S/D: tedious Simpsons gags

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Lenny: "Oh look, we're coming up on Mt Carlmore. I carved that one wonderful summer."
Homer: "What did Carl think?"
Lenny: "You know, we've never really discuessed it."

Also, DENTAL PLAN! rocks.

also, the rakes give me the hard giggles

Okay, I'm done. Whew!

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"thing about my family, there's the small guy, the little girl, and the fat bald guy, how I LOATHE HIM"

Are we to search the best Simpsons gags that are also very tedious? I don't get it. But anyway...

Search:
- HOMER: "So Lenny was all like 'don't go there, girlfriend.'"
- any of the early Uter gags, especially "I also have a bag of Joy Joys."
- the overwrought melodrama scene in the Big Brother program episode. "What are you gonna do about it, Homer?" "Oh, wouldn't you just like to know."

Destroy:
- Frink and Comic Book Guy. Especially disappointing, the latter, as kept down to a couple odd appearances early on, he was really funny. Overexposure was not kind to either of these characters.

Mental dam!

Lisa pleads races!

OT: my favorite "tedious gag" is in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life when the French waiter leads the camera on a little walk that lasts for at least a couple minutes but maybe went longer (originally, I guess, it was supposed to go on for a further five minutes).

(Gil) [pulls a cell phone from his jacket, and dials] Honey, you should have seen me with my last customer, I ... no, but I came so close. This guy was as ... Whose voice is that? Is that Fred? ... Aw, you said it was over ... No, don't put him on -- Hello, Fred! h-hi!

"This little fella writes murder mysteries under the name JP McGregor"

i hear there's a Simpsons episode set in London soon in which Homer confronts either the Queen or the Prime Minister, possibly both. Won't be going out of my way to watch...

the bit oops quotes is possibly my favourite simpsons scene ever,along with the sex cauldron bit...

also,i love the rake sequence,but at this stage the "worst...ever" gag is getting a bit old...

I am a big big fan of Lenny and Carl.

Some of these appearances, like the R.E.M. one, reminded me of when Charlie Daniels or Johnny Paycheck would appear at the end of a "Dukes of Hazzard" episode at the Boar's Nest, being forced to play to get out of a ticket that Roscoe wrote them.

C: "Sending some outgoing mail?"
L: "You know it!"
C+L highfives: "booyeah!"

"Homer, Maude is dead! You were at the funeral! You fell into the grave!"

You can't tell me that's not funny (and convince me I'm wrong)

only truly classic after the line 'I'm afraid Sorry doesn't cut it with this Pope!' but i never understood the reference to either that or the collar-snagging.

Seriously using the phrase "jump the shark" was the jump-the-shark moment for you being cool.

My housemate and I just laughed hysterically at that. Funny indeed.

"Ah, Grimey. What happened to him?"

hey kids, we're eatin' dinner tonight!

c'mon tiffany, heather, cody, dylan, dermott, jordan, taylor, britney, wesley, rumor scout, cassidy, zoe, chloe, max, hunter, kendall, caitlin, noah, sasha, morgan, keira, ian, lauren, qbert, phil ...

HOMER
Lousy big shot, thinks he's so big 'cause he's got a lot of guns, well if he didn't have any guns I'd show him a thing or two. (At home that night, he is still muttering , as he paces up and down the hallway.) Let's see him walk into my store and then we'll see who's worried about five-day waiting periods...

LISA
Dad, it's three a.m. Can't you mutter in your room?

HOMER
Marge kicked me out.

LISA
(groaning) Oh... all right, go ahead.

HOMER
(still muttering) Pushy kids, think they can tell me what to do in my house, well I tell you, parents these days, they don't know how to rear children...

Marge: Homer, when are you going to give up this crazy sugar scheme?
Homer: Never, Marge! Never. I can't live the button-down life like
you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the
creamy middles. Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with
my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling
of the so-called "City Fathers" who cluck their tongues, stroke
their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer
Simpson?"
Marge: Look, just get rid of the sugar, OK?
Homer: No!

Homer: [answering the door] Who is it?
Voice: Goons.
Homer: Who?
Voice: Hired goons.
Homer: Hired goons? [opens the door]

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Also, "See my vest!"

note: those old gags that seem tired, they were funny when first done back in like ... 1991.

I seem to remember a quote from a Simpsons humor writer explaining that doing something three times is the classically funny magic number, and after that it stops being funny, until you've done it seven times, at which point it becomes funny again.

I appreciate the fact that all Simpsons threads, regardless of initial question, turn into quote threads.

Krusty: I vow to reach out to the Latino community! Voy a vomitar en la tomba de tu madre!
(Gasps by crowd)
Bumblebee Man: Ay yi yi!
Krusty: What'd I say? What'd I say?
Bumblebee Man: You said you were going to vomit on their mother's graves!
Krusty: Oh! So that's why my maid quit.

Bart: The Krusty I know didn't get where he is today by giving up!
Krusty: No, he got where he is today by naming names in the 50s.

this thread sucks for making fun of simpsons

I really like the special Miami Vice one where Wiggum chases the big Louisiana criminal to his house on an island, they run into a room and the perp sits down in a revolving chair, and when the perp turns around Wiggum says 'YOU!' - as if it was gonna be anyone else.

I hope I have remembered that fairly correctly.

Then when the perp jumps out the window and starts swimming Wiggum or Skinner says 'He's getting away ... very slowly'.

Oh the fucking Side Show Bob rakes.

Also Mole Man hit in the nuts with a ball.

Anything that involves Mr. Burns is always great. He's possibly the only character that's been consistently funny even in the worst episodes. I prefer him to Homer.

[creamed corn being pumped down a conveyer belt]

skinner takes a sample.

Skinner; It's pure

[mrage standing on unemployment line]

marge: getting paid to do nothing. i feel like such a crook.

[pans to george bush sr. standing on line. simpsons gasp in disbelief]

george bush sr.: don't worry, it gets easier every week. [taps check]

I seem to remember a quote from a Simpsons humor writer explaining that doing something three times is the classically funny magic number, and after that it stops being funny, until you've done it seven times, at which point it becomes funny again.

that's a monty python quote, I think.

I'm not sure a lot of these gags posted are quite what the thread topic calls for.

the drooling thing homer does - tedious

getting a lil' tired of the okly-dokly's...also, the kill the subliminal attraction thing Homer has for Ned...

by the way, every gag mentioned thus far: classic

I just turned on my TV exactly in time to catch DENTAL PLAN. Still classic!

God, this whole episode!

* Hired goons!
* "Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say..."
* Homer having to go to the bathroom at Mr. Burns's house ("You're going to be making a BIG SPLASH very soon!")
* Burns proclaiming he'll crush Homer "like a bug!", then falling out of the helicopter... dissolve to him being airlifted to the hospital and he's still crying out "A bug!"

They were really firing on all cylinders at this point. Not a dud joke in the whole thing.

Burns: "I will wreak a terrible vengeance on this city! No one will be spared! No one!"
Brockman: (chuckles) "A chilling vision of things to come!"

I thought this was supposed to be a thread about *long drawn out* Simpsons gags. Like the rakes gag. Things that go on for ages (and are hence hilarious).

Oh well.

yeah the Homer the Union Negotiator episode is wall-to-wall quality jokes

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

anything involving superintendent chalmers asking skinner a long, incredulous question and skinner cheerfully responding "yes!"

Hahah like "the northern lights.... localised...in your kitchen...in JUNE....

...

... can I see?"

OK I think that was all wrong but you get the idea.

Perhaps they thought they milked the Chalmers jokes dry, so they introduced Comptroller Atkins into the school bureaucracy jokes mix.

Bart and Lisa's prank calls to Moe - they were funny for a while, but repeating the thing over and over for years was way too much.

Any gag with Apu where the gag is just LOL INDIANS.

How many prank calls over the show's entire history are there? It can't be far into double figures

Any gag with Apu where the gag is just LOL INDIANS.

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A lot of gags with any non-American where the gag is just LOL NON-AMERICAN. But some are great.

you guys would've loved radio comedy, where Jack Benny did the same gags brilliantly week after week for 20 years...

I do love radio comedy ... or Bob and Ray, at least.

Again, we're not talking about running jokes but gags predicated on tedium.

Dr. Morbius posting "LOL OLD" comment in thread where Grandpa Simpson actually appears = gold

Anyway, the episode in which the rake gag appeared also had another great tedium gag:

Agent: Tell you what, sir. From now on, you'll be, uh, Homer Thompson at Terror Lake. Let's just practise a bit, hmm? When I say, "Hello, Mr. Thompson," you'll say, "Hi."
Homer: Check.
Agent: Hello, Mr. Thompson.
Homer: [stares blankly]
Agent: Remember now, your name is Homer Thompson.
Homer: I gotcha.
Agent: Hello, Mr. Thompson.
Homer: [stares blankly]
[A long time later]
Agent: [sighs in frustration] Now, when I say, "Hello, Mr. Thompson," and press down on your foot, you smile and nod.
Homer: No problem.
Agent: Hello, Mr. Thompson! [stomps on Homer's foot a few times]
Homer: [stares blankly] [to other agent] I think he's talking to _you_.

i saw a bit of a Simpsons where Sideshow Bob has married some Italian woman and had a son and the son actually treads on a single rake at one point. the episode was actually dubbed into Italian (i was in Rome) which maybe helped.

also search: kent brockman getting pissed off at video of lamb drinking from baby bottle

or kent brockman saluting his new masters the ant people

ummmm...steamed hams!

That Troy McClure sleeping with the fishes running gag I can't actually remember the details of was hilarious.

Yes, I know I haven't actually said anything negative, I just enjoy reading these Simpsons memories. I haven't watched a new episode of that show in years.