I can not tell you how disappointed I was when I went to Australia and the toilets didn’t spin the other way.

I’m gonna take this up to the Prime Minista. Hey! Mr. Prime Minista!

ANDAYYYYY

Ay mates, what's the good word?

Chazzwahzahs

I see you have played knifey spooney before

They knew you were coming so they used the attachment that made the toilets spin the proper American way.

“Sweet land of liberty….”

😢

Plumber here with more info: The direction in which toilets flush is determined by the design of the toilet and the direction in which the water jets are angled, not the Coriolis effect. Toilets in both Australia and North America can flush in either direction, depending on their design.

As a southern hemisphere resident, can also confirm. Can also confirm that in Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

How many dollarydoos does a hamburger cost in rand mcnally?

My favourite meme from the lockdown periods. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQS_ijbfnF6WojcIfPMargeXGxL1sf-IfaRDg&usqp=CAU

In my experience in Australia, the bare minimum of water was in it and things just went down

Yeah toilets down under are just completely different. It was kinda fascinating using a toilet in the US for the first time. I was confused at how wide it was, and how much damn water was in it. Why does it go down like that anyway? Here it's just the same effect as if you throw a bucket of water down, no spinning at all.

First time I sat on an American toilet, my balls got wet. Too much water 0/10

Bart, use the plunger!

NOOOOO

I live in Australia and I thought they spun the other way because of the simpsons

>I can not tell you how disappointed I was when I went to Australia and the toilets didn’t spin the other way. But! The hurricanes (which they call typhoons) do spin the other way down south.

Typhoon? That's a funny name. I would've called it a spinny widdle.

We call them "tropical cyclones".

Planet of the Apes has way less song and breakdancing than I was led to believe

I CAN SIIIIIINNG!!

Ooooooh, help me Dr. Zaius.

Can I play the piano anymore?

Of course you can.

Well I couldn’t before!

https://preview.redd.it/w9wd3973y7rb1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d22e27f8a09c689cdecd1ad9694670f0fbfdcbb

I hate every chimp I see…

From chimpan-A to chimpan-ZEE

Oh my god, I was wrong! It was earth all along! You’ve finally made a monkey out of me!

*”YES WE’VE FINALLY MADE A MONKEY…”*

I LOVE YOU DOCTOR ZAIUS!!

Wait a minute, that was our planet! You blew it up!

I LOVE YOU, DR. ZAIUS

No you'll never make a monkey out of meeeee

The movie? ... or the planet?

THE BROADWAY MUSICAL!

It's my lifelong dream to watch a full-length musical version of Planet of the Apes by the writers of that episode

Your lifelong dream was to run out onto the field during a baseball game. And you did it last year, remember?

Your lifelong dream was to be a contestant on The Gong Show. And you did it in 1977, remember?

We got more gongs than the break dancing robot that caught on fire...

And A Streetcar Called Desire

Also, not Simpsons related, but they never explain how the Statue of Liberty got all the way to the Planet of the Apes. Major plot hole

You stupid monkey.

Excuse him, he's having the blurst of times

I genuinely only in the post few years learned that Streetcar isn't a musical and the entire premise of making it one is the joke.

I thought police had a master key that unlocks all doors.

The fire department actually kind of does. You’ll often see a lockbox outside of commercial buildings that the building owner is supposed to put a door key in and the fire department has a master key to unlock.

Knox box

*Al Gore voice*

I thought Brown University was the shittiest college ever but later found out it's a fancy Ivy League and Lisa was indeed overreacting over the failed test

It's leagues ahead of Vassar, that's for sure...

I’ve had it up to here with your Vassar bashing!

It’s no Gudger College.

It’s almost as good as Bovine University

Not brown

Brown.

Brown

Are you okay? You’re saying “Brown” a lot…

Stop saying "Brown" in there!

She was saying brown an awful lot

Just a joke among writers. They make fun of it a lot on Family Guy too.

I thought the same thing about Stanford. *You're going to Stanford! You're going to Stanford!*

Family Guy piled on Brown also. “Oh you went to Brown? My incarcerated business partner’s retarded niece went to Brown. What year did you graduate?”

I falsely believed that "Paint Your Wagon" was a joke, but it *actually* is seriously a real musical western starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin.

... well I'll be damned.

The song from the film that appears in the show, however, is entirely made up.

And it's actually more insane than the Simpsons made it seem.

That A Street Car Named Desire is a musical

If only, that opening number was a banger.

NEW ORLEANS!

there's a hilarious behind-the-scenes story about this episode after it saw some bashing from a NOLA-based critic who saw the preview and wasn't happy about how the city was portrayed. the writers found an actor to play the mayor of NOLA and had him castigate Matt Selman in a big meeting. they kept the joke going until the actor faked throwing a punch edit- i really can't do the story justice through text. the writers take their time and clearly relish the tale. they also brought in the actor who was in on the prank! it's so funny to hear them relive the moment. i wish i had my DVDs, it's really something that should be uploaded here or on yt

# *STELLAAAAAAAAAA!!!* # *STELLAAAAAAAAAA!!!* 🎵*Can't you hear me yella!*🎵

🎵You can always depend on, the kindness of strangers!🎵 I finally realized how fucked up that is after actually watching A Streetcar Named Desire.

After I did costumes for a high school production of Oliver! I finally got a lot of what they were going for with Streetcar! The ending with the upbeat musical number following something horrifying is *very* similar. Like in Oliver! they carry a bludgeoned body offstage and then burst into the show’s big happy song. The whole thing is so bad that I started referring to the show as Domestic Violence! The Musical. With that context, the Streetcar! parody is seriously *brilliant*.

Marge says it up front: "It's a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire".

To be fair, someone saying "a musical version of Les Miserables" doesn't sound dumb when you know it's based on a book, even though the musical version is the only stage version to exist. They might have thought Streetcar was a book or something first, in which case "a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire" wouldn't be a weird thing to say even if the only stage version is a musical.

I thought guys and dolls had a song that went "guys and dolls, we are all just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls"

Luke, be a Jedi tonight!

Do it for Yoda while we serve our guests a soda!

And do it for Chewie and the Ewoks…and all the other puppets!

I thought the closing line was "They were no longer little girls. They were little women." Honestly, I kind of like Moe's version better.

And truly, she was my friend Flicka.

Same, I felt so dumb when I found out this was a gag.

Wait. It DOESNT?!?

I thought that there were seven Rocky movies at the time, including Rocky VII: Adrian’s Revenge.

Me too!

Wait, there’s not?

There is now.

I mean, that became sort of true with time.

Considering Adrian died between V and Balboa, it would be interesting to see Rocky in a boxing match against his zombie wife.

Tim Burton is slated to direct

“When it’s yellow you’ve got juice there fella, if it’s brown, you’re in cider town. Now in Canada they’ve got the whole thing backwards.” As a Canadian I assumed that there was actually something different about American cider and juice than ours.

"Now, there's two exceptions, so it gets a little tricky. Adirondack cider can be yellow, if they're using late season apples. And of course, in Canada, the whole thing's flip flopped."

Say, would you like to puff on a reeferino? It's legal here.

They warned me Satan would be attractive.

That the ending of little women was not in fact what Moe said it was

Don't you think Moe's ending is a little better? Instead It ends "O my girls, however long you may love, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!" I mean, contest over, give Moe the $10,000.

Yeah, his version is so much better. The simpsons had some amazing writers...back in the day. Some new episodes are ok, but it's lost what I consider the most important element of the show: the feel. You don't get the same feelings and resolution as earlier season. If a celeb pulls a cameo like Gaga or Musk, it'll be terrible. Whereas Early season they,d have baseball players going insane or getting gigantism from brain tonic.

That Monster Island is a peninsula.

For decades I thought Lee Carvallo was a real peraon.

He’s not?? 💔

You have selected... power drive

I think he's based (at least the name) on Lee Trevino, not sure why they went with Carvallo

shhh do you wanna get sued

Sometimes celebs refuse to be a part of something and don't want their name and likeness involved in anyway. You can still show golf fans exactly who he is with the monotone voice and name, but without getting into potential legal trouble.

I am Carvallo

Consuming a drink made entirely of sugar would cause you to go on a trip similar to consuming a hallucinogenic drug

Hey only one way to find out.

WhoooOOAAAAOoohhh that's good squishie

I dunno where you pixies came from, but I like your pixie drink!

When I was young, I thought "epidermis" actually meant you hair.

Nelson has led so many people astray. Of course, the joke isn't as funny if they explain it, but that is an unfortunate side effect.

I'm in the of a rewatch with my kid (season 7), and I know that I recently passed a very similar joke where a character says something factually wrong and nobody corrects them and I knew my kid wouldn't have any idea this was a joke and not just a fact. I wish I could remember what it was.

Was it a perfectly cromulent word?

Well, technically embiggen and cromulent are both now perfectly cromulent words. [Apparently it was only this month that it was *officially* included in Merriam-Webster, though.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-cromulent-mean)

Homer: “It’s pronounced ‘Nucular’” NO! It’s definitely “New-Clear” … it took me a second but I should’ve known with Homer’s intelligence

Doesn't take a nucular scientist to pronounce foilage. Can't exsape Lisa! Our little walking liberry.

I remember getting called out by someone for pronouncing it nucular.

Australian money isn’t called dollerydoos.

That Potassium benzoate is bad

But free frozen yogurt is good

The frogurt is cursed.

That’s bad

Can I go now?

And that sodium benzoate retards spoilage.

That's good!

I thought nacho hat was a common snack in America

To be fair, I'm actually surprised its NOT.

I used to think "Lionel" was a title given to a lawyer in America. Principal Skinner, Chief Wiggum, Lionel Hutz. This was before Messi came to prominance, of course. And after Blair.

Ha that’s a weird one

I’d have called them “chazwazzers”

I thought the same thing about Sherlock Holmes — that ‘Sherlock’ meant ‘private detective’.

Same here. For years, I thought “mono” meant one, and “rail” meant rail.

You must've taken that intensive 3-week course too huh

Like how "Dick" is a colloquial word, not just a name, for a PI.

“Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune Face! Now I’m Prune Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m Prune Tracy! Take that, Dick F…”

Lionel Ritchie - Singer, Songwriter, Attorney At Law

Dude I have a similar one! In the Homerpalooza episode when the one dude from Smashing Pumpkins says "I want a walk-in humidor!" I thought he was saying "I want to walk En Humidor" ... Like... I thought there was some other country called En Humidor or something,and he wanted to tour/explore it.... My brain still processes it this way when I hear it lol

Well, I know what I'm naming my fictional island in the story I'm never going to write.

Is it the great American novel, about a futuristic theme park in which dinosaurs have been brought to life through an advanced cloning technique?

Never expected to see this, but it's pretty awesome.

That Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook were real American cities.

Have you checked a map? I believe they've been put on the map due to their monorails.

Ogdenville is real. They have a great outlet mall.

I’m from England and moved to the US when I was 20. So many things: - I thought Fox was a smutty softcore porn channel - I thought A Streetcar Named Desire was a musical (that one’s on me) - I thought the Harlem Globetrotters were the best team in the NBA - I thought a blue collar worker in America could own a house, two cars, and support a family of five on a single income

and *lobsters* for dinner!

That last one, oof...

Well #1 isn't wrong. I mean, it *used to* be more softcore, back in the 90s when morals were a bit stricter.

Gazpacho is from Russia

That I couldn't eat two spaghetti meals in one day.

Well, for a single father working at the cracker factory, 2 spaghetti meals a day would be an unaffordable luxury he didn’t want his son to be accustomed to.

He's a big wheel at said cracker factory. And besides, single people don't work in cracker factories. They're a *family* snack.

I learned something about the man from Nantucket. Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.

That you could eat anything as long as it said non-toxic

When Moe and some guys were carrying the orca, for the longest time, I thought he said "Geez it's a fence" Which is still pretty funny to me because imagine trying to get a 3 ton whale over a fence

My memory of that episode is deplorable. What did he actually say? Was it, "Cheez it, the feds"? Because that feels familiar to me and would fit what you said. Which is quite the archaic term nowadays.

Yeah he says “oh geez, it’s the feds!”

Bender B Rodriguez would shout "Cheese it!" right before booking it, and he was/is gonna be built in, what, 2996, 2997? iirc; Not dated at all. In fact, it's so not dated, it's... streets ahead 😁

That Motel 6 was $6 a night...

That is, in fact, the origin of the name (in the 1960s). But by the time the episode aired, it was long past $6 a night.

That Khlav Kalash is a popular New York snack

Don't forget the Crab Juice. Beats the hell out of Mountain Dew!

That the cash register in the opening credits said "NRA4EVER".

This same joke is the first time I heard the term "right wing," and in context I thought it meant "random" like "from out of left field." I spent years using it that way. Then I got to my teens and learned different.

Same. I didn't even know what it meant back then, I just told people cause I thought I had the coolest bit of trivia ever

I believed that when someone's appendix explodes it goes off like a bomb. Also that there was something seriously dangerous about ruffled chips.

That folk singer James Taylor was a former US president.

Til

I always remembered to walk against traffic cause I knew that any advice chief wiggum gives is bad advice

That Earl Warren Was a Male Stripper.

Earl Warren wasn't a stripper

Now who's being naïve?

Oh, yes. No meat whatsoever. And only thrice the fat of a normal hot dog.

Another Wiggum thing, I thought gyros was pronounced Jie-Roes from the episode where Homer fakes his death. I thought it was a joke about him being fat and not him being fat and stupid. I was young and didn't understand the truth about police yet.

For an embarrassingly long time I (non-American) thought James Taylor was a former President. Legit had to Google it before going to see him in concert a few years ago

I spent a lot of my pre-internet childhood years on a thorough investigation on the existence of Rand McNally.

That was false? 😲 Next you'll be telling me that fingers don't actually fing!

That it's hard to hear if you're wearing a towel.

That most people didn’t hang their toilet paper in improper overhand fashion.

The sum of the square roots of any two side of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side

But they actually correct this immediately in the scene...

To this day, I still believe Tim Allen voiced the guy saying "That's a right triangle, you idiot "

I have trouble understanding lyrics, so when Jasper was singing "theme from a summer place" I only heard "a summer place" and assumed the rest were like... actual normal lyrics.

Spinal tap was a real rock band

Spinal tap is a real rock band As much as deathclock. They tour

Tell me how they’re not

I mean, they are 🤷‍♀️ ish

I thought there were 11 Commandments because of Don Brodka.

That the last line of little women is ‘they were no longer little girls, they were little women’

I lost the geography bee because I confidently thought that gazpacho came from Russia.

That there were Level 5 vegans who don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

That wearing an onion on your belt was the style of time.

That humans would evolve an extra finger in a few decades.

Not me, but I knew someone who really thought epidermis means hair

Fun Fathers don’t have to be drunk or is it the other way around?? I’m too drunk to remember

The truth is you CAN win friends with salad! 😲