LoL - Simpson's quote

[YankeyMCC]

"Martin was like Jesus, only real!" laments Bart who feels guilty because he thinks he's accidentally killed another child character named Martin.

[cosmik debris]

1. I caught that too,

I can't wait to find a place to fit it into conversation!

[deepthought42]

2. Damnit, you beat me to it!

:P :P :P

:rofl: I'm so glad I didn't miss that episode. :D

[progressoid]

3. I wonder how many people catch those things?

That one was pretty blatant but I wonder if some of the better ones are a little to subtle for the average American to get.

Regardless, I hope they keep it up!

[onager]

4. Bart's version of saying grace was hard to miss...

"Dear God. We paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing."

:rofl:

And the famous "Homer The Heretic" episode was full of good stuff. e.g., after chatting with Homer, God says: "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to appear in a tortilla in Mexico."

[progressoid]

5. A classic!

Pretty straight to the point me thinks. But then I hear about believers using the Simpsons in their bible study groups. Like "The Gospel According to The Simpson". What we see as an obvious (and funny) slap in the face of religion, some of them see them as "life lessons".

http://books.google.com/books?id=fMSaCqL4p28C&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22bart+simpson%22+prayer&source=web&ots=0OCRNA0FKI&sig=LTSQQlOSE3VPS9jnQaeF525oNkA&hl=en#PPP1,M1


I have a vague memory about "Homer the Heretic" being used in a theology class at a Christian college somewhere.

[TZ]

7. We used to say "grace" of a sorts when I was younger

It went something like this " Good food, Good Drink, Good Meat..Good God lets eat!!!"

Thats my family blaspheming since the late sixties...
:rofl:

[Rob H.]

6. Some great Homerisms...

"Wait, I'm no missionary! I don't even believe in Jebus!"

(To God) "You're everywhere. You're omnivorous."

"I'm not normally a religious man, but... if you're up there, save me, Superman!"

[onager]

8. Homer watching a meteor shower...

"I wish God was still alive to see this!"

And I think I have this bit of folklore right: after a Simposons episode showed Lisa reading "Jr. Skeptic" magazine, the real Skeptic magazine added its "Jr. Skeptic" section.

I remember going to an SS...that's Skeptic's Society!!...shindig when they introduced Jr. Skeptic. The invited guests included the LaRosa family. Emily LaRosa was the 9-yr-old who debunked the "Therapeutic Touch" idiocy so completely, her experiment was written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

At that meeting, Emily and her mom (a nurse) reproduced the experiment, including its awesome scientific equipment--a large cardboard box with 2 holes cut in it.

An even more fun part of the meeting was when Richard Abanes, a self-styled "Evangelical Skeptic," launched into a bitter rant against evolution. He had been talking about millenial cults, his specialty, which was interesting. Then, out of nowhere at the end of his presentation, he went off on this bizarre tirade about how evolution required more faith than religion, and the other Creationist talking points we all know so well.

And irony of ironies! (Or maybe not). Abanes was followed by Donald C. Johanson, the archeologist who discovered our distant ancestor "Lucy." Johanson made it very clear what he thought of Cretinists and evolution-haters, complete with rude cartoons about them to spice up his speech.

That was one of the best days of my life. (But I don't get out much...)

[displacedtexan]

9. My all-time fave from 1994

"In the absence of fear there is little faith."
-- Michael Pain,
School Superintendent on "The Simpsons" episode #100

(That was the episode, where Bart wrote on the board:
I will not celebrate meaningless milestones.)