age.<ref>"[[The Way We Weren't]]"</ref> On Lenny's birthday, his friends attempted to throw a surprise party for him at Moe's, which is ruined by Homer, who then sits on a cake shaped like Lenny's favorite barstool. Homer repeatedly confuses Lenny and Carl, and is shocked to learn on one occasion that Lenny is white, and Carl is black. To guide himself, Homer has "Lenny = White, Carl = Black" on his hand. He once muttered to himself, "Is that right?" while reading it. Homer once exclaimed, "That's Lenny? I wanted the black one!" <ref>"[[Helter Shelter]]"</ref> When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity,<ref>"[[Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]"</ref> Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people; Homer later stated, "White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl".

Lenny appears to be well liked by the Simpson family. On one occasion, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and the kids built a prayer shrine for him when learning he was taken to the hospital. When Homer went bowling but tells Marge that Lenny was hospitalized; Marge informs the kids, they respond the same way she did and shout, "Not Lenny!".<ref>"[[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]"</ref> The Simpson family had a cake inscribed "Happy Labor Day Lenny".<ref>"[[Sleeping with the Enemy]]"</ref>
Marge has a picture of Lenny in her hair.<ref>"[[Pranksta Rap]]"</ref>
In The Great Louse Detective, Lenny tells Sideshow Bob to kill Bart. It is also shown that Lenny greatly values all his friends when he throws them a lavish party (after winning on a lottery ticket) to celebrate their amity.<ref>"[[Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]"</ref>

===== Relationship with Carl =====
The possibility of a sexual relationship between Lenny and Carl has constantly been alluded. When Marge's Popsicle stick sculptures of Lenny and Carl are destroyed and mashed together, Lenny stated, "I don't know where Carl ends and I begin!", to which Carl replies, "See, it's statements like that that make people think we're gay."

Carl once told Seymour Skinner that "Marriage is gonna be great. Now you'll have someone who'll rub your back - without being asked" while glaring at Lenny, who sighed "Oh, not this again." Carl then responds "Yes, this again." When Homer opened a chapel for gay couples after Gay Marriage was legalized, he speculated that Lenny and Carl might be interested, and Marge responds with "Don't you push them - they've gotta work that out for themselves." Once, Chief Wiggum remarked that Lenny's relationship with Carl is on the rocks.
While helping Lisa with a science project, Homer quoted to Lisa "You and science go together like Lenny and Carl - the science is Carl".<ref>"[[Fat Man and Little Boy]]"</ref> Another time, Lenny and Carl saw Homer and Marge kiss, prompting Lenny to remark, "Remember when we used to kiss like that, Carl...with our respective girlfriends?" They then discuss what happened to them. Apparently one turned out to be a prostitute and one died.<ref>"[[Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play]]"</ref> In the Simpsons Game, if the player fails to rescue Lenny and Carl in Lisa the Tree Hugger, Carl might say, "Tell Lenny... I loved... his recipe for caramel sundaes."

Lenny's hero worship over Carl has reached a mounting point. Lenny revealed that he carved Carl's face on a mountain, and called it Mount Carlmore.<ref name="Half-Decent Proposal"/> He later leaves a burning oil field, only because Carl arrived. On one occasion, the residents of Springfield see the stars, and see deep within their hearts and souls; Lenny sees Carl's face in the stars (Carl also sees himself there). Lenny published a newspaper called The Lenny-Saver with the headline: "The Truth About Carl: He's Great." After displaying this, he shedded a tear and stated that "it had to be told."
Lenny and Carl were once pictured driving a sports car through the woods with two children in the back of contrasting background (either noting they are both single parents have separately or otherwise adopted children.)<ref>"[[Lisa the Drama Queen]]"</ref>
Carl Carlson states that he and Lenny have the same mother when a major fire is closing in on her work.<ref>"[[Little Big Girl]]"</ref>

=== Love Life ===
Lenny is apparently divorced - Carl says that he sang "The Best Is Yet to Come" at Lenny's wedding,<ref>"[[The Bart of War]]"</ref> although it was later shown that Lenny punched Carl for giving a bad speech at his wedding.
Lenny is a persistent bachelor who has poor luck with women. Lenny once shaved the legs of a woman who calls him an idiot for not shaving in an upward direction.<ref>"[[Marge on the Lam]]"</ref> Homer mentioned to Moe that both Lenny and Carl are with their mistresses.<ref>"[[Team Homer]]"</ref> In yet another occasion, he was seen in the opening scene with his arm around a woman who appears to be his girlfriend.<ref>"[[Homer the Smithers]]"</ref>
It's revealed that he had dated a woman in a Woody Woodpecker outfit at a fairground for three months until she left him for the man who cleans the vomit on the roller coaster.<ref>"[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]"</ref> Lenny had told Carl that he was married to a Beauty-Queen, but it is later revealed that Lenny made his Beauty-Queen wife up, and is unmarried.<ref>"[[In Marge We Trust]]"</ref> Lenny is one of many men who had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref>

When [[Professor Frink]] matched up Springfield's bachelors to a bachelorette, Lenny was paired with [[Lindsey Naegle]].<ref>"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Television ===
[[File:Lenny's Death (Treehouse of Horror XI).png|200px|thumb|Lenny dead in "Treehouse of Horror XI".]]
At age 53, Lenny owns a super pet. When [[Milhouse]] (with giant muscles) gets trapped between two trees, he and Carl leave him there. In Homer's dream in [[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]], Lenny is shown at Homer's funeral as president and when Homer wakes up, he asks Marge not to vote for him.

In "[[Behind the Laughter]]", Lenny and Carl are constant companions, and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] had apparently paid the two to kiss one another.

In "[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]", Lenny dies and sees the angels in Heaven take the form of Carl (although they're saying, "Hurry up or we'll be late for work at the plant!"). Lenny is killed by killer dolphins in the "[[Treehouse of Horror XI]]" segment "The Night of the Dolphin".

=== Video Games ===
In the Simpsons Game, Carl and Lenny are shown arguing while bird-watching, and having forgotten Lisa and Bart's names when they save Lenny and Carl from logging machinery, even though Lenny and Carl have known them all their lives. Later on both Lenny and Carl can be recruited by Marge in her mob to ban the sales of the ''Grand Theft Scratchy'' game to minors.

=== Health ===
It is known that Lenny has eye problems.<ref>"[[Homer vs. Dignity]]"</ref>

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== Behind the Laughter ==
=== Foreign dubs ===
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|esVoice=Abraham Aguilar
|quVoice={{W|fr:Benoît Rousseau|Benoît Rousseau}}
|ruVoice=Dmitriy Filimonov
|ukVoice=Yevhen Malukha Valerii Lehin (seasons 1, 2) Oleh Lepenets (movie)
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== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish}}
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*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
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*{{ep|Bart Star}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
*{{ep|Simpson Tide}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
*{{ep|Lost Our Lisa}}
*{{ep|The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
*{{ep|D'oh-in' in the Wind}}
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
*{{ep|Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)}}
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
*{{ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
*{{ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
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*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
*{{ep|Luca$}}
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas|(picture seen)}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead}}
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers)}}
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
*{{cg|Mad About the Toy/Gags|Mad About the Toy}}
*{{ep|E My Sports}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
*{{ep|D'oh Canada}}
*{{ep|Woo-hoo Dunnit?}}
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror|(The Fourth Thursday After Tomorrow)}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
*{{spec|Homer Shake}}
*{{spec|Simpsons Ice Bucket Challenge|(mentioned)}}
*{{spec|Jimmy Kimmel Live!}}
*{{spec|Homer Votes 2016}}
*{{spec|Happy Daytona Day}}
*{{spec|Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson|(archive footage)}}
*{{spec|A Message from Moe About Puerto Rico}}
*{{TSG}}
*{{ad|Bart Surfing at the Beach}}
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*{{bon|The Buck Stops Everywhere}}
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*{{bk|The Homer Book}}
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== References ==
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File:Lenny by Avedon.png

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Alessandra: Richard Avedon's photoshoot of Lenny published in The New Yorker Episode The Sweetest Apu- Episode number: 288-Season number: S13 E19-Production code: DABF14

== Summary ==
Richard Avedon's photoshoot of Lenny published in The New Yorker Episode The Sweetest Apu- Episode number: 288-Season number: S13 E19-Production code: DABF14
== Licensing ==
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Lenny Leonard

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Alessandra: /* Jobs */

{{Featured article}}
:{{redirect|Lenny|[[Lenny (disambiguation)]]}}
{{Character
|name = Lenford Leonard
|image = [[File:Lenny Leonard.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Lenny by [[Matt Groening]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Dark brown
|age = 38
|status = Alive
|job = Co-worker of [[Homer Simpson]] at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], job title unclear
|relatives = '''Sister:''' [[Lainie Leonard]] '''Mother:''' Cheryl<ref>"[[I Want You (She's So Heavy)]]"</ref> '''Grandmother:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Simprovised]]"</ref>
|appearance = [[Life on the Fast Lane]]
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]]
}}

'''Lenford "Lenny" Leonard''' is the best friend of [[Carl Carlson]] and, along with Carl, second best friend of [[Homer Simpson]], behind [[Barney Gumble]]. He works at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] and possesses a master's degree in nuclear physics, but he is portrayed as a simple, often naive, blue-collar working man.

== Biography ==
[[File:Lennyfolder.PNG|thumbnail|left|Lenny's character folder in the Hall of Records on The Simpsons website.]]
Despite being shown in the [[First Church of Springfield]], Lenny is a Buddhist. Born in [[Chicago]], he is also a war hero and a three-time juror. His grandmother spent 20 years in a Soviet labour camp, hinting that Lenny may have ancestors from the former Soviet Union, or have ancestors who were POWs.<ref>"[[Midnight Towboy]]"</ref> Lenny was a member of the Springfield chapter of the Stonecutters secret society (Number 12, outranking Mr. Burns).<ref>"[[Homer the Great]]"</ref> Lenny seems to have little regard for his own life: "Quick and pointless, that's the death for me".<ref name="Half-Decent Proposal">"[[Half-Decent Proposal]]"</ref> Another example of his apathy towards salvation is that he shrugs after being pulled from a ladder which would have seen him and Homer to safety. Lenny also has a problem of interrupting people.<ref>"[[Bart's Inner Child]]"</ref>

=== Jobs ===
Lenny works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant alongside Homer Simpson and Carl Carlson. Despite his steady job, Lenny has been featured with several other jobs. On one occasion, he is promoted to head of the power plant when [[Mr. Burns]] goes bankrupt; which Smithers later describes to Homer Simpson as a "reign of terror". Homer considers Lenny to be the second richest man he knows. However, Lenny is once shown living in a dilapidated house, and asks Marge to not tell anyone how he lives. In another episode<ref>"[[Helter Shelter]]"</ref>, he is shown living in a fancy, well-furnished modern apartment with hanging on the walls paintings of considerable importance (that they are paintings and not prints can be deduced from the lighting dedicated to them) such as a composition by {{w|Mondrian}}, a part of {{w|van Dyke}}'s "''{{w|portrait of Charles I on the hunt}}''", one of {{w|Juan Gris}}' guitars....but that happens to share a wall with a jai-alai court. In a "future episode", it's shown Lenny is once again in charge of the power plant. On one episode, it is implied he is an undercover agent whose target is Homer. He was also fired from the Nuclear Power Plant at least twice, once as a demonstration to Bart as how he should act as his heir, and the second due to being the last one in the designated cabin in a Company Competition. Also, during an Employee Appreciation Night, he attempted to thank Mr. Burns for the great evening, but his attempt backfired due to his being drunk, which only resulted in terrifying Mr. Burns.

At the Adult Education Annex, Lenny teaches a class on "How To Chew Tobacco". In one of Homer's daydreams, it's shown that Lenny is the President of the United States.<ref>"[[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]"</ref>

Lenny is a member of the Republican party, and possesses a Dole/Kemp '96 American flag tattoo.<ref>"[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]"</ref> Lenny is also a successful writer who wrote a series of mystery novels, one of them entitled "The Murderer Did It", which are called "scary good fun" by Stephen King. Lenny is also shown to be a member of the NRA as seen in "The Cartridge Family". His weapon of choice appears to be an AR-15 rifle, which he says "are manufactured for a reason: to take out today's modern super animals like the flying squirrel, and the electric eel." <ref>"[[The Cartridge Family]]"</ref>
Lenny is an adept guitar player.

== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
Lenny's best friend is Carl Carlson, as they are rarely seen apart; his other friends are Homer, and regulars at Moe's including [[Barney Gumble]] and [[Moe Szyslak]]. He met [[Homer]] and [[Moe]] at summer camp at a young age.<ref>"[[The Way We Weren't]]"</ref> On Lenny's birthday, his friends attempted to throw a surprise party for him at Moe's, which is ruined by Homer, who then sits on a cake shaped like Lenny's favorite barstool. Homer repeatedly confuses Lenny and Carl, and is shocked to learn on one occasion that Lenny is white, and Carl is black. To guide himself, Homer has "Lenny = White, Carl = Black" on his hand. He once muttered to himself, "Is that right?" while reading it. Homer once exclaimed, "That's Lenny? I wanted the black one!" <ref>"[[Helter Shelter]]"</ref> When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity,<ref>"[[Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]"</ref> Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people; Homer later stated, "White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl".

Lenny appears to be well liked by the Simpson family. On one occasion, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and the kids built a prayer shrine for him when learning he was taken to the hospital. When Homer went bowling but tells Marge that Lenny was hospitalized; Marge informs the kids, they respond the same way she did and shout, "Not Lenny!".<ref>"[[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]"</ref> The Simpson family had a cake inscribed "Happy Labor Day Lenny".<ref>"[[Sleeping with the Enemy]]"</ref>
Marge has a picture of Lenny in her hair.<ref>"[[Pranksta Rap]]"</ref>
In The Great Louse Detective, Lenny tells Sideshow Bob to kill Bart. It is also shown that Lenny greatly values all his friends when he throws them a lavish party (after winning on a lottery ticket) to celebrate their amity.<ref>"[[Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]"</ref>

===== Relationship with Carl =====
The possibility of a sexual relationship between Lenny and Carl has constantly been alluded. When Marge's Popsicle stick sculptures of Lenny and Carl are destroyed and mashed together, Lenny stated, "I don't know where Carl ends and I begin!", to which Carl replies, "See, it's statements like that that make people think we're gay."

Carl once told Seymour Skinner that "Marriage is gonna be great. Now you'll have someone who'll rub your back - without being asked" while glaring at Lenny, who sighed "Oh, not this again." Carl then responds "Yes, this again." When Homer opened a chapel for gay couples after Gay Marriage was legalized, he speculated that Lenny and Carl might be interested, and Marge responds with "Don't you push them - they've gotta work that out for themselves." Once, Chief Wiggum remarked that Lenny's relationship with Carl is on the rocks.
While helping Lisa with a science project, Homer quoted to Lisa "You and science go together like Lenny and Carl - the science is Carl".<ref>"[[Fat Man and Little Boy]]"</ref> Another time, Lenny and Carl saw Homer and Marge kiss, prompting Lenny to remark, "Remember when we used to kiss like that, Carl...with our respective girlfriends?" They then discuss what happened to them. Apparently one turned out to be a prostitute and one died.<ref>"[[Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play]]"</ref> In the Simpsons Game, if the player fails to rescue Lenny and Carl in Lisa the Tree Hugger, Carl might say, "Tell Lenny... I loved... his recipe for caramel sundaes."

Lenny's hero worship over Carl has reached a mounting point. Lenny revealed that he carved Carl's face on a mountain, and called it Mount Carlmore.<ref name="Half-Decent Proposal"/> He later leaves a burning oil field, only because Carl arrived. On one occasion, the residents of Springfield see the stars, and see deep within their hearts and souls; Lenny sees Carl's face in the stars (Carl also sees himself there). Lenny published a newspaper called The Lenny-Saver with the headline: "The Truth About Carl: He's Great." After displaying this, he shedded a tear and stated that "it had to be told."
Lenny and Carl were once pictured driving a sports car through the woods with two children in the back of contrasting background (either noting they are both single parents have separately or otherwise adopted children.)<ref>"[[Lisa the Drama Queen]]"</ref>
Carl Carlson states that he and Lenny have the same mother when a major fire is closing in on her work.<ref>"[[Little Big Girl]]"</ref>

=== Love Life ===
Lenny is apparently divorced - Carl says that he sang "The Best Is Yet to Come" at Lenny's wedding,<ref>"[[The Bart of War]]"</ref> although it was later shown that Lenny punched Carl for giving a bad speech at his wedding.
Lenny is a persistent bachelor who has poor luck with women. Lenny once shaved the legs of a woman who calls him an idiot for not shaving in an upward direction.<ref>"[[Marge on the Lam]]"</ref> Homer mentioned to Moe that both Lenny and Carl are with their mistresses.<ref>"[[Team Homer]]"</ref> In yet another occasion, he was seen in the opening scene with his arm around a woman who appears to be his girlfriend.<ref>"[[Homer the Smithers]]"</ref>
It's revealed that he had dated a woman in a Woody Woodpecker outfit at a fairground for three months until she left him for the man who cleans the vomit on the roller coaster.<ref>"[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]"</ref> Lenny had told Carl that he was married to a Beauty-Queen, but it is later revealed that Lenny made his Beauty-Queen wife up, and is unmarried.<ref>"[[In Marge We Trust]]"</ref> Lenny is one of many men who had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref>

When [[Professor Frink]] matched up Springfield's bachelors to a bachelorette, Lenny was paired with [[Lindsey Naegle]].<ref>"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Television ===
[[File:Lenny's Death (Treehouse of Horror XI).png|200px|thumb|Lenny dead in "Treehouse of Horror XI".]]
At age 53, Lenny owns a super pet. When [[Milhouse]] (with giant muscles) gets trapped between two trees, he and Carl leave him there. In Homer's dream in [[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]], Lenny is shown at Homer's funeral as president and when Homer wakes up, he asks Marge not to vote for him.

In "[[Behind the Laughter]]", Lenny and Carl are constant companions, and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] had apparently paid the two to kiss one another.

In "[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]", Lenny dies and sees the angels in Heaven take the form of Carl (although they're saying, "Hurry up or we'll be late for work at the plant!"). Lenny is killed by killer dolphins in the "[[Treehouse of Horror XI]]" segment "The Night of the Dolphin".

=== Video Games ===
In the Simpsons Game, Carl and Lenny are shown arguing while bird-watching, and having forgotten Lisa and Bart's names when they save Lenny and Carl from logging machinery, even though Lenny and Carl have known them all their lives. Later on both Lenny and Carl can be recruited by Marge in her mob to ban the sales of the ''Grand Theft Scratchy'' game to minors.

=== Health ===
It is known that Lenny has eye problems.<ref>"[[Homer vs. Dignity]]"</ref>

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== Behind the Laughter ==
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Lenny Leonard

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{{Character
|name = Lenford Leonard
|image = [[File:Lenny Leonard.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Lenny by [[Matt Groening]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Dark brown
|age = 38
|status = Alive
|job = Co-worker of [[Homer Simpson]] at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], job title unclear
|relatives = '''Sister:''' [[Lainie Leonard]] '''Mother:''' Cheryl<ref>"[[I Want You (She's So Heavy)]]"</ref> '''Grandmother:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Simprovised]]"</ref>
|appearance = [[Life on the Fast Lane]]
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]]
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'''Lenford "Lenny" Leonard''' is the best friend of [[Carl Carlson]] and, along with Carl, second best friend of [[Homer Simpson]], behind [[Barney Gumble]]. He works at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] and possesses a master's degree in nuclear physics, but he is portrayed as a simple, often naive, blue-collar working man.

== Biography ==
[[File:Lennyfolder.PNG|thumbnail|left|Lenny's character folder in the Hall of Records on The Simpsons website.]]
Despite being shown in the [[First Church of Springfield]], Lenny is a Buddhist. Born in [[Chicago]], he is also a war hero and a three-time juror. His grandmother spent 20 years in a Soviet labour camp, hinting that Lenny may have ancestors from the former Soviet Union, or have ancestors who were POWs.<ref>"[[Midnight Towboy]]"</ref> Lenny was a member of the Springfield chapter of the Stonecutters secret society (Number 12, outranking Mr. Burns).<ref>"[[Homer the Great]]"</ref> Lenny seems to have little regard for his own life: "Quick and pointless, that's the death for me".<ref name="Half-Decent Proposal">"[[Half-Decent Proposal]]"</ref> Another example of his apathy towards salvation is that he shrugs after being pulled from a ladder which would have seen him and Homer to safety. Lenny also has a problem of interrupting people.<ref>"[[Bart's Inner Child]]"</ref>

=== Jobs ===
Lenny works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant alongside Homer Simpson and Carl Carlson. Despite his steady job, Lenny has been featured with several other jobs. On one occasion, he is promoted to head of the power plant when [[Mr. Burns]] goes bankrupt; which Smithers later describes to Homer Simpson as a "reign of terror". Homer considers Lenny to be the second richest man he knows. However, Lenny is once shown living in a dilapidated house, and asks Marge to not tell anyone how he lives. In another episode<ref>"[[Helter Shelter]]"</ref>, he is shown living in a fancy, well-furnished modern apartment with hanging on the walls paintings of considerable importance (that they are paintings and not prints can be deduced from the lighting dedicated to them) such as a composition by {{w|Mondrian}}, a part of {{w|van Dyke}}'s "''{{w|portrait of Charles I on the hunt}}''", one of {{w|Juan Gris}}' guitars but that happens to share a wall with a jai-alai court. In a "future episode", it's shown Lenny is once again in charge of the power plant. On one episode, it is implied he is an undercover agent whose target is Homer. He was also fired from the Nuclear Power Plant at least twice, once as a demonstration to Bart as how he should act as his heir, and the second due to being the last one in the designated cabin in a Company Competition. Also, during an Employee Appreciation Night, he attempted to thank Mr. Burns for the great evening, but his attempt backfired due to his being drunk, which only resulted in terrifying Mr. Burns.

At the Adult Education Annex, Lenny teaches a class on "How To Chew Tobacco". In one of Homer's daydreams, it's shown that Lenny is the President of the United States.<ref>"[[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]"</ref>

Lenny is a member of the Republican party, and possesses a Dole/Kemp '96 American flag tattoo.<ref>"[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]"</ref> Lenny is also a successful writer who wrote a series of mystery novels, one of them entitled "The Murderer Did It", which are called "scary good fun" by Stephen King. Lenny is also shown to be a member of the NRA as seen in "The Cartridge Family". His weapon of choice appears to be an AR-15 rifle, which he says "are manufactured for a reason: to take out today's modern super animals like the flying squirrel, and the electric eel." <ref>"[[The Cartridge Family]]"</ref>
Lenny is an adept guitar player.

== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
Lenny's best friend is Carl Carlson, as they are rarely seen apart; his other friends are Homer, and regulars at Moe's including [[Barney Gumble]] and [[Moe Szyslak]]. He met [[Homer]] and [[Moe]] at summer camp at a young age.<ref>"[[The Way We Weren't]]"</ref> On Lenny's birthday, his friends attempted to throw a surprise party for him at Moe's, which is ruined by Homer, who then sits on a cake shaped like Lenny's favorite barstool. Homer repeatedly confuses Lenny and Carl, and is shocked to learn on one occasion that Lenny is white, and Carl is black. To guide himself, Homer has "Lenny = White, Carl = Black" on his hand. He once muttered to himself, "Is that right?" while reading it. Homer once exclaimed, "That's Lenny? I wanted the black one!" <ref>"[[Helter Shelter]]"</ref> When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity,<ref>"[[Monty Can't Buy Me Love]]"</ref> Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people; Homer later stated, "White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl".

Lenny appears to be well liked by the Simpson family. On one occasion, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and the kids built a prayer shrine for him when learning he was taken to the hospital. When Homer went bowling but tells Marge that Lenny was hospitalized; Marge informs the kids, they respond the same way she did and shout, "Not Lenny!".<ref>"[[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]"</ref> The Simpson family had a cake inscribed "Happy Labor Day Lenny".<ref>"[[Sleeping with the Enemy]]"</ref>
Marge has a picture of Lenny in her hair.<ref>"[[Pranksta Rap]]"</ref>
In The Great Louse Detective, Lenny tells Sideshow Bob to kill Bart. It is also shown that Lenny greatly values all his friends when he throws them a lavish party (after winning on a lottery ticket) to celebrate their amity.<ref>"[[Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]"</ref>

===== Relationship with Carl =====
The possibility of a sexual relationship between Lenny and Carl has constantly been alluded. When Marge's Popsicle stick sculptures of Lenny and Carl are destroyed and mashed together, Lenny stated, "I don't know where Carl ends and I begin!", to which Carl replies, "See, it's statements like that that make people think we're gay."

Carl once told Seymour Skinner that "Marriage is gonna be great. Now you'll have someone who'll rub your back - without being asked" while glaring at Lenny, who sighed "Oh, not this again." Carl then responds "Yes, this again." When Homer opened a chapel for gay couples after Gay Marriage was legalized, he speculated that Lenny and Carl might be interested, and Marge responds with "Don't you push them - they've gotta work that out for themselves." Once, Chief Wiggum remarked that Lenny's relationship with Carl is on the rocks.
While helping Lisa with a science project, Homer quoted to Lisa "You and science go together like Lenny and Carl - the science is Carl".<ref>"[[Fat Man and Little Boy]]"</ref> Another time, Lenny and Carl saw Homer and Marge kiss, prompting Lenny to remark, "Remember when we used to kiss like that, Carl...with our respective girlfriends?" They then discuss what happened to them. Apparently one turned out to be a prostitute and one died.<ref>"[[Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play]]"</ref> In the Simpsons Game, if the player fails to rescue Lenny and Carl in Lisa the Tree Hugger, Carl might say, "Tell Lenny... I loved... his recipe for caramel sundaes."

Lenny's hero worship over Carl has reached a mounting point. Lenny revealed that he carved Carl's face on a mountain, and called it Mount Carlmore.<ref name="Half-Decent Proposal"/> He later leaves a burning oil field, only because Carl arrived. On one occasion, the residents of Springfield see the stars, and see deep within their hearts and souls; Lenny sees Carl's face in the stars (Carl also sees himself there). Lenny published a newspaper called The Lenny-Saver with the headline: "The Truth About Carl: He's Great." After displaying this, he shedded a tear and stated that "it had to be told."
Lenny and Carl were once pictured driving a sports car through the woods with two children in the back of contrasting background (either noting they are both single parents have separately or otherwise adopted children.)<ref>"[[Lisa the Drama Queen]]"</ref>
Carl Carlson states that he and Lenny have the same mother when a major fire is closing in on her work.<ref>"[[Little Big Girl]]"</ref>

=== Love Life ===
Lenny is apparently divorced - Carl says that he sang "The Best Is Yet to Come" at Lenny's wedding,<ref>"[[The Bart of War]]"</ref> although it was later shown that Lenny punched Carl for giving a bad speech at his wedding.
Lenny is a persistent bachelor who has poor luck with women. Lenny once shaved the legs of a woman who calls him an idiot for not shaving in an upward direction.<ref>"[[Marge on the Lam]]"</ref> Homer mentioned to Moe that both Lenny and Carl are with their mistresses.<ref>"[[Team Homer]]"</ref> In yet another occasion, he was seen in the opening scene with his arm around a woman who appears to be his girlfriend.<ref>"[[Homer the Smithers]]"</ref>
It's revealed that he had dated a woman in a Woody Woodpecker outfit at a fairground for three months until she left him for the man who cleans the vomit on the roller coaster.<ref>"[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]"</ref> Lenny had told Carl that he was married to a Beauty-Queen, but it is later revealed that Lenny made his Beauty-Queen wife up, and is unmarried.<ref>"[[In Marge We Trust]]"</ref> Lenny is one of many men who had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref>

When [[Professor Frink]] matched up Springfield's bachelors to a bachelorette, Lenny was paired with [[Lindsey Naegle]].<ref>"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Television ===
[[File:Lenny's Death (Treehouse of Horror XI).png|200px|thumb|Lenny dead in "Treehouse of Horror XI".]]
At age 53, Lenny owns a super pet. When [[Milhouse]] (with giant muscles) gets trapped between two trees, he and Carl leave him there. In Homer's dream in [[The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]], Lenny is shown at Homer's funeral as president and when Homer wakes up, he asks Marge not to vote for him.

In "[[Behind the Laughter]]", Lenny and Carl are constant companions, and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] had apparently paid the two to kiss one another.

In "[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]", Lenny dies and sees the angels in Heaven take the form of Carl (although they're saying, "Hurry up or we'll be late for work at the plant!"). Lenny is killed by killer dolphins in the "[[Treehouse of Horror XI]]" segment "The Night of the Dolphin".

=== Video Games ===
In the Simpsons Game, Carl and Lenny are shown arguing while bird-watching, and having forgotten Lisa and Bart's names when they save Lenny and Carl from logging machinery, even though Lenny and Carl have known them all their lives. Later on both Lenny and Carl can be recruited by Marge in her mob to ban the sales of the ''Grand Theft Scratchy'' game to minors.

=== Health ===
It is known that Lenny has eye problems.<ref>"[[Homer vs. Dignity]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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==== Number 12 ====
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== Behind the Laughter ==
=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|daVoice={{W|da:Jens Jacob Tychsen|Jens Jacob Tychsen}} (movie)
|deVoice=[[german:Bernd Simon|Bernd Simon]] (season 1)
|esVoice=Abraham Aguilar
|quVoice={{W|fr:Benoît Rousseau|Benoît Rousseau}}
|ruVoice=Dmitriy Filimonov
|ukVoice=Yevhen Malukha Valerii Lehin (seasons 1, 2) Oleh Lepenets (movie)
}}

== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|There's No Disgrace Like Home}}
*{{ep|Life on the Fast Lane}}
*{{ep|Homer's Night Out}}
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
*{{ep|Simpson and Delilah}}
*{{ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
*{{ep|Blood Feud}}
*{{ep|Homer Defined}}
*{{ep|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Last Exit to Springfield}}
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Homer}}
*{{ep|Deep Space Homer}}
*{{ep|Burns' Heir}}
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Vegetarian}}
*{{ep|King-Size Homer}}
*{{ep|A Fish Called Selma}}
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
*{{ep|The Homer They Fall}}
*{{ep|Bart After Dark}}
*{{ep|Hurricane Neddy}}
*{{ep|The Springfield Files}}
*{{ep|The Twisted World of Marge Simpson}}
*{{ep|Mountain of Madness}}
*{{ep|My Sister, My Sitter}}
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
*{{ep|The Cartridge Family}}
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
*{{ep|Dumbbell Indemnity}}
*{{ep|Simpson Tide}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
*{{ep|Lost Our Lisa}}
*{{ep|The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|When You Dish Upon a Star}}
*{{ep|D'oh-in' in the Wind}}
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
*{{ep|Mom and Pop Art}}
*{{ep|Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)}}
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
*{{ep|The Old Man and the "C" Student}}
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
*{{ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror X}}
*{{ep|Homer vs. Dignity}}
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*{{ep|Judge Me Tender}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Angry Dad: The Movie}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Whiskey Business}}
*{{ep|Luca$}}
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas|(picture seen)}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead}}
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers)}}
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
*{{cg|Mad About the Toy/Gags|Mad About the Toy}}
*{{ep|E My Sports}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
*{{ep|D'oh Canada}}
*{{ep|Woo-hoo Dunnit?}}
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror|(The Fourth Thursday After Tomorrow)}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
*{{spec|Homer Shake}}
*{{spec|Simpsons Ice Bucket Challenge|(mentioned)}}
*{{spec|Jimmy Kimmel Live!}}
*{{spec|Homer Votes 2016}}
*{{spec|Happy Daytona Day}}
*{{spec|Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson|(archive footage)}}
*{{spec|A Message from Moe About Puerto Rico}}
*{{TSG}}
*{{ad|Bart Surfing at the Beach}}
*{{ad|Hit a Homer}}
*{{ad|Hard Times}}
*{{bon|The Amazing Colossal Homer}}
*{{bon|Krustonia}}
*{{bon|Smitherses!}}
*{{bon|Radioactive Homer}}
*{{bon|The Buck Stops Everywhere}}
*{{bon|Hill of Beans}}
*{{bk|The Homer Book}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Hit & Run}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{game|Lego Dimensions|(mentioned and name seen)}}
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== References ==
{{Images|Lenny}}
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The New Yorker

2021-03-12T14:41:23Z

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{{Magazine
|name = The New Yorker
|image = [[File:The New Yorker.png|250px]]
|author =
|genre = Politics Social issues Art Humor Culture
|appearance = "[[The Sweetest Apu]]"
}}

'''''The New Yorker''''' is a magazine that focuses on politics, social issues, art, humor and culture, particularly in [[New York City]]. It has appeared since 1925 and has [[Eustace Tilley]] as its mascot. It has often been referenced on ''The Simpsons''.

== References to ''The New Yorker'' in ''The Simpsons'' ==
{{Table|
{{TH|Picture}}
{{TH|Season}}
{{TH|Episode number}}
{{TH|Episode name}}
{{TH|Reference}}
{{TBT|[[File:Nyscene.jpg|250px]]}}
{{TB|[[Season 2|2]]}}
{{TB|33}}
{{TB|"[[The War of the Simpsons]]"}}
{{TB| When Homer imagines himself in the past as a funny host in a classy company the color scheme matches a typical New Yorker cartoon.}}
{{TBT|[[File:Homerny.jpg|250px]]}}
{{TB|[[Season 6|6]]}}
{{TB|114}}
{{TB|"[[Fear of Flying]]"}}
{{TB| A caricature of [[Homer]] in Moe's tavern depicts him as [[Eustace Tilley]].}}
{{TBT|}}
{{TB|[[Season 7|7]]}}
{{TB|142}}
{{TB|"[[Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield]]"}}
{{TB| [[Roberta]] orders her meals through the New Yorker.}}
{{TBT|[[File:Eustace Tilley.png|250px]]}}
{{TB|[[Season 7|7]]}}
{{TB|153}}
{{TB|"[[Summer of 4 Ft. 2]]"}}
{{TB| Lisa imagines various literary characters luring her into the library, among them [[Eustace Tilley]] who tells her all periodicals of The New Yorker are available on microfiche.}}
{{TBT|}}
{{TB|[[Season 8|8]]}}
{{TB|173}}
{{TB|"[[The Canine Mutiny]]"}}
{{TB| Marge gets a rejection letter after requesting a subscription to the publication.}}
{{TBT|[[File:The New Yorker.png|250px]]}}
{{TB|[[Season 13|13]]}}
{{TB|288}}
{{TB|"[[The Sweetest Apu]]"}}
{{TB| [[Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon]] orders [[Apu]] to get a cartoon in the New Yorker, referencing the fact that it's notoriously difficult to get your work into the most well known cartoon magazine in the world. He succeeds, though. In the same issue of the magazine, there is a photo shoot by {{w|Richard Avedon}} of [[Lenny]] which [[Homer]] claims to have bought it for.}}
{{TBT|[[File:The Yorker.png|250px]]}}
{{TB|[[Season 15|15]]}}
{{TB|324}}
{{TB|"[[Margical History Tour]]"}}
{{TB| Homer (as 16th-century king [[Henry VIII]]) reads a copy of ''[[The Yorker]]'' since back in this century there was only York, not New York. The issue is a clear parody of the famous 1976 ''New Yorker'' cover designed by Saul Steinberg.}}
{{TBT|}}
{{TB|[[Season 28|28]]}}
{{TB|608}}
{{TB|"[[The Great Phatsby: Part One]]"}}
{{TB| The Springfield Hamptons appear in the style of [[Roz Chast]]'s cartoons for The New Yorker.}}
{{TBT|[[File:Roz Chast.png|200px]]}}
{{TB|[[Season 29|29]]}}
{{TB|620}}
{{TB|"[[Springfield Splendor]]"}}
{{TB| [[Roz Chast]], cartoonist in ''The New Yorker'', is special guest voice.}}
{{TBT|}}
{{TB|[[Season 29|29]]}}
{{TB|627}}
{{TB|"[[Gone Boy]]"}}
{{TB| [[Squeaky-voiced teen]] brings [[Sideshow Bob]] a copy of ''The New Yorker''.}}
}}

== References to ''The New Yorker'' in ''The Simpsons'' books==
{{Table|
{{TH|Picture}}
{{TH|Reference}}
{{TBT|}}
{{TB|"[[The Lisa Book]]"}}
{{TB| When [[Lisa]] was six years old, she had published three articles in ''The New Yorker'' under the pseudonym, ''Ms. Lizzie Strongheart''. The articles were about dolphins, unicorns, and jazz saxophone riffs.}}
{{TBT|[[File:New Knocker.png|250px]]}}
{{TB|"[[The Krusty Book]]"}}
{{TB| One of [[Krusty]]'s favorite magazines is the [[New Knocker]].}}
}}

== References to ''The New Yorker'' in ''The Simpsons'' videogames ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]'' [[Jimbo Jones]] says: ''The New Yorker was right: school sucks.''

== Special guest stars ==
{{Table|
{{TH|Picture|width=150px}}
{{TH|Name}}
{{TH|Role in ''The New Yorker''}}
{{TH|Role on ''The Simpsons''}}
{{TBT|[[File:Roz Chast.jpg|150px]]}}
{{TB|[[Roz Chast]]}}
{{TB|Cartoonist in ''The New Yorker''.}}
{{TB|Voiced [[Roz Chast|herself]] in ''[[Springfield Splendor]]''}}
}}

== External links==
*''{{w|The New Yorker}}''

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The Great Louse Detective/References

2021-03-10T18:38:49Z

Alessandra: /* Cultural references */

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode's title is a reference to the 1986 Disney movie, ''{{w|The Great Mouse Detective}}''.
*The face change made to [[Tom Brokaw]] is a reference to the movie ''{{w|Face/Off}}.''
*The use of [[Sideshow Bob]] as a profiler and his maximum security detention is a reference to the film ''{{w2|The Silence of the Lambs|film}}''.
*[[Sideshow Bob]] cites [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''{{w|The Tragedy of Julius Caesar}}'' as soon as the preparation of the lure puppet is complete.
* The way to celebrate ''{{w|Mardi Gras}}'' with floats, parade, disguises and many people is a typical {{w|New Orleans}} celebration party.

== Trivia ==
*Frank Grimes' gravestone appears to look different from "[[Homer's Enemy]]" and "[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]".
*This is the fourth digitally colored episode, but all episodes after this have used digital coloring.
*[[Chief Wiggum]] has an unsolved [[Rubik's Cube]] on his desk.
*[[Sideshow Bob]] references ''Frasier'' by saying Frasier's catchphrase, "Dear God!"
*In the [[FXX]] version, the scene where Homer says "Oooh! We're up so high!" was removed.
* The motto on the [[Wiggum]] badge "''To protect and serve"'' is the motto of the {{w|Los Angeles Police Department}} (LAPD).

== Continuity ==
*This episode serves as a sequel to "[[Homer's Enemy]]".
*At the beginning of the episode, [[Marge]] sets a new "personal best" vacuuming record and finds that she's accidentally vacuumed up [[Maggie]]. In the comic story ''[[Maggie's Crib 20]]'', household chores (in this case, bath time) also result in Maggie going missing.
*Marge says that she will never go to [[Paris]]. [[Bart]] has gone to the city in "[[The Crepes of Wrath]]" and the whole family later goes in "[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]".
*When [[Sideshow Bob]] gets shocked, his hair becomes like a Afro, just like how he looked like in his first appearance in "[[The Telltale Head]]"
*Homer covers his face with a curtain and yells "Don't look at me!" This is exactly the same response Marge's father gave in the episode "Fear of Flying", when Marge discovered he was a flight steward. Marge's father even tried to cover his face with his apron.
*Homer's list of people who want him dead includes:
**[[Mr. Burns]], has threatened Homer's life in several episodes.
**The Emperor of Japan, Homer threw him into a bin of sumo thongs in "[[Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]".
**[[Fat Tony]], Tony tried to kill Homer in "[[The Twisted World of Marge Simpson]]" and "[[Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge]]".
**[[Stephen Hawking]], Homer annoyed Hawking in "[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]].
**[[George Bush Sr.]], Homer and Bush had a rivalry in "[[Two Bad Neighbors]]".
**[[PBS]], Homer tried to con PBS in "[[Missionary: Impossible]]".
**The late [[Frank Grimes]], He had a large hatred of Homer before Grimes' death in "[[Homer's Enemy]]".
**The [[Florida|state of Florida]], Homer caused havoc and injured [[Captain Jack]] in "[[Kill the Alligator and Run]]".

== Goofs ==
*In the scene where Homer and Bob are chasing Frank Grimes Jr., you can see his cape fall off. Then you see Homer and Bob again. But when you see Junior again, he is still wearing his cape. Then, when he turns into the alley his cape is gone again.
*After Moe's pickle jar gets shot, there is a shot that goes to the wall and slowly looks at each picture. When we first see it, there are 6 pictures shown. 2 larger ones on the right side, and 4 smaller pictures vertically down the left side. The picture in question is the large one in the bottom right corner. Originally, it is Moe in Egypt with the jar, and then when they do all the close up pictures, it suddenly changes to a picture of Moe and his jar laying on the beach.

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The Great Louse Detective/References

2021-03-10T18:26:28Z

Alessandra: /* Trivia */

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode's title is a reference to the 1986 Disney movie, ''{{w|The Great Mouse Detective}}''.

== Trivia ==
*Frank Grimes' gravestone appears to look different from "[[Homer's Enemy]]" and "[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]".
*This is the fourth digitally colored episode, but all episodes after this have used digital coloring.
*[[Chief Wiggum]] has an unsolved [[Rubik's Cube]] on his desk.
*[[Sideshow Bob]] references ''Frasier'' by saying Frasier's catchphrase, "Dear God!"
*In the [[FXX]] version, the scene where Homer says "Oooh! We're up so high!" was removed.
* The motto on the [[Wiggum]] badge "''To protect and serve"'' is the motto of the {{w|Los Angeles Police Department}} (LAPD).

== Continuity ==
*This episode serves as a sequel to "[[Homer's Enemy]]".
*At the beginning of the episode, [[Marge]] sets a new "personal best" vacuuming record and finds that she's accidentally vacuumed up [[Maggie]]. In the comic story ''[[Maggie's Crib 20]]'', household chores (in this case, bath time) also result in Maggie going missing.
*Marge says that she will never go to [[Paris]]. [[Bart]] has gone to the city in "[[The Crepes of Wrath]]" and the whole family later goes in "[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]".
*When [[Sideshow Bob]] gets shocked, his hair becomes like a Afro, just like how he looked like in his first appearance in "[[The Telltale Head]]"
*Homer covers his face with a curtain and yells "Don't look at me!" This is exactly the same response Marge's father gave in the episode "Fear of Flying", when Marge discovered he was a flight steward. Marge's father even tried to cover his face with his apron.
*Homer's list of people who want him dead includes:
**[[Mr. Burns]], has threatened Homer's life in several episodes.
**The Emperor of Japan, Homer threw him into a bin of sumo thongs in "[[Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]".
**[[Fat Tony]], Tony tried to kill Homer in "[[The Twisted World of Marge Simpson]]" and "[[Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge]]".
**[[Stephen Hawking]], Homer annoyed Hawking in "[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]].
**[[George Bush Sr.]], Homer and Bush had a rivalry in "[[Two Bad Neighbors]]".
**[[PBS]], Homer tried to con PBS in "[[Missionary: Impossible]]".
**The late [[Frank Grimes]], He had a large hatred of Homer before Grimes' death in "[[Homer's Enemy]]".
**The [[Florida|state of Florida]], Homer caused havoc and injured [[Captain Jack]] in "[[Kill the Alligator and Run]]".

== Goofs ==
*In the scene where Homer and Bob are chasing Frank Grimes Jr., you can see his cape fall off. Then you see Homer and Bob again. But when you see Junior again, he is still wearing his cape. Then, when he turns into the alley his cape is gone again.
*After Moe's pickle jar gets shot, there is a shot that goes to the wall and slowly looks at each picture. When we first see it, there are 6 pictures shown. 2 larger ones on the right side, and 4 smaller pictures vertically down the left side. The picture in question is the large one in the bottom right corner. Originally, it is Moe in Egypt with the jar, and then when they do all the close up pictures, it suddenly changes to a picture of Moe and his jar laying on the beach.

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Helter Shelter/References

2021-03-06T18:31:57Z

Alessandra: /* Cultural references */

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== Cultural references ==
*The title is a play on [[The Beatles]] song "{{W2|Helter Skelter|song}}", a famous song which, it was claimed by prosecutors, was indirectly connected to the murders carried out by {{w|Charles Manson}} and his "family". "Helter Shelter" had earlier been the name of the shelter in the episode "[[Homer Loves Flanders]]".
**There is also an episode of ''{{w|The Powerpuff Girls}}'' entitled "Helter Shelter".
*The scene where the Simpsons are waiting for time to fly by mirrors the opening sequence of ''{{Ap|King of the Hill|real world show}}''. Also, the show's theme music is played during the scene.
*"[[Squiggy]]" being sent to boost their ratings is a reference to a lot of television shows sending in newer characters to save the show from being cancelled (often with disastrous results), such as Cousin Oliver on ''{{w|The Brady Bunch}}'', Seven on ''{{w|Married...With Children}}'', and Smitty ({{w|Adam Sandler}}'s character) on ''{{w|The Cosby Show}}''
*A member of the crew says 'I can't eat any more kangaroo testicles'. This is a reference to ''{{w|I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!}}''
*Not for the first time, this episode of ''The Simpsons'' contains a reference to the 1990s TV character {{w|Steve Urkel}} from the show ''{{w|Family Matters}}''. When Marge attempts to buy groceries from the [[Kwik-E-Mart]], [[Apu]] informs her that he is under instructions from the producers of the reality show to veto her purchases for items that were not available in 1895. As such, he deems the breakfast cereal [[Urkel-O's]] "delicious, but forbidden."
**Marge also attempts to buy a box of [[Oreo]] cookies, which Apu refuses to sell her as they were invented in 1886. In reality, however, Oreos were introduced in 1912.
*When Bart [[Bart's prank calls|prank-calls]] Moe with {{w|Morse code}}, Moe sends back, "I'm gonna stick my golden spike in your Central and Union Pacific!" Moe is referring to the ceremonial {{w|golden spike}} which marked the 1869 completion of the {{w|First Transcontinental Railroad}} and connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads.
*''[[Law & Order: Elevator Inspectors Unit]]'' is a reference to the TV show ''{{w|Law & Order}}'' and its various spin-offs.
*One of the figurines sitting on [[Comic Book Guy]]'s shelf is a model of the {{IS|Planet Express Ship}} from ''[[Futurama]]''.

* In the house of [[Comic Book Guy]] you can also see other objects related to fantasy TV series or films:
** ''[[Star Wars]]:'' a {{w|Sandtrooper}}, a {{w|dewback}} ridden, a {{w|Landspeeder}} in his box, [[Boba Fett]], [[R2-D2]], a {{w|Tusken}}, a {{w|TIE fighter}}, the {{w|Death Star}};
** ''[[Star Trek]]:''the [[Starship Enterprise]];
** ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]:'' the Cylon mothership and a colonial Viper;
** ''[[Stargate]]:''the pyramid-shaped spaceship;
** ''[[Alien]]'': the Alien monster;
** ''[[Godzilla]]:'' the Godzilla monster
** ''{{w|Space 1999}}'': an Eagle Transporter;
** ''[[Futurama]]'': [[Bender]]
* Even the aliens of the "meeting of the Galactic U.N." are characters from the Star Wars universe: a Bith, a Gamorrean, a Kowakian Monkey-Lizard, a Gran.
*''[[The 1895 Challenge]]'' is an obvious reference to ''{{w|The 1900 House}}''.
* The paintings that [[Lenny]] has at home are a composition by {{w|Mondrian}} a part of {{w|van Dyke}}'s "{{w|portrait of Charles I on the hunt}}", one of {{w|Juan Gris}}' guitars.

*The comic series [[Mutt and Jeff]] was published in the United States of America from 1908 to 1983, for which it was produced after the reference year of the reality show (1895), therefore, despite being old production (and an early comic production), it's not good enough and Bart shouldn't have had it.
*The theme of the film "''{{w|the sting}}''" is heard in three different moments of the episode:
**when Bart sits at the table for the first time in the new house;
**when Marge puts on the corset;
**when the Simpson family prepares the Peaches jars:
*The end of the episode with the sprinkler game is a quote from the silent movie ''"{{w|L'arroseur arrosé}}"'' by {{w|Louis Lumière}} (1896).

== Trivia ==
*This is the last episode to be traditionally inked and painted; for the episodes after it would be animated via digital ink and paint.
*This is the third time [[Bill Cosby]] has been parodied on ''The Simpsons''. There is an extra gag in that the Cosby family are losing ratings on their reality show, so the producers decide on the Simpsons; in the early years, ''{{w|The Cosby Show}}'' was a ratings rival with ''The Simpsons''.
*When the family realizes that they are seeing a hockey game, the are discouraged and disappointed, yet in "[[Lisa on Ice]]", the family seems to have an interest in the game.
*When Kozlov hands Lisa his hockey stick, it says "КОЗЛОВ" - the real {{w|Russian language|Russian}} spelling of Kozlov.
*The Russian hockey player seems to be {{w|Atlanta Thrashers}}' {{w|Vyacheslav Kozlov}}.
*Kozlov's hockey stick has a crossed hammer and hockey stick on it, an obvious reference to the {{w|Soviet Union|Soviet}} symbol of the {{w|hammer and sickle}}.

== Continuity ==
*In this episode, Homer is upset that 1895 is too late to {{w|Abraham Lincoln assassination|save Lincoln}} and too early to {{w|John F. Kennedy assassination|save Kennedy}}, and in "[[Today I Am a Clown]]", he again fantasizes about doing both.
*Homer's line "Where's that kid with my latte?" was used earlier in "[[Beyond Blunderdome]]".

== Goofs ==
*At one point when Bart is in the video confessional booth, he complains of boredom and says "{{W|Mutt & Jeff}} Comics are not funny! They're gay, I get it!" However Mutt & Jeff was first published in 1907, 12 years after the show's 1895 setting.
*{{w|Scott Joplin}}'s "{{W2|The Entertainer|rag}}" plays in one scene, despite the fact that it was released in 1902.

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Large Marge/References

2021-03-06T13:14:04Z

Alessandra: /* Cultural references */

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== Cultural references ==
*The [[Baha Men]] perform two different variations of their 2000 hit "{{w|Who Let the Dogs Out?}}" in the episode:
**Near the beginning, [[Marge]] is driving with [[Maggie]] in the car and turns the radio to a station that plays music for babies. The song playing is "[[Who Left the Milk Out?]]" which Marge loves, but Maggie can't stand.
**Over the closing credits, the song playing is "[[Who Let Marge's Jugs Out?|Who Let Her Jugs Out?]]", referring to Marge's flashing her breasts to the crowd near the end of the episode. The lyrics include [[Homer]] saying "[[D'oh!]]" several times.
*During the song "[[You're a Bunch of Stuff]]", where the male customers of [[Luigi's]] sing praises to Marge's augmented figure:
**[[Comic Book Guy]] compares Marge to "{{w|Uncanny X-Men|''X-Men''}} #3 in a {{w|BoPET|Mylar}} bag", which he would see as something rare and extremely valuable. The real ''X-Men'' #3 comic came out in early 1964, and Mylar bags are commonly used to protect comic books from deterioration and to preserve their value.
**[[Snake Jailbird]] compares Marge to a brand new {{w|muscle car}} with {{w|Alloy wheel|Mag wheels}}. Among muscle car enthusiasts, magnesium alloy wheels are a highly desirable accessory.
**The [[Captain Horatio McCallister|Sea Captain]] says Marge is like {{w|Jacqueline Bisset}} in his "fav'rite film, ''{{W2|The Deep|film}}''". The film's opening scene (which has achieved iconic status) shows Bisset swimming underwater wearing only a thin white T-shirt and bikini bottoms, putting her figure on impressive display.
*The musical clip that plays when the Stomach Staples Center is first viewed is from the theme to ''{{w|Ben Casey}}'', a medical drama which ran on ABC in the '60s.
*The ''{{w|Chicago Tribune}}'' newspaper with the front page banner headline ''{{w|Dewey Defeats Truman}}'' actually appeared the day after the presidential election in 1948. The printed part of that newspaper that is shown in this episode is accurately reproduced, including masthead and subheading.
*The ''{{w|Marines' Hymn}}'' plays when the {{w|Battle of Iwo Jima|Iwo Jima}} veterans raise the flag. They pause momentarily when they are in the pose that duplicates the {{w|Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|famous photo}} of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
*When Krusty tells Bart he got to where he is by "naming names in the fifties," he is tacitly admitting he betrayed friends and/or associates to the {{w|House Un-American Activities Committee}} during the {{w|McCarthyism|McCarthy}} witch-hunts of the 1950s.
*The sign on the marquee of the Oven Mitt Convention, "If the mitt don't fit we will remit", is a wordplay on the defense's line in the {{w|O. J. Simpson murder case}}, "If [the glove] doesn't fit, you must acquit."
*When the [[Dr. Velimirovic|doctor who operated on Marge]] sees the results of his work and says, "Great {{w|Nicolae Ceaușescu|Ceaușescu}}'s ghost!" it implies he may be from [[Romania]] and/or received his training there, as Ceaușescu was the country's head of state from 1965 until his death in 1989.
**Velimirovic's exclamation is also a wordplay on "Great Caesar's ghost!" best known as a catchphrase of {{w|Perry White}} of the {{w|Daily Planet}} in the ''[[Superman]]'' franchise.
*In addition to the Springfield characters ogling Marge through the Simpson's window is [[Bill Clinton]].
*In line to be seen at the clinic is [[Joan Rivers]] (in green suit and pearls).
*While [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]] are watching the revamped version of ''{{Krusty show}}'', Milhouse laments that they won't let [[Krusty]] do anything fun and adds, "[[Teletubbies]] get away with more than this."
*The presidents house building scene, is a quote from [[Laurel & Hardy]]'s silent film ''"{{w|The Finishing Touch}}"''. Even [[Bill Clinton]] struck by [[George H. W. Bush]] reacts with the classic gestures of [[Oliver Hardy]].
* During their sleepover, Bart and Milhouse watch the 66's [[Batman]] series on TV as recognized by the opening theme song.
*[[Krabappel]] and [[Skinner]] hold a sign urging to cancel the recycled [[The Krusty the Clown Show]] (it was used for a similar request from the {{w|Jackass}} TV show and the {{w|Beavis and Butt-head}} cartoon, both of which actually exist).
*[[Springfield Friars Club]] is a reference to the {{W|New York Friars Club}}.
*[[Krusty]], seeing the obedient elephant, quotes [[Marlon Brando]] referring to his butt and the famous intractability on set.
*The exit of Bart, Milhouse and Homer from the elephant's mouth is a quote from the movie {{w|Men in Black}} (scene of Agent K's exit from the body of the giant alien cockroach).

== Trivia ==
*The episode was nominated for the 2003 {{w|Golden Reel Award}} for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation - Music.
*This appears to be the last episode [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] works in voicing one of [[Maggie Roswell]]'s old characters.
*Homer attempts to create his own graffiti alias, "[[El Homo]]", based on Bart's far more successful alias, "[[El Barto]]".
*Some scenes involving Marge's enhanced breasts were shown in FOX promos/commercials, but not in the episode:
#Marge hides her breasts in the sink.
#Marge uses pans to cover up her breasts when Bart comes into the kitchen.
#Marge tries to cover her breasts with tennis rackets.
#Bart and Lisa run into Homer's and Marge's bedroom at night. Marge is in her robe and Bart stares at her cleavage. Marge frantically points to her face and tells Bart to "Just focus on Mommy's face", to which Bart replies, "I'm trying, Mom."
*One of the people in line at the clinic is a man with two right arms, wearing a red T-shirt that has two right sleeves.
*The {{W|Segway}} scooter indicated by [[Kent Brockman]] in his news was actually dangerous, never had commercial success and stopped being produced in 2020.
*Moe says he considers the Springfield Shoe Expo his Woodstock making him look (maybe he is ..) a foot fetishist.
*[[Drederick Tatum]] advertises snikers saying ''"I have been paid millions to endorse these butt-ugly shoes"'' by dismissing interested parties; in the years of the episode, {{W|Nike, Inc.}} put into production the first colored "{{W|Nike Air Max}}" and still very famous and requested (and some collectible).
*89 that a salesperson would like to do to Marge is a sexual practice centered on the female breast.
*At the Springfield Shoe Expo fair you can see stands of the [[Assassins]] (shoes invented in the Simpsons) and the {{w|Keds}} (real shoes) stands and the {{w|Keds}} stand carries the slogan ''"The keds are alright"'' pun on the title of [[The Who]] album ''"{{w2|The Kids Are Alright|song}}"''.

== Continuity ==
*One of the "before and after" pictures at the [[Stomach Staples Center|plastic surgery clinic]] shows [[Moe]] as his regular self and after having had plastic surgery (in "[[Pygmoelian]]").
*[[Marge]] mentions [[Apu]] cheating on [[Manjula]] (in "[[The Sweetest Apu]]").
*[[Krusty]] says he got where he is by naming names in the 1950s. In the comic story ''[[The Laugh Man on Earth!]]'', a flashback shows Krusty acting in the sitcom ''Krusty Days'', set in the 1950s, in a scene where his character agrees to turn in his friends as Communist conspirators.
*In the [[Springfield Friars Club]] (where [[Krusty]] is a member) in a past episode [[Homer]] was "{{w|Roast (comedy)|roasted}}".

== Goofs ==
[[File:Yellowklown.jpg|thumb|Yellow Krusty]]
*When Bart is in his [[Krusty the Clown]] sleeping bag, at one point Krusty's face is yellow when it's supposed to be white. Also he has a comb of hair just like Homer.
*The sound mysteriously pauses when Krusty rushes out of the crowd to save [[Milhouse]] at the Springfield Shoe expo trade show.
*During the shoe expo, Marge's dress has conventional over-the-shoulder straps for most of the time. But when she flashes her breasts to the crowd, her dress changes to a halter top (rather than sliding the straps off of her shoulders, she unfastens the dress at the back of her neck).
*In Luigi's, the lobsters in the tank are bright red. They are actually quite brown until they are boiled when they become red/pink.
*After Homer paints "El Homo" on the wall, he paints over it so that none of the letters are visible. In the next shot a couple of the letters are visible, and are only struck out with one line.
*In some shots, the incorrectly-colored lobsters have their claws taped shut, and in others they don't.

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Large Marge/References

2021-03-01T14:10:06Z

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{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade|Helter Shelter|Large Marge}}

== Cultural references ==
*The [[Baha Men]] perform two different variations of their 2000 hit "{{w|Who Let the Dogs Out?}}" in the episode:
**Near the beginning, [[Marge]] is driving with [[Maggie]] in the car and turns the radio to a station that plays music for babies. The song playing is "[[Who Left the Milk Out?]]" which Marge loves, but Maggie can't stand.
**Over the closing credits, the song playing is "[[Who Let Marge's Jugs Out?|Who Let Her Jugs Out?]]", referring to Marge's flashing her breasts to the crowd near the end of the episode. The lyrics include [[Homer]] saying "[[D'oh!]]" several times.
*During the song "[[You're a Bunch of Stuff]]", where the male customers of [[Luigi's]] sing praises to Marge's augmented figure:
**[[Comic Book Guy]] compares Marge to "{{w|Uncanny X-Men|''X-Men''}} #3 in a {{w|BoPET|Mylar}} bag", which he would see as something rare and extremely valuable. The real ''X-Men'' #3 comic came out in early 1964, and Mylar bags are commonly used to protect comic books from deterioration and to preserve their value.
**[[Snake Jailbird]] compares Marge to a brand new {{w|muscle car}} with {{w|Alloy wheel|Mag wheels}}. Among muscle car enthusiasts, magnesium alloy wheels are a highly desirable accessory.
**The [[Captain Horatio McCallister|Sea Captain]] says Marge is like {{w|Jacqueline Bisset}} in his "fav'rite film, ''{{W2|The Deep|film}}''". The film's opening scene (which has achieved iconic status) shows Bisset swimming underwater wearing only a thin white T-shirt and bikini bottoms, putting her figure on impressive display.
*The musical clip that plays when the Stomach Staples Center is first viewed is from the theme to ''{{w|Ben Casey}}'', a medical drama which ran on ABC in the '60s.
*The ''{{w|Chicago Tribune}}'' newspaper with the front page banner headline ''{{w|Dewey Defeats Truman}}'' actually appeared the day after the presidential election in 1948. The printed part of that newspaper that is shown in this episode is accurately reproduced, including masthead and subheading.
*The ''{{w|Marines' Hymn}}'' plays when the {{w|Battle of Iwo Jima|Iwo Jima}} veterans raise the flag. They pause momentarily when they are in the pose that duplicates the {{w|Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|famous photo}} of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
*When Krusty tells Bart he got to where he is by "naming names in the fifties," he is tacitly admitting he betrayed friends and/or associates to the {{w|House Un-American Activities Committee}} during the {{w|McCarthyism|McCarthy}} witch-hunts of the 1950s.
*The sign on the marquee of the Oven Mitt Convention, "If the mitt don't fit we will remit", is a wordplay on the defense's line in the {{w|O. J. Simpson murder case}}, "If [the glove] doesn't fit, you must acquit."
*When the [[Dr. Velimirovic|doctor who operated on Marge]] sees the results of his work and says, "Great {{w|Nicolae Ceaușescu|Ceaușescu}}'s ghost!" it implies he may be from [[Romania]] and/or received his training there, as Ceaușescu was the country's head of state from 1965 until his death in 1989.
**Velimirovic's exclamation is also a wordplay on "Great Caesar's ghost!" best known as a catchphrase of {{w|Perry White}} of the {{w|Daily Planet}} in the ''[[Superman]]'' franchise.
*In addition to the Springfield characters ogling Marge through the Simpson's window is [[Bill Clinton]].
*In line to be seen at the clinic is [[Joan Rivers]] (in green suit and pearls).
*While [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]] are watching the revamped version of ''{{Krusty show}}'', Milhouse laments that they won't let [[Krusty]] do anything fun and adds, "[[Teletubbies]] get away with more than this."
*The presidents house building scene, is a quote from [[Laurel & Hardy]]'s silent film "{{The Finishing Touch}}". Even [[Bill Clinton]] struck by [[George H. W. Bush]] reacts with the classic gestures of [[Oliver Hardy]].
* During their sleepover, Bart and Milhouse watch the 66's [[Batman]] series on TV as recognized by the opening theme song.
*[[Krabappel]] and [[Skinner]] hold a sign urging to cancel the recycled [[The Krusty the Clown Show]] (it was used for a similar request from the {{w|Jackass}} TV show and the {{w|Beavis and Butt-head}} cartoon, both of which actually exist).
*[[Springfield Friars Club]] is a reference to the {{W|New York Friars Club}}.
*[[Krusty]], seeing the obedient elephant, quotes [[Marlon Brando]] referring to his butt and the famous intractability on set.
*The exit of Bart Milhouse and Homer from the elephant's mouth is a quote from the movie {{w|Men in Black}} (scene of Agent K's exit from the body of the giant alien cockroach).

== Trivia ==
*The episode was nominated for the 2003 {{w|Golden Reel Award}} for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation - Music.
*This appears to be the last episode [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] works in voicing one of [[Maggie Roswell]]'s old characters.
*Homer attempts to create his own graffiti alias, "[[El Homo]]", based on Bart's far more successful alias, "[[El Barto]]".
*Some scenes involving Marge's enhanced breasts were shown in FOX promos/commercials, but not in the episode:
#Marge hides her breasts in the sink.
#Marge uses pans to cover up her breasts when Bart comes into the kitchen.
#Marge tries to cover her breasts with tennis rackets.
#Bart and Lisa run into Homer's and Marge's bedroom at night. Marge is in her robe and Bart stares at her cleavage. Marge frantically points to her face and tells Bart to "Just focus on Mommy's face", to which Bart replies, "I'm trying, Mom."
*One of the people in line at the clinic is a man with two right arms, wearing a red T-shirt that has two right sleeves.
*The {{W|Segway}} scooter indicated by [[Kent Brockman]] in his news was actually dangerous, never had commercial success and stopped being produced in 2020.
*Moe says he considers the Springfield Shoe Expo his Woodstock making him look (maybe he is ..) a foot fetishist.
*[[Drederick Tatum]] advertises snikers saying ''"I have been paid millions to endorse these butt-ugly shoes"'' by dismissing interested parties; in the years of the episode, {{W|Nike, Inc.}} put into production the first colored "{{W|Nike Air Max}}" and still very famous and requested (and some collectible).
*89 that a salesperson would like to do to Marge is a sexual practice centered on the female breast.
*At the Springfield Shoe Expo fair you can see stands of the [[Assassins]] (shoes invented in the Simpsons) and the {{w|Keds}} (real shoes) stands and the {{w|Keds}} stand carries the slogan ''"The keds are alright"'' pun on the title of [[The Who]] album ''"{{w2|The Kids Are Alright|song}}"''.

== Continuity ==
*One of the "before and after" pictures at the [[Stomach Staples Center|plastic surgery clinic]] shows [[Moe]] as his regular self and after having had plastic surgery (in "[[Pygmoelian]]").
*[[Marge]] mentions [[Apu]] cheating on [[Manjula]] (in "[[The Sweetest Apu]]").
*[[Krusty]] says he got where he is by naming names in the 1950s. In the comic story ''[[The Laugh Man on Earth!]]'', a flashback shows Krusty acting in the sitcom ''Krusty Days'', set in the 1950s, in a scene where his character agrees to turn in his friends as Communist conspirators.
*In the [[Springfield Friars Club]] (where [[Krusty]] is a member) in a past episode [[Homer]] was "{{w|Roast (comedy)|roasted}}".

== Goofs ==
[[File:Yellowklown.jpg|thumb|Yellow Krusty]]
*When Bart is in his [[Krusty the Clown]] sleeping bag, at one point Krusty's face is yellow when it's supposed to be white. Also he has a comb of hair just like Homer.
*The sound mysteriously pauses when Krusty rushes out of the crowd to save [[Milhouse]] at the Springfield Shoe expo trade show.
*During the shoe expo, Marge's dress has conventional over-the-shoulder straps for most of the time. But when she flashes her breasts to the crowd, her dress changes to a halter top (rather than sliding the straps off of her shoulders, she unfastens the dress at the back of her neck).
*In Luigi's, the lobsters in the tank are bright red. They are actually quite brown until they are boiled when they become red/pink.
*After Homer paints "El Homo" on the wall, he paints over it so that none of the letters are visible. In the next shot a couple of the letters are visible, and are only struck out with one line.
*In some shots, the incorrectly-colored lobsters have their claws taped shut, and in others they don't.

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Gump Roast/References

2021-03-01T13:52:29Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The opening act spoofs ''{{W|Forrest Gump}}'', including the falling feather. The episode's title is also a reference to the movie, and [[Chief Wiggum]] makes a pun on the movie's {{W2|Forrest Gump|character|title character}} when he calls [[Homer]] "Forrest Plump".
*During the opening act, [[Moe]] impersonates {{W2|Austin Powers|character}} and [[Julius Hibbert]] impersonates [[Darth Vader]]. Both are arrested because of an ordinance that banned impersonations of movie characters, although Homer is not arrested for his impersonation of Forrest Gump and Hibbert later appears at the roast with no explanation.
*When [[Mr. Burns]] steps toward the podium, "{{W|The Imperial March}}" (Darth Vader's theme from ''[[Star Wars]]'') is heard.
*In this episode, [[Kang]] asserts that the Earth was created 5,000 years ago by God, and [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] then make the sign of the Cross. This is an apparently satirical reference to {{W|Young Earth creationism}}.
*In the middle of the [[They'll Never Stop the Simpsons|clip show song]] at the end of the episode, there is a picture of [[Homer]] on water skis {{W|Jumping the shark|jumping over a shark}}, which refers to the term "jumping the shark", meaning the point when a television show has reached its peak and is now declining in quality or has done something to cause a sudden decline in quality. The term is a reference to an episode of ''{{ap|Happy Days|franchise}}'' in which [[Fonzie]] literally jumped a shark while water-skiing.
*[[Agnes Skinner]] wears the same dress that [[Jennifer Lopez]] wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000.
*The song sung at the end is a take-off on [[Billy Joel]]'s song "{{W|We Didn't Start The Fire}}".
*[[Krusty]] mentions [[Mark Spitz]] couldn't be there and has sent a telegram. Lisa asks "Who's Mark Spitz?" and Bart then asks "What's a {{W|Telegraphy|telegram}}?"
*When [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] read [[Maggie]]'s memories, they put a pink helmet on her head which reads "Hello Probie", a reference to {{w|Hello Kitty}}.
*When Homer puts on the blindfold, he claims his other senses sharpen. This is a reference to blind superhero [[Daredevil]].
*When Young Homer sees Marge for the first time he hears the song {{w|(They Long To Be) Close To You}} by {{w|The Carpenters}} (1970).
*Rev. Lovejoy and Flanders would like to sing a ballad based on the song {{w|DooDah!}} by {{W2|Cartoons|band}} (1999).
*The intention of [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] to want to destroy humanity is a quote from the film "{{w|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}" (1951) as well as from the Bible (episode of {{w|Sodom and Gomorrah}}).
*[[Springfield Friars Club]] is a reference to the {{w|New York Friars Club}}.

== Trivia ==
*[[Dan Castellaneta]] sings the clip show song ("[[They'll Never Stop the Simpsons]]") at the end of the episode.
*To date, this is the latest clip show.
*Father [[Abe Simpson]] gives the syrup to Homer baby to make him sleep not to cure him (he is not sick) as in the years of the episode's release the syrups for children contained {{w|Niaprazine}}, a substance with a sedative effect.
*The stencil of the probe placed on [[Maggie]]'s head to see her memories is a reference to "{{w|Hello Kitty}}" children's merchandise.

== Continuity ==
*The end song references many previous episodes:
**Christmas show. "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"
**Marge's fling. "[[Life on the Fast Lane]]"
**Homer's bro. "[[Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?]]"
**Bart in well. "[[Radio Bart]]"
**[[Ned|Flanders]] fails. "[[When Flanders Failed]]"
**Whacking snakes. "[[Whacking Day]]"
**[[Monorail]]. "[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]"
**Mr. Plow. "[[Mr. Plow]]"
**Homer in space. "[[Deep Space Homer]]"
**[[Sideshow Bob]] steps on rakes. "[[Cape Feare]]"
**Lisa's future. "[[Lisa's Wedding]]"
**Selma's [[Troy McClure|hubbie]]. "[[A Fish Called Selma]]"
**Marge not proud. "[[Marge Be Not Proud]]"
**Homer chubby. "[[King-Size Homer]]"
**Homer worries Bart is gay. "[[Homer's Phobia]]"
**[[Poochie]]. "[[The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show]]"
**[[U2]]. "[[Trash of the Titans]]"
**NRA. "[[The Cartridge Family]]"
**Hippies. "[[D'oh-in' in the Wind]]"
**[[Vegas]]. "[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"
**[[Japan]]. "[[Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]"
**[[The Octuplets|Octuplets]]. "[[Eight Misbehavin']]
**[[Party Posse|Bart's boy band]]. "[[New Kids on the Blecch]]"
**Marge murmurs. "[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge]]"
**[[Maude]] croaks. "[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]"
**Lisa Buddhist. "[[She of Little Faith]]"
**Homer tokes. "[[Weekend at Burnsie's]]"
**Maggie blows [[Burns]] away. "[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)]]"
*Maggie remembers several celebrities from previous episodes:
**{{Ch|Ron Howard}}, {{Ch|Kim Basinger}} and {{Ch|Alec Baldwin}}. "[[When You Dish Upon a Star]]"
**{{Ch|Joe Namath}}. "[[Bart Star]]"
**{{Ch|Stephen Hawking}}. "[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]"
**{{Ch|Lucy Lawless}}. "[[Treehouse of Horror X]]"
**{{Ch|Elton John}}. "[[I'm with Cupid]]"
**[[N' Sync]]. "[[New Kids on the Blecch]]"

=== Future Plots ===
The following crazy future plots are mentioned in the clip show song. They have all actually happened, after a fashion.
*"[[Marge]] becomes a robot"—In the [[Season 16]] episode "[[The Heartbroke Kid]]", [[Homer]] fantasizes about a robotic Marge. He tells her, "Oh [[Marge-bot]], I'm ready for some lovin'!" The Marge-bot looks like the [[Terminator]], however, and opens fire on Homer with a machine gun, prompting Homer to abruptly return to reality and lament, "Why did I give her a gun?"
**The plot appears as a full episode in "[[Hail to the Teeth]]", where [[Artie Ziff]] marries a robot clone of Marge.
*"[[Moe]] gets a cell phone"—In "[[Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing]]" ([[Season 22]]), Bart [[Bart's prank calls|prank-texts]] Moe. Also, in "[[The Ten-Per-Cent Solution]]" ([[Season 23]]), one of the videos on {{ap|Hulu|in-universe website}} is "Moe Gets a Cell Phone".
*"Has [[Bart]] ever owned a bear?"—In "[[The Fat and the Furriest]]" ([[Season 15]]), [[Homer]] starts off trying to fight a bear, but later makes friends with it.
*"How 'bout a crazy wedding?"—The image in the song shows [[Patty]] and [[Selma]] getting married to [[Abraham Simpson]]:
**Patty almost gets married (albeit to a man impersonating a woman) in the [[Season 16]] episode "[[There's Something About Marrying]]".
**Selma marries Abe in the [[Season 18]] episode "[[Rome-Old and Juli-Eh]]".

== Goofs ==
*When Homer remembers his moments with his [[Pink Sedan|car]], one of the clips (from "[[Dumbbell Indemnity]]") shows Homer falling down a hill in [[Moe]]'s car. This is wrong since that is not Homer's car.
*[[Julius Hibbert|Dr. Hibbert]] was supposed to be in jail for impersonating Darth Vader, but at Homer's roast, he is shown at a table with his wife.
*When Kang and Kodos extract Maggie's memories using the "Hello Probie" mind probe, they get a number of clips showing some of the shows previous guest stars. Among them, there are a number of clips where Maggie could not possibly have been around to witness. For example, the clip showing Homer meeting {{ch|Alec Baldwin}} after crashing through the roof of his house.
*It's doubtful that some of Homer's clips (such as the skiing incident in "[[Little Big Mom]]" and the [[Funzo]] incident in "[[Grift of the Magi]]") could have been filmed to be played back at the roast. In "Little Big Mom", Homer is on the slope by himself when he forgets the instructor's words and gets hurt — no possible filming. In "Grift of the Magi", when Homer tries to steal all the Funzos, there is also no possibility that anything could be filmed.
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Large Marge/References

2021-03-01T13:49:49Z

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{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade|Helter Shelter|Large Marge}}

== Cultural references ==
*The [[Baha Men]] perform two different variations of their 2000 hit "{{w|Who Let the Dogs Out?}}" in the episode:
**Near the beginning, [[Marge]] is driving with [[Maggie]] in the car and turns the radio to a station that plays music for babies. The song playing is "[[Who Left the Milk Out?]]" which Marge loves, but Maggie can't stand.
**Over the closing credits, the song playing is "[[Who Let Marge's Jugs Out?|Who Let Her Jugs Out?]]", referring to Marge's flashing her breasts to the crowd near the end of the episode. The lyrics include [[Homer]] saying "[[D'oh!]]" several times.
*During the song "[[You're a Bunch of Stuff]]", where the male customers of [[Luigi's]] sing praises to Marge's augmented figure:
**[[Comic Book Guy]] compares Marge to "{{w|Uncanny X-Men|''X-Men''}} #3 in a {{w|BoPET|Mylar}} bag", which he would see as something rare and extremely valuable. The real ''X-Men'' #3 comic came out in early 1964, and Mylar bags are commonly used to protect comic books from deterioration and to preserve their value.
**[[Snake Jailbird]] compares Marge to a brand new {{w|muscle car}} with {{w|Alloy wheel|Mag wheels}}. Among muscle car enthusiasts, magnesium alloy wheels are a highly desirable accessory.
**The [[Captain Horatio McCallister|Sea Captain]] says Marge is like {{w|Jacqueline Bisset}} in his "fav'rite film, ''{{W2|The Deep|film}}''". The film's opening scene (which has achieved iconic status) shows Bisset swimming underwater wearing only a thin white T-shirt and bikini bottoms, putting her figure on impressive display.
*The musical clip that plays when the Stomach Staples Center is first viewed is from the theme to ''{{w|Ben Casey}}'', a medical drama which ran on ABC in the '60s.
*The ''{{w|Chicago Tribune}}'' newspaper with the front page banner headline ''{{w|Dewey Defeats Truman}}'' actually appeared the day after the presidential election in 1948. The printed part of that newspaper that is shown in this episode is accurately reproduced, including masthead and subheading.
*The ''{{w|Marines' Hymn}}'' plays when the {{w|Battle of Iwo Jima|Iwo Jima}} veterans raise the flag. They pause momentarily when they are in the pose that duplicates the {{w|Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|famous photo}} of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
*When Krusty tells Bart he got to where he is by "naming names in the fifties," he is tacitly admitting he betrayed friends and/or associates to the {{w|House Un-American Activities Committee}} during the {{w|McCarthyism|McCarthy}} witch-hunts of the 1950s.
*The sign on the marquee of the Oven Mitt Convention, "If the mitt don't fit we will remit", is a wordplay on the defense's line in the {{w|O. J. Simpson murder case}}, "If [the glove] doesn't fit, you must acquit."
*When the [[Dr. Velimirovic|doctor who operated on Marge]] sees the results of his work and says, "Great {{w|Nicolae Ceaușescu|Ceaușescu}}'s ghost!" it implies he may be from [[Romania]] and/or received his training there, as Ceaușescu was the country's head of state from 1965 until his death in 1989.
**Velimirovic's exclamation is also a wordplay on "Great Caesar's ghost!" best known as a catchphrase of {{w|Perry White}} of the {{w|Daily Planet}} in the ''[[Superman]]'' franchise.
*In addition to the Springfield characters ogling Marge through the Simpson's window is [[Bill Clinton]].
*In line to be seen at the clinic is [[Joan Rivers]] (in green suit and pearls).
*While [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]] are watching the revamped version of ''{{Krusty show}}'', Milhouse laments that they won't let [[Krusty]] do anything fun and adds, "[[Teletubbies]] get away with more than this."
*The presidents house building scene, is a quote from [[Laurel & Hardy]]'s silent film "{{The Finishing Touch}}". Even [[Bill Clinton]] struck by [[George H. W. Bush]] reacts with the classic gestures of [[Oliver Hardy]].
* During their sleepover, Bart and Milhouse watch the 66's [[Batman]] series on TV as recognized by the opening theme song.
*[[Krabappel]] and [[Skinner]] hold a sign urging to cancel the recycled [[The Krusty the Clown Show]] (it was used for a similar request from the {{w|Jackass}} TV show and the {{w|Beavis and Butt-head}} cartoon, both of which actually exist).
*[[Springfield Friars Club]] is a reference to the {{W|New York Friars Club}}.
*[[Krusty]], seeing the obedient elephant, quotes [[Marlon Brando]] referring to his butt and the famous intractability on set.
*The exit of Bart Milhouse and Homer from the elephant's mouth is a quote from the movie {{w|Men in Black}} (scene of Agent K's exit from the body of the giant alien cockroach).

== Trivia ==
*The episode was nominated for the 2003 {{w|Golden Reel Award}} for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation - Music.
*This appears to be the last episode [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] works in voicing one of [[Maggie Roswell]]'s old characters.
*Homer attempts to create his own graffiti alias, "[[El Homo]]", based on Bart's far more successful alias, "[[El Barto]]".
*Some scenes involving Marge's enhanced breasts were shown in FOX promos/commercials, but not in the episode:
#Marge hides her breasts in the sink.
#Marge uses pans to cover up her breasts when Bart comes into the kitchen.
#Marge tries to cover her breasts with tennis rackets.
#Bart and Lisa run into Homer's and Marge's bedroom at night. Marge is in her robe and Bart stares at her cleavage. Marge frantically points to her face and tells Bart to "Just focus on Mommy's face", to which Bart replies, "I'm trying, Mom."
*One of the people in line at the clinic is a man with two right arms, wearing a red T-shirt that has two right sleeves.
*The {{W|Segway}} scooter indicated by [[Kent Brockman]] in his news was actually dangerous, never had commercial success and stopped being produced in 2020.
*Moe says he considers the Springfield Shoe Expo his Woodstock making him look (maybe he is ..) a foot fetishist.
*[[Drederick Tatum]] advertises snikers saying ''"I have been paid millions to endorse these butt-ugly shoes"'' by dismissing interested parties; in the years of the episode, {{W|Nike, Inc.}} put into production the first colored "{{W|Nike Air Max}}" and still very famous and requested (and some collectible).
*89 that a salesperson would like to do to Marge is a sexual practice centered on the female breast.
*At the Springfield Shoe Expo fair you can see stands of the [[Assassins]] (shoes invented in the Simpsons) and the {{w|Keds}} (real shoes) stands and the {{w|Keds}} stand carries the slogan ''"The keds are alright"'' pun on the title of [[The Who]] album ''"{{w2|The Kids Are Alright|song}}"''.

== Continuity ==
*One of the "before and after" pictures at the [[Stomach Staples Center|plastic surgery clinic]] shows [[Moe]] as his regular self and after having had plastic surgery (in "[[Pygmoelian]]").
*[[Marge]] mentions [[Apu]] cheating on [[Manjula]] (in "[[The Sweetest Apu]]").
*[[Krusty]] says he got where he is by naming names in the 1950s. In the comic story ''[[The Laugh Man on Earth!]]'', a flashback shows Krusty acting in the sitcom ''Krusty Days'', set in the 1950s, in a scene where his character agrees to turn in his friends as Communist conspirators.

== Goofs ==
[[File:Yellowklown.jpg|thumb|Yellow Krusty]]
*When Bart is in his [[Krusty the Clown]] sleeping bag, at one point Krusty's face is yellow when it's supposed to be white. Also he has a comb of hair just like Homer.
*The sound mysteriously pauses when Krusty rushes out of the crowd to save [[Milhouse]] at the Springfield Shoe expo trade show.
*During the shoe expo, Marge's dress has conventional over-the-shoulder straps for most of the time. But when she flashes her breasts to the crowd, her dress changes to a halter top (rather than sliding the straps off of her shoulders, she unfastens the dress at the back of her neck).
*In Luigi's, the lobsters in the tank are bright red. They are actually quite brown until they are boiled when they become red/pink.
*After Homer paints "El Homo" on the wall, he paints over it so that none of the letters are visible. In the next shot a couple of the letters are visible, and are only struck out with one line.
*In some shots, the incorrectly-colored lobsters have their claws taped shut, and in others they don't.

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[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:Goofs]]
[[Category:Continuity]]

Large Marge/References

2021-03-01T13:34:54Z

Alessandra: /* Trivia */

{{TabR}}
{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade|Helter Shelter|Large Marge}}

== Cultural references ==
*The [[Baha Men]] perform two different variations of their 2000 hit "{{w|Who Let the Dogs Out?}}" in the episode:
**Near the beginning, [[Marge]] is driving with [[Maggie]] in the car and turns the radio to a station that plays music for babies. The song playing is "[[Who Left the Milk Out?]]" which Marge loves, but Maggie can't stand.
**Over the closing credits, the song playing is "[[Who Let Marge's Jugs Out?|Who Let Her Jugs Out?]]", referring to Marge's flashing her breasts to the crowd near the end of the episode. The lyrics include [[Homer]] saying "[[D'oh!]]" several times.
*During the song "[[You're a Bunch of Stuff]]", where the male customers of [[Luigi's]] sing praises to Marge's augmented figure:
**[[Comic Book Guy]] compares Marge to "{{w|Uncanny X-Men|''X-Men''}} #3 in a {{w|BoPET|Mylar}} bag", which he would see as something rare and extremely valuable. The real ''X-Men'' #3 comic came out in early 1964, and Mylar bags are commonly used to protect comic books from deterioration and to preserve their value.
**[[Snake Jailbird]] compares Marge to a brand new {{w|muscle car}} with {{w|Alloy wheel|Mag wheels}}. Among muscle car enthusiasts, magnesium alloy wheels are a highly desirable accessory.
**The [[Captain Horatio McCallister|Sea Captain]] says Marge is like {{w|Jacqueline Bisset}} in his "fav'rite film, ''{{W2|The Deep|film}}''". The film's opening scene (which has achieved iconic status) shows Bisset swimming underwater wearing only a thin white T-shirt and bikini bottoms, putting her figure on impressive display.
*The musical clip that plays when the Stomach Staples Center is first viewed is from the theme to ''{{w|Ben Casey}}'', a medical drama which ran on ABC in the '60s.
*The ''{{w|Chicago Tribune}}'' newspaper with the front page banner headline ''{{w|Dewey Defeats Truman}}'' actually appeared the day after the presidential election in 1948. The printed part of that newspaper that is shown in this episode is accurately reproduced, including masthead and subheading.
*The ''{{w|Marines' Hymn}}'' plays when the {{w|Battle of Iwo Jima|Iwo Jima}} veterans raise the flag. They pause momentarily when they are in the pose that duplicates the {{w|Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima|famous photo}} of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
*When Krusty tells Bart he got to where he is by "naming names in the fifties," he is tacitly admitting he betrayed friends and/or associates to the {{w|House Un-American Activities Committee}} during the {{w|McCarthyism|McCarthy}} witch-hunts of the 1950s.
*The sign on the marquee of the Oven Mitt Convention, "If the mitt don't fit we will remit", is a wordplay on the defense's line in the {{w|O. J. Simpson murder case}}, "If [the glove] doesn't fit, you must acquit."
*When the [[Dr. Velimirovic|doctor who operated on Marge]] sees the results of his work and says, "Great {{w|Nicolae Ceaușescu|Ceaușescu}}'s ghost!" it implies he may be from [[Romania]] and/or received his training there, as Ceaușescu was the country's head of state from 1965 until his death in 1989.
**Velimirovic's exclamation is also a wordplay on "Great Caesar's ghost!" best known as a catchphrase of {{w|Perry White}} of the {{w|Daily Planet}} in the ''[[Superman]]'' franchise.
*In addition to the Springfield characters ogling Marge through the Simpson's window is [[Bill Clinton]].
*In line to be seen at the clinic is [[Joan Rivers]] (in green suit and pearls).
*While [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]] are watching the revamped version of ''{{Krusty show}}'', Milhouse laments that they won't let [[Krusty]] do anything fun and adds, "[[Teletubbies]] get away with more than this."

== Trivia ==
*The episode was nominated for the 2003 {{w|Golden Reel Award}} for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation - Music.
*This appears to be the last episode [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] works in voicing one of [[Maggie Roswell]]'s old characters.
*Homer attempts to create his own graffiti alias, "[[El Homo]]", based on Bart's far more successful alias, "[[El Barto]]".
*Some scenes involving Marge's enhanced breasts were shown in FOX promos/commercials, but not in the episode:
#Marge hides her breasts in the sink.
#Marge uses pans to cover up her breasts when Bart comes into the kitchen.
#Marge tries to cover her breasts with tennis rackets.
#Bart and Lisa run into Homer's and Marge's bedroom at night. Marge is in her robe and Bart stares at her cleavage. Marge frantically points to her face and tells Bart to "Just focus on Mommy's face", to which Bart replies, "I'm trying, Mom."
*One of the people in line at the clinic is a man with two right arms, wearing a red T-shirt that has two right sleeves.
*The {{W|Segway}} scooter indicated by [[Kent Brockman]] in his news was actually dangerous, never had commercial success and stopped being produced in 2020.
*Moe says he considers the Springfield Shoe Expo his Woodstock making him look (maybe he is ..) a foot fetishist.
*[[Drederick Tatum]] advertises snikers saying ''"I have been paid millions to endorse these butt-ugly shoes"'' by dismissing interested parties; in the years of the episode, {{W|Nike, Inc.}} put into production the first colored "{{W|Nike Air Max}}" and still very famous and requested (and some collectible).
*89 that a salesperson would like to do to Marge is a sexual practice centered on the female breast.
*At the Springfield Shoe Expo fair you can see stands of the [[Assassins]] (shoes invented in the Simpsons) and the {{w|Keds}} (real shoes) stands and the {{w|Keds}} stand carries the slogan ''"The keds are alright"'' pun on the title of [[The Who]] album ''"{{w2|The Kids Are Alright|song}}"''.

== Continuity ==
*One of the "before and after" pictures at the [[Stomach Staples Center|plastic surgery clinic]] shows [[Moe]] as his regular self and after having had plastic surgery (in "[[Pygmoelian]]").
*[[Marge]] mentions [[Apu]] cheating on [[Manjula]] (in "[[The Sweetest Apu]]").
*[[Krusty]] says he got where he is by naming names in the 1950s. In the comic story ''[[The Laugh Man on Earth!]]'', a flashback shows Krusty acting in the sitcom ''Krusty Days'', set in the 1950s, in a scene where his character agrees to turn in his friends as Communist conspirators.

== Goofs ==
[[File:Yellowklown.jpg|thumb|Yellow Krusty]]
*When Bart is in his [[Krusty the Clown]] sleeping bag, at one point Krusty's face is yellow when it's supposed to be white. Also he has a comb of hair just like Homer.
*The sound mysteriously pauses when Krusty rushes out of the crowd to save [[Milhouse]] at the Springfield Shoe expo trade show.
*During the shoe expo, Marge's dress has conventional over-the-shoulder straps for most of the time. But when she flashes her breasts to the crowd, her dress changes to a halter top (rather than sliding the straps off of her shoulders, she unfastens the dress at the back of her neck).
*In Luigi's, the lobsters in the tank are bright red. They are actually quite brown until they are boiled when they become red/pink.
*After Homer paints "El Homo" on the wall, he paints over it so that none of the letters are visible. In the next shot a couple of the letters are visible, and are only struck out with one line.
*In some shots, the incorrectly-colored lobsters have their claws taped shut, and in others they don't.

{{Season 14|R}}

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[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:Goofs]]
[[Category:Continuity]]

Springfield Elementary School

2021-02-28T14:23:19Z

Alessandra: /* Profile */

{{Featured article}}
{{Noticeline|For the level in ''[[The Simpsons Skateboarding]]'', see [[Springfield Elementary (Simpsons Skateboarding)]]}}
{{Location
|name= Springfield Elementary School
|image= [[File:Springfield Elementary School.png|270px]]
|district=
|town= [[Springfield]]
|use= Education
|owner= N/A (government school)
|appearance= "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]"
}}

'''Springfield Elementary School''' is an elementary school which [[Bart Simpson]], [[Lisa Simpson]], and many other children of [[Springfield]], such as [[Nelson Muntz]], [[Janey Powell]], [[Martin Prince, Jr.]], [[Ralph Wiggum]], and [[Milhouse Van Houten]] attend.

The principal is [[Seymour Skinner]] and its superintendent, who often visits the school, is [[Superintendent Chalmers]]. The school's mascot is a puma.<ref>"[[Separate Vocations]]"</ref><ref>"[[Pokey Mom]]"</ref>

== Profile ==
Springfield Elementary is around two stories high, and contains a Gym and a Cafeteria. The basement includes a steam tunnel. At one point, there was somewhat of a steeple on top of the school roof. The floorplan is identical to that of [[West Springfield Elementary School]].

There is a field trip memorial that shows the names of the students who never came back from a field trip<ref>"[[Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade]]"</ref>; it is equal to ''the {{w|Vietnam Veterans Memorial}} Wall'' in {{w|Washington, D.C.}} . [[Groundskeeper Willie]] constantly has to edit the wall, and is very sad and angry when he must engrave the name of a student with a long name, like Bart and Lisa Simpson.

=== Condition ===
Springfield Elementary is heavily underfunded. With almost constant reductions in the budget the school has been forced to use rather bizarre methods to make up for the lack of funding.

[[File:SpringfieldElementary1.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The fourth grade classroom.]]

It has been stated many times that the school is filled with asbestos. Underfunding of the school has resulted in a variety of troubling scenarios for students and staff. Sub-standard facilities abound, including a cinder block having replaced the school's tether ball, cafeteria food made from circus animals, shredded newspaper, and old gym mats (only the teachers eat French fries made from potatoes), among others. It was revealed that Springfield Elementary was at one time voted "The Most Dilapidated School in Missouri" and was then moved, brick-by-brick, to Springfield.<ref>"[[Lisa Gets an "A"]]"</ref> The school is overcrowded because of insufficient funds to build more classrooms.
In addition, the teachers are less than average, known for their lack of ability to teach, and are seen smoking and drinking within the school premises.

Before Bart came to the school and before Lisa was born, the school had a swimming pool and Groundskeeper Willie was the swim coach. Skinner took the pool out when he spent an entire weekend inside it, among lots of worms, which made him what he is today. This was a prank made by [[Andy Hamilton]], a former student of the school.<ref>"[[Pranks and Greens]]"</ref>

[[File:SpringfieldElementary2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Springfield Elementary Gym]]
The school was once shown to have a tower with a winding staircase within which led to a fornification area, where Skinner asked [[Patty Bouvier|Patty]] to marry him.<ref>"[[Principal Charming]], [[Marge Gets a Job]]"</ref> Other short period additions include a disabled ramp access system constructed by local [[Springfield Mafia|mafia]] funding. The auditorium was once bulldozed to make way for a mini-mall.

At one time, Groundskeeper Willie accidentally struck oil and the school built a large drilling rig on top of the building. Unfortunately, [[Charles Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] took the oil first and Springfield Elementary was made even poorer due to the cost of deconstructing the drill.<ref>"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)]]"</ref>

Springfield Elementary was partially converted to a prison to support funds.<ref>"[[The PTA Disbands]]"</ref>

The school's address is 19 Plympton Street.<ref>"[[Bart on the Road]]"</ref> When Springfield underwent [[The Bob Next Door|an economic crisis]], Springfield Elementary, as a result of the cutbacks from the slump, significantly shortened the school day to no school at all.

Underneath the school was once an oil well (which was accidentally discovered by Groundskeeper Willie while burying Superdude the hamster) which lead Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers to welcome everyone's ideas of how to spend the money (some rather ridiculous). Mr. Burns then began to steal the oil from the school, which not only resulted in the loss of their fortune, but the cost of deconstructing the oil platform above the school placed it in a far worse financial state than before, forcing Skinner to get rid of nearly everything in the school. Mr. Burns was shot later. It was believed that Skinner was the one who shot him, supported by his going to the Bathroom. However, while he did intend to ambush Burns and kill him, he was not the one who shot him, as he had mixed up his camouflage facepaint with his mother's makeup while attempting to put camouflage on when it happened.

The school also held a Medieval festival but the festival was disrupted by Groundskeeper Willie. But Principal Skinner blames Bart on Groundskeeper Willie's prank and expels him. But Bart was returned back as an apology probably by Superintendent Chalmers who then scolds Principal Skinner for expelling the wrong culprit and been told by one Bart's friends who been witnessed the prank.

It is surprising that the school has managed to stay open with all the problems it has. It was also one of the few landmarks that wasn't destroyed during [[Trappuccino]], much to Bart's disappointment.

Many of the staff are less than thrilled to work there and are often involved in relationships with one another, they have even been known to get involved in "school yard rumbles" with the students.

=== Faculty ===
{{main|Springfield Elementary School faculty}}

=== Current and former Students ===
{{main|Springfield Elementary School students}}

== Rooms ==

=== Teacher's lounge ===
[[File:Teachers' Lounge.jpg|250px|right|thumb|The exterior of the Teachers' Lounge.]]
The Teachers' Lounge is a place in the school where the teachers relax. It takes up two floors. It was the centre of a fight between the 4th Grade and 5th Grade teachers.

==== Gallery ====
<gallery widths=200px>
File:Teachers' Lounge interior.jpg|The interior of the Teachers' Lounge.
File:Teachers' Lounge fight.jpg|The teachers' fighting.
File:Teachers' Lounge room below balcony.png|The room below the upstairs balcony.
File:Ready to go back in.jpg|Miss Hoover, having been kicked out of the lounge, gets ready to go back in.
</gallery>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Video games ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Road Rage]]'', the school is a possible drop-off location in the {{ap|Evergreen Terrace|Simpsons Road Rage}} level. The hallway can be driven through and [[Willie's shack]] can be destroyed by driving into it. Through a window, the words "[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)|This is not a clue... or is it?]]" are seen on a blackboard in what is presumably the [[Fourth Grade]] classroom.

In ''[[The Simpsons Skateboarding]]'', the school is featured prominently in the {{ap|Springfield Elementary|Simpsons Skateboarding}} level.

In ''[[The Simpsons: Hit & Run]]'', the school can be visited in [[Level 1 (The Simpsons: Hit & Run)|Levels 1]], [[Level 4 (The Simpsons: Hit & Run)|4]] and [[Level 7 (The Simpsons: Hit & Run)|7]]. The school roof can be climbed on with the help of air vents. It is possible to enter the hallway where a number of missions are assigned. Within the hallway, the fourth grade classroom is visible and events can be viewed such as Willie getting hit by a rake or Ralph sticking a pencil in his nose. The player can interact with Principal Skinner (Levels 1 and 4 only) and set off the fire alarm and a fire extinguisher.

In Level 7 it has been turned into [[Springwart's School of Magicry]].

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out schools|SpringfieldElementary}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
In the opening credits the school is featured with Bart writing lines on a [[Chalkboard gag|blackboard]]. The school's design and apparent floorplan is identical to Chapman Elementary School in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]].

=== Name of South Carolina school ===
In 1994, the naming of a new elementary school in Greenwood, S.C. was left up to the students, and the name ''Springfield Elementary'' was chosen. The school board was unaware of the connection to ''The Simpsons'' until a protest by one group of parents. The name stood for the school, which opened in August 1994.<ref>http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/other/articles/briefhistory.html</ref>

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*{{ep|The Winter of His Content}}
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
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*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas}}
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*{{ep|D'oh Canada}}
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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Krusty the Clown

2021-02-28T11:11:27Z

Alessandra:

{{Semi}}
{{Featured article}}
{{redirect|Krusty|[[Krusty (disambiguation)]]}}
{{for2|other uses of "Krusty the Clown"|Krusty the Clown (disambiguation)}}
{{for|the character|the episode|Krusty the Clown (episode)}}
{{Quote|Hey hey!|Krusty's catchphrase}}
{{Character
|name = Herschel Schmoeckel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky
|image = [[File:Krusty the Clown.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|alias = Krusty the Clown Krusty Rory B. Bellows<ref>"[[Bart the Fink]]"</ref>
|age = 52<ref name="OUATIS">"[[Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]"</ref>
|hair = Green
|job = Television personality
|relatives = '''Father:''' [[Hyman Krustofsky]] (deceased) '''Mother:''' [[Rachel Krustofsky]] (deceased)<ref name="CitD">"[[Clown in the Dumps]]"</ref> '''Ex-wives''': 14 unnamed [[Holly Hippie]] {{Ch|Eartha Kitt}}<ref name="OUATIS"/> '''Daughter:''' [[Sophie]] '''Son:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]"</ref> '''Half-brother:''' {{Ch|Luke Perry}} '''Sister:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Colonel Homer]]"</ref> '''Nephew:''' [[Josh]]
|appearance = "[[The Krusty the Clown Show]]"
|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]]
}}

'''Herschel Schmoeckel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky''' (last name also spelled '''Krustofski''') is the cynical, burnt out, addiction-riddled smoking clown host of [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]]'s favorite TV show, ''{{Krusty show}}''.

== History ==
[[File:Krusty Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]

=== Early life ===
{{Quote|Oy vey's mir! You have brought shame on our family!|[[Rabbi Krustofsky]]|Like Father, Like Clown}}
[[File:Young Krusty.png|thumb|left|Krusty's big break]]
Herschel Krustofsky was born to Jewish parents and grew up in the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Springfield]]. His father, respected Rabbi [[Hyman Krustofsky]], came from a long line of rabbis, looking for his son to follow in his footsteps. Hyman forbade his son from becoming a clown, but Herschel continued anyway, getting his first laughs at his {{w|Yeshiva}} impersonating his father. His father continued to try and discourage his son, by taking away his props, such as his seltzer bottle. Despite his perseverance at comedy, he was top of his Yeshiva class. He received his comedy break though entertaining the Rabbis at the Talmudic conference. Wearing clown make-up to hide his appearance, he is well received by the crowd, making balloon sculptures of the Menorah and the Star of David. However, when someone sprays water over his face, his identity is revealed, much to the dismay of his father, who disowns him.<ref>"[[Like Father, Like Clown]]"</ref> He never had a Bar Mitzvah.

=== Early career ===
After this, Krusty moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, where he worked as a street mime. His first TV appearance was in the 1950s on "The Milk of Magnesia Summer Cavalcade", pretending to be a Russian satellite (and in one of his shows Krusti declares that in the 1950s he was a spy). <ref>[[Large Marge]]</ref> However, he said the word "Pants" which got him banned from TV for 10 years. He then got another chance on "Laugh-In", but got stuck behind the shutter doors, putting his career back another 22 years.

In 1962, Krusty worked in [[Las Vegas]] briefly after running in to Murdering Mort "The Murderer" Murderosi. He was approached to do 1,000 shows at Murderosi's casino, Nero's Trough. Krusty had his own slot machine on stage, but got addicted and chased out by the police. He then went on to Branson, Missouri.

He then got his own television show, ''[[The Krusty the Klown Show]]'', which featured Krusty discussing current events with serious guests (an episode of the show dated February 6, 1961, featured AFL-CIO president George Meany and a discussion of the "labor crisis in America").

In 1973, he performed a song of The Doors live in TV (Break on Through (To the Other Side)). {{Ch|Sting}} opened for Krusty briefly, until he fired him. In the meanwhile, Krusty's interview format got increasingly wacky, and by the 1980s the show had devolved into a children's entertainment show.
He hired [[Sideshow Raheem]] for a brief period in 1989, however, Raheem was unwilling to go against his faith, to advertise Krusty pork products, and was unwilling to take part in any sideshow stunts. Raheem later resigned, with a drunken Krusty trying to run him over. His show also used to feature the "Krustkateers".

He briefly took up stand-up comedy, and during the Gulf War, he tried to entertain the soldiers (in a manner similar to [[Bob Hope]]) by making an off-color pun off of Saddam Hussein's name ("Saddam Hussein?! They should call him "So Damn Insane!!"), as well as having the Cincinnati Bengal Cheerleaders entertain the soldiers, which was controversial at best. However, the show was unexpectedly shut down due to a sandstorm, so he was forced to take refuge in a tent which coincidentally had a {{ap|Erin|soldier}} whom he later slept with. However, the night of passion quickly turned sour after he ruined her chance at assassinating Saddam Hussein (as well as destroying an entire shipment of Duff beer to the camp at the same time). As a result of the one-night stand, he became the father of Sophie.

During another trip to entertain the troops, he built his act around future troop movements, as a tribute. The court martial sentenced him to death. However, it turned out this was a double of him, as he himself was too coward to go to the war zone, the double also spying on the American forces. The spy was executed.<ref>''[[The Krusty Book]]''</ref>

=== Sideshow Bob and his arrest ===
{{quote| Why did the clown cross the road? To rob a Kwik-E-Mart.|[[Scott Christian]]|Krusty Gets Busted}}

Krusty hired [[Bob Terwilliger]] as his sidekick after seeing him at his brother, [[Cecil Terwilliger|Cecil's]] attempt to land the job. Krusty and the producers rejected Cecil during his audition, as he lacked the dignity necessary to pull the job off. Krusty then spotted Bob, standing to the side in a suit and looking like he didn't want to be there. Krusty threw a pie-in-his-face, resulting in the top hat he was wearing falling off and his hair springing up underneath. Krusty hired him on the spot. Krusty once had a heart attack on air while trying his own line of pork products, leading to a triple bypass and a pacemaker. He ran his own campaign against illiteracy, "give a hoot, read a book!"
[[File:KGB.png|Krusty under arrest|thumb]]
Bob, however, was not happy with the sidekick job and did not appreciate being fired out of a cannon, or having pies thrown in his face. Bob decided to frame Krusty and robbed the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] in his guise, being caught on CCTV and witnessed by [[Homer Simpson]]. Krusty was arrested by a SWAT force as the news broke out, with Homer positively identifying him as the robber. [[Reverend Lovejoy]] led a mass-burning of Krusty merchandise as a result of the crime.
At the [[Springfield Court]], after a brief mix up between guilty and not-guilty, Krusty pleads his innocence. Krusty reveals to the court the next day that he is illiterate. The jury reaches a guilty verdict.
Sideshow Bob takes over the show for Krusty, who is making the show more cultured, adding in books and psychology. Lisa and Bart meanwhile investigate the crime scene and find that the microwave, which Krusty was apparently standing near, has a no pacemaker sign, as well as finding that in the CCTV footage, Krusty is reading, despite his illiteracy.
Bart, [[Lisa]] and [[Maggie]] decide to visit the [[Krustylu Studios|television studios]] to visit to Sideshow Bob, who gives them free tickets as the show is about to start, noticing Bob's large feet. In the audience a saddened Bart watches the show and when Bob notices Bart's emotional state, he invites him on stage for a new psychological segment called Choices. While on stage Bart reveals he thinks that Krusty was framed, however, Sideshow Bob tries to convince him otherwise. While Sideshow Bob is talking to the audience he mentions that he has "big shoes to fill." "Big shoes," makes everything click in Bart's mind. He jumps to his feet and declares that Sideshow Bob is the one who framed Krusty. The police watching the show hear Bart's evidence and arrests Bob. Sideshow Bob reveals that he framed Krusty because he couldn't stand all the antics and felt his intelligence was wasted on the show. Later at the police station Krusty is released and he thanks Bart for his help, him regaining his show.

He later hires [[Sideshow Mel]] to replace Bob.

=== His father and his camp ===
After breaking down at a dinner hosted by The [[Simpson family]] about his estranged father, Lisa and Bart work to get them back together. After the Rabbi closes the door on them and defends his point on radio show ''Gabbing about God'', Lisa studies the books in the [[Springfield Public Library|library]], quoting esteemed rabbis and the Talmud, with the Rabbi countering them. Eventually, the only text left to use (without learning Ancient Hebrew) is by [[Sammy Davis, Jr.]], which, during a game of chess with Bart, wins the Rabbi over. During Krusty's show, the pair reunite to "Oh Mein Papa" live on the show, with his father throwing a pie in Krusty's face.

When hearing about [[Timmy O'Toole]], a orphaned boy trapped down a well, he called up {{Ch|Sting}}, and arranged a charity single. It also featured [[Bleeding Gums Murphy]], The [[Capital City Goofball]], [[Mayor Quimby]], [[Lance Murdock]], [[Marvin Monroe]], [[Princess Kashmir]], [[Rainier Wolfcastle]], [[Scott Christian]], [[Sideshow Mel]] and [[Troy McClure]]. The song became US #1 for one week, until Timmy turned out to be a hoax by [[Bart Simpson]], leading it to slide down to #97.

{{Quote|Dear Mom, I no longer fear Hell, because I've been to Kamp Krusty|[[Lisa Simpson]] on {{ap|Kamp Krusty|location}}|Kamp Krusty}}

Krusty after being offered a dump truck full of money, put his name on {{ap|Kamp Krusty|location}}, a low budgeted summer camp. The institution fed kids gruel and locked overweight children in a fat camp. Krusty never turns up at the camp and the [[Springfield Elementary School|school]] bullies - [[Jimbo Jones|Jimbo]], [[Kearney Zzyzwicz|Kearney]] and [[Dolph Starbeam|Dolph]]; are left to keep order. The kids are forced to make cheap quality wallets and forced to march and hike. When [[Mr. Black]], who runs the camp, tells them that Krusty has arrived, it was actually [[Barney Gumble]] dressed up. This drives Bart over the edge and he leads a rebellion, driving out Mr. Black and the bullies, establishing Camp Bart. Krusty, unaware of this while watching Wimbledon in [[England]], comes to apologize to the kids, explaining that he got bribed. He then took the kids to Tijuana, [[Mexico]].

=== Cancellation ===
Krusty faced a rival in children's entertainment in the name of the puppet, [[Gabbo]]. Gabbo's show is heavily advertised and quickly takes away Krusty's audience and [[The Itchy & Scratchy Show]]. Krusty tries to get his own puppet and ends up with Eastern Europe's [[Worker & Parasite]] cartoon. Krusty's audience share sinks to rock bottom and is cancelled, leading him into depression. Bart and Lisa work to get Krusty's show back by discrediting Gabbo, leaving a camera on air during an ad-break, letting the audience hear Gabbo's bad-mouthing of the audience. Krusty and Bart then begin to recruit celebrities for a [[Krusty Comeback Special|comeback special]] using Krusty's address book; managing to get {{Ch|Bette Midler}}, {{Ch|Hugh Hefner}}, his half-brother {{Ch|Luke Perry}} and the {{Chs|Red Hot Chili Peppers}}. Both {{Ch|Elizabeth Taylor}} and his former sideshow [[Sideshow Mel|Mel]] turn Krusty down, while Krusty gets into shape at the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpsons' house]].

The show begins with Krusty singing "{{ap|Send in the Clowns|song}}", and much to his surprise, Mel joins him on stage. He also fires Luke Perry out of a cannon, sending him out of the studio, through the [[Museum of Sandpaper]], through a acidic display in the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] and into a [[Pillow Factory]], just as it's being demolished. The show also features the Chilli Peppers performing, {{Ch|Johnny Carson}} juggling a car, Hugh Hefner playing "{{W|Peter and the Wolf}}" on a wine glass and Bette Midler duetting with Krusty.

Krusty then hired Bart as his assistant, getting him to steal a Danish from [[Kent Brockman]] for him. Krusty lets Bart act out a scene on the show which goes wrong, leading Bart to exclaim "I Didn't Do It" and earning him local celebrity status as the "I Didn't Do It" kid. However, overtime the catchphrase loses its effect and Bart goes back to normal life.

=== The Mafia and Rory B. Bellows ===
Krusty was running out of cash, due to bets with the [[Springfield Mafia]] and settling with celebrities over stolen gags. His accountant opens a [[Krusty's Clown College|Clown college]] to train local Krusty's. Homer Simpson enrols, while Krusty continues to bet away his money. The Mafia take over the clown college and hunt down a fleeing Krusty. Homer, meanwhile, is milking his Krusty status and so ends on the receiving end of the mafia's attacks. Krusty meanwhile, went to Switzerland for plastic surgery, and ending up with breast enlargements.
The mob captures Homer and the Don, [[Don Vittorio|Vittorio]], who is a fan of Krusty's. He cannot kill him, so offers to spare him if he does the loop the loop trick on the small bicycle. While this is happening, Krusty bursts in and the Don threatens to kill them both unless they do the trick together. They succeed and Krusty pays the $48 he owes.

[[File:Rory b bellows.png|thumb|Rory B. Bellows]]

Bart Simpson, Krusty's biggest fan, gained a cheque book and wanted Krusty's signature, slipping a cheque for a quarter in his pocket. However, it is returned a month later stamped by a [[Cayman Island]] overseas holding corporation. He takes it down to the bank and Krusty is arrested for tax evasion. The IRS take away 95% of his salary a month, force him to do a show without sideshows, props or a set and take over [[Krusty Burger]]. The IRS also sell his mansion, bury veterans in his family plots, sell his stuff (including his pornography) and sell his plane. Krusty cannot take it anymore and seemingly crashes his plane into a rock after flying low over Springfield. His funeral is attended by many celebrities and hosted by [[Troy McClure]], and stamps are unveiled based on him.
{{quote|What about being an illiterate clown who's still more respected than all the educators in the country put together!|Bart on Krusty's celebrity|Bart the Fink}}

However, in reality, Krusty has took up the new alias of '''Rory B. Bellows''', faking his death. Bart believes he sees him at the Doctor's and driving, and so investigates. They discover Rory about to flee to sea and plead with him to stay. They eventually convince him and he dives off his boat, blowing it up and cashing in the heavily insured life of Rory Bellows.

=== Change in style, retirement and entrance into politics ===
Krusty agreed to take part in a comedy festival as part of his community service alongside comedians such as [[Jay Leno]]. However, his old-fashioned comedy fails compared to the modern comedians around him. After a drunk night, he announces his retirement and while talking about his views on modern comedians, sends the press conference into hysterics, leading him to take up observational comedy and burning a dollar to show it to society. However, he later sells out and becomes spokesman of the [[Canyonero]].

He then discovered he had a long-lost illegitimate daughter, the result of a one night stand during the Gulf War. [[Sophie]] and Krusty try to bond, but do not succeed. Krusty later gambles away her violin and sneaks into a meeting of mobsters to retrieve it.

After being pressured by executives to change his show, Krusty retires for a fifth time. Krusty reveals in his interviews that he taped over the old shows featuring [[Sideshow Bob]]. Bob gains parole and leaves the prison plotting revenge and training Bart Simpson to blow up Krusty on his farewell show. However the plot fails after Krusty dedicates a song to Bob and Krusty survives to come out of retirement (again).

Krusty was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican after Bart suggested he run in order to stop [[Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington|Air Traffic problems over their house]], and with some difficulty, and some underhanded tactics from The Simpsons family with the help of a Janitor, managed to get the bill passed. A year later, he served on a House committee to investigate Ziffcorp – run by [[Artie Ziff]] until he lost 98% of the company to Homer for corporate malfeasance.

=== Bar Mitzvah ===

Krusty tired to sign himself up on to the [[Jewish Walk of Fame]], but finds himself eligible due to not having a Bar Mitzvah, as his father feared he would not take it seriously. His father agrees to teach him the Jewish beliefs, leaving his show on Saturday (Sabbath) needing someone to fill in for him. He chooses Homer, who hosts a talk show with [[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]] (later [[Barney Gumble|Barney]] and [[Disco Stu]]), [[Carl Carlson|Carl]] and [[Moe Szyslak|Moe]]. The show becomes a success, leading Krusty's show to be cancelled. Lisa tells Homer to teach about the environment and other concerns, but the show is then cancelled due to declining ratings.
Krusty pitches his Bar Mitzvah to the FOX network, who take it on as "Krusty the Klown's Wet 'n' Wild Bar Mitzvah", featuring Mr. T, which is a ratings success. This, however, disappoints his father, and so Krusty also has another, more serious Bar Mitzvah.

When Lisa take on the role of tutor to some of the Spuckler children ([[Whitney]], [[Jitney]], [[Dubya]], [[Incest]], [[Crystal Meth]], [[International Harvester]], and [[Birthday]].), she takes them to Downtown Springfield, where Krusty talent scouts them, taking them on as a musical act, their father, [[Cletus Spuckler|Cletus]], signing the contract. However, their mother, [[Brandine Del Roy|Brandine]], who was fighting in [[Iraq]], voids the contract by revealing that Cletus is only the father to the talentless ones.

On his 4000th show, he announced he was looking for new Krustkateers. At the tryouts Bart competes against Sherri and Terri, Milhouse Van Houten, Ralph Wiggum and Nelson Muntz but unfairly loses to Nelson after Krusty was bribed by Nelson's Mother . Lisa then begins to tell Krusty that he was wrong to put Nelson on the show and suggests that he hires Bart as his intern however Lisa's plan backfires and Krusty hires her instead as his Intern. Nelson is fired. When Mr. Teeny can't make it to one of the shows Lisa takes the opportunity to fill in for him and eventually becomes so successful she runs Krusty's show off the air and begins her own television show named "The Lisa Show" and is nominated for the annual entertainer of the year award.
However, after winning Entertainer of the Year and finding out what fame can do to people, she quits the show.

=== Marriage and Imprisonment ===
Krusty, is once again approached by two network executives who tell him they need to make big changes in the show, this time to increase ratings of girls. Krusty refuses, but the executives are ready to make a reality show to find his replacement. Desperate to stay, he agrees. The next show, he introduce [[Princess Penelope]]. A relationship develops between Krusty and Penelope and Krusty proposes to her. However, realizing that his last 14 marriages have failed, he breaks up with her. Penelope leaves and moves to [[Paris]]. Krusty follows her their, and the float down the River Seine together.

In a shock turn of events, it is revealed Krusty has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He takes Homer and Bart with him to [[Oslo]], [[Norway]]. As the plane lands, Krusty, Homer and Bart get off to find that they are not in Oslo at all but they were in The Hague, The Netherlands. A Dutch policeman tells them that Krusty is to be arrested and tried at the International Court of Justice for his behaviour in Western Europe. The only way for him to be freed was if there is evidence suggesting that Krusty has helped Western culture, leading Homer and Bart to search for evidence. Bart and Homer desperately search for evidence on the Internet and only find Krusty's bad behavior. They then find something they feel would get Krusty free. At the court, they show the evidence that Krusty inadvertently helped out, by telling the band to play vuvuzelas which led to Nelson Mandela being freed, allowing him to be freed.

== Biography ==
Krusty is a hard-living entertainment veteran who has been down and out several times (being constantly rescued by the Simpson children) and remains addicted to cigarettes and alcohol (and, at one point, Percodan). He seems to suffer from bipolar disorder, and, in a Soupy Sales parody, asked children to send him spare lithium from their parent's medicine cabinets after the nuclear power plant cut off its prescription drug plan. He says that his tolerance levels are so high from years of excess he has to smoke ground-up moon rocks to get high.<ref>"[[The Heartbroke Kid]]"</ref> Krusty – minus his trademark clown-hair, pale "facepaint" and red nose – bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Homer Simpson. However, there also differences such as his cow-skull birthmark, his superfluous third nipple, and his small feet. Krusty, like Homer, has apparently faced heart problems in the past as he currently has a pacemaker. The pacemaker has since permanently made his face white.
He also seems to be disturbed at even the mere mention of someone having an affair, as when Homer tells Krusty the Clown that Apu was cheating on Manjula (due to his thinking he'd joke about it), he reacted quite opposite of what Homer expected by saying in a remorseful tone that it was sad, and feeling sorry for all of their kids.<ref>"[[The Sweetest Apu]]"</ref> Krusty lives in his mansion in the upscale residential area of "[[Springfield Heights]]", which is also resided by Mob boss [[Fat Tony]] D'Amico and actor [[Troy McClure]].
[[File:Insane Clown Poppy promo.png|thumb|with Sophie]]
[[File:Down she goes.png|200px|left|thumb|nail|Krusty's meaner side, shooting at environmentalists protesting against [[Krusty Burger]].]]

=== Family ===
Krusty's father was [[Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky]], and his grandfather was Rabbi Zed Krustofsky. He also has an unnamed sister and a nephew named [[Josh]]. Through his mother, [[Rachel Krustofsky]],<ref name="CitD"/> Krusty is an older half-brother to actor Luke Perry. He has several illegitimate children, one of which is [[Sophie]].

=== Relationships ===
Krusty has been married 15 times. He usually gets married to his sideshows, including Eartha Kitt. He rejected [[Princess Penelope]] at their wedding in order to keep her from ruining her life as he usually got divorced shortly after. He was also once in a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]]<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> and had sex with [[Mrs. Muntz]], though the latter was Mrs. Muntz's way of bribing Krusty to get [[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]] a place as a Krust-ketter.<ref>"[[All About Lisa]]"</ref> Krusty also had a relationship with [[Lindsey Naegle]].<ref>"[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]"</ref>

=== Problems ===
Despite his wealth, Krusty is frequently depressed when offstage; the contrast between these two personae is often used as a source of comedy by the writers. Krusty also exhibits laziness, irresponsibility, and promiscuity, amongst other negative traits. He smokes heavily and appears to have a low standard of health.
Krusty revealed that he was illiterate during a court case after being framed for armed robbery by [[Sideshow Bob]].<ref>"[[Krusty Gets Busted]]"</ref>
His illegitimate daughter Sophie was the result of a one-night stand between Krusty and a female soldier during the Gulf War. Now estranged, her mother has developed a bitter hatred of clowns and displays it with her choice of artwork (depicting violence being performed against clowns), this being because his actions caused her to fail in her mission. Krusty is said to have married 8 different wives, with each wife leaving him.<ref name="OUATIS"/> At one point he tried to pick up a girl at some point until he discovered that the chick was actually male, in which the morning after, he tries to get a friend to get him out of the relationship.<ref>"[[Make Room for Lisa]]" - '''Krusty:''' (over Baby Monitor) Hey, it's Krusty. I need you to get me out of another jam. (scene cuts to a desert with Krusty on a cell phone while wearing nothing but a towel) I picked up this chick last night. ...at least, I thought she was a chick. (Car passes by and honks horn).</ref> Outside of personal problems, he has also shown himself to have medical problems. As noted above, he once suffered a Heart Attack on the air. He was also implied to have had heart surgery from another relapse during the time New Springfield was being blacked out by Old Springfield.<ref>"[[A Tale of Two Springfields]]"</ref> He also mentioned that he was diabetic once to his daughter.<ref>"[[Insane Clown Poppy]]"</ref> He also implied once that he has several organ problems, causing him to get worried when everyone decided to remove their organ donor stickers upon Bart's point after getting a drivers license at an early age due to saving Springfield from a fire.<ref>"[[Little Big Girl]]"</ref>
== Appearance ==
[[File:Homer krusty.png|thumb|right|Krusty and Homer. The mob can't recognize who is Krusty because of the similarity]]
Krusty the Clown has aqua-green tufty hair, as well as a white face (which he once revealed was not makeup). He also wears a light purple short-sleeved suit over a yellow shirt, lime green clown pants with red clown boots, a light blue bow-tie and white gloves.

== Products ==
''For a more accurate list see, [[KrustyCo Inc.]]'' 
Krusty's profligate spending has resulted in encounters with the local Mafia, not to mention schemes such as running a clown college to turn out proxy Krustys to appear at birthday parties, and running a concentration-camp-like summer camp called "Kamp Krusty". He willingly sells out to commercial interests to sell all manner of second-rate goods – he even has a generic spoken endorsement: "I heartily endorse this event or product!". His lack of care towards the quality of his merchandising is evidenced by the little attention he pays to the names of events he stars in: his Christmas show, "Krusty Kinda Kristmas"; his TV special, "[[Krusty Komedy Klassics]]"; and a tennis tournament he sponsored, the "Krusty Kharity Klassic" all use the unfortunate acrostic "KKK" (as in Ku Klux Klan). Unfortunately, the only instance of this he notices is the TV special, and that was only because the initials are shown behind him. In a hindsighted booking decision, Krusty was live at the Apollo Theater at the time.

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Future ===
In the year 2013, [[Marge Simpson]] leaves Homer after he blew the family savings on an underwater home. Krusty the Clown then dates Marge Simpson. Homer tries to win Marge's love back by beating him up, and is beaten up himself. Marge Simpson then gets back together with Homer.

=== Treehouse of Horror ===
Krusty appears as the Headless Horseman in the opening of [[Treehouse of Horror VI]], throwing his head at the camera and making his trademark groan.

In the [[Treehouse of Horror XIX]] segment "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising", Krusty is the first celebrity murdered by Homer (albeit unintentionally) for a group of amoral admen's purpose of using his likeness in commercials without having to pay royalties. Enraged, Krusty leads an army of dead celebrities from Heaven to take revenge on Homer and other Springfieldians, killing Homer with a shotgun blast to the head.

=== ''The Simpsons Game'' ===
Rather ironically, Krusty appears in the level [[Mob Rules]] as one of the people Marge can use to protest the sales of the ''Grand Theft Scratchy'' videogame to minors. Mini-Krusties appear in [[Shadow of the Colossal Donut]] to attack Homer and Bart, spouting out various (and sometimes twisted) Krusty the Clown sound bites. Throughout the game Bart can collect Krusty coupons that he can use to win various Krusty-based trophies.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{Main|Krusty the Clown/Tapped Out}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
[[File:Krustys first appearance.png|thumb|Krusty's first appearance in the Simpsons short "The Krusty the Clown Show".]]
The character of Krusty was partially inspired by real-life clown [[Rusty Nails]] whom ''Simpsons'' creator [[Matt Groening]] watched as a child while growing up in Portland, Oregon. Some of his biographical details echo those of comedian Jackie Mason, who voices Krusty's father, including being the son of an Orthodox rabbi, and being temporarily banned from television due to a controversial performance.

Krusty's character was also partially inspired by real-life clown {{w|J. P. Patches}}, who hosted a long-running children's show which was aired in the greater Seattle area.

Krusty's appearance and design is basically just that of Homer Simpson with clown make-up. Groening said that "The satirical conceit that I was going for at the time was that The Simpsons was about a kid who had no respect for his father, but worshipped a clown who looked exactly like his father," a theme which became less important as the show developed. One concept initially saw Krusty being revealed as Homer's secret identity but the idea was dropped for being too complex and because the writers were too busy developing the series. The idea of Homer as Krusty, however, was revisited in "[[Homie the Clown]]", where Homer takes a job as a Krusty double, only to get abducted by Fat Tony, who mistakes Homer for Krusty partly due to the resemblance.

It has been stated by Groening that the voice of Krusty was based on the long-time [[Chicago]] version of Bozo played by Bell.

=== Foreign dubs ===
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|daVoice={{W|Jens Jacob Tychsen}}
|deVoice=[[german:Hans-Rainer Müller|Hans-Rainer Müller]]
|esVoice=Abraham Aguilar
}}

== Trivia ==
*Krusty stated that he weighs almost 200 pounds, but he also has 30 pounds of makeup on, and he also carries heavy weapons.<ref>"[[Pranks and Greens]]"</ref>
*In "[[Colonel Homer]]", when Krusty was throttling Sideshow Mel, he shouted "I thought I told you to stay away from my sister!". Whether he was referring to [[Barbara Van Horne]] or someone else is unknown.

== Appearances ==
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*{{ul|The Krusty The Clown Show}}
*{{ep|Bart the Genius|(seen in cornflakes packet)}}
*{{ep|Homer's Odyssey}}
*{{ep|Bart the General|(seen in picture)}}
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Busted}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets an "F"}}
*{{ep|Principal Charming}}
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"}}
*{{ep|Old Money}}
*{{ep|Brush with Greatness}}
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
*{{ep|Like Father, Like Clown}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
*{{ep|Homer at the Bat}}
*{{ep|Bart's Friend Falls in Love}}
*{{ep|Kamp Krusty}}
*{{ep|Homer the Heretic}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror III}}
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
*{{ep|Mr. Plow}}
*{{ep|Lisa's First Word}}
*{{ep|Homer's Triple Bypass}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Brother from the Same Planet}}
*{{ep|I Love Lisa}}
*{{ep|The Front}}
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
*{{ep|Homer Goes to College}}
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
*{{ep|Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood}}
*{{ep|$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets Famous}}
*{{ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
*{{ep|Burns' Heir}}
*{{ep|Lady Bouvier's Lover}}
*{{ep|Bart of Darkness}}
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy Land}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
*{{ep|Lisa on Ice}}
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
*{{ep|Bart's Comet}}
*{{ep|Homie the Clown}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Wedding}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}
*{{ep|Radioactive Man}}
*{{ep|Bart Sells His Soul}}
*{{ep|Mother Simpson}}
*{{ep|Team Homer}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
*{{ep|Summer of 4 Ft. 2}}
*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
*{{ep|The Homer They Fall}}
*{{ep|Bart After Dark}}
*{{ep|Hurricane Neddy}}
*{{ep|El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer}}
*{{ep|Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious}}
*{{ep|The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show}}
*{{ep|Brother from Another Series}}
*{{ep|My Sister, My Sitter}}
*{{ep|Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment}}
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
*{{ep|Homer's Enemy}}
*{{ep|The Cartridge Family}}
*{{ep|Bart Star}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing}}
*{{ep|Bart Carny}}
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
*{{ep|This Little Wiggy}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
*{{ep|Girly Edition}}
*{{ep|Lost Our Lisa}}
*{{ep|Lard of the Dance}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IX}}
*{{ep|D'oh-in' in the Wind}}
*{{ep|Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"}}
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
*{{ep|Sunday, Cruddy Sunday}}
*{{ep|Homer to the Max}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Make Room for Lisa}}
*{{ep|Simpsons Bible Stories}}
*{{ep|They Saved Lisa's Brain}}
*{{ep|Beyond Blunderdome}}
*{{ep|Brother's Little Helper}}
*{{ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror X}}
*{{ep|Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder}}
*{{ep|Grift of the Magi}}
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
*{{ep|The Mansion Family}}
*{{ep|It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge}}
*{{ep|Behind the Laughter}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XI}}
*{{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
*{{ep|Insane Clown Poppy}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Tree Hugger}}
*{{ep|The Computer Wore Menace Shoes}}
*{{ep|Tennis the Menace}}
*{{ep|Trilogy of Error}}
*{{ep|I'm Goin' to Praiseland}}
*{{ep|Simpsons Tall Tales}}
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
*{{ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants}}
*{{ep|Tales from the Public Domain}}
*{{ep|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation}}
*{{ep|The Great Louse Detective}}
*{{ep|Special Edna}}
*{{ep|The Strong Arms of the Ma}}
*{{ep|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV|(deleted scene)}}
*{{ep|My Mother the Carjacker}}
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
*{{ep|The Wandering Juvie}}
*{{ep|Bart-Mangled Banner}}
*{{ep|Goo Goo Gai Pan}}
*{{ep|Mobile Homer}}
*{{ep|The Seven-Beer Snitch}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|Don't Fear the Roofer}}
*{{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
*{{ep|A Star Is Torn}}
*{{ep|Thank God It's Doomsday}}
*{{ep|Home Away from Homer}}
*{{ep|The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star}}
*{{ep|Milhouse of Sand and Fog}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVI}}
*{{ep|The Italian Bob}}
*{{ep|My Fair Laddy}}
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
*{{ep|Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife}}
*{{ep|Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore}}
*{{ep|The Wettest Stories Ever Told}}
*{{ep|The Monkey Suit}}
*{{ep|Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play}}
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
*{{ep|Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em}}
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
*{{ep|Moe'N'a Lisa}}
*{{ep|Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)}}
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
*{{ep|Homerazzi}}
*{{ep|Marge Gamer}}
*{{ep|The Boys of Bummer}}
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
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*{{ep|Midnight Towboy}}
*{{ep|I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XVIII}}
*{{ep|Husbands and Knives}}
*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
*{{ep|Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind}}
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
*{{spec|The Simpsons Ride}}
*{{ep|All About Lisa}}
*{{ep|MyPods and Boomsticks}}
*{{ep|Coming to Homerica}}
*{{ep|Homer the Whopper}}
*{{ep|The Great Wife Hope}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
*{{ep|Once Upon a Time in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Million Dollar Maybe}}
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
*{{ep|The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed}}
*{{ep|Chief of Hearts}}
*{{ep|To Surveil with Love}}
*{{ep|Moe Letter Blues}}
*{{ep|Elementary School Musical}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Homer the Father|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts|(picture and doll)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII|''In the Na'Vi'' segment}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You|(picture)}}
*{{ep|The Food Wife}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson|(picture)}}
*{{ep|The Ten-Per-Cent Solution}}
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Yellow Subterfuge}}
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
*{{ep|Brick Like Me}}
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused|(pictures)}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
*{{ep|The Princess Guide|(name seen)}}
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream}}
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead|(picture)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Multiplisa-ty, picture)}}
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
*{{ep|Mad About the Toy|(billboard gag)}}
*{{ep|E My Sports}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
*{{ep|Woo-hoo Dunnit?}}
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX|(Heaven Swipes Right; picture)}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
*{{spec|Homer Shake}}
*{{spec|Join The Simpsons at the Daytona 500|(on billboard)}}
*{{spec|Homer Votes 2016}}
*{{spec|Happy Daytona Day|(on billboard)}}
*{{spec|Moe Live Tweets!|(mentioned)}}
*{{spec|Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson|(archive footage)}}
*{{ad|Piggy Bank|(picture)}}
*{{ad|Intel Inside commercial}}
*{{ad|The Shock|(picture)}}
*{{ad|The Last Butterfinger|(picture)}}
*{{ad|Bart's Locker|(picture)}}
*{{ad|I've Been Robbed}}
*{{ad|Crime of the Century}}
*{{ad|The Raid}}
*{{ad|Hit a Homer|(picture)}}
*{{ad|Hard Times}}
*{{TSG}}
*{{bon|O Bart, Where Art Thou?}}
*{{bon|The Book That Ate Springfield!}}
*{{bon|Spree for All}}
*{{bon|Homer's Ark!}}
*{{bon|Li'l Krusty 6}}
*{{bon|The Greatest D'oh! on Earth}}
*{{bon|McBain Comics: Dead to the Last Drop}}
*{{bon|Hanukkah at Schtickfair}}
*{{bk|Bart Simpson's Guide to Life}}
*{{bk|The Homer Book}}
*{{bk|The Bart Book}}
*{{bk|The Ralph Wiggum Book}}
*{{bk|Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture}}
*{{bk|The Lisa Book}}
*{{bk|The Krusty Book}}
*{{bk|Flanders' Book of Faith}}
*{{bk|The Book of Moe}}
*{{bk|The Marge Book}}
*{{bk|The Chief Wiggum Book of Crime and Punishment}}
*{{game|Krusty's Fun House}}
*{{game|Virtual Bart}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Bowling}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Wrestling}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Road Rage}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Skateboarding}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Hit & Run}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{merch|Simpsons Mania! (Inkworks)|Simpsons Mania!}}
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Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade/References

2021-02-27T18:31:10Z

Alessandra: /* Cultural references */

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== Cultural references ==
*In [[Bart]]'s daydream, [[Pikachu]] from ''[[Pokémon]]'' and [[Bender]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' can be seen.
*On the field trip memorial wall when [[Willie]] has to enter Bart and Lisa's names, two of the names on the wall are El Jefe (Hefe) and Fat Mike - horns/guitar/backup vocals and bass/lead vocals/founding member (respectively) of the punk band {{w|NOFX}}.
*In Bart's daydream, the characters sing the classic Jewish folk song {{w|Hava Nagila}}.
*The scene of the connection of the TV to the satellite and of the monkeys working in the spaceship takes place with the musical piece ''{{w|An der schönen blauen Donau}}'' by {{W|Johann Strauss II}}, is a quote from the film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
*looking the earth out the spacecraft window one of the monkeys says "''..so beautiful, so fragile''" which is a quote from a poem by {{w|Jacques Prevert}}.
*The mural on the Capitol dome in [[Capital City]] is an irony on the mural of the {{w|United States Capitol}} ''"{{w|The Apotheosis of Washington}}"''.
*The [[Springfield Elementary School]] Field Trip Wall is identical to the ''{{w|Vietnam Veterans Memorial}} Wall'' in [[Washington, D.C.]] .
*When Bart and Lisa wander in the woods, Bart says they will ''"go around like the guys from {{w|The Blair Witch Project}}"'', in fact Bart, walking, exits from the right side of the screen and immediately returns from the left.

== Trivia ==
*This episode marks [[Marcia Wallace]]'s 100th appearance.
*Whatever [[Springfield's state|state]] [[Springfield]] is in, the state bird is the pot-bellied sparrow and the state pasta is bowtie.
*The family shops for a satellite dish at a store called [[The Boob Tubery]].
*Bart says that when he gets through with Lisa's flag, "it's gonna be a Bart-mangled banner." "[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]" became the title of of a later episode.
*The DVS narrator is different in this episode only.
*A common misconception about this episode is that Bart fails the third grade, something impossible for 4th grade students like Bart.
*Bart's fanny pack says "Lisa's Brother" and Lisa's says "Bart's Sister."
*Bart knows the states of [[Canada]], but does not know the capital
*The State Flag of Capital City is very similar to that of the US state [[Arizona]].

== Goofs ==
[[File:Redball.jpg|thumb|The Capital City Goofball's appearance]]
*For some reason, the [[Capital City Goofball]] is orange in this episode, when in others, he is yellow.
*Bart and Lisa's fanny packs disappear as soon as they get on the bus.
*When we first see Willie standing by the Black Wall of field trips, the latest entry at at Willie's eye level. But when the angle changes, there are a lot more names on the wall, making the last entry appear just by Willie's chest.
*When Bart and [[Lisa]] tumble into the creek, you can tell it's pretty deep from the underwater shot of them choking each other. But when they resurface they're able to stand and the water's only waist deep.
*After Lisa is given her paper, you can clearly see that there is a B+ on top of the stack of the papers the teacher is holding. But a moment later, she gives Bart an A.
*When Bart starts to imagine his classmates as TV characters, [[Richard]] is on Bart's left and turns into [[Bender]] then he is almost instantly on Bart's right and becomes one of the cast from "Japanese Friends".
*When the kids are boarding the bus to Capital City and [[Otto]] says "Pukers in back", you can see him through the bus windshield but his mouth does not move.

{{Season 14|R}}

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Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade/References

2021-02-27T18:00:31Z

Alessandra: /* Trivia */

{{TabR}}
{{EpisodePrevNextRef|How I Spent My Strummer Vacation|Large Marge}}

== Cultural references ==
*In [[Bart]]'s daydream, [[Pikachu]] from ''[[Pokémon]]'' and [[Bender]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' can be seen.
*On the field trip memorial wall when [[Willie]] has to enter Bart and Lisa's names, two of the names on the wall are El Jefe (Hefe) and Fat Mike - horns/guitar/backup vocals and bass/lead vocals/founding member (respectively) of the punk band {{w|NOFX}}.
*In Bart's daydream, the characters sing the classic Jewish folk song {{w|Hava Nagila}}.

== Trivia ==
*This episode marks [[Marcia Wallace]]'s 100th appearance.
*Whatever [[Springfield's state|state]] [[Springfield]] is in, the state bird is the pot-bellied sparrow and the state pasta is bowtie.
*The family shops for a satellite dish at a store called [[The Boob Tubery]].
*Bart says that when he gets through with Lisa's flag, "it's gonna be a Bart-mangled banner." "[[Bart-Mangled Banner]]" became the title of of a later episode.
*The DVS narrator is different in this episode only.
*A common misconception about this episode is that Bart fails the third grade, something impossible for 4th grade students like Bart.
*Bart's fanny pack says "Lisa's Brother" and Lisa's says "Bart's Sister."
* Bart knows the states of [[Canada]], but does not know the capital <ref>[[ep|The Bart Wants What It Wants]]</ref>
* The [[State Flag of Capital City]] is very similar to that of the US state [[Arizona]].

== Goofs ==
[[File:Redball.jpg|thumb|The Capital City Goofball's appearance]]
*For some reason, the [[Capital City Goofball]] is orange in this episode, when in others, he is yellow.
*Bart and Lisa's fanny packs disappear as soon as they get on the bus.
*When we first see Willie standing by the Black Wall of field trips, the latest entry at at Willie's eye level. But when the angle changes, there are a lot more names on the wall, making the last entry appear just by Willie's chest.
*When Bart and [[Lisa]] tumble into the creek, you can tell it's pretty deep from the underwater shot of them choking each other. But when they resurface they're able to stand and the water's only waist deep.
*After Lisa is given her paper, you can clearly see that there is a B+ on top of the stack of the papers the teacher is holding. But a moment later, she gives Bart an A.
*When Bart starts to imagine his classmates as TV characters, [[Richard]] is on Bart's left and turns into [[Bender]] then he is almost instantly on Bart's right and becomes one of the cast from "Japanese Friends".
*When the kids are boarding the bus to Capital City and [[Otto]] says "Pukers in back", you can see him through the bus windshield but his mouth does not move.

{{Season 14|R}}

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[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:Goofs]]