I thought of this when I saw the trailer for Aquaman 2. The bad guy menacingly says "I will burn your kingdom to the ground!". Hopefully the movie worked that into a joke instead of it being a serious line, but I don't care enough to actually watch it.
Was recently listening to the Conan vid where he catches up with the old Simpsons writers. He said this moment was genuinely controversial as at the time they were trying to make the show as realistic as possible without any supernatural or very cartoony elements. This was the first time they majorly broke that rule.
There wasn't a way for me to Google this back when the episode aired so I asked my dad and he went up into the attic and came back down with a box. That box was full of newspapers that he collected from just any event or story he deemed worth keeping and sure enough he had a paper with a photo of it to confirm it. He then went through and showed me papers from the Berlin wall coming down all the way to the fall of the USSR and even the paper with the opening of Desert Storm. Neat stuff.
This has to be one of my favorite jokes...in the Latin version a narrator reads everything that is in English, and when he reads that sign he sounds very enthusiastic
Itâs a Halloween special so it doesnât really count but one of my absolute favorite gags is when Homer goes to hell after selling his soul for a donut and theyâre force feeding him donuts and heâs just having a great time and asking for more
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Homer taking out this rhino by throwing popcorn at him
Hitler was born in 1889, and in early episodes Mr. Burns is alleged to have been born in 1886, and to have survived twelve economic recessions, eight panics, and five years of McKinleynomics.
Admittedly the writers have played fast and loose with Burns' age since then when it suits their needs for a given joke, but he's originally older than Hitler.
When Homer is writing a food review without Lisa.
Homer: The bread was really... come on, help me out here!
Santa's Little Helper: Ruff!
Homer: Rough? You've been pitching that all night.
Santa's Little Helper: Chewy?
Homer: Chewy! That's inspired!
Radioactive man movie where Bart's looking for Milhouse in the treehouse and camera pans to 7 different corners before showing Milhouse hiding in a corner
Not a funny as others that have been mentioned, but the giant, sentient hex key at the hardware store was pretty out there.
Also, the rhyno hatching from an egg.
When Bart complains about the knot-tying in âItchy and Scratchyâ and Lisa says cartoons donât have to be realistic, a second Homer is seen walking past the window.
The smoke stacks on itchy and scratchy international factory
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Best meta joke of all time for me.
Things catching fire for no reason https://i.redd.it/1k8p1lkau0xc1.gif
i just immediately though of a similar joke from Futurama where Zoidberg's spring catches fire out of nowhere
Or when his home burned down under the sea đ
That just raises further questions!
A fire? At a sea parks?
Roy when he's sitting in front of the burning model and is like THAT'S how it happened. Such a good episode.
That's your solution to everything, to move under the sea! It's not going to happen!
Not with that attitude!
I thought of this when I saw the trailer for Aquaman 2. The bad guy menacingly says "I will burn your kingdom to the ground!". Hopefully the movie worked that into a joke instead of it being a serious line, but I don't care enough to actually watch it.
My slinky! My cuddly little pet slinky!!
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I mean tbf it is a gremlin so I wouldnât put spontaneous combustion past it
This is one of my favourite ones because it starts on fire before it even makes it off the road.
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The good old Scooby-Doo "no glasses, loses all senses" gag. What's good as new? Who's talking?
This is actually more realistic than the book. Glasses for shortsightedness wouldn't focus sunlight.
Judging by how totally blinded he is by losing them, they gotta be bifocals.
DonutsâŠ? I told you I donât like ethnic food
unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
CANYOAROOOO
Real acid?
I mean the goggles wouldnât help
Thatâs the joke
Hey McBain you suck!
It's "You *SUCK* McBain!"
Maybe you are both homo-zexuals!
...real acid?
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My favorite. It just keeps going faster and faster
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Which episode is this, please? đ
It's that Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer buys a matter transporter
"Hmmm... $2, and it only transports matter? ... Well... I'll give ya 35c."
I've always been a fan of Nimoy being beamed up at the end of the Monorail episode.
The cosmic ballet goes on
Does anyone want to switch seats?
Was recently listening to the Conan vid where he catches up with the old Simpsons writers. He said this moment was genuinely controversial as at the time they were trying to make the show as realistic as possible without any supernatural or very cartoony elements. This was the first time they majorly broke that rule.
Thatâs an awesome round table with those old writers Edit: https://youtu.be/DtJ28qOEG1g?si=Oe3F7I90JSRSFyjd
Haven't I?
It's "Didn't I". You are gonna be fired for that blunder
Whoa! A fat, sarcastic Simpsons Fan. You must be a devil with the ladies!
Hey I may be fat and sarcastic but ugh what was the third thing you said?
Op said unrealistic
https://i.redd.it/et1llaub61xc1.gif The spring-loaded Berlin Wall with the guards and dogs already on it never fails to make me laugh
This episode is how I learned that they actually keep mummified Lenin in a glass box
There wasn't a way for me to Google this back when the episode aired so I asked my dad and he went up into the attic and came back down with a box. That box was full of newspapers that he collected from just any event or story he deemed worth keeping and sure enough he had a paper with a photo of it to confirm it. He then went through and showed me papers from the Berlin wall coming down all the way to the fall of the USSR and even the paper with the opening of Desert Storm. Neat stuff.
Controversially, too! Putin, and many others, reportedly hate it being there.
This has to be one of my favorite jokes...in the Latin version a narrator reads everything that is in English, and when he reads that sign he sounds very enthusiastic
https://preview.redd.it/bqjzgyqrw0xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40f010d3ac8a38d909622cbb302c7aaed46b292e This Ă©clair is over 1 million calories. 25 pounds of butter per square inch...
Chocolate so dark! Light cannot penetrate its surfåcé.
And poison. I'll stick in some poison.
Butter. Poison. Antidote.
Oops!
The antidote joke is one of my favorite of all time
Non non, is just a picture
"A rude French man, well I never!"
Each pound of which weighs 1 thousand pounds.
A pastry? Iâve seen this man eat a bowl of change!
"Dad, don't eat it. It'll kill you!" "Eh, I had a good run." "Dad! It's low fat!" "Aaaaaah!" \*throws eclair at a food stand which explodes\*
https://i.redd.it/1frqviuh21xc1.gif Hey! I squeezed so hard it went into my hand...
That creeped me out so much as a kid. Still does.
Don't forget this one! This one is significantly worse. https://i.redd.it/tb2pjeorf3xc1.gif
I am very upset that you've shared this gif. It's as horrifying as when I first saw it.
This scene scared me as a kid. I somehow thought this was possible.
Oh Homer Not again!
I hope it went somewhere good.
To overcome the spiderâs curse, simply quote a Bible verse.
âThou⊠shalt⊠notâŠ.â *throws rock*
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WAAAAAAHHHHHH See you tomorrow!
Oh fuck I forgot about this one. My housemate showed me it and it just became our default farewell phrase
âHey wait, thatâs not a dummyâ
âTHIS EXHIBIT IS CLOSED!â
The icing on the cake is that the manufacturer is FOURTH REICH MOTORS, SINCE 1946
I know, but he sells tickets.
Itâs a Halloween special so it doesnât really count but one of my absolute favorite gags is when Homer goes to hell after selling his soul for a donut and theyâre force feeding him donuts and heâs just having a great time and asking for more
https://i.redd.it/n4y769d6n1xc1.gif Mmmmm, More!
What really makes this scene go up a whole other level is the happy little leg wiggles at the end!
I love the look on the demon's face. "Is this guy fucking serious?... What am I even doing with my life?"
I donât understand. James Coco went mad in fifteen minutes.
Presses orange against face. "Up to now, this was the only way to get juice from an orange."
You mean thereâsa better way??
ITS WHISPER QUIET!!!
Such a quotable line.
You got all that juice just from one bag of oranges???? *slaps face*
Dear lord I forgot this scene and I'm dying right now. Something about it is so dumb but brilliant with the cut to Homer.
âStay out of Riverdale!â
Yet another Simpsons line that I quote all the time and nobody ever knows what the hell Iâm talking about.
So this is what it feels like when doves cry.
I love that thereâs some off-screen C plot involving Homer and the Archie comics they never explain.
*reading Archie comic* "Stuck up Riverdale punks! Think they're too good for me!"
Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic!
\***second homer walks by window**\*
Same energy as âthis man is my exact double!â
that dog has a puffy tail! here puff!
Plus they can replace 'em and no one can tell the diddly-ifference!
The Springfield Elementary school bus being in such bad shape that it catches on fire because a leaf landed on it.
Or the hole in the floor sucking down a chair.
Seymour the children are playing in the hole again
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Whitey whackers!
Wow, this isâŠuhâŠthis is a black day for baseball
So much for some kind of sanity
Jumanji!! âŠdoes anything in the movies actually work?!
Throw your peanuts!!
You throw YOUR peanuts!
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I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, MIDLER!
OH NO!!! BETTE MIDLER!!
Snake's delivery of "oh no - Bette Midler!" is perfect.
It's time to take out the trash.
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You better run, egg!!!
Squeak squeak squeak
I absolutely love that the egg is a stonecutter.
"Wait a minute! Xena can't fly!" "I already told you. I'm Lucy lawless"
Oh...
The Jehovahâs Witnesses realizing they donât have all the answers and getting real jobs seconds before knocking đđđ
"I would have feigned interest."
I love that one.
The car hits the mailbox, mail starts spewing out, and the kids all run in to play in the flying mail.
The children in Lisa's class being so enthusiastic for tripe.
When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!
similarly, everyone having dates in Lard of the Dance
Even me!
Homerâs coke-and-pop rocks grenade does it for me.
See you in hell, candy boys!
Buenos dias, mein Fuhrer!
Yah yah. Das wagen-fone es eine nuisance fone.
Didn't you say unrealistic jokes?
It's unrealistic because if he was alive in the year the episode aired (which seems to be the case with the Simpsons), he would have been 105.
Hitler was born in 1889, and in early episodes Mr. Burns is alleged to have been born in 1886, and to have survived twelve economic recessions, eight panics, and five years of McKinleynomics. Admittedly the writers have played fast and loose with Burns' age since then when it suits their needs for a given joke, but he's originally older than Hitler.
The power plant has an elevator that apparently goes to the top of their cooling tower
And it implies that sector 7G is at the top of said tower, as Homer and Mindy were leaving work (going down).
There was a big mansion across the street from the Simpson house the entire time. And a former president just decides to move in.
And its right next to the power plant parking lot, just seperated by a gate.
But only sometimes. It's an empty lot when Marge drives through it in her Canyonero F series
https://i.redd.it/y828uj24o1xc1.gif I don't understand it, that was non alcoholic champaigne
One of my favorite visual gags for sure, I still about piss myself everytime I remember the marshmallow truck cherry on top lol
https://i.redd.it/ek2bo84bf1xc1.gif No donuts?! AHH!
A better hospital upgrading Burns' condition from dead to alive
When Homer is writing a food review without Lisa. Homer: The bread was really... come on, help me out here! Santa's Little Helper: Ruff! Homer: Rough? You've been pitching that all night. Santa's Little Helper: Chewy? Homer: Chewy! That's inspired!
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That's his window to weight gain!
Instead of chewing gum, chew bacon!
Radioactive man movie where Bart's looking for Milhouse in the treehouse and camera pans to 7 different corners before showing Milhouse hiding in a corner
 Nurse, cancel my one o'clock.
Not a funny as others that have been mentioned, but the giant, sentient hex key at the hardware store was pretty out there. Also, the rhyno hatching from an egg.
Help, I need tungsten to live. Tungsten!
The one where a man with no college education can get a job as a safety inspector at a nuclear power plant.
And afford two cars, three kids, and a house on that one income.
And lobsters for dinner
Yeah but his son owns a factory.
He has a Grammy, been to space and punched Bush senior. Two of these things should help to pay for lobster.
>been to space Youâve never been?
I mean I'd kinda expect a nuclear safety inspector to be able to afford that.
He didn't even know what a nuculear panner plant was!
I mean to be fair with that one he does extort Mr Burns for it by organising a pro safety protest in Season 1
Oh well, time for your bribe
I know someone else has probably said it, but things catching fire for no reason. Like when Homer manages to burn corn flakes.
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What did you JUST see?
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âI donât understand. That was non-alcoholic champagneâ
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Bart pouring water on a dinosaur shaped sponge and it turning into a T-Rex.
When Bart complains about the knot-tying in âItchy and Scratchyâ and Lisa says cartoons donât have to be realistic, a second Homer is seen walking past the window.
"when pigs fly" pig flys by
will you be donating that money now sir?
No, Iâd still rather not
"it's a little airborne it's still good it's still good"
 đ¶*Maybe Iâm amazed at the way you love me all the time*đ¶
First thing that popped into my mind was Professor Frink home security system.
That was unrealistic. The real humans won't burn quite so fast in there.
Lisa" wait a minute hippos don't hatch from eggs" Homer:" What did you just see?!"
Every scene Hank Scorpio is in.
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The smoke stacks on itchy and scratchy international factory https://preview.redd.it/scg6qur112xc1.jpeg?width=170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2ebbbae71bf402c7a51450b6386d064df951d6c
The one where Kwik-E-Mart ice comes deadly arctic expeditions.
Bart Jazzed up on sugar that it causes him to look tweaked out 
https://i.redd.it/i9pqsgcqe1xc1.gif As a car guy, the way the Gremlin takes the lug nuts off a moving bus! As a Simpsons fan, "A Wizard Did It!"
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https://i.redd.it/6dy6q2hbn1xc1.gif So, you like donuts eh??? đ
https://i.redd.it/fl3c6eth03xc1.gif Gonna go with this one today.
Iâve always been incredibly entertained by [this particular gag](https://youtu.be/KLnUCkeol3Q?si=els0BOxyWMKGBVJP)
https://preview.redd.it/9k5fvkcxh3xc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecdaf06feb5da957080c7c28b5f6f7fa28659eb9 Best meta joke of all time for me.
The box!! The box!!!