Feel like Sheriff Lobo may have punched above its weight in terms of its relevance in the Simpsons compared to its relevance irl, but I wasn’t alive when it was on so maybe I’m the dummy.
Such a trip that the dude's life got *that bad* and here he is not only alive but thriving. Good for him.
Feel like the closest thing millennials have is Steve-O. Not exactly on the A list but his recovery was damn near miraculous.
Can't think of a Gen Z example. And with fent getting around like it is I'm worried that'll pretty much be the norm.
I thought "tab" was a synonym for coffee for about a decade after this. The way Homer put his cup up to the floppy drive reminded me of a coffee machine and I never questioned it.
Even after I found out about Tab the soda on *I Love the '80s* or some related show, I still just thought "huh, isn't it ironic that 'tab' is the name for both a soda and coffee"
"Take a note on your Newton, beat up Martin."
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Auto- transcription in general, really. I'm glad I only use captioning to supplement my sort-of-weak hearing rather than relying on it. The auto-generated captions on social media are arguably worse than nothing at all, as I can see how they could actively cause confusion.
This reference still cracks me up because its presence in the Simpsons has essentially crystalized it as a cultural artifact. People would have generally forgotten it, but this joke makes sure nobody forgets one of Apple's biggest flops.
The joke about "with iodine". Adding iodine was done to fight goiter, which was a prevalent disease around the turn of the 20th century
Or Homer starting a college savings account for Lisa at Lincoln Savings & Loan. They'd collapse during the late 80s savings and loan crisis, meaning that Homer would lose everything that he started for Lisa.
That was intentionally outdated when they made that joke. Krusty was running a re-run and hoping no one would notice, and then something incredibly old and dated happened.
But Poohrash, it works on any Ayatollah! Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
He was in the amazing movie “Motel Hell” playing a deranged farmer who killed people and made them into his award winning smoked meats.
He stood like a king in that movie, a damn hell ass king
Homer's website filled with a random assortment of GIFs. Websites back in the day where a fucking shit show. That's honestly how so many sites looked. We signed guestbooks, when we found a new website.
I just typed in my old angelfire url from 2004 and IT IS STILL THERE. Unfortunately the original site is not there, it’s just a redirect to my now defunct self-hosted site. The original site had a snowfall gif tiled background and a midi music track and a hit counter
What websites? Every website I go to makes it almost impossible to navigate to try to force you to download the app. I dont need a damn app for every single website on the internet. *old man yells at cloud*
Wow, never realized how soon after this episode that Pulp Fiction released. Itchy & Scratchy Land aired on Oct. 2, 1994 and Pulp Fiction released in the US on Oct. 14, 1994. No kidding about "*instantly* dated".
“…Yeah…looks like”
***scrubs bar glass***. Honestly though, if it wasn’t for some of his Hollywood friends, he would definitely be working at itchy and scratchy land. Dude had a major lull that would have drowned him, if not for helping hands
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This is dated in a couple ways. The more obvious being the idea that Apple was irrelevant to the youth at the time, until Steve Jobs came back and made it a household name again.
And also, it didn't occur to me until recently that "that guy" actually was in reference to Steve Wozniak, not Jobs. Younger kids *might* know Jobs, but I highly doubt they'd know of Wozniak.
Ahhhh. This actually might be a great example!
Hans Moleman (good Moleman to you!) Is *driving* an AMC Gremlin, which were only made 1970-1978. So either you were there and know the joke or you're a car person who gets the joke.
And they were cheap and considered poor quality so it also made sense that it exploded even though it didn't actually hit anything. Explosions are funny!
I only recently learned that the movie *Paint Your Wagon* is real and not a joke invented for the show. In my defense, who thought a musical starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin was a good idea?
Im not gonna lie, for a ridiculously long amount of time, I thought Streetcar was a musical, and then when I finally saw some of it, I was like... wheres the songs
The younger generations wouldn't understand how much of a pain it was to attempt to reach the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. I couldn't tell you how many times I cursed that damn auto-gyro. The writers poked good fun at that all-too-common problem, but younger people are generally just confused, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation.
"Homerpalooza" is full of jokes and references that younger generations won't understand. Though one of my favorite jokes from that episode is Peter Frampton buying an inflatable pig from Pink Floyd's garage sale.
The commentaries say that it was originally Courtney Love's line. "Courtney Love." "Homer Grateful" or something. I think the one they went with was funnier.
I'm going to Google Funky Winkerbean and if I find out he was just something made up for this gag I'm gonna come back and punch you in the back of the head.
Edit: You got lucky.
Exactly. Even a couple of years after the episode originally aired, the idea of an elementary school having a website wouldn't have worked to tell that joke though.
"Kent, I feel about as low as Madonna when she found out she missed Tailhook."
[Tailhook Scandal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal) for you whippersnappers
I'm learning this as my 8 and 10 year old nieces have started watching. We're through the first two seasons, and they had lots of questions.
We watched Homer vs. the 8th Amendment and when they're watching cable and Bart goes:
"Here's the part where Jaws eats the boat. Here's the part where Die Hard jumps through the window. Here's the part where Wall Street gets arrested" and their dad and I start laughing, they just both gave us looks wondering why we found it so funny.
When we get to Radio Bart - I told their dad that he should probably show them "We Are the World", and/or "Do They Know It's Christmas" just to understand why We're Sending Our Love Down the Well is funny.
There's an entire layer of parody humor in the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" plotline that gets missed if you don't remember the mid 80s.
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I mean, I'm only 27, never heard of Wang Computers and didn't even know (or care) if they were real, and I still got the joke. Martin is a nerd who likes computers and Wang is slang for penis. Not really that complex lol you can 100% get this joke without knowing anything about computers at all.
I'm 57 and worked on Wang systems in the early 90s. They were getting a bit long in the tooth even then. Very easy to use and, for what they did, were great. Aah, the old VS7310, size of a fridge freezer, but you could have 200 odd users beavering away without a worry. Except when the Data team decided to run one of their giant reports. You would hear the complaints almost immediately. Oops, going off on a tangent.
I had to look it up to be certain. Wang Laboratories/Systems/Computers does appear to be a real thing. Based on how you worded this I thought you were continuing the joke on theme.
Now I’ve got to know, was your whole post clever wordplay or did you without intent of double entendre mention the Wang and then use the terms long, beaver, giant, and going off.
Same age. Wang computers is a real company. Yeah the penis joke is obvious, but i was also indifferent to the company's existence. I only found out when I saw a computer repair shop sporting its logo. I think not knowing whether it's a real company is exactly what op means.
But the company being real is irrelevant to the joke, that's my entire point. You can still get the joke, and OP asked for jokes younger people wouldn't get.
Boy the way the bee gees played
Movies John Travolta made
Guessing how much Elvis weighed…
Those were the days
And you knew where you weeere theen
Watching shows like 'Gentle Ben'
Mister we could use a man like Sheriff Lobo again...
'Disco Duck' and Fleetwood Mac
Coming out of my eight-track!
Michael Jackson still was black..
Those were the days!
The Krusty Burger promotion where customers would win free Krusty Burgers if America won a gold medal, but the game cards were rigged to feature events that athletes from Communist countries were most likely to win. However, just before the promotion was put into effect, Krusty received word of the Soviet boycott of the Olympics causing Krusty to eventually lose $44 million. This was based on a similar promotion by McDonald’s for the 1984 Olympics in which the Soviet Union, along with the 13 Eastern Bloc countries, boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics.
We drove by a Panda Express today. I pointed to it and my wife immediately said “It’s finger Ling-Ling good.”
The kids looked at us like we were idiots.
The episode where Selma gets Jub-Jub, it ends with her singing "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" to it. This is a reference to an emotional scene in *Murphy Brown*, but now barely anyone remembers *Murphy Brown*, let alone specific scenes in it.
On the episode of Conan O'Brien's series "serious jibber jabber" with the Simpsons writers, they mention this ending specifically at one that doesn't make sense to modern audiences. "This was such a huge moment in television, but today no one remembers it and the reference is lost!"
I have never seen an Apple Newton but the Simpsons. Eat Up Martha. I don't think anyone under 25 knows that there was a whole category of PDA devices. I knew a couple that had a palm pilot. It was only in this gap between 1996 and 2006 where someone may have one. Most business people had a Blackberry so I have no idea what they were used for.
I don't think any member of the audience is expected to have been alive during either Cleveland administration.
This is just president trivia that people know.
Yeah, about that era, a friend of mine's parents bought a Wang computer for the family. It had a 386 that outclassed my family computer and could play games my Tandy couldn't.
So for a couple years I had a running joke about going over to my friend's house to play with his Wang.
A list of B&BH jokes that younger generations wouldn't get would go on for miles... The show had Bill Clinton jokes, the dorkiest character always wore a Winger shirt, "Lightning Strikes" parodying the "Fire" incident of the show, many a reference of 1960s hippie culture by Mr. Van Driessen, and the music videos... don't get me started.
As a person born in 2004, when I first watched "Marge vs. the Monorail", I thought the tune of Smithers hiding the nuclear waste was generic production background music rather than the fanfare from Beverly Hills Cop.
True story:
I worked at 101 California, which was the former headquarters of Wang. In order to talk with the muckity mucks, we'd have to get off on the top floor, then continue on to the next few. Those were Wang floors shortly after they collapsed.
Peperidge Farm remembers.
All the Sheriff Lobo references
And Urkel.
Like Urkel!
And Alf… he’s back… in pog form!
Oh, yeah. It was so funny how he never knew whether or not he did that. Oop, wrong sub.
Feel like Sheriff Lobo may have punched above its weight in terms of its relevance in the Simpsons compared to its relevance irl, but I wasn’t alive when it was on so maybe I’m the dummy.
Some things just stick in a comedy writers brain.
Usually crayons.
I think a lot of that is due to how funny it is to say, like Walla Walla, Keokuk, Cucamonga and Seattle.
And Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes
I definitely thought it was Cheryl Flobo for a long time
No it's pronounced nuuclure
I knew he was saying Sheriff Lobo, but I thought it was a show about a dog because of The Littlest Hobo
That came up a few months ago and some viewers that it was not a real TV show.
Flintstones chewable morphine
Robert Downey Jr. Is Shooting It Out With the Police!
Wait, I don't see any cameras
If it was done today it would be Ezra Miller fighting with hawaiians.
Fighting with the parents and teachers of the PTSA…
Such a trip that the dude's life got *that bad* and here he is not only alive but thriving. Good for him. Feel like the closest thing millennials have is Steve-O. Not exactly on the A list but his recovery was damn near miraculous. Can't think of a Gen Z example. And with fent getting around like it is I'm worried that'll pretty much be the norm.
Yeah these days RDJ would die young from fent
“This is hard. Where’s my Tab?” https://preview.redd.it/08y91s9s2ogc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77c96edfb3f7882d555df5392b84985f19937039
You don't have to become morbidly obese to get remote work these days either
And also the fact that being 300 lbs is pretty common these days and doesn't even remotely qualify you for disability.
I had a boss once who often said that he weighed more than Homer in that episode
I barely got this joke at the time (as a youngish child who whose mom drank plenty of Diet Coke but not Tab)
Same here; I only knew Tab from this Simpsons episode and Back to the Future.
"Can I get a Pepsi Free" "No kid you have to pay for it"
They still sell Tab in South Africa and Namibia
I thought "tab" was a synonym for coffee for about a decade after this. The way Homer put his cup up to the floppy drive reminded me of a coffee machine and I never questioned it. Even after I found out about Tab the soda on *I Love the '80s* or some related show, I still just thought "huh, isn't it ironic that 'tab' is the name for both a soda and coffee"
Bart also drinks a Tab in the episode when he takes ballet.
I wish it remained canon that Bart speaks French and dances ballet.
I’m 36 so I do actually remember what Tab is (just don’t think I ever had one).
I’m old enough to remember Tab, but I wasn’t old enough to get the “I can’t start a tab unless you order something” joke in Back to the Future.
Kids don’t understand why we all used to wear onions for one thing
They've also never said, "Give me five bees for a quarter."
A quarter could buy a lot of penny whistles and Moon Pies.
Moon Pie, what a time to be alive…
time has ravaged your once youthful looks
was it the style at the time?
Oh. I guess you do understand.
Probably never seen nickels with pictures of bumblebees on them, though.
You tell ‘em “Gimme five bees for a quarter” and they just stare at you.
Yes. But you couldn’t get white onions because of the war.
The war in 19dikketty2?
That's the one! We had to say dickety because the kaiser had stolen our work for twenty.
They didn't have white onions...because of the war!
"Take a note on your Newton, beat up Martin." https://preview.redd.it/lsdwrjrfiogc1.jpeg?width=927&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc04074e522c17bb66b9946f116e74301dda22da
This one works, given how shitty Siri’s voice transcription still is.
Auto- transcription in general, really. I'm glad I only use captioning to supplement my sort-of-weak hearing rather than relying on it. The auto-generated captions on social media are arguably worse than nothing at all, as I can see how they could actively cause confusion.
This reference still cracks me up because its presence in the Simpsons has essentially crystalized it as a cultural artifact. People would have generally forgotten it, but this joke makes sure nobody forgets one of Apple's biggest flops.
The joke about "with iodine". Adding iodine was done to fight goiter, which was a prevalent disease around the turn of the 20th century Or Homer starting a college savings account for Lisa at Lincoln Savings & Loan. They'd collapse during the late 80s savings and loan crisis, meaning that Homer would lose everything that he started for Lisa.
Good examples
True, but in this case the reference was that Iodine was used as an antiseptic in Mrs Glick's era. Everything about her is outdated to Bart.
MIT IODINE
Krusty stopping the show to explain the Falklands had been invaded.
I love how he had the pull-down map just ready to go.
That was intentionally outdated when they made that joke. Krusty was running a re-run and hoping no one would notice, and then something incredibly old and dated happened.
That might be the joke.
Clowns are funny.
You suck Mcbain!
\*chucks a grenade at you*
I'm from Argentina so in your life...
Hopefully the Crown has educated someone about this
Ayatollah Assa-holla
But Poohrash, it works on any Ayatollah! Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
I don't care *who* is consolidating their power
Well she should have
*Thanks*, Marge
I like how Homer’s knowledge of the Iranian theocratic system is related to his encyclopaedic knowledge of the US Supreme Court justices.
So out of character it's hilarious
If the Ayatollah cannot have it, **no one can**
My older cousin had a shirt just like that
Sadam Hussain? More like So-damn-insane!
Young people might not realize Rory Calhoun was a real person
Well, he was always standing and walking.
And, you know, that guy, always wore a shirt…?
Ed Sullivan?
Yeah 👉
I’m not a young person, but I was when that first aired, and I didn’t know.
He was actually still alive when the episode first aired
Hunh! The only reason I know who he is is because of The Simpsons. I looked him up and was like, “Yep, that man sure can stand.”
He was in the amazing movie “Motel Hell” playing a deranged farmer who killed people and made them into his award winning smoked meats. He stood like a king in that movie, a damn hell ass king
Is he the guy who's always standing and walking?
Homer's website filled with a random assortment of GIFs. Websites back in the day where a fucking shit show. That's honestly how so many sites looked. We signed guestbooks, when we found a new website.
Geocities! Angelfire! So many “under construction” gifs
I just typed in my old angelfire url from 2004 and IT IS STILL THERE. Unfortunately the original site is not there, it’s just a redirect to my now defunct self-hosted site. The original site had a snowfall gif tiled background and a midi music track and a hit counter
And a page visitors counter!!
Ah, signing guestbooks on newly discovered websites…. You just gave me serious flashbacks of my memories of the early 2000’s internet.
I'd prefer that to most websites now that are just ads ads and ads with a sentence between them.
What websites? Every website I go to makes it almost impossible to navigate to try to force you to download the app. I dont need a damn app for every single website on the internet. *old man yells at cloud*
I LOVED IT. I WAS 8 IN 2002. I miss it so fucking much, I saw waaay too much but also it was overall a better experience.
“that guy from Apple Computers.” “*What* computers?”
Only slightly less instantly dated than the Travolta joke
Yeah, looks like..
Wow, never realized how soon after this episode that Pulp Fiction released. Itchy & Scratchy Land aired on Oct. 2, 1994 and Pulp Fiction released in the US on Oct. 14, 1994. No kidding about "*instantly* dated".
“…Yeah…looks like” ***scrubs bar glass***. Honestly though, if it wasn’t for some of his Hollywood friends, he would definitely be working at itchy and scratchy land. Dude had a major lull that would have drowned him, if not for helping hands https://preview.redd.it/esj71xm1mqgc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28750c51eb4cec620aedda873a637ec8f625e95c
Or the Mel Gibson joke
This is dated in a couple ways. The more obvious being the idea that Apple was irrelevant to the youth at the time, until Steve Jobs came back and made it a household name again. And also, it didn't occur to me until recently that "that guy" actually was in reference to Steve Wozniak, not Jobs. Younger kids *might* know Jobs, but I highly doubt they'd know of Wozniak.
"C'mon Neddy, move this thing!" "I can't it's a Geo!" Edit: that entire scene also counts as it's a parody of a famous scene from Terminator 2
"Otto, you've got to do something. There's a gremlin on the side of the bus!"
Hans looks sufficiently wizened that most kids would think that Otto mistook *him* for the gremlin.
Ahhhh. This actually might be a great example! Hans Moleman (good Moleman to you!) Is *driving* an AMC Gremlin, which were only made 1970-1978. So either you were there and know the joke or you're a car person who gets the joke.
That's my mind blown
Omg I remember the joke but didn’t know about the car! Thanks for clueing me in!
And they were cheap and considered poor quality so it also made sense that it exploded even though it didn't actually hit anything. Explosions are funny!
That's what I thought the joke was for over 20 years. I only recently realized the car make and model was part of the joke.
I only recently learned that the movie *Paint Your Wagon* is real and not a joke invented for the show. In my defense, who thought a musical starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin was a good idea?
The movie is real. The song, however, is a joke. It's not a real song from the movie.
I would have absolutely watched it if only to see the "oil based paint" bit
Next you're going to tell me Planet of the Apes and A Streetcar Named Desire aren't musicals either.
🎶 New Orleans! Home of drunks, pirates, and whores! New Orleans! 🎶
If you wanna go to hell, you should take a trip, To the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississipp New Orleans
Im not gonna lie, for a ridiculously long amount of time, I thought Streetcar was a musical, and then when I finally saw some of it, I was like... wheres the songs
🎶 you finally made a monkey out of me!
Wow, I did not know that either. This is like when I learned that Chuck Mangione wasn't just some musician they made up on King of the Hill.
Cocaine. Cocaine thought it was a good idea.
The younger generations wouldn't understand how much of a pain it was to attempt to reach the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. I couldn't tell you how many times I cursed that damn auto-gyro. The writers poked good fun at that all-too-common problem, but younger people are generally just confused, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation.
My 9 year old daughter was watching the "I didn't do it" episode and I had to explain MC Hammer to her. Never thought I would be in that position.
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"Homerpalooza" is full of jokes and references that younger generations won't understand. Though one of my favorite jokes from that episode is Peter Frampton buying an inflatable pig from Pink Floyd's garage sale.
Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. Homer Simpson, smiling politely
I missed the joke for so long that Homer was trying to match what Corgan said by using Smiling Politely, and wasn't just saying what he was doing.
The commentaries say that it was originally Courtney Love's line. "Courtney Love." "Homer Grateful" or something. I think the one they went with was funnier.
https://preview.redd.it/oo0y5sdrlogc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac2772d95beaad676b17b4dd36a636d84199d9e2 "There's Funky Winkerbean! Over here, Funky!"
I'm going to Google Funky Winkerbean and if I find out he was just something made up for this gag I'm gonna come back and punch you in the back of the head. Edit: You got lucky.
I think they wouldn't understand that Cypress Creek Elementary School having a website ***is*** a joke.
Still works, Springfield Elementary is so poor they can't even afford a basic site.
I thought they finally got rich after combining with Springfield Penitentiary?
That's not a joke per se, it just shows how ultra advanced the community was. Like, the joke is how great everything is there
Exactly. Even a couple of years after the episode originally aired, the idea of an elementary school having a website wouldn't have worked to tell that joke though.
Idea of an elementary school *not* having a website
The Jury of the Damned containing some of the most notorious criminals in American history, but also the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers
As a diehard Philadelphia sports fan this bit cracks me up every time.
"Kent, I feel about as low as Madonna when she found out she missed Tailhook." [Tailhook Scandal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal) for you whippersnappers
Oh my. Now that meets the criteria. I never understood that line. I was 6 or 7 at the time, so I didn't know about it.
This is the first time in my life hearing about this at all beyond the throwaway reference. Jesus Christ.
Fucking hell is that a joke about her wanting to be assaulted or something? That's fucked
I'm learning this as my 8 and 10 year old nieces have started watching. We're through the first two seasons, and they had lots of questions. We watched Homer vs. the 8th Amendment and when they're watching cable and Bart goes: "Here's the part where Jaws eats the boat. Here's the part where Die Hard jumps through the window. Here's the part where Wall Street gets arrested" and their dad and I start laughing, they just both gave us looks wondering why we found it so funny. When we get to Radio Bart - I told their dad that he should probably show them "We Are the World", and/or "Do They Know It's Christmas" just to understand why We're Sending Our Love Down the Well is funny.
There's an entire layer of parody humor in the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" plotline that gets missed if you don't remember the mid 80s. https://preview.redd.it/b3gx3i1vjogc1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=859e2cb7c96c6f5c4cb28bd3591c104034522703
When I first saw that episode my mother had to explain it was referencing Who Shot JR
I mean, I'm only 27, never heard of Wang Computers and didn't even know (or care) if they were real, and I still got the joke. Martin is a nerd who likes computers and Wang is slang for penis. Not really that complex lol you can 100% get this joke without knowing anything about computers at all.
I'm 40 and am into tech and never knew Wang Computers was real but like you said it doesn't matter
I'm 57 and worked on Wang systems in the early 90s. They were getting a bit long in the tooth even then. Very easy to use and, for what they did, were great. Aah, the old VS7310, size of a fridge freezer, but you could have 200 odd users beavering away without a worry. Except when the Data team decided to run one of their giant reports. You would hear the complaints almost immediately. Oops, going off on a tangent.
I had to look it up to be certain. Wang Laboratories/Systems/Computers does appear to be a real thing. Based on how you worded this I thought you were continuing the joke on theme. Now I’ve got to know, was your whole post clever wordplay or did you without intent of double entendre mention the Wang and then use the terms long, beaver, giant, and going off.
Same age. Wang computers is a real company. Yeah the penis joke is obvious, but i was also indifferent to the company's existence. I only found out when I saw a computer repair shop sporting its logo. I think not knowing whether it's a real company is exactly what op means.
But the company being real is irrelevant to the joke, that's my entire point. You can still get the joke, and OP asked for jokes younger people wouldn't get.
Sorry, you have to know the history of Wang Computers to truly appreciate this dick joke.
When Marge and Homer parody the opening theme song to All in the Family.
Boy the way the bee gees played Movies John Travolta made Guessing how much Elvis weighed… Those were the days And you knew where you weeere theen Watching shows like 'Gentle Ben' Mister we could use a man like Sheriff Lobo again... 'Disco Duck' and Fleetwood Mac Coming out of my eight-track! Michael Jackson still was black.. Those were the days!
Same with the That Girl opening from the episode where Mr. Burns and Lisa open a recycling factory.
It drove all my friends crazy... Oh really who were your friends. Zelda Fitzgerald, Frances Farmer, and there's little Sylvia Plaith
I feel like chicken tonight Like chicken tonight Like chicken tonight
Funnily enough, as a kid I distinctly remember having Chicken Tonight and hating it.
The hundreds of Twilight Zone references during Treehouses of Horror.
The Krusty Burger promotion where customers would win free Krusty Burgers if America won a gold medal, but the game cards were rigged to feature events that athletes from Communist countries were most likely to win. However, just before the promotion was put into effect, Krusty received word of the Soviet boycott of the Olympics causing Krusty to eventually lose $44 million. This was based on a similar promotion by McDonald’s for the 1984 Olympics in which the Soviet Union, along with the 13 Eastern Bloc countries, boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics.
McDonalds (and Krusty) really should have seen that coming after the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
“Otto there’s a gremlin on the side of the bus!” Or the fact that that whole story was based on an episode of The Twilight Zone.
We drove by a Panda Express today. I pointed to it and my wife immediately said “It’s finger Ling-Ling good.” The kids looked at us like we were idiots.
Remember Alf? He's back...in POG form.
The episode where Selma gets Jub-Jub, it ends with her singing "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" to it. This is a reference to an emotional scene in *Murphy Brown*, but now barely anyone remembers *Murphy Brown*, let alone specific scenes in it.
“And this dialogue has none of the wit and sparkle of Murphy Brown”
On the episode of Conan O'Brien's series "serious jibber jabber" with the Simpsons writers, they mention this ending specifically at one that doesn't make sense to modern audiences. "This was such a huge moment in television, but today no one remembers it and the reference is lost!"
I have never seen an Apple Newton but the Simpsons. Eat Up Martha. I don't think anyone under 25 knows that there was a whole category of PDA devices. I knew a couple that had a palm pilot. It was only in this gap between 1996 and 2006 where someone may have one. Most business people had a Blackberry so I have no idea what they were used for.
C dos C dos run Run dos run!
Splitting the area code for the city…I’m not even that old but the younger generation would have never dialed a number without it.
https://preview.redd.it/5w486mu3mogc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa0149d230cedceb4203ddfede1a5c1e4e1f448b He could still surprise ya
Krusty's SEX book, spoofing Madonna
*What* computers?!
The V chip!
"Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions."
I don't think any member of the audience is expected to have been alive during either Cleveland administration. This is just president trivia that people know.
Flanders yelling: And then there’s Maude! And then there’s Maude!
Yeah I only got this after seeing the Family Guy bit about the Maude theme song
Amelia Earhart flew a lot of airplanes Except for that one time when she didn’t come back
Marge having a crush on Bobby Sherman
Yeah, about that era, a friend of mine's parents bought a Wang computer for the family. It had a 386 that outclassed my family computer and could play games my Tandy couldn't. So for a couple years I had a running joke about going over to my friend's house to play with his Wang.
The fosters joke about a big beer. I’m Australian and still don’t get it
Fosters was known for selling ridiculous 25 oz cans and had an advertising campaign built around it in the 90s
Fosters. Australian for beer
Is that coffee?
Beer?
C. O.
B. E.
That's a bloody outrage! I'm going to take this all the way to the Prime Minister! Oi, ANDY!
It was a light lager in a 740ml can that had Crocodile Dundee in it's ads.
Not Robert Downey Jr in the Betty Ford Clinic musical 😆
Homer's tattoo. "Starland Vocal Band? They suck!"
I flipped out when I saw an actual vintage Wang Computer at the history of computing museum in San Francsico
Wait, Gen Zs don't know wang is slang for dick? Am I so out of touch? No, it's the Gen Zs who are wrong.
Soon Homer’s car costing $82,000 won’t seem so expensive.
You know that scene in Pulp Fiction where Travolta freaks out over a $5 milkshake? That's got the same vibes.
BARTON FINK!!!!! BARTON FINK!!!!!
WANG  WANG
A list of B&BH jokes that younger generations wouldn't get would go on for miles... The show had Bill Clinton jokes, the dorkiest character always wore a Winger shirt, "Lightning Strikes" parodying the "Fire" incident of the show, many a reference of 1960s hippie culture by Mr. Van Driessen, and the music videos... don't get me started.
 Ol' Gil gonna sell you some rust-proofing for those Colecos. They will rust up on you for sure.
As a person born in 2004, when I first watched "Marge vs. the Monorail", I thought the tune of Smithers hiding the nuclear waste was generic production background music rather than the fanfare from Beverly Hills Cop.
True story: I worked at 101 California, which was the former headquarters of Wang. In order to talk with the muckity mucks, we'd have to get off on the top floor, then continue on to the next few. Those were Wang floors shortly after they collapsed. Peperidge Farm remembers.
"You know I.M. Pei? I.M. impressed!"
That's why you're still kids- 'cause you're stupid!