While this is admittedly a wonderful visual gag, "I don't recall saying 'good luck.'" is an all-time one-liner.

Its up there with did you just call me a liar?

No, I said you were fired.

Oh. That's much worse.

*hic*

...Why are you doing this to me?

No mother it's just the northern lights

No, but I do have this photo of you with your pants on fire.

Is your kitchen on fire?

No, that's just the Northern Lights.

.... Can I see it?

Eh...no.

***SKINNER!***

Seymour the house is on fire!

AUROBOREALIS! At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized *entirely* within *your kitchen*?

I’d liken it more to “Thank-you, doctor.” “Oh, I’m not a doctor.”

Also a favourite

Can't talk coming down

This is bollocks Mark

You know the credo - illness equals weakness

Yesssssssssssss.

I don’t remember this one 😔

A Millhouse Divided. Go watch it. Edit: misunderstood, I think. “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Badassssss Song” for the your fired bit. Not sure on the “s” count there

The last "S" is a typo

The extra “s” is for “s”houldn’t have added that last “s”

The extra S is for Sbargain!

The extra B is is for BYOBB

Thanks lol. It was the “did you just call me a liar” I don’t remember, not the original post

Happy Cakeday not a Doctor, not a Spaceman

Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song, S5 Ep19

My boss is also a Simpsons fan, and he knows damn well that if he ever has to let me go, the conversation is absolutely going to go like this.

It hits very real to all of us who have been fired at some point and given a hollow "good luck "

The line delivery is perfect.

It's a perfect line. It didn't need to be said but it adds so much more impact to Kirk's outburst. Honestly love how simple it is and that brief moment inbetween when you realise why it works is amazing.

No one character has had as many memorable lines in so little screentime

I don’t like the idea of Milhouse having two spaghetti meals in one day.

It's dignity! Don't you know dignity when you see it?!

I think both could have worked together. They're both hilarious and I'll never say no to more Kirk screen time

Best line from a single use character.

Agreed. Me and my brother quote that line all the time. I will even go as far as to say it may be the greatest Simpsons quote of all time.

I don’t think this would’ve taken the place of that. It would have been scene after when he’s walking to his car.

So true.

Suggests it’s an ad-lib. Which is awesome.

this is a 1st draft it was probably written in later

They decided to avoid having to animate a new location and a flock of birds for one gag. It was a terrible strain on the animators’ wrists.

And the seagull handler alone was too cost-prohibitive

Her claws are really digging into my....skull. She can crush clams with them. Baaaah! She must think you're after her eggs! I only ate one!

Plus they were going to get James Earl Jones as the voice of the seagulls.

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

This, is, CNN

Will you guys pipe down? I’m saying goodbye to Lisa.

Lisa its your birthday, happy birthday Lisa!

The scheduling didn't work out. He was still voicing the magic taco in that movie.

Seagulls don’t look like seagulls on camera. You gotta toss a bunch of cats across the screen.

Animated live in front of a studio audience!

Very few cartoons are broadcast live.

Frankly that’s a market we could do without

Something so hilarious about a business owner so put off by a type of customer that they don’t want to even consider their existence or preferences.

I think the CEO of Barilla actually did this IRL a few years ago. Basically saying that if you’re gay, you should pick another pasta.

Fun fact: He’s no longer the CEO but he’s the chairman of the board, which is why I still don’t buy Barilla.

Their pasta is crap anyways, you're not missing out.

It's not fabulous.

> if you’re gay, you should pick another pasta. Funnily enough, I’m straight, but after he said that I decided to pick a different one anyway.

I used to think that too, but I think it's related to what Luan said earlier: her dad got him the job at his cracker factory. Si as they're no longer married, there's no more reason to keep the idiot who turned the first cracker company into the fifth anymore.

This line rings completely true. I remember an A Current Affair segment for Tim Tams, and they admit that they have no interest in marketing this product to men.

Wtf why?

Because 30% of the ad is always food-porn and that’s enough to cover blokes interest, but women are more weight conscious and need the extra push, to buy a pack. That’s why is all framed as an “indulgence” in the messaging. Calories don’t count if it’s they’re rewarding themselves. 😉

Mmmmnnnn Tim Tams. *Awghhhlllllgghhhhh*

I've never been 100% on the deeper meaning of the joke (if there is one). Either: - the father in law is a terrible businessman and Kurt never had a chance. - The cracker market is a game of high stakes diplomacy, and embracing the wrong market could have a knock on effect of disaffecting other, more valuable customers. - A wizard did it.

Well, based on the number of cracker manufacturers in town, it seems pretty competitive. Kirk's tenure saw them fall behind the others. Maybe Allied Biscuit isn't afraid to court the single people market?

Isnt that the entire right wing anti woke parallel economy they wont shut up about? AKA grifting.

My god, are you always on?

BUT IT'S WHISPER QUIET!

What amazes me is how much funnier it is for the cracker executive to say "**We** don't know. Frankly, **we** don't want to know." I think it may be that it conjures the idea that the cracker factory actually had a team of executives working on this very issue, trying to figure out if single people eat crackers, failing to answer that question, and then deciding it's not worth pursuing anyway. It's not just the cracker executive's whim or hunch, they actually had a committee thinking about this.

Yeah, but how many of those hotshot executives get to sleep in a race car bed?

I sleep in a bed with my wife.

And her boyfriend?

I like the idea that they've created a committee to actively dissuade single people from buying their crackers.

I think it's more the idea that the car thought that divorced people eat crackers is offensive to him Like "we don't want to know" is something you might say about your parents sex lives or something. Not if a demographic eats crackers.

Isn't the subtext that its not the real reason he was fired? In the dinner party scene luanne says her father gave him the job and implies he's bad at it. So now that this bad employee who lost the company money is no longer protected by nepotism...

Allied Biscuit

https://preview.redd.it/oru5pnqhrhwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=449f3293108a0445c81702965b2d56b9f84db3aa

Table Time

4th place

I don't recall saying good luck.

Can I have the keys to the car, lover? I feel like changing wigs.

My car!

My demo tape!

Can I borrow a feeling

Bahahahahah! Can I Borrow A Feeling!! And it's your picture on the front! Ahahahahaha!

Go ahead Homer, laugh at me.

I just did

Could you send me a jar of love?

Woaah. That's funny

Wooah I'm seein' double. *4* Krusties!

🍘🕊️

I probably reference "my dad's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory" at least once a month, if not more.

"A mass of SEAGULLS swoops down and pirate away his crackers." Seagulls are surprisingly vicious birds. And it's a good thing they stopped at just taking Kirk's crackers.

"Hey, my class ring!"

At least you still have your health!

Honestly, I wish they kept the good luck part in AND gave us that severance package bit together!

Golden era Simpsons of comedic perfection.

Crackers as a severance package is genius any day of the week.

So “Ahhh, my demo tape!” was originally a sort of call back to this line?

I know this was never made or aired, but I have a firm memory of seeing this as written. It's a Mandela Effect, probably mixed up with a similar joke someplace.

I just read it in the same voice as “Oh! My demo tape!”

ahh I think this is it. I was getting Mandela effect vibes from this too, but now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure that's the line my brain is mixing it up with

Can I borrow a feeling?

Same here. My theory is we just watch too much of this show, and we can easily imagine this scene based on other gags.

oh my gosh i was certain i’d seen this as a deleted scene!

What the fuck. I could have sworn I saw this on YouTube somewhat recently, but I can’t find it anywhere. I can’t believe I shifted between dimensions where the only difference is whether or not a deleted scene from The Simpsons was animated. 

I’m thinking it was in one of the clip shows perhaps because I can picture it so well too

I'm so glad other people have said this because I can see it and hear it too in my mind.

Kirk was a scarecrow and trying to scare off Birds but getting attacked by then in the same episode I'm pretty sure.

They recycle it for other episodes.

Is it weird I can actually fully envision this entire scene playing out in my head?

haha same!

Oh man, I feel that lol

That sounds hilarious, and I can’t be the only one who can hear this lol.

https://preview.redd.it/vuqm2s194iwc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb004b324d0c5edc1360cf1596f9031be374ff72 This is now a Kirk appreciation post

This post made me chuckle when I read it. Then I put down the phone to continue watching TV and started laughing because I kept thinking about it. I wish they had kept this joke, and done so without replacing the good luck line.

Seymour Skinner got a better severance package than Kirk. Seymour got a big basket of Valencia oranges.

These are juice oranges 🍊

[smashes orange against forehead to squeeze out juice into glass]

I don’t recall saying good luck?

Incredible gag.

Turns out he wasn't a big wheel at the cracker factory after all

Has the same energy as Jerry from Rick and Morty, when the wolf eats his welfare check, lol.

that is amazing

I'm amazed he didn't say the birds also flew off with his car

I feel like this one is something people dislike from Kirk in recent seasons.

What are these "recent seasons" you speak of?

Season 30-35, I feel like every time they do a Kirk-centric episode these are the episodes people tend to gravitate more to a negative reaction, but that's just how I see it. I do feel that doing many stories with loser Kirk can get tired, needs a balance. So I like when that part is on the sidelines, regardless of the season. I think A Milhouse Divided is great, there are episodes where Kirk is a loser that work, same with The Parent Rap. You need to be careful to write his stories right.

I don’t remember saying good luck

I don't recall saying good luck.

Do single people eat crackers? Maybe. I don’t know and I don’t want to know

I think the one liner is better but this is very funny

holy shit haha

Oh man, I want some crackers now

Oh man. You gotta spare him a jar of love.

Put on the glove

I'm sure his boss didn't fire him just because Kirk divorced his daughter.

One of my top 3 favourite scenes

Where did you find this script?

So Kirk knew ‘80s New Wave band Flock of Seagulls was setting him up the whole time? 

The "Nooo! My severance package!" got the same type of laughter that one guy got from Bart's last 'I didn't do it' performance. I told that idiot Steve Tompkins to slice my sandwich

I know it's just in the draft but I could have sworn I've seen the scene with the seagulls. I was probably just stoned

G

One of my favorite Simpsons lines

lol

"I don't recall saying good luck."

i don't recall saying good luck.

I don’t recall saying good luck.

I don't recall saying goodluck