The Simpsons c*ck ups

A Battered Mars Bar

Mistakes, cock ups, nonsense stories, oddities and plain wrongness that you've noticed over the years. Divulge now.

The episode where Marge takes up body building. She rapes Homer. Like clearly, very clearly rapes him as he doesn't consent to sex with her and squirms for mercy under her as she pins him to the bed. Absolutely f*cking nothing made of it, in the episode or real life. Outrageous scandal.

The episode where Bart gets skinner fired. Everyone in school is having the time of their lives with Flanders as principal. Bart goes full parsnip and gets Skinner his job back. With no consequence! Bart should've been bate out of it and shunned by his peers for life for this.

Your Face

And now Helen Lovejoy is posting on boards.

Fluffy Cat 88

Its only a cartoon.

It's not real.

Go to bed!

Grayson

The fact that they don't have 5 fingers (or 4 fingers and a thumb for you pedantic fecks)

Cartoon not anatomically correct shocker!

Didas

The episode with Marge bodybuilding is almost 14 years old according to Google, different times.

A Battered Mars Bar

tonygun wrote: »

The episode with Marge bodybuilding is almost 14 years old according to Google, different times.

Yes and the episode of South Park which aired the image of Muhammad went unnoticed first time round too now it's banned

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something?

Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

chops018

I believe they already poked fun at themselves before in relation to this. Exhibit A:

tomwaterford

how come their all yellow in it??

dresden8

tonygun wrote: »

The episode with Marge bodybuilding is almost 14 years old according to Google, different times.

Tell that to Donald Trump.......

A Battered Mars Bar

tomwaterford wrote: »

how come their all yellow in it??

The radiation from the power plant innit

Didas

In keeping with the OP, I couldn't see that Michael Jackson episode where the escaped mental patient is allowed stay in Bart's room writing songs for the night being made today.

rtron

Well OP you got me thinking - How to them pigs drive cars in Peppa Pig?

Arcade_Tryer

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

The episode where Marge takes up body building. She rapes Homer. Like clearly, very clearly rapes him as he doesn't consent to sex with her and squirms for mercy under her as she pins him to the bed. Absolutely f*cking nothing made of it, in the episode or real life. Outrageous scandal.
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Given that the Simpsons was a satirical cartoon, I'd be under the strong assumption that that scene was an attempt to show the standard power dichotomy between men and women; And by switching the gender roles and placing Homer in the vulnerable position, The Simpsons was once again providing us with a wonderful, uniquely perceptive portrayal of human life and relationships.

Realt Dearg Sec

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

Given that the Simpsons was a satirical cartoon, I'd be under the strong assumption that that scene was an attempt to show the standard power dichotomy between men and women; And by switching the gender roles and placing Homer in the vulnerable position, The Simpsons was once again providing us with a wonderful, uniquely perceptive portrayal of human life and relationships.

If they'd done the episode five years earlier they might have done a better job of it. The greatest cock up of them all was continuing to make it after it stopped being funny, there's way more bad than good episodes now.

Arcade_Tryer

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

If they'd done the episode five years earlier they might have done a better job of it. The greatest cock up of them all was continuing to make it after it stopped being funny, there's way more bad than good episodes now.

Hence my post

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

Given that the Simpsons was a satirical cartoon

Absoluvely

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

Its only a cartoon.

It's not real.

Go to bed!

Yeah, right; bread. You said go to bread.

The Backwards Man

Carrying on after your man got shot

Realt Dearg Sec

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

Hence my post

I wasn't having a go at you, hope it didn't come across that way.

Faith+1

chops018 wrote: »

I believe they already poked fun at themselves before in relation to this. Exhibit A:

I love Homers vacant stare, reminds me of myself in work.

Arcade_Tryer

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I wasn't having a go at you, hope it didn't come across that way.

Not at all.

No matter how many cock ups or moist vaginas the Simpsons produces, it will still be the show that provided us with moments like this. And that is something that will never be open to interpretation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igmzkmTv6U

The_Valeyard

Homer killed both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole and Kodos still didnt win the election!!!

Holograph

Faith+1 wrote: »

I love Homers vacant stare, reminds me of myself in work.

I love Homer's giggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqngzd2LF7c


And Homer losing the plot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBBBt4TdOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN7CqKU24SA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHn3Y_jSELw

jimbis

NINE-HUNDRED DOLLARYDOO's :eek:

RobbingBandit

Too much hipster agenda not enough Scorpio, Duff Man or Unkie Herb.

Grayson

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Too much hipster agenda not enough Scorpio, Duff Man or Unkie Herb.

Too many episodes where Homer realises yet again that he loves Marge.

Lake Of Bones

Oh, no! If Marge marries Artie, I'll never be born!

thee glitz

Grayson wrote: »

The fact that they don't have 5 fingers (or 4 fingers and a thumb for you pedantic fecks)

Cartoon not anatomically correct shocker!

Except God

A Battered Mars Bar

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

The episode where Marge takes up body building. She rapes Homer...

Oh, literally a "cock up"?

Akrasia

tonygun wrote: »

In keeping with the OP, I couldn't see that Michael Jackson episode where the escaped mental patient is allowed stay in Bart's room writing songs for the night being made today.

That wasn't Michael Jackson, that was John Jay Smith

valoren

Akrasia wrote: »

That wasn't Michael Jackson, that was John Jay Smith

The Simpsons cocked up when they moved from celebrities voicing characters (like Jackson and Hoffman), or having them do brief but brilliantly effective cameos (think Sting,George Harrison, Liz Taylor), to simply having celebrity plot driven episodes (think the one with Homer as Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger's assistant from season 10 onwards).

Easy Rod

Deleted User wrote: »

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something?

Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

It shows how far gone the writer's of the Simpson's are that they didn't even recognise their own joke being thrown back at them - https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/4i58zi/simpsons_director_mark_kirkland_doesnt_recognize/

jpm4

Dunno if it is in the spirit of the thread but.....the episode where lisa is babysitting bart, and she brings bart unconcious in a wheelbarrow to dr nics clinic. She asks smithers can she cut the line in front of him and he responds "eh no, i'd rather get this seen to now".

Eh OK, what is he supposed to be refering to here? Something about being gay? Is it signifcant that he is standing up?

Holograph

jpm4 wrote: »

Dunno if it is in the spirit of the thread but.....the episode where lisa is babysitting bart, and she brings bart unconcious in a wheelbarrow to dr nics clinic. She asks smithers can she cut the line in front of him and he responds "eh no, i'd rather get this seen to now".

Eh OK, what is he supposed to be refering to here? Something about being gay? Is it signifcant that he is standing up?

Dildo up his butt maybe - it's actually a fairly frequent phenomenon in New York hospitals. Genuinely!

beach_walker

Not a cock up as such, more a sign of the time it was made, but I had to smirk when watching the episode where Homer joins Lollapalooza recently.

Homer: “The us Festival! Shesh! It was sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers!”
Cashier: “What computers?!”

I imagine that one makes no sense to a huge amount of youngins now.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

The Continental Soccer Association is coming to Springfield! It's all here—fast-kickin’, low scorin’. And ties? You bet!

You’ll see all your favorite soccer stars. Like Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!

padd b1975

valoren wrote: »

The Simpsons cocked up when they moved from celebrities voicing characters (like Jackson and Hoffman), or having them do brief but brilliantly effective cameos (think Sting,George Harrison, Liz Taylor), to simply having celebrity plot driven episodes (think the one with Homer as Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger's assistant from season 10 onwards).

Ricky Gervais.

That is all.

Oafley Jones

Faith+1 wrote: »

I love Homers vacant stare, reminds me of myself in work.

It's the sort of detail/possible mistake that you don't get in the new CG animation. I remember an interesting piece from a former simpsons animator who critised the transition, saying that the rigidity of the computer models didn't allow for much expression. He pointed out an old episode with Homer's heart attack, as something that would be impossible today.

I bought all the DVDs up to season 10 and used listen to the commentary. Funnily enough you often hear Groening complain about character being "off-model" in those earlier years. I guess he's happy now.

Dirty Dingus McGee

padd b1975 wrote: »

Ricky Gervais.

That is all.

It was gone to the dogs long before he appeared in it.

Holograph

Easy Rod wrote: »

It shows how far gone the writer's of the Simpson's are that they didn't even recognise their own joke being thrown back at them - https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/4i58zi/simpsons_director_mark_kirkland_doesnt_recognize/

Yeah that was bizarre...