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One of my favourite Simpsons in-jokes is a bowling team called The Home Wreckers. It comprised of 4 members: Jacques, Princess Kashmir, Lurlene Lumpkin, and Mindy Simmons. The reason for the name is simple: each person had a tête-à-tête with either Marge or Homer Simpson. While three of them lay a strong claim to the …
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"Uh oh. Did I say that or just think it?" In the episode entitled HOMR, Homer finds out the reason for his low IQ is a crayon lodged in his brain from when he was 6. Once removed, his IQ increases but his intelligence ostracises him from his friends and family. Who knew sticking a …
14/4/1996. The date we were blessed with Steamed Hams. And to honour that, YouTube uploader TmsT created this video in collaboration with 13 animators (including himself). To call each animation surreal would be an understatement but so would saying each one was "good". It's all very trippy and pushes Steamed Hams past its boundaries, like …
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The ever-creative Steamed Hams memes have now infiltrated Dragon Ball Z. I can't get enough of these things. You might have seen the Steamed Hams video with multiple animators or the one in the style of Seinfeld. But how about a DBZ mashup? That's exactly what we have here and it works so well. Everything …
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Two of the biggest American shows of the 90s brought together by one meme: Steamed Hams. As Simpsons memes go, Steamed Hams is the most popular. It never seems to lose traction and I've recently discovered a host of them on YouTube. My favourite is this rendition by TempoFunktron who stylised the segment as a …
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Hee-hoo! I don't know who created this but it's the perfect marriage (lol) of good music (pun intended) and classic Simpsons quotes. The title comes from S2 episode War of the Simpsons where Homer gets very drunk and asks Maud to get him some peanuts from the bottom of the dish so he can see …
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Imagine meeting the voice of Bart Simpson... but not knowing who it was. But that's exactly what happened when a teenager met Nancy Cartwright. The American voice actress is best known for voicing Bart Simpson but she also voices Maggie, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney, and Database. In the video, the teenager is …
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With over 100 jobs, Homer Simpson has spread his labour over the last four decades. But how does Homer represent America? Vox did some calculations to see how he stands amongst the rest of the US and how he represents the "upper lower middle class". His salary from the nuclear plant was pretty bad, at …
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An unnamed party bought the rights to The Simpsons' song "Do The Bartman" for $38,500 in an auction this week. Although long rumoured to be a Michael Jackson creation, the song was, in fact, written by singer-songwriter Bryan Loren. The latter called the prolonged rumours a "thorn in his side" and advised: “Along with me, …
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With the departure of Harry Shearer, many feel The Simpsons is beginning to lose its comedic edge. Rumours of Homer and Marge splitting up were quickly refuted but they sounded believable and caused an outrage (not least because the person who was slated to split them up was a pharmacist voiced by Lena Dunham). While the …
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