Referencing the Simpsons in every day life.....

[vi5]

I find myself doing this fairly often. In addition to the obvious usage of "D'oh!" to signify any head slapping faux pas on my part or any kind of snafu situation I also find myself utilizing the following:

1)Whenever I"m in the midst of or listening to any super geeky conversation or debate (much like many of the "my candidate is better than yours" that occur on these here pages) I usually put the situation in perspective with "Hey, get this....some jerks over at MIT actually think Picard was better than Captain Kirk." from the episode where Homer goes back to college and hangs out with geeks.

2)Any time someone says something overly earnest or intense to me and awaits some sort of reasoned, equally earnest or intense response I usually throw out any of the Ralph Wiggum phrases from "I bent my wookie" to "My cat's breath smells like Catfood".

3)Whenever confronted with a difficult task "O.K. brain...help me figure this one out and I'll go back to killing you with beer."

There are others but I find myself using these pretty regularly.

[Coventina]

1. I wander around work muttering

"must hurt self....must hurt self...."

I really don't want to go the route of gaining 61 pounds!
:D

on edit: upon awaking from my recent surgery and seeing the oxygen tank on attached to my hospital bed I said, "Don't worry, it's INflammable!" Then I chuckled quietly to myself while the medical personnell exchanged puzzled looks.

[Richardo]

2. I use "excellent" probably more than I should...

...also "Where's your Messiah now, Flanders?" (Chief Wiggam)

[vi5]

6. Oh yeah! Eeeeeexelent is a good one.....

I use that pretty regularly, accompanied of course by the requisite tenting of the fingers.

[mac56]

3. you and me both, vi5 -

James Lileks said this a year ago, and it's become a guiding principle of my life: Any life situation can be addressed with an appropriate quote from "The Simpsons".

Even my lovely wife, who hated the show for years, will burst into this chant when she does something particularly clever:

"I AM SO SMART!
I AM SO SMART!
S-M-R-T!

(wait a minute..)"

[short bus president]

4. I'm big on the Ralph Wiggumisms

when I f*ck something up ("that's unpossible!"). And yes, I employ more Simpsons references in the average day than most people, I imagine. I'm waiting for "d'oh!" to appear in the dictionary. It's certainly gained common usage.

[mark0rama]

7. D'oh! Wait no longer...

It happened in 2001:

"The famous catchphrase of cartoon character Homer Simpson has made it into the updated online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary."

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/14/english.newwords/

[short bus president]

8. Woohoo!

Dictiomonary!

;-)

[meegbear]

5. I D'Oht! alot!

[mac56]

9. I've used this on some of my more Biblically-oriented friends:

Rev. Lovejoy: Homer, I'd like you to remember Matthew 7:26: “A foolish man who built his house on sand.”
Homer: And you remember…Matthew…21:17!
Rev. Lovejoy: “And he left them and went out of the city into Bethany and he lodged there”?
Homer: …Yeah…think about it!

[eyesroll]

10. I use "mmm...." a lot.

A couple of days ago, the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question about the Supreme Court was "mmmm....Burger..."

[mac56]

11. Every year around holiday time..

I make sure to tell my lovely wife, "Looks like we're going to have an imagination Christmas!"

[Richardo]

12. Rod and Todd: "Yaaaaaay!!"

My other favorite Todd (or is it Rod) line: "I'm a torso!"

[Coventina]

17. No situation so grim...

that thinking about the Simpsons can't make better.

During my recent cancer scare, I had a sudden mental image of me sitting in Dr. Hibbert's office holding a pamphlet titled: So You're Going To Die --

I actually chuckled, and things didn't seem so bad after that.

[mac56]

18. Or from "Homer The Heretic":

(I can empathize, Coventina. This one has gotten me through some stressful medical exams.)

Homer: What's the meaning of life?
God: Homer, I can't tell you that. You'll find out when you die.
Homer: I can't wait that long!
God: You can't wait six months?

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. When Grandma or someone else reads my son his bedtime story

it's "being the guest voice on the Simpsons."

[geebensis]

14. My latest...

When I not especially motivated to go to the gym I tell myself in a Mr. Burns voice "Get going, you cornfed man-cow."


Mmmmmm...corn.

mm

[tridim]

36. "Just pay for the blasted lipsuction!"

:)

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. The ones I use everyday

Homer quotes:

When I have computer problems

To start press any key. Where's the "any" key? I see Alt, Ctrl, and Tab... Whew all this computer hacking is making me thirsty. (presses Tab key). Ooops, no time for that now, the computer's starting.

I new I never should have left you in charge! (Screamed at the bobbing head bird)

God help me Marge, I'm just not that smart.

When I am asking Mrs. McLargehuge for permission to do something without her

You know Marge, in some ways you and I are very different people.

You'd stood in my way long enough! I'm going to clown college!

Krusty quotes:

Whenever I see * on TV

O-oh say can you SEEE... blah la la luh la... luh... buuh la laaaaaaaa luh luh luh... Ughhh, I shoudn't have turned down those cue cards.

When watching Adult Swim

And now the Soviet Union's answer to Itchy and Scratchy! Worker and Parasite!

When I am forced to eat at a chain restaurant

AHHHH... I almost swalled some of the juice!

[dwckabal]

16. Best...Discussion...Ever

:P

[Boudicea]

19. I have to pass Krispy Kreme to get to my office so ...

I get alot of fake drooling practice. :)

[VelmaD]

21. mmm...

forbidden donut

My niece and I use that one all the time when there's something we want and can't have. :-)

There is no life situation that can't be ligthened with a quote from the Simpsons.

Darth Velma

[CanuckAmok]

33. "Look, just gimme some inner peace or I'll mop the floor with ya!"

That's homer to the Coyote Spirit Guide (Johnny Cash).

Also, "Have" to pass a Krisly Kreme on your way to work?! YOu don't know how lucky you are. What I wouldn't do for the privilege of passing one (we don't have Krispy Kremes in Soviet Canuckistan).

[Palacsinta]

20. Lovely sentiment

I often close my emails to my son, whom I miss so much, with the deathless sentiment of Riener Wolfcastle:
"If tears could force themselves through my muscular ducts, I'd be crying like a baby who was hit on the head with a hammer."

[newyawker99]

52. Congrats Jethrine!! 400 posts

:toast:

[catzies]

22. All the damn time.

Woohoo!

D'Oh!

Eeeexcellent!

Mmmmmm...(insert food name).

OK, brain, you don't like me and I don't like you so do this one thing for me and I'll go back to killing you with beer. Sweet life-giving beer. :beer:

And this morning when I noticed a razor cut on the back of my sweetie's neck and asked if that's where the aliens inserted the tracking chip: I for one welcome our new insect overlords. ALL HAIL ANTS.

And I call my bosses Burns and Smithers. If you saw them, you would too.

[short bus president]

23. just for you, Catzies:

"I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords."

;-)

[catzies]

29. I'll thank you with the best Comic Book Guy quote ever:

"Ooh, your powers of deduction are exceptional. I can't allow you to waste them here when there are so many crimes going unsolved at this very moment. Go, go, for the good of the city."

[tridim]

24. I use simpsonisms all the time,

but I must admit, my favorite line at my last job was from Bugs Bunny. My annoying coworker would go on and on about nothing so I'd always say, "Shut up rabbit!", and if he continued yapping I'd say, "Shut up, shuttin' up rabbit!" It was all in good fun. :)

Friday beer-thirty almost always gets a, "To alchohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

On edit: (after LOL at the "HAIL ANTS" post) Is there any doubt, The Simpsons is the greatest show of all time. No contest. "It's in revelations people!"

[cmf]

25. I like to use Ralph quotes

Whenever discussion becomes too heated or controversial. They're so out of left field that everyone just kind of stops and starts laughing.

[NightTrain]

26. I find myself saying "D'oh!" quite a bit

n/t

[CogitoErgoDem]

27. I reference Moe: "Call this an unfair generalization if you will..."

"...but old people are no good at everything!"

:D

[mac56]

28. Also Moe:

"I was born a snake-handler and I'll die a snake-handler."

[underpants]

32. "Get outta her and take your Sacagewea dollars with you"

AS Homer was trying to show Comic book guy that Moe's was the friendliest place in the "Rum district"

[4_Legs_Good]

30. Dont' blame me...

Likely to get me killed here, but...

I find my self saying the simply BEST Simpons line EVER all the time...

"Don't blame me! I voted for Kodos!!"

Treehouse of Terror VII

david

Kucinich 2004

Arianna -YES
Recall - No

[mark0rama]

40. I voted for Kodos.

I've seen that as a bumper sticker, and there's a band here in Wisconsin (part of the time, anyway) by that name:

http://www.iv4k.com/

[SaintLouisBlues]

31. I've been annoying my wife with...

"who shot who in the what now?" when I don't hear something she's said. This is from the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" episode, and is uttered by the old man (character name?) whose taken a slug in his wooden leg from a drunken Smithers.

[tridim]

35. I think his name is Jasper

Lisa calling Bingo: "B-7"
Jasper: "You sunk my battleship!"

Frotillicus: "Apu, time has ravaged your once youthful looks."

[SaintLouisBlues]

43. I think your rightt

Good catch. How 'bout the episode where Jasper purposely freezes himself in the the Kwiki Mart ice cream case and Apu turns him into a freak show.

[underpants]

34. "If you are watching this video then you are the President ...

of the United States. Sir, or ma'am (I hope it's sir)it also means that a full scale nuclear attack is under way. In this situation Springfield will be the 'Nuclear whipping boy' and all friendly nations will fire a round of missiles at Springfield so they can calibrate their systems."

(All the kids watching the bootlegged videos in the bottom of the Comic book store -Bart and milhouse were watching the store)

"YEEEEEEEEEAH!!!"

[Devil Dog Dem]

37. Yes! I use: "Sure I'm flattered, perhaps even a little curious."

Whenever I realize that there has been a micommunication on something. It's from the episode where Homer is the Union Rep and in his negoatiations with Mr. Burns he misunderstands Burns' bribery offer as Burns' coming on to him.

"I won't be going for any of your backdoor schenanigans!"

[regularguy]

38. "Please to be removing your thumb"

still waiting for the chance to use this line.....

[mark0rama]

39. I love all of Homer's "mmmmmmmm...."'s

Especially "waffle runoff" and "unexplained bacon."

[CanuckAmok]

41. Anything by CM Burns...

Like: "Cocoa and books in the same store?! What's next, a talking banana? The idea of a talking banana is ludicrous...but still..."

And, of course, my sig:

[peekaloo]

42. I work with a Ned Flanders type

so I'm constantly okily-dokily-ing him.......on special occasions I'll throw out "you suck-diddily-uck Flanders". :evilgrin:

[SweetZombieJesus]

44. "Hello, I'm Mr. Burns. I believe you have a package for me."

"Ok Mr. Burns, what's your first name?"

Long pause

"I...don't know."

And the best Ralphism: After Skinner gives him a steel wool pad as a stuffed animal: "It's cold and hurty!"

[5thGenDemocrat]

45. "Hey!! THAT'S NOT KRUSTY THE KLOWN!!"

"I am too Krunchy the Klown (b-r-r-r-r-a-a-a-a-a-p)!!"
John
Channeling Barney.

[SmileyBoy]

46. "Worst..... (blank)...... Ever......."

When I see something or someone that really sucks.

[SmileyBoy]

47. Granpa's best line: "That's right.... I did the Iggy..."

After he found out he was getting paid for writing an Itchy and Scratchy episode he didn't write.

"Ishy and WHAT??... Lady, you must be some sort of crazy person..."

(Crashes car into Simpson's wall) "YOU GOTTA HELP ME, SON!! I JUST HIT THREE PEOPLE ON THE WAY OVER HERE, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY INSURANCE!!!!..... So, how's my youth???"

[0rganism]

48. "Happy thoughts. Happy thoughts. Boy, I'm getting mighty sick of this."

It's general-purpose!

Also,

"You can stay here if you like, but I'm leaving."

It's useful for situations where the brain must leave and the body must stay, as it was for Homer's brain while touring the apple cider factory and receiving a lecture on the many uses of apples from Ned Flanders.

I also like borrowing from this exchange in Treehouse of Horrors VII,

Marge: "I don't understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I never even heard of."

Homer: "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."

When my wife brings up my excessive weight,

"Oh, but I'm so sweet and tasty!"

(Treehouse of Horrors IV)

[Dookus]

49. Whenever...

somebody says "who's that guy... ya know... in that movie..." or something equally vague, I always reply "The one who walks upright?Rory Calhoun!"

[Ladyhawk]

50. My all-time favorite line

is one that will probably never come up in normal conversation:

Operator: "We're sorry. The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, smash your hand on the keypad now." :D

I love that whole episode. It's my fave.

Bart: "And I think it's ironic that dad's butt actually prevented the release of toxic gas."

[CanuckAmok]

51. Some more...

some are more functional day to day than are others (thank goodness!)...

"I didn't think it was phsically possible, but this both sucks and blows."

"You better have a damn good conductor"

"If you survive, please come again!"

"Employee of the month isn't all ham and plaques!"

"A soy-based snack will soothe my jangled nerves"

"Moldy...old......I'm going to get something to eat!"

"Oh, man, I'm never eating chili again. OOH, CHILI!!"

"Oh good, the curtains are on fire!"

"Tell me where you are NOW, you bastard!"

"It was people...people soiled our green!" (probably the best pun ever written!)

"Why would the Fruit Punch Advisory Board lie to us?"

"WHY...MUST...I...FAIL...AT...EVERY...ATTEMPT...AT...MASONRY...???!!!"

"Because when you stick your hand into a pile of goo that used to be your best friend's face, you'll know what to do...Forget it, Marge, it's CHINATOWN!"

edit=forgot my favourite:

"and now I'll just pull my arms out, with my face".