Did Simpsons really say that?

Posted: 3/15/10 at 6:10am

Last night, Bart was faking a fever so Marge took his temperature with one of those fast read ear thermometers. Then she said "There's only ONE way to get a reliable reading! Bart, pants!" and she whips out a rectal thermometer.

Bart squirms and tries to avoid it and Lisa says "Just close your eyes and think of Milhouse."

How did they ever get that past the censors?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 12:11pm

Joe, I rarely watch the Simpsons, but did hear the scene that you describe. The funniest part was the exchange following between Lisa and Bart as to the question of how he incresed his anal temperature!

Posted: 3/15/10 at 12:51pm

I thought it was a pretty great episode all around but I just could not beleive they got away with a joke about anal sex between 11 year old boys!!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 1:10pm

WHAAAAAT? I can't believe they got away with that either!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 1:13pm

^^^
Prudes!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 1:22pm

^^^
Loves anal probes

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 1:24pm

LOL! I'm just saying I can't believe they got away with it. Not that I care about it!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 1:30pm

I've been watching the Simpsons since they were on the Tracey Ullman show. I wasn't quite sure how to take that comment. Over they years, they've mellowed Lisa's character into a brainy, goody-goody. In the first season or two, it could have been laughed off as something a bratty sister would say to get back at her bratty brother. But in last night's episode, it came across as the writers just trying to get something into an episode that was edgy.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 4:12pm

btw... that opening sequence on the SImpsons was HILARIOUS!! a great homage to those Tex Avery cartoons of way back when... as well as to the Jetsons

Posted: 3/15/10 at 4:18pm

Well, they have established that Milhouse is Gay, despite his crush on Lisa.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 4:25pm

"Well, they have established that Milhouse is Gay, despite his crush on Lisa."

I don't think they've established Milhouse as gay. I think they've just established him as a mama's boy

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 7:04pm

From the episode "Lisa's Sax" in 1997

Dr. J. Loren Pryor: Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, there's nothing to be alarmed about. Public school can be intimidating to a young child, particularly one with as many flamboyantly homosexual tendencies as your son.
Marge Simpson: Bart's gay?
Dr. J. Loren Pryor: Bart?
[looks at the file]
Dr. J. Loren Pryor: Ah, whoo, wrong file.
[puts the file, labeled "Milhouse Van Houten," back]

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 9:00pm

him and Martin should hook up! haha

[singtopher]

Posted: 3/15/10 at 11:24pm

Who'd pitch, and who'd catch?

Posted: 3/16/10 at 11:06am

In cartoons as in life, catchers outnumber pitchers by about 20 to 1.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/16/10 at 11:24am

I love everybody focussing on that one line, especially Goth's complaining that they were "just trying to be edgy" when it seems they were just trying to be funny, and nobody seems to have caught the line when Bart is trapped going the wrong way into a school hall filled with 6th graders. One of the 6th graders says, "I have an unwanted boner."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/16/10 at 11:32am

"One of the 6th graders says, "I have an unwanted boner."

Sorry, the sound on my tv must be going. I knew something was said in that moment, but I didn't catch it. I usually tape the Simpsons because you really have to be paying attention to appreciate the humor, but I didn't tape last Sunday's episode.

Obviously The Simpsons are going the way of the Laugh-In nipple.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/16/10 at 11:35am

They get to do whatever they want. The show is 21 years old.

[KelRel]

Posted: 3/16/10 at 8:06pm

I had to rewind the 6th grade scene and listen to it again. It was too funny and sadly too true. The things I over hear amuse and horrify me to no end.

[winston89]

Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:36am

So let me get this straight. Joking about butt sex is a big no no. However, joking about retardation on the same network is okay?

[strummergirl]

Posted: 3/17/10 at 12:43am

No both jokes FOX let happen. But this joke involved two boys (prepubescent? no clue) is very different from having an actress who has Down Syndrome to voice a character that makes a brief reference to Sarah Palin.

[winston89]

Posted: 3/17/10 at 2:41am

Actually, I would think that making any sort of deal over either one of those jokes is just a waste of time. Clearly those who found the joke about Bart and Millhouse were reading WAY too much into it, as were the people who thought that Family Guy was on a vendetta against the Palin clan due to their joke about her having a child that is retarded.

Due keep in mind that when all the fuss was made over the Family Guy episode, very few people mentioned the fact that the actress who voiced the character has DS herself.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 3/17/10 at 7:28am

Just for clarification, what's the Laugh-In Nipple?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/17/10 at 9:14am

"Just for clarification, what's the Laugh-In Nipple?"

I think the story involves Judy Carne. The makeup staff was busy "tattooing" Goldie Hawn and Judy Carne ripped open her blouse exposing her nipple and said something like "Tattoo this!" So they drew a flower on her nipple. When it came time to film, they did a quick shot of her nipple. When the network censor came to view the program, someone had to distract his attention right at the moment that her nipple came on screen.

The point being is that The Simpsons are not the first to try to slide something past the censors.