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aox wrote: Sideshow Bob is a staunch Republican

"Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king."

Though to be fair...

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Big Ben wrote:A reminder that Trump was eventually elected in the Simpsons universe and was subsequently succeeded by Lisa.

There was a lesbian President before her.

swo17 wrote:

Though to be fair...

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No one has ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it. =D

aox wrote:Marge voted for Jimmy Carter twice

She also snapped at Homer that time he slandered the late Earl Warren. Her liberal credentials are impeccable.

Least we forget Matt Groening's palpable hatred of Nixon that crossed over onto Futurama

HJackson wrote:

aox wrote:Marge voted for Jimmy Carter twice

She also snapped at Homer that time he slandered the late Earl Warren. Her liberal credentials are impeccable.

And interestingly, for someone who is a buffoon most of the time and generally indifferent to most things, Homer seems to have a keen - sometimes too keen - awareness of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Not bad for someone who thinks it's called the "Electrical College".

To be fair, it doesn't take a Constitutional law professor or trained historian to know Chief Justice Warren wasn't a stripper.

Now who's being naive?

djproject wrote:

HJackson wrote:

aox wrote:Marge voted for Jimmy Carter twice

She also snapped at Homer that time he slandered the late Earl Warren. Her liberal credentials are impeccable.

And interestingly, for someone who is a buffoon most of the time and generally indifferent to most things, Homer seems to have a keen - sometimes too keen - awareness of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Homer's wildly inconsistent intelligence became a problem with the show. For a while it was just funny how ridiculously stupid he could be at certain moments ("Oooh, he read card good!"), but it did get old. In retrospect, it paved the way for the lazy and insipid joke writing that would define the show's later years (or at least the last ones I saw before I gave up on the show).

Man, the writers aren't even trying to pretend they're trying anymore

“The LEGO Get Out Movie” is pretty funny, though.

Nine opportunities to be funny and they blew eight, then

What really bugs me is calling it a “Googolplex” when there are only nine screens.

Well, it could just be those nine titles each playing on more than 1.11x10^99 screens...

(I’m assuming the “plex” part of the theater name is just derived from “multiplex” and not representative of the number of screens; if I’m wrong, I’ll let someone else write out the exponent)

I remember that episode of course but I had no idea until that link was posted in the Soderbergh thread the other day that “Steamed Hams” was this big thing.

No “ye gods,” no sale

How people have misheard that line as "egads" and it gone uncorrected for this long is beyond me.

If you ever want to run the joke into the ground for yourself, there are hundreds of iterations of it on YouTube now. I have watched too many of them...

The Gorillaz mashup is one of the best ones (Fair warning: it may never leave your head)

soundchaser wrote:How people have misheard that line as "egads" and it gone uncorrected for this long is beyond me.

My mom always pronounced it "ham mock" until I showed her this scene