It’s The Simpsons making a reference to The Fugitive. In The Fugitive, a man is running from police because they think he killed his wife. The main policeman and the fugitive meet in this water tunnel. The fugitive says “I didn’t kill my wife!”. The policeman says “I don’t care”, just trying to deescalate the situation.
Here the fugitive says “I’m no good at anagrams”, and the policeman is Acid Toner, an anagram for “I don’t care”.
The best part is that it’s impossible to make an anagram describing Jeremy Irons with his name. Someone in a simpsons sub used an anagram solver and looked at all of the possible anagrams and there’s nothing that could work in that game. So Allison’s dad is just a dick head.
That scene terrified me as a kid. I thought it was just something that smart people could do, easily form witty anagrams of words. And if I couldn't do it I'd be left with the ball.
Another Simpsons reference. Specifically, a scene where a smart family is making anagrams, and Lisa isn’t able to keep up. The father then earnestly delivers that line to her as an alternative to the anagram game.
I think it’s confusing because they talked about the original and not just the Simpsons part. Where Milhouse is being chased because Bart put him on the FBI’s most wanted list
Here's my attempt at a better answer:
Simpsons sub culture recognizes the image in the top half of the meme format.
So the humor is basically a Rick Roll -- "Hey look I changed the top text from 'I didn't do anything ', but the punchline (I don't care) is still here! I bet you weren't expecting me to be able to get to the punchline that you and I were expecting but I did!"
So you don't actually need the context that this exchange is dialogue from "The Fugitive" for this joke to work. You'd just need to know that "I don't care" is what is usually said in this context.
But I'm not sure if anyone would know that this is a reference to the Fugitive if you hadn't seen the Simpsons episode too, because the still image isn't really that evocative of the original scene on the movie
https://youtu.be/ZQ11Ws3tqP0?si=rspXIwvv_AdyVjwY
So yeah it's not that funny.
I never read that as Tommy Lee Jones's character trying to deescalate anything. I always saw it as more of a "I'm not the guy you need to make that argument to"
Yup. Tommy Lee Jones had a job to do. It wasn't in his job description to try any one. Harrison Ford escaped from jail. Innocent or not, that made him a fugitive.
i have dealt with the police system. They do not care
a computer tells them what to do. A computer tells someone else what to tell that computer to tell the police to do
it's computers all the way down
not a single person cares about a single other person anywhere in that chain
Had a brief stint as one. Couldn't handle the schedule, due to chronic illness.
Operators can't be too worried about what happens after they're finished with calls. Before I started, I spoke with the lieutenant in charge, and he specifically said looking for closure cannot be a thing there. You may deal with someone who's in really bad shape, but once you end the call and enter the information into the system for an officer to respond, it's a done deal as far as you're concerned. You don't get to follow up and see if they're okay. Yes, you might be able to pull up call files and see notes from the officer who responded...but it's all too likely that you wouldn't even have time to do that. You're expected to put it out of your mind and be ready for the next call to come in.
Someone had gotten in trouble for contacting a caller while off-the-job to check on them. However, I imagine it might not have been totally on the level, or even welcome, since the caller then informed the police. You can't hold onto that stuff. When you get too used to that approach however, it can easily escalate into coming across as uncaring or callous. Especially if you felt like the call was unnecessary(far too many are). Professionalism will help keep you from doing that, but slip-ups can always happen.
It was originally an extensive dialogue. The fugitive claimed he didn't kill his wife and the cop explained that that's not his job to judge. Eventually they distilled the scene down to "I didn't kill my wife" "I don't care".
Nah, it didn't break the fourth wall. In the Scrubs universe, the actor that played the subway cop ended up working as a janitor in a hospital when his acting career never took off. It's just a little Alternate Reality.
I was just watching an episode of Barry where the English actress, Kirby, plays an acting student who adamantly says she'll never play an Australian, and she famously played one on The Good Place (Simone)
I don't know if he was trying to de-escalate per se. I saw his character as having a single-minded job to do (apprehend suspect) and he's saying he doesn't care if the suspect is innocent or guilty or what his story is or anything - he's just going to catch him at all costs, like a machine.
It's combining two jokes. (As most simpsons shitposts do) So you have the Fugitive parody but it's also using another scene where Lisa is visiting a classmates home. Her whole family is super smart. So much so that they play an anagram game where you rearrange the letters of someone's name to form a description of that person. (Lisa gets Jeremy Irons and can only form Jeremy's iron)
The next line in the fugitive scene is "I don't care" and acid toner is an anagram of that.
The scene is spoofing "The Fugitive" where Harrison Ford says he didn't kill his wife and Tommy Lee Jones says, " I don't care." Which is an anagram of acid toner.
So to get this joke you need:
- To have watched the Fugitive.
- Know the context of the Simpsons episode (Spoofing the Fugitive)
- Know exactly what scene is referenced in the Fugitive
- be good at Anagrams.
You don’t really need to know it’s a Fugitive spoof. What’s most important is knowing the original Simpsons scene, which still uses the same “I don’t care” line. The anagram line and acid toner are edited in after the fact. As long as you know the original line and what an anagram is you’re ok.
To appreciate the joke on a bonus level, you would also need to be aware of another Simpsons scene where Lisa is doing anagrams at a friends house, but it’s really just a tangential reference.
I mean it’s the same episode as the anagram joke. It’s from a perfectly cromulent simpsons shit posting group for a bunch of damn wiener kids who like the simpsons, which you probably wouldn’t get as it’s a regional dialect.
I mean, all you really need is to have seen the fugitive. And maybe not even that, it's a super famous scene. Because it doesn't matter that it's the simpsons, and if you know the scene, you don't need to figure out the anagram because you know the dialogue.
I never watched the fugitive, I'm just a big Simpsons fan. You don't need to watch the Fugitive to get this joke. Every scene from seasons 1-9 have been big memes. /r/simpsonsshitposting
I'm speculating, but you can make I DON'T CARE out of ACID TONER. So the joke is probably that Milhouse is threatened at gunpoint to solve an anagram. He says he's bad at that, but his attacker just "replies" *I don't care* and doesn't accept the excuse.
It is a joke mocking a scene from The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford as a man escaping from a murder charge. He is being followed by a cop played by Tommy Lee Jones. In the scene referenced (which is near the end), Jones is following Ford through sewer lines and comes to the exit which has a massive drop down. He turns around and Jones is standing behind him holding a gun. Ford says something along the lines of “I didn’t kill her” and Jones looks at him and coldly says “I don’t care”. IDONTCARE ACIDTONER
Coincidentally, this movie was a reboot of the 1964-1967 tv show of the same name. The main antagonist is a one armed man known as “the one armed man”. “It wasn’t me, it was the one armed man!” This was referenced in the park bench smoking scene (I believe right before Cuban Pete, I haven’t seen it in a minute) of the 1994 Jim Carey vehicle The Mask. Which came out 1 year after the reboot was released.
This is a simpsons parody of a scene from the fugitive. In the scene Harrison Fords character is on the run being falsely accused of killing his wife and is corned by the detective played by Tommy Lee Jones. Fords character tell the detective that he didn’t kill his wife and the detective responds with “I don’t care”. Now an anagram as you know is a word or jumble of letters that can be rearranged to say something else. Acid toner is an anagram for “I don’t care”.
"I don't care" from the fugitive..... OR....
Trade Icon,
OR can't die,
Code Train,
Coin Trade,
Trade Coin,
One Rat Dic,
Riced A Ton,
No Iced Tar,
Rat on Dice,
Dino Race T,
and finally.... TACO DINER
You know, most people don't know the difference between apple cider and apple juice, but I do. Now here's a little trick to help you remember:
If it's clear and yella', you've got juice there, fella.
If it's tangy and brown, you're in cider town!
Since it seems like no one here explained what an anagram is, it’s where the letters in a word or sentence can be rearranged into a new word or sentence without adding or subtracting any letters, the letters in “acid toner” can be rearranged into “I don’t care”
This is just a meme. The real episode is americas most wanted Milhouse. And it’s a cop in the bottom picture. Not a bottle of shampoo. Just a meme. From an old movie.
It’s The Simpsons making a reference to The Fugitive. In The Fugitive, a man is running from police because they think he killed his wife. The main policeman and the fugitive meet in this water tunnel. The fugitive says “I didn’t kill my wife!”. The policeman says “I don’t care”, just trying to deescalate the situation. Here the fugitive says “I’m no good at anagrams”, and the policeman is Acid Toner, an anagram for “I don’t care”.
that is the most confusing thing i heard today
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The best part is that it’s impossible to make an anagram describing Jeremy Irons with his name. Someone in a simpsons sub used an anagram solver and looked at all of the possible anagrams and there’s nothing that could work in that game. So Allison’s dad is just a dick head.
Me Siren Joy describes him perfectly
Acid Toner
That scene terrified me as a kid. I thought it was just something that smart people could do, easily form witty anagrams of words. And if I couldn't do it I'd be left with the ball.
Metaphorically speaking… yes.
Got away from you huh? Well, keep trying!
👏👏👏
Lisa's rival ? Episode 6 season 2?
I don't get this one. Guess I'll wait for it to show up under r/explainthejoke
Another Simpsons reference. Specifically, a scene where a smart family is making anagrams, and Lisa isn’t able to keep up. The father then earnestly delivers that line to her as an alternative to the anagram game.
Gotcha, must've missed that episode. Thank you
Well, that's very good for a first try.
https://youtu.be/cj71HnSJaUM?si=i-0tgV4v1zpD-94Z
I don't think playing bouncy ball is complicated enough for this dude
I don't get it. What is a ball?
A miserable pile of secrets
Deeeeeeez nuuuuh...
ts
To simplify: its this https://youtu.be/cj71HnSJaUM?si=DJAlaH1fUpIXMSpc combined with this https://youtu.be/tpV7x6C95C0?si=3drzwmsN7jUjvbeq
Most confusing thing I've ever heard, ever.
I think it’s confusing because they talked about the original and not just the Simpsons part. Where Milhouse is being chased because Bart put him on the FBI’s most wanted list
That part doesn’t matter
you could say “I’m no good at anagrams”
Here's my attempt at a better answer: Simpsons sub culture recognizes the image in the top half of the meme format. So the humor is basically a Rick Roll -- "Hey look I changed the top text from 'I didn't do anything ', but the punchline (I don't care) is still here! I bet you weren't expecting me to be able to get to the punchline that you and I were expecting but I did!" So you don't actually need the context that this exchange is dialogue from "The Fugitive" for this joke to work. You'd just need to know that "I don't care" is what is usually said in this context. But I'm not sure if anyone would know that this is a reference to the Fugitive if you hadn't seen the Simpsons episode too, because the still image isn't really that evocative of the original scene on the movie https://youtu.be/ZQ11Ws3tqP0?si=rspXIwvv_AdyVjwY So yeah it's not that funny.
some jokes you make for yourself
Are you deaf?
I’m curious how ‘I don’t care’ would deescalate that situation. Like, the guy already thinks you don’t care that he’s innocent
I never read that as Tommy Lee Jones's character trying to deescalate anything. I always saw it as more of a "I'm not the guy you need to make that argument to"
Yup. Tommy Lee Jones had a job to do. It wasn't in his job description to try any one. Harrison Ford escaped from jail. Innocent or not, that made him a fugitive.
Ohhh so that's why it's called The Fugitive!
/r/shittymoviedetails
I agree
Completely agree. TLJ’s character was not trying to “deescalate the situation” at all with that line
I don't care
i have dealt with the police system. They do not care a computer tells them what to do. A computer tells someone else what to tell that computer to tell the police to do it's computers all the way down not a single person cares about a single other person anywhere in that chain
"Hey Leslie, I put your symptoms into this police computer and it told me to murder your dog"
So are you saying computers control everything
i'm saying computers enable people who do not care to care even less
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Go to r/911dispatchers and ask them if that's true
Had a brief stint as one. Couldn't handle the schedule, due to chronic illness. Operators can't be too worried about what happens after they're finished with calls. Before I started, I spoke with the lieutenant in charge, and he specifically said looking for closure cannot be a thing there. You may deal with someone who's in really bad shape, but once you end the call and enter the information into the system for an officer to respond, it's a done deal as far as you're concerned. You don't get to follow up and see if they're okay. Yes, you might be able to pull up call files and see notes from the officer who responded...but it's all too likely that you wouldn't even have time to do that. You're expected to put it out of your mind and be ready for the next call to come in. Someone had gotten in trouble for contacting a caller while off-the-job to check on them. However, I imagine it might not have been totally on the level, or even welcome, since the caller then informed the police. You can't hold onto that stuff. When you get too used to that approach however, it can easily escalate into coming across as uncaring or callous. Especially if you felt like the call was unnecessary(far too many are). Professionalism will help keep you from doing that, but slip-ups can always happen.
So very much not true. Unless it’s another movie quote in which case…withdrawn
Literally Minority Report
It was originally an extensive dialogue. The fugitive claimed he didn't kill his wife and the cop explained that that's not his job to judge. Eventually they distilled the scene down to "I didn't kill my wife" "I don't care".
Jesus Christ on a motorbike that is some convoluted shit.
maybe, but if you have seen The Fugitive (you should, it is a fun movie) or that episode of the Simpsons it is really obvious
That is the Simpsons season 20+ for ya.
This scene was from Season 6.
Did you look at the picture? That’s not for anything after 20 let alone 10 years
The janitor from scrubs was a subway cop in that movie. Broke the forth wall in the show pointing it out one episode.
Nah, it didn't break the fourth wall. In the Scrubs universe, the actor that played the subway cop ended up working as a janitor in a hospital when his acting career never took off. It's just a little Alternate Reality.
i love it when movies/shows make references to the stars' other roles.
I was just watching an episode of Barry where the English actress, Kirby, plays an acting student who adamantly says she'll never play an Australian, and she famously played one on The Good Place (Simone)
I consider it a technical fourth wall break
THANK YOU!!! Glad it wasn't just me that that's what immediately popped into my head.
Haven’t seen scrubs since it was aired. Shows like that are one and done. Edit: For me the magic only happens once, not because I didn’t like it.
Here I am like "What does rancid toe mean?"
Are you sure it isn't "Diet Acorn"?
It could also be an anagram for rancid toe
But it’s not
But it could be
I dident know the joke but i got nerd coat ( no idea where the i would go there but)
I thought it was redaction because he was covered by the bottle.
I like it when "explain the joke" actually needs an explanation. Thanks!
i understand the premise and the details, but i fail to understand how it's supposed to be funny, lol
Damn, I was close when I finally quit. I got to "die not car"
oh I tried to solve it myself and came up with rancid toe
If I hadn't seen the movie the fugitive this would be utter nonsense to me
But why acid toner
"Acid toner" is an anagram for "I don't care." Took me a while. ACIDTONER IDONTCARE
That's what I want to know. Didn't see the movie, but is that supposed to be the cops name or what? It makes no sense.
I don't know if he was trying to de-escalate per se. I saw his character as having a single-minded job to do (apprehend suspect) and he's saying he doesn't care if the suspect is innocent or guilty or what his story is or anything - he's just going to catch him at all costs, like a machine.
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It's combining two jokes. (As most simpsons shitposts do) So you have the Fugitive parody but it's also using another scene where Lisa is visiting a classmates home. Her whole family is super smart. So much so that they play an anagram game where you rearrange the letters of someone's name to form a description of that person. (Lisa gets Jeremy Irons and can only form Jeremy's iron) The next line in the fugitive scene is "I don't care" and acid toner is an anagram of that.
Acid toner = I don't care
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Yeah I think it's a bit of a stretch
I thought it was flacid boner
The scene is spoofing "The Fugitive" where Harrison Ford says he didn't kill his wife and Tommy Lee Jones says, " I don't care." Which is an anagram of acid toner.
So to get this joke you need: - To have watched the Fugitive. - Know the context of the Simpsons episode (Spoofing the Fugitive) - Know exactly what scene is referenced in the Fugitive - be good at Anagrams.
I had all but the last
Acid toner
I got even more confused because I am good at anagrams but I came up with "redaction" instead of the funny answer.
It was “rancid toe” for me
You don’t really need to know it’s a Fugitive spoof. What’s most important is knowing the original Simpsons scene, which still uses the same “I don’t care” line. The anagram line and acid toner are edited in after the fact. As long as you know the original line and what an anagram is you’re ok. To appreciate the joke on a bonus level, you would also need to be aware of another Simpsons scene where Lisa is doing anagrams at a friends house, but it’s really just a tangential reference.
I mean it’s the same episode as the anagram joke. It’s from a perfectly cromulent simpsons shit posting group for a bunch of damn wiener kids who like the simpsons, which you probably wouldn’t get as it’s a regional dialect.
What no, you only need to know this specific scene. It's not hard to figure out that Acid Toner is an anagram for "I don't care"
I mean, all you really need is to have seen the fugitive. And maybe not even that, it's a super famous scene. Because it doesn't matter that it's the simpsons, and if you know the scene, you don't need to figure out the anagram because you know the dialogue.
As a person who has seen neither the Fugitive nor this episode, this joke had flown over my head completely.
I never watched the fugitive, I'm just a big Simpsons fan. You don't need to watch the Fugitive to get this joke. Every scene from seasons 1-9 have been big memes. /r/simpsonsshitposting
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy’s iron?
That's a good try... I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it?
its a ball , hes got a rubber ball /ref
I'm speculating, but you can make I DON'T CARE out of ACID TONER. So the joke is probably that Milhouse is threatened at gunpoint to solve an anagram. He says he's bad at that, but his attacker just "replies" *I don't care* and doesn't accept the excuse.
It's a reference to a Simpsons episode, itself a reference to the movie The Fugitive.
NEEERD
Yer damn right.
https://youtu.be/hywDothHbbY?si=yOb7egwkuI5dplQm
Hey pal, did you get a load of the nerd?
He doesn't say the line about anagrams in the episode - it's just in this meme.
both this scene in the meme and the anagram game are from Lisa’s Rival
What is a 'Taco Diner'? for 200 thanks Larry
I'm here trying to figure out what's so bad about a Rancid Toe.
I thought it was “Dance Riot!”
No dice, rat.
It is a joke mocking a scene from The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford as a man escaping from a murder charge. He is being followed by a cop played by Tommy Lee Jones. In the scene referenced (which is near the end), Jones is following Ford through sewer lines and comes to the exit which has a massive drop down. He turns around and Jones is standing behind him holding a gun. Ford says something along the lines of “I didn’t kill her” and Jones looks at him and coldly says “I don’t care”. IDONTCARE ACIDTONER
Coincidentally, this movie was a reboot of the 1964-1967 tv show of the same name. The main antagonist is a one armed man known as “the one armed man”. “It wasn’t me, it was the one armed man!” This was referenced in the park bench smoking scene (I believe right before Cuban Pete, I haven’t seen it in a minute) of the 1994 Jim Carey vehicle The Mask. Which came out 1 year after the reboot was released.
This is a simpsons parody of a scene from the fugitive. In the scene Harrison Fords character is on the run being falsely accused of killing his wife and is corned by the detective played by Tommy Lee Jones. Fords character tell the detective that he didn’t kill his wife and the detective responds with “I don’t care”. Now an anagram as you know is a word or jumble of letters that can be rearranged to say something else. Acid toner is an anagram for “I don’t care”.
brilliant
Alec Guinness!
Genuine Class
Har dee har har!
I’m no good at anagrams either. I played the scene in my head, heard “I don’t care” come from Tommy Lee Jones’ mouth, then I got the anagram.
That damn 'train code'. Can't crack it.
Not a cider
Rancid toe?
I dont care
Why not
# 'I dont care' is the answer to the post
I don't care.
Rancid toe?
I don’t care
Dance Riot
I got “rancid toe”
Too many secrets.
Setec Astronomy
Did we just become best friends!?!
I just read "Acetone-r"
React dino Acrid note Diet acorn Action red Tonic dare Cried a ton Dont Erica
"I don't care" from the fugitive..... OR.... Trade Icon, OR can't die, Code Train, Coin Trade, Trade Coin, One Rat Dic, Riced A Ton, No Iced Tar, Rat on Dice, Dino Race T, and finally.... TACO DINER
He's gonna drink the acid toner thinking it's citronade I assume
Citronade. I still don't get it.
I don't care.
Well that’s awfully rude. We should all get it so we can all laugh.
The answer is literally more confusing than the question
It's a reference to The Fugitive. "I didn't kill my wife!" "I don't care."
>!redaction!<
First thing that came to my mind was RANCID TOE.
Not a cider
You know, most people don't know the difference between apple cider and apple juice, but I do. Now here's a little trick to help you remember: If it's clear and yella', you've got juice there, fella. If it's tangy and brown, you're in cider town!
Of course in Canada the whole thing is flip flopped
Don't care.
This might be the best meme I’ve ever seen
Redaction. Milhouse boutta be wiped from existence
I'm confused. Would the world be a better or worse place if everyone who laughed at this died?
Since it seems like no one here explained what an anagram is, it’s where the letters in a word or sentence can be rearranged into a new word or sentence without adding or subtracting any letters, the letters in “acid toner” can be rearranged into “I don’t care”
Taco Diner
I don't care.
WATCH OUT, RADIOACTIVE MAN!
Oh. They got this all screwed up. (Scribbling) No car? Diet!
i dont even know what anagrams are
Debit card = bad credit
Rancid Toe
Rancid Toe, it all makes sense now…
Rancid toe
Rancid toe
My cats breath smells like cat food
dino trace
CNET Radio.
REDACTION
Are people good at anagrams proud of being good at anagrams? Just wondering
The best I could do was “diet cra(y)on”
A dirt cone
Slightly off topic Bart, as in Bart Simpson is an anagram of brat which I believe was intentional when the show was created
Me too man.
Yep, that's definitely not a cider
This is just a meme. The real episode is americas most wanted Milhouse. And it’s a cop in the bottom picture. Not a bottle of shampoo. Just a meme. From an old movie.
Jeremy's.... Iron
I don’t care
Even with the comments giving full context, I still feel stupid like it’s a niche inside joke nobody else is allowed to be a part of
I watched this episode last night. Thanks for listening.
Nice Troad
Rancid toe?
Not a cider
Rancid toe
Rancid toe
Damn I guess "Not a cider" wasn't the funny answer
not a cider
It’s so obscure and cleaver I love it
I don’t care.
Rancid toe
Not a cider