Here’s a little gem from THE SIMPSONS.The following exchange took place in the NINTH SEASON (1997-1998) episode “The Last Temptation of Krust”(A Krusty-centric episode, natch!), as Marge is buying new shoes for the kids.
LISA: “Mom, these [shoes] are at least two sizes too big!”
MARGE: “Perfect! You’ll grow into them!”
BART: When?
MARGE: Oh, you’re both WAY OVERDUE for a spurt!”
An obvious laugh-out-loud (for me anyway) reference to their remaining unchanged since 1989!
Imagine how well that Season 9 joke would work today in Season 21!And HERE’s a related gag that has the same effect!
2 comments:
Your right Joe...that joke probably WAS a jab at their evergreen youth.
I always thought it was just more of the joke of thrifty mom Marge that resonated so much from moms like mine. Like her "Homemade Pepsi", etc.
Multi-layered joke...gotta love the Simpsons.
That’s just one reason why I still love ‘em, Jeff!
Working my way backwards through the DVD sets (with some detours) in season order as follows:
11 (which was the season I lost track midway and, unlike many of its Internet critics, found it to be one of the BEST seasons – and I even liked the supposed “worst episode ever” “Saddlesore Galactia”, perhaps because I kept hearing how terrible it was!), 12, 20 (released as I was working through Season 12), 10, and presently in Season 9.
Just found another very interesting item from Season 9. An episode I saw back in its original 1998 broadcast, but which can be looked at in an entirely different light today. I’ll post on that soon.
Joe.
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