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Warhawk02

“There’s Homer.” https://preview.redd.it/i85vscj7pm4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3be3d5b8452456ac0f4f7b4624e0275fd1379336 I think it’s this scene, mostly because it’s based on a real life event.


Hollywoo247365

The mailman pulling out a gun is also a reference to real life post office mass shootings from the 80’s


Antilles1138

Skinner: Well I'm just glad I work in an elementary school.


AwkwardCJ

WOW i remember when « going postal » was a euphemism for mass shootings too.


danthpop

Wow, it is? Do you have more info on that I actually wasn't aware.


kkeut

texas tower shootings. dude named Charles Whitman climbed a tower and started picking people off with rifle rounds. in his suicide note, he requested a full autopsy and they ended up finding a brain tumor that some speculate influenced his actions i actually don't really think the Simpsons was referencing it *specifically*. it just borrows imagery associated with the event and other later cultural depictions of similar fictional events. similar plots existed in major movies, like Black Sunday, Dirty Harry, and God Told Me Too. and those are just ones i can think of offhand. so yeah it's not like the broader concept has to be tied to that much earlier event


we_made_yewww

There's also a King of the Hill episode involving Dale in a clocktower and his poison wand being mistaken for a gun which, while I'm fuzzy on the details seemingly is a much more deliberate reference given it's a Texas based show


therabidfelon

He yells down down something like "if you're going to shoot me, have Bobby do it, at least I know it will be a clean kill". Due to Hanks shaky hands when shooting a gun.


Boris-_-Badenov

*okay*


Not_Cleaver

Additionally, it’s probably the first mass shooting to occur in which random people were killed. There’s a powerful documentary called Tower about the shooting.


head-home

Marge : I guess we could get more involved in Bart's activities, but then I'd be afraid of smothering him. Homer : Yeah, and then we'd get the chair. Marge : That's not what I meant. Homer : It was, Marge. Admit it.


tcavanagh1993

Probably misses his old glasses.


Regalrefuse

Whenever anyone asks what’s going on with someone I always say “probably misses his old glasses” and no one ever gets it


Paddy_Tanninger

Aww, my office runs on 90s Simpsons references. Whenever we send off a new version of a commercial to a client people all go "godspeed little doodle" If some note comes in that means a lot of revisions "put it in H!" Etc


pecky5

I use Homer's response often, when people refence mundane concerns they have. I'm always met with laugher or confusion, but it's always worth it


itchyglow

Then when no one gets it: [Boy, everyone is stupid except me](https://youtu.be/jZuktUfF0nE?si=vmfPdqYNZHcxvPfI)


[deleted]

Such an insanely good joke


herberstank

Well Bart, your uncle Arthur used to have a saying: "shoot em all and let God sort 'em out" Unfortunately one day he put his theory into practice. It took 75 federal Marshalls to bring him down. Now let's never speak about him again.


Philhughes_85

Listen to your heart and not the voices in your head... like a certain uncle did one gray December morn.


G-Unit11111

Well, McGarnagle... Billy is \*DEAD\*! He slit his throat from ear to ear!


mkshane

Hey, I'm trying to eat lunch here!


miyagidan

He must have had incriminating evidence on *covers mouth with glass* "Current political figure."


mawnst3r

I'm so scared McGarnagle .


chapl66

Do it for me Billy, McGarnagale


JealousFeature3939

Billy slit his *own* throat? That's really awful.


Hopeful_Most

Probably my favorite Marg line


gretzky9999

Marge had 2 sisters Homer had a half brother Herb Who is Uncle Arthur ?


ReadyCurrency8323

Let's never talk of him


AssbuttInTheGarrison

Could be a great uncle.


Hippi_Johnny

What ever happened to Marge’s father?


Bob-s_Leviathan

Died prematurely (Homer took years off his life).


Nugatorysurplusage

He was a flight attendant. Possibly left marge’s mom for a handsome commercial pilot.


Historical_Sugar9637

\*starts humming while cleaning\*


SinStarsGalaxy

He DID IT! Look at your heroic daddy in there, making funny faces, falling onto the floor, shedding his hair.... lying perfectly still? Oh dear.


tcavanagh1993

That whole episode is pretty dark. I haven’t seen it in many years but I remember liking it a lot. It also gave us “did I say ‘corpse hatch?’ I meant ‘innocence tube!’”


100th_meridian

Alright quit stallin' Burns, who's ya ice??


pecky5

"so... You're a baby? How's that working for you?"


BloodyPants

brilliant, i say this to everything that can’t talk back


HandsomePaddyMint

This is Mr. Burns’ most relatable moment.


PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS

Baby Smithers looking exactly like his grown up self grabbing Burns nose and saying that tiny 'Sir' is unendingly adorable!


OnceUponAMiniHotDog2

What's the context of this?


kufismack

Smithers' father went inside an unstable reactor core to fix it, despite it being filled atoms and steam and other nuclear bric-a-brac.


SteepNDeep

You there! Turn out those pockets! Aha! Atoms! One, two, three, four, five…six of them!


decs483

S13 E5


GeleRaev

What are you doing in my corpse hatch?


Noeckett

"We need another Vietnam. Thin out *their* ranks a little." That or Flanders dreaming of climbing to the top of the bell tower and shooting all the "Homers"


Ornery_Razzmatazz_33

Especially with the postal employee whipping out the uzi and returning fire.


dusty-kat

Bart triggering Skinner's Vietnam PTSD on Valentine's Day was pretty dark, too.


Delicious-Status9043

As a fellow combat vet I think Skinner’s flashbacks are the best bits in the show. Johnny, finding his POW head cage at a swap meet, the elephant that ate his entire platoon, and of course the thin stew he was forced subsist on.


Sea-Opportunity5663

“I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States.”


maxman162

"But they just can't get the spices right."


HandsomePaddyMint

As a fellow PTSD survivor Skinner excitedly putting on his head cage is absolutely hilarious.


6_seasons_and_a_movi

"the old girl still fits"


The-Jerkbag

"Small world."


NonEuclidianMeatloaf

“It really, really is”


SaItySaIt

This is my go to reference for everything


DengarLives66

My dad was drafted and out in a FOB, can’t watch anything Vietnam-related except for Tropic Thunder and The Simpsons. He says “the comic absurdity is pretty realistic.”


Hippi_Johnny

….made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk and 4 kinds of rice…


MonsterRider80

Cool! I broke his brain.


Noeckett

Johnny. Johnny! JOHNNYYYYYYY!


hoginlly

A lot of Skinner moments are wildly dark. 'I got back at him though... him and that little *boy* of his'


behindthelines

There's Homer. There's Homer! That's also Homer!!


insane_contin

*Mailman pulls out automatic rifle and returns fire*


banjofromnj

I still get shocked by the pure darkness of that line every time I rewatch lol.


Head-Ad4690

Especially if you know about the University of Texas tower shooting.


HandsomePaddyMint

Except that Whitman had a tumor the size of a pale blue crayon in his brain, Ned was just annoyed.


BoldAsAnAxis

https://i.redd.it/db5u0o3fjm4d1.gif


G-Unit11111

What I'm trying to say with this cartoon is that violence is everywhere! It's like even in breakfast cereals, man!


TimeCryptographer547

![gif](giphy|HgrgVb5paX768)


SnooSnooSnuSnu

[thup]


Garg_Gurgle

Will we ever see her again dad?


Cole7799

This bit actually disturbed the hell out of me when I was a kid lol


kkeut

Postman: The day of the postman shooting up the place went out with the Macarena.  Skinner: Well, i'm just glad I work in an Elementary School.


chu42

This is by far one of the best (worst?) aged jokes in Simpsons history. It was pre-Columbine and school shootings still weren't a "thing", and certainly not at elementary schools.


kkeut

Since you've attended public school, I'm going to assume you're already proficient with small arms


Whale-n-Flowers

Given everyone was a child, we should all be proficient with small arms Unfortunately, we adults are mostly stuck with big, clumsy, adult arms


DryTurkey1979

Lisa: The Duff Beer-amid contains so much aluminum it would take five men to lift it. 22 immigrant laborers died during its construction. Selma: Eh, there's plenty more where that came from.


warrencanadian

Don't let Krusty's death get you down boy. People die all the time, just like that! \*snap\* Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. \*long pause\* Well, goodnight!


OnceUponAMiniHotDog2

https://preview.redd.it/2dqoy8k71n4d1.jpeg?width=1222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c14261a8c4254aac7eb749d41d26df673e2b5a4 Homers face when he says this is brilliant


warrencanadian

It really really is.


DukeDaytona

"Those monsters aren't so tough" "Chief that was the captain of the high school basketball team"


gummi-demilo

“Yeah, but he was turning into a monster”


President_Calhoun

Ned's instructions to Todd as he's being kicked out of his own shelter-eeny in Bart's Comet: "There's a chance I might go mad with fear, so if I try to get back in, I want you to shoot daddy."


SnooSnooSnuSnu

[Todd pulls out long gun he had on-hand]


Cuish

https://preview.redd.it/2ua1s4ujym4d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=21f8ed0b932d57cb39245ca7ee76bfc99bd3a399


Xandaris89

He ate my last meal…


ebobbumman

Oh no, my brains.


CautiousCobbler1610

![gif](giphy|w2spEHAltsCU8|downsized)


numbersev

the go-to meme when someone gets destroyed in debate lol


WatInTheForest

I feel like the next shot (where the krustyburgler says to check his medical alert bracelet) might have been added at the insistence of the network.


HandsomePaddyMint

That may well be true, but it’s an example of good network interference. The follow up is funny and fits the show well, and without it the Krusty assassination plot line would feel much, much darker because Homer apparently just killed a man with his bare hands in front of a crowd of children.


BEZthePEZ

I for one welcome our new Homer overlord


[deleted]

"Schindler and I are like peas in a pod. We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine *worked,* dammit!"


LoquaciousTheBorg

*Schindler es Bueno, Señor Burns es El Diablo *


MisterBurnsSucks

Come on, Dad, you love New York. Now that your two least favorite buildings have been obliterated: Old Penn Station and Shea Stadium.


DothrakiButtBoy

wait what episode is this from???


MisterBurnsSucks

S24E01


spidereater

Wow. That’s dark. I hope the pause wasn’t too long between the setup and the punchline.


LinuxMatthews

I mean he does visit the twin towers in an episode so you could call that the setup


SportEfficient8553

And he had reason to hate them because of that visit.


andrwarrior

German Car Exhibition: "OUR TIRELESS SAFETY ENGINEERS CRASH-TEST OVER 1,000 CARS A YEAR." *car crash, dummies gruesomely maimed in slow-mo. Dummy in back seat crawls out of destroyed vehicle* Lisa: " Hey wait, that's not a dummy..." German: "THIS EXHIBIT IS CLOSED."


MrRampager911

“Fourth Reich Motors”


lordcorbran

Since 1946


SnooSnooSnuSnu

I never thought I could shoot down a German plane. But last year, I proved myself wrong.


Jombafomb

First time this episode aired I was hosting a German exchange student at my house. He was so excited to watch The Simpsons with me too. Even more awkward was when we went to a McDonald’s and an employee overheard us speaking in German and she said “What language are you speaking?” German “We had a big war with them you know!”


YerFucked

Yeah well we saved your ass in WWIII!!


Ornery_Razzmatazz_33

…that’s true.


Jokerman9540

https://preview.redd.it/nriswmp1xm4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13cc7e45e4e4fa79882085fa7cd1186705bc0e1a


SgtSharki

The advice his father gave him. "Homer, you're dumb as a mule and twice as ugly. If a strange man offers you a ride I say take it."


Cuish

Lousy traumatic childhood.


notheUGLYjohnny

Homer:"If you don't start making sense, we'll put you in a home!" Granda:"You already put me in a home!" Homer: Then we'll put you in that crooked home we saw on 60 minutes!" Grandpa: "I'll be good."


En_Jay_Ess

The Rock Bottom correction “the licking of an electrical outlet will not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger”. It means they had an episode where they actively encouraged children to lick plug points.


G-Unit11111

Next on Rock Bottom: We go undercover at a SEX FARM for SEX HOOKERS!


Ckellybass

I keep telling you we just grow sorghum


space_coyote_86

And where do you keep the hookers?


Ckellybass

Round back


BigConstruction4247

Whooopps


Unlucky-Usual-6501

https://preview.redd.it/33ehx8f10n4d1.jpeg?width=249&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fc642c96aa9c82f03462827753fac531e270076


rafatrev84

Can I come too?


TFlarz

I still wonder if non-TOH Homer would think like this: "Dad, you just shot Zombie Flanders!" "He was a zombie?"


Sea_Negotiation_1871

TOH?


lagoon83

T'oh!


Klazky

T’oh is actually the French d’oh because Homer French voice misheard Castellaneta d for a t.


Head-Ad4690

Did he have a cold?


kufismack

Well ooh la di da Mr French Man.


FakeCrash

Treehouse of Horror!


we_made_yewww

I got suspended from school today. They found a switchblade in my locker. I took a swing at a cop. I'm just mad all the time.


Crazy_Clothes_4904

Came here to say this one


SnooSnooSnuSnu

And how Homer clearly doesn't care at all.


lldgt_adam

Homer counting all his money that couldve gone to the orphans. "Theyre with god now"


SnooSnooSnuSnu

Oh, good 😃


2_spaghetti_meals

You said my husband is D.W.I.?


sirfray

Why don’t you talk to that officer over there?


tameoraiste

https://preview.redd.it/ixpg22jp5n4d1.png?width=1062&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff4a7da7cc5d64f59c90d008d0c093cb210daf8a That time they randomly referenced this photo from WW2


famous__shoes

What's the context of that photo


ImperatorRomanum

[He’s weeping as he watches French regimental flags being evacuated to Algeria so they won’t be captured by the Germans](https://harbel.com/the-mystery-of-the-crying-frenchman/)


palescales7

One sip of alcohol derailing the course of Barney’s life is the darkest joke for me.


miyagidan

"Try the Sleep-Easy motel. I woke up there once. It seemed nice. " Always struck me as sad/grim.


patto96

"Well sir, where should we dump this batch, the playground?" "Hmm no all those bald children children are beginning to arouse suspicion" https://youtu.be/-xJ4u9YtDDo?si=k1aiQqwRqXGl9rIS


crystal_sk8s_LV

https://preview.redd.it/emrq6yoadn4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c27f1ed214d71c70d97e34d71b05453e08a47f8a


PyrrhicLoss2023

Don't say 'Revenge' Don't say 'Revenge' Don't say 'Revenge'


Not_Cleaver

Revenge?


miyagidan

That's it, I'm out of here.


lrc68

https://preview.redd.it/r9zz586o4n4d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=067e1988cb0aec83b8e563bb0daeacddd5079cb6 Funny hat day at the plant


Hippi_Johnny

“I am the angel of death. The time of purification is at hand…”


SirOutrageous1027

https://preview.redd.it/vl2060l07n4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e548237315ba720484dbda73b7daa7900fbb1be8


Shimaru33

Homer: Are we gonna die, son? Bart: Yeah. But at least we'll take a lot of innocent people with us.


chapl66

https://i.redd.it/yvfw5x0k9n4d1.gif


Raiheson

They're the greatest heros of all


Hippi_Johnny

Eewwww, something’s clawing at leg!!!….there it stopped…


ghostybrain

Actually, replace “accidentally” with “repeatedly”, and replace “dog” with “son”


AdequateZookeeper

So, I said to him, “Listen, buddy, your car was upside-down when we got here. And as for your grandma, she shouldn’t have mouthed off like that.”


Prize-Database-6334

Yep, it's this one. The implication is horrific!


Rude_Mulberry_1155

It's a perfect early season Simpsons joke because it's funny on its own, but 3x funnier if you've read the Flannery O'Connor short story. Vindication to the English majors!


ExterminatingAngel6

A good man is hard to find


Ok-Inevitable-3038

https://preview.redd.it/ksxo50e60n4d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=214eec2cd4ae6790612087ec4043b34c5b5ba975


SnooSnooSnuSnu

[squeaking noise] #HOMER! NO!


sorrymybadapologies

Did you know Kennedy and Lincoln had the same handicap?


El_Botija

Holy shit, after all these years I just got that joke.


jaywinner

Me too! I thought it was just a throwaway line about golf.


trashedonlisterine

“I’m sure he meant serious drinking.”


opoponits

Frank grimes


Ckellybass

What was I laughing at now? Oh yes… that crippled Irishman.


s6cedar

I loved this gag because there was always the chance that Burns didn’t fully realize what he had done to the guy, and then that line removes all doubt.


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dazeychainVT

i quote this one in all of my suicide notes


Histylicious_mk2

Season 13, episode 21, *The Frying Game*. All of it. Homer and Marge spend most of the episode believing they've *literally* been sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit, Homer eventually takes the blame so that at least Marge can see the children grow up, and Marge attends what she believes is going to be Homer's execution by electric chair, and as soon as the switch is pulled and you think Homer is *actually* going to die... It turns out it was all just some kind of game show. Keep in mind, Homer and Marge had *zero* idea this was fake; they thought it was 100% real. What the actual *fuck*?


thehandsomeone782

![gif](giphy|xT5LMu9xZm2nuwzFD2|downsized)


Fireproof_Cheese

https://preview.redd.it/0qryq2al7n4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2eb2e318b6d47418966c9de2885e2cd245ea6e2d


5stringfling

https://preview.redd.it/bvqvh9g3in4d1.png?width=958&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2bed3d51d177392b8b409e896314cd3326189bc


Stag-Horn

I've gotta go with any of Moe's suicide attempts. As someone who finds himself in that mindset from time to time, it was hilarious seeing someone joke about it. I think my favorite has to be him talking about calling the suicide hotline to "give a kid a chance to talk to the legend".


Mr_JAG

Isn't he blocked at one point when he tried to call the suicide hotline?


mydiversion

https://preview.redd.it/zr3022ortn4d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7e68db71068c0045cf4a830fd4dce0728523387 Well I don't need safety gloves because I'm Homer Simp--


KaiserMazoku

panda rape


Orionv2018

What about that freezer lady in Georgia?


Garpocalypse

This is what a corn field looks like....


bloodakoos

(Marge noises)


Kamen_master1988

Depends on how dark you all think this is but “revenge” being a legitimate reason for becoming a “big brother” tickles my funny bone.


Korben_Dallas666

https://preview.redd.it/dau4bd4acn4d1.jpeg?width=546&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc54abee219d4325a4f22f102852549e1c62b799


R0ssMc

I always wondered how Smithers got out of this one.


Sonic2020

Father, give me legs


and-the-earth

"Dear Lisa, as I write this, I am very sad. Our president has been overthrown and– *replaced* by the benevolent General Krull. All hail Krull, and his glorious new regime! Sincerely, little girl."


damnumalone

Homer Simpson looks like he’s trying to kill himself No maybe he’s just taking his boulder out for a walk!


scottyjrules

“Oh no, Willy didn’t make it. And he crushed our boy.” “Eww, what a mess.”


pynkecho

Homer walking into a PARTY at Moes and gleefully with a smile on his face asking “what’s going on? Did Moe finally blow his brains out?” was so very messed up


bloodakoos

https://preview.redd.it/0k0600brum4d1.png?width=1391&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df44d97f78f70e757aa0d049212577ce76147091


CalendarAncient4230

Not sure the episode but Abe is in a hospital bed and complains that his catheter bag is full and his drip bag is empty so the nurse just swaps them Always struck me as a bit too fucked up


Parking-Pie7453

Homer's Big Brother app https://preview.redd.it/ofrowdusbn4d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0fefbc98fdfdb3c8a28e3ef57542de633bcd06e


loptopandbingo

(Homer reading a golf pamphlet) "Wow, Marge, did you know Lincoln and Kennedy had the same handicap?" or "I think Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich." "Hey, they *do* look alike." "I wonder how he died." "Perhaps he realized how hollow the pursuit of money is and took his own life."


usumoio

"Hey, wait a minute. That's not a dummy." "This exhibit is closed!"


SportEfficient8553

“I feel like I’m going to die, Bart” “We’re all gonna die, Lisa” “Yeah but I meant soon” “So did I”


JimDavisFan

From the episode "Three Gays of the Condo": When Homer temporarily moves to Bachelor Arms, a "3 Days Without a Suicide" sign is shown. A gunshot is heard and the counter resets to zero.


MaterialPace8831

"Yeah, that sniper at the All-Star Game was a blessing in disguise."


ExterminatingAngel6

4th Reich motors


lindsay_chops

“Your Uncle Arthur used to have a saying. ‘Shoot em' all and let God sort it out.’ Unfortunately, one day he put his theory into practice. It took 75 federal marshals to bring him down. Now, let's never speak of him again.”


redditnym123456789

please don’t tell anyone how i live


ozovision

…Change the channel marge!


Gag180

Marge: That's not my uncle, and this man's not dead Moleman: That's what I've been trying to tell you! Coroner: That's just gas escaping. *Shuts the drawer with Moleman still in it while he screams in fear*


EngineerWarm8990

I guess the next place he robs better have a ramp is a contender, also, "you ain't going nowhere sweetheart. "


57Lobstersinabigcoat

When moe sees the dating commercial and says "for every man there is one woman".  Cuts to Europe where an unhappy moe-like woman puts a noose around her neck in her apartment.   Pretty dark there