You Just Ruined the Shot: Becky appears to be torturing the family in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge". The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time entertainment show on television with 22 seasons produced so far. In "Bart On The Road", Homer's face turns red frontally for a moment, after learning from Lisa of Bart and his friends' trip to the World's Fair, before angrily yelling some muffled obscenities while wearing a nuclear plant suit's helmet.
First, you have the skin... (lustfully) then the sweet, sweet innards. Poor Man's Porn: On the season seven premiere, "Who Shot Mr. Burns, part II, " Moe is forced to admit under a lie detector test that he spends his evenings ogling the women in the Sears catalogue (even though Sears stopped sending out Sears catalogues at the time of the episode's first airing, but who's to say that Moe doesn't have a stash of them from around the time that they were sent out through the mail? She got diarrhea when we went to Carlsbad Caverns! No Accounting for Taste: Marge's marriage to Homer has been seriously questioned in the show several times, and compared to her taking care of a Manatee... unfavorably compared, since when she cared for them they gave her a sense of usefulness and accomplishment. Myopic pal on the simpsons characters. Stealth Pun: Any title with "Annoyed Grunt" in the title.
That doesn't mean all of his episodes deserve all the praise in the world. Mein bratwurst has a second name, it's S-c-h-n-a-c-k-e-n-p-f-e-f-f-e-r-h-a-u-s-e-n. - Overly Long Scream: In "The Blunder Years", the family goes to a nightclub/restaurant. "The Devil Wears Nada": Near the end in which Marge (after eating strawberries with whipped cream and spending a brief but near-kiss moments twice with Ned in the Simpsons house) and Homer (back from his trip with Carl in Paris) immediately have sex, as usual. And again in 'Lisa the Skeptic' but from the so-called angel when it's revealed that it's not an apocalypse but instead turns out to be an opening for the Heavenly Hills shopping mall in Springfield: Lisa: Well, there you go. Non-Specifically Foreign: Dr. Nick Riviera; possibly Moe Syszlak. Myopic pal on the simpson streaming. Burns: I'm going to write a figure on this piece of paper. Significant Birth Date: On season 10's "Viva Ned Flanders, " Homer casually mentions that Barney's birthday is the same as Hitler's [April 20] (in syndicated reruns and on the season 10 DVD version, the date was changed to July 15th, and the celebrity whom Homer knows has that birthday is Lassie the dog).
Yawn and Reach: Homer tries to teach it to Abe in "Lady Bouvier's Lover". Welcome back to our Spin-Off Showcase! Now most of these characters are used to express how much the writers hate the people they represent, like some sort of animated voodoo doll. Cut to shaking family pictures in the living room, cut to SLH and a white dog(similar to the Lady and the Tramp dog) nose rubbing in the doghouse, and finally cut to birds forming the shape of a heart. "Black Widower": Happens after the end of Sideshow Bob and Selma's honeymoon video: Sideshow Bob: Oh, Selma dear. Overused Running Gag: Homer strangles Bart all the time. It's the last day of the Isis exhibit! Silence, You Fool: One example near the end of the second act from the episode 'Bart sells his Soul': Homer: Bart, you didn't finish your spaghetti and Moe balls! Shoot the Television: - One episode sees Bart and Lisa write a script for an "Itchy & Scratchy" cartoon that ends with Scratchy's head (now just a skull) going through a ceiling and into Elvis Presley's television set. Milhouse: Trust me Bart, it's better to walk in on both your parents than on just one of them. "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", Lovejoy). It's not quite as large as the last one, but I think you'll find it fair. Prison Episode: Several of them, mostly involving the villains, but occasionally major characters (especially Homer, sometimes Marge) end up in jail as well.
Selma: *Refusing to marry Apu* [My name's] already long enough without Nahasapet-apeet-whatever. It was done by Pacific Data Images of all companies. They disagree on how the town should be run and eventually start arguing by stating their IQ at each other. Also, Bart says one to Lisa after she teases him about Laura and Bart in the episode 'The New Kid on the Block': Bart: Maybe Laura could watch us. Afterwards, he offers to dig up dirt on Allison and attempts a My Card, but Lisa reminds him that he lives in the room next to her. Milhouse said it looked like Speed 2 except that it had a bus instead of a boat. Panty Shot: In "To Surveil with Love", a pair of Duff girls get a shot of their white undies under their short skirts, from the front. Another episode has Homer mention "my seldom-seen half-brother Herb. "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Homer has one in "Homer Goes to College".
Receptionist: Steve Martin on four. Trope 2000: The Spine-Melter 2000 from "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes? Perhaps he can provide faster nudity. In "The Boy who knew two much" Bart dunks out of school and witnesses an assault. Shooting Gallery: "The Springfield Connection, " with Wiggum pointing out the unarmed victims Marge didn't shoot (the mom with her baby and the blind man in the doorway). Journal of the American Academy of Religion"It's Funny Because It's True? " Think warm thoughts, boy, 'cause this is mighty cold. Parodied in "Bart's Elephant", in which two workers manage to avoid having their sheet of glass get hit by both Stampy and Bart, then toss it into a recycling bin carelessly. Playing a Tree: Bart and Milhouse play sheep. On many shows, you're lucky if you get half that. Nothing Can Stop Us Now: Combined with Hope Spot in "Team Homer": Homer: Nothing's going to stop us now! "A Star is Born Again": After a concert, Ned Flanders, after consulting bible verses before he engages into pre-marital sex with Sara Sloane, makes out with her on the picnic carpet. It's like if you took Muhammad Ali (who's considered one of the greatest boxers of all time) and have him be addicted to drugs, to the point where he is scrawny as shit and made him dress like a little girl and have him play tea parties and have him gushing over Justin Bieber. By this point you'd expect the "hat and air conditioner" gag to come up one final time at some point, but it never comes.